Over 30 years later, it’s still unbeatable. For each film, we use the first date on which it was made available to the public, which might include international theatrical or domestic video releases that were a few days, or sometimes more, earlier than the domestic (US/Canada) theatrical release. Touching upon the breakdown of the relationship with her boyfriend/manager, ‘Time After Time’ was a change in tack for Lauper, whose musical persona had previously been unstoppably light and frothy. The ageing Toxic Twins or those chaps in the laceless Adidas? Away from the titanic egos, though, John Deacon proffered one of pop music’s most iconic basslines (though there’s some controversy over whether he wrote it, or Bowie did). Still groovy as a hepcat, ‘Sign ‘O’ The Times’ is stripped back like Sly Stone’s ‘Family Affair’; all the better to focus on a lyric that bemoans drug addiction, HIV and the damned space race. Hair metal’s unimpeachable high point. ‘Hallelujah’ is a mess in the fine tradition of ‘Bummed’, a dirty loping funk held together with sticking plasters and – in all probability – Shaun Ryder’s “junk”. Feature Film, Released between 1980-01-01 and 1980-12-31 (Sorted by Popularity Ascending) View Mode: Compact | Detailed. We had New Order and Frankie Goes To Hollywood, U2, Prince and Cyndi Lauper, Springsteen, INXS, Bananarama, Duran Duran and the list goes on. Where it all got going. For better or worse, ‘The One I Love’ was REM’s big push through the commercial barriers, a US top 10 hit transforming them in one fell swoop from floppy-haired college radio darlings to bald-bonced plane-trashing heroes of the glossy monthlies. Released as a standalone single following their gargantuan 1989 debut, ‘Fool’s Gold’ saw Ian Brown serve up some mystic baloney while the rest of the band did the heavy lifting – Mani leading the tune, John Squire going all Sly and the Family Stone with his wah-wah licks, and Reni giving a ‘Funky Drummer’ masterclass that rendered all other baggy redundant. Can you imagine Christmas without Shane MacGowan slurring away, Kirsty MacColl double-tracking her own vocals and all your mates bellowing in your face that you’re an “old slut on junk“? Holly Johnson still wasn’t playing it safe, marrying lyrics about the Cold War to the foreboding march of a keyboard being bashed to within an inch of its life. As the theme song to pivotal 80s teen drama The Breakfast Club, it found its deeper meaning within the story lines of the disenfranchised youngsters in the flick. During the 1980s the chart was based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales … Whitesnake Ready an' Willing (1980) 14: 14. A Pair of Brown Eyes - The … This category is for songs issued as singles in the year 1980. Discover. Pivotal in its use of samples, Mark Moore borrowed from songs by the likes of Gil Scott Heron, Debbie Harry and Stacey Q for this acid house banger. And so it was with ‘Pacific State’, a mixture of sexy saxaphone skronking and brain-burrowing bass so relentless it could worm its way into your noggin and stay there forever more. Today marks five years since School of Rock opened on Broadway! Over one of Angus Young’s crunchiest riffs, new screecher Brian Johnson doffs his cap to his predecessor and spits “I’m back in black!” with the gusto it deserves. 1980 singles...most of all the singles released in 1980 per the list at songfacts.com The Outlaws – (Ghost) Riders In The Sky - Digitally Remastered, 1996 John Lennon – (Just Like) Starting Over - 2010 Remix Motörhead – (We are) the road crew (live) Dolly Parton – 9 To 5 U2 – A Day Without Me - Remastered Donnie Iris – Agnes Donnie Iris – Ah! AC/DC’s first album after the death of original singer Bon Scott proved none of that fire had gone out, and the title track was the purest example. Music Reviews: Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) by David Bowie released in 1980 via RCA. Cowritten with Savan Kotecha and Swedish songwriter-producer Ilya, the record became a new Christmas classic peaking in the top 10 of the adult contemporary chart and topping Billboard's holiday chart. All that “If the devil is six…” business was supposedly a jumbled reference to Hebrew numerology, a truly apocalyptic slant to the rest of ‘Monkey Gone To Heaven’ which has more immediate environmental concerns. Public Enemy’s first UK top 20 hit (they never had one of them at home) is as naggingly catchy as any hip-hop smash had to be back in 1988, a relentless squirt of whistles and looped beats absolutely peppered with quotable rhymes and Flavor Flav madness. January 1980 Album Releases. Propelled by war-hammer drums and the bomb-like stomp of him thwacking his guitar, it also has some of the Modfather’s finest lyrics to boot as its righteous damnation of the Government’s nukes-over-society policy cemented his place as one of the UK’s greatest social commentators. ‘Blue Monday’ – the best selling 12″ of all time – was New Order’s peak; a stunning explosion of drum machine beats, infectious hooks and Sumner’s deadpan vocals. What’s a Deadhead sticker doing on the back of some posh Cadillac? A worthy first UK Number One for Messr Weller, ‘Going Underground’ will forever be one of The Jam’s finest cuts. http://players.brightcove.net/19012535001/default_default/index.html?videoId=1414932997001. Originally offered to a host of artists including Bryan Ferry, The Pretenders and Billy Idol, it fell to Simple Minds to take this track and turn it into Top 40 gold on both sides of the Atlantic. Community. For most bands, this song would be amongst the weirdest in their arsenal; it’s testament to The Fall’s bizarre brilliance that it’s one of their most straightforward. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_E1-VOMxS6w. Quincy Jones didn’t want the song on the album, which shows what he knows. “To die by your side/ Well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine” bears the hallmarks of classic Moz – overdoing it a bit, laying on the language – but there’s an unmistakable poignancy here. 1-50 of 3,340 titles. These 15 punk records from 1980 are stylistically all over the place, marking an era in time where the genre became an attitude than a specific sound. This list may not reflect recent changes (learn more). The band formed in 1976 and released their debut EP Three in 1979 exclusively in Ireland. “Here I go!” she shouts, unable to control herself, and you’re whipped up with lust alongside her. J Mascis goes hell for leather under waves of pure noise but this is the sweetest shot of ‘friends4ever’ mayhem, an invitation to Lou Barlow to come back before he’d even left. This category has only the following subcategory. Knitting together so many disconnected sounds could have sounded haphazard and slapdash; instead, it’s impressively seamless and skilful. [sidebar id=”premium_inline_before_last_p”]. CBS 84327; Vinyl LP). In December 2013, Ariana Grande released a four-song Christmas EP titled "Christmas Kisses." “Dancing in the Dark” Bruce Springsteen (1984) 60. Ex and future Eagle Henley has lost his lover and his direction, but hey – there’s still a lot of cash to be made. List of 100 Greatest Songs From 1980 plus 20 more songs worth mentioning and editors … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3W6yf6c-FA. Today we unveil the results of Part 1 of our year-long Best of the ’80s feature, an ambitious, year-by-year poll of Slicing Up Eyeballs' readers to determine just what were the best albums of each year of the 1980s — and then, when that's all said and done at … By the time ‘We Care A Lot’ smashed onto the radio, it ushered in a new wave of anti- poser, alternative metal that didn’t live or die on the number of virgins that had been sacrificed the evening before. It builds and builds until you can take no more. Robert Smith’s beautiful slice of pounding acoustic-pop was a surging, multi-tracked work of wonder that continued the band’s run of brilliant singles, following ‘The Love Cats’ and preceding ‘Close To Me’. In the late '60s, Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil invited … The song was also her first top ten single on the Billboard Hot 100. “Back in Black” AC/DC (1980) 63. In 1980, Bon Scott died less than a year after the release of the successful Highway to Hell, and was replaced by British singer Brian Johnson, with whom AC/DC released their best selling album, Back in Black. 1980s Songs Were Fundraisers. The list on this page is for all #1 hit Country singles for 1980 using proprietary methods. New Releases. PRODUCER:… He’s talking gibberish, surely: the slow-burn beginning is fantastic, true, but the whole ruddy song – with its balmy organ waltz and irrepressible feel-good factor – is the sound of Talking Heads at their most wonderfully accessible. 747 (Strangers In The Night) - Saxon. Though New Order’s dancefloor fillers were far removed from Joy Division’s bleak nihilism, there was a no nonsense approach to both that united Bernard Sumner, Peter Hook and Stephen Morris’ two ventures in direct and uncompromising brilliance. A slinky, sexy R&B number that pissed a load of people off when they bought Soul II Soul’s debut LP ‘Club Classics Vol. A Number one in 17 countries, Marc Almond and Dave Ball stepped out the British avant-garde synthpop scene to produce something that was a pure pop statement of intent. It eerily prefigured the future. Here the punk poet tackled Vietnam, immigration and gentrification. and Aerosmith broke down that wall in the ‘Walk This Way’ video, busting taboos and blurring the line between rap and rock. Angel Witch (1980) 9: 9. "Nave Maria" 199. The list on this page is for all #1 hit R&B singles for 1980 using proprietary methods. We had New Order and Frankie Goes To Hollywood, U2, Prince and Cyndi Lauper, Springsteen, INXS, Bananarama, Duran Duran and the list goes on. The peak of AC/DC’s lithe, fat-free years. Rankings are figured by combining sales figures, chart data, radio airplay, video airplay, streaming figures, awards, and appearances on best-of lists. Depending on what mood Dave Lee Roth was in, the charismatic vocalist used to tell journalists that ‘Jump’ was either about a man standing on a ledge about to… or a stripper. But Arctic Monkeys didn’t namecheck ‘Rio’ in ‘I Bet You Look Good On The Dancefloor’ for naught – they knew that, despite the horrowshow haircuts, it’s still one of the sexiest and sunniest synthpop singles of the 80s. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMThz7eQ6K0. All I Wanna Do (Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons song), All Over the World (Electric Light Orchestra song), Back on the Road (Earth, Wind & Fire song), Breakdown (Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers song), Burn Rubber on Me (Why You Wanna Hurt Me), Christine (Siouxsie and the Banshees song), Don't Die (Richard Hell and the Voidoids song), Don't Walk Away (Electric Light Orchestra song), Drivin' (Pearl Harbor and the Explosions song), Electricity (Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark song), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:1980_singles&oldid=946367640, Template Category TOC via CatAutoTOC on category with 601–900 pages, CatAutoTOC generates standard Category TOC, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License, This page was last edited on 19 March 2020, at 18:45. Can you guess the number one Country song in 1980? Gangsta rap was still shocking, before we got all blasé about guns, hoes and all that juice, and NWA pulled no punches, with Ice Cube, Eazy-E and the rest giving it both barrels. A generation uniting number that would alter Prince’s career, confirming his place as a titan of 80s pop. The Challenger Space Shuttle exploded on live TV while we all watched in school, Prince Charles married Diana — a non-royal, and Apple Computer released the Macintosh. A few weeks ago we asked our readers to vote for their least favorite songs from the 1990s, so it was the obvious next move to dial it back 10 years and see what you guys hated in the 1980s. One of the finest examples of Mark E Smith’s musical mantra of “Repetition, repetition, repetition”, as The Fall’s curmudgeonly ringmaster incessantly shrieks the chorus over the off-kilter hook of a honking horn. None of that quiet-loud stuff here – ‘Debaser’ is full throttle throughout, celebrating Black Francis’s new favourite thing, Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dali’s surrealist, eyeball-slicing movie Un Chien Andalou. Lists Jason Baum's Top 6 Music Videos (and 4 Music Films) of 2019 “Upside Down” Diana Ross (1980) 58. And until Cher came along with ‘Believe’, it made co-vocalist Grace Slick the oldest female singer to ever have a Number One hit. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWtCittJyr0. “The song with no chorus” – that was how the Pet Shop Boys referred to this one on the quiet, but it had a bevy of other assets to offset that. Though, these days, a cape trip is about the height of Madge’s tabloid-baiting power, the queen of the pop controversy used to trade in far more eyebrow-raising fare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7q5WjYjzrEQ. A goth love song? Def Leppard On Through the Night (1980) A Lesson In Leaving - Dottie West. As it was, it didn’t matter that he was hitching a ride because the song was perfect – odd, self-referential and as pure pop as he’d never be again. Although Lennon continued writing music throughout his house husband period. A list of all music releases for January 1980. Obviously. It didn’t harm the song’s prospects that it was a belting pop tune, a welcome return to form after the sub-par tosh of her Who’s That Girl soundtrack efforts. JAMC’s second album ‘Darklands’ proved they’d tidied up since the thrilling mess of ‘Psychocandy’. After much number-crunching, we're thrilled to present the first results of our yearlong Best of the '80s Redux series, the Slicing Up Eyeballs readers poll that has now determined your collective ranking of the Top 100 songs of 1980 — the year, not the decade, although judging by … ‘Velocity Girl’ was a great slice of vintage eighties jangle pop – a style and sound that the band would distance themselves from with ‘Screamadelica’ , but from the teen-misfit of the title to the energized bolt of the music, this was a perfect moment of 80s indie Britpop. Punk survivor Cherry sounded effortlessly in control as she rapped about her crew (based on the very real Buffalo crew), making the listener feel totally part of her world. Grace Jones’s fusion of funk and reggae, a perfect blend for the Island label, was smoothed considerably by rhythm section Sly Dunbar and Robbie Shakespeare, who slipped comfortably into the musical melting pot of the new wave scene. Find the top 100 Country songs for the year of 1980 and listen to them all! Words: Ben Hewitt, Matthew Horton, Priya Elan. Saxon Wheels of Steel (1980) 10: 10. Originally penned as an attempt to re-create the disco thrust of ‘Heart Of Glass’, with ‘Atomic’ Debbie Harry and keyboardist Jimmy Destri actually created something that was stranger still. The result was indie gold. Imagine a world where everyone rushed out to buy a brainstorm like this. Step past Don Henley and cohorts’ opulent 80s AOR production and there’s a song with a message here. He finally returned to the studio in August 1980, and recorded 22 songs with Ono and session musicians. ‘Buffalo Stance’ came along at a time when dance, hip-hop and pop were creating thrilling hybrids (see also ‘Salt N Pepa’s ‘Push It’ and Tone Loc’s ‘Funky Cold Medina’). Chet Baker’s mournful trumpet solo – thought to be his last recorded performance – also added gravitas to the track. Whether you were donning your finest spandex and getting tiddly on Cinzano or putting on the leathers and devil-fingering to Guns’n’Roses, it’ll still go down as the most diverse, eclectic and extravagant decade in recent cultural history. Double Fantasy, the comeback album by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, was released in the US and UK on this day.. Hooky’s bass was delicate and pounding and Bernard Sumner’s vocal line was deceptively boyish. Between the 1986 vaudeville funk of ‘Parade’ and the following year’s state of the cosmos address, Prince had ditched The Revolution – in name at least – and set about taking full credit for his new clear-eyed vision. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YnxDRJzaXmc. ‘She Bangs The Drums’ saw the Roses tipping their caps to the ephemeral moments one has with a new sweetheart, with John Squire later comparing it to “staying up til dawn and watching the sun come up with someone you love.” The penetrating bass, and the ‘endless summer’ vibe of the music, expressed these emotions with perfect eloquence. It would prove a natural fit for The xx ,who memorably covered the song years later. Official UK releases were given to the more brassy stuff but ‘That’s Entertainment’ closer represented the soul of The Jam, or at least the soul of Paul Weller. Two of rock’s biggest behemoths joined forces as Bowie and Freddie Mercury belted out a big, show-off collaborative anthem. It’s all about Richie Sambora’s talk box really, isn’t it? 1980 Number One Song Calendar, the top pop song for any date in 1980with all years 1960-2014, at Tunecaster Music Encyclopedia Years ahead of the shoegazing scene that desecrated then tranquilised his style, Kevin Shields was building walls of noise that played around with the very concept of tempo and sound. A Man Of Great Promise - The Style Council. A Kind Of Magic - Queen. Yet there’s something about The Boss’s masculine-yet-balmy vocal that’s immensely comforting; dreams are dashed, the river runs dry, but somehow, everything is gonna be alright. Their latest album to date, Rock or Bust, was released in 2013, selling 2.8 million copies in 2014. It was well received, and a year later she announced a new Christmas song, " Santa Tell Me ." For sake of this list, versions of songs which fit the newer definition of cover version but not the original one are referred to as remakes. But look at that Jesus Christ pose on the sleeve, listen to the talk of “sacrifice” – there was more going on here, and a killer middle eight to boot. The one that got the Mondays on Top Of The Pops is a far cry from the sequenced beats of ‘Pills ‘N’ Thrills And Bellyaches’ that established them as baggy chiefs. Alongside Depeche Mode, OMD helped fly the flag for forward-looking British electro pop in the 80s. But he didn’t like the sound of “Andalou” so switched it to “Andalusia”. If only every attempt to tackle strife in the Middle-East were as joyous as this. Who left the kettle on? A club anthem on a par with its natural predecessor, Donna Summer’s ‘I Feel Love’. The track that sent ‘Thriller’ interstellar casts Jacko as an unlikely daddy in the dock – far-fetched, but apparently based on a real accusation from a crazed fan. The youthful, Smiths-ian lyrics tapped into the universal sense of questioning that everyone could relate to. The Bunnymen’s lasting classic has a Hollywood ending – an appearance in 2001’s Donnie Darko that introduced them to a legion of new fans. Ditching their chugging guitar sound of yore for funkier pastures was a brave move, but the lyrics were still unmistakably Collins: a finely-observed tale of tongue-tied ineptitude and lovelorn regret that made for a perfect slice of sophisticated pop. Nowadays, the video looks at best naff and at worst a bit pervy, as Simon Le Bon and co hop aboard a speedboat and whip out their binoculars to ogle some bikini-clad beauties. List of music videos released in 1980. Written by Tim Booth during a period of feeling isolated, the anthemic qualities of the track were picked up by students everywhere, as James became part of the Madchester scene and the legend of ‘Sit Down’ grew and grew. Add to that synthesized horns that actually work and a melody that’s bottled melancholy, and it’s another regal single from Tennant and Lowe. This Month. Ace of Spades - Motörhead… 21 Songs Released in 1980 You Must Hear. The world's defining voice in music and pop culture since 1952. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I1wg1DNHbNU. List of #1 R&B Singles for 1980. View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1980 Cassette release of More Songs That Will Never Be Released on Discogs. – but it’s hard to glean such subtleties when you’re being battered with a heavy metal sledgehammer. She intends to “blow your horn“. ‘Love Action’ boasts at least three warring synth riffs – from Ian Burden, Philip Adrian Wright and Jo Callis feeding his guitar through a Roland 700 – each of which could fuel a Top 3 hit by itself.