Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from 1978

The Top Songs from 1978
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Single	Sample
1	147	The Clash	(White Man) In Hammersmith Palais
2	198	Blondie	Heart of Glass	Listen
3	207	The Buzzcocks	Ever Fallen in Love?	Listen
4	258	The Undertones	Teenage Kicks	Listen
5	291	The B-52's	Rock Lobster	Listen
6	330	The Police	Roxanne	Listen
7	335	Chic	Le Freak
8	362	Magazine	Shot by Both Sides	Listen
9	382	Public Image Ltd.	Public Image	Listen
10	387	Patti Smith Group	Because the Night	Listen
11	401	Funkadelic	One Nation Under a Groove	Listen
12	406	The Jam	Down in the Tubestation at Midnight
13	436	Dire Straits	Sultans of Swing	Listen
14	463	Ramones	I Wanna Be Sedated
15	528	Kraftwerk	Das Model	Listen
16	563	Kate Bush	Wuthering Heights	Listen
17	572	Cheap Trick	Surrender	Listen
18	587	The Rolling Stones	Miss You	Listen
19	640	Elvis Costello	Radio Radio	Listen
20	754	Elvis Costello	(I Don't Want to Go to) Chelsea	Listen
21	762	Siouxsie and The Banshees	Hongkong Garden
22	785	The Only Ones	Another Girl, Another Planet
23	815	Joe Jackson	Is She Really Going Out with Him?	Listen
24	820	The Cars	Just What I Needed	Listen
25	852	Devo	(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction	Listen
26	941	Gang of Four	Damaged Goods
27	999	Elvis Costello	Pump It Up	Listen
28	1053	Warren Zevon	Werewolves of London	Listen
29	1080	Elvis Costello	(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace Love & Understanding
30	1169	Elvis Costello	Lipstick Vogue	Listen
31	1174	The Buzzcocks	What Do I Get?	Listen
32	1185	Talking Heads	Take Me to the River	Listen
33	1203	Sylvester	(You Make me Feel) Mighty Real
34	1386	Ian Dury and The Blockheads	Hit Me with Your Rhythm Stick
35	1430	The Human League	Being Boiled
36	1460	Blondie	One Way or Another	Listen
37	1579	The Doobie Brothers	What a Fool Believes
38	1601	The Village People	Y.M.C.A.
39	1627	Evelyn "Champagne" King	Shame
40	1729	Stiff Little Fingers	Alternative Ulster	Listen
41	1733	The Rolling Stones	Beast of Burden	Listen
42	1874	Kenny Rogers	The Gambler
43	1882	Van Halen	Runnin' with the Devil	Listen
44	1946	Kraftwerk	The Robots	Listen
45	1963	Plastic Bertrand	Ca Plane Pour Moi
46	2032	The Cramps	Human Fly
47	2036	The Normal	Warm Leatherette
48	2055	Bob Marley and The Wailers	Is This Love	Listen
49	2097	The Cars	My Best Friend's Girl	Listen
50	2188	Sex Pistols	My Way
51	2196	X-Ray Spex	The Day the World Turned Day-Glo	Listen
52	2244	Delta 5	Mind Your Own Business
53	2252	Subway Sect	Ambition
54	2392	Rod Stewart	Da Ya Think I'm Sexy
55	2412	Van Halen	Ain't Talkin' 'Bout Love	Listen
56	2450	The Mekons	Where Were You?
57	2484	Gerry Rafferty	Baker Street	Listen
58	2650	Nick Lowe	I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass
59	2674	Big Star	Kanga-Roo	Listen
60	2706	Pere Ubu	Non-Alignment Pact	Listen
61	2823	Talking Heads	The Big Country	Listen
62	2879	Joe Walsh	Life's Been Good
63	2915	The Police	Can't Stand Losing You	Listen
Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Bruce Springsteen	Prove It All Night	Listen
		Chaka Khan	I'm Every Woman
		Rose Royce	Love Don't Live Here Anymore
		X-Ray Spex	Identity	Listen
		The Slits	I Heard It Through the Grapevine
		Wire	Outdoor Miner	Listen
		The Who	Who Are You
		Ian Dury and The Blockheads	What a Waste
		John Paul Young	Love Is in the Air
		Earth, Wind & Fire	September
		ABBA	Take a Chance on Me
		The Slits	Typical Girls
		The Cure	Killing An Arab	Listen
		Bob Seger	Old Time Rock'n'Roll	Listen
		Wire	I Am the Fly	Listen
		The Clash	Julie's Been Working for the Drug Squad	Listen
		The Rolling Stones	Shattered	Listen
		The Clash	Stay Free	Listen
		The Commodores	Three Times a Lady