Posted on 09/17/2017 7:27:14 PM PDT by mdittmar
What was Your Favorite Song of 1980?
This was mine.
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall - Live - 1980
"I can still hear the soft Southern winds in the live oak trees"
There were a lot of good songs back then, hard to pick but Betty Davis Eyes, Get into the groove, Careless Whisper...
yeah it is....there is a reason the album Back in Black is now the second highest selling album in history. Only Thriller has sold more.
I googled the top 100 songs of 1980 and found
to my surprise, I didn’t like any of them.
Oh, whoa! Totally.
My brother and I played that album till it was nearly wore out.
My fav was Third world man.
What an album !
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYryV8og6Ms
No contest - Sheena Easton ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUlhygu4ogI
1980 was really the first year I started listening to more Jazz artists.
The two albums I probably played the most was:
“American Garage” by The Pat Metheny Group and Jean Luc-Ponty’s “A Taste for Passion”
There was good music galore in 1980, but much of it wasn’t getting anything in the way of airplay. The popular music was mostly insipid. Arena rock in it’s death throes, Disco in it’s death throes, punk morphing to new wave, soul morphing to funk. Very transitional year.
When the World Is Running Down, You Make the Best of What’s Still Around - The Police
Freezing in Minot ND at the time. Turning Japanese (Vapors) Rock and Roll HS ( Ramones) Private Idaho B-52s Devo Whip it/ wWorking in a Coal Mine And seeing the Suburbs in Minneapolis one weekend at Sgt Preston’s I think...
google some other year,you may find something you like;)
Another album I played a lot was Billy Joel’s “Glass Houses”....”It’s Still Rock and Roll To Me”, “You May Be Right”....but my favorite on that album was “All For Leyna”.
First concert I ever went to,my ears were ringing for days;)
Thanks, FRiend. I love threads like this. I’ll be listening to good old music for days. Some of these songs I’ve long forgotten. Some I’m not sure I ever heard. Good music is food for the soul. And studies have shown it helps fungus grow. (Would I lie?) So be a sport, what’s your favorite 1980 tune?
Be careful what you wish for.
https://i.pinimg.com/originals/20/81/e5/2081e51a64f4230ce747a783c7e5576f.jpg
My favorite song from The Urban Cowboy soundtrack was Joe Walsh’s “All Night Long”.
Lady by Kenny Rogers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3of2F1QXtKo
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