the K-TEL ROCK 80 POLL

also subject of this thread.

(oops in the intro i meant the impact it had on me. i can't make a case for its historical significance, really.) (or maybe i can.)

i'm voting for "heartbreaker," just because.

Someone vote for Ian Gomm, charity dudes!

I'm voting for the Ramones. It's the rules.

yeah with ian gomm, brinsley schwarz is as well represented here as blondie and benatar.

Cheap Trick

Driver's Seat (a-wooh)

Nick Lowe

holy crap my dad had this before he sold all his vinyl for a dollar

let me just mention again how awesome heartbreaker is. i wish had the 45 picture-sleeve they show there at the beginning.

Heartbreaker's pretty sweet (my girlfriend found the vinyl for a buck a couple weeks ago), but I've been loving Joe Jackson lately (also vinyl for a buck a few weeks ago). Maybe I'll tell her to come here and our votes can cancel each other's out.

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Great album, not one bad cut; I've taken my copy to DJ gigs, even. Voted for Sniff N the Tears, though traditionally I would have gone with "Pop Muzik." (I had no idea there was an alternate Canuck version!)

"Cars"

The two songs I like the least, strangely enough:

I Want You To Want Me - Cheap Trick (which was never anywhere near one of their best songs)
We Live For Love - Pat Benatar (she had plenty that were better than this, including "Heartbreaker")

Better than "Hold On" by Triumph, Wilson Phillips, or En Vogue (and probably lots of other people):

Hold On - Ian Gomm

My friend's uncle was Sniff 'n the Tears!

It annoys me that Ian Gomm is the one thing I don't know here. I'll have to seek that out.

"Call Me" is just one of those songs that's so deeply embedded in my psyche from early on in my childhood I can't not vote for it.

This LP looks like almost the entire playlist of Minneapolis' first modern rock radio station in 1979, esp. Sniff and Gomm -- the safe face of new wave.

Damn, submitted before I was finished and sounded like a cynical crank. Safe face of new wave yes, but I loved (and still love) almost all of these songs. Might opt for "Heartbreaker."

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congratulations to mr. sniff and his tears.

I remember when I was in Belgium in 1991 that Sniff song was a hit there at the time and I was like "what? That song is ancient!"

That's how I felt about the same year when I was in Spain and Blue Swede's "Hooked On A Feeling" was a hit. Which I later found out was because it was in a commercial for the department store El Corte Inglés.

Thanks for the YouTube link -- that's definitely a song I never had a visual connection to. Had to laugh over the poster's qualified comment, though: "'Driver's Seat' is perhaps the most popular song by British new wave band Sniff'n The Tears." Yes, perhaps.

Someone vote for Ian Gomm, charity dudes!

-- Mark G, Monday, 12 May 2008 07:37 (3 days ago) Bookmark Link

And, they didnt!

also:
One Way Or Another - Blondie 0

Hmm! And didn't this win a different poll?

I would have voted for Ian if I'd known it was gonna turn out like this- that's a good song.

HAH!

They all SAID they were going to vote for Ian.

I'm not sure if I'm going crazy or what but I'm almost entirely certain that the version of Rock 80 that I bought when I was a kid did NOT have that shitty song from Ian Gomm... I'm sure that instead there was a track from Delbert McClinton: Givin' It Up for Your Love..! Does anyone else remember that.!?