I LOVE 5 of the 80 songs on here.

Weirdly, I was discussing Howard Jones with Tania, just the other day.

Just 'cuz...

Radcliffe's 80 Best Songs of the '80s:

80. Iron City Houserockers "Old Man Bar"
79. Dayglo Abortions "Religious Bumfucks"
79. Elvis Costello "I Want You"
78. Concrete Blonde "God Is A Bullet"
77. Any Trouble "Where Are All The Nice Girls"
76. John Hiatt "Slow Turning"
75. Jonathan Richman "This Kind Of Music"
74. Jules Shear "If She Knew What She Wants"
73. The Pandoras "I Didn't Cry"
72. The Smithereens "Behind The Wall Of Sleep"
71. True Sounds Of Liberty "American Zone"
70. Died Pretty "Blue Sky Day"
69. A. More "Judy Get Down"
68. Josie Cotton "He Could Be The One"
67. Robin Lane & The Chartbusters "When Things Go Wrong"
66. Red Rockers "China"
65. Killing Joke "War Dance"
64. Trio "Da Da Da"
63. The Bluebells "Cath"
62. Nick Lowe "Half a Boy and Half a Man"
61. 10,000 Maniacs "Hey Jack Kerouac"
60. Fetchin' Bones "So Brilliant"
59. Thin White Rope "Dead Grammas On A Train"
58. Bad Brains "I Against I"
57. Camper Van Beethoven "Good Guys And Bad Guys"
56. The Long Ryders "Lights Of Downtwon"
55. Dreams So Real "Bearing Witness"
54. The Heats "Nights With You"
53. Dramarama "Anything (I'll Give You)"
52. Bruce Cockburn "Tokyo"
51. Artful Dodger "A Girl (La La La)"
50. Jim Carroll "Wicked Gravity"
49. The Feelies "The Boy With Perpetual Nervousness"
48. The Jags "Back Of My Hand"
47. Steve Earle "Guitar Town"
46. Close Lobsters "Just Too Bloody Stupid"
45. The Pogues "London Girl"
44. Opal "She's A Diamond"
43. The Church "Destination"
42. The Primitives "Crash"
41. The Jam "Going Underground"
40. Jo Jo Zep & The Falcons "So Young"
39. The Only Ones "Why Don't You Kill Yourself?"
38. Graham Parker "You Can't Take Love For Granted"
37. The Piranhas "Getting Beaten Up"
36. The Saints "Just Like Fire Would"
35. The Soft Boys "I Wanna Destroy You"
34. Split Enz "I Got You"
33. Bruce Springsteen "Hungry Heart"
32. The Cramps "Don't Eat Stuff Off The Sidewalk"
31. Billy Bragg "Levi Stubbs' Tears"
30. The Fleshtones "Screaming Skull"
29. Ian Hunter "Just Another Night"
28. Pink Steel "She's Not Mine"
27. Stiff Little Fingers "Roots, Radicals, Rockers, and Reggae"
26. Mental As Anything "The Nips Are Getting Bigger"
25. Green On Red "Brave Generation"
24. Orange Juice "Rip It Up"
23. The Lyres "Help You Ann"
22. Prince "Litte Red Corvette"
21. Roxy Music "More Than This"
20. Jason & The Scorchers "Absolutely Sweet Marie"
19. The Hoodoo Gurus "Bittersweet"
18. REM "Fall On Me"
17. The Plimsouls "Million Miles Away"
16. Alan Vega "Wipeout Beat"
15. The Dream Syndicate "That's What You Always Say"
14. The Flying Pickets "Only You"
13. The Waterboys "Church Not Made With Hands"
12. The Beat Farmers "Riverside"
11. Husker Du "Turn On The News"
10. Los Lobos "Don't Worry Baby"
9. Dinosaur Jr. "Freak Scene"
8. The Replacements "Bastards Of Young"
7. The Jesus and Mary Chain "April Skies"
6. Slow "Have Not Been The Same"
5. Giant Sand "Thin Line Man"
4. The Jazz Butcher "Southern Mark Smith"
3. Sonic Youth "Teenage Riot"
2. Poisoned "Yeh, I Guess"
1. The Brains "Money Changes Everything"

And there's another 80 I could fit on there.

"Bittersweet" would be my number one, followed closely by The Wedding Present "Everyone Thinks He Looks Daft".

[quote="Radcliffe"]Just 'cuz...

Radcliffe's 80 Best Songs of the '80s:


Just out of curiosity and boredom I wanted to see how many of Radcliffe's favorites of the 80's I actually could enjoy and found:

64. Trio "Da Da Da"
58. Bad Brains "I Against I"
22. Prince "Litte Red Corvette"
18. REM "Fall On Me"

4/80

I would have picked 'Sunglasses After Dark' as The Cramps track.

I love any song that refers to people as 'cats'.

How about if it refers to them as a Farmyard Cat?

Well maybe I wasn't able to comprehend the lyrics properly due to the sheer horror I experienced on listening to that song but I was under the assumption it was about an actual farmyard cat.

I hope that album has a lyric sheet, otherwise I'm actually going to have to listen to it again.

I take it as a personal failure that you could even find four of them.

Yeah, let's see the other amazing 80 songs you have in store for us. I'll bet they're all winners.

yay!

I'd be curious how many of those first 80 you've actually heard. Not that that would increase the amount of them you liked - after all, not everything can rise to the heights of the Captain and Tenille, huh, Rami?

Two green eyes and a coat of silk
scourge of mice with a saucer of milk
I've got nine lives and a rhyme with mat
I'm a farmyard cat.

Scrounging scraps down a dead end street -
not for me, me the feline elite
( he dreams full cream,
dairy's where he's at )
I'm a farmyard cat.

Farmyard cat, farmyard cat,
farmyard cat, mi miaow
farmyard cat, farmyard cat,
farmyard cat, mi miaow.

( He's a farmyard cat )

All day long lounging in the sun
moon comes up and I'm prowling for fun
here she comes,
well just fancy that . . .
she's a farmyard cat.

Farmyard cat, farmyard cat,
farmyard cat, mi miaow
farmyard cat, farmyard cat,
farmyard cat.

I guess your rule is safe as are your ears.

Oh, I've heard nearly all of them. To me you have a knack of picking the crap from every decade. I really would like to see another 80 you'd like to dredge up though. I could use the laugh.

39. The Only Ones "Why Don't You Kill Yourself?"

should be way higher

A very good list, I was actually surprised at how many I recognized and have heard, maybe I'm not sheltered after all. I was especially pleased to see 'Guitar Town' and 'God is A Bullet'. Of another 80, I would hope to see 'This Ain't Hollywood'.

Um, yeh, we've established that that's what you think about a hundred times over. You don't like the same music that I do. WE GET IT. What I don't get is why it seems to burn you up so much that everybody doesn't agree that the Clash suck, or that the Replacements suck, or that Josh Rouse is artistically comparable to Bowie, or any of your other dumbass points you make over and over again.

*note to the radman: see all your tired-ass posts re: New York Dolls.

Opa vs Spade Kitty pt 2

no matter who wins, you're all losers

Pretty interesting and idiosyncratic. Both lists are high on cheese and with that one man's Limburger is often another man's [i don't know any highest quality cheeses]. And vice versa. Some easy targets on the Bad list but some end up on his Best list, e.g., Dead Or Alive. I disagree on Emotional Rescue. First, it's got that bass riff. Mick's falsetto was actually a pretty inspired idea when they had run out of them on It's Only Rock 'n Roll. On Black And Blue, Fool To Cry was a nice straight use of it. This is more a joke version and it works for me. Plus, 'I am your Knight In Shining Aaaarrrrmor... '

For a guy that despises needlessly repeating yourself how the heck does he have Simply Irresistible on his Best list? Addicted To Love is obviously the great one. I won't comment on Howard Jones getting #1 but like Scritti Polliti getting way up at #11.

I guess I missed a lot of Top 40. Have not heard (or can't remember) a whole bunch of this and he says they all charted.

Harris' voice was clear, uncluttered on this track. So by definition shouldn't be here. Emotional Rescue was not the band's best, but not the band's worst in the 80's... Pick on Undercover if you are going to dis Mick.

And the list is way light on bad metal and post-disco. Any Cinderella track is worse than half the shit on this list. I mean... Warrant?

Yeah, I see what you mean... Arcadia's "Election Day" beat out any Duran Duran tune? Not likely. </ddgeekspeak>

No worst list is correct without Jefferson Starship's "We Built this City"... (btw, they built the city on Rock'n Roll if you were curious). Worst popular song not only of the 80's, but probably all time.

And as much as I love Cheap Trick, "the Flame" has to be on that list somewhere.

the flame is a good song