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Top 10 Movies of 1986

                      
                                                                  
                                     
1. Top Gun
($176.8 million)
2. Crocodile Dundee
($174.6 million)
3. Platoon
($138 million)
4. The Karate Kid II
($115.1 million)
5. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
($109.7 million)
6. Back to School
($91.3 million)
7. Aliens
($85.2 million)
8. The Golden Child
($79.8 million)
9. Ruthless People
($71.6 million)
10. Ferris Bueller's Day Off
($70.1 million)

Top 100 Songs of 1986
                                                                           
Derived from Billboard's Hottest Hot 100 Hits
Check out the Top 20 singles of every month of the year at 1986: The Year in Music

         
Bangles
"Walk like an  Egyptian"

Madonna

Whitney Houston
"Greatest Love of All"

Bon Jovi
"You Give Love A Bad Name"

Wang Chung
"Everybody Have Fun Tonight"

Kenny Loggins
"Danger Zone"

Huey Lewis & The News

Cameo, "Word Up"

Sly Fox
"Let's Go All The Way"



1. "That's What Friends Are For".....Dionne & Friends
2. "Walk Like An Egyptian".....Bangles
3. "On My Own".....Patti Labelle & Michael McDonald
4. "The Way It Is".....Bruce Hornsby & The Range
5. "You Give Love A Bad Name".....Bon Jovi
6. "Greatest Love Of All".....Whitney Houston
7. "There'll Be Sad Songs".....Billy Ocean
8. "How Will I Know".....Whitney Houston
9. "Kyrie".....Mr. Mister
10. "Kiss".....Prince & The Revolution
11. "The Next Time I Fall".....Peter Cetera & Amy Grant
12. "Burning Heart".....Survivor
13. "Stuck With You".....Huey Lewis & The News
14. "When I Think Of You".....Janet Jackson
15. "Rock Me Amadeus".....Falco
16. "West End Girls".....Pet Shop Boys
17. "Sledgehammer".....Peter Gabriel
18. "Human".....Human League
19. "Sara".....Starship
20. "Higher Love".....Steve Winwood
21. "Glory Of Love".....Peter Cetera
22. "Everybody Have Fun Tonight".....Wang Chung
23. "Friends And Lovers".....Gloria Loring & Carl Anderson
24. "Conga".....Miami Sound Machine
25. "Secret Lovers".....Atlantic Starr
26. "Live To Tell".....Madonna
27. "Addicted To Love".....Robert Palmer
28. "I Can't Wait".....Nu Shooz
29. "What Have You Done For Me Lately".....Janet Jackson
30. "Venus".....Bananarama
31. "What You Need".....INXS
32. "Take My Breath Away".....Berlin
33. "These Dreams".....Heart
34. "Holding Back The Years".....Simply Red
35. "Walk Of Life".....Dire Straits
36. "Dancing On The Ceiling".....Lionel Richie
37. "Amanda".....Boston
38. "Papa Don't Preach".....Madonna
39. "True Colors".....Cyndi Lauper
40. "Talk To Me".....Stevie Nicks
41. "Mad About You".....Belinda Carlisle
42. "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)".....Glass Tiger
43. "When The Going Gets Tough".....Billy Ocean
44. "Why Can't This Be Love".....Van Halen
45. "Danger Zone".....Kenny Loggins
46. "Crush On You".....The Jets
47. "Hip To Be Square".....Huey Lewis & The News
48. "Manic Monday".....Bangles
49. "I'm Your Man".....Wham!
50. "If You Leave".....Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
51. "Word Up".....Cameo
52. "Invisible Touch".....Genesis
53. "No One Is To Blame".....Howard Jones
54. "To Be A Lover".....Billy Idol
55. "Throwing It All Away".....Genesis
56. "Your Love".....The Outfield
57. "Something About You".....Level 42
58. "Let's Go All The Way".....Sly Fox
59. "Tonight She Comes".....The Cars
60. "Typical Male".....Tina Turner
61. "Nasty".....Janet Jackson
62. "R.O.C.K. In The USA".....John Cougar Mellencamp
63. "I Didn't Mean To Turn You On".....Robert Palmer
64. "Who's Johnny".....El DeBarge
65. "Two Of Hearts".....Stacey Q
67. "Stand By Me".....Ben E. King
68. "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off".....Jermaine Stewart
69. "Take Me Home Tonight".....Eddie Money
70. "Sweet Freedom".....Michael McDonald
71. "Walk This Way".....Run-D.M.C.
72. "Words Get In The Way".....Miami Sound Machine
73. "Love Touch".....Rod Stewart
74. "All I Need Is A Miracle".....Mike + The Mechanics
75. "Rumors".....Times Social Club
76. "Silent Running".....Mike + The Mechanics
77. "All Cried Out".....Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam w/ Full Force
78. "Don't Get Me Wrong".....Pretenders
79. "Baby Love".....Regina
80. "Spies Like Us".....Paul McCartney
81. "True Blue".....Madonna
82. "Living In America".....James Brown
83. "Take Me Home".....Phil Collins
84. "Dreamtime".....Daryl Hall
85. "Bad Boy".....Miami Sound Machine
86. "Heartbeat".....Don Johnson
87. "Nikita".....Elton John
88. "King For A Day".....Thompson Twins
89. "A Different Corner".....George Michael
90. "Love Will Conquer All".....Lionel Richie
91. "Life In A Northern Town".....The Dream Academy
92. "Go Home".....Stevie Wonder
93. "Sweet Love".....Anita Baker
94. "Your Wildest Dreams".....The Moody Blues
95. "Is It Love".....Mr. Mister
96. "You Should Be Mine".....Jeffrey Osborne
97. "Harlem Shuffle".....Rolling Stones
98. "My Hometown".....Bruce Springsteen
99. "Love Zone".....Billy Ocean
100. "The Rain".....Oran "Juice" Jones


Just something to make you laugh...seeing that we are all getting old!

 
                 You know you grew up in the 80's if......
 
 1.
Every time you hear the "OH YEAH..." song you think of "Ferris Bueller's Day Off"
 
 2. You can sing the rap to the "Fresh Prince of Bel Air" and can do
 the "Carlton."
 
 3. Girls wore biker shorts under their skirts and felt stylishly sexy.
 
 4. Two words: Hammer Pants.
 
 5. You wore a ponytail on the side of your head.
 
 6. You made your mom buy one of those clips that would hold your shirt
 in a knot on the side.
 
 7. You wore stone washed Jordache jean jackets and were proud of it.
 
 8. L.A.Gear....need I say more?
 
 9. You've ever ended a sentence with the word "SIKE."

 10. You know the profound meaning of "WAX ON, WAX OFF."
 
 11. You ever wore fluorescent clothing. (Some of us...head-to-toe).
 
 12. You can remember what Michael Jackson looked like before his nose
 fell off and his cheeks shifted.
 
 13. You still get the urge to say "NOT" after every sentence.
 
 14. You ever owned a pair of Jelly-Shoes (and probably in neon colors,
 too).
 
 15. After you saw "Pee-Wee's Big Adventure" you kept saying "I know
 you are, but what am I?
 
 16. You remember "I've fallen and I can't get up."
 
 17. You remember going to the skating rink before there were inline
 skates.
 
 18. You ever got seriously injured on a Slip and Slide.
 
 19. You have played with a Skip-It.
 
 20. You had or attended a birthday party at McDonalds.
 
 21. You've gone through this nodding your head in agreement.
 
 22. "Don't worry, be happy."
 
 23. You wore, like, EIGHT pairs of socks over tights with high top
 Reeboks.
 
 24. You wore socks scrunched down (and sometimes still do).
 
 25. You remember boom boxes.
 
 26. You remember Alf, the li'l furry brown alien from Melmac.
 
 27. You remember New Kids on the Block when they were cool.
 
 28. You know all the words to Bon Jovi's "SHOT THROUGH THE HEART."
 
 29. (You just sang those words to yourself.)
 
 30. You remember watching Magic vs. Bird. Oh yeah............it will
 never be that good again
 
 31. Homemade Levi shorts... (The shorter the better.)
 
 32. You remember when mullets were cool!
 
 33. You had a mullet!
 
 34. You still sing "We are the World."
 
 35. You tight rolled your jeans.
 
 36. You owned a banana clip.
 
 37. You remember "Where's the Beef?
 
 38. You used to (and probably still do) say "What you talkin' 'bout
 Willis?"
 
 39. You had big hair and you knew how to use it.
 
 40. You're still singing "Shot through the Heart" in your head, aren't
 you!!!

41. 
You know whose phone number is 867-5309.

42. 
You  wanted to learn to play "Stairway to Heaven" on the guitar and  choreographed "Dancing Queen" by yourself in your room.

43. 
You wanted to be one of the members of KISS for Halloween(Christina M-this ones for you!!!)


44. 
The feeling in your thumb is only now just returning after holding down the Atari joystick.

45. 
Your first Walkman weighed 10 pounds and was the size of a brick

46. 
Six words: "This is your brain on drugs"

47. 
A piece of folded paper and two hands could tell your fortune.

48. 
You still carry your boom box on your shoulder

49. 
You still wear your "Members Only" jacket.

50. 
You know all the words to "I'm just a bill, sitting up on Capitol Hill" and "School House Rock."

SHARE THIS WITH ALL OF YOUR FRIENDS WHO GREW UP IN THE 80s!!

 ROCK ON!!!!!

Posted by: Cindy Scrivner

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