What year were you born, Kate? (The answer is going to make me reach for my heart medicine, I know). 1978?
I was thinking "Greatest Hits of the Eighties" would probably have something for her.
PS. You don't get to complain. I had to find something from 1952!
Oh, David. Do you really want to know? Okay, I'll whitefont it to spare the rest of you:
1980
.
1978 is easy. Or, okay, I thought it was easy. Possibly because I've been listening to the song in question a lot lately anyhow.
I was afraid of that.
While that was a bad year for the folkie stuff you cut your teeth on, that's not a bad year for music at all.
Elvis Costello's Get Happy came out that year.
XTC's Black Sea.
Squeeze's Argybargy.
When I did a song for each year of my life mix, my 1980 song was "Love Song," by the Au Pairs. I know U2's Boy is that year too, and maybe some early Cure stuff? Blondie? Prince?
I'm kinda stumped.
Prince?
Dirty Mind - 1980.
Police - Zenyatta Mondatta.
But my music collection is pretty deficient in 1980's Golden Greats. The best I can come up with is Blondie's "Atomic" (from the
Bend It Like Beckham
soundtrack), which, while it's a good song, is not really one that I have much personal attachment to. I'm thinking of picking up a B-52s album for "Rock Lobster" (because I really should have some B-52s anyway).
I'm thinking of picking up a B-52s album for "Rock Lobster" (because I really should have some B-52s anyway).
That's 1979 (it was big my freshman year).
But "Private Idaho" is 1980.
OK. That made me feel old, too.
1980: you already have my two suggestions: Blondie and B-52s.
1980 is one of the few years that Dlyan put out an album that is totally unusable for these purposes. 1980 was was in his born-again phase I think. Which is cool - but didn't make for the best albums.
Monty Python released their Contractual Obligation Album in 1980. That could be fun.
t /being no help whatsoever