Lost Hits III: The Early 1980s Rankdown (Done!)

[rowellfarm490]

Welcome to the third and final Lost Hits of the Early 1980s rankdown! Just like with the other Lost Hits rankdowns before it this rankdown features 50 noteworthy songs that peaked on the Hot 100 during the Early 80s time frame (i.e. before April 1983) but did not make the year-end lists. The first 15 songs on the list peaked during 1980, the next 15 during 1981, followed by 15 more from 1982, and with the final 5 coming from 1983. This is the same format as the second Early 80s rankdown. Whereas the songs in part II had a ranking in the top 100 based on chart points, the songs in this rankdown had a ranking of 101 or greater for their respective year.

If you've participated in any other rankdowns you know how these work. Just listen to all of the songs and rank them from 1 (best) to 50 (worst) based on your personal preference. When ranking the songs, if there is another version/remix/edit that you prefer other than the one in the Spotify playlist, feel free to rank that version. PM me your list, and I will compile everyone's rankings and present the results. The due date is currently set for Sunday, June 5th at 10PM EST. Have fun and happy ranking!!!

Here is the song list for the Lost Hits of the Early 80s rankdown Part III:

The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Electric Light Orchestra - Last Train to London
The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
Patrice Rushen - Haven't You Heard
38 Special - Rockin' Into the Night
The Flying Lizards - Money
Rainbow - Since You Been Gone
The B-52's - Rock Lobster
Pretenders - Stop Your Sobbing
The Tourists - I Only Want to Be with You
Roxy Music - Over You
Vaughan Mason and Crew - Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll
Blondie - The Hardest Part
Fleetwood Mac - Sisters of the Moon
The Jags - Back of My Hand
Teena Marie - Square Biz
Queen - Flash
ABBA - Super Trouper
Deniece Williams - Silly
Yoko Ono - Walking on Thin Ice
Supertramp - Breakfast in America
Loverboy - The Kid Is Hot Tonite
Stevie Wonder - Lately
Icehouse - We Can Get Together
The Gap Band - Yearning for Your Love
Slave - Watching You
The Jacksons - Can You Feel It
Cliff Richard - Wired for Sound
Debra Laws - Very Special
Change - Hold Tight
Marshall Crenshaw - Someday, Someway
Cheap Trick - If You Want My Love
Donna Summer - State of Independence
Shalamar - A Night to Remember
Billy Squier - My Kinda Lover
Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You
Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock
Jon & Vangelis - I'll Find My Way Home
The Police - Secret Journey
The Monroes - What Do All the People Know?
Barbra Streisand - Memory
Carly Simon - Why
Chic - Soup for One
Central Line - Walking Into Sunshine
The Time - 777-9311
Michael McDonald - I Gotta Try
The Alan Parsons Project - Psychobabble
Billy Joel - Goodnight Saigon
The System - You Are in My System
Donald Fagen - New Frontier

Spotify playlist:








Songs missing from Spotify:

The Jags - Back of My Hand


Yoko Ono - Walking on Thin Ice


*NOTE: The actual versions of "Breakfast in America" and "I Will Always Love You" that charted on the Hot 100 differ from the original versions of both songs. What charted are a live recording of "Breakfast in America" and a soundtrack re-recording of "I Will Always Love You". Even though the original versions did not make the Hot 100 you may rank whichever version that you prefer. I've included the original album versions of both songs in the Spotify playlist as these are the most popular recordings of each whereas you can listen to the actual versions that charted in the YouTube links below:

Supertramp - Breakfast in America [Live in Paris]


Dolly Parton - I Will Always Love You [soundtrack re-recording]


Tag list: (All are welcome to participate! I've only tagged posters who've participated in previous Lost Hits rankdowns along with a few others that I thought might be interested. If anybody else would like to be added to the tag list for reminders please let me know!)

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Participants:
rowellfarm490
singingrulebritannia
nathanalbright
gonecountry
Troy
Doc Indie Party Rock
Soulsista
aerodynamite
BB🌕
Mirago
samo🦕
DJDaveMick69
Juanca
valleyghost01

[gonecountry]

Giddy up! There are some great songs in this list. Quite a few I don't know, but what I do is GOLD

[singingrulebritannia]

how do these lists just keep getting better

[Troy]

Apr 21, 2022 10:18:11 GMT -5 singingrulebritannia said:

how do these lists just keep getting better

inverse correlation between chart position & artistic quality???

[nathanalbright]

I'm about a third of the way through this one myself.

[rowellfarm490]

Friendly reminder that your rankings are due in 4 weeks.

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[gonecountry]

Just submitted. Some really good stuff in there, a few cases of my favorite power pop songs. That said, there were a couple songs by artists that i tend to score rather highly with slight clunkers. Couldn't give them the pass this time around...

[Doc Indie Party Rock]

Woo I see my #1 song right off the back. We all love it over here. This list should be interesting? I know the songs with guitars, but I gotta check the rest of em out.

[rowellfarm490]

3 weeks left to send in your rankings

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[rowellfarm490]

2 more weeks to get in your lists

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[rowellfarm490]

One more week before the deadline (I most likely will be extending by another week so don't get too worried if you're not finished yet)

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[Doc Indie Party Rock]

Sent mine. Nice variety. Not too many favorite first listens, but I rediscovered quite a few older ones I havn't heard in years. That means some new Dl/checks into my archives. The highest rediscovery all the way at #5. Don't even try to guess it. Also one at #10. My #1 song won't be as easy to decipher unless you folllow my retro charts. let's the games begin.

[rowellfarm490]

I'm extending the deadline by another week. The final due date will be on Sunday June 5th. So if you'd like to participate you still have 10 days left to get in your rankings.

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[rowellfarm490]

One week left to send in your rankings

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[rowellfarm490]

5 days left before submissions close

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[rowellfarm490]

Reminder that your rankings are due by the end of the day on Sunday June 5th. However, if you are working on this and think you'll need a little more time just let me know and I will wait for your list.

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[rowellfarm490]

Around 31.5 hours left to submit. If you need more time though just let me know.

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[rowellfarm490]

12 HOURS to go before the deadline!

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[wheatsquares33]

I wanted to do this, but I'm in Canada rn and don't think I'll have the time to finish today. Tag me in the results though

[rowellfarm490]

I can give you a couple more days to work on this if that would be helpful.

[samo🦕]

I should be able to do this tonight; I only had about 15 songs left when the extension hit so I had some other ones due sooner

[valleyghost01]

I'd love an extension for this. Maybe I can complete this tomorrow.

[rowellfarm490]

That'd be fine with me. As long as you can send in your ranking within the next couple of days.

[rowellfarm490]

Since I'm going to be too busy to reveal later on this week anyway I will still accept any more rankings I receive until 10PM EST on Friday June 10th. After this point though I will be closing submissions, no exceptions.

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[rowellfarm490]

Final reminder that ALL rankings are due tonight by 10PM EST.

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[wheatsquares33]

Sorry, still on vacation, but I think I actually do have the time to get this submitted before the deadline if I really apply myself. I'm gonna do my best.

EDIT: No I will not have the time, I don't want to make y'all wait longer. Still tag me in the results please. I'll probably end up listening to all of the songs here anyway and may end up posting my finished ranked list at some point too. I started listening through this weeks ago, but it just slipped by me and now I'm on a long trip and just got married and I just don't have the time right now to actually get it finished. Sorry :(

[valleyghost01]

Just got mine in.

1-15: Outstanding
16-25: Great
26-40: Good
41-46: Decent
47-50: Okay

[rowellfarm490]

Submissions are now officially closed. Thanks again to everyone who was able to send in a ranking. I've got a pretty busy day in store for tomorrow but I'll try to get everything prepared so I can reveal the bottom 10 tomorrow night.

Participants:
rowellfarm490
singingrulebritannia
nathanalbright
gonecountry
Troy
Doc Indie Party Rock
Soulsista
aerodynamite
BB🌕
Mirago
samo🦕
DJDaveMick69
Juanca
valleyghost01

[rowellfarm490]

Just a heads up, I decided to go back to how I originally did previews for the Lost Hits rankdowns.

#50 STATS

The song finishing in last place spent more time at #50 than any other song. It was considerably behind the rest of the pack trailing #49 by 39 points. This song was the only one not to receive a top 20 ranking with its best barely being a top half. 2 posters will start off the rankdown by getting a perfect ranking.

Best rankdown position: 47
Worst rankdown position: 50
Average position: 49.1
SD rank: 2ND LOWEST

Ranking distribution:
Top 10s: 0
11 to 20s: 0
21 to 30s: 4
31 to 40s: 5
Bottom 10s: 5

[rowellfarm490]

#50


I Gotta Try
Michael McDonald

168 points
Standard Deviation: 8.566 (2ND LOWEST)
Average Rank: 39.00

gonecountry : 25
nathanalbright : 28
Doc Indie Party Rock : 28
DJDaveMick69 : 30
Soulsista : 38
Mirago : 38
Juanca : 39
Troy : 40
samo🦕 : 40
BB🌕 : 44
aerodynamite : 47
rowellfarm490 : 49
singingrulebritannia : 50
valleyghost01 : 50

Movements:

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singingrulebritannia : 50
nathanalbright : 49
gonecountry : 47
Troy : 48
Doc Indie Party Rock : 47
Soulsista : 49
aerodynamite : 49
BB🌕 : 49
Mirago : 50
samo🦕 : 50
DJDaveMick69 : 50
Juanca : 50
valleyghost01 : 50

Hot 100 chart info:
Peaked at #44 for 4 weeks
Reached peak on December 25, 1982
Weeks on chart: 11

Other Lost Hits performances:
Debut

Spectators:
wheatsquares33
mamooshka

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{Remaining songs}
777-9311
A Night to Remember
Back of My Hand
Bounce, Rock, Skate, Roll
Breakfast in America
Can You Feel It
Flash
Goodnight Saigon
Haven't You Heard
Hold Tight
I Only Want to Be with You
I Will Always Love You
If You Want My Love
I'll Find My Way Home
Last Train to London
Lately
Memory
Money
My Kinda Lover
New Frontier
Over You
Planet Rock
Psychobabble
Rapper's Delight
Rock Lobster
Rockin' Into the Night
Secret Journey
Silly
Since You Been Gone
Sisters of the Moon
Someday, Someway
Soup for One
Square Biz
State of Independence
Stop Your Sobbing
Super Trouper
The Hardest Part
The Kid Is Hot Tonite
Very Special
Video Killed the Radio Star
Walking Into Sunshine
Walking on Thin Ice
Watching You
We Can Get Together
What Do All the People Know?
Why
Wired for Sound
Yearning for Your Love
You Are in My System