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Today, we’re going behind the Top 10 rock songs from this very same week in the year 1982… Can you imagine, a top 10 billboard chart filled with all rock songs? In the past we’ve done redux episodes, covering the most popular songs on the Billboard Hot 100, but today we’re putting a new twist on an old favorite. Going 100% rock. Then after counting them down, we rerank each song according to how many times they’ve been streamed and find out which one deserves to be #1. But which classic rock titan will be the winner? Will it be Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Mighty Rush with Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart, or maybe one of the Eagles flying solo Don Henley or Glenn Frey? Start making your guesses in the comments and tell us who you think will take home the crown. I guarantee this is going to be a good one. And it’s all coming up… NEXT on the Professor of Rock.

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So it’s time for our inaugural installment of our show the “80s Rock Redux”, where we travel back to a specific week in the golden era of rock, count down the top 10 songs on the US Rock Charts, and re-rank them according to the world has listened to them since. Just to clarify, this is not my personal top 10, but the actual top 10 from this exact week back in 1982…. We have the songs and commentary from the actual artists!

So as we get started, let’s take a moment to immerse ourselves in the pop culture context of the day, starting with movies. Playing in the theaters on this same week in 1982 you could choose between Sylvester Stallone’s First Blood, The Man From Snowy River, or Pink Floyd’s The Wall. Did you see any of these in the theater? Then on television there were some classic shows debuting that year, including Family Ties, Knight Rider, and that one show where everybody knows your name: Cheers. And then on the cartoon front, you could catch Pac-Man, Super Friends, and Spider-Man and His Amazing Friends. Such good memories… Okay, let’s get started.

Coming in at #10, we’re kicking it off with the holy trinity of prog-rock… it’s Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neal Peart of Rush with Subdivisions.

By 1982, Rush had long-established themselves as one of the premier progressive rock bands of the 70s. Some would argue that they were “the” premier prog-rockers of the decade. However, by the time Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, and Neil Peart released their landmark 1981 album Moving Pictures, they began layering in a new sound… One that was highlighted by the use of synthesizers.

Then 1982’s Signals took Rush's keyboard aspirations to the next level… while unfortunately pushing Alex’s superb guitar work deeper into the mix. For Signals, almost every track had copious amounts of keyboards. And Subdivisions was no exception. In fact, it was one of Rush’s first tracks written p