US #1 of 1980

voted MJ, but will rep for "Funkytown", Blondie, Diana, Floyd, and both Queens

"Rock with You," with "Upside Down" and the Xanadu song close behind.

"Woman in Love" is my favorite Streisand ballad, and maybe my favorite Gibb-penned ballad; but it's such a good year that even the Queen and McCartney songs are pretty good.

Voted for Michael Jackson.

"Rock With You". Otherwise a lot of not so great songs by usually great acts in this list.

Unironically, Christopher Cross. But Ride Like The Wind is even better.

That's a brutal list...I voted for "Please Don't Go"; "Rock with You" and "Upside Down" are runners-up, and I'd be content to never hear anything else on there for the rest of my life.

Been on a Blondie kick recently so "Call Me" over "Funkytown"

Diana v. Blondie = god knows, both are pretty perfect.

<3<3<3 Olivia Newton-John

I have a thing for "Woman in Love" but sentimentally voted for "Starting Over."

Anyone who's seen my last.fm page (not that I care much about it anymore) knows Christopher Cross is getting my vote. I just played that song today, in fact, for the zillionth time in the last couple of months. That's a damn good MJ song, though, wouldn't bother me at all if it won this poll. "Upside Down" always reminds me of these rickety wooden floors in an old building my friend's mom used to cut hair in when I was a kid. It made them vibrate, of course. That was one of the first records I bought with my own money. I don't remember that KC & The Sunshine Band song at all. I'm gonna fire up You Tube in a minute here to remember what that Kenny Rogers song sounded like. I remember it wasn't too bad.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hK3Y1Ehv9c

damn it

naw, don't worry, just do what Rev said to do in these situations, double click it and you're fine. :)

BTW even though I heard Rock With You plenty of times in my childhood, it was only a few years ago when I was in a porn store of all places and I heard it over their sound system or the radio or whatever it was and I had this "ah hah" moment about it and that was what made me seek out the entirety of Off The Wall.

Sailing AND Magic?

"funkytown," just cuz.

special nod to the kc tune, which i think was their last big hit and is a good track.

I love Rock With You, but it's Call Me vs. Magic imo.

Crazy Little Thing Called Love still in rotation here.

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Call Me over Lipps and Queen.

was gonna give my sympathy vote to sailing, which i always thought was exceptionally pretty and gets bonus points for not being a boy/girl love song. but looks like funkytown needs more sympathy (how weird!) and it actually is probably my fave song off that list

yeah i got it down to those two but am gonna vote funkytown

i could easily go with about five here. these are like the first radio songs i ever remember hearing.

I came here to vote for UK 1980 #1s "Atomic" or "Xanadu", and they're not there! So I guess it's "Call Me".

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Goodness people aren't you tired of "Call Me" yet? I know I am.

Well yeah but since you people didn't have the foresight to make "Atomic" number one...
(unless it was '79 for you)

There's a lot of "liked this once but am tired of it" on this list for me.

"Call Me" had its popularity boosted by its appearance in the 1990 "Quantum Leap" episode, "Another Mother".

At least it did for me when I was 16.

Nah, Atomic barely even registered as a blip over here. I don't remember hearing that on the radio even one time and Wiki says it made it to #39.

Bimble OTM

i missed this poll, woulda voted for one of the Queen songs

let me sort this!

i'm currently trying to decide which of the euro-house covers of kc's "please don't go" from 1992 is better. leaning towards the one by double you but tbh it and the k.w.s. one are virtually identical

This was the year I graduated high school, and a good explanation of why I turned to punk in college.

I added the top tens.