{"id":9980,"date":"2020-09-17T09:06:42","date_gmt":"2020-09-17T13:06:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/?p=9980"},"modified":"2024-08-28T21:46:14","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T01:46:14","slug":"tops-of-eighty-four","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/2020\/09\/17\/tops-of-eighty-four\/","title":{"rendered":"Tops of Eighty Four"},"content":{"rendered":"

It only took six weeks for Tom Breihan to roll through the 20 number one songs of 1984<\/a>. 1985 has some bangers, for sure, but we\u2019re approaching the point where I\u2019ll be more interested in his words than in the songs themselves.<\/p>\n

In the comments, people ranked the Number Ones of 1984 in their preferred order. Believe it or not I\u2019m not registered to comment; not sure why but I\u2019ve never signed up. I have a blog, though, and feel obligated to share my rankings of the chart topping songs of the greatest year in pop music. <\/p>\n

1 – \u201cLet\u2019s Go Crazy\u201d – Prince and the Revolution
\n2 – \u201cWhen Doves Cry\u201d – Prince and the Revolution
\n3 – \u201cTime After Time\u201d – Cyndi Lauper
\n4 – \u201cOut of Touch\u201d – Daryl Hall & John Oates
\n5 – \u201cOwner of a Lonely Heart\u201d – Yes
\n6 – \u201cWhat\u2019s Love Got to Do With It\u201d – Tina Turner
\n7 – \u201cSay Say Say\u201d – Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson
\n8 – \u201cMissing You\u201d – John Waite
\n9 – \u201cJump\u201d – Van Halen
\n10 – \u201cLet\u2019s Hear It for the Boy\u201d – Deniece Williams
\n11 – \u201cGhostbusters\u201d – Ray Parker, Jr.
\n12 – \u201cKarma Chameleon\u201d – Culture Club
\n13 – \u201cCaribbean Queen\u201d – Billy Ocean
\n14 – \u201cLike a Virgin\u201d – Madonna
\n15 – The Reflex\u201d – Duran Duran
\n16 – \u201cFootloose\u201d – Kenny Loggins
\n17 – \u201cWake Me Up Before You Go-Go\u201d – Wham!
\n18 – \u201cAgainst All Odds\u201d – Phil Collins
\n19 – \u201cHello\u201d – Lionel Richie
\n20 – \u201cI Just Called to Say I Love You\u201d -Stevie Wonder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It only took six weeks for Tom Breihan to roll through the 20 number one songs of 1984. 1985 has some bangers, for sure, but we\u2019re approaching the point where I\u2019ll be more interested in his words than in the songs themselves. In the comments, people ranked the Number Ones of 1984 in their preferred order. Believe it or not I\u2019m not registered to comment; not sure why but I\u2019ve never signed up. I have a blog, though, and feel obligated to share my rankings of the chart topping songs of the greatest year in pop music. 1 – \u201cLet\u2019s Go Crazy\u201d – Prince and the Revolution 2 – \u201cWhen Doves Cry\u201d – Prince and the Revolution 3 – \u201cTime After Time\u201d – Cyndi Lauper 4 – \u201cOut of Touch\u201d – Daryl Hall & John Oates 5 – \u201cOwner of a Lonely Heart\u201d – Yes 6 – \u201cWhat\u2019s Love Got to Do With It\u201d – Tina Turner 7 – \u201cSay Say Say\u201d – Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson 8 – \u201cMissing You\u201d – John Waite 9 – \u201cJump\u201d – Van Halen 10 – \u201cLet\u2019s Hear It for the Boy\u201d – Deniece Williams 11 – \u201cGhostbusters\u201d – Ray Parker, Jr. 12 – \u201cKarma Chameleon\u201d – Culture Club 13 – \u201cCaribbean Queen\u201d – Billy Ocean 14 – \u201cLike a Virgin\u201d – Madonna 15 – The Reflex\u201d – Duran Duran 16 – \u201cFootloose\u201d – Kenny Loggins 17 – \u201cWake Me Up Before You Go-Go\u201d – Wham! 18 – \u201cAgainst All Odds\u201d – Phil Collins 19 – \u201cHello\u201d – Lionel Richie 20 – \u201cI Just Called to Say I Love You\u201d -Stevie Wonder<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[81,9],"class_list":["post-9980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lists","tag-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9981,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9980\/revisions\/9981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dsnotebook.me\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}