Popular Songs Of 1980, Vol. 1

You didn't think I'd forgotten about the "Popular Songs Of..." series, did you? Well, I sort of did. But now that I've remembered, here's part 1 of what will be a 4-part series featuring the best and most Popular Songs of 1980. Lots of good stuff here! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Lipps Inc.  ~  "Funky Town"

2)  Pink Floyd  ~  "Another Brick In The Wall, Part Two"

3)  Barbra Streisand  ~  "Woman In Love"

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4)  John Lennon  ~  "(Just Like) Starting Over"

5)  Diana Ross ft. Michael Jackson  ~  "Upside Down"

6)  KC & The Sunshine Band  ~  "Please Don't Go"

7)  Captain & Tennille  ~  "Do That To Me One More Time"

8)  Rupert Holmes  ~  "Escape (The Piña Colada Song)"

9)  Blondie  ~  "Call Me"

10)  Queen  ~  "Crazy Little Thing Called  Love"

11)  Olivia Newton-John  ~  "Magic"

12)  Billy Joel  ~  "It's Still Rock And Roll To Me"

13)  The Pretenders  ~  "Brass In Pocket"

14)  Paul McCartney  ~  "Coming Up"

15)  ABBA  ~  "The Winner Takes It All"

16)  Christopher Cross  ~  "Sailing"

17)  Irene Cara  ~  "Fame"

18)  Kenny Rogers  ~  "Lady"

19)  Pointer Sisters  ~  "She's So Shy"

20)  The Spinners  ~  "Working My Way Back To You"

21)  Anne Murray  ~  "Broken Hearted Me"

22)  The Police  ~  "Don't Stand So Close To Me"

23)  Crystal Gayle  ~  "It's Like We Never Said Goodbye"

24)  The Sugarhill Gang  ~  "Rapper's Delight"

25)  Pat Benatar  ~  "Heartbreaker"

Songs About Watching (Or Being Watched)

Ever feel like you're being watched? Or, conversely, ever feel like watching (whether it's people, things, or etc.)? Me too! And that's what these songs are all about: "Watching." So what are you waiting for? Enjoy 'em already!  ~  JH


1)  Delphi Freeman  ~  "Always Watching"

2)  Rodney Atkins  ~  "Watching You"

3)  Rockwell ft. Michael Jackson  ~  "Somebody's Watching Me"

4)  John Lennon  ~  "Watching The Wheels"

5)  Armin van Buuren ft. Nadia Ali  ~  "Who's Watching"

 6)  Deep Purple  ~  "Watching The Sky"

7)  Elvis Costello  ~  "Watching The Detectives"

8)  Natalia Kills  ~  "Watching You"

 9)  Thompson Twins  ~  "Watching"

 10)  Kenny Loggins  ~  "Watching The River Run" / "Danny's Song"

11)  Two Door Cinema Club  ~  "The World Is Watching"

12)  Eric Hutchinson  ~  "Watching You Watch Him"

13)  Mandy Moore  ~  "When I Wasn't Watching"

14)  Mac DeMarco  ~  "Watching Him Fade Away"

15)  Saara Aalto  ~  "Dance Like Nobody's Watching"

16)  Joe Cocker  ~  "Watching The River Flow"

17)  Funeral For A Friend  ~  "Owls (Are Watching)"

18)  Charm Of Finches  ~  "Sky Watching"

19)  The Moody Blues  ~  "Watching And Waiting"

20)  Within Temptation ft. Dave Pirner  ~  "Whole World Is Watching"

21)  Emerson, Lake, & Palmer  ~  "Watching Over You"

22)  Air Traffic Controller  ~  "People Watching"

23)  Gary Allan  ~  "Watching Airplanes"

24)  Greta Van Fleet  ~  "Watching Over"

25)  The Cure  ~  "Watching Me Fall"

"She" & "Herself" Songs

What do you do when you've already posted far too many "She," "Her," and "Hers" Songs, but you still have a lot of good "She" songs left over? Well, if you're me (and, thank heavens, you're not!), you recall a female personal pronoun you haven't explored yet – "Herself" – and you lump it together with the rest of your "She" songs and call it a postscript to the previous two-part post. And here it is... Enjoy?  ~  JH

1)  Maroon 5  ~  "She Will Be Loved"

2)  Lili Kendall  ~  "Love, Herself"

3)  Yael Naim  ~  "She Was A Boy"

4)  Taylor Goyette  ~  "Dancin' By Herself"

5)  Andy Grammer  ~  "She'd Say"

6)  Phoni  ~  "Herself"

7)  Billy Joel  ~  "She's Always A Woman"

8)  David Coslett  ~  "Find Herself"

9)  Daryl Hall & John Oates  ~  "She's Gone"

10)  Chris Rudd  ~  "Dance By Herself"  (If this song were an instrumental, it'd be fantastic! If the guy just sang a bunch of nonsense words, it'd still be pretty good. With its extremely lame lyrics, however, the whole thing comes off as sad and jokey. Close, Chris, but no cigar for you!)

11)  Roxette  ~  "She's Got Nothing On (But The Radio)"  (R.I.P., Marie!)

12)  Sloan  ~  "Misty's Beside Herself"

13)  Zara Larsson  ~  "She's Not Me"

14)  George Strait  ~  "She Let Herself Go"

15)  Matchbox Twenty  ~  "She's So Mean"

16)  Alicia Keys  ~  "Girl Can't Be Herself"

17)  Tal Bachman  ~  "She's So High"

18)  Reba McEntire  ~  "For Herself"

19)  Ricky Martin  ~  "She Bangs"

20)  Smokey Robinson  ~  "She's Only A Baby Herself"

21)  Alabama  ~  "She And I"

22)  Jerry Jeff Walker  ~  "She Made Herself A Promise"

23)  Michael Jackson  ~  "She's Out Of My Life"

24)  The Nixons  ~  "In Spite Of Herself"

25)  Trisha Yearwood  ~  "She's In Love With The Boy"

26)  Harry Chapin  ~  "Burning Herself"

27)  Cyndi Lauper  ~  "She Bop"

28)  Everyday Sunday  ~  "Herself (I Want A Girl)"

29)  Collective Soul  ~  "She Said"

30)  Toyah  ~  "The Woman Who Had An Affair With Herself"  (How on earth did she manage THAT?)

“They,” “Them,” & “Their” Songs, Vol. 1

Today begins a multi-part series of posts featuring songs with personal pronouns in their titles. Since this "theme," as it were, could doubtless generate an infinite number of qualifying songs, I decided to narrow the scope to only songs that begin with one of these words. Even so, there's two posts worth of songs for the first set. Which, if you read the title of the post, should be self-evident. "They," "Them," and "Their" Songs, Vol. 1 begins...NOW! Enjoy!  ~  JH

1)  Carpenters  ~  “(They Long To Be) Close To You”

2)  Alice In Chains  ~  “Them Bones”

3)  The Beach Boys  ~  “Their Hearts Were Full Of Spring”

4)  Joss Stone  ~  “They Won’t Believe It”

5)  Kate Bush  ~  “Them Heavy People”

6)  Girl In A Coma  ~  “Their Cell”

7)  Jem  ~  “They”

8)  Ray Charles  ~  “Them That Got”

9)  Their/They’re/There  ~  “Their/They’re/Therapy”

10)  Sting  ~  “They Dance Alone (Cueca Solo)”

11)  Field Music  ~  “Them That Do Nothing”

12)  The Forester Sisters  ~  “Their Hearts Are Dancing”

13)  Tracey Ullman  ~  “They Don’t Know”

14)  Motörhead  ~  “Them Not Me”

15)  Quiet Hollers  ~  “Road Song / Their Dark Robes”

16)  Michael Jackson  ~  “They Don’t Care About Us”

17)  Dean Martin & Vikki Carr  ~  “Them There Eyes”

18)  Crystal Castles  ~  “Their Kindness Is Charade”

19)  Spoon  ~  “They Want My Soul”

20)  Slade  ~  “Them Kinda Monkeys Can’t Swing”

21)  The Residents  ~  “Their Early Years”

22)  Pulp  ~  “They Suffocate At Night”

23)  Jenna Raine  ~  “Them”

24)  Silverstein  ~  “Their Lips Sink Ships”

25)  Kris Kristofferson  ~  “They Killed Him”

26)  The Cranberries  ~  “Them”

27)  Mormon Tabernacle Choir  ~  “Their Sound Is Gone Out Into All Lands”