"The Reflex" by Duran Duran YEAH!!!! It was #1 for two weeks. Ok I feel a tad old.
http://www.youtube.com/wa...QnqNLeiWKw

Below are the other #1 songs for the year of 1984 (U.S. only):

Date Artist - Title Weeks at #1

December 4 1983 – January 14 1984 Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson - Say, Say, Say 6
January 15 – 28 1984 Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart 2
January 29 – February 18 1984 Culture Club - Karma Chameleon 3
February 19 – March 24 1984 Van Halen - Jump 5
March 25 – April 14 1984 Kenny Loggins - Footloose 3

April 15 – May 5 1984 Phil Collins - Against All Odds 3
May 6 – 19 1984 Lionel Richie - Hello 2
May 20 – June 2 1984 Deniece Williams - Let's Hear It for the Boy 2
June 3 – 16 1984 Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time 2
June 17 – 30 1984 Duran Duran - The Reflex 2

July 1 – August 4 1984 Prince - When Doves Cry 5
August 5 – 25 1984 Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters 3
August 26 – September 15 1984 Tina Turner - What's Love Got to Do With It 3
September 16 – 22 1984 John Waite - Missing You 1
September 23 – October 6 1984 Prince - Let's Go Crazy 2

October 7 – 27 1984 Stevie Wonder - I Just Called to Say I Love You 3
October 28 – November 10 1984 Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run) 2
November 11 – December 1 1984 Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go 3
December 2 – 15 1984 Hall and Oates - Out of Touch 2
December 16 1984 – January 26 1985 Madonna - Like a Virgin 6

Source: Billboard Magazine

Damn, I'm old! Love DD too:)

That damn Nile was at it again.

And there's nothing but classics on that list, sure can't say that about the charts today.
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SCNDLS said:

I know every word of every song on that list.

dreamfactory313 said:

I was just thinking that!!!

1984 was one hell of a year in music!!!

You're from Detroit...so let me ask you this..who made sure we knew every word to every single one of those songs?

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Ummm.... I guess I just watched an awful lot of MTV growing up.

Only five are not in my collection.
Say, Say, Say - (whack and weak, a bad combination)
Jump - Novelty but no legs for me.
Footloose - If I ever think I want to hear it I just listen 'Can't Stop This Feeling I've Got.'
Let's Hear It for the Boy - Pure sugar.
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go- Steaming pile that everyone was walking in . .

SCNDLS said:

In Andy Taylor's book "Wild Boy: My Life In Duran Duran," they had some resistance from Capitol Records for releasing "The Reflex" because it sounded "too black." The record company thought it sounded to much like something a black artist might do. The band loved what Nile Rodgers did with mixing it and adding the Fle fle flex in the beginning of the song, so they weren't backing down. After going back and forth and with the support of the London record company, they convinced the American company to support and release it. It was their first #1 hit in America.

That was the summer before my senior year in high school. Great stuff on that list. A far cry from today's list.

I have every single song on that list in my collection. I didn't care for "Let's Hear It For The Boy" or "Ghostbusters" but they are in my collection because they are on greatest hits CDs that I have.

vainandy said:

So it's six for me that I don't have. I missed Ghostbuster's -derivative drivel

I have all those songs and know all the words, too. My least favorite is definitely "Against All Odds." My favorites would have to be "Say Say Say," "The Reflex," "When Doves Cry," "Let's Go Crazy," and "Out of Touch."

Here in America, "The Reflex" was Duran Duran's very first #1 hit. The group would only get 1 more, "A View to a Kill." DD scored 7 other top-5 hits, including the follow-up singles to their #1 hits, "The Wild Boys" and "Notorious," which both peaked at #2.

dreamfactory313 said:

You were in Detroit and weren't listening to The One and Only Electrifying Mojo in 1984? Shame on you!

funkyslsistah said:

Cool story.

I was cleaning the house listening to this the other and had to stop to re-enact the background singers choreo for the "na-na-na-na" part. Classic stuff and I have every song on that list too. Good times.

funkyslsistah said:

Interesting. That's a cool story too. I love that song!

Wow, I loved nearly all of those songs during that time when I was 4-5 and I still love them now. They bring up such good times for me being that young. God, we had a good back then didn't we?

I don't own all the singles or greatest hits with those songs, but I know them all or at least can join in the choruses. There are many years that can be claimed as the best, but maybe because I was pre-teen during that time, and the years of 1982-1984 are some that I remember fondly as having a major impact on me. Music just seemed more fun back then and it wasn't taken so too seriously even when the songs were nonsensical or cheezy. Ugh but it was 25 years ago!

funkyslsistah said:

I love the first half of the 80s (1980-85).So many exciting things were happening in pop music and like you say,the music was so much more fun back then.The "video revolution" was taking off,MTV was new and fresh (and it was all about MUSIC! Not stupid reality shows,lol),Michael Jackson and Prince were going far and beyond what anyone could have predicted,R&B and even funk artists were crossing over like never before,etc.Such a thrilling time!