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View Poll Results: Best Song to Reach #1 in the U.S in 1980?
"Please Don't Go"-KC And The Sunshine Band 1 1.69%
"Escape(The Pina Colada Song)"-Rupert Holmes 2 3.39%
"Rock With You"-Michael Jackson 6 10.17%
"Do That To Me One More Time"-Captain & Tennille 0 0%
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love"-Queen 5 8.47%
"Another Brick In The Wall, Part II"- Pink Floyd 17 28.81%
"Call Me"-Blondie 5 8.47%
"Funkytown"-Lipps Inc 3 5.08%
"Coming Up"-Paul McCartney 1 1.69%
"It's Still Rock And Roll To Me"-Billy Joel 1 1.69%
"Magic"-Olivia Newton-John 2 3.39%
"Sailing"-Christopher Cross 3 5.08%
"Upside Down"-Diana Ross 4 6.78%
"Another One Bites The Dust"-Queen 6 10.17%
"Woman In Love"-Barbra Streisand 0 0%
"Lady"-Kenny Rogers 1 1.69%
"(Just Like)Starting Over"-John Lennon 2 3.39%
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Old 07-26-2015, 06:06 PM
 
Location: LA, CA/ In This Time and Place
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I often pace these polls few days apart because I don't generally like starting threads everyday. But I figured since it is a lazy afternoon and my Monday will be pretty busy, why not do a poll one day earlier?

This poll is for 1980, the first year of the decade. After this I'll do 1982, 1988, 1986 and 1989. Then after the 1980's poll series are done for good, I will start a new decade. Could be the seventies or the nineties.


Anyways out the songs to reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100 in 80', which do you like best?



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Old 07-26-2015, 06:22 PM
 
Location: LA, CA/ In This Time and Place
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Personally I am leaning on Pink Floyd, Blondie(though I voted for them in the 1981 poll), Queen, Michael Jackson and heck that Olivia Newton-John song is good. This was before my time, and I generally don't like her music. The Diana Ross song is good, and probably dead last on this list is Kenny Rogers. Don't care for the song, and I don't like him for some unexplainable reason.

I must say those Queen songs are weak in the band's repertoire. "Another One Bites The Dust" is the better one, "Crazy" is a crappy song from a great band.
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Old 07-26-2015, 06:46 PM
 
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Lots of good choices there but I had to go with Queen with Pink Floyd being a very close 2nd.
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Old 07-26-2015, 08:00 PM
 
Location: LA, CA/ In This Time and Place
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Queen got my vote also, so far neck and neck with Pink Floyd. Blondie was a third place.
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Old 07-26-2015, 08:35 PM
 
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Some good ones on this list. Voted for Floyd.
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Old 07-28-2015, 12:14 PM
 
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"Another One Bites the Dust"! Nothing else comes close.
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Old 07-28-2015, 08:56 PM
 
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Really bad year for the pop charts. Another Brick in the Wall is the only decent choice.
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Old 07-28-2015, 11:18 PM
 
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Gracious!!

I have gone and voted on all your polls
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Old 07-28-2015, 11:30 PM
 
Location: LA, CA/ In This Time and Place
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Gracious!!

I have gone and voted on all your polls
Hey was not forcing you.
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Old 07-29-2015, 06:43 PM
 
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"Another One Bites the Dust" gets my vote, with Pink Floyd as runner-up.
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