Welcome to part 1 of the best albums and songs of the '80s poll. This month we will be focusing on the year 1980. The year Ian Curtis, John Lennon, Bon Scott and John Bonham die, Bill Haley performs for the last time, and Phil Collins starts his solo career. The year isn't all bad news though. Depeche Mode and R.E.M. are formed, and of course the year had its share of great songs and albums as I'm sure you'll find out when making your list.

Please submit at least 5 songs and/or albums, preferably but not necessarily with ranking, lists without ranking will get an average score of 10 points per album. The deadline is midnight on the 31st of January. For the scoring, rules and other details check here.

Please have a look at the 1980 album and song lists before voting, as albums and songs listed under 1980 at Acclaimed Music will only be counted in the forum poll if they are included in this month's ballots.

Here's the first list by Andre as an example, and a fine one at that:

* Albums

1. Talking Heads - Remain In Light
2. Joy Division - Closer
3. U2 - Boy
4. Bruce Springsteen - The River
5. The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
6. The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
7. The Clash - Sandinista!
8. Peter Gabriel - Peter Gabriel
9. The Sound - Jeopardy
10. The Comsat Angels - Waiting For A Miracle

* Songs

1. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
2. Bruce Springsteen - The River
3. Doe Maar - Sinds 1 Dag Of 2
4. U2 - I Will Follow
5. The Cure - A Forest
6. Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
7. Split Enz - I Got You
8. Talking Heads - Crosseyed And Painless
9. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno
10. Lipps Inc. - Funky Town
11. David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
12. Madness - Baggy Trousers
13. The Clash - The Magnificent Seven
14. The Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom
15. Bob Marley & The Wailers - Could You Be Loved
16. Fisher-Z - So Long
17. The Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia
18. Siouxsie & The Banshees - Christine
19. Madness - Embarrassment
20. The Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me

I'm confused. Are we only allowed to vote for albums and songs that are in the AM list? And do we post our ballots here, or in an email?

No, you can submit any song or album from 1980, but if the album is listed on AM it will only be eligible if it's listed under 1980 because some songs are released as singles before they're on albums, etc.

Also, you can just post your lists in this topic.

If the album OR song is listed on AM I mean.

1 Talking Heads - Remain In Light
2 X - Los Angeles
3 Pretenders - Pretenders
4 The Feelies - Crazy Rythyms
5 Prince - Dirty Mind
6 Joy Division - Closer

The songs would just be a list of my favorites from those albums, with maybe one or two other throw ins, and I don't know most of the song names anyway, so I'll decline a song list for now.

Albums:

01 Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
02 Elvis Costello - Get Happy
03 David Bowie - Scary Monsters
04 Joy Division - Closer
05 Steely Dan - Gaucho
06 Tom Waits - Heartattack And Vine
07 Rockpile - Seconds Of Pleasure


Songs:

01 Pere Ubu - Horses
02 Teardrop Explodes - Bouncing Babies
03 Tom Waits - Ruby's Arms
04 Steely Dan - Babylon Sisters
05 Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno
06 Stevie Wonder - Lately
07 Psychedelic Furs - Sister Europe
08 Steely Dan - Time Out Of Mind
09 Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours
10 David Bowie - Up The Hill Backwards
11 Elvis Costello - New Amsterdam
12 Clash - The Magnificient Seven
13 Tom Waits - On The Nickel
14 Rockpile - Heart
15 Young Marble Giants - Include Me Out
16 Specials - Stereotype
17 Talking Heads - Cities
18 Steely Dan - Gaucho
19 Japan - Nightporter
20 UB40 - Food For Thought

Albums

1. Elvis Costello - Get Happy!
2. Bruce Springsteen - The River
3. Pete Townshend - Empty Glass
4. The Pretenders s/t
5. X - Los Angeles

I like the year summary, Neoptolemos. Especially how Phil Collins starting his solo career is in the "bad news" section

Albums
1. Talking Heads-Remain in Light
2. Pretenders-Pretenders
3. Joy Division-Closer
4. X-Los Angeles
5. Bruce Springsteen-The River

Songs
1. Joy Division-Love Will Tear Us Apart
2. Talking Heads-Once In a Lifetime
3. U2-I Will Follow
4. John Lennon-Watching the Wheels
5. AC/DC-You Shook Me All Night Long
6. Talking Heads-Crosseyed and Painless
7. Bob Marley-Redemption Song
8. Devo-Whip It
9. The Jam-Going Underground
10. The Jam-That's Entertainment

Albums

1) Joy Division - Closer
2) Dexys Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
3) Echo and The Bunnymen - Crocodiles
4)The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
5) Magazine - The Correct Use Of Soap
6) Talking Heads - Remain In Light
7) AC/DC - Back In Black
8) The Clash - Sadinista!
9) The Pretenders - s/t
10) David Bowie - Scary Monsters
11) The Fall - Grotesque (After The Gramme)
12) The Jam - Sound Affects
13) The Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
14) Adam and The Ants - Kings of The Wild Frontier
15) The Specials - More Specials
16) Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July
17) Madness - Absolutely
18) U2 - Boy
19) Elvis Costello - Get Happy
20) Diana - Diana Ross

Albums:

1) Joy Division - Closer
2) Talking Heads - Remain in Light
3) The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
4) Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
5) The Clash - Sandinista
6) Bauhaus - In the Flat Field
7) Echo & the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
8) Pretenders - Pretenders
9) The Jam - Sound Affects
10) Pere Ubu - The Art of Walking
11) Dogs - Walking Shadows
12) The Psychedelic Furs - The Psychedelic Furs
13) XTC - Black Sea
14) David Bowie - Scary Monsters
15) Bruce Springsteen - The River
16) Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
17) Urban Verbs - Urban Verbs
18) Simple Minds - Empires and Dance
19) Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
20) U2 - Boy

My birth year! Now here's a decade I can get behind! I'm really interested to see how this all pans out!

Albums:

1 . The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
2 . David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
3 . Prince - Dirty Mind
4 . Pretenders - Pretenders
5 . Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette
6 . Blondie - Autoamerican
7 . Joan Jett - Bad Reputation
8 . Joy Division - Closer
9 . Roxy Music - Flesh + Blood
10 . Echo and the Bunnymen - Crocodiles
11 . Talking Heads - Remain in Light
12 . Human League - Travelogue
13 . Gap Band - III
14 . Lou Reed - Growing Up in Public
15 . Soundtrack - Fame
16 . The Tourists - Luminous Basement
17 . Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July
18 . X - Los Angeles
19 . The Tourists - Reality Effect
20 . Pat Benatar - Crimes of Passion

Songs:

1 . The Cure - A Forest
2 . Blondie - Rapture
3 . Blondie - Call Me
4 . Prince - Lisa
5 . Prince - Uptown
6 . David Bowie - Fashion
7 . Gap Band - Burn Rubber (Why You Wanna Hurt Me)
8 . The Cure - Play for Today
9 . David Bowie - Because You're Young
10 . Riz Ortolani - Much More
11 . Prince - Head
12 . Prince - Dirty Mind
13 . Joan Jett - Bad Reputation
14 . Pretenders - Mystery Achievement
15 . David Bowie - Teenage Wildlife
16 . Grace Jones - Warm Leatherette
17 . The Cure - In Your House
18 . David Bowie - Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)
19 . Pretenders - Private Life
20 . Roxy Music - Same Old Scene

With the exception of 1994 (I think), this is my first time participating in one of these, but this decade is my stomping ground.

The year 1980 was so good—I considered about 50 songs for inclusion—that I wish I could hold a few over into the relatively barren 1981.

ALBUMS
1. X, Los Angeles
2. Pretenders, Pretenders
3. Talking Heads, Remain in Light
4. The Feelies, Crazy Rhythms
5. David Bowie, Scary Monsters
6. The Dead Kennedys, Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
7. The Clash, Sandinista!
8. The Jam, Sound Affects
9. Stevie Wonder, Hotter Than July
10. Madness, Absolutely

SONGS
1. Talking Heads, “Once in a Lifetime”
2. The Dead Kennedys, “Holiday in Cambodia”
3. David Bowie, “Ashes to Ashes”
4. X, “Johny Hit and Run Paulene”
5. Pretenders, “Precious”
6. The Jam, “That’s Entertainment”
7. X, “Los Angeles”
8. Motörhead, “Ace of Spades”
9. Pete Townshend, “Let My Love Open the Door”
10. Devo, “Freedom of Choice”
11. The Clash, “Bankrobber”
12. The English Beat, “Mirror in the Bathroom”
13. Elvis Costello, “I Can’t Stand Up for Falling Down”
14. The Vapors, “Turning Japanese”
15. Squeeze, “If I Didn’t Love You”
16. The dB’s, “Black and White”
17. U2, “I Will Follow”
18. X, “Your Phone’s Off the Hook, But You’re Not”
19. The Clash, “The Magnificent Seven”
20. Pretenders, “Talk of the Town”

Most of these songs were in my all-time top 200, although probably in a different order. So it goes.

I seem to remember a conversation from July...

"Hey.. what's wrong with Phil Collins?"

"If we're talking about his solo career, Phil Collins has always been sort of a middle-of-the-road artist to me. He's a talented musician, but he writes non-offensive, soccer-mom music. Some of his songs are undeniably catchy, like Sussudio and Don't Lose That Number (which are two of my favorites) but that's really all they offer. It's pop music in an easy-to-swallow caplet."

Did you have a change of heart, Neo?

One of my favorite guilty pleasures is "against all odds". Great melody, but the lyrics and production suck balls I admit that

No I didn't Anthony, he's still in my top 50 artists. I was going for some laughs there.

nicolas - "Against All Odds" does have a good melody; I'll give you that much.

I have a few of Phil's songs in my iTunes, but it's not something I like to talk about at parties.

Neo, what a great start of this poll. I already look forward to your little summary of 1981, whatever that may inhold. As for Phil Collins, you sure mentioned him in the wrong sentence, he will pop up a few times in my lists from this decade.

Yeah, mine too Henrik. Good to hear I'm not the only one who thinks he's useless.

No, Neo, you're in good company!

(I think you meant NOT useless.)

Haha, now there's a great typo. That is indeed what I meant.

Your subconcious is influencing your posts - you really do dislike Phil Collins.

(Gawd, it's like emoticon city around here!)

Glad too see there is more love for this decade around here than I thought.

Albums:

1. Gary Numan - Telekon
2. The Cramps - Songs The Lord Taught Us
3. X - Los Angeles
4. Warren Zevon - Stand In The Fire
5. The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
6. Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
7. Dire Straits - Making Movies
8. Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
9. Wipers - Is This Real?
10. The Clash - Sandinista!
11. Comstat Angels - Waiting For a Miracle
12. The Jam - Sound Affects
13. The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro
14. Joy Division - Closer
15. Roky Erickson and The Aliens - Roky Erickson and The Aliens (5 symbols)
16. Pylon - Gyrate
17. David Bowie - Scary Monsters
18. Bauhaus - In The Flat Field
19. Circle Jerks - Group Sex
20. The Records - Crashes

Songs:

1. X - Johnny Hit And Run Pauline
2. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
3. The Embarrassment - Sex Drive
4 .The Jam - That’s Entertainment
5. The Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You
6. Young Marble Giants - Eating Noddemix
7. Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died
8. The Cramps - I Can't Hardly Stand It
9. Dire Straits - Skateaway
10. English Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom
11. The Clash - Magnificant Seven
12. Gary Numan - Remind Me To Smile
13. The Cramps - Garbageman
14. Liliput - Die Matrosen
15. Comstat Angels - Independence Day
16. Squeeze - Pulling Mussells From A Shell
17. Wipers - D-7
18. The Teardrop Explodes - Treason (It's Just A Story)
19. The Embarrassment - Patio Set
20. Stiphnoyds - Afraid Of The Russians
21. Warren Zevon - Stand In The Fire
22. Ultravox - Vienna
23. The Clash - Police On My Back
24. Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
25. Bauhaus - Dark Enties
26. Bauhaus - Stigmata Martyr
27. The Fall - Totally Wired
28. The Jam - Going Underground
29. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Christine
30. The dB's - Black and White

Here’s a dilemma and maybe someone could share their thoughts.

I am woefully behind in keeping up with 80s music, yet I would very much like to participate in every year, but it’s going to be the case where at the beginning of the month I would not have listened to 5 albums for any given year in this decade.

I have said before that my plan is to join Rhapsody and listen to enough discs to at least reach that five minimum.

Now I will try my best to listen to as much as possible, but some years I will still have just 5 albums to rank.

Now what if, say, 2 out of 5 of those albums are mediocore at best for me. By ranking it I would be given the album points, and allow my votes for the one or two decent albums to count. But should an album that is really just a placeholder be put on a list.

For 1980, I found AC/DC’s Back in Black on sale and listened to it, but I haven’t listened to it again since. Yet it might have to be on my list just to break the 5 threshold.

I like the 5 minimum rule, but should I sit out on some years that are weak musically for me just so an album I don’t like doesn’t get points?

This is not the greatest problem facing the world, I know, but let me know what you think.

The best course of action is obviously to listen to more music.

My thought would be to only rank albums you like. For example, any album that would be in a top five for the year probably should be worth at least four out of five stars if you were to rate it. So if albums don't meet that criteria, you probably shouldn't put them in your top five, even if that's all you heard for the year. Otherwise, you're just giving points in this poll to albums you don't really like that much.

That is what I'm gonna do
Only rate albums I like
To the guys who already posted their lists : I don't understand why you rush and publish your lists on the first day while you have an entire month to discover new music from 1980 that you didn't know.
For me these polls are a great opportunity to explore unknown paths
So Neo I'll give you my list at the end of the month
There are a lot of albums I nedd to (re)listen to

"To the guys who already posted their lists : I don't understand why you rush and publish your lists on the first day while you have an entire month to discover new music from 1980 that you didn't know."

I haven't posted yet but I most likely wouldn't add an album or song to my list that I just heard for the first time.

Well, I was buying these records in 1980 and I've had 28 years to discover more, so I figure one additional month won't matter much.

ok
I had this reaction because I just have a different conception of these polls. to me they are great opportunities to discover new stuff, and especially an era that I had rejected for long years, especially for albums.
I was a teen during the '80s so I remember a lot of songs but a few albums.
So if I want to make a good list I have to listen to a few more records I will choose, or relisten to things I have put aside for a long time.

I agree, I've done more than my fair share of polls like these in my time I'm unlikely to get to know something new well enough for it to enter my top twenty for the year. I'll have my work cut out going through songs from 1980 as it is!

I don't think I'll know too many of the albums from this year,but songs should be sweet - all those British indie classics from a golden age. I'll try and do top tens...

All I know is my musical knowledge will increase between ferbruary 1 and february 28, so I'll post on the 28th
Mathematical

I see I posted the deadline on the 31st of January. That is supposed to be midnight on the 29th of February of course.

Albums:

01 - Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell
02 - Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden
03 - Diamond Head - Lightning to the Nations
04 - Motörhead - Ace of Spades
05 - Saxon - Wheels of Steel
06 - AC/DC - Back in Black
07 - Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
08 - Samson - Head On
09 - Judas Priest - British Steel
10 - Accept - I'm a Rebel
11 - Angel Witch - Angel Witch
12 - Krokus - Metal Rendez-Vous
13 - Def Leppard - On Through the Night

Albums

1. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
2. Joy Division - Closer
3. Bruce Springsteen - The River
4. AC/DC - Back in Black
5. The Clash - Sandinista!
6. Warren Zevon - Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School
7. X - Los Angeles
8. Prince - Dirty Mind
9. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Get Happy!!
10. The Rolling Stones - Emotional Rescue
11. David Bowie - Scary Monsters
12. Steely Dan - Gaucho
13. The Pretenders - s/t
14. The Jam - Sound Affects
15. Kate Bush - Never for Ever
16. Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine
17. Van Morrison - Common One
18. The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
19. John Martyn - Grace & Danger
20. The Teardrop Explodes - Kilimanjaro

Songs:

1. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
2. AC/DC - Hells Bells
3. David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
4. John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Woman
5. Warren Zevon - Play It All Night Long
6. Bruce Springsteen - The Ties That Bind
7. The Teardrop Explodes - Treason
8. Dexy's Midnight Runners - Tell Me When My Light Turns Green
9. The Soft Boys - I Wanna Destroy You
10. The Clash - Somebody Got Murdered
11. Kate Bush - The Wedding List
12. Talking Heads - Listening Wind
13. Tom Waits - Heartattack and Vine
14. Joy Division - Decades
15. Van Morrison - Haunts of Ancient Peace
16. John Martyn - Sweet Little Mystery
17. Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Man Called Uncle
18. The Pretenders - Kid
19. Willie Nile - It's All Over
20. X - Los Angeles

Songs:

1) Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
2) The Jam - That's Entertainment
3) Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
4) The Clash - Magnificent Seven
5) The Cure - A Forest
6) Joy Division - Decades
7) Madness - Embarassment
8) Joy Division - Heart and Soul
9) Pere Ubu - Horses
10) Taxi Girl - Cherchez le garcon
11) Bruce Springsteen - The River
12) The Dead Kennedys - Holiday In Cambodia
13) David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
14) Blondie - Call Me
15) The Cure - Play for Today
16) XTC - Generals and Majors
17) UB40 - Food For Thought
18) Bauhaus - Dark Entries
19) Joy Division - Isolation
20) Dogs - Anna Jane

While I plan to listen to a few 1980 albums to get to the 5 minimum (and allow to exclude Back in Black), I think I have enough for a song list. Thanks to the single-centric glory of this decade, there are plenty of non-album songs that have become staples in my collection. I think it would take a while for any song I heard from a 1980 album for the first time to stick.

Confused you enough?

anyway

Songs:

1. Talking Heads - The Great Curve
2. Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless
3. Talking Heads- Once in a Lifetime
4. Lipps, Inc. - Funky Town
5. X - Los Angeles
6. X - Your Phone's Off the Hook, But You're Not
7. X - Johnny Hit and Run Paulene
8. Devo - Whip It
9. The Pretenders - The Phone Call
10. Frank Zappa - I Don't Wanna Get Drafted
11. Talking Heads - Born Under Punches (The Beat Goes On)
12. Romantics - What I Like About You
13. Blondie - The Tide Is High
14. Blondie - Call Me
15. Orchestral Manouveres in the Dark - Enola Gay
16. U2 - I Will Follow
17. Ultravox - Vienna
18. Queen - Another One Bites the Dust
19. The Go-Gos - We Got the Beat
20. The Vapors - Turning Japanese

1Talking Heads - Remain in Light
2Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
3The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
4The Jam - Sound Affects
5Elvis Costello and The Attractions - Get Happy!!



1The Jam - Going Underground
2Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
3David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
4Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno
5The B-52's - Private Idaho

Songs :
1 : Motorhead - Ace of Spades
2 : Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
3 : Stevie Wonder - Master Blaster (Jammin')
4 : The Cure - A Forest
5 : Dead Kennedys - Holiday in Cambodia
6 : Bob Marley and the Wailers - Redemption Song
7 : AC/DC - Back in Black
8 : Queen - Another one Bites the Dust
9 : Dead Kennedys - Chemical Warfare
10 : Devo - Whip It
11 : Blondie - Call Me
12 : X - Los Angeles
13 : Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
14 : The Romantics - What I Like About You
15 : The Jacksons - Can You Feel It ?

Consider Romantics as a guilty pleasure, but looks like I share it with other people in the forum.
Can you feel it ? is a guilty pleasure too, with the most awful music video ever... but I still think it's quite a good song.

It will be hard to make an album list, don't like much Close, Remain in Light nore Back in Black... I appreciate Fresh Fruit and Seventeen Seconds but not even enough to be close to my top 100, si I'm not sure I could even do a top 5 (I keep some hope as I'm looking forward for X and Young Marble Giants

*Notes down Dexy's Midnight Runners, The Cure, David Bowie for albums to pick up*

This 80's voting thing is going to do wonders filling in gaps in my collection.

Where's the master list of votes that are going to happen? A 70's and 90's one would be great for my collection too.

BillAdama : the 90s have been done past year, you should easily find the final top 100 on the forum !
Vote for 70s will be the main even of 2009 !

I'm showing up late for this one, too, eh?

Anyway, this would be my list:

1) Warren Zevon - Stand In The Fire
2) Bruce Cockburn - Humans
3) Bruce Springsteen - The River
4) David Bowie - Scary Monsters
5) Ulf Lundell - Längre Inåt Landet
6) Tom Waits - Heartattack And Wine
7) Joy Division - Closer
8) Dexy's Midnight Runners - Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
9) Peter Gabriel - III
10) Warren Zevon - Bad Luck Streak in Dancing School

And to tell the truth, while it has it's flaws, probably Dylan's "Saved" is among the 10 or 11 most frequently played 1980 albums at my place ...

Back in Black is a good album

Seems like I'm the only person who has spelt Dexys Midnight Runners correctly so far!

Is there not supposed to be an apostrophe?

No, there isn't. But no worries, I have edited them all!

Who's Dexy, anyway?

I'd just like to say (continuing a topic from the Songs poll thread) that I picked up 1980's Dirty Mind by Prince at the library Monday. Without even hearing it, I'm sure it will be a worthwhile replacement for #5 album Back in Black. It would have to be absoultely horrendous for Back in Black to be better. I'm also going to try to find copies of Closer and The River before the month ends.

It's short for Dexedrine (uppers popular with Northern Soul fans)

I still don't know which one I prefer between Back in Black and Dirty Mind.
And there is also the Bob Marley album with Could you be loved and Redemption song.
All of them, of course, behind the Boss

Oh, that Dexy, thanks Mitchell.

Neo, is submitting songs as well as albums required? I now realise I have all of February to catch up ...

Nope, you can do either songs or albums. Or both. Or none at all.

and can we submit lists with albums AND songs ?

I said "Or both.", right? Preferably both of course!

A:
01. The World As It Is Today. Art Bears
02. Commercial Album. The Residents
03. The Art Of Walking. Pere Ubu
04. Grotesque (After The Gramme). The Fall
05. For How Much Longer Do We Tolerate Mass Murder. The Pop Group
06. Doc At The Radar Station. Captain Beefheart And The Magic Band
07. Lubricate Your Livingroom. Fire Engines
08. Crazy Rhythms. The Feelies
09. Strange Boutique. The Monochrome Set
10. In ‘Jane From Occupied Europe’. Swell Maps
11. We Buy A Hammer For Daddy. Lemon Kittens
12. Gyrate. Pylon
13. Pindrop. The Passage
14. Get Happy!!. Elvis Costello And The Attractions
15. The Affectionate Punch. The Associates
16. Digital Stimulation. Units
17. Defunkt. Defunkt
18. Gaucho. Steely Dan
19. Nurds. The Roches
20. Perfect Youth. Pointed Sticks

S:
01. Shadazz. Suicide
02. I’m A Party. Magazine
03. Get Up And Use Me. Fire Engines
04. Once In A Lifetime. Talking Heads
05. Swing. Japan
06. Not Happy. Pere Ubu
07. Blue Boy. Orange Juice
08. Lesson No. 1 For Electric Guitar. Glenn Branca
09. If I Could Keep It For Myself. Gang Of Four
10. Sleeping Gas. The Teardrop Explodes
11. Smokeless Zone. XTC
12. Riot Act. Elvis Costello
13. You. Delta 5
14. Shack Up. A Certain Ratio
15. My Cherry Is In Sherry. Ludus
16. One Day I’ll Fly Away. Randy Crawford
17. Horses. Pere Ubu
18. Requiem For A Father. The Durutti Column
19. Radio Drill Time. Josef K
20. We Love You. The Psychedelic Furs

plus: an exclusive childhood bonus track: John Williams/London Symphony Orchestra: Yoda's Theme (OST)...

Albums

01 Orchestra Baobab - Bamba
02 Prince - Dirty Mind
03 Peter Gabriel - III
04 Magazine - The Correct Use of Soap
05 XTC - Black Sea
06 Swell Maps - In 'Jane from Occupied Europe'
07 The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
08 Joy Division - Closer
09 Talking Heads - Remain in Light
10 The Fall - Grotesque (After the Gramme)
11 Young Marble Giants - Colossal Youth
12 AC/DC - Back in Black
13 The Feelies - Crazy Rhythms
14 Rush - Permanent Waves
15 Fela Kuti - Unknown Soldier
16 The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
17 Elvis Costello and The Attractions - Get Happy!!
18 Gil Scott-Heron - 1980
19 The Pretenders - The Pretenders
20 Stevie Wonder - Hotter Than July
21 Ozzy Osbourne - Blizzard of Ozz
22 Pete Townshend - Empty Glass
23 The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
24 The Jam - Sound Affects
25 Diana Ross - Diana



Songs

01 Magazine - A Song from Under the Floorboards
02 Prince - When You Were Mine
03 Orchestra Baobab - Mouhamadou Bamba
04 Joy Division - Decades
05 XTC - Generals and Majors
06 Rush - The Spirit of Radio
07 Bob Marley and The Wailers - Redemption Song
08 Swell Maps - The Helicopter Spies
09 Talking Heads - Crosseyed and Painless
10 Peter Gabriel - Family Snapshot
11 The Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight
12 AC/DC - Back In Black
13 The Feelies - The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness
14 ABBA - The Winner Takes It All
15 Gil Scott-Heron - Willing
16 The Cure - A Forest
17 The Fall - How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'
18 Kurtis Blow - The Breaks
19 Squeeze - Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)
20 Tom Waits - Ruby's Arms
21 Elvis Costello - Riot Act
22 Young Marble Giants - Brand-New-Life
23 Motörhead - Ace of Spades
24 The Jam - That's Entertainment
25 David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
26 Bruce Springsteen - The River
27 Martha and The Muffins - Echo Beach
28 Ultravox - Vienna
29 Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out
30 The Police - Don't Stand So Close to Me

Is no-one going to be voting for Brian Eno's 'Ambient 2: The Plateaux Of Mirror' that he did with Harold Budd? In my top 5 for sure.

I have a question about next year's 1970's poll.

Is it just going to be exactly ten albums per year? That might work for the 80's and 90's, but the 70's is less balanced. Way more than ten of the best hundred albums came from 1971 and 1975, and way fewer than ten came from, say, 1976.

I think that should be up to the person taking care of the 70s poll, and I don't think we have anybody responsible yet.

I am much more of a fan of the late 70's than the early 70's.

It's not early vs late. 1977-1979 have plenty of great albums, and 74 is also a weaker year..

1971, 1975, 1977, and 1979 are just disproportionately strong years in the decade.

Here's the ranking of the #10 album in AM for each year, with # of albums in top 100 in parenthesis:

1971: 102 (9)
1972: 259 (3)
1973: 257 (4)
1974: 408 (0)
1975: 274 (4)
1976: 497 (3)
1977: 209 (7)
1978: 297 (1)
1979: 307 (2)

I'm just saying, perhaps, it would reflect the opinions of the forum more to have more entries for years like 1971 and 1977, and fewer for years like 1974 and 1976.

I'm kinda with you Nicolas, trying to discover as much about a year before posting a list. However, since I knew this was coming up, I started in January to get ahead of the curve. Now I'm working on 1981, which reminds me, does anyone have a copy of Flipper's Generic Album they'd be willing to burn and send my way? Also, I've confined myself to a budget of $25 U.S. per month (which is about 4 Euros or 3 Pounds, I believe). So I already spent my money for 1980, and managed to stretch it out to buy four new albums.

Albums
1. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
2. Prince - Dirty Mind
3. The Pretenders - The Pretenders
4. Bob Marley and the Wailers - Uprising
5. Bruce Springsteen - The River
6. Joy Division - Closer
7. Crazy Rhythms - The Feelies
8. The Beat/English Beat - I Just Can't Stop It
9. AC/DC - Back in Black
10. X - Los Angeles
11. John Lennon & Yoko Ono - Double Fantasy
12. The Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables
13. Elvis Costello - Get Happy!!
14. The Police - Zenyatta Mondatta
15. The Clash - Sandanista!

Songs
1. Bob Marley – Redemption Song
2. Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime
3. Prince – When You Were Mine
4. The Pretenders – Brass in Pocket
5. Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
6. The Clash - Police on My Back
7. Bruce Springsteen – Fade Away
8. Bob Marley – Coming in From the Cold
9. The Police – Don’t Stand So Close to Me
10. The Go-Go’s – We Got the Beat*
11. Bruce Springsteen – The River
12. AC/DC – Back in Black
13. Talking Heads – Crosseyed and Painless
14. John Lennon – Watching the Wheels
15. Willie Nelson – On the Road Again
16. The Dead Kennedys – California Uber Alles
17. Bob Marley – Could You Be Loved
18. Talking Heads – The Great Curve
19. U2 – I Will Follow
20. AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long

* Listed in AM as a 1980 song.

17 euro or 13 pounds actually.

Dammit, I just realized my No. 4 and No. 15 songs are listed as 1979. Here's the new list:

Songs
1. Bob Marley – Redemption Song
2. Talking Heads – Once in a Lifetime
3. Prince – When You Were Mine
4. Joy Division – Love Will Tear Us Apart
5. The Clash - Police on My Back
6. Bruce Springsteen – Fade Away
7. Bob Marley – Coming in From the Cold
8. The Police – Don’t Stand So Close to Me
9. The Go-Go’s – We Got the Beat
10. Bruce Springsteen – The River
11. AC/DC – Back in Black
12. Talking Heads – Crosseyed and Painless
13. John Lennon – Watching the Wheels
14. Willie Nelson – On the Road Again
15. Bob Marley – Could You Be Loved
16. Talking Heads – The Great Curve
17. U2 – I Will Follow
18. AC/DC – You Shook Me All Night Long
19. The Beat/English Beat - Hands Off ... She's Mine
20. The Feelies - The Boy with the Perpetual Nervousness

Man, I'm tired. I meant No. 4 and No. 16 songs. Yeah, I know, Neo, but we'll get there in the end.

Quite alright. Can I input it now or do you have more changes coming?

Hey Rocky,

If you still need the Flipper album send me the details and I'll get it to you.

Yes, Neo, I'm done now, don't even want to think about it anymore.

Thanks Stammer. If you can e-mail me at rosters@wsfantasysports.com and I'll reply with my address. If there's anything you want in return just let me know.

Albums:
1 Dead Kennedys- Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables
2 Talking Heads- Remain in the Light
3 Feelies- Crazy Rhythyms
4 John Lennon- Double Fantasy
5 Jam- Sound Affects
6 Squeeze- Argybargy
7 AC/DC- Back in Black
8 Ozzy Osbourne- Blizzard of Ozz
9 David Bowie- Scary Monsters
10 Undertones- Hypnotised
11 Television Personalites- And Don't the Kids Just Love It
12 Magazine- The Correct Use of Soap
13 Black Sabbath- Heaven and Hell

Songs

1. David Bowie- Ashes To Ashes
2. Dead Kennedys- California Uber Allies
3. Jam- Thats Entertainment
4. Dead Kennedys- Holiday in Cambodia
5. Squeeze- Pulling Mussels From the Shell
6. John Lennon- Beautiful Boy (Darling Boy)
7. Black Sabbath- Heaven and Hell
8. AC/DC- Hells Bells
9. Ozzy Osbourne- Mr. Crowley
10. Bob Marley and the Wailers- Redemption Song
11. Police- Don't Stand So Close To Me
12. Undertones- Hypnotised
13. Go-Go's- We Got the Beat
14. Talking Heads- Once In A Lifetime
15. Blondie- Call Me
16. Squeeze- Another Nail in My Heart
17. Ozzy Osbourne- I Don't Know
18. John Lennon- Watching the Wheels

Oops.. didn't cut and paste some songs.

19. Dolly Parton- 9 to 5
20. Rush- Spirit of the Radio
21. Vapors Turning Japanese
22. AC/DC- Back in Black
23. dB's- Black and White

Ummm...aren't you guys forgetting Atmosphere?

JOHN PEEL - LISTENER'S ALL TIME TOP 50 - 2000

01 Joy Division - ' Atmosphere' (Factory)
02 Undertones - ' Teenage Kicks' (Good Vibrations)
03 Joy Division - ' Love Will Tear Us Apart' (Factory)
04 Sex Pistols - ' Anarchy In The UK' (EMI)
05 Clash - '(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais' (CBS)
06 New Order - ' Blue Monday' (Factory)
07 Smiths - ' How Soon Is Now?' (Rough Trade)
08 Nirvana - ' Smells Like Teen Spirit' (Geffen)
09 Smiths - ' There Is A Light That Never Goes Out' (Rough Trade)
10 This Mortal Coil - ' Song To The Siren' (4AD)

If you were to submit your own list, you could give the song some points. Submitting John Peel's listeners list, however interesting, won't help one bit.

Albums

1. THE BLUES BROTHERS: The Blues Brothers - Original Soundtrack Recording
2. PETE TOWNSHEND: Empty Glass
3. TALKING HEADS: Remain in Light
4. THE BLUES BROTHERS: Made in America
5. VAN MORRISON: Common One
6. RY COODER: Borderline
7. YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS: Colossal Youth
8. JOE JACKSON: Beat Crazy
9. PAUL SIMON: One-Trick Pony
10. YES: Drama
11. STEELY DAN: Gaucho
12. THE JAM: Sound Affects
13. THE CURE : Seventeen Seconds
14. THE BEACH BOYS: Keepin' the Summer Alive
15. NEIL DIAMOND: The Jazz Singer
16. NEIL YOUNG: Hawks And Doves
17. DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS: Searching for the Young Soul Rebels
18. PRINCE: Dirty Mind
19. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: The River
20. XTC: Black Sea

“Bubbling under”

21. SISTER SLEDGE: To Love Somebody
22. MADNESS: Absolutely
23. JOY DIVISION: Closer
24. JONI MITCHELL: Shadows and Light
25. ELVIS COSTELLO: Get Happy!
26. DAVID BOWIE: Scary Monsters
27. DIRE STRAITS: Making Movies
28. PETER GABRIEL: Peter Gabriel (III)
29. GRATEFUL DEAD: Go To Heaven
30. DONNA SUMMER: Thw Wanderer


Songs:

1. THE BLUES BROTHERS & ARETHA FRANKLIN: Think
2. THE BLUES BROTHERS: Everybody Needs Somebody to Love
3. PETE TOWNSHEND: Rough Boys
4. THE BLUES BROTHERS & RAY CHARLES: Shake a Tail Feather
5. THE BLUES BROTHERS: Going Back to Miami
6. TALKING HEADS: Once in a Lifetime
7. DAVID BOWIE: Ashes to Ashes
8. PETE TOWNSHEND: Let My Love Open the Door
9. VAN MORRISON: Summertime in England
10. TALKING HEADS: Crosseyed and Painless
11. YES: Machine Messiah
12. STEELY DAN: Hey Nineteen
13. THE JAM: That’s Entertainment
14. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN: The River
15. RY COODER: Why don’t you Try Me
16. VAN MORRISON: Satisfied
17. STEELY DAN: Babylon Sisters
18. THE BEACH BOYS: Living in a Heartache
19. THE CURE: A Forest
20. TALKING HEADS: Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)


Favourite Spanish Albums:

1. VAINICA DOBLE: El eslabón perdido
2. TRIANA: Un encuentro
3. ORQUESTA MONDRAGÓN: Bon voyage
4. NACHA POP: Nacha Pop
5. RADIO FUTURA: Música moderna

Albums-

1 Soft Boys-Underwater Moonlight
2 Swell Maps-In 'Jane From Occupied Europe'
3 X-Los Angeles
4 Dexy's Midnight Runners-Searching For The Young Soul Rebels
5 The Fall-Grotesque
6 The Specials-More Specials
7 Talking Heads-Remain In Light
8 Joy Division-Closer
9 The Beat-I Just Can't Stop It
10 Steely Dan-Gaucho

Songs-

1 Soft Boys-I Wanna Destroy You
2 The Beat-Mirror In The Bathroom
3 Dexy's Midnight Runners-Geno
4 Talking Heads-Once In A Lifetime
5 Joy Division-Atmosphere
6 The Jam-That's Entertainment
7 Madness-Baggy Trousers
8 David Bowie-Ashes To Ashes
9 Blondie The Tide Is High
10 ABBA-Super Trouper

I'm going to need to update my best of 1980 list, since after I made my original list, I picked up Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables, The River, Scary Monsters, Soul Rebels, Seventeen Seconds, and Crocodiles.

Based on only having listened to those once, except for Scary Monsters and Seventeen Seconds which I haven't listened to yet, my list would be...

1. Remain in Light (My #48 overall)
2. Los Angeles (My #57 overall)
3. Pretenders
4. Fresh Fruit
5. Crazy Rythyms
6. Dirty Mind
7. Get Happy!
8. Crocodiles
9. Closer
10. The River

Does that mean the list will be updated again in the near future BillAdama? The lazy bastard in me doesn't want to do it three times.

ALBUMS
01 SWELL MAPS ... In "Jane from Occupied Europe"
02 THE FALL Grotesque (After the Gramme)
03 TALKING HEADS Remain in Light
04 HOLGER CZUKAY Movies
05 JOY DIVISION Closer
06 THE FEELIES Crazy Rhythms
07 SUICIDE Alan Vega - Martin Rev
08 THE SOFT BOYS Underwater Moonlight
09 THE RESIDENTS Commercial Album
10 XTC Black Sea
11 BAUHAUS In the Flat Field
12 COLIN NEWMAN A-Z
13 YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS Colossal Youth
14 CHICO BUARQUE Vida
15 ECHO AND THE BUNNYMEN Cocodriles
16 PYRON Gyrate
17 THE CRAMPS Songs the Lord Taught Us
18 TOM WAITS Heartattack and Vine
19 THE CLASH Sandinista!
20 THE CURE Seventeen Seconds


SONGS
01 JOY DIVISION Love Will Tear Us Apart
02 TALKING HEADS Once in a Lifetime
03 LYDIA LUNCH Gloomy Sunday
04 THE SOFT BOYS I Wanna Destroy You
05 DEVO Freedom of Choice
06 ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK Enola Gay
07 SWELL MAPS Cake Shop
08 ELVIS COSTELLO High Fidelity
09 JOY DIVISION Isolation
10 THE RAMONES Baby I Love You
11 THE CLASH The Magnificent Seven
12 THE POLICE When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What's Still Around
13 THE FALL How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'
14 XTC Generals and Majors
15 HOLGER CZUKAY Cool in the Pool
16 TOM WAITS 'Til the Money Runs Out
17 AC/DC Back in Black
18 SUICIDE Harlem
19 DAVID BOWIE Ashes to Ashes
20 BLONDIE Call Me

It turns out I own 9 albums from 1980,so ranked:
1)Joy Division - Closer
2)Talking Heads - Remain In Light
3)The Cure - Seventeen Seconds
4)David Bowie - Scary Monsters
5)Bruce Springsteen - The River
6)The Pretenders - The Pretenders
7)U2 - Boy
8)AC/DC - Back In Black
9)The Specials - More Specials

[I'll come back later with a top songs list]

Songs - JD #1 and #2 with a bullet

1)Joy Division - Atmosphere
2)Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
3)Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
4)The Jam - Going Underground
5)Bruce Springsteen - The River
6)The Cure - A Forest
7)Split Enz - I Got You
8)Dexys Midnight Runners - Geno
9)Bob Marley - Redemption Song
10)U2 - A Day Without Me
11)David Bowie - Kingdom Come
12)Joy Division - Isolation
13)The Crocodiles - Tears
14)Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
15)David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
16)The Ramones - Baby I Love You
17)U2 - I Will Follow
18)Spizzenergi - Where's Captain Kirk?
19)Queen - Save Me
20)Cold Chisel - Cheap Wine

It's really great seeing all the Swell Maps love!

I don't agree on the Dead Kennedys' "Fresh fruit"
The music is terrible, apart from maybe "Holidays in Cambodia"
It is not very original (the sex Pistols with more musical skills) it is pure agression and my ears are still bleeding
Plus it's ugly
And I can't stand a group with a song called "I Kill Children" whatever satirical that song may be
Just making an album to chock the bourgeois is a very childish and useless thing.

I'll give them 2 stars out of 5, for some funny titles and musical skills and the two last songs (good songs)

Wow, what a year!! There were a lot of new bands recording awesome works (particularly the “Hitsville UK” was working with full force) but some stars of the 70s were still producing fantastic albums (like Bowie, Gabriel or Springsteen). And in Spain it was the beginning of the “Movida Madrileña” that supposed a golden age for Spanish music, represented in my list by songs from Paraíso, Alaska y los Pegamoides, Nacha Pop or Los Secretos.
It was also a year that I lived with intensity (I was 15 years old then), but oddly some of my favourites then hadn’t stood well the test of time (“The Game”, “McCartney II”, “Emotional Rescue” or “Zenyatta Mondatta”) while many records that didn’t hear at the time became favourites within a few years (“Dirty Mind” or “Boy” for instance).
I could add, seeing the album covers of the year, that 1980 was the black & white year. Don’t believe me? Just see this:




ALBUMS:

1. TALKING HEADS “Remain in Light” (#32 in my all-time list)
2. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN “The River” (#44)
3. DAVID BOWIE “Scary Monsters” (#64)
4. PETER GABRIEL “III” (#89)
5. DEAD KENNEDYS “Fresh Fruit for Rotten Vegetables”
6. THE CLASH “Sandinista!”
7. U2 “Boy”
8. NACHA POP “Nacha Pop”
9. PRINCE “Dirty Mind”
10. JOY DIVISION “Closer”
11. THE SPECIALS “More Specials”
12. JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO “Double Fantasy”
13. PRETENDERS “Pretenders”
14. STEELY DAN “Gaucho”
15. MAGAZINE “The Correct Use of Soap”
16. DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS “Searching for the Young Soul Rebels”
17. YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS “Colossal Youth”
18. LLUÍS LLACH “Verges 50”
19. AC/DC “Back in Black”
20. THE JAM “Sound Affects”
21. THE CURE “Seventeen Seconds”
22. X “Los Angeles”
23. DIRE STRAITS “Making Movies”
24. OVIDI MONTLLOR “04/02/42”
25. ROBERT FRIPP “God Save the Queen/Under Heavy Manners”


SONGS:

1. DAVID BOWIE “Ashes to Ashes” (#3 in my all-time list)
2. THE JAM “Going Underground” (#27)
3. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN “The River” (#60)
4. JOY DIVISION “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (#73)
5. PETER GABRIEL “Games Without Frontiers” (#103)
6. TALKING HEADS “Once in a Lifetime” (#201)
7. THE CLASH “Version City” (#243)
8. JOHN LENNON “Watching the Wheels”
9. RAMONES “Do You Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio”
10. PRETENDERS “Kid”
11. THE ROLLING STONES “All About You”
12. LOQUILLO Y LOS INTOCABLES “Rock & Roll Star”
13. DEAD KENNEDYS “Holiday in Cambodia”
14. THE B-52’S “Private Idaho”
15. PARAÍSO “Para ti”
16. U2 “I Will Follow”
17. PSYCHEDELIC FURS “Sister Europe”
18. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN “Stolen Car”
19. TALKING HEADS “Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)”
20. THE CURE “A Forest”
21. SIOUXIE & THE BANSHEES “Happy House”
22. YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS “Final Day”
23. ALASKA Y LOS PEGAMOIDES “El hospital”
24. DAVID BOWIE “Fashion”
25. DEVO “Girl U Want”
26. THE SPECIALS “Stereotypes/Stereotypes, Pt. 2”
27. THE CLASH “Hitsville U.K.”
28. STEELY DAN “You’re Nineteen”
29. QUEEN “Another One Bites the Dust”
30. LIPPS INC. “Funkytown”
31. PRINCE “Head”
32. ROBERT FRIPP “Under Heavy Manners”
33. U2 “Stories for Boys”
34. NACHA POP “Chica de ayer”
35. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN “Hungry Heart”
36. JOHN LENNON “(Just Like) Starting Over”
37. UTOPIA “I Just Want to Touch You”
38. LOS SECRETOS “Déjame”
39. PETER GABRIEL “Biko”
40. X “Johnny Hit and Run Pauline”
41. BOB MARLEY “Could You Be Loved”
42. LLUÍS LLACH “País petit“
43. MADNESS “Embarrassment”
44. DAVID BOWIE “Teenage Wildlife”
45. MAGAZINE “A Song From Under the Floorboards”
46. ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK “Enola Gay”
47. DEAD KENNEDYS “Chemical Warfare”
48. AC/DC “Back in Black”
49. TOM WAITS “Jersey Girl”
50. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN “Independence Day”

FAVOURITE COMPILATION: VARIOUS “Wanna Buy a Bridge?”

Favourite MOVIES of 1980:
1. MARTIN SCORSESE “Raging Bull”
2. PEDRO ALMODÓVAR “Pepi, Luci, Bom y otras chicas del montón”
3. JOHN LANDIS “The Blues Brothers” (yes, Miguel, yes!)

New try for the photos:

Rock ‘n’ roll star. Rock ‘n’ roll clichés. Loquillo made an art of turning the rock ‘n’ roll clichés in something fresh and contemporary, becoming the closest thing to a true rock ‘n ‘ roll star that we have in Spain. He began in the late 70s as part of the rockabilly revival that launched after Elvis Presley’s death, with bands as Stray Cats or Crazy Cavan and soloists as Robert Gordon or Sleepy La Beef. But the update of rock ‘n’ roll attitude that supposed albums like “London Calling” pushed him to a renewal. The “dream team” of Loquillo (the look, the voice) and Sabino Méndez (the lyrics, the songs) displayed proudly in their songs an imaginary rock ‘n’ roll heaven, a world made of rockers, Cadillacs, highways, surfers, trucks, werewolves, garages and space cowboys that seemed completely new due to their enthusiastic deliverance.
The pinnacle of their sound came with the 1983 album “El ritmo del garage” (“The Rhythm of the Garage”) but in 1980 the sound was much more amateurish and rockabilly-based. His first album, “Los tiempos están cambiando” (“The Times Are Changing”) included energetic covers of Johnny Kid, Vince Taylor or Edie Cochran and even a rockabilly take on the famous Dylan tune, but the highlight was undoubtedly “Rock & Roll Star”. One of the first songs penned by Sabino Méndez, it doesn’t forget any rock ‘n’ roll cliché, including fame and fortune, managers and groupies, drugs and murder (Lennon assassination couldn’t have influenced because the song was recorded a month before). A false and epic life that was useful to tell the dreams of a generation, in Méndez own words. So, what’s so good about that accumulation of commonplaces? Undoubtedly the freshness, the lack of irony, the honest and naïve attitude, the heart-on-the-sleeve performance from a “boy from the street that lives his song” as said on the lyrics. Méndez again: I was 16 or 17 then and was influenced by Lou Reed and Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust. Or, as Springsteen would say: Wild and Innocent.


ROCK & ROLL STAR
Composer: Sabino Méndez
Performer: LOQUILLO Y LOS INTOCABLES
First release: 1980 (“Los tiempos están cambiando” album)
Length: 4’06”


Has tenido suerte de llegarme a conocer,
creo que a nadie le gusta el nacer para perder.
Abrirás una revista y me encontrarás a mí,
debo ser algo payaso pero eso me hace feliz.

Uhu, uhu, uhu, nena,
voy a ser una rock ‘n’ roll star.
Uhu, uhu, uhu, nena,
voy a ser una rock ‘n’ roll star.

Invertiré mucha pasta, me dice mi productor,
con el objeto de hacerme estrella de rock ‘n’ roll,
me dice, yo te haré rico, tú solo has de cantar bien
si no te pegan diez tiros a la puerta de un hotel.

Uhu, uhu, uhu, nena,
voy a ser una rock ‘n’ roll star.
Uhu, uhu, uhu, nena,
voy a ser una rock ‘n’ roll star.

Me verás en los carteles para hacerte irme detrás,
te creerás que soy alguien con un toque especial.
Soy un chico de la calle que vive su canción,
también me emborracho y lloro cuando tengo depresión.

Uhu, uhu, uhu, nena,
voy a ser una rock ‘n’ roll star.
Uhu, uhu, uhu, nena,
voy a ser una rock ‘n’ roll star.

En la lluvia pondré mi corazón de rock ‘n’ roll
y cuando me llene el cuerpo de anfetas y de alcohol
querré alguien a mi lado que me recoja al caer,
así nena tendré suerte de llegarte a conocer.

Uhu, uhu, uhu, nena,
voy a ser una rock ‘n’ roll star.
Uhu, uhu, uhu, nena,
voy a ser una rock ‘n’ roll star.
Aah, aah, aah,
voy a ser una rock ‘n’ roll star.
Aah, aah, aah,
voy a ser una rock ‘n’ roll star.
Aah, aah, aah,
voy a ser una rock ‘n’ roll star.
Aah, aah, aah,
voy a ser una rock ‘n’ roll star.


ROCK & ROLL STAR

You’ve been lucky for getting to know me,
I think that nobody likes being born to lose.
You will open a magazine and you’ll find me,
I must be some kinda clown but this makes me happy.

Oo-hoo, oo-hoo, oo.hoo, baby,
I’m gonna be a rock ‘n’ roll star.
Oo-hoo, oo-hoo, oo.hoo, baby,
I’m gonna be a rock ‘n’ roll star.

I’m gonna invest lotta cash, my manager says,
in order to making me a rock ‘n’ roll star,
he says, I will make you rich, you only must sing well
if someone doesn’t put you ten bullets by a hotel door.

Oo-hoo, oo-hoo, oo.hoo, baby,
I’m gonna be a rock ‘n’ roll star.
Oo-hoo, oo-hoo, oo.hoo, baby,
I’m gonna be a rock ‘n’ roll star.

You will see me on posters for making you a follower,
you will believe that I’m someone with a special touch.
I’m a boy from the street that lives his song,
I get drunk and cry too when I’m depressed.

Oo-hoo, oo-hoo, oo.hoo, baby,
I’m gonna be a rock ‘n’ roll star.
Oo-hoo, oo-hoo, oo.hoo, baby,
I’m gonna be a rock ‘n’ roll star.

I’ll put in the rain my rock ‘n’ roll heart
and when I get my fill of speed and alcohol
I will need someone by my side that pick me when I fall,
so baby I’ll be lucky for getting to know you.

Oo-hoo, oo-hoo, oo.hoo, baby,
I’m gonna be a rock ‘n’ roll star.
Oo-hoo, oo-hoo, oo.hoo, baby,
I’m gonna be a rock ‘n’ roll star.
Aah, aah, aah,
I’m gonna be a rock ‘n’ roll star.
Aah, aah, aah,
I’m gonna be a rock ‘n’ roll star.
Aah, aah, aah,
I’m gonna be a rock ‘n’ roll star.
Aah, aah, aah,
I’m gonna be a rock ‘n’ roll star.



The only You Tube video that I’ve found with the original version is incomplete (lacking the last minute and the last verse) and with few early images of Loquillo (most of the images are from the 00s). But you could get the idea…

Honorio, you have linked to the I: drive on your computer. We don't have access to that.

You need to upload the images to the web and link to the places where you have put them.

"Honorio, you have linked to the I: drive on your computer. We don't have access to that. "

I do now.

Just kidding! I guess that's not that funny to joke about these days.

Try the real spooky version: WE do now...

Hope it works now...

I'm just coming back from a gig where a few bands were playing, and Operator Please covered Devo's Whip It.
It has been quite a surprise since the members of this band are born around 1990, but what was even more surprising is the reaction of the front of the crowd, which was made mostly of people about the same age as the band, and which totally went crazy. It had even more success than most of the band songs. Really good cover and pretty decent show by the way, those young aussies have some really catchy tunes.

I think that crowd reaction is normal
Don't you know that we're in 1980 ? (musically speaking)

Hmm... Honorio, I think The Blues Brothers is a good film in a certain sense. If you consider it as a musical, is awesome, but as a comedy is mediocre, in my opinion.
By the way, my favourite films of the year are:

1. SUPERMAN II, Richard Lester
2. LE DERNIER METRO (THE LAST METRO) , François Truffaut
3. THE ELEPHANT MAN, David Lynch
4. THE FINAL COUNTDOWN, Don Taylor
5. BRUBAKER, Stuart Rosemberg

And my favourite compilation:

ROBERTA FLACK: The Best of Roberta Flack

Well, Miguel, I can’t agree. Two or three weeks ago they play the movie on TV. I t was long years ago since I’ve seen it for the last time and I’ve enjoyed it again a lot. And not only the musical numbers! However I agree that the musical number with Aretha Franklin is the best of the movie. I like a lot some of your movie choices, but I’ve never really enjoyed Superman II (in fact I think that never really enjoyed Richard Lester, except maybe “A Hard Day’s Night”).
I like a lot your covers lists, I’ll try to think about it and post some more. But I can’t agree in pointing that the Saint Etienne cover of “Only Love Can Break Your Heart” is better than the Neil Young one. The original is a prodigy of delicacy.
About your request for translating Serrat’s “Mediterráneo” I’ll do it, no doubt. I’ve planned selecting a Spanish song from every year, translate the lyrics, write a short essay and post a You Tube video if possible (OH NO!! cried in fear Netjade). Of course “Mediterráneo” is my favourite from 1971 but since you’re asking I’ll try to translate this one before, although I suspect that it’s a particularly difficult one.

Henrik, thanks a lot for the correction…

i know this ain't a film forum, but for the film buffs here... (miguel, thanks for the excuse

10. Kagemusha (Akira Kurosawa)
9. The Empire Strikes Back (Irvin Kershner)
8. The Elephant Man (David Lynch)
7. The Blues Brothers (John Landis)
6. Bad Timing (Nicolas Roeg)
5. Melvin and Howard (Jonathan Demme)
4. Atlantic City (Louis Malle)
3. The Big Red One (Samuel Fuller)
2. The Shining (Stanley Kubrick)
1. Raging Bull (Martin Scorsese)

Today it’s my mother’s birthday and after dinner I’ve been peeping at my old vinyl albums collection, and I’ve found my old copy of “Visage” from 1980. It’s the type of album that’s embarrassing years later (that’s why I left it in my mother’s house and didn’t take with me) but now, after listening to it more than two decades since the last time, I felt the imperious need of modifying my list. Sorry, Stephan. I know that is novelty music, but anyway is irresistible novelty music.

ALBUMS:

1. TALKING HEADS “Remain in Light” (#32 in my all-time list)
2. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN “The River” (#44)
3. DAVID BOWIE “Scary Monsters” (#64)
4. PETER GABRIEL “III” (#89)
5. DEAD KENNEDYS “Fresh Fruit for Rotten Vegetables”
6. THE CLASH “Sandinista!”
7. U2 “Boy”
8. NACHA POP “Nacha Pop”
9. PRINCE “Dirty Mind”
10. JOY DIVISION “Closer”
11. THE SPECIALS “More Specials”
12. JOHN LENNON & YOKO ONO “Double Fantasy”
13. VISAGE “Visage”
14. PRETENDERS “Pretenders”
15. STEELY DAN “Gaucho”
16. MAGAZINE “The Correct Use of Soap”
17. DEXYS MIDNIGHT RUNNERS “Searching for the Young Soul Rebels”
18. YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS “Colossal Youth”
19. LLUÍS LLACH “Verges 50”
20. AC/DC “Back in Black”
21. THE JAM “Sound Affects”
22. THE CURE “Seventeen Seconds”
23. X “Los Angeles”
24. DIRE STRAITS “Making Movies”
25. OVIDI MONTLLOR “04/02/42”


SONGS:

1. DAVID BOWIE “Ashes to Ashes” (#3 in my all-time list)
2. THE JAM “Going Underground” (#27)
3. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN “The River” (#60)
4. JOY DIVISION “Love Will Tear Us Apart” (#73)
5. PETER GABRIEL “Games Without Frontiers” (#103)
6. TALKING HEADS “Once in a Lifetime” (#201)
7. THE CLASH “Version City” (#243)
8. JOHN LENNON “Watching the Wheels”
9. RAMONES “Do You Remember Rock ‘n’ Roll Radio”
10. PRETENDERS “Kid”
11. THE ROLLING STONES “All About You”
12. LOQUILLO Y LOS INTOCABLES “Rock & Roll Star”
13. DEAD KENNEDYS “Holiday in Cambodia”
14. THE B-52’S “Private Idaho”
15. PARAÍSO “Para ti”
16. U2 “I Will Follow”
17. VISAGE “Fade to Grey”
18. PSYCHEDELIC FURS “Sister Europe”
19. THE CURE “A Forest”
20. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN “Stolen Car”
21. TALKING HEADS “Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)”
22. SIOUXIE & THE BANSHEES “Happy House”
23. YOUNG MARBLE GIANTS “Final Day”
24. ALASKA Y LOS PEGAMOIDES “El hospital”
25. DAVID BOWIE “Fashion”
26. DEVO “Girl U Want”
27. THE SPECIALS “Stereotypes/Stereotypes, Pt. 2”
28. THE CLASH “Hitsville U.K.”
29. STEELY DAN “You’re Nineteen”
30. QUEEN “Another One Bites the Dust”
31. LIPPS INC. “Funkytown”
32. PRINCE “Head”
33. ROBERT FRIPP “Under Heavy Manners”
34. U2 “Stories for Boys”
35. NACHA POP “Chica de ayer”
36. BRUCE SPRINGSTEEN “Hungry Heart”
37. JOHN LENNON “(Just Like) Starting Over”
38. UTOPIA “I Just Want to Touch You”
39. LOS SECRETOS “Déjame”
40. PETER GABRIEL “Biko”
41. X “Johnny Hit and Run Pauline”
42. BOB MARLEY “Could You Be Loved”
43. LLUÍS LLACH “País petit“
44. MADNESS “Embarrassment”
45. DAVID BOWIE “Teenage Wildlife”
46. MAGAZINE “A Song From Under the Floorboards”
47. ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK “Enola Gay”
48. DEAD KENNEDYS “Chemical Warfare”
49. AC/DC “Back in Black”
50. TOM WAITS “Jersey Girl”

Sorry again, Stephan

I love their song "We fade to grey"
It reminds me of 1980

love glove is awesome

No problemo Honorio.

Well, I actually admit I'm struggling to get to five since 1980-1982 aren't well represented in my music collection. But I have to vote since someone has to give some love to AC/DC. Songs list should be in a couple days.

ALBUMS

1. AC/DC - Back in Black
2. Peter Gabriel - III
3. Joy Division - Closer
4. Talking Heads - Remain in Light
5. X - Los Angeles
6. Dead Kennedys - Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables

Slush, don't worry, you're not thr only one to like AC DC
My list at the end of the week

"I think that never really enjoyed Richard Lester, except maybe 'A Hard Day’s Night´”

¡Vaya por Dios, Honorio!. I think the only film by Richard Lester that I don't like is A Hard Day's Night. I'm afraid our movie lists will be very different!

And about Mediterráneo:
"I’ll try to translate this one before, although I suspect that it’s a particularly difficult one"

Even for a man who has an excellent English like you, I wonder how would be possible to transmit all the beauty of these words:

Quizás porque mi niñez
sigue jugando en tu playa
y escondido tras las cañas
duerme mi primer amor,
llevo tu luz y tu olor
por dondequiera que vaya,
y amontonado en tu arena
guardo amor, juegos y penas

And this is only the first verse....