Favorite songs from 1979

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 1,344

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  16/04/10 - 23:33 #2

  Some great songs there
  My Sharona - The knack....Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello stand out for me
  
  Think these were also from 1979....
  YMCA - Village People, Le Freak - Chic, Don't Bring Me Down - ELO, Hot Stuff - Donna Summer...then again I could be a year or two out ?

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• ohglobbits Posts: 4,480

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  16/04/10 - 23:52 #3

  Supertramp - Breakfast in America
  Sister Sledge - Lost in Music
  Pink Floyd - The Wall
  Kiss - I Was Made for Lovin' You
  Billy Joel - Honesty
  John Mellencamp - I Need a Lover
  The Crusaders - Street Life
  The Knack - My Sharona
  The Clash - London Calling
  The Specials - Too Much Too Young
  Gary Numan - Cars
  Misfits - Horror Business
  The Squeeze - Up The Junction
  XTC - Making Plans for Nigel
  Sparks - Beat the Clock
  Pat Benetar - Heartbreaker
  Barclay James Harvest - Play to the World
  Eagles - In the City
  Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
  Bee Gees - Tragedy
  Village People - Go West
  The Police - Roxanne
  Blondie - One Way or Another
  Sad Cafe - Every Day Hurts
  The Only Ones - Another Girl, Another Planet
  AC/DC - Highway to Hell
  Status Quo - Whatever You Want
  Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'til You Get Enough

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• CombatHamster Posts: 2,470

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  17/04/10 - 00:08 #4

  This was a brilliant year for music. I think everybody's already mentioned virtually everything I was going to say though! Here are some I think haven't been said yet:
  
  Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
  Squeeze - Cool For Cats
  Squeeze - Up The Junction
  Chic - I Want Your Love
  B52s - Rock Lobster
  Michael Jackson - Off The Wall

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• jenzie Posts: 20,821

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  17/04/10 - 01:31 #5

  ok lets start something here .....
  
  blonde
  abba
  police
  village people - ymca/in the navy/go west
  ian dury & the blockheads - hit me with your rhythm stick
  sarah brightman - starship trooper
  boney m - river of babylon/brown girl in the ring
  gerard kennedy - new york new york
  elvis costello - olivers army (top ten of alltime song)
  bee gees - tragedy (top ten alltime song)
  neil diamond - forever in blue jeans
  art garfunkel - bright eyes
  squeeze - cool for cats
  gonzalez - haven't stopped dancing yet
  dana - something's cooking in the kitchen
  m - pop muzik
  amii stewart - knock on wood (top ten alltime song)
  earth wind & fire - boogie wonderland
  anita ward - ring my bell
  tubeway army - are friends eletric
  dave edmunds - girls talk/queen of hearts
  boomtown rats - don't like mondays
  ba robertson - bang bang
  b52's - rock lobster (well, more it's re-release)
  sister sledge - lost in music
  gary newman - cars
  dr hook - when your in love with a beautiful woman
  the buggles - video killed the radio star (top ten alltime song)
  xtc - making plans for nigel
  charlie daniels band - the devil went down to georgia
  madness - one step beyond
  tourists - i only want to be with you
  pretenders - brass in pocket
  pink floyd - another brick in the wall
  
  and theres a few more that i can't remember .....

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• mushymanrob Posts: 17,992

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  17/04/10 - 08:41 #6

  the year of variety, ska, rock, punk, new wave, pop, disco and crap!
  
  all time favs
  
  1. Skids – Into the valley
  2. Angelic Upstarts - Im an upstart
  3. Squeeze – Slap n tickle
  
  great
  
  4. Madness – One step beyond
  5. Lene Lovich – Bird song
  6. Damned – Smash it up
  7. Tubes – Prime time
  8. Tubeway army – Are friends electric
  9. Pretenders – Stop your sobbing
  10. Buzzcocks – Harmony in my head
  11. Planets – Lines
  12. Special AKA – Gangsters
  13. Ruts – Babylons burning
  14. XTC – Making plans for nigel
  15.Kate Bush – Them heavy people
  16.Madness – The prince
  17. Damned – Love song
  
  good
  
  18. Selecta – On my radio
  19. Charlie Daniels band – The devil went down to Georgia
  20. Members – The sounds of the suburbs
  21. Knack – My sharona
  22. Jags – Back of my hand
  23. Cars – Just what I needed
  24. Doll – Desire me
  25. Lene Lovich – Lucky number
  26. Buzzcocks – Everybodys happy nowdays
  27. Squeeze – Up the junction
  28. Judy Tzuke – Stay with me till dawn
  29. Ian Dury and the Blockheads – Reasons to be cheerful
  30. Bill Lovelady – Reggae for it now
  31. Gary Numan – Cars
  32. Commodores – Sail on
  33. Secret Affair – Time for action
  34. Gene Chandler – Get down
  35. Toto – Hold the line
  36. Dire Straights – Sultans of swing
  37. Squeeze – Cool for cats
  38. Eruption – One way ticket
  39. Lene Lovich – Say when
  40. Rachel Sweet – Baby
  41. Uk Subs – Stranglehold
  42. Police – Cant stand losing you
  43. Frantique – Strut your funky stuff
  44. Police – Message in a bottle
  45. Paul McCartney – Wonderful Christmas time
  46. Buggles – Video killed the radio star
  47. Rainbow – Since you’ve been gone
  48. Joe Jackson – Is she really going out with him
  49. Sham 69 – Hersham boys
  50. Earth Wind and Fire with the Emontions – Boogie wonderland
  51. Abba – Does your mother know?
  52. M – Pop music
  53. Members – Offshore banking business
  54. Violinski – Clog dance
  55. Doobie Brothers – What a fool believes
  56. Queen – Don’t stop me now
  57. Elvis Costello and the Attractions – Olivers army
  58. Shalamar – Take that to the bank
  59. Kate Bush – Wow
  60. Dave Edmunds – Girls talk
  61. Angelic Upstarts – Teenage warning
  62. Crusaders – Street life
  63. Stranglers – Duchess
  64. Nick Lowe – Cruel to be kind
  65. Abba – Gimmie gimmie gimmie
  66. Tourists – Lonliest man in the world
  67. Roxy Music – dance away
  68. McFadden and Whitehead – Aint no stopping us now
  69. Quantum Jump – Lone ranger
  70. Chas n Dave – Gertchya
  71. Flying Lizards – Money
  72. Specials – A message to you rudy
  73. Jam – Eton rifles
  74. Abba – Voulez vous
  75. Blondie – Heart of glass
  76. DR Feelgood – Milk and alcohol
  77. Sham 69 – Questions and answers
  78. Siouxsie and the Banshees – Staircase
  79. Undertones – Jimmy jimmy
  80. Blondie – Sunday girl
  81. Skids – Masquerade
  82. Anita Ward – Ring my bell
  83. Janet Kay – Silly games
  84. Abba – Voulez vous
  85. Jam – Strange town
  86. Skids – Working for the yankee dollar

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• mal2pool Posts: 5,690

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  17/04/10 - 11:31 #7

  I liked punk, disco and everything just about in the charts those days. Thought i was the only one into the Upstarts. ALso liked Dana-Somethings cookin' song, lol. I've got weird tastes!
  
  Remember these that didnt quite make it but were great...
  
  Good Girls Don't - The Knack
  Birdland - Manhattan Transfer
  Somethings cookin in the kitchen - Dana
  Touch - Lori and the chameleons
  Judas - Voyager
  Halfway hotel - Voyager
  I'd be surprisingly good for you - Linda Lewis
  We made the same mistake again - Goldie
  Whos been sleeping in my bed - Barry Manilow
  Prime time - Tubes
  Georgy porgy - Toto
  American popular song - Neil Diamond
  Imperial wizard - David Essex
  Never ad nothing - Angelic Upstarts
  Jump the gun - Three Degrees
  Saturday night beneath the plastic palm trees - leyton Buzzards
  How could this go wrong - Exile
  Diamonds - Chris Rea
  Honesty - Billy Joel
  Until the night - Billy Joel
  You angel you - Manfred Mann
  Shape of things to come - headboys
  War Stories - Starjets
  Ballad of Lucy Jordan -Marianne faithful
  Deeper than the night - Olivia newton-John
  I just cant help it -- Korgis
  Alison - Linda Ronstadt
  Frederick - patti smith group
  American hearts - Billy Ocean
  Every night - Pheobe Snow
  You'ev got my number - undertones
  
  Love all the obscure tracks....

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• CLL Dodge Posts: 115,802

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  17/04/10 - 12:12 #8

  Bela Lugosi's Dead ~ Bauhaus
  Careering ~ Public Image Ltd.
  Cars ~ Gary Numan
  Uncle Sam's on Mars ~ Hawkwind
  Message in a Bottle ~ The Police
  Down in the Park ~ Tubeway Army
  Boys Don't Cry ~ The Cure
  New Dawn Fades ~ Joy Division
  Comfortably Numb ~ Pink Floyd
  Electricity ~ OMD
  Heart of Glass ~ Blondie
  We Don't Talk Anymore ~ Cliff Richard
  Video Killed the Radio Star ~ The Buggles
  Ice ~ Camel
  The Song (They Love To Sing) ~ Barclay James Harvest
  Handicap & Equality ~ Peter Hammill

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• *weeschmoo* Posts: 9,713

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  17/04/10 - 14:37 #9

  Boys Don't Cry - The Cure.

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• ProgRocker Posts: 1,325

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  14/05/10 - 20:34 #10

  Video Killed the Radio Star - the Buggles :cool:

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• tangsman Posts: 3,661

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  14/05/10 - 21:01 #11

  The Number One Song In Heaven - Sparks

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• RussellIan Posts: 12,034

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  15/05/10 - 12:22 #12

  The year of my birth, so I'll be interested to review how 'in touch with my roots' I've become musically in the intervening years:
  
  Take That To The Bank - Shalamar
  Heart Of Glass - Blondie
  Chiquitita - ABBA
  I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
  Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf
  Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello
  Don't Stop Me Now - Queen (hesitantly, given it's absolute ruination by the karaoke/X Factor culture)
  Can You Feel The Force - Real Thing
  Lucky Number - Lene Lovich
  Stop Your Sobbing - Pretenders
  In The Navy - Village People
  Wow - Kate Bush
  Staircase - Siouxsie & The Banshees
  Valley Of The Dolls - Generation X
  Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart
  Hooray Hooray It's A Holi-Holiday - Boney M
  Does Your Mother Know - ABBA
  Boogie Wonderland - Earth, Wind & Fire
  Sunday Girl - Blondie
  Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
  Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
  Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army
  We Are Family - Sister Sledge
  Go West - Village People
  Light My Fire - Amii Stewart
  Married Men - Bonnie Tyler
  Bad Girls - Donna Summer
  Playground Twist - Siouxsie & The Banshees
  Angeleyes & Voulez-Vous - ABBA
  Beat The Clock - Sparks
  Money - Flying Lizards
  Lost In Music - Sister Sledge
  Street Life - Crusaders
  Duchess - Stranglers
  Cars - Gary Numan
  Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow
  Them Heavy People (Live) - Kate Bush
  Don't Stop Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
  Dreaming - Blondie
  Video Killed The Radio Star - Buggles
  One Day At A Time - Lena Martell
  Gimme Gimme Gimme - ABBA
  No More Tears - Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand
  I Only Want To Be With You - Tourists
  Union City Blue - Blondie
  Walking On The Moon - Police
  Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd
  Brass In Pocket - Pretenders
  I Have A Dream - ABBA
  
  Hmm, no surprises there then... plus a definite dominant emerging theme

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• uggla Posts: 1,113

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  15/05/10 - 12:39 #13

  Some great songs listed here i remember most of them is prob the time when i was getting an interest in music and the current chart music i was 6.
  
  Another brick in the wall is one of the 1st records i ever owned.

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• mal2pool Posts: 5,690

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  15/05/10 - 16:06 #14

  RussellIan wrote: »

  The year of my birth, so I'll be interested to review how 'in touch with my roots' I've become musically in the intervening years:
  
  Take That To The Bank - Shalamar
  Heart Of Glass - Blondie
  Chiquitita - ABBA
  I Will Survive - Gloria Gaynor
  Bat Out Of Hell - Meat Loaf
  Oliver's Army - Elvis Costello
  Don't Stop Me Now - Queen (hesitantly, given it's absolute ruination by the karaoke/X Factor culture)
  Can You Feel The Force - Real Thing
  Lucky Number - Lene Lovich
  Stop Your Sobbing - Pretenders
  In The Navy - Village People
  Wow - Kate Bush
  Staircase - Siouxsie & The Banshees
  Valley Of The Dolls - Generation X
  Knock On Wood - Amii Stewart
  Hooray Hooray It's A Holi-Holiday - Boney M
  Does Your Mother Know - ABBA
  Boogie Wonderland - Earth, Wind & Fire
  Sunday Girl - Blondie
  Hot Stuff - Donna Summer
  Ring My Bell - Anita Ward
  Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army
  We Are Family - Sister Sledge
  Go West - Village People
  Light My Fire - Amii Stewart
  Married Men - Bonnie Tyler
  Bad Girls - Donna Summer
  Playground Twist - Siouxsie & The Banshees
  Angeleyes & Voulez-Vous - ABBA
  Beat The Clock - Sparks
  Money - Flying Lizards
  Lost In Music - Sister Sledge
  Street Life - Crusaders
  Duchess - Stranglers
  Cars - Gary Numan
  Since You've Been Gone - Rainbow
  Them Heavy People (Live) - Kate Bush
  Don't Stop Til You Get Enough - Michael Jackson
  Dreaming - Blondie
  Video Killed The Radio Star - Buggles
  One Day At A Time - Lena Martell
  Gimme Gimme Gimme - ABBA
  No More Tears - Donna Summer & Barbra Streisand
  I Only Want To Be With You - Tourists
  Union City Blue - Blondie
  Walking On The Moon - Police
  Another Brick In The Wall - Pink Floyd
  Brass In Pocket - Pretenders
  I Have A Dream - ABBA
  
  Hmm, no surprises there then... plus a definite dominant emerging theme

  
  Great stuff apart from I have a dream.Abba#s worst record. Ring my bell was awful too.
  Clouts version of Since you've been gone was the best

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• Midnight Runner Posts: 1,337

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  15/05/10 - 16:26 #15

  What an amazing year for music, so diverse.
  
  Wish we could travel back in time:(

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• oilcat Posts: 27,065

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  23/06/10 - 07:52 #16

  These tracks brought back so many memories
  
  Especially the Stanglers with "Duchess", they deliberately mimed so badly on TOTP because the BBC refused to let them play live

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• Pitman Posts: 28,495

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  23/06/10 - 08:18 #17

  great, great year, the times when the charts had something for absolutely everyone :cool:

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• [Deleted User] Posts: 42

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  25/06/10 - 23:39 #18

  I won't post huge long lost as I don't believe anyone reads them thoroughly. A few for me would be:
  
  Chic - My Forbidden Lover
  Madness - One Step Beyond
  Squeeze - Up The Junction
  Skids - Into The Valley
  
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• essexpete Posts: 9,208

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  27/06/10 - 21:15 #19

  Making Plans for Nigel,XTC, Squeeze,Up The Junction, Ian Dury And The Blockheads, Reasons To Be Cheerful Part 3:)

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