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I have a list of songs from 1980 I have attained through my research... what are your thoughts on the top 20 songs from that year and am I missing anything...
ABBA-The Winner Takes It All
ABBA-Super Trouper
AC/DC-Back In Black
AC/DC-Hells Bells
AC/DC-You Shook Me All Night Long
AC/DC-Rock And Roll Ain’t Noise Pollution
AC/DC-What Do You Do For Money Honey
AC/DC-Shoot To Thrill
AEROSMITH-Remember (Walking In The Sand)
AIR SUPPLY-lost in Love
AIR SUPPLY-All Out Of Love
AIR SUPPLY-Every Woman In The World
ADAM & THE ANTS-Antmusic
ADAM & THE ANTS-(You’re So) Physical
B-52’s-Private Idaho
BAUHAUS-Dark Entries
BAUHAUS-Telegram Sam
PAT BENETAR-We Live For Love
PAT BENETAR-Hit Me With Your Best Shot
PAT BENETAR-You Better Run
PAT BENETAR-Hell Is For Children
BLACK SABBATH-Neon Knights
BLACK SABBATH-Die Young
BLACK SABBATH-Heaven And Hell
BLONDIE-Call Me
BLONDIE-Atomic
BLONDIE-The Tide Is High
KURTIS BLOW-The Breaks
THE BOOMTOWN RATS-I Don’t Like Mondays
THE BOOMTOWN RATS-Someone’s Looking At You
DAVID BOWIE-Ashes To Ashes
DAVID BOWIE-Fashion
BROTHERS JOHNSON-Stomp
JACKSON BROWNE-Boulevard
JIMMY BUFFETT-Volcano
IRENE CARA-Fame
JIM CARROLL-People Who Died
THE CARS-Touch And Go
THE CARS-Up And Down
THE CARS-Misfit Kid
CHEAP TRICK-Everything Works If You Let It
CHEAP TRICK-Stop This Game
ERIC CLAPTON-Cocaine
THE CLASH-Lost In the Supermarket
THE CLASH-Train In Vain
THE CLASH-Clampdown
THE CLASH-Hitsville UK
THE CLASH-Bankrobber
THE CLASH-The Call Up
ALICE COOPER-Clones (We’re All)
ELVIS COSTELLO-High Fidelity
ELVIS COSTELLO-New Amsterdam
CHRISTOPHER CROSS-Sailing
CHRISTOPHER CROSS-Ride Like The Wind
THE CURE-10:15 Saturday Night
THE CURE-A Forest
DEAD KENNEDYS-Holiday In Cambodia
DEAD KENNEDYS-Kill The Poor
DEF LEPPARD-Rock Brigade
DEF LEPPARD-Hello America
DEVO-Girl You Want
DEVO-Freedom of Choice
DEVO-Whip It
DEXY’S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS-Geno
NEIL DIAMOND-Love on the Rocks
DIRE STRAITS-Romeo and Juliet
THE EAGLES-The Long Run
THE EAGLES-I Can’t Tell You Why
ECHO & THE BUNNYMEN-Rescue
ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA-All Over The World
ELECTRIC LIGHT ORCHESTRA-I’M Alive
THE ENGLISH BEAT-Mirror in the Bathroom
FOREIGNER-Women
PETER GABRIEL-Games without Frontiers
PETER GABRIEL-No Self Control
PETER GABRIEL-I Don’t Remember
PETER GABRIEL-Biko
THE GAP BAND-Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)
GENESIS-Turn It On Again
GENESIS-Misunderstanding
GO-GO’S-We Got The Beat
HEART-Even It Up
BILLY IDOL-Dancing With Myself
IRON MAIDEN-Running Free
IRON MAIDEN-Sanctuary
MICHAEL JACKSON-Off The Wall
THE JAM-Going Underground
THE JAM-Start!
JOAN JETT & THE BLACKHEARTS-Bad Reputation
J. GEILS BAND-Love Stinks
BILLY JOEL-You May Be Right
BILLY JOEL-It’s Still Rock ‘N Roll To Me
BILLY JOEL-Don’t Ask Me Why
ELTON JOHN-Little Jeannie
GEORGE JONES-He Stopped Loving Her Today
JOURNEY-Any Way You Want It
JOURNEY-Walks Like A Lady
JOY DIVISION-Love Will Tear Us Apart
JOY DIVISION-Atmosphere
JOY DIVISION-Decades
JUDAS PRIEST-Breaking The Law
JUDAS PRIEST-United
JUDAS PRIEST-Living After Midnight
KANSAS-Hold On
KILLING JOKE-Requiem
THE KINGS-The Beat Goes On/Switchin’ To Glide
KOOL & THE GANG-Too Hot
KOOL & THE GANG-Celebration
LED ZEPPELIN-In The Evening
KENNY LOGGINS-I’m Alright
LIPPS INC.-Funkytown
JOHN LENNON-(Just Like) Starting Over
MADNESS-Baggy Trousers
MADNESS-Embarrassment
BOB MARLEY-Could You Be Loved
BOB MARLEY-Three Little Birds
BOB MARLEY-Pimper’s Paradise
BOB MARLEY-Redemption Song
MARTHA & THE MUFFINS-Echo Beach
PAUL MCCARTNEY-Coming Up
MOLLY HATCHET-Flirtin’ With Disaster
THE MOTELS-Danger
MOTORHEAD-Ace Of Spades
WILLIE NELSON-On The Road Again
OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN-Magic
TED NUGENT-Wango Tango
GARY NUMAN-Cars
GARY NUMAN-We Are Glass
GARY NUMAN-I Die: You Die
ORCHESTRAL MANOEVERS IN THE DARK-Enola Gay
ORCHESTRAL MANOEVERS IN THE DARK-Messages
OZZY OSBOURNE-Crazy Train
OZZY OSBOURNE-Mr. Crowley
OZZY OSBOURNE-I Don’t Know
DOLLY PARTON-9 To 5
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS-Refugee
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS-Here Comes My Girl
TOM PETTY & THE HEARTBREAKERS-Even the Losers
PINK FLOYD-Run like Hell
PINK FLOYD-Comfortably Numb
PINK FLOYD-Hey You
PINK FLOYD-Young Lust
PINK FLOYD-Mother
THE PLIMSOULS-Zero Hour
THE POINTER SISTERS-He’s So Shy
THE POLICE-Don’t Stand So Close To Me
THE POLICE-De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da
THE POLICE-Driven To Tears
THE POLICE-Canary In A Colemine
THE PRETENDERS-Brass In Pocket
THE PRETENDERS-Talk Of The Town
THE PRETENDERS-Precious
PRINCE-I Wanna Be Your Lover
PRINCE-Uptown
PRINCE-When You Were Mine
PSYCHEDELIC FURS-Sister Europe
QUEEN-Another One Bites The Dust
QUEEN-Play The Game
QUEEN-Save Me
QUEEN-Need Your Loving Tonight
QUEEN-Dragon Attack
EDDIE RABBITT-I Love A Rainy Night
EDDIE RABBITT-Drivin’ My Life Away
THE RAMONES-Do You Remember Rock ‘N Roll Radio?
THE RAMONES-Baby, I Love You
THE RAMONES-Chinese Rock
KENNY ROGERS-Coward of the County
THE ROLLING STONES-Emotional Rescue
THE ROLLING STONES-She’s So Cold
THE ROLLING STONES-Let Me Go
THE ROMANTICS-What I Like About You
DIANA ROSS-Upside Down
ROXY MUSIC-Over You
ROXY MUSIC-Same Old Scene
RUSH-The Spirit Of Radio
RUSH-Freewill
SCORPIONS-The Zoo
BOB SEGER-Against the Wind
BOB SEGER-Fire Lake
BOB SEGER-You’ll Accompany Me
BOB SEGER-Her Strut
BOB SEGER-Betty Lou’s Getting’ Out Tonight
SIMPLE MINDS-I Travel
FRANK SINATRA-(Theme From) New York, New York
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES-Christine
SIOUXSIE & THE BANSHEES-Happy House
THE SPECIALS-Rat Race
SPLIT ENZ-I Got You
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-Hungry Heart (BB=30)
BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN-Ramrod
SQUEEZE-Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)
STEELY DAN-Hey Nineteen
ROD STEWART-Passion
THE TALKING HEADS-Crosseyed and Painless
THE TEARDROP EXPLODES-Treason (It’s Just A Story)
PETE TOWNSHEND-Let My Love Open The Door
PETE TOWNSHEND-Rough Boys
THE TREACHEROUS THREE-The Body Rock
ULTRAVOX-Sleepwalk
VAN HALEN-…And the Cradle Will Rock
VAN HALEN-Everybody Wants Some
THE VAPORS-Turning Japanese
VISAGE-Fade To Grey
WHITESNAKE-Fool For Your Loving
STEVIE WONDER-Master Blaster (Jammin’)
X-Los Angeles
XTC-Generals And Majors
ZZ TOP-Cheap Sunglasses
ZZ TOP-I Thank You
Again,Joy Division - Atmosphere and Love Will Tear Us Apart probably 1-2 - but that's just my opinion...
1) Slates, Slags, etc - The Fall
2) Bad Reputation - The dB's
3) Ghost Town - The Specials
4) seven year ache - roseanne cash
5) Homosapien - Pete Shelley
6) Marie, Marie - The Blasters
7) O Superman - Laurie Anderson
8) Labelled With Love - Squeeze
9) Say Hello, Wave Goodbye - Soft Cell
10) tension - killing joke
11) Elephant Talk - King Crimson
12) Burnin' For You - Blue Oyster Cult
13) Tainted Love - Soft Cell
14) Don't You Want Me - human League
15) That's When I Reach For My Revolver - Mission of Burma
16) She is Mine - Psychedelic Furs
17) Dallas - Joe Ely
18) Fascist Groove Thing - Heaven 17
19) Tempted - Squeeze
20) Black and White - The dB's
21) Under Pressure - Bowie and Queen
22) Ceremony - New Order
23) White Girl - X
24) Numbers - Kraftwerk
25) Leave the Capital - The Fall
26) acid bird - robin hitchcock
Hey - aren't most of those songs there 1981?
I think Ghost Town was released in 1982
Ah, I had miss-labeled my lists - '80 was labeled as '81 and vice-versa. I guess that's poetic justice since I gave Moonbeam a hard time over calling Be My Baby a Motown track.
This should be the correct list:
1) Sleeping Gas - Teardrop Explodes
2) New Puritan - The Fall
3) poptones - Public Image Limited
4) Cold Love - Donna Summer
5) Brass in Pocket - Pretenders
6) Reasons To Be Cheerful - Ian Dury
7) Crazy Rhythms - Feelies
8 ) Juke Box Baby - Alan Vega
9) Up The Junction - Squeeze
10) A Message to You Rudy - Specials
11 ) Cruel to be Kind - Nick Lowe
12 ) Girls Talk - Dave Edmunds
13 ) Geno - Dexy's Midnight Runners
14 ) The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness - The Feelies
15 ) Uptown - Prince
16 ) Song From Under the Floorboards - Magazine
17 ) Reward - Teardrop Explodes
18 ) People Who Died - Jim Carroll
19) Loveless Love - Feelies
20) Generals and Majors - XTC
21) C'n'C - S Mithering - The Fall
22) I Got You - Split Enz
23) Enola Gay - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
24) Does It Really Happen - Yes
25) Barefoot Rock - The Blasters