Top 100 Of The 1980's

[singingrulebritannia]

lmao two 100s for Gary Numan

I didn't think it was possible to Becky a rankdown of this caliber but so many of you have been willing to demonstrate all the ways you found to prove otherwise

Thank God a lot of you weren't around to rank the initial lists; I can't imagine how much worse this one would've looked with your input

[samo🦕]

at least it's her highest song

[Unhinged]

#52

Funkytown
Lipps Inc.



Total Points: 2014

Billboard 1980 Rankdown: 5 

From: Mouth to Mouth

disassociative - 61
God - 33
Red - 45
@phillippe - 87
tim - 51
tallen2001 - 78
newpower - 50
trilogy - 100
campbellssoup - 78
Doc Indie Party Rock - 44
Butterflies & Hurricanes - 36
willapted33 - 38
rowellfarm490 - 24
samo🦕 - 43
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 - 11
Sambalada - 16
alexcuse - 6
Mirago - 40
Az Paynter - 73
cedric - 94
mamooshka - 55
commerce196 - 95
MoD - 93
@crapkuki23 - 77
peacebone - 71
jtd Thee Stallion - 25
craziaskowboi - 72
@doinktheclown - 67
charmander78 - 15
gonecountry - 39
House Lannister - 61
Cody Wants Out... - 46
crazyb - 21
nickd - 31
American Idiot - 37
desperado - 49
Alex1901 - 93
Leo ✔ - 38
woods - 8
Juanca - 46
Unhinged - 80

Observing

@levitation  
walt91  
Nick P  

[samo🦕]

I thought I had this much higher before I saw my rank. Despite it being outside my top 40, this is still great (and I'm happy it got this far, since I was surprised to discover it made 1980's top 10 in the first place).

[Unhinged]

#51

Bette Davis Eyes
Kim Carnes



Total Points: 2024

Billboard 1981 Rankdown: 2 

From: Mistaken Identity

disassociative - 37
God - 63
Red - 46
@phillippe - 53
tim - 28
tallen2001 - 65
newpower - 34
trilogy - 44
campbellssoup - 82
Doc Indie Party Rock - 8
Butterflies & Hurricanes - 33
willapted33 - 79
rowellfarm490 - 71
samo🦕 - 49
🇯🇲 dollybaby 🇯🇲 - 79
Sambalada - 84
alexcuse - 26
Mirago - 7
Az Paynter - 87
cedric - 42
mamooshka - 24
commerce196 - 79
MoD - 68
@crapkuki23 - 81
peacebone - 41
jtd Thee Stallion - 99
craziaskowboi - 3
@doinktheclown - 60
charmander78 - 95
gonecountry - 43
House Lannister - 76
Cody Wants Out... - 15
crazyb - 61
nickd - 47
American Idiot - 50
desperado - 26
Alex1901 - 97
Leo ✔ - 20
woods - 82
Juanca - 5
Unhinged - 28

Observing

@levitation  
walt91  
Nick P

[Unhinged]

And with that I'm done revealing until at least July 2^nd...going on holiday after today!

EDIT: I made corrections to some of the ranks for Gary Numan's "Cars." Sorry for the mix up, I was a bit distracted this morning.

Revealed so far:

51. Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes

Lipps, Inc. - Funkytown

Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Michael Jackson - Bad
Gary Numan - Cars
Madonna - Open Your Heart
When In Rome - The Promise
The Cars - Drive
Whitney Houston - How Will I Know
Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger
Abba - The Winner Takes It All
Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams
Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield
The Human League - Human
Janet Jackson - Miss You Much
Madonna - Live To Tell
Wham! - Everything She Wants
Madonna - Borderline
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
Kool & The Gang - Celebration
The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies
Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
Hall & Oates - Out Of Touch
Pet Shop Boys & Dusty Springfield - What Have I Done To Deserve This?
Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
Sade - Smooth Operator
Genesis - Land of Confusion
Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker
Tears For Fears - Sowing The Seeds Of Love
Prince - U Got the Look
Miami Sound Machine - Conga
Roxette - The Look
Diana Ross - Upside Down
Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died in Your Arms
Dolly Parton - 9 To 5
Pretenders - Brass In Pocket
Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now?
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Blondie - Rapture
Hall & Oates - Kiss On My List
Bananarama - Venus
Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance
Whitney Houston - So Emotional
Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight
John Cougar - Hurts So Good
Foreigner - Urgent
Stevie Nicks w/Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
100. George Michael - I Want Your Sex

The Top 50
(alphabetical order by artist):

A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran
A-Ha - Take On Me
Blondie - Call Me
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse Of The Heart
Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Don Henley - The Boys Of Summer
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This)
George Michael - Faith
George Michael - Father Figure
INXS - Need You Tonight
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'N Roll
Madonna - Express Yourself
Madonna - Like A Prayer
Madonna - Papa Don't Preach
Michael Jackson - Beat It
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror
Michael Jackson - Rock With You
Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal
Michael Jackson - The Way You Make Me Feel
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Michael Jackson - Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
Prince - 1999
Prince - Little Red Corvette
Prince - When Doves Cry
Prince & The Revolution - Kiss
Prince & The Revolution - Let's Go Crazy
Prince & The Revolution - Raspberry Beret
Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Steve Winwood - Higher Love
Stevie Nicks - Edge Of Seventeen
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Tears For Fears - Shout
The Cure - Lovesong
The Human League - Don't You Want Me
The Police - Every Breath You Take
Tina Turner - What's Love Got To Do With It
Toto - Africa
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car
U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
U2 - With or Without You
Wham! - Careless Whisper
Whitney Houston - I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me) 

[samo🦕]

This is one I thought could go really far, and I wish it had at least gone a couple more spaces, so I could get a perfect ranking.

Side note: I'm very glad my #1 is still in, considering its original rank in its year.

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

Jun 21, 2019 7:19:02 GMT -5 Unhinged said:

#55

Cars
Gary Numan



Total Points: 1962

Billboard 1980 Rankdown: 6 

From: The Pleasure Principle

tim - 100
samo🦕 - 100
Mirago - 93
cedric - 90
jtd Thee Stallion - 95
woods - 95

WRONG!!!

[jtd Thee Stallion]

I figured my top 10 wasn’t gonna stay intact into the top 50 but y’all still did Bad dirty.

[samo🦕]

Extra: Here's the number of songs from each year in the top 50:
1980: 3
1981: 1 (yay)
1982: 5
1983: 10 (lmao)
1984: 7
1985: 7
1986: 4
1987: 3
1988: 6
1989: 4

And the number of each original rank:
#1: 9
#2: 9
#3: 7
#4: 7
#5: 3
#6: 6
#7: 5
#8: 1
#9: 1
#10: 2

[Alex1901]

Total Eclipse of the Heart, Careless Whisper and especially Faith need to leave soon.

[samo🦕]

Jun 21, 2019 10:00:33 GMT -5 Alex1901 said:

Total Eclipse of the Heart, Careless Whisper and especially Faith need to leave soon.

[cedric]

Shocked at Bad's early exit. But the rest I'm fine with. I'm just glad my top 15's still unscathed!

[woods]

p-p-p-p-perfect ranking for "Cars", that was a good discovery though

And there go two more of my Top 10

Remaining: 1 3 4 6 9 11 12 13 15 16 18 19 21 22 23 24 27 28 29 30 32 35 36 38 39 41 46 48 49 51 52 53 63 66 68 71 73 77 78 79 80 85 87 88 91 92 93 97 99 100

[mamooshka]

Jun 21, 2019 9:49:15 GMT -5 samo🦕 said:

Extra: Here's the number of songs from each year in the top 50:
1980: 3
1981: 1 (yay)
1982: 5
1983: 10 (lmao)
1984: 7
1985: 7
1986: 4
1987: 3
1988: 6
1989: 4

Wow ... really???

[House Lannister]

Jun 21, 2019 10:00:33 GMT -5 Alex1901 said:

Total Eclipse of the Heart, Careless Whisper and especially Faith need to leave soon.

[nickd]

Songs remaining

01/02/03/04/05/06/07/10
11/12/13/14/15/16/17/18/20
21/22/23/24/26/28/29/30
32/34/35/37/39/40
41/43/44/50
51/53/55/56/58
62/63/67
71/77
85/88
92/96/98

Only lost 5 of my top 30 and biggest lost was #8 so I'm doing a lot better than I thought I would be.

Are we going to get a closeness ranking now that we're at the midway point? Unhinged

[Deleted]

Okay, where's Express Yourself?

[Mirago]

Ouch at Bette Davis Eyes missing the top 50

[Red]

Let's see...I lost a couple of top tens in the updates that I missed...but I also took care of quite a few songs that were in the lower end of my ranking. This latest set also wasn't too shabby, the first one in a while that I didn't lose anything big.

At least the top tens that I did lose were ones I expected to lose early, given predictions and being mentioned offhand by others.

[rowellfarm490]

Hey!!! It's the closeness stats guy with some stats for y'all! Let's just go nuts, shall we?!?

[Deleted]

Update on my list 100-51

1. Human (64)
3. Bad (54)
9. The Promise (57)

11. Conga (83)
14. I Want Your Sex (100)
17. Smooth Operator (78)
19. Land of Confusion (79)

22. Drive (58)
24. Take Me Home Tonight (96)
27. Cars (55)
28. Buffalo Stance (94)
29. Love is a Battlefield (63)
30. Heartbreaker (80)

31. (I Just) Died In Your Arms (86)
37. Little Lies (72)
39. I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) (77)

43. She Drives Me Crazy (74)
45. Eye of the Tiger (60)
46. Shattered Dreams (62)
47. How Will I Know (59)
49. Crazy Little Thing Called Love (73)
50. The Winner Takes It All (61)

55. Every Little Thing She Does is Magic (71)
57. Heaven is A Place on Earth (69)
58. Stop Draggin My Heart Around (99)
60. Bette Davis Eyes (50)

62. 9 to 5 (87)
64. Who Can It Be Now? (89)
65. Hit Me With Your Best Shot (53)
66. Sowing The Seeds of Love (81)
67. Funkytown (52)

72. Miss You Much (65)
73. So Emotional (95)
75. U Got The Look (82)
78. Urgent (98)
79. Out of Touch (75)
80. Everything She Wants (67)

81. Off The Wall (90)
82. Brass In Pocket (88)
84. Hurts So Good (97)
85. Rapture (91)
86. Upside Down (85)
87. Open Your Heart (56)
90. Borderline (68)

92. Celebration (70)
94. The Look (84)
96. Kiss On My List (92)
97. What Have I Done to Deserve This? (76)
100. Venus (93)

Jun 21, 2019 12:43:38 GMT -5 @crapkuki23 said:

Okay, where's Express Yourself?

Unfortunately Born This Way Demo is in the Top Half

[charmander78]

Thanks for the stats! This will probably be the best I’ll do in a 100 song RD lol. I only have 4 left in my bottom 25 and 9 of my top 10 are still alive.

I’ve been losing more of my higher ranks lately tho, so I might slip down the rankings D: Funkytown and Bad deserved better.

[crazyb]

Did not except 1st in a 80s RD lol

[Leo ✔]

okay rowellfarm490 when I thought you couldn't be better with the stats you did that omg

[mamooshka]

Jun 21, 2019 14:05:15 GMT -5 rowellfarm490 said:

Hey!!! It's the closeness stats guy with some stats for y'all! Let's just go nuts, shall we?!?

Love the layout. Thanks for putting this together.  

[Butterflies & Hurricanes]

Jun 21, 2019 10:58:28 GMT -5 mamooshka said:

Jun 21, 2019 9:49:15 GMT -5 samo🦕 said:

Extra: Here's the number of songs from each year in the top 50:
1980: 3
1981: 1 (yay)
1982: 5
1983: 10 (lmao)
1984: 7
1985: 7
1986: 4
1987: 3
1988: 6
1989: 4

Wow ... really???

yup, best year in music...EVER.

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

This RD is officially trash.

Reemeber when I said I was too pissed off to comment? Well I'm even more pissed off tonight.

I thought of a better punishment for the tankers of "Cars".
Strap them in a locked car, and put the Gary Numan song on repeat.  

[samo🦕]

1) chill, it's just a rankdown result
2) the song's still decent, that's not a punishment

[mamooshka]

Jun 21, 2019 23:30:49 GMT -5 Doc Indie Party Rock said:

I thought of a better punishment for the tankers of "Cars".
Strap them in a locked car, and put the Gary Numan song on repeat.  

... the extended mix while you're at it.