I love 1980

I Love 1980, a personal chart and blog post set, of the best songs of a great and important year for music, well I think so anyway.

More or less in chronological order:

  1. John Foxx - Underpass
  2. Blondie - Atomic
  3. Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers
  4. Siouxsie & the Banshees - Happy House
  5. The Cure - A Forest
  6. The Jam - Going Underground
  7. John Foxx - No-One Driving / Glimmer / This City / Mr No
  8. Kate Bush - Breathing
  9. OMITD - Messages
  10. Jonah Lewie - Kitchen at Parties
  11. The Human League - Rock n Roll
  12. Telex - Eurovision
  13. New Musik - Living By Numbers / This World of Water 
  14. Gary Numan - We Are Glass
  15. The Human League -Empire State Human (re-release)
  16. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
  17. Kate Bush - Babooshka
  18. Ultravox - Sleepwalk
  19. Abba - the Winner Takes It All
  20. David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
  21. Gary Numan - Telekon (album)
  22. XTC - Generals and Majors
  23. John Foxx - My Face (flexi disc
  24. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Enola Gay
  25. Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Organisation (album)
  26. Spandau Ballet - To Cut a Long Story Short
  27. John Lennon - (Just Like) Starting Over
  28. UB40 - King/Food For Thought
  29. Jona Lewie - Stop the Cavalry
  30. Abba - Happy New Year


APPENDIX
  1. Club Dogo - Una volta sola (Just once)
  2. The Human League live
  3. Martin Hannett at Strawberry Studios
  4. Tomorrow's World
  5. Streisand
  6. John Lennon, died 08.12.1980
  7. The ones that got away...
  8. Tony Blackburn's 1980 chart rundown