#94 of VJ Samsonite's Top 100 80's Dance Hits Countdown: "Voices Carry" by Til' Tuesday (1985)

Welcome back to VJ Samsonite's top 100 80's Dance Hits Countdown! Today we are presenting #94 of the top 100 countdown! And the song is....Voices Carry, by Boston new wave band 'Til Tuesday. This band first gained attention just six months following their formation in 1982 with their single release Love in a Vacuum. It was later released on the album titled Voices Carry, which unpredictably also became the feature track of the album and smashed up to number 8 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart. Its original lineup was bassist/vocalist Aimee Mann, guitarist/vocalist Robert Holmes, keyboardist Joey Pesce, and drummer Michael Hausman. The songs success (according to wikpedia) is said to have lead to an argument and subsequent breakup between Mann and Hausman before the album's official release. As you will notice, the music video depicts an bully-boyfriend attempting to conform his lower-caste girlfriend into his upper-crust lifestyle. However, it was noticed that the song was actually written as one women to another, indicating a lesbian relationship, which angered the band's record company at the time and was countered by a video depicting an oppressive boy-girl relationship. Despite the debate surrounding the video and the song it won the MTV Video Music Award for Best New Artist that year. Now some would not, but I still consider this band to be a One-Hit-80s-Wonder. Some would also debate as to whether this song constitutes as a "dance hit," but I consider it to be a slow-dance hit with a steady beat. Totally Rad!