Otherwise, Happy Palm Sunday to the Catholics in our group. Easter Sunday will be celebrated on March 31st.
1 “Bette Davis Eyes” Kim Carnes
2 “Endless Love” Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
3 “Lady” Kenny Rogers
4 “(Just Like) Starting Over” John Lennon
5 “Jessie’s Girl” Rick Springfield
6 “Celebration” Kool & the Gang
7 “Kiss on My List” Hall & Oates
8 “I Love a Rainy Night” Eddie Rabbitt
9 “9 To 5” Dolly Parton
10 “Keep on Loving You” REO Speedwagon
11 “Theme from The Greatest American Hero (Believe It or Not)” Joey Scarbury
12 “Morning Train (Nine to Five)” Sheena Easton
13 “Being with You” Smokey Robinson
14 “Queen of Hearts” Juice Newton
15 “Rapture” Blondie
16 “A Woman Needs Love (Just Like You Do)” Raydio
17 “The Tide Is High” Blondie
18 “Just the Two of Us” Grover Washington, Jr. & Bill Withers
19 “Slow Hand” The Pointer Sisters
20 “I Love You” Climax Blues Band
21 “Woman” John Lennon
22 “Sukiyaki” A Taste of Honey
23 “The Winner Takes It All” ABBA
24 “Stars on 45 Medley” Stars on 45
25 “Angel of the Morning” Juice Newton
26 “Love on the Rocks” Neil Diamond
27 “Every Woman in the World” Air Supply
28 “The One That You Love”
29 “Guilty” Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb
30 “The Best of Times” Styx
31 “Elvira” The Oak Ridge Boys
32 “Take It on the Run” REO Speedwagon
33 “(There’s) No Gettin’ Over Me” Ronnie Milsap
34 “Living Inside Myself” Gino Vannelli
35 “Woman in Love” Barbra Streisand
36 “The Boy from New York City” The Manhattan Transfer
37 “Urgent” Foreigner
38 “Passion” Rod Stewart
39 “Lady (You Bring Me Up)” Commodores
40 “Crying” Don McLean
41 “Hearts” Marty Balin
42 “It’s My Turn” Diana Ross
43 “You Make My Dreams” Hall & Oates
44 “I Don’t Need You” Kenny Rogers
45 “How ‘Bout Us” Champaign
46 “Hit Me with Your Best Shot” Pat Benatar
47 “The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em)” The Greg Kihn Band
48 “Time” The Alan Parsons Project
49 “Hungry Heart” Bruce Springsteen
50 “Sweetheart” Franke and the Knockouts
51 “Somebody’s Knockin'” Terri Gibbs
52 “More Than I Can Say” Leo Sayer
53 “Together” Tierra
54 “Too Much Time on My Hands” Styx
55 “What Are We Doin’ in Love” Dottie West & Kenny Rogers
56 “Who’s Crying Now” Journey
57 “De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da” The Police
58 “This Little Girl” Gary U.S. Bonds
59 “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty
60 “Giving It Up for Your Love” Delbert McClinton
61 “A Little in Love” Cliff Richard
62 “America” Neil Diamond
63 “Ain’t Even Done with the Night” John Cougar
64 “Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do)” Christopher Cross
65 “Another One Bites the Dust” Queen
66 “Games People Play” The Alan Parsons Project
67 “I Can’t Stand It” Eric Clapton
68 “While You See a Chance” Steve Winwood
69 “Master Blaster (Jammin’)” Stevie Wonder
70 “Hello Again” Neil Diamond
71 “Don’t Stand So Close to Me” The Police
72 “Hey Nineteen” Steely Dan
73 “I Ain’t Gonna Stand for It” Stevie Wonder
74 “All Those Years Ago” George Harrison
75 “Step By Step” Eddie Rabbitt
76 “The Stroke” Billy Squier
77 “Feels So Right” Alabama
78 “Sweet Baby” Stanley Clarke & George Duke
79 “Same Old Lang Syne” Dan Fogelberg
80 “Cool Love” Pablo Cruise
81 “Hold On Tight” Electric Light Orchestra
82 “It’s Now or Never” John Schneider
83 “Treat Me Right” Pat Benatar
84 “Winning” Santana
85 “What Kind of Fool” Barbra Streisand & Barry Gibb
86 “Watching the Wheels” John Lennon
87 “Tell It Like It Is” Heart
88 “Smoky Mountain Rain” Ronnie Milsap
89 “I Made It Through the Rain” Barry Manilow
90 “You’ve Lost That Lovin’ Feelin'” Hall & Oates
91 “Suddenly” Olivia Newton-John & Cliff Richard
92 “For Your Eyes Only” Sheena Easton
93 “The Beach Boys Medley” The Beach Boys
94 “Whip It” Devo
95 “Modern Girl” Sheena Easton
96 “Really Wanna Know You” Gary Wright
97 “Seven Year Ache” Rosanne Cash
98 “I’m Coming Out” Diana Ross
99 “Miss Sun” Boz Scaggs
100 “Time Is Time” Andy Gibb
Mark Clark
My 20, no order:
Bette Davis Eyes/Kim Karnes
Tainted Love/Soft Cell
Time Heals/Todd Rundgren
Seven Year Ache/Roseanne Cash
Stray Cat Strut/Stray Cats
Talk of the Town/The Pretenders
In the Dark/Billy Squier
Almost Saturday Night/Dave Edmunds
Talk to Ya Later/The Tubes
The Waiting/Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Tempted/Squeeze
Pretty in Pink/Psychedelic Furs
Burnin for You/Blue Oyster Cult
Every Grain of Sand/Dylan
Start Me Up/Stones
Art Lover/The Kinks
Every Little Thing She Does is Magic/The Police
TV Party/Black Flag
Under Pressure/Queen + Bowie
867-5309-Jenny/Tommy Tutone
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Near misses:
Our Lips Are Sealed/GoGos
Controversy/Prince
Stop Draggin My Heart Around/Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty
Red Barchetta/Rush
Life of Illusion/Joe Walsh
Winning/Santana
Girls on Film/Duran Duran
I Can’t Go for That/Hall & Oates
Genius of Love/Tom Tom Club
I Love Rock n Roll/Joan Jett
Jesse’s Girl/ Rick Springfield
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Scott Neil Laster
1: Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around – Tom Petty and Stevie Nicks
2: Destroyer- The Kinks
3: The Tide is High- Blondie
4: Babylon Sisters- Steely Dan
5: The Waiting – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
6: Edge of Seventeen- Stevie Nicks
7: Every Little Thing She Does- The Police
8: Start Me Up- Rolling Stones
9: Shake It Up- The Cars
10: Another Tricky Day- The Who
11: Life of Illusion – Joe Walsh
12: Arc of a Diver- Steve Winwood
13: Watch Your Step- Elvis Costello
14: Centerfold- J Geils Band
15: Message of Love- The Pretenders
16: Waiting On A Friend- Rolling Stones
17: I Love Rock and Roll- Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
18: Tom Sawyer- Rush
19: Our Lips Are Sealed- The Go Go’s
20: Trouble- Lindsay Buckingham
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Richard Finch
A Woman in Love (Tom Petty)
Being with You (Smokey Robinson)
The Tide Is High (Blondie)
Pretty in Pink (Psychedelic Furs)
Talk of the Town (Pretenders)
Start Me Up (Rolling Stones)
867-5309/Jenny (Tommy Tutone)
Tainted Love (Soft Cell)
Our Lips Are Sealed (Go-Gos)
Shake It Up (Cars)
Little Sister (Robert Plant/Rockpile)
Bette Davis Eyes (Kim Carnes)
Hang Fire (Rolling Stones)
The Breakup Song (Greg Kihn)
Super Freak (Rick James)
The Waiting (Tom Petty)
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Start Me Up
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Steve Finkelstein
One artist(s) per title :
1. You Better You Bet-The Who
2. Tainted Love-Soft Cell
3. Time-Alan Parsons Project
4. Bette Davis Eyes-Kim Carnes
5. Hit Me With Your Best Shot-Pat Benatar
6. Celebration-Kool & The Gang
7. 9 To 5-Dolly Parton
8. Rapture-Blondie
9. Every Little Thing She Does is Magic-The Police.
10. Start Me Up- The Rolling Stones.
11. I Can’t Stand It-Eric Clapton
12. Life of Illusion-Joe Walsh
13. Girls on Film-Duran Duran
14. I Love Rock & Roll-Joan Jett
15. Arc of a Diver-Steve Winwood
16. Our Lips are Sealed-The Go-Go’s
17. Through Being Cool-Devo
18. Shake It Up-The Cars
19. Burnin for You-Blue Oyster Cult
20. I Can’t Go For That-Hall & Oates
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Ken Baker
Betty Davis Eyes
(Just like) Starting Over
Kiss on My List
I Love a Rainy Night
Morning Train
The Tide is High
Angel of The Morning
Crying
Hit Me with Your Best Shot
Hungry Heart
Another One Bites the Dust
Don’t Stand so Close to me
Same Old Lang Syne
Smokey Mountain Rain
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Cindy Collins Smith
America Is Waiting – Brian Eno and David Byrne
Bette Davis Eyes – Kim Carnes
Celebration – Kool and the Gang
Don’t You Want Me – Human League
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic – The Police
Down Under – Men at Work
Fire – U2
From a Whisper to a Scream – Elvis Costello
Gloria – U2
Hold on Tight – Electric Light Orchestra
In This House That I Call Home – X
Pocket Calculator – Kraftwerk
Pretty in Pink – Psychedelic Furs
Seven Year Ache – Rosanne Cash
Spirits in the Material World – The Police
Stray Cat Strut – Stray Cats
Tainted Love – Soft Cell
The Tide Is High – Blondie
Under Pressure – Queen & David Bowie
The Waiting – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Tor Lier
Lots of danceable ditties, and a banner year for chicks named Kim!
20) Bette Davis Eyes – Kim Carnes
19) I’ve Seen That Face Before (Libertango) – Grace Jones
18 ) Kids in America – Kim Wilde
17) Another One Rides the Bus – “Weird Al” Yankovic
16) (We Don’t Need This) Fascist Groove Thang – Heaven 17
15) Shut Up – Madness
14) Elephant Talk – King Crimson
13) Don’t You Want Me – The Human League
12) Jumpin’ Jive – Joe Jackson’s Jumpin’ Jive
11) Beautiful World – DEVO
10) Start Me Up – The Rolling Stones
9) Table Manners – Kid Creole & The Coconuts
8 ) Stray Cat Strut – Stray Cats
7) Positive Touch – The Undertones
6) Ghost Town – The Specials
5) Under Pressure – Queen & David Bowie
4) Message of Love – The Pretenders
3) Bo jo cie kochom – De Press
2) Golden Brown – The Stranglers
1) Happy Birthday – Altered Images
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Celeste Fenster
RANKED:
1. The Tide is High
2. I Can’t Go For That
3. Don’t You Want Me?
4. In the Air Tonight
5. Centerfold
6. Arthur’s Theme
7. Key Largo
8. Arthur’s Theme
9. Bette Davis Eyes
10. Talk of the Town
11. Endless Love
12. Jesse’s Girl
13. Down Under
14. Time Heals
15. Spirits of the Material World
16. Morning Train
17. Physical
18. Lady
19. Chariots of Fire
20. Don’t Stop Believin’
Derek Vincent
1981
1) The Art of Parties JAPAN
2) Traces of the Western Slope RICKIE LEE JONES
3) Walking on Thin Ice YOKO ONO
4) Worlds in Collision JERRY HARRISON
5) Women Around the World at Work MARTHA & THE MUFFINS
6) You Pay Your Money and You Take Your Chance BRUCE COCKBURN
7) Ghost Town THE SPECIALS
Homosapiens PETE SHELLEY
9) What We All Want GANG OF FOUR
10) Big Blue Plymouth DAVID BYRNE
11) Our Lips Are Sealed THE GO-GO’S
12) America is Waiting BYRNE and ENO
13) Wordy Rappinghood TOM TOM CLUB
14) The Visitors ABBA
15) Boy From NYC MANHATTAN TRANSFER
16) Just the Two of Us GROVER WASHINGTON JR.
17) Don’t You Want Me HUMAN LEAGUE
18) Pretty in Pink PSYCHEDELIC FURS
19) Dancing in My Head THE RAINCOATS
20) Trouble LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM
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Luis Balbosa
I’ve always liked music from every genre so it was hard for me to stop at 20 picks. My #1 is Bette Davis Eyes – Kim Carnes, one of the all-time great singles in my opinion. From there I would probably include the following:
2) You’re the Reason God Made Oklahoma – David Frizzell and Shelly West
3) Christmas Wrapping -The Waitresses
4) She’s a Bad Mama Jama – Carl Carlton
5) When She Was My Girl -The Four Tops
6) Super Freak – Rick James
7) I Ain’t Gonna Stand for It – Stevie Wonder
Guilty – Barbara Streisand and Barry Gibb
9) Nine to Five – Dolly Parton
10) Double Dutch Bus – Frankie Smith
11) Square Biz – Teena Marie
12) Don’t Stop the Music – Yarbrough and Peoples
13) Hit Me With your Best Shot – Pat Benatar
14) I’m in Love – Evelyn Champagne King
15) Never too Much – Luther Vandross
16) Winning – Santana
17) Our Lips are Sealed – The Go Gos
18) Endless Love – Diana Ross and Lionel Richie
19) For Your Eyes Only – Sheena Easton
20) Under Pressure – Queen and David Bowie
*Other great songs include I Love Rock and Roll – Joan Jett, Controversy – Prince, Slow Hand – The Pointer Sisters, Somebody’s Knockin’ – Terri Gibbs, Can I See You Tonight – Tanya Tucker, Rapture – Blondie and surely others that escape me at the moment.
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My big albums this year were Beauty and the Beat and Kim Wilde’s debut album, but I’m allowing only one song from each artist
1. Our Lips Are Sealed – The Go-Go’s
2. Talk of the Town – The Pretenders
3. Say Hello, Wave Goodbye – Soft Cell
4. You’ll Never Be So Wrong – Kim Wilde
5. The Weakness in Me – Joan Armatrading
6. How ‘Bout Us – Champaign
7. Genius of Love – Tom Tom Club
8. What About Me? – Moving Pictures
9. Better Things – The Kinks
10. On the Loose – Saga
11. Tempted – Squeeze
12. Seasons – Charles Fox
13. Don’t You Want Me – The Human League
14. Find Another Fool – Quarterflash
15. Pretty in Pink – Psychedelic Furs
16. Don’t Stop Believin’ – Journey
17. Helter Skelter – Pat Benatar
18 Bette Davis Eyes – Kim Carnes
19. Disappearing – The Sinceros
20. Love – Robyn Hitchcock
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Adolfo Fernández-Punsola
Rapture by Blondie!
Rod Timmons
Celebration from Kool & the Gang
Mets played this tune after ever Win in the 80’s at Shea Stadium
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Leon Duncon
In order of preference:
1 Under Pressure (Bowie and Queen)
2 I Can’t Go For That No Can Do (Hall & Oates)
3 The Tide is High (Blondie)
4 Centerfold (J. Geils Band)
5 Tainted Love (Soft Cell)
6 Pretty in Pink (Psychedelic Furs)
7 Do You Want Me? (Human League)
8 In the Air Tonight (Phil Collins)
9 Celebration (Kool & the Gang)
10 Jesse’s Girl (Rick Springfield)
11 Down Under (Men at Work)
12 Nine to Five (Dolly Pardon)
13 Endless Love (Ross and Richie)
14 Super Freak (Rick James)
15 Start Me Up (Stones)
16 Who Can It Be Now? (Men at Work)
17 The Visitors (ABBA)
18. Hit Me with Your best Shot (Pat Benatar)
19. Bette Davis Eyes (Kim Carnes)
20. Physical (Olivia Newton-John)
Lee Price
Still in college, in love, and the background soundtrack is good but lacking some of the excitement of 1979 and 1980.
(alphabetical)
Better Things – The Kinks
Ceremony – New Order
Christmas Wrapping – The Waitresses
Cuban Slide – Pretenders
Day After Day – Pretenders
Go For It – Stiff Little Fingers
History Never Repeats – Split Enz
I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll – Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too? – Mental as Anything
It’s Not My Place (in the 9 to 5 World) – Ramones
Message of Love – Pretenders
Pretty in Pink – The Psychedelic Furs
Seven Year Ache – Rosanne Cash
She’s a Sensation – Ramones
Start Me Up – The Rolling Stones
Talk of the Town – Pretenders
There’s a Guy Works Down the Chip Shop Swears He’s Elvis – Kirsty MacColl
The Tide Is High – Blondie
Under Pressure – Queen and David Bowie
The Waiting – Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
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Adam DeSocio
1) Start me up , the stones 2) Hang fire , The Stones 3) you better you bet ,The Who 4) keep in loving you Reo speedwagon 5) the best of times Styx 6) the stroke Billy Squier 7)Urgent Foreigner centerfold J Giles 9) freeze frame , J Giles 10) the breakup song Greg Khin
Lucia Harper
Golden Brown. The Stranglers
Walking in the Rain, Grace Jones
O Superman, Laurie Anderson
Wordy Rappinghood, Tom Tom Club
Quasimodo’s Dream, The Reels
The Breakup Song (They Don’t Write ‘Em), Greg Kinh Band
Counting the Beat, The Swingers
Happy Birthday, Altered Images
History Never Repeats, Split Enz
I Go To Sleep, Pretenders
Christmas Wrapping, The Waitresses
Tempted, Squeeze
Goo Goo Muck, The Cramps
Every Grain of Sand, Bob Dylan
Arc of a Diver- Steve Winwood
Waiting On A Friend- Rolling Stones
Trouble- Lindsay Buckingham
Rapture, Blondie
Pretty in Pink, Psychedelic Furs
Ghost Town, The Specials
My Twenty For 1981. (Alphabetical Order)
Centrefold : J.Geils Band.
Don’t You Want Me : The Human League.
Edge Of Seventeen : Stevie Nicks.
Genius Of Love :Tom Tom Club.
Ghost Town : The Specials.
Golden Brown : The Stranglers.
I Can’t Go For That : Hall a Oats.
I Could Be Happy : Altered Images.
I’m In Love With A German Film Star : The Passions.
In The Air Tonight : Phil Collins.
Invisible Sun : The Police.
Kids In America : Kim Wilde.
Mickey : Toni Basil.
O’ Superman : Laurie Anderson.
Planet Earth : Duran Duran.
Pull Up The Bumper : Grace Jones.
Superfreak : Rick Jones.
Tainted Love : Soft Cell.
Walking On Thin Ice : Yoko Ono.
(We Don’t Need) This Fascist Groove Thang : Heaven 17.
To Hell With Poverty (Gang of Four)
This Is Radio Clash (The Clash)
Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go? (Soft Cell)
Walking on Thin Ice (Yoko Ono)
Rapture (Blondie)
Ceremony/Everything’s Gone Green (New Order)
Lazy in Love (8-Eyed Spy with Lydia Lunch)
Message of Love (Pretenders)
Genius of Love (Tom Tom Club)
O Superman (Laurie Anderson)
Super Freak (Rick James), Pull Up to the Bumper (Grace Jones), Homosapien (Pete Shelley), New Lace Sleeves (Elvis Costello), Square Biz (Teena Marie), Just Can’t Get Enough (Depeche Mode), I’m in Love With a German Film Star (The Passions), Controversy (Prince), Waiting on a Friend (The Rolling Stones), Primary (The Cure).
I love rock bands fronted by women. Add a saxophone and I’m in orbit. Saving Joan Jett’s “I Love Rock ‘n Roll” for 1982.
NBC has hired lying Trump lackey Ronna McDaniel as an election commentator. Our Trump-infatuated media won’t save us. Our Trump-enabling justice system won’t save us. Only the American electorate can save us from a brutal autocracy. Vote, vote, vote. My head is exploding right now.
Mark, I deal with these psychos every day online. There is severe sickness here, and your plea to vote is wise. Like you, I feel my own head will explode.
RIP Louis Gossett Jr., best supporting actor of 1982 for his role in the imperfect but wonderfully acted “An Officer and a Gentleman.”
Yes, indeed, my friend, and thank you. I posted on his passing this morning on FB, and many have gone there to praise him.
No one can replace Mitchum, Shelly Winters, Lillian Gish, and scenarist James Agee in the upcoming remake of Laughton’s “The Night of the Hunter.” Don’t even try, Hollywood. You’ll never touch it. Reminds me of the time Billy Wilder briefly considered remaking “La Grande Illusion” (!). Terrible idea.
Shelley with two e’s.