Mix 98-5's "Back To The 80s Friday Night" Preferred Playlist

[Steve N.]

I know I'm going to take a lot of crap, but this is what Mix should sound like on Friday nights (excluding the spots and promos).

Hour #1:

Give It To Me Baby - Rick James
Escapade - Janet Jackson
Into The Groove - Madonna
I Wanna Be Your Lover - Prince
I Love Rock'N'Roll - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
Rumors - Timex Social Club
Too Turned On - Alisha
Catch Me I'm Falling - Pretty Poison
Rio - Duran Duran
Don't Be Cruel - Bobby Brown
White Lines - Grandmaster Flash
Get Down On It - Kool and the Gang

Hour #2:

Rock Steady - The Whispers
You're The One For Me - "D" Train
Jungle Love - The Time
Girls Girls Girls - Motley Crue
Let's Groove - Earth, Wind and Fire
Silent Morning - Noel
Back To Life - Soul II Soul
Conga - Gloria Estefan
Panama - Van Halen
So Many Men, So Little Time - Miquel Brown
Pump Up The Volume - M/A/R/R/S
C'est La Vie - Robbie Nevil

Hour #3:

I'm Coming Out - Diana Ross
No Parking On The Dance Floor - Midnight Star
Girlfriend - Pebbles
Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
I Want It All - Queen
Object Of My Desire - Starpoint
Let The Music Play - Shannon
Situation - Yaz
Just Got Paid - Johnny Kemp
Back In Black - AC/DC
Let's Dance - David Bowie
You Spin Me Round - Dead Or Alive

Hour #4:

Electric Boogie - Marcia Griffiths
Tarzan Boy - Baltimora
Candy Girl - New Edition
Wild Thing - Tone Loc
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Just An Illusion - Imagination
Looking For A New Love - Jody Watley
When I Hear Music - Debbie Deb
Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard
Let It Whip - Dazz Band
We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off - Jermaine Stewart
Off The Wall - Michael Jackson

Hour #5:

Word Up - Cameo
Push It - Salt-N-Pepa
Early In The Morning - Gap Band
Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer
Teardrops - Womack and Womack
Can You Feel The Beat - Lisa-Lisa
Forget Me Nots - Patrice Rushen
Here I Go Again - Whitesnake
Only In My Dreams - Deborah (don't call me Debbie) Gibson
Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
She's A Bad Mama Jama - Carl Carlton
I Can't Wait - Nu Shooz

That's my idea of a typical "Back To The 80s Friday Night!" In the Dick Clark-vein, it has a beat, and (for the most part) you can dance to it! Now let's hear from the peanut gallery out there! 

[Retro]

And how do most of those songs fit Mix's Hot/Modern AC format?

[Will]

You don't seem to have any understanding of how music radio works.When radio people haven't heard of some of the songs on your list, then you have a problem.

I get the feeling that Joe overplays songs, but he's not going to start playing stiffs for variety.

Remember:  this guy called Daughtry "head banging music."

[Retro]

I know most of the R&B/Dance songs listed, however they are much more suited for a classic dance/disco show instead.

[radiotony]

Isn't "Catch Me I'm Falling" by Real Life?

[MHB]

Isn't "Catch Me I'm Falling" by Real Life?

Yes, this is a different song (a dance song). And he has played it.

[Retro]

Me thinks that they should play the Pretty Poison song anyway. Well it was in that John Hughes film that took place in part in Boston anyway.

[Watt]

Some of the songs you listed are not from the '80's: Metallica/"Enter Sandman" (1991), Diana Ross/"The Boss" (1979), Michael Jackson/"Off the Wall" (1979) and Marcia Griffiths/"Electric Boogie" (1990), to cite a few; but let's not split hairs.

Your playlist is sorely lacking in the New Wave and British pop that defined the 1980's; that being said, it would be good to add some dance hits in...though I rarely listen to the show.

[Will]

Some of the songs you listed are not from the '80's: Metallica/"Enter Sandman" (1991), Diana Ross/"The Boss" (1979), Michael Jackson/"Off the Wall" (1979) and Marcia Griffiths/"Electric Boogie" (1990), to cite a few; but let's not split hairs.

That doesn't stop Joe from playing "Heart Of Glass" from 1979.

[Watt]

Some of the songs you listed are not from the '80's: Metallica/"Enter Sandman" (1991), Diana Ross/"The Boss" (1979), Michael Jackson/"Off the Wall" (1979) and Marcia Griffiths/"Electric Boogie" (1990), to cite a few; but let's not split hairs.

That doesn't stop Joe from playing "Heart Of Glass" from 1979.

Blondie's "Parallel Lines" record, on which "Heart of Glass" appears, was released in 1978, but again, let's not split hairs.

Joe can play whatever he wants, it's his show.  Perhaps he should change the name of it, though, in the name of accuracy.