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

[Durus]

That was 1980? Man I feel old.

[BykrBayb]

George Burns ~ I Wish I Was 18 Again

https://youtu.be/URxxVTIes-4

[topspinr]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fsybLi84tM

Carmen McRae Imagination

[SunkenCiv]

Not to mention, the entire “The Wall” album sucked.

[LTC.Ret]

The Rose by Bette Midler

[Caipirabob]

I went and pulled up the top 100. Wow - such memories. You know what’s significant? No rap. We could still listen before they killed pop with that crap. Afterwards it infected the airwaves, I tuned out of pop and Got into Latin, went South and never came back.

[BradyLS]

Yes released Drama in 1980. Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman had left the group and Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes (The Buggles: "Video Killed the Radio Star" fame) stepped in. The entire album sheered away from anything they'd done before and had a much heavier, bass-driven, almost 'metal sound. One of the tracks was a six-and-a-half minute piece called "Could it Really Happen" that really showcased what Chris Squire could do with a bass. It has a neat, looping symmetry about it.

I never much cared for the song on the first few listens, but it grows on me every time I hear and is easily my favorite from the album and of that year—even against Rush's awesome Permanent Waves album!

[Huskrrrr]

I was not a big Disco fan.

Smokey Robinson- Cruisin.

Long live Motown!

[SunkenCiv]

if this isn’t it, it’s close.

AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lo2qQmj0_h4

[dfwgator]

Not a big Rush fan, but Natural Science is a great song.

[mdittmar]

Still remember Kool and The Gang Ladies Night

[BykrBayb]

Of course it matters! What’s yours?

[dznutz]

Alice Cooper Clones

[dfwgator]

Yes released Drama in 1980. Jon Anderson and Rick Wakeman had left the group and Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes (The Buggles: "Video Killed the Radio Star" fame) stepped in.

"Tempus Fugit" rocks! I actually liked Drama a lot more than anything they did after Close to the Edge.

[gunsequalfreedom]

Whip It - Devo
Once in a Life Time - Talking Heads
Emotional Rescue - Rolling Stones
Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan
Back in Black - AC/DC
And the Cradle Will Rock - Van Halen

...to name a few.

[virgil]

Look what you’ve done to me. Boz Scaggs. I liked Sailing by Christopher Cross too.

[dfwgator]

Toto - 99

(Actually I thought that whole Hydra album was great, I didn’t really care for anything they did after that)

[BradyLS]

"Tempus Fugit" does rock! I really like "Run through the Light," too. Drama is my favorite album of that year and all three of those are stellar Yes tracks from it.

[Fungi]

Still praying for you. Did not expect to hear from you in this thread. Cheers...........

[RegulatorCountry]

1980 was very significant for AC/DC, being the year Bon Scott died. I didn’t care for what came after, I prefer the earlier, rougher, punkier AC/DC. Probably the peak of that would have been originally released in 1978, re-released due to the documentary “Let There Be Rock.”

AC/DC - “Let There Be Rock”

https://youtu.be/3f2g4RMfhS0