Need some help re: good tunes from 1979 and 1981

[NightTrain]

In my latest obsessive/compulsive exercise, I'm attempting to pick my favorite song of each year from 1948 - 1982. I've made a pick for each year except '79 and '81.

If you can think of any great songs from either (or both) of those years, please post them. I don't give a damn if the song was a hit or not, just as long as it sounds good!

[xray s]

1. 1979- some of my favorites

Old Time Rock and Roll -Bob Seger
Logical Song - Supertramp
Sultans of Swing - Dire Staits

[Shrek]

2. 1981 "Juke Box Hero" by Foreigner n/t

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[VolcanoJen]

3. Here are a few that come to mind for me.

These are songs that definitely make me think of that time, my early teenage years:

1979:

Blondie - "Heart of Glass"
Chic - "Good Times"
The Knack - "My Sharona"
Nick Lowe - "Cruel to be Kind"
The Cars - "Let's Go" and "Candy-O"
Charlie Daniels Band - "Devil Went Down To Georgia"
Pink Floyd - "Comfortably Numb" (and the entire "The Wall" LP)
Van Halen - "Beautiful Girls"

1981:

Psychedelic Furs - "Pretty in Pink"
Squeeze - "Tempted"
The Police - "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic"
Blondie - "Rapture"
Rolling Stones - "Start Me Up"
John Lennon - "(Just Like) Starting Over"
John Lennon - "Watching the Wheels"
Smokey Robinson - "Being With You"

[BootinUp]

6. The Cars were great....

I like just tabout everything in your list.

I believe Journey was hot around 79, 80. Lovin Touchin Squeezin

[Norbert]

10. Some of mine.

1979

Gloria Gaynor: I Will Survive
Foreigner: Blue Morning, Blue Day
Amii Stewart: Knock on Wood (A great Remake of the Eddie Floyd Tune)
Dire Straits: Sultans of Swing
Joe Jackson: Is She Really Going Out with Him?
Blondie: One Way Or Another
George Harrison: Blow Away
Robert Palmer: Bad Case of Loving You
The Knack: My Sharona


1980

Queen: Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Queen: Another One Bites the Dust
Blondie: Call Me
Peter Gabriel: Games Without Frontiers
Split Enz: I got You
Irene Cara: Fame
The Pretenders: Brass in Pocket
The Boomtown Rats: I don't Like Mondays
Pat Benetar: Heartbreaker


1981

Blondie: The Tide is High
Gary U.S. Bonds: This Little Girl
George Harrison: All Those Years Ago
Quarterflash: Harden my Heart
The Go-Gos: Our Lips are Sealed
The Police: Every Little Thing She Does is Magic

[instantkarma]

4. 1979...

How about:

Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2 -- Pink Floyd
I Don't Like Mondays -- Boomtown Rats
Message in a Bottle -- The Police

[BOSSHOG]

5. 1979 - What a fool Believes - Doobies with M. McDonald

I know you are humming it right now....

[Valerie5555]

7. My 1979 favorite

Mama Can't Buy You Love - Elton John like it because of a catchy tune and that and Shine A Little Love by ELO

[Catholic Sensation]

8. 1981

I believe "Another One Bites the Dust" was released then

[Rooktoven]

9. The entire album In Through the Out Door

a most underrated Led Zep Album.

[NightTrain]

11. I think I may have one for '79

OLIVER'S ARMY, Elvis Costello

By the way, you can see the full list here:

http://home.comcast.net/~soulexpress4/misc.htm#faves-by-year