Acclaimed Music Top 40 Songs from 1980 poll

41-50 are amazing, really sad i had to cut these songs:
41 Diana Ross - I'm Coming Out
42 Orange Juice - Blue Boy
43 The B-52's - Private Idaho
44 Willie Nelson - On the Road Again
45 Queen - Another One Bites the Dust
46 Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
47 The Jam - Start!
48 Bob Marley and The Wailers - Could You Be Loved
49 Diana Ross -Upside Down
50 The Jim Carroll Band - People Who Died

out of the last 10 it would be "Private Idaho," "People Who Died" and then "On the Road Again."

going to wait and decided on the poll a bit later. hopefully after listening to all songs.

its gotta be "The Breaks" guys

George Jones.

Totally Wired!

this is really hard. my vote will go to one of these:

2 129 Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
3 243 Motörhead - Ace of Spades
6 494 AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
7 508 Joy Division - Atmosphere
8 537 AC/DC - Back in Black
10 572 George Jones - He Stopped Loving Her Today
13 688 Devo - Whip It
14 694 Blondie - Call Me
21 958 Lipps Inc. - Funkytown
22 1010 Bob Marley and The Wailers - Redemption Song
29 1334 The Cure - A Forest
32 1499 Go-Go's - We Got the Beat

uuuuugh enough with the joy division

"Love Will Tear Us Apart" is one of the best songs of all-time. still won't get my vote in this poll.

cutting this down to 40 does not make this any easier.

of course another impossible year. but ashes to ashes is pretty much a perfect pop song, can't be denied.

abba

runners up to he stopped loving her today, atmosphere. these 3 are all the same song.

Cambodia is one of my big guitar songs, but Ashes is such a drastically affecting song, hmmmm

Brakes on a plane, brakes on a train
Breaks to make you go insane
Breaks in love, breaks in war
But we got the breaks to get you on the floor
And these are the breaks
Break it up, break it up, break it up!
Break down! Yo!

The Ace of Spades.

Impossible to choose!!!!

I did the last Spotify list, who wants to tackle this one?

nm I did it. No Lennon, Gabriel or AC/DC on Spotify, unfortunately, although I did find a live version of "Biko."

http://open.spotify.com/user/pdennison1/playlist/3zRHIOxkx6LfEFWcKSACbM

A lot of good songs here. Voted for "Games Without Frontiers".

did anyone else think Kate Bush's part in "Games Without Frontiers" was actually "she's so funky, yeah" ?

Yeah, the very first time I heard the line.

top 40 doesn't really make sense. top 20 or top 50 is a way to go imo

He Stopped Loving Her Today

Born Under Punches
Ashes to Ashes

Master Blaster
When You Were Mine
Atmosphere

Did what my 10 year old self would have done and voted for Mirror in the Bathroom

31 1419 Prince - When You Were Mine

Will probably vote for this, but how in the fuck is there only one track from Dirty Mind on this list?

Holy crap I missed When You Were Mine. I might vote for that.

I hope that children will be singing the chorus to "Once in a Lifetime" around campfires, long after the collapse.

thanks for the Spotify, Phil.

So many great songs but it has to be Geno.

looking forward to doing one of these polls for a year when shitty fucking joy division doesn't win it

Was just about to give it to ABBA or Martha & The Muffins but "A Forest" is just too perfect.

I love all of these songs, but probably listen to Geno most often these days, so that one...

I'm going to either give it to "The Winner Takes It All" or "He Stopped Loving Her Today". Arguably greatest pop ballad of all time vs. arguably greatest country song of all time. Hmmm.

I'm going to be boring and vote Once In A Lifetime

Me too.

going to listen to the Spotify now, doubt it will change what i think i'm voting for but shall see.

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

so after all this deliberating with myself, i sticking with my original pick and voting " A Forest."

fantastic year for music.

i should be i'm

need a edit button.

can't remember what i voted for the other day, but i hope it was "Funkytown"

impossible to choose but "mirror in the bathroom" is so incredible

can't remember what i voted for the other day, but i hope it was "Funkytown"

― my hands tra cer (some dude), Sunday, November 11, 2012 7:25 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^^

Echo Beach vs Funkytown vs The Breaks vs about ten other things which I'm not going to look at the list to remind myself of because this is already too difficult

born under punches for me, love that tune

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

top two were pretty f obv

I'm surprised more people like Once In A Lifetime over Born Under Punches.

32 1499 Go-Go's - We Got the Beat 0

16 756 ABBA - The Winner Takes It All 2
20 873 Martha and The Muffins - Echo Beach 2
21 958 Lipps Inc. - Funkytown 2

Glad to see these three getting at least 2 votes each.

Missed this one. Would have voted "Los Angeles," followed by "When You Were Mine" and "Atmosphere."

I like Remain in Light but I never really knew what was supposed to be so great about "Once in a Lifetime".