my-yi-yi-yi-yi-whoo! my my my my sharona!

this is an homage to elizabeth (mel,please note the lowercase) and actually being able to remember anything about the '70s.

So I took the e-challenge: here are the top 100 songs from 1979. elizabeth covered her senior year of hell/high school (1978) and commented on what she is still able to recall. You can see her list at http://nfluxus.net/flux/

What I liked best about graduating in '79 is that we were the last class of the decade and things just seemed to be a lot more happy and gay at the end of the '70s than they did at the beginning. We just didn't seem to take ourselves as seriously musically after the deaths of:


Jimi Hendrix (1970)
Janis Joplin (1970)
Jim Morrison (1971)
Don McPherson (1971)
Duane Allman (1971)
Junior Parker (1971)
Brian Cole (1972)
Berry Oakley (1972)
Danny Whitten (1972)
Ron "Pigpen" McKernan (1973)
Clarence White (1973)
Jim Croce (1973)
Robbie Mcintosh (1974)
Freddie King (1976)
etc., etc., etc.

Disco was not yet a joke, Van Halen, Cheap Trick and Supertramp were on the scene (yummy). Also, we had the Knack AND The Village Peeps. I mean, come on, people, who could ask for anything more?

Okay, so my format is a bit different than e's. I did bold and underline my favorites.

My comments, good, bad and/or otherwise are bolded and ital'ed.

My embarrassing guilty pleasures are ital'ed.

The ones I despise and think should never be exposed to human ears EVER again are obvious.

Read on, oh brave ones, and follow me to the land of Dorothy Hamill hairdos and mood rings and wedgie shoes and toe socks.

1. My Sharona, The Knack

2. Bad Girls, Donna Summer

3. Le Freak, Chic

4. Da Ya Think I'm Sexy, Rod Stewart Um, no.

5. Reunited, Peaches and Herb Yes, sometimes make-up sex is good, but we had no clue about this in high school. At least I didn't.

6. I Will Survive, Gloria Gaynor

7. Hot Stuff, Donna Summer

8. Y.M.C.A., Village People

9. Ring My Bell, Anita Ward

10. Sad Eyes, Robert John BARF I wanted to scratch my own eyes out every time I heard this

11. Too Much Heaven, Bee Gees

12. MacArthur Park, Donna Summer

13. When You're In Love With A Beautiful Woman, Dr. Hook

14. Makin' It, David Naughton

15. Fire, Pointer Sisters

16. Tragedy, Bee Gees

17. A Little More Love, Olivia Newton-John
all my thoughts re: anything recorded by O N-J involve blunt trauma. Need I say more?

18. Heart Of Glass, Blondie

19. What A Fool Believes, Doobie Brothers

20. Good Times, Chic

21. You Don't Bring Me Flowers, Barbra Streisand and Neil Diamond SWEET JESUS I HATE THIS EFFING SONG!!!

22. Knock On Wood, Amii Stewart

23. Stumblin' In, Suzi Quatro and Chris Norman

24. Lead Me On, Maxine Nightingale

25. Shake Your Body, Jacksons

26. Don't Cry Out Loud, Melissa Manchester More blunt trauma. To the head.

27. The Logical Song, Supertramp

28. My Life, Billy Joel

29. Just When I Needed You Most, Randy Vanwarmer
My best friend in high school had a torrid affair with the activities director on the ship that she and her parents did an Alaskan cruise on during winter break. After the cruise he was supposed to rendevous with her at a motel but stood her up and while she waited for him in vain she kept hearing this song playing in the bar downstairs. But he sent her a copy of "Frog and Toad Are Friends." Like that made it all okay. Oh yeah, and she was 17 and he was like, 35. Loser.

30. You Can't Change That, Raydio

31. Shake Your Groove Thing, Peaches and Herb

32. I'll Never Love This Way Again, Dionne Warwick I hope this means you'll never sing this way again too. Never mind, after this drek you did That's What Friends Are For. BARF

33. Love You Inside Out, Bee Gees

34. I Want You To Want Me, Cheap Trick

35. The Main Event (Fight), Barbra Streisand TOTAL waste of vinyl.

36. Mama Can't Buy You Love, Elton John

37. I Was Made For Dancin', Leif Garrett And rehab and oblivion and male-pattern baldness and embarrassing profiles on lame E! shows about has-beens, apparently.

38. After The Love Has Gone, Earth, Wind and Fire

39. Heaven Knows, Donna Summer and Brooklyn Dreams

40. The Gambler, Kenny Rogers BARF

41. Lotta Love, Nicolette Larson

42. Lady, Little River Band

43. Heaven Must Have Sent You, Bonnie Pointer

44. Hold The Line, Toto

45. He's The Greatest Dancer, Sister Sledge

46. Sharing The Night Together, Dr. Hook

47. She Believes In Me, Kenny Rogers BARF, BARF AND MORE BARF

48. In The Navy, Village People

49. Music Box Dancer, Frank Mills

50. The Devil Went Down To Georgia, Charlie Daniels Band BARF x 100

51. Gold, John Stewart

52. Goodnight Tonight, Wings

53. We Are Family, Sister Sledge

54. Rock 'N' Roll Fantasy, Bad Company

55. Every 1's A Winner, Hot Chocolate

56. Take Me Home, Cher

57. Boogie Wonderland, Earth, Wind and Fire

58. (Our Love) Don't Throw It All Away, Andy Gibb

59. What You Won't Do For Love, Bobby Caldwell

60. New York Groove, Ace Frehley

61. Sultans Of Swing, Dire Straits

62. I Want Your Love, Chic

63. Chuck E's In Love, Rickie Lee Jones

64. I Love The Night Life, Alicia Bridges

65. Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now, McFadden and Whitehead

66. Lonesome Loser, Little River Band Yes, as a matter of fact, I have heard about the Lonesome Loser and he is you for recording this piece of ca-ca

67. Renegade, Styx

68. Love Is The Answer, England Dan and John Ford Coley No, actually, it really isn't. Not for this one.

69. Got To Be Real, Cheryl Lynn

70. Born To Be Alive, Patrick Hernandez

71. Shine A Little Love, Electric Light Orchestra

72. I Just Fall In Love Again, Anne Murray Sorry, Sisters of Sappho, but, oh, BARF

73. Shake It, Ian Matthews

74. I Was Made For Lovin' You, Kiss

75. I Just Wanna Stop, Gino Vannelli

76. Disco Nights, G.Q.

77. Ooh Baby Baby, Linda Ronstadt

78. September, Earth, Wind and Fire

79. Time Passages, Al Stewart

80. Rise, Herb Alpert

81. Don't Bring Me Down, Electric Light Orchestra

82. Promises, Eric Clapton

83. Get Used To It, Roger Voudouris

84. How Much I Feel, Ambrosia

85. Suspicions, Eddie Rabbitt

86. You Take My Breath Away, Rex Smith He should be suffocated for this one

87. How You Gonna See Me Now, Alice Cooper

88. Double Vision, Foreigner

89. Every Time I Think Of You, Babys

90. I Got My Mind Made Up, Instant Funk

91. Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough, Michael Jackson I want to go on record: I never thought this whack-job was cool. Ever. Even before he had his face melted. I always was bored out of my mind by him. Hmm. Maybe I am a genius after all.

92. Bad Case Of Lovin' You, Robert Palmer

93. Somewhere In The Night, Barry Manilow

94. We've Got Tonite, Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band

95. Dance The Night Away, Van Halen

96. Dancing Shoes, Nigel Olsson

97. The Boss, Diana Ross

98. Sail On, Commodores

99. I Do Love You, G.Q.

100. Strange Way, Firefall

PS: Happy Halloween, ya'll. Boo.