Back right around this year I started making my Top Picks at the end of each year. I had a couple of rules, which I will explain. First like every pick on this site, I could only use songs or albums that I owned. I had to like it enough to have it in my collection. I could never keep it to my top ten, so I picked Twenty. I would then make that into a mixtape (later a mix CD). I also made a top ten albums list for the year and mostly no tracks from the album list would be on the tracks list. My albums lists I will post later. They did not have to be released as a single to make it on my Top Picks. But the songs must have been released in that year. I know that some countries release songs at different times. As long as my copy of the released album or single was of that year it qualified for me. So here is my list of picks from 1980. They are not in order of how much I like them. A couple of notes: Klark Kent was on green 10" vinyl and theSplit Enz had laser etching which was a thing for a while. Also, I will be posting one of these per month for now.
Top Pick 1980
Top Pick 1980
01 Klark Kent - Don't Care
02 J Geils Band - Love Stinks
03 Dead Kennedys - California Uber Alles
04 Blondie - Rapture
05 The Fall - How I Wrote 'Elastic Man'
06 Visage - Fade To Grey
07 The Clash - The Magnificent Seven
08 Black Slate - Amigo
09 The Residents - Diskomo
10 Split Enz - I Got You
11 Tuxedomoon - What Use
12 Cars - Touch And Go
13 The B-52's - Quiche Lorraine
14 The Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me
15 UB40 - Madam Medusa
16 Elvis Costello and the Attractions - I Can't Stand Up For Falling Down
17 Dexys Midnight Runners - Seven Days Too Long
18 Joy Division - Isolation
19 Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Electricity
20 The Cure - A Forest
I had to read twice to get the rules. Nice list, and a very good year.
ReplyDeleteBoth OMD and DK ( and more) are from 1979, but your copy was a 1980 rerelease, and than it qualifies.
A random top three of Dutch music
Visite by Lenny Kuhr (with Les Poppys)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbbDLGiShDk
Je Veux De L'Amour - Raymond van het Groenewoud
(a Canadian song translated in Dutch with a French title by a Belgian) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tpy47AazAyc
But the biggest Dutch song of the year, some say Belgian, others Austrian, even the English claim it is this Vogeltjesdans
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RrfbUmQ_B8
aka Tchip Tchip or Birdie Song.
1980 was the start of The New Wave of Dutch Pop with bands like Doe maar, Het Goede Doel, Toontje Lagerwho would have big hits the following years
I know Doe Maar and have some recordings but haven't heard the others
DeleteI know the Vogeltjesdans but not that version. It never made any of my top lists, although I have played it many times at weddings. Especially Dutch ones...
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