In which some accident of nature combines equally inexhaustible Top 40 and Underground musics to posit that Best=Biggest. (my favorite year) Bibliography: Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits, Grammys, Robert Christgau, Chuck Eddy's Accidental Evolution and Stairway to Hell, Rolling Stone, and the SPIN Alternative Record Guide.

Saturday, February 19, 2005

Imaginary Popscape 1984 Songlist

“No Surrender”/ “Bobby Jean”—Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band, from Born In the U.S.A
“Take Me With U”—Prince and the Revolution, from Purple Rain
“Jump”—Van Halen, from 1984
“World Destruction”—Timezone, 12” Single, from Deconstruction: The Celluloid Recordings (Bill Laswell)
“What’s Going On”—Husker Du, from Zen Arcade
“Answering Machine”—Replacements, from Let It Be
“I’m Goin’ Down”—Bruce Springsteen again
“When Doves Cry”—Prince again
“Trapped Under Ice”—Metallica, from Ride the Lightning
“Chartered Trips”—Husker Du again
“Run Runaway”—Slade, from Keep Your Hands Off My Power Supply
“Ba-Ba-Ba-Ba”—77s, from All Fall Down
“First Movement (Fast)”—Steve Reich and Musicians with Chorus and Members of the Brooklyn Philharmonic (Michael Tilson Thomas), from The Desert Music
“Material Girl”—Madonna, from Like a Virgin and The Immaculate Collection
“Darlington County”/ “Working On the Highway”/ “Downbound Train”—Bruce Springsteen yet again
“Ride the Lightning”—Metallica again
“I’ll Wait”—Van Halen again
“Turn To Me”—Lou Reed, from New Sensations

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