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Top 500 Songs of the 1980sThis is a highly subjective list of the top 500 songs of the decade according to me andonly me. I posted this at the end of 2010 on Facebook, but I found Facebook notes to bea poor alternative to blogging.
There are worthy artists who are omitted because I just never got into them, and thereare unworthy artists who were included because I don't feel quite guilty enough aboutthose particular guilty pleasures. The list is undoubtedly affected by the fact that I was injunior high at the start of the decade and in grad school at the end of the decade and themusic director at WRCTFM from 85 to 87.
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2) For the top 40 only, no more than one song per artist3) The song had to be released in that decade (date is determined by record sleeve,allmusic.com or discogs.com)
500 Leather Nun Gimme Gimme Gimme499 Bronski Beat Why?498 RaveUps Remember497 Queen Another One Bites The Dust496 John Zorn Cobra (Moderato)495 Aztec Camera Jump494 Talk Talk It's My Life493 Piranhas Love Games492 Rick Springfield Jessie's Girl491 The Wolfgang Press Sweatbox490 Michelle Shocked The Cement Lament489 Big Dipper Faith Healer488 Mekons Big Zombie487 Ian Dury Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick486 Wang Chung Dance Hall Days485 Alter Natives Sunset484 Yes Leave It483 Motor Totemist Guild Submission482 JFA Charlie Brown481 Home and Garden King Penguin480 Bloody Mannequin Orchestra Meal at McDonalds479 Genesis Misunderstanding478 Ali & Tams avec L'Orchestre Malo Malo477 The Police Synchronicity I476 Lounge Lizards Incident On South Street475 The Circle Jerks Coup d'Etat474 Dbs Bonneville473 Long Ryders Join My Gang472 Robert Hazard Escalator of Life471 Ratt Round and Round470 Men at Work Down Under469 Romeo Void Never Say Never 468 The Romantics What I Like About You467 Fishbone Ma And Pa 466 Eartha Kitt Cha Cha Heels
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426 Elvis Costello Veronica425 Cassandra Wilson Apricots on Their Wings424 Freakwater Ballad of Freakwater423 Trio Da Da Da I Don't Love You422 Culture Shock Punks on Postcards421 Chesterfields Hopes For Lauren and Joseph420 Contras SOS419 Bongwater His New Look418 Guy Klucevsek Samba D. Hiccup417 Queen Latifah Ladies First416 Black Flag Six Pack415 Butthole Surfers Sweat Loaf414 Glass Eye Maggie413 The Colourfield Thinking of You412 Damned There Ain't No Sanity Clause411 The B52's Private Idaho410 Billy Joel It's Still Rock And Roll To Me409 Josie Cotton Johnnie Are You Queer?408 Lindsay Cooper Parliament Catch407 Katrina & The Waves Walking On Sunshine406 Agitpop Stop, Drop And Roll405 Mice Downtown404 Blurt Get403 The Style Council My Ever Changing Moods402 Here Today Whistle in the Yard401 EBNOZN AEIOU Sometimes Y
400 Bill Laswell Work Song399 Journey Don't Stop Believin'398 Ophelias Palindrome397 Fems Go To a Party396 Soldier String Quartet Five Little Monsters395 Todd Rundgren Bang the Drum All Day394 Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds Jesus Met the Woman at the Well393 Virgil Moorefield Vitus Dance392 Tommy Tutone 8675309/Jenny391 fIREHOSE Brave Captain390 R.E.M. It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I Feel Fine)389 XTC Senses Working Overtime
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388 Peter Gabriel I Go Swimming (Live)387 Terry & Jerry Kennedy Says386 28th Day Pages Turn385 Bow Wow Wow I Want Candy384 Longshoremen Locomotive383 Michael Jackson Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'382 Fred Lane Car Radio Jerome381 Mary Jane Girls In My House380 Pylon Crazy379 Wayne Horvitz Please Take This Train From My Door378 House Of Freaks Sun Gone Down377 French Letters Don't Tell Robert376 Violent Femmes I Hear the Rain375 Robert Rental and the Normal Live in San Francisco374 Stan Ridgeway The Big Heat373 Clive Pig One Night in Greece With An American372 Section 25 Guitar Waltz371 Poet's Corner Trippin' on Krupa370 UnknownmiX Soul369 Dramarama Anything, Anything368 Public Image Ltd. Rise367 Section 25 Looking From a Hilltop366 The Damned Eloise365 Siouxsie & the Banshees Happy House364 Shadowy Men on a Shadowy Planet Having an Average Weekend363 Joyce Lightbody Furo Fuhrer362 Electric Light Orchestra Hold On Tight361 Pere Ubu Something's Gotta Give360 The Pretenders Middle Of The Road359 Foetus I'll Meet You In Poland, Baby358 Bruce Springsteen The River357 Beastie Boys No Sleep Till Brooklyn356 Blue Öyster Cult Burnin' For You355 Divine Horsemen My Sin354 Roxy Music Avalon353 Housecoat Project Only in San Francisco352 Love Camp 7 Janet in a Green Light351 Jane's Addiction Jane Says350 Invisible Chains Sal Mineo Youth Growing Up
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349 Details at Eleven Row Song348 David Bowie That's Motivation347 David Thomas My Thoery of Simultaneous Simultude346 Fun Boy 3 The More I See The Less I Believe345 David Garland TV Can Teach Me344 Minutemen Cheerleaders343 Rolling Stones Emotional Rescue342 Flies I'm In Pittsburgh341 Frank Zappa Porn Wars340 Frenzy I See Red339 Roky Erickson And The Aliens Night Of The Vampire338 New Order Bizarre Love Triangle337 Devo Girl U Want336 Depeche Mode Just Can't Get Enough335 Pigbag The Big Bean334 Ciccone Youth Burnin' Up333 Rare Essence Body Moves332 The Microscopic Septet The Lobster Parade331 Peter Blegvad Karen330 Scott Johnson John Somebody (Part I)329 The Weather Girls It's Raining Men328 World Saxophone Quartet Hattie Wall327 Luc Van Acker Zanna326 Wha Ha Ha On the Floor325 Peter Gabriel Games Without Frontiers324 Miracle Legion The Backyard323 Scraping Foetus Off The Wheel Descent Into The Inferno322 Joe PopoPie Political Song321 Paul Sturm Times Are Bad320 Marc Almond Untitled319 blotto I Wanna Be a Lifeguard318 Savage Republic Trudge317 R.E.M. I Am Superman316 The Honeydrippers Sea of Love315 Chris Isaak Wicked Game314 Fifth Column Fairview Mall Story313 Cyndi Lauper Girls Just Want To Have Fun312 Rockpile Teacher Teacher311 Circle Jerks World Up My Ass
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310 Agitpop Five Day Forecast309 Newcleus Jam On It308 A.T.S. Texas307 Toasters Matt Davis306 Etron Fou Lebloublan Laves a la Machine305 Cameo Word Up304 Laurie Anderson O Superman303 Dbs Neverland302 VEffect A Tree Grows in Managua301 Ululation Bad Day on Avenue B
300 Linton Kwesi Johnson Wat About Di Working Claas?299 Kraftwerk Tour de France298 Talking Heads Burning Down the House297 Motörhead Ace of Spades296 Massacre Legs295 Rebby Sharp Some Men294 Marc Riley and the Creepers Goin' Rate293 LMNOP Comparative Analysis292 Elvis Costello & The Attractions I Stand Accused291 Jam Absolute Beginners290 Joe Jackson You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)289 The Dead Milkmen Bitchin' Camaro288 Lo Yo Yo All the Atrocities287 Christmas Big Plans286 Government Issue Caring Line285 Bernice Johnson Reagon Buses Are a Coming284 Made For TV So Afriad of the Russians283 Mental As Anything Humming a Tune282 3 Mustaphas 3 Starehe Mustapha I, II, and III281 No Trend Teen Love280 Life In A Blender Showers Lose the Girl279 Bangles Going Down to Liverpool278 Hüsker Dü Makes No Sense at All277 Camberwell Now Wheat Futures276 Bevis Frond Repressor275 Prince Little Red Corvette274 Replacements Can't Hardly Wait273 Psychick T.V. Godstar
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272 The Legendary Pink Dots Louder After 6271 Blondie Rapture270 Public Image Limited This Is Not a Love Song269 The Chills I Love My Leather Jacket268 Cucumbers Who Betrays Me267 David Murray 3D Family266 Comsat Angels Independence Day265 Yello Domingo264 Sheila Chandra Question the Answer263 Einstürzende Neubauten YüGung (Fütter Mein Ego)262 Oliver Lake Olla's Blues261 M.D.C. John Wayne Was a Nazi260 Hüsker Dü New Day Rising259 Chris Isaak Gone Ridin'258 Godley and Creme My Body the Car257 Cassiber Sleep Armed256 World Saxophone Quartet Kinda Up255 Beefeater Fred's Song254 The Durutti Column Tomorrow253 Robyn Hitchcock and the Egyptians My Wife and My Dead Wife/Brenda's IronSledge (Live)252 Tones on Tail Twist251 Skeleton Crew Sparrow Song250 Feelies Original Love249 Art of Noise Close to the Edge248 Psychedelic Furs We Love You247 Name False Latin Situation246 Adam Ant Stand and Deliver245 Ice T Colors244 Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Bad Reputation243 Van Halen And the Cradle Will Rock...242 Pixies Gigantic241 David Bowie Ashes To Ashes240 Crass Berkertex Bribe239 Stranglers Golden Brown238 Embarrassment Celebrity Art Party237 Yello Live at the Roxy236 Police When The World Is Running Down235 Trouble Funk Still Smokin' (Beat is Bad Dub Mix)
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234 Camper Van Beethoven Cowboys From Hollywood233 Deltones Make Me Smile232 Rush Freewill231 Jayne Cortez There It Is230 Fear Let's Have A War229 The Cure The Love Cats228 R.E.M. So. Central Rain227 Skinny Puppy Assimilate226 Fun Boy Three The Lunatics Have Taken Over the Asylum225 Dick Griffin A Dream for Rahsaan224 RUNDMC My Adidas223 Shop Assistants Safety Net222 Colorblind James Experience (He Must've Been) Quite A Guy221 Tupelo Chain Sex Everyday's a Holiday220 Clash Ivan Meets GI Joe219 Kurtis Blow The Breaks218 John Lennon Watching The Wheels217 Human Sexual Response Land of the Glass Pinecones216 Dogma Probe 13215 Magazine Model Worker214 Elvis Costello & The Attractions Lovers Walk213 Greg Kihn Band The Breakup Song212 The GoGo's Skidmarks On My Heart211 Frankie Goes to Hollywood Two Tribes210 Stray Cats Rock This Town209 Psychic TV Just Drifting208 Thompson Twins The Gap207 Test Dept Victory206 Psychedelic Furs Here Come Cowboys205 XTC Generals And Majors204 Kinks Destroyer203 Steve Weisberg I Can't Stand Another Night202 Young Fresh Fellows TV Dream201 The English Beat Mirror In The Bathroom
200 Echo & The Bunnymen The Cutter199 Thomas Dolby She Blinded Me With Science Thomas Dolby198 Rosanne Cash Tennessee Flattop Box197 New Order Blue Monday
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196 Fang The Money Will Roll Right In195 Berlin Metro194 Siouxsie & the Banshees Spellbound193 King Missle (Dog Fly Religion) Take Stuff From Work192 R.E.M. Stand191 Crazy 8's Johnny Q190 Anne Clark Poem For A Nuclear Romance189 AC/DC Hells Bells188 Polecats Make a Circuit With Me187 Barry Altchul Quartet Ahfra Love186 Lloyd Cole Rattlesnakes185 Sneetches Unusual Sounds184 My Dad Is Dead Talk To The Weatherman183 The Selecter Too Much Pressure182 Bauhaus The Passion Of Lovers181 The Cure In Between Days180 Waitresses Christmas Wrapping179 David Rudder Kojak178 Soft Cell Tainted Love177 The Redskins Bring It Down176 Pere Ubu Waiting For Mary175 Specials Man At c&a174 Sisters of Mercy Black Planet 173 Squeeze Pulling Mussels (From The Shell)172 Fun Boy Three Our Lips Are Sealed (Club Mix)171 Government Issue Fashionite170 Bongos Glow in the Dark169 Stranglers Ice Queen168 Jayne Cortez Maintain Control/Economic Love Song167 Dub Syndicate Ravi Shankar, Pt1/The Show is Coming166 Duran Duran Hungry Like The Wolf165 Gun Club She's like Heroin to me164 Bargepole Building Site163 BCR Krankenhaus Juju162 Duran Duran Girls On Film161 Diana Ross Upside Down160 Danielle Dax Fizzing Human Bomb159 Toasters Weekend in LA158 Lou Reed New Sensations
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157 Guns N' Roses Welcome to the Jungle156 A.T.S. Runaway Barge155 Shadow Vignettes Honky Tonk Bud154 Tom Tom Club Genius of Love153 3 Teens Kill 4 Tell Me Something Good152 David Garland This Is Love151 Prefab Sprout Don't Sing150 Conjure Jes' Grew149 Sonic Youth Teen Age Riot148 Kahil El'Zabar Another Kind of Groove147 Clive Pig Furious Table146 Brian Woodbury All White People Look Alike145 Mekons The Prince of Darkness144 Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – The Message143 Confusional Quartet 1Sigla142 Judas Priest Breaking the Law141 Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers Sho Yuh Right140 The Replacements I Hate Music139 X Sex And Dying In High Society138 U2 I Will Follow137 Art Bears The Song of Investment Capital Overseas136 Terry Allen Gimme a Ride to Heaven135 Queen & David Bowie Under Pressure134 Saxophone Choir Saxophone Shop133 Nails 88 Lines About 44 Women132 Depeche Mode Blasphemous Rumours131 Geroge Clinton Atomic Dog130 String Trio of New York Texas Koto Blues129 Jesus & Mary Chain Just Like Honey128 Guadalcanal Diary Watusi Rodeo127 John Zorn Giu La Testa (duck You Sucker!)126 Human League These Are the Things That Dreams Are Made Of125 Agitpop Problems Respond124 Ozzy Osbourne Crazy Train123 Lora Logic Brute Fury122 Elvis Costello & The Attractions Human Hands121 The Pixies Monkey Gone to Heaven120 Yaz Nobody's Diary119 Icicle Works Whisper to A Scream
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118 Living Colour Cult of Personality117 Minor Threat Betray116 After Dinner After Dinner115 Government Issue Vanity Fare114 News From Babel Black Gold113 Iva Bittova & Pavel Fajt Big Beat112 Rick James Super Freak111 Soft Boys I Wanna Destroy You110 Steinski The Payoff Mix109 Big Black Crack Up108 Hüsker Dü Eiffel Tower High107 Bauhaus She's In Parties106 Times I Helped Patrick McGoohan Escape105 XTC Wake Up104 Fall Couldn't Get Ahead103 Amina Claudine Myers Sextet Country Girl102 Sonic Youth Star Power101 Robert Wyatt Stalin Wasn't Stallin'
100 Kurtis Blow 8 Million Stories99 Gray Matter Burn No Bridges98 Tupelo Chain Sex The Revolution Will Be Televised97 The Special A.K.A. Free Nelson Mandela96 Iggy Pop Repo Man95 Prince And The Revolution When Doves Cry94 Egg Hunt We All Fall Down93 Men & Volts Someone Else's Money92 Men Without Hats The Safety Dance91 Echo & The Bunnymen The Killing Moon90 Jim Carroll Band People Who Died89 Fang Everybody Makes Me Barph88 Laurie Anderson Sharkey's Day87 Cassiber Vengeance Is Dancing86 Au Pairs It's Obvious85 Joe Jackson Steppin' Out84 Replacements I Will Dare83 Talking Heads Once In A Lifetime82 Heaven 17 (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang81 Eurythmics Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
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80 Higsons Conspiracy79 XTC Poor Skeleton Steps Out78 Billy Bang Sextet Going Through77 U2 Sunday Bloody Sunday76 Black Flag TV Party75 Psychedelic Furs Pretty In Pink74 Flipper Sex Bomb73 Scream Walking By Myself72 Kalahari Surfers Safety Seat71 The Legendary Pink Dots Fifteen Flies In The Marmalade70 Young Marble Giants Wurlitzer Jukebox69 Minutemen Viet Nam68 Bauhaus Bela Lugosi's Dead67 Carsickness Never Walk Alone66 Gang of Four I Love A Man In Uniform65 Orthotonics Luminous Bipeds64 The Dream Syndicate The Days Of Wine And Roses63 Psychedelic Furs President Gas62 They Might Be Giants Ana Ng61 AfterDinner Ironclad Mermaid60 Great Plains Letter to a Fanzine59 Cassandra Wilson I Thought You Knew58 Modern English I Melt With You57 Big Black Racer X56 Fishbone Party At Ground Zero55 The Fall Cruisers Creek54 ABC Poison Arrow53 Suicidal Tendencies Institutionalized52 Suzanne Vega Small Blue Thing51 News From Babel Dragon At The Core50 Bob Marley Redemption Song49 Sun Ra Nuclear War48 Hüsker Dü Real World47 Chumbawamba Always Tell The Voter What the Voter Wants to Hear46 Kamikaze Ground Crew Rearranging the Deck Chairs on the Titanic45 The Clash Should I Stay or Should I Go44 Jam Beat Surrender43 Minor Threat Minor Threat42 Hüsker Dü Everything Falls Apart
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41 Embarrassment Careen40 Fibonaccis Had It With Girls39 Colorblind James Experience I'm Considering a Move to Memphis38 Slapp Happy Everybody's Slimmin'37 David Bowie Let's Dance36 Peter Blegvad When The Work Was New35 Robert Wyatt The Age Of Self34 Trouble Funk Drop the Bomb33 Beat Happening Indian Summer32 David Murray Octet Morning Song31 Martha & The Muffins Echo Beach30 Billy Bragg A New England29 Time Zone World Destruction28 Split Enz I Got You27 Camper Van Beethoven Take The Skinheads Bowling26 Smiths How Soon Is Now?25 Dead Kennedys Holiday In Cambodia24 Marshall Crenshaw Cynical Girl23 Astor Piazzolla Tanguedia III22 Cleaners From Venus Summer In a Small Town21 E.U. Somebody's Ringing the Doorbell20 Public Enemy Fight The Power19 Avengers Cheap Tragedies18 Cannanes I Woke Up17 Television Personalities How I Learned to Love the Bomb16 Rush Tom Sawyer15 Madness Our House14 Minutemen Courage13 Kalahari Surfers Prologue/Houghton's Parents12 Chuck Brown & The Soul Searchers We Need Some Money11 Holger Czukay Perfect World10 The The This Is The Day9 Skeleton Crew Bingo8 Mission of Burma That's When I Reach For My Revolver7 R.E.M. Radio Free Europe6 Violent Femmes Blister In The Sun5 Bad Brains I Against I4 Jam That's Entertainment3 Minor Threat Salad Days
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Posted by davepmiller at 8:43 PM
Labels: Best of the 1980s, Top 100 songs of the 1980s, Top 300 Songs of the 1980s
2 Joy Division Love Will Tear Us Apart1 Hüsker Dü Turn On The News
That's it. The complaints can officially begin about who and what I left out. I did make avery few additions, subtractions, and corrections of date errors based on feedback on myFacebook note. You never know. It could happen again.
If you wonder how somebody might make a list like this, or if you're wondering aboutmaking one yourself, further thoughts are forthcoming. A friend suggested doing aninterview about the making of my decade lists (this is just one of the four I've done sofar). The interview and the other decade lists will follow in the coming weeks and monthson this blog.
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Baloo July 8, 2012 at 10:24 PM
This list...I love 80s music and I think I recognized maybe ten songs on this entire list.Where are these artists?:
Huey Lewis & The NewsHall & OatesMichael McDonaldPhil CollinsDan HartmanSteely DanJefferson StarshipDon HenleyTears for FearsBryan AdamsBob SegerJohn ParrCyndi LauperMichael JacksonAHa
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REO SpeedwagonMr. MisterWhitney Houston
And only one song from Journey, Kenny Loggins, Michael Jackson and Genesis? Onlytwo songs from Prince and Duran Duran?
What kind of 80s list is this exactly?
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davepmiller July 14, 2012 at 12:52 PM
What sort of 80s list is this, indeed? In the 80s, I actively disliked most top 40 music. Ithought I might mellow on that opinion over time. I really haven't. I think a lot of it has todo with 80s production values. Even though there are some good songs among thepop hits of the 80s, the actual recordings of those songs just have a blandlyoverproduced sound that I find aesthetically displeasing and can't get past.
Also, some of the suggested artists (e.g. Jefferson Starship, Steely Dan, Bob Seger,and Hall & Oates) were better in the 70s. I thought REO Speedwagon might sneak in asa guilty pleasure, but they've held up even less well than I would have guessed.
I agree it would have been an omission to leave out Cyndi Lauper, but I didn't. She's inthere are #313. As for only having one or two songs by some artists, I had a rule of onlyone song per album. Without that rule, Thriller and Purple Rain could have each hadmore songs, but I didn't much care for what Prince or Michael Jackson did later in thedecade.
I loved Tears for Fears before they made it big. I think I bought all 3 of the first 12inchsingles as imports. There's really no accounting for me leaving them out other thanplain old snobbery. Oh well. It happens.
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Holly December 19, 2013 at 6:13 PM
This is the best list of 80s music I've ever seen, bar none. Bravo!
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chrismiss March 14, 2014 at 6:18 PM
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I've never even heard of half of these songs or bands
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Pete Spyker April 26, 2014 at 3:55 AM
This should surely include I'm In Love With A German Film Star by The Passions, anabsolute gem of a song. Didn't recall seeing Cocteau Twins either. Voyage Voyage byDesireless? Tears For Fears possibly one of THE bands of the eighties for seriousmusic fans. Chart position is pretty meaningless and should not enter the equation.Agree with the production values comment, a lot of the stuff in the mid 80s especiallywas poorly produced especially drum tracks which were often way over the top. SAWruined everything also.
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davepmiller April 26, 2014 at 11:09 AM
I'd put Tears for Fears on if I did it over again today. I hadn't listened to themin more than 20 years when I made this list, so I downloaded a few of theirsongs that I used to like. They didn't pull me back in right away, but onrepeated listening, I have to agree they belong. The Cocteau Twins annoyme. I respect them on a certain level, but nothing gets to make my list if mygut reaction to it is annoyance. It's totally and completely subjective, but Imade a decision when I was making these lists that I wasn't going to includeanything that I didn't really like a lot myself regardless of how much anybodyelse liked it. It was a helpful guide for me to make the task ultimatelypossible.
Pete April 27, 2014 at 7:10 AM
Another very interesting list Dave, I hope to go through this in more detail once I'vefinished with the 70s. Well done for sticking to your guns, I do agree that the Cocteauscan get annoying in that their lyrics are pretty much indecipherable, I love their soundthough. Not sure if I spotted it but one of my favorites from the early 80s was Living In ADreamboat by Sal Paradise, well worth a listen if you missed it.
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Into The Night Benny Mardones.
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