Phil Collins’ Take Me Home was just amazingly good. My favourite of his whole catalog #VJbig40Countdown @Big80son8

@SIRIUSXM I don’t think that was #JohnTaylor’s #version of #IDoWhatIDo on your #VJBig40Countdown! 🤨

I’m listening to the #VJBig40countdown on @SIRIUSXM #80son8. 1984. I forgot how great the popular music scene was that year. Dan Hartman. Tina Turner. Duran. Just .. damn.

@AlanHunterMTV Wonderful countdown this week! So glad you were on it Alan! Thanks for another good one my friends! And for letting it be 1986! @goodymade @NinaBlackwood @Big80son8 #vjbig40countdown

All the boys think she's a spaz. Crowes are blushing. And she'll hog the bathtub just to please you. What a girl! #vjbig40countdown #80son8 @SIRIUSXM

I miss the days when songs would climb the charts. Listening to #caseykasem #AmericanTop40 was my Saturday morning ritual. @SIRIUSXM #80s #VJBig40Countdown @goodymade @AlanHunterMTV @NinaBlackwood

Didn’t know the real story behind Rick Springfield’s “Jessie’s Girl.” Thanks for the history lesson, @goodymade! #VJBig40Countdown

We’re working today. #thegoodymadelife big80son8 #vjbig40countdown @ New York, New York instagram.com/p/BtJthRwnRDq/…

Hey, @AlanHunterMTV, You want even more "Good, Bad, and Ugly"? Try 1989. A lot of dance-pop and hip-hop songs released that year. #RealHits #SuccessesOverFailures #WhoNeedsNewWave #VJBig40Countdown

#1 @Big80son8 #VJBig40Countdown #1982 - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'N Roll #Classic Still gets heavy rotation; Jett was pure attitude

#2 @Big80son8 #VJBig40Countdown #1982 Journey - Open Arms - A staple of High School dances (I remember, trust me). While I truly detest it I give props to Steve Perry for a dynamite vocal

#3 @Big80son8 #VJBig40Countdown #1982 J. Geils Band - Centerfold - MASSIVE hit from that year, and kind of a risque subject for a top-40 song at that; a man discovering his High School crush is a centerfold in a men's magazine. Hot for the time.

#4 @Big80son8 #VJBig40Countdown #1982 - Stevie Wonder - That Girl - An original single produced for his massive Greatest Hits collection. Beautiful arrangement, musically interesting. Great tune.

#5 @Big80son8 #VJBig40Countdown #1982 - Air Supply - Sweet Dreams - Further evidence of just how sleepy pop music had become in '82

#6 @Big80son8 #VJBig40Countdown #1982 #Classic Go Go's - We Got The Beat - ironic retro-pop sound belied serious partying/drug abuse at the time. First hit from a band that would become one of the big names of the decade

#7 @Big80son8 #VJBig40Countdown #1982 Olivia Newton-John - Make a Move on Me - Substantial follow-up hit from album Physical

#8 @Big80son8 #VJBig40Countdown #1982 - Diana Ross - Mirror Mirror - Catchy hit, fairly late in Ms. Ross' cycle

#9 @Big80son8 #VJBig40Countdown #1982 #Classic The Cars - Shake It Up - Maybe the top US New Wave band, typically more upbeat than their Brit compatriots