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Subject: Top 10 Songs (1979)
Written By: dbutler69 on 10/03/17 at 9:27 am
1 ABBA - Does Your Mother Know
2 Earth, Wind & Fire - Boogie Wonderland
3 Donna Summer - Heaven Knows
4 The Clash - London Calling
5 The Cure - Boys Don't Cry
6 Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
7 Chic - Good Times
8 Gary Numan - Cars
9 Blondie - Heart of Glass
10 The Cure - Jumping Someone Else's Train
11 Michael Jackson - Off the Wall
12 Michael Jackson - Rock With You
13 Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
14 Roxy Music - Dance Away
15 Donna Summer - Dim All the Lights
16 Donna Summer - On the Radio
17 Tubeway Army - Are 'Friends' Electric?
18 Telex - Moskow Diskow
19 The Police - Message in a Bottle
20 Blondie - Dreaming
21 ABBA - Angeleyes
22 ABBA - Voulez-vous
23 Joy Division - Transmission
24 Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Electricity
25 Donna Summer - Hot Stuff
26 Donna Summer - Bad Girls
27 Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
Subject: Re: Top 10 Songs (1979)
Written By: AmericanGirl on 10/04/17 at 10:49 pm
This is actually a mix of songs I liked then - at nineteen - plus songs I discovered later. Counting down:
15. Escape (The Pina Colada Song)\Rupert Holmes
14. Cruisin'\Smokey Robinson
13. Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now\McFadden & Whitheead
12. Let's Go\Cars
11. Big Shot\Billy Joel
10. Stumblin' In\Suzi Quatro & Chris Norman
9. Love Is The Answer\England Dan & John Ford Coley
8. I Wanna Be Your Lover\Prince
7. What A Fool Believes\Doobie Brothers
6. Good Times\Chic
5. Pop Muzik\M
4. The Logical Song\Supertramp
3. Blow Away\George Harrison
2. Love You Inside Out\Bee Gees
1. Sultans Of Swing\Dire Straits
Subject: Re: Top 10 Songs (1979)
Written By: #Infinity on 10/06/17 at 1:07 am
1. Pat Benatar - My Clone Sleeps Alone
2. Madness - One Step Beyond
3. Earth, Wind & Fire - Boogie Wonderland
4. Pat Benatar - In the Heat of the Night
5. Marianne Faithfull - The Ballad of Lucy Jordan
6. Toto - Hydra
7. Blondie - Shayla
8. Robert Palmer - Bad Case of Loving You (Doctor Doctor)
9. Queen - Don't Stop Me Now
10. Led Zeppelin - Fool in the Rain
11. The Police - Message in a Bottle
12. Blondie - Heart of Glass
13. Styx - Renegade
14. The Cars - Good Times Roll
15. Talking Heads - Life During Wartime
16. The Knack - My Sharona
17. The Specials - Too Much, Too Young
18. Michael Jackson - Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough
19. Dave Edmunds - Queen of Hearts
20. Bee Gees - Tragedy
21. Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker
22. The Police - Walking on the Moon
23. Earth, Wind & Fire - After the Love Has Gone
24. Donna Summer - Hot Stuff
25. Billy Joel - Big Shot
26. Kate Bush - Wow
27. The Pointer Sisters - Fire
28. Kiss - Sure Know Something
29. The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
30. Dire Straits - Lady Writer
31. Rupert Holmes - Escape (The Pina Colada Song)
32. Blondie - Sunday Girl
33. The Crusaders featuring Randy Crawford - Street Life
34. Supertramp - The Logical Song
35. Billy Joel - Honesty
36. The Cars - Let's Go
37. M - Pop Muzik
38. Sniff 'n' the Tears - Driver's Seat
39. Smokey Robinson - Cruisin'
40. Styx - Babe
41. Gary Numan & Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric?
42. Blondie - Union City Blue
43. Marianne Faithfull - Broken English
44. The Specials - Night Klub
45. The Selecter - On My Radio
46. Nick Lowe - Cruel to Be Kind
47. Sister Sledge - Thinking of You
48. The Pointer Sisters - Happiness
49. Foreigner - Dirty White Boy
50. The Specials - Little Bitch
51. Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
52. Judie Tzuke - Stay With Me Till Dawn
53. The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
54. Lene Lovich - Lucky Number
55. Gary Numan - Cars
56. ABBA - Gimme! Gimme! Gimme! (A Man After Midnight)
57. Suzi Quatro - She's in Love with You
58. Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
59. The Police - Can't Stand Losing You
60. Cliff Richard - We Don't Talk Anymore
Subject: Re: Top 10 Songs (1979)
Written By: whistledog on 04/21/21 at 1:22 pm
A Top 10 is tough, so I did a Top 15 in no real particular order. These were all hits here in Canada during 1979
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4 | Burton Cummings - I Will Play A Rhapsody https://www.fotw.info/images/c/ca.gif
5 | Toto - Hold the Line https://www.fotw.info/images/u/us.gif
6 | Troiano - We All Need Love https://www.fotw.info/images/c/ca.gif
7 | Boney M - Brown Girl in the Ring https://www.fotw.info/images/d/de.gif
8 | Japan - Like in Tokyo https://www.fotw.info/images/g/gb.gif
9 | Ironhorse - Sweet Lui-Louise https://www.fotw.info/images/c/ca.gif
10 | Orleans - Love Takes Time https://www.fotw.info/images/u/us.gif
11 | Max Webster - Let Go the Line https://www.fotw.info/images/c/ca.gif
12 | Ace Frehley - New York Groove https://www.fotw.info/images/u/us.gif
13 | Long John Baldry / Kathi McDonald - You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin' https://www.fotw.info/images/g/gb.gif https://www.fotw.info/images/c/ca.gif / https://www.fotw.info/images/u/us.gif
14 | Dave Edmunds - Girls Talk https://www.fotw.info/images/g/gb.gif
15 | Carolyne Mas - Stillsane https://www.fotw.info/images/u/us.gif
Subject: Re: Top 10 Songs (1979)
Written By: Contigo on 04/23/21 at 3:19 pm
My Sharona - Knack
Message in a bottle - Police
Goodbye Stranger- Supertramp
Blondie - Sunday Girl
Blondie - Union City Blues
Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker
Blondie - Heart of Glass
The Cars - Let's go
Cure - Jumping someone else train
Led zeppelin - Fool in the rain
Sniff n the tears - drivers seat
Blondie - Dreaming
The Knack - Good girls don't
MaxWebster - Let go the line
Commodores - Sail on
Billy Joel - Until the night
Subject: Re: Top 10 Songs (1979)
Written By: CatwomanofV on 04/23/21 at 4:32 pm
More than 10.
No order:
Fire - Pointer Sisters
The Logical Song - Supertramp
The Devil Went Down to Georgia - Charlie Daniels Band
Gold - John Stewart
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
London's Calling - The Clash
Tusk - Fleetwood Mac
Breakfast in America - Supertramp
The Wall (the entire album)- Pink Floyd
Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar
Don't Stop Me Now-Queen
Roxanne-The Police
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