I'll start it off:

1979:

Suzi Lane "Harmony" (EEEEEXCELLENT Giorgio Moroder produced disco classic)
'Lectric Funk "Shanghaied" (weird plodding electro disco song about a chinese lady with magical powers)

1980:

Kano "I'm Ready" (mostly known for being sampled by Tag Team.)
Frankie Smith "Double Dutch Bus" (excellent funk classic)

1981:

Gordons "Spik and Span" (seminal post-punk band from NZ)
The Go-Gos "Our Lips are Sealed" (sorry Andy)

Rema Rema "Feedback Song" (very Swans sounding band that would go on to produce members in Adam and the Ants, Wolfgang Press, and Renegade Soundwave)

1981:

British Electric Foundation "A Baby Called Billy" (basically Heaven 17 right after Phil Oakey dumped 'em. This was kinda their "demo" EP. Side 1 was ideas for their first record. Side 2 is disturbing as fuck early Cabaret Voltaire sounding shit. This song is from the brilliant second half)

Vanity 6 : "Nasty Girl" or "You Drive Me Wild"

The Government "Greetings From The Gutter" (from their debut album "Electric Eye".. weird punk band from Toronto, I think)

the Go Betweens "Lee Remick" (or "Karen", i'm easy)

the Victims "Television Addict"

Rolling Stones "Miss you" or something equally good off "Some Girls"

Radio Birdman : something off "Radios Appear" album
(Nate, what's "Burn My Eye '78" from?)

That's alright, db! I considered the Go-Gos. Never heard Gordons but will hunt it down -- same goes for the rest of the suggestions I've not heard.

Kate Bush – Wuthering Heights
The Ruts – In A Rut
Herman Kelly – Dance To The Drummer’s Beat
The Only Ones – Miles From Nowhere (Peel Session version)
Edwin Birdsong – Cola Bottle Baby
Elton John – Ego
Hi-Tension – Hi-Tension
Steve Reich – Music For A Large Ensemble
Patti Smith Group – Because The Night
The Cure – 10.15 Saturday Night
Joe Walsh – Life’s Been Good
Subway Sect - Ambition
Bryan Ferry – Sign Of The Times
Andrew Gold – Never Let Her Slip Away
Al Hudson – Spread Love
Sylvester – You Make Me Feel (Mighty Real)
Tom Robinson Band – Power In The Darkness
Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing
Ian Dury & The Blockheads – Hit Me With Your Rhythm Stick
Rush – La Villa Strangiato

Well, the whole purpose of the exercise is to save you the hunting ;)
(we're collecting a bunch of stuff between 5 years that were "missed" on those years' comps, respectively, as sort of an addendum/auxiliary CDR comp..) Either way, try to hunt down that Gordons Future Shock EP/First Album CD if you can. Weeeeel worth it.. speaking of which.

1980:

Gordons "Future Shock" or "Adults and Children"

*Radio Birdman ca. 1981, then: "455 SD".

1978
Peabo Bryson - "Reaching for the Sky"
Chuck Mangione - "Feel So Good"

1979
Spyro Gyra - "Morning Dance"
Frank Mills - "Music Box Dancer"*

1980
George Benson - "Give Me the Night"

1981
Grover Washington, Jr. w/ Bill Withers - "Just the Two of Us"
Al Jarreau - "We're In This Love Together"

1982
Herb Alpert - "Route 101"
George Benson - "Turn Your Love Around"
Al Jarreau - "Mornin'"

*Arthur, how could you forget this one?

1979:
Gerry Rafferty - 'Get It Right Next Time'
Supertramp - 'Breakfast In America'
A Certain Ratio - 'All Night Party' (either the single version or the Peel Session version available on Early, doesn't matter)

Yarbrough & Peoples "Don't Stop The Music"

(I'm illiterate and gay, jess, please have patience with me)

1981
Donnie Iris - "Ah! Leah!"

OK, "original crockery destroyed". Besides sounding like a Fall or U.S. Maple song title, what does this mean? I even googled for this.

1980
Alice Cooper-Clones (We're All)

( HEAVENS! ;-D I WAS JUST LOST FOR A BIT IN MY RUSH OF OCD, FIDDO, SO IT'S ALL GOOD. )

"(Cow-Boy Of the Light... Shooting Rainbows Through the Night)
AAAW YEAH, THERE'S A COSMIC COWBOY, AND HE RIDES A STARRY RANGE.
HE'S A SUPERNATURAL PLOWBOY. HE IS DRESSED UP KINDA STRANGE..."

(seriously, jess, my silly mood today is just coming off as "touchy" thanks to the magic of online forums)

???

If I was wrong, we can do yet another round of assigning people to the MINE THE GAP comps and forsake the thread.. but then I would forsee the same complaints about these comps that certain single year Go! discs have gotten. and see yet more "protest" comps arise. But you did originally come up with the idea in its most formal base, so it's up to you.

Josie Cotton - "Johnny Are You Queer?"

HOWEVER for example, I'm totally unfamiliar with Peabo Bryson, and would be curious as hell what his 1978 contribution was. Closing the contributors may have not made that possible. (I know you have R&B knowledge up the wazoo, Matos, but what if my co-conspirator theoretically didn't?)

1980
Soft Boys - "Kingdom of Love" (or hell anything off Underwater Moonlight)
Sylvia Striplin - "You Can't Turn Me Away"

1981
Juice Newton - "Queen of Hearts"
Climax Blues Band - "I Love You"
Luther Vandross - "Never Too Much"

1982
Michael McDonald - "I Keep Forgettin'"

db, I've only got the first two Peabo albums, but I like them quite a bit. I mean, it's definitely getting into Quiet Storm territory but I have a sweet tooth for that stuff. I can burn the cut I listed, for consideration by the group. I mean all of the things I'm listing correspond to the time I really fell in love with the radio. My parents listened to a station that played lots of this lite-jazz/r&b crossover stuff so it's really ingrained. It really was a kind of golden age for that kind of stuff, though.

That made it onto my '77.

Grauzone "Eisbar"

this darker new wave/punk band from Germany that contributed a track to this "dance/new wave" vinyl comp from 1981 which also features Kraftwerk with a couple of German sung versions of "Computer World" songs.. anyway "Eisbar" practically invented the Pixies! but with ROBOTS! This song roolz the roozt

1982:

The Visible Targets "Mechanical Man".

I found this weird EP by said band in the cut out bins last night from this Olympia/Seattle area new wave band that had obvious Romeo Void/Devo/Rough Trade influences that was recorded by Steve Fisk.

Anyway, more obscure shit to follow for the comp.

"...But there are good discoveries, and one that pleased me greatly tonight was finally going through a huge envelope of photos, newspaper clippings, ads, and posters that I'd left at someone's house since 1982. I found all the posters I did for a band called The Visible Targets. The Targets were three sisters and a male friend, all from Yakima, who wrote their own original music and were very popular in Seattle while they were together. Just looking through the stuff reminded me of lots of youthful hoopla. The late 70's and early 80's were so much fun! New Wave, skinny ties, ankle boots, shaggy bangs teased and sprayed into spikes, and peppy, energetic music. I thought it was so wonderful when college radio finally switched over from dirgy, anthemic stadium rock to the short, sassy, dance-pop at the end of the 70's. I still like lots of it, too, especially the Fixx, Elvis Costello, Devo, and Split Enz... "

1982
The Fixx - "Red Skies"