Billboard top 25 week ending 31st July 1982

A fairly solid week with an impressive top five IMO. You can pick as many as you want.

 

John Cougar before he went Mellencamp.
Fleetwood Magic.
Classic Go-Go's
and I like the southern pop rock of all those early 38 Special singles.

 

EVERYTHING.

 

excellent week

Do I Do
Eye Of The Tiger
Don't You Want Me
Rosanna
Tainted Love
Let It Whip
Love Is In Control
Abracadabra

 

Not much to cheer for IMHO. I would rank Vacation, Tainted Love, REO and Human League 1-2-3-4.

 

Crosby, Stills And Nash - Wasted On The Way
Rick Springfield- What Kind Of Fool Am I

Darryl

 

I'd pick most of that list. I liked (and still do) much of what was Top 40 (USA) in 1982.

 

Music started to slide for me at this point
All I can think of is MTV music videos with these songs

Abracadabra is Steve Miller copying John Lennon's brilliant guitar work from his very last contribution to music from Yoko's Walking on Thin Ice

 

I personally think the pickings were pretty feeble by this time. I do like the Motels' hits though.

 

This was an absolute magical time in my life (I as 17- 18 in October). I met my first 'real' girlfriend in line for CSN tickets around this time; just graduated high school; started playing professionally in bands, and so on.
So I have more of an emotional attachment to these songs than a critical opinion!
So I tried hard to be more critical of my choices and could only pick 5!
Hold Me, Don't You Want Me, Only The Lonely, Wasted On The Way (of course!), and Take It Away (of course!).

(A Spotify playlist of these tunes would transport me right back- but I wouldn't want to STAY there.......)

 

I go with the following:

Hold Me
Don't You Want Me
Tainted Love
Vacation
Take It Away

 

I would say this is a piss poor chart, only Human League and Soft Cell for me.

 

Those are my picks too except I'll swap Vacation with Rosanna.

 

Human League and Soft Cell. The rest are blander than a blancmange.

 

I picked everything except 1, 5, 8, ad 24. "Don't You Want Me" and "Tainted Love" had been hits up here earlier in the year and were already out of the charts by late July.

 

07/31/82 — CHUM 1050 AM ( Toronto, Ontario )

TW LW ARTIST TITLE WKS NOTES
1 1 Survivor Eye Of The Tiger 6
2 2 The Rolling Stones Going To A Go-Go 8
3 6 REO Speedwagon Keep The Fire Burnin' 8
4 3 Frank & Moon Zappa Valley Girl 5
5 4 Genesis Paperlate 9
6 5 Thirty-Eight Special Caught Up In You 10
7 12 Eddie Money Think I'm In Love 4
8 10 Toronto Your Daddy Don't Know 9
9 9 Steve Miller Abracadabra 7
10 11 Roxy Music Take A Chance With Me 5
11 13 Seven-O-Seven Mega Force 5
12 14 The Payolas Eyes Of A Stranger 9
13 7 Van Halen Dancing In The Street 11
14 8 The Scorpions No One Like You 11
15 18 Nazareth Love Leads To Madness 4
16 21 April Wine Enough Is Enough 4
17 28 Queen Calling All Girls 2
18 22 The Alan Parsons Project Eye In The Sky 3
19 23 Gary U.S. Bonds Out Of Work 3
20 29 John Cougar Jack & Diane 2
21 26 Asia Only Time Will Tell 2
22 25 Harlequin Superstitious Feeling 3
23 15 Queen Body Language 14
24 19 John Cougar Hurt So Good 12
25 27 Queen City Kids Dance 3
26 16 A Flock Of Seagulls I Ran (So Far Away) 9
27 -- Billy Squier Emotions In Motion 1
28 17 Pete Shelley Homosapien 12
29 20 Mental As Anything Too Many Times 6
30 -- Sheriff You Remind Me 1

There is some Canadian content on here such as Toronto, Sheriff, April Wine and Harlequin.

 

The Human League Don't You Want Me
Love it then, love it now. Fantastic record.

 

Vacation
Tainted Love

 

What a wonderful chart. Of the ones I've heard, even the stuff I don't love, I like!

My favourites are:

Survivor
Toto
Steve Miller Band
Chicago
Air Supply
REO Speedwagon
Crosby, Stills & Nash
Juice Newton
38 Special
Journey
Rick Springfield.

I haven't heard the songs by:

The Motels
The Dazz Band
The Go Gos
Stevie Wonder
Paul McCartney
Gap Band
Rolling Stones

The Canadian chart is strong too.

 

In order:

• Crosby, Stills and Nash - Wasted on the Way
• Toto - Rosanna
• The Human League - Don't You Want Me
• Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
• Soft Cell - Tainted Love

 

An excellent week. I voted for 14 songs!
We were traveling across the country at this time and I remember staying with friends and there was this channel I'd never heard of called MTV. I think I saw the videos for most of these songs during the two days we visited them.