What was Your Favorite Song of 1980?

various | 9/17/2017 | me

[mdittmar]

What was Your Favorite Song of 1980?

This was mine.

Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall - Live - 1980

[dfwgator]

Animals was better.

[bar sin·is·ter]

Hmmm, hmmmm.... mmmmm.... I’ll have to go with the The Wall but I agree that Animals was a great album. However, pound for pound my favorite Floyd tune will always be “One of These Days”.

[MayflowerMadam]

Music in the ‘80s pretty much sucked, but I did like Michael Jackson. “Billie Jean” and “Beat It” were OK.

[BlueLancer]

Running Man - Al Stewart

[dfwgator]

Meddle is probably my favorite PF album, I liked them a lot more when Richard Wright was still an integral part of the band.

[bar sin·is·ter]

Have you ever watched “Live at Pompeii” (I’m sure you have)? Great video.

[dfwgator]

Yep.

In fact David Gilmour has a new DVD coming out from the concert he did there last year.

I actually got to go to Pompeii a few months ago. And of course our tour guide pointed out that the arena was probably most famous because of Pink Floyd.

[taterjay]

My son, at 27, says 70s music was the best. All that has come along since is not very good.

[sparklite2]

For me it’s the music from 1960 to 1965 or thereabouts.

[MileHi]

That is a GREAT song. As were many of his.

[MarkL]

Wow, that brought back memories! I loved (and still do) Pink Floyd (though Roger Waters is an insufferable socialist dirtbag.)

I saw Pink Floyd perform the Wall at Nassau Colosseum my senior year in high school. It was the best concert I had ever been to, to this day, still one of the best ever.

I can't come up with a single favorite song, but it was a terrific year for music - The Wall by Pink Floyd, Drama, a radical change for Yes, Permanent Waves by Rush, and Adventures in Utopia by (Todd Rundgren and) Utopia.

Mark

[MarkL]

Another One Rides the Bus by Weird Al. I was in elementary school and was the first kid to get picked up and the last one to be dropped off on the bus route. I heard it countless times while riding the bus.

I remember that song, had the single, with the Weird Al original song "Gotta Boogie" on the flip side ("Gotta boogie on my finger, and I can't flick it off!")

Weird Al is a genius. If you haven't seen some of his recent videos on YouTube, you're really missing something! "Word Crimes" and "Foil" are hilarious, better than the original songs and videos!

Mark

[MarkL]

Once I found out it was Genesis, well, I was all in.

While I didn't learn about Genesis until the late 70s, I sort of lost track of them, but over the last couple of years, "rediscovered them" through the "cover band," Steve Hackett's "Genesis Revisited." Absolutely brilliant, it had me going back to Fox Trot & Nursery Crimes. If you get a chance to check out the videos for Genesis Revisited, do it, you won't be disappointed.

Mark

[MarkL]

Meddle is probably my favorite PF album, I liked them a lot more when Richard Wright was still an integral part of the band.

My favorite "non-musical" thing about The Wall is that after Roger fired Richard Wright from PF, he did realize they needed him for The Wall tour. So he was hired to play, like the other backing musicians, like Snowey White (2nd guitar.) The Wall was such an expensive tour, Richard was the only one of the original 4 who actually made money on the tour.

Seriously though, I hated how Roger treated Richard, and was so happy after PF reformed without Roger, and later on, David Gilmour continued to perform with Richard on his solo projects, until Richard died of cancer. The David Gilmour concert videos, featuring Richard, were awesome, like David Gilmour, live at Gdansk.

Mark

[MarkL]

My son, at 27, says 70s music was the best. All that has come along since is not very good.

Agreed. Most of the music I listen to right now is from the 1970s.

Mark

[newfreep]

“Longer - Dan Fogelberg”

A few years after my wife lost a battle to breast cancer at 28, I dated a young woman who loved Dan Fogelberg. I also like his music, too.

I saw her again - 5 years after we broke up - and we had lunch when she told me she was married. I always think of her when I hear his “Same Old Lang Syne” - the lyrics were so close to our story.

[newfreep]

The 70's were my favorite period...and Tom Waits' albums in that decade were the pinnacle - especially his masterpiece, "Small Change" that featured the young actress Cassandra Peterson (aka "Elvira") on the front cover.

As an aside, his 70's album "Blue Valentine" featured his live-in girlfriend on the back cover - Rickie Lee Jones.

[dfwgator]

It was great to hear Gilmour and Wright play “Echoes” for one last time on that tour.

[dfwgator]

Yes, I’ve seen those.

There’s also “The Musical Box” which is the best Genesis tribute band out there, they are based out of Montreal. I believe Peter even gave them some of his old costumes.

[sargon]

Rush - Limelight.

Or, for that matter, the entire incredible Moving Pictures album...