MTV's Top 100 of 1987 (and 1995)

For those of you who aren't sick of these lists, haha, I finally managed to wrangle the long missing top 100 of 1987, courtesy of JJHeath (http://www.jjheath.com/MTV1987.html), who had long ago written these lists when the countdowns aired. Without further ado:

1. U2 - With Or Without You
2. Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
3. Genesis - Land of Confusion
4. Peter Gabriel - Big Time
5. Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
6. Heart - Alone
7. Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead or Alive
8. Madonna - Open Your Heart
9. U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
10. Bryan Adams - Heat of the Night
11. Los Lobos - La Bamba
12. Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody
13. Billy Idol - Mony, Mony
14. Genesis - Tonight, Tonight, Tonight
15. Crowded House - Something So Strong
16. Bob Seger - Shakedown
17. Cutting Crew - I Just Died In Your Arms
18. Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
19. Steve Winwood - The Finer Things
20. Madonna - Who's That Girl
21. Georgia Satellites - Keep Your Hands To Yourself
22. Suzanne Vega - Luka
23. The Pretenders - My Baby
23. Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
24. Whitesnake - Still Of The Night
25. Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
26. Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies
27. George Michael - I Want Your Sex
28. Europe - Carrie
29. Grateful Dead - Touch of Grey
30. REM - The One I Love
31. U2 - Where the Streets Have No Name
32. Heart - Who Will You Run To
33. John Cougar Mellencamp - Paper In Fire
34. Kim Wilde - You Keep Me Hanging On
35. Whitesnake - Is This Love
36. Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
37. Van Halen - Best of Both Worlds
38. Loverboy - Notorious
39. Michael Jackson - Bad
40. Bananarama - I Heard A Rumour
41. Sammy Hagar - Winner Takes It All
42. Poison - Talk Dirty To Me
43. Richard Marx - Should've Known Better
44. Janet Jackson - Pleasure Principle
45. Huey Lewis And The News - Jacob's Ladder
46. Europe - Rock the Night
47. Fleetwood Mac - Big Love
48. Aerosmith -  Dude (Looks Like A Lady)
49. Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers - Jammin' Me
50. Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right (To Party)
51. Bruce Hornsby And The Range - Mandolin Rain
52. Yes - Love Will Find A Way
53. Sting - We'll Be Together
54. REO Speedwagon - In My Dreams
55. Madonna - La Isla Bonita
56. Eric Clapton - It's In The Way That You Use It
57. Genesis - In Too Deep
58. Bryan Adams - Hearts on Fire
59. Richard Marx - Don't Mean Nothin'
60. Pink Floyd - Learning To Fly
61. Prince - U Got the Look
62. Huey Lewis And The News - Doing It All For My Baby
63. Steve Winwood - Back In The High Life Again
64. Motley Crue - Girls, Girls, Girls
65. Kenny Loggins - Meet Me Halfway
66. Lou Gramm - Midnight Blue
67. Cinderella - Nobody's Fool
68. Cyndi Lauper - Change of Heart
69. Starship - It's Not Over ('Til It's Over)
70. T'Pau - Heart and Soul
71. Bruce Springsteen - Brilliant Disguise
72. Europe - The Final Countdown
73. Fat Boys featuring the Beach Boys - Wipeout
74. Duran Duran - Notorious
75. Robbie Nevil - C'est La Vie
76. Poison - I Won't Forget You
77. Bangles - Walking Down Your Street
78. Billy Idol - To Be A Lover
79. Cutting Crew - I've Been In Love Before
80. Glass Tiger - Someday
81. David Bowie - Day In, Day Out
82. George Harrison - I Got My Mind Set on You
83. Ratt - Dance
84. Eddie Money - Endless Night
85. Steve Winwood - Valerie
86. Sammy Hagar - Give to Live
87. The Cars - You Are the Girl
88. Whitney Houston - So Emotional
89. INXS - Need You Tonight
90. Cinderella - Somebody Save Me
91. Bruce Hornsby and Range - Every Little Kiss
92. Squeeze - Hourglass
93. Def Leppard - Animal
94. Bryan Adams - Victim of Love
95. The Outfield - Since You've Been Gone
96. Robbie Nevil - Wot's It To Ya
97. Breakfast Club - Right On Track
98. Run DMC (feat. Penn and Teller) - It's Tricky
99. Bangles - Hazy Shade of Winter
100. Psychedelic Furs - Heartbreak Beat




I'll have 1995 ready in a bit.

MTV's Top 100 of 1995

1. Coolio - Gangsta's Paradise
2. TLC - Waterfalls
3. Live - Lightning Crashes
4. Green Day - When I Come Around
5. Hootie And The Blowfish - Only Wanna Be With You
6. Alanis Morissette - You Oughta Know
7. Dr. Dre - Keep Their Heads Ringin'
8. Mariah Carey - Fantasy
9. Weezer - Buddy Holly
10. Boyz II Men - Water Runs Dry
11. Blues Traveler - Run Around
12. TLC - Creep
13. Hootie And The Blowfish - Let Her Cry
14. Skee-lo - I Wish
15. Seal - Kiss From A Rose
16. Red Hot Chili Peppers - My Friends
17. Michael Jackson - Scream (featuring Janet Jackson)
18. Silverchair - Tomorrow
19. Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day
20. The Smashing Pumpkins - Bullet With Butterfly Wings
21. The Notorious BIG - Big Poppa
22. Tom Petty - You Don't Know How It Feels
23. Madonna - Take A Bow
24. Alanis Morissette - Hand In My Pocket
25. Boyz II Men - Thank You
26. The Rembrandts - I'll Be There For You
27. TLC - Red Light Special
28. Bush - Comedown
29. Janet Jackson - Runaway
30. White Zombie - More Human Than Human
31. Montell Jordan - This Is How We Do It
32. U2 - Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me
33. Sheryl Crow - Strong Enough
34. Naughty By Nature - Feel Me Flow
35. Collective Soul - December
36. Red Hot Chili Peppers - Warped
37. Shaggy - Boombastic
38. Goo Goo Dolls - Warped
39. Brandy - I Wanna Be Down
40. The Presidents Of The United States Of America - Lump
41. TLC - Diggin' On You
42. Dave Matthews Band - What Would You Say?
43. Dionne Farris - I Know
44. Madonna - Human Nature
45. Bush - Everything Zen
46. Des'ree - You Gotta Be
47. The Cranberries - Ode To My Family
48. Michael Jackson - You Are Not Alone
49. Toadies - Possum Kingdom
50. Bone Thugs N Harmony - 1st Of Tha Month
51. Dave Matthews Band - Ants Marching
52. Coolio - Too Hot
53. Gin Blossoms - 'Til I Hear It From You
54. nine inch nails - hurt
55. Van Halen - Can't Stop Lovin' You
56. Brandy - Baby
57. Hole - Doll Parts
58. Better Than Ezra - Good
59. Whitney Houston - Exhale (Shoop Shoop)
60. Soul Asylum - Misery
61. Green Day - Geek Stink Breath
62. Adina Howard - Freak Like Me
63. REM - Bang And Blame
64. Soul For Real - Candy Rain
65. Bush - Little Things
66. Snoop Doggy Dogg - Murder Was The Case
67. Monica - Don't Take It Personal (Just One Of Dem Days)
68. Foo Fighters - I'll Stick Around
69. Sponge - Molly
70. Salt 'n' Pepa - Ain't Nuthin' But A She Thang
71. Filter - Hey Man, Nice Shot
72. Nirvana - The Man Who Sold The World (from MTV Unplugged)
73. All 4 One - I Can Love You Like That
74. Tom Petty - You Wreck Me
75. LL Cool J - Hey Lover (featuring Boyz II Men)
76. The Offspring - Gotta Get Away
77. Michael Jackson - Earth Song
78. Natalie Merchant - Carnival
79. Collective Soul - The World I Know
80. The Notorious BIG - One More Chance
81. Weezer - Say It Ain't So
82. Madonna - Bedtime Story
83. REM - Strange Currencies
84. Groove Theory - Tell Me
85. Sponge - Plowed
86. Hootie And The Blowfish - Time
87. Mary J. Blige - I'm Goin' Down
88. Hole - Violet
89. Bryan Adams - Have You Ever Really Loved A Woman?
90. Diana King - Shy Guy
91. Matthew Sweet - Sick Of Myself
92. REM - Crush With Eyeliner
93. Soul For Real - Every Little Thing I Do
94. Bon Jovi - This Ain't A Love Song
95. Rancid - Ruby Soho
96. Brandy - Brokenhearted (Soul Power Remix)
97. Elastica - Connected
98. Joan Osborne - One Of Us
99. D'Angelo - Brown Sugar
100. Bush - Glycerine

That 95 list really takes me back.  I mean I know all those songs from the 80s but only after the fact.  In 95 though I was 14 and was starting to pay attention what was on tv and the radio and remember most of this stuff.

Ahh, how the charts degraded :(

XeRocks81


That 95 list really takes me back.  I mean I know all those songs from the 80s but only after the fact.  In 95 though I was 14 and was starting to pay attention what was on tv and the radio and remember most of this stuff.

That's the case for me as well. But both lists take me back.
We're about the same age.
My parents used to listen to the radio, when they were on our terrace in the summer.
I played in the garden and stuff and because of that the plethora of the songs -or at least a lot of those songs- are connected with my childhood for me and they make me feel good, instantly.
In 95 I was 14 as well and well... good times...

haha that Run DMC song with Penn and Teller is awesome!

Wow.  That list really reminded me how the mid-90's were pretty crappy in the music department.  There are some good tunes on there, but it's pretty awful (IMO) for the most part.  I do love most of the songs on that '87 list, however.

Penn and Teller are the shit man! Tricky tricky tricky!

I wouldn't exactly call 1987 the "good ol' days". I mean, I dug that U2 took the year by storm, and REM had their first big breakout. But it was also the year that hair metal started taking over the airwaves en masse.

I spotted an error on the 1987 list that I picked up, though. There are two #23 entries. My money's on the Pretenders one being incorrect, as that was one I don't remember seeing on the list I had a long time ago, as opposed to the others right around it.

1987 was the year music officially arrived for me. The year of my first proper kiss, too. Lots of memories in that list as you can no doubt imagine!

Conversely, I recognise almost nothing in the 1995 list showing how my music taste had changed.