Poll
Question:
1985 Round of 16
Option 1: This is the 1/16 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 2: 1 Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
votes: 10
Option 3: 16 Don't Lose My Number - Phil Collins
votes: 3
Option 4: This is the 8/9 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 5: 8 Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
votes: 9
Option 6: 9 Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
votes: 4
Option 7: This is the 5/12 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 8: 5 Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears For Fears
votes: 8
Option 9: 12 Road to Nowhere - Talking Heads
votes: 5
Option 10: This is the 4/13 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 11: 4 Don't Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
votes: 9
Option 12: 13 Lonely Ol' Night - John Mellencamp
votes: 4
Option 13: This is the 6/11 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 14: 6 Look At Little Sister - Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
votes: 9
Option 15: 11 Little By Little - Robert Plant
votes: 4
Option 16: This is the 3/14 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 17: 3 Never - Heart
votes: 6
Option 18: 14 And We Danced - The Hooters
votes: 7
Option 19: This is the 7/10 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 20: 7 She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
votes: 3
Option 21: 10 Would I Lie To You - Eurythmics
votes: 10
Option 22: This is the 2/15 matchup. Please pick one.
votes: 0
Option 23: 2 If You Love Some Body Set Them Free - Sting
votes: 8
Option 24: 15 Walking On Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
votes: 5
If 1985 looks a bit disjointed, that's because it is. I have had a lot of RL stuff going on and that's limited the time I have had to spend on this. But, it's been another great MTV walk down memory lane as evidenced by our Number 1 seed, Money For Nothing. That video is so MTV that it even name checks MTV. Sting, who calls out for his MTV in the Dire Straits song, puts in his own entry at Number 2 with a great song and video. The video might seem a bit dated, but let's remember, this is 1985 and it was pretty ground breaking. As for the rest of our contestants this year, it looks like you will know all these songs. So, I hope that means this will be difficult for you to decide.
As always, thank you all for participating and I hope you look forward to them :bd: :bd: :bd: as much as I enjoy making them :pullhair: :pullhair: :pullhair:.
The 1/16
The 8/9
The 5/12
The 4/13
The 6/11
The 3/14
The 7/10
The 2/15
I think you forgot the videos for the 6-11 matchup.
Good catch! Thank you, sir!!
I'm sure you made the best choices with what was available, but 1985 does not seem like a good year for music. There are some good artists that produced some bad work that year (IMHO of course). And I don't like some of the artists that were peaking around this time, such as Sting and the Police (heresy around here, I know), and Dire Straits.
1985 happened during a time in my life when I was immersed (and overwhelmed) in grad school, and we were getting ready for our first daughter, so I didn't get out much. After reviewing the nominees for this year, I don't think I missed much. :)
Heh. I was thinking there's several awesome songs on the list - Road to Nowhere is one of my favorite Talking Heads songs.
I'm not even going to get into the obscure stuff that only I would know about (Helloween, Keel, Gary Moore, Exciter) but you managed to leave out
ALL of the following, none of which are weird, off-the-wall, or unpopular bands / tracks
Not that they
all deserve to be on the list, but
none of them seems crazy...
Or, Home Sweet Home (or was that in the Power Ballads bracket?)
Invasion of Your Privacy was the best-selling hard rock album of the year
I know you hate Bon Jovi, but this was the start of their explosion. You could also use In & Out Of Love or Only Lonely
Huge radio/MTV hit
This was originally released in '85, but no one cared until the remake years later
Are there better Rush songs from other years? Sure. Are there better mullets-in-full-80s-technicolor? No way.
Biggest hit from a multi-platinum album (tho there are better songs on the album)
you could also swap in Sentimental Street (which, I think, actually charted higher)
Great job MD. Brant brought up some great ones, but you said you didn't have a lot time to sort it all out. I'm sure a few of those will end up on one of you wild card brackets.
I have four of the songs you posted in the research, Brant. I'll let you guess which ones I didn't ;)
Quote from: OJsDad on September 10, 2017, 08:54:44 PM
Great job MD. Brant brought up some great ones, but you said you didn't have a lot time to sort it all out. I'm sure a few of those will end up on one of you wild card brackets.
Thank you, sir! And you are correct about the Brackets. It's possible you may see some in the Wild Card rounds.