I know you’re out there somewhere
Somewhere you can hear my voice
I know I’ll find you somehow
Somehow, somehow
I Know You’re Out There Somewhere by English
progressive rock band The Moody Blues was released on May 23, 1988, with Miracle as the B side. The song was a single from the album Sur La Mer.
The song reached No. 30 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 52 on the UK Singles Chart. It was the band’s final Top 40 hit in the United States.
Watch the song’s music video.
So on the beach you’re strollin’ real high rollin’
Everything you have is yours and not stolen
A girl runs up with somethin’ to prove
So don’t just stand there bust a move
Bust a Move by Young MC was released on May 22, 1989, with Got More Rhymes as the B side. It was a single from the rapper’s debut album, Stone Cold Rhymin’.
Bust a Move was Young MC.’s biggest hit. It reached No. 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 and was a No. 1 hit in Australia.
Watch the music video for the song.
Since you’ve gone I’ve been lost without a trace
I dream at night, I can only see your face
Every Breath You Take by The Police was released on May 20, 1983, with Murder by Numbers as the B side. It was the first single from the album Synchronicity.
Every Breath You Take was the biggest hit of 1983. It topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for eight weeks and the UK Singles chart for four weeks.
Watch the official music video for the song.
She’s got something you just can’t trust
It’s something mysterious
And now it seems I’m falling, falling for her
Invisible Touch by Genesis was released May 19, 1986, with The Last Domino as the B side. It was the first single from the album of the same name.
Invisible Touch was the band’s first and only No. 1 single in the United States. It only reached No. 15 in the United Kingdom.
Watch the music video for the song.
‘Til now I always got by on my own
I never really cared until I met you
Alone by Heart was released on May 16, 1987. It was the first single from the album Bad Animals.
The power ballad was a No. 1 hit in the United States and Canada. It reached No. 3 on the UK Singles chart.
Watch the official music video.
Wake me up before you go-go
Don’t leave me hanging on like a yo-yo
Wake Me Up Before You Go Go by Wham! was released in the United Kingdom on May 14, 1984. It was the first single from the album Make It Big.
The song was the duo’s first No. 1 hit in the United Kingdom and the United States.
Watch Wham! perform the song on Top of the Pops in 1984.
You’re the perfect one
For me and you forever will be
And I will love you so for always
Always by Atlantic Starr was released on May 13, 1987. It was the second single from the album All in the Name of Love.
The song reached No. l on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and No. 3 on the UK Singles Chart.
Watch the official music video.
If you’re lost you can look and you will find me
Time after time
The U.K. and other versions of the Time After Time 7″ single came with this picture sleeve. The U.S. version did not.
As I mentioned in a previous post, I was a huge fan of Cyndi Lauper in the 80s, and She’s So Unusual was one of my very first albums. It still holds a lot of significance for me because it came out at a time when I was just starting to discover my own musical tastes and interests. Cyndi wasn’t my parents’ favorite singer or my brothers’ favorite band – she was all mine.
Time After Time is an absolutely stunning song and one of my all-time favorites. Released in 1984, it was the second single off of She’s So Unusual, after Girls Just Want to Have Fun, and Cyndi’s first No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Continue reading
Blame it on Ice Cube… Because he says it gets funky
When you got a subject and a predacit
N.W.A’s been in the news a lot lately, thanks to the success of the movie Straight Outta Compton, their recent induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and reunion at Coachella over the weekend.
N.W.A
Straight Outta Compton LP
Contact is all it takes
To change your life to lose your place in time
Cover of Van Halen’s 5150
As much as I loved Van Halen with David Lee Roth (1984 was an epic album as far as I was concerned), I made the transition to a Sammy Hagar-fronted Van Halen pretty smoothly. 5150 was one of my favorite albums in 1986, and I still have the copy of the record I purchased that year – impressive considering I traded most of my records, except for a select handful, for CDs in the 90s.
Love Walks In, one of five singles from 5150, was one of my favorites off the album. I would listen to it over and over and over again. I was 13 at the time, so even though the lyrics were a little odd (aliens pulling strings and travels across the Milky Way), I read it all as a tale of first love throwing your world upside down. And at 13, that was right up my alley. The song was a moderate success for Van Halen, reaching No. 22 on the Billboard Hot 100. Continue reading
Eighties Grooves 