My series of lists of my favorite singles for each year:
- 1976 (76 singles, 4 posts)
Top single: "Don't Go Breaking My Heart" by Elton John & Kiki Dee - 1977 (77 singles, 4 posts)
Top single: "Don't Leave Me This Way" by Thelma Houston - 1978 (78 singles, 4 posts)
Top single: "If I Can't Have You" by Yvonne Elliman - 1979 (79 singles, 5 posts)
Top single: "September" by Earth Wind & Fire - 1980 (80 singles, 4 posts)
Top single: "This Is It" by Kenny Loggins - 1981 (81 singles, 2 posts)
Top single: "Every Little Thing She Does is Magic" by The Police - 1982 (82 singles, 8 posts)
Top single: "Steppin' Out" by Joe Jackson - 1983 (83 singles, 3 posts)
Top single: "Rio" by Duran Duran - 1984 (84 singles, 3 posts)
Top single: "It's My Life" by Talk Talk - 1985 (85 singles, 9 posts)
Top single: "Everything She Wants" by Wham!
My series of lists of my favorite albums for each year:
- 1976 (17 albums, 3 posts)
Top album: Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder - 1977 (10 albums, 1 post)
Top album: Saturday Night Fever soundtrack - 1978 (19 albums, 1 post)
Top album: 52nd Street by Billy Joel - 1979 (50 albums, 6 posts)
Top album: I Am by Earth Wind & Fire - 1980 (10 albums, 2 posts)
Top album: Glass Houses by Billy Joel - 1981 (50 albums, 2 posts)
Top album: Ghost in the Machine by The Police - 1982 (82 albums, 10 posts)
Top album: Rio by Duran Duran - 1983 (83 albums, 4 posts)
Top album: North of a Miracle by Nick Heyward - 1984 (50 albums, 5 posts)
Top album: Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads - 1985 (25 albums, 5 posts)
Top album: Cupid & Psyche 85 by Scritti Politti
OMG I need to talk music with you. I have been reading Herc’s K-Tel blogs off and on for years, and I found this blog after searching Radio Daze and seeing his theoretical continuation Volumes 6-15 (?!?!?!) today and seeing your comments on them and reading some of YOUR blog posts. From comments of yours, you were a year behind me in school, and my alternate universe blog would basically be 1975-1984. I bought the first three volumes of Radio Daze back in 1995, and Volumes 4 and 5 a few years later. I have ALWAYS wished that they had continued the series at least through 1983 (the whole soft/lite rock as big hits thing kind of fizzled by 1983/84, though Herc’s lists covering 1983 prove that the series could have gone through that year).
ReplyDeleteSince 1981 I have been keeping a list of old pop songs (starting with the 1977/78 period) that had disappeared from radio, and although by that time I was getting more into rock (by 1982 I was kind of done with current rock), I have always had more of an ear for pop music and the more Billy Joel, Boz Scaggs, Little River Band style of lighter rock. At this point there is VERY little music that made the Top 40 and beyond from 1974-1984/5-ish that I don’t like (and own). I see from some of your comments that there are songs/artists that you don’t care for that I DO love, but that’s cool. Going through your Top 79 of ‘79 and Top 80 of ‘80 lists tells me that we generally have very similar tastes, and could probably geek out for days.
I’m looking forward to digging around here more. Just sorry I wasn’t on here in 2018.
I'm always up to talk music. You can reach me at thecdblog@gmail.com. I'm still posting over on The CD Project blog, markscds.blogspot.com, if you care to check out that space.
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