HARD REPORT' November 21, 1986 Issue # 6 (609) 654-7272 FRONTRUNNERS ERIC CLAPTON BOB GELDOF "AUGUST" "DEEP in the HEART E.C
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THE HARD REPORT' November 21, 1986 Issue # 6 (609) 654-7272 FRONTRUNNERS ERIC CLAPTON BOB GELDOF "AUGUST" "DEEP IN THE HEART E.C. DELIVERS BIG ON OF NOWHERE" HIS MOST HIGHLY ANTICIPATED ALBUM OF IN TERMS OF WRITING AND ROCKING, WE'D THE EIGHTIES! CALL THIS A WORLD CLASS SURPRISE! ATLANTIC THE KINKS KATE BUSH NINNS . "THINK VISUAL" "EXPERIMENT IV" THINK THE 12" IS A BIT THE HIGH PRIESTESS ROUGH? YOU'LL FLIP OF MIND MUSIC RATES OVER "FACTORY" AND AN "A" FOR THIS "LOST AND FOUND" CEREBRAL CONCOCTION! MCA EMI JN OE HWN PE UD SD Fs RD OA My PLUS! ETTRACKS EDDIE MONEY & TIMBUK3 CHARTSTARS * HEADLINES MOST ADDED HOWARD and the FCC 1 The Kinks "Rock & Roll Cities" (MCA) 61 2 Ann Wilson "Best Man in The World" (CAP) 53 3 Bruce Hornsby "Western Skyline..." (RCA) 40 4 Peter Gabriel "Big Time" (GEFFEN) 35 McNUTT To McWKDF HOT NUMBERS ALBUMS Billy Joel "The Bridge" 46-39 (COL) YATES Back in L.A. World Party "Private. 44-38 (CHRY.) Jason/Scorchers"Still..." 37-33 (EMI) Ben Orr "The Lace" 18-14 (E/A) DEBUTS WNEW's McEWEN Stevie Ray Vaughan "Live Alive" #23(EPIC) tubes out Robert Cray "Strong Persuader" #26 (POLY) TRACKS KBC Band "America" 92-71 JOBNAPPERS Van Halen "Rock & Roll Live" 83-63 Europe "The Final Countdown" 89-78 TEXTBOOK: Smithereens "Behind the Wall..." 57-47 GREG GILLISPIE RECORD OF THE WEEK THE STEVE MILLER BAND --FOR HIS FIRST # 1 SINCE 82's "ABRACADABRA"! INSIDE... %tea' &Mai& &Mal& EtiZiraZ CiairlZif:.-.ZaW. CfMCOLZ &L -Z Cad CcIZ Cad' Ca& &Yet Cif& Ca& Ca& Cge. EitZ ifiZ CC& Cfa"&. We. CriZ Cer.Z CciZiciZirli&CitZWei &lc& iciZtird iii'er: C4.Z ard. tea: CiltZ C(...-Ccid: t.W. 71 0 $ 8 0 0: $ 8 sP 8 1 J I 5 r.4 (..1 il tg 0 fil :.4 0 JASON 1.1 N i$5 (6 L.?, AND arrx.r. 7) AN HARD HUNDRED 53-37* R&R DOUBLE BREAKER! HARD ALBUMS 37-33* TRACK: 42* -36* 107121 LP: 36-31* 109120 ALBUM NETWORK HOMER! TRACK: 36* LP: 32* SALES? BILLBOARD 167-137* NEW... WXRK KGB KSJO KDJK KUPD WHCN WCCC Q107 KBCO WDIZ WOUR KFMX KICT WTUE WONE NOW ON THE ROAD WITH THE GEORGIA SATELLITES, THE HOTTEST AMERICAN ROOTS ROCK TOUR SINCE PETTY BROKE YEARS AGO! THE More On The Picks... HARD REPORT Eric Clapton, "August", WB.. "It's In The Way" Roger Daltrey, "Move Better In The Night" had listener interest piqued well before release, and Atl..Ever since "No Matter What Shape (Your now 4 weeks later, the soundtrack item has easily Stomach's In)" sold more T -Bone's 45's than Alka chugged into the top ten. Play increases include Seltzer, "commercial appeal" has taken on a whole WBCN, KGB, WDIZ, WZEW, KOME, KZAP, and new meaning.With that in mind, pound a coupla WGIR, with power play at WQFM, WPLR, KQRS, Micks and ponder what the beer spot could do for WMGM, and WIZN, and heavy action at 46 more. Mr. Daltrey.A good track made better via prime Think the world was waiting? EC's cool time play. countrypolitan approach embodies the best parts of blues, rock, R&B, and country. Now his best album Eddie Money,"I Wanna Go Back", Col.. of the80's willreinforcehisstatusasthe There's simply no way Mr. Broken Heart can lose professoremeritusofthecurrentrootsrock when he sings those "take me back" blues. This movement. Startwiththe Tina Turner duet on guy has the rock romantic lead role down to a T, "Tearing Us Apart", then "Run" rightinto "Miss and his request/retail reviews say its time to call in You". yet another ladykiller. Timbuk 3,"LifeIsHard",IRS..Not when BobGeldof,"Deep In TheHeartOf you're coming off one of the year's biggest surprise Nowhere", AtI.. More than a few programmers hits, it's not.In fact, this equally funny and topical felt obligated to support the single (for obvious trackshould be the week's easiest call.#9 Most reasons), but many told us they were surprised by Added with 14 stations, with 33 now on board and a a) how good it sounded on the air and b) how it nifty #79 debut. improved withage. Equally surprisingisthe album's remarkable diversity and totally Most Added... entertaining ambience. This cassette will have major Ann Wilson, "Best Man in the World", Cap.. dashboard hang time, and thankfully there's that Nice adds and comments out of the box for Miss onein yer face radio rocker you folks have been Ann. Try "Flawless! IfI could just hit one of those waiting for, "Love Like A Rocket".And has Mr. notes" from Christina at WPLR..or "Simply great!" Clapton's guitar ever wept more gently than on from Michael Davis at KFMG..She starts with 53 "August"? stations, 11 of which (WLUP, KUPD, KZEW, WHJY, KILO) listit heavy, with 39 mediums and 5 lights. New at #41. The Kinks, "Think Visual", MCA.. It wouldn't be unfair to say "Rock And Roll Cities" primary Bruce Hornsby and the Range, "On The attraction is thelack of manners. It's down and Western Skyline", RCA.. The world is waiting to dirty and that's probably the course correction add this track --and 40 jumped right on that new theseoriginalrudeboys needed. The charts 12". WAPL's Rick Panneck predicts, "Hornsby will certainly say so, what with 61 out of the box and undoubtedly be the debut artist of the year" ditto the week's highest #39 debut.But if your rock and WIOT's Jim Steel , "He far outdistances ANYONE roll fantasy is slightly more subdued, you're gonna for Rookie of the Year honors" ..from WAAF's Russ love that bittersweet bite of the first two tracks on Mottla, "Sounds to me like it has all demo appeal as side 1. Ray Davies at his heroic best. opposed to the upper demo appeal of thefirst two"..KFMF"s Marty Griffin adds, "My favorite out of Kate Bush, "Experiment IV", EMI.. the box. I think it should do quite well". Bruce nails "Running Up That Hill" grabbed a healthy roll at down a huge 39 position 75-36 underline,the album radio, and where the shot was solid the longest gainer this week. response was there.Since then, millions of your listeners learned to love her voicevia the Gabriel PeterGabriel,"Big Time",Geffen..Well, connection, further enhancing the cult goddess rep. second biggest, maybe. The new single's 66-35 "Experiment IV" isher strongest rock material to romp slots in right behind Hornsby's move on the date, with maximum headroom forinterpretation. Hard Hundred, thanks to 35 more adds, 5 increases (WLUP, KZOQ, WWV, WLIR, and KRQU). Still most Thinkrock of the first order, with agreatest hits medium with 19 heavies, two powers and 3 lights. package to back it up. Listen thrice. Greg Gilispie comments, "We useditwhen the albumcameout, butduetosimilaritiesto Also new this week: "Sledgehammer" we held back. The time isright now".Or as WKLS Beth Kepple puts it,"IfI don't John Eddie, "Pretty Little Rebel",Col.. hear it once before I go to work, I'm a total bitch." Good songs about bad girls always seem to get the job done. That's because hound dogs buy alot of Jason and the Scorchers, "Golden Ball and records. This particular piece picked up plenty of Chain", EMI.. Ball busters of the world rejoice!! play months back, and always kills 'em dead live. Check Jason's red hot 15-18-17 three week station John's gonna break sooner than later and we're count. KLOS, KLAQ, KATP, KQDS, WMGM and betting this will be the one to do it. WRXK increase play, with heavy action at WQFM, WPLR, WBRU, KQRS, WPLR, KATP and CILQ. And 'Til Tuesday, "Coming Up Close", Epic..it didn't we love hearing about top 5 phones at WKLS! took me a long time to take Aimee Mann seriously. KMJX DavidAllenRossechoes,"Phonomenal A techno/vido flash I thought. But TT's lastest album phones right from the beginning"..chartwise, they've sure changed all that.She has emerged as one of got another great leap forward, 53-37. And as noted rock's brightest new lyricists, with vocal innocence and honesty that drives a song like this straight by Cindy "people tore the place up" Bailenat KZEW, and KNCN's Bonnie Stacy, the tour with the through your heart. Doesn't it sound like Fleetwood Mac circa "Future Games"? It's be their biggest hit Satellites is not to be missed. yet.. November 2/, 1986 STEVIE RAY VAUGHAN "SUPERSTITION"...ROLL THOSE CALLS! KGON WBCN WNEW WMMR WKLS DC101 WSHE WXRT WCKG WLLZ KLBJ KZEW KTXQ KLOL KYYS KSHE KBCO KMET KUPD 'n more! #22 HARD HUNDRED D23' HARD ALBUMS #18' R&R TRACKS -EPIC- 21' R&R ALBUMS ROCKIN' THE REQUEST LINES KLPX WDVE WEGK WRUF WTUE WONE vVAPL KEZO SURVIVOR JOAN JETT AND THE BLACKHEARTS ROCKIN' THESE CALLS TALK! NEW YORK! WNEW WXRK WBAB WLIR WKLS KDJQ WDVE WIYY BOSTON! WBCN WBAB WPYX WKDF WDIZ WLUP WLVQ WLLZ KTXQ PHILADELPHIA! WMMR KSHE KATT KBPI KLOS DALLAS! 'CLEW KUPD KGB + MORE!! TULSA! (MOD SAN DIEGO! KGB 'n more "IS THIS LOVE" "Roadrunner' is becoming a runaway success on the phones and at retail. It's Top 15 sales, first 24 HARD HUNDRED 26 R&R & TRACKS week!" RUSS MOTTLA, WAAF 28 HARD ALBUMS 26* R&R & ALBUMS " It's gonna tear things up. .One of the ultimate driving rock and roll songs." "Since the first week, we've had top 5 phones and CINDY BAILEN, KZEW things don't look like they're letting up.