the best songs ever

[Eric the Green]

Best song of 1980.
Track 10 from the album, "Empty Glass"

[Ragnarök_62]

One for the Florida Kerfuffle 






What was old, is new again.

STOP THE WARS!

[Eric the Green]

I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do, so I leave it up to you.

Words that echo one of my "best songs ever" from 1966, which I'll get to when we get there.

(if you want to know, go to my website and my top 400 and click on #4)

[Ragnarök_62]

(06-13-2016, 04:05 AM)Eric the Green Wrote: I'd love to change the world, but I don't know what to do, so I leave it up to you.

Words that echo one of my "best songs ever" from 1966, which I'll get to when we get there.

(if you want to know, go to my website and my top 400 and click on #4)

Useful webpage. It jangled loose some stuff I might forget.

For Rag's reference sake:

http://philosopherswheel.com/ericrock.html

[Ragnarök_62]

Late night stuff on FM radio.

[Ragnarök_62]

Now for one of the best albums ever

[Eric the Green]

1979 was a year full of forgettable tripe, but also a few memorable ones that are now part of our culture (like "We Are Family" by Sister Sledge). People can always take a tour of a year with videos like this one
https://youtu.be/aSohu_J6oHM

Take the Long Way Home by Supertramp, Sending Out an SOS by The Police, and Don't Stop Till you Get Enough by Michael Jackson were good. So far I haven't found or remembered a better one than this one though:

[gabrielle]

(06-15-2016, 12:34 PM)Eric the Green Wrote: 1979 was a year full of forgettable tripe, but also a few memorable ones that are now part of our culture (like "We Are Family" by Sister Sledge). People can always take a tour of a year with videos like this one
https://youtu.be/aSohu_J6oHM

Take the Long Way Home by Supertramp, Sending Out an SOS by The Police, and Don't Stop Till you Get Enough by Michael Jackson were good. So far I haven't found or remembered a better one than this one though:

I never cared for Supertramp.

Here's the best rock album of 1979:

[gabrielle]

More from 1979:

[gabrielle]

[gabrielle]

[gabrielle]

(06-15-2016, 11:31 PM)taramarie Wrote:

(06-15-2016, 11:27 PM)gabrielle Wrote: More from 1979:

Ah the b52's! My mother loves that band. My suggestion for '79 would also be My Sharona by The Knack.

Ha!  You beat me to it.

[gabrielle]

Except the link didn't work.  Here I'll try it again:

[gabrielle]

[Eric the Green]

1978 was the climax of the disco craze and the year of Grease/50s nostalgia, John Travolta, etc.

Among the songs Billboard claims are the top 100 hits, I like these:
Bee Gees, Stayin' Alive
Frankie Valli, Grease
Chuck Mangione, Feels So Good
Gerry Rafferty, Baker Street
Kansas, Dust in the Wind
Steely Dan, Peg
Jackson Browne, Running on Empty (I like several of his)

The top song for me though has to be from the year's album by The Who, Who Are You: Sister Disco

[Eric the Green]

B-52s, ha!

Fun, but the New Wave splashed over me and doesn't sweep me away.

Being of a classical background, I prefer richer instrumentation and feeling in my music.

[Eric the Green]

Best songs of 1977 have to include at least one from the album of the year, Rumors by Fleetwood Mac. My favorite:





Don't Stop Thinking About Tomorrow is famous as Bill Clinton's theme song.

[Eric the Green]

1977 was the best year for pop music in the later 1970s. Another top album was Hotel California by the Eagles. Lots of people love that title song, but New Kid in Town is my pick for the best song of 1977.

[Ragnarök_62]

1979, ah yes, High School Daze

[Ragnarök_62]

1979, the year of Highway To Hell - AC/DC

party hearty!