your ten favorite songs from the year you graduated HS!

[Dominic]

the rules: all songs must have been a single, not just an album track. All songs must have charted in the year you graduated. AND ONLY ONE SONG PER ARTIST!

I'm cheating because I couldn't narrow mine down to ten. And some HUGE songs from my year didn't make the cut: Tainted Love, Bette Davis Eyes, Jessie's Girl, Hey Nineteen, etc.

So here's my TOP FIFTEEN SONGS FROM THE CLASS OF 1981!

15. Never Say Never - Romeo Void

Great, driving beat and one hell of a sexy delivery by Debora Iyall.


14. Stop Dragging My Heart Around - Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty

What a great superstar match-up!


13. Angel of the Morning - Juice Newton

Fantastic vocal and ridiculously romantic.


12. Police on my Back - The Clash

This song is like a slap to the face. Awesome.


11. Take it on the Run - REO Speedwagon

Maybe the greatest "get lost" song of them all.


10. Tom Sawyer - Rush

Rush rocks. Period.


9. Tempted - Squeeze

Wow, what a great pop song. More Squeeze please!


8. Don't Stand So Close to Me - The Police

What other song sounds this cool and sexy, yet is literate enough to mention Nabakov?


7 Urgent - Foreigner

Jr. Walker's sax on this rips most guitar solos to shreds.


6. Ah! Leah - Donnie Iris

Here's a one-hit wonder that's truly great. Fantastic lick.


5. Since You're Gone - The Cars

Has any group bridged pop, rock and punk better than The Cars?


4. In The Air Tonight - Phil Collins

Haunting, powerful, with the most famous drum break ever.


3. Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club

Deliriously goofy and fun and constantly sampled.


2. Back in Black - AC/DC

This song proved AC/DC was back and better than ever.


1. Our Lips are Sealed - The GoGos

What I think just might be the world's most perfect pop song.

edited to fix my Urgent faux pas.

[Apathy]

wow your old

[Dominic]

[ QUOTE ]
wow your old

[/ QUOTE ]

LOL...[censored] you, Junior.

[offTopic]

[ QUOTE ]


7 Urgent - Foreigner

Edgar Winter's sax on this rips most guitar solos to shreds.


[/ QUOTE ]

Too busy to chase this down on wikipedia, but wasn't this Jr. Walker, of Jr. Walker and the All Stars?

[Dominic]

[ QUOTE ]
[ QUOTE ]


7 Urgent - Foreigner

Edgar Winter's sax on this rips most guitar solos to shreds.


[/ QUOTE ]

Too busy to chase this down on wikipedia, but wasn't this Jr. Walker, of Jr. Walker and the All Stars?

[/ QUOTE ]

You're right! It's Jr. Walker. For some reason I always thought it was Winter. My apologies to Mr. Walker.

[miajag]

lol @ jessie's girl not making the cut

[miajag]

[ QUOTE ]

2. Back in Black - AC/DC

This song proved AC/DC was back and better than ever.



[/ QUOTE ]

I thought you hated Brian Johnson.

[James Boston]

I can't remember when stuff came out, so I just searched for the highest charting songs from'99. Wow! What a god-awful year. The only 2 singles I can remember coming out that year, that I liked, were "Lit Up" by Buckcherry and "Sexx Laws" by Beck. There's probably some more, but based on what charted the highest, I would really be hard pressed to find 10 I liked.

[cwsiggy]

1987

1. Heartbreak Beat - The Psychedelic Furs (#26)


2. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2 (#1)


3. I Want Your Sex - George Michael (#2)


4. Jammin' Me - Tom Petty (#18)


5. Ship Of Fools (Save Me From Tomorrow) - World Party (#27)


6. We'll Be Together - Sting (#7)


7. U Got The Look - Prince (#2)


8. True Faith (The Morning Sun) - New Order (#32)


9. Touch Of Grey - Grateful Dead (#9)



10. Something So Strong - Crowded House (#7)

This is prolly not the billboard chart but good enough - pretty terrible year and not indicative of my taste.

[Apathy]

Top 10 from 2003: I actually just quickly looked over a top 100 year end chart and picked 10 I liked FTR:

Clocks, Coldplay (6 weeks at #1)

Like A Stone, Audioslave

Seven Nation Army, White Stripes

Hey Ya!, Outkast (2 weeks at #1)

Lose Yourself, Eminem

ok this is way too hard all these songs are terrible. Timberlake and 50 cent make up almost 10 of the top 100 yikes.