'Help'
There's a lady plays her fav'rite records/On the jukebox ev'ry day/All day long she plays the same old songs/And she believes the things that they say/She sings along with all the saddest songs/And she believes the stories are real/She lets the music dictate the way that she feels.
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
Dude. Kate is younger than my baby brother.
I feel old.
I thought of U2, but I'm using a song of theirs for another track, and the only artist I'm willing to repeat if I have to is the Nields. I have no Prince, no XTC, no Squeeze, some Elvis Costello but not the right year.
"Rock Lobster" would be an excellent choice. Is it really 1980? I would've guessed earlier.
Edit: X-post.
I didn't mean to make everyone feel old! Sorry.
"Rock Lobster" is 1979? Damn. I got it off a clearly misinformed website.
I didn't mean to make everyone feel old! Sorry.
Yeah, stop it! Speed up your aging process to make me feel better!
t /dork
Thanks for the link, David, but I already looked through a Top 100 list for 1980 and didn't, amazingly, have any of them.
Edit: I'm trying, Steph! I'm trying!
"Rock Lobster" is 1979? Damn. I got it off a clearly misinformed website.
"Private Idaho" is a great song in its own right, though. I might prefer it to "Rock Lobster." Though not to "52 Girls" ("Why won't you dance with me? / I'm not no Limburger!") or "Planet Claire."