Note the soon-to-be Disney-embargoed original title of A.R. Kane's "i".... and, in a relatively lean year compared to '88's bonanza, how the focus of both our listening is increasingly encroached upon by the past (Miles and Blue Orchids, Can offshoots and Love)
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Even as someone who grew up in the 80s, this is the first time I can ever recall seeing the name Trevor Rabin.
....and what an EXTRAORDINARILY rockist top 10! This era of guitar rock domination is now about as foreign to modern audiences as the eras of Bing Crosby and Acker Bilk would have been to Don Healy and Tom Petty's boomer following!
I love that it's "Don Healey" (whoever that is) at number one.
I am surprised The Call ever got that big.
I recognise every name even if no aural correlate comes to memory's ear (which is the case with Trevor Rabin - had seen the name in listings and ads in music mags but never knowingly heard the music). The one exception is Bad English.
Incidentally, these US charts are not Billboard, I'm not sure where MM sourced them (Cashbox?). The chap who tweets all these old MM and NME clips out - Nothingelseon - noticed that these US charts in MM often have suspiciously high placings for certain records. (Perhaps the Call didn't get that big, then).
1989, the year punk broke
It would be another 30 years before I finally got around to listening to He Loved Him
Madly - tune!
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