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!
See, in my fantasy, when I'm kissing you... you're kissing me. It's okay. I can wait.
Oz ,'First Date'
Buffista Music II: Wrath of Chaka Khan
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.
Kate P. - Jan 23, 2004 9:25:30 am PST #95 of 10003
That's the pain / That cuts a straight line down through the heart / We call it love
DavidS - Jan 23, 2004 9:26:47 am PST #96 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
"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."
Lyra Jane - Jan 23, 2004 9:27:01 am PST #97 of 10003
Up with the sun
Kate, those of us born during the Carter administration have to stick together. We are NOT YOUNG, dammit. (I mean, young enough for all reasonable purposes, but not so freakishly young that we should make others feel old.)
Billboard Top Hits compilation for 1980
I would be SO tempted to use something from the Fame soundtrack -- either the title cut or "I Sing the Body Electric"
</Fame dork>
DavidS - Jan 23, 2004 9:27:48 am PST #98 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
I would be SO tenmpted to use something frm the Fame soundtrack -- either the title cut or "I Sing the Body Electric"
Dude, "Hot Lunch Jam" is the hit to pick off that sdtrk.
tina f. - Jan 23, 2004 9:27:52 am PST #99 of 10003
Are you wickedly opposed to reggae, Kate?
Bob Marley's Uprising came out in 1980 which has "Redemption Song" - one of my faves.
Fred Pete - Jan 23, 2004 9:29:03 am PST #100 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
1980. Blondie? "Call Me" and Autoamerican. The album included "The Tide Is High" and "Rapture."
Xanadu, which has its fans around here, came out that year. ELO's "All Over the World." Olivia Newton-John's "Magic."
Since Billy Joel was mentioned here recently, I'll note his Glass Houses. Includes "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me," "You May Be Right."
I have a strange weak spot for Bob Seger -- Against the Wind. Title track could easily work in a folk vein.
joe boucher - Jan 23, 2004 9:29:08 am PST #101 of 10003
I knew that topless lady had something up her sleeve. - John Prine
What do you listen to? It could be a song from 1980, so a cover from another year would work. Or possibly a sample of a 1980 song on a hip hop tune.
Hayden - Jan 23, 2004 9:29:39 am PST #102 of 10003
aka "The artist formerly known as Corwood Industries."
more 1980 releases:
Blasters, American Music
Joe Ely, Live Shots
Carlene Carter, Musical Shapes
DavidS - Jan 23, 2004 9:30:22 am PST #103 of 10003
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Squeeze's "Pulling Mussels (From the Shell)" is from 1980. And you should be owning that anyway.
Also Pete Townsend's excellent solo record Empty Glass with his HoYayful "Rough Boys."
Fred Pete - Jan 23, 2004 9:31:34 am PST #104 of 10003
Ann, that's a ferret.
Leftover doughnut --
Fame soundtrack. Urban Cowboy was also big that year -- was it Mickey Gilley who covered "Stand by Me"? And for glossy ballads, there's Boz Scaggs' "Look What You Done to Me." And the perfect first-dance song for the couple at any wedding reception, Anne Murray's "Could I Have This Dance."