This 1980s Top 10 is Flawless…So What Happened to Music? | Professor Of Rock

We’re counting down the Top 10 songs of this very same week from the year 1985. This time around we’ve got some of the biggest hits from the 80s duking it out for that #1 spot. It was a legendary week for sure. You had Dire Straits, Billy Joel, Tears for Fears, Aretha Franklin and Huey Lewis and the news all vying for the coveted #1 spot along with a great one hit wonder and Somehow, we’ve managed to pack in three parenthesis songs, three summer blockbuster hits, as well as some iconic music videos that solidified already great hits. It’s 80s nostalgia to the max, that is going to take you back to the best days of your life... NEXT on the Professor of Rock.

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It’s time for another edition of our show the Hit Song Redux where we travel back to a week in the golden era of the rock and roll and re-rank the top 10 songs of THAT SPECIFIC week based on how much the world has listened to them since THEIR PEAK POSITION ON THE BILLBOARD HOT 100. As always, we’re including artist interviews, in-depth commentary, as well as your stories and dedications. To clarify, this is not my personal top 10. It’s the actual top 10 from this exact week 37 years ago. First, we count them down as they were, then and then we run them through a recalibration process to find out the real top 10 based on all time streams and views.

So, let’s into the proper pop culture context of the day. If you wanted to catch a movie back in the late summer of 85, you had a lot of great options ... Back to the Future, The Goonies, Teen Wolf, Weird Science, A View to a Kill, National Lampoon’s European Vacation, Better Off Dead... and there were also re-releases of Ghostbusters, E.T., and Gremlins. Are you kidding me?
On the small screen you could catch the first season of Moonlighting, Who’s the Boss?, or Miami Vice.And of course there were the Saturday morning cartoons... At this time Thundercats, Voltron, and Transformers all ruled the day.nAlright, let’s get into it...

So, coming in at #10 it’s those guys who played their guitar on the MTV... it’s Money for Nothing by Dire Straits. Dire Straits fifth studio album Brothers in Arms really took off after the release of its second single... Money for Nothing, which sports one of the most memorable riffs of the 80s. A track that was riveting for its realism, it was also the culprit of controversy. The lead character in Money for Nothing is based on a real person who worked at a New York retail store.

While Knopfler was shopping, he overheard a conversation between a delivery guy and a worker who were watching MTV as it played on a multi-television display inside the store.
Knopfler borrowed a bit of paper and sat down within earshot and he began writing down the conversation that became Money for Nothing. Said Mark, “I wanted to use a lot of the language the guy actually used when I heard him, because it was more real.”