Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from 1979

The Top Songs from 1979
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Single	Sample
1	35	The Clash	London Calling	Listen
2	80	Chic	Good Times	Listen
3	162	The Sugarhill Gang	Rapper's Delight
4	227	Pretenders	Brass in Pocket	Listen
5	326	Michael Jackson	Don't Stop Till You Get Enough	Listen
6	369	Gloria Gaynor	I Will Survive
7	422	Gary Numan	Cars
8	471	The Clash	Train in Vain (Stand by Me)	Listen
9	498	Pink Floyd	Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2	Listen
10	515	The Cure	Boys Don't Cry	Listen
11	533	The Specials	Gangsters	Listen
12	534	AC/DC	Highway to Hell
13	550	Sister Sledge	We Are Family
14	644	The Jam	Eton Rifles
15	652	Joy Division	Transmission
16	657	Neil Young with Crazy Horse	Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)	Listen
17	699	Bauhaus	Bela Lugosi's Dead
18	708	Donna Summer	Hot Stuff	Listen
19	794	The Police	Message in a Bottle	Listen
20	798	Joy Division	She's Lost Control	Listen
21	813	Elvis Costello	Oliver's Army
22	829	The Knack	My Sharona
23	839	Talking Heads	Life During Wartime	Listen
24	932	Squeeze	Up the Junction
25	948	Michael Jackson	Rock With You	Listen
26	954	Ian Dury and The Blockheads	Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3
27	982	Donna Summer	Bad Girls	Listen
28	1010	The Buggles	Video Killed the Radio Star
29	1058	XTC	Making Plans for Nigel	Listen
30	1201	The Flying Lizards	Money
31	1276	Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers	Refugee	Listen
32	1346	Gang of Four	At Home He's a Tourist
33	1348	Cheap Trick	I Want You to Want Me	Listen
34	1421	Smokey Robinson	Cruisin'
35	1439	The Specials	A Message to You Rudy	Listen
36	1466	Cabaret Voltaire	Nag Nag Nag
37	1484	Blondie	Atomic	Listen
38	1517	Pink Floyd	Comfortably Numb	Listen
39	1538	Madness	One Step Beyond
40	1569	Public Image Ltd.	Death Disco
41	1588	Suicide	Dream Baby Dream	Listen
42	1594	M	Pop Muzik
43	1612	The Police	Walking on the Moon	Listen
44	1721	Tubeway Army	Are Friends Electric?
45	1749	The Pop Group	She Is Beyond Good and Evil
46	1760	The Jam	Strange Town
47	1856	Blondie	Dreaming	Listen
48	1857	The Clash	I Fought the Law
49	1875	Charlie Daniels Band	The Devil Went Down to Georgia
50	1891	Patti Smith Group	Dancing Barefoot
51	1923	The Clash	Lost in the Supermarket	Listen
52	1949	Gang of Four	Anthrax
53	2088	Fleetwood Mac	Tusk	Listen
54	2100	McFadden and Whitehead	Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now
55	2147	Earth, Wind & Fire with The Emotions	Boogie Wonderland	Listen
56	2234	Pretenders	Stop Your Sobbing	Listen
57	2256	Rickie Lee Jones	Chuck E's in Love	Listen
58	2406	The Specials	Too Much Too Young	Listen
59	2457	Nick Lowe	Cruel to Be Kind
60	2500	The Boomtown Rats	I Don't Like Mondays
61	2549	Pretenders	Kid	Listen
62	2566	Neil Young with Crazy Horse	My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)	Listen
63	2611	The Dead Kennedys	California Uber Alles
64	2626	Rainbow	Since You've Been Gone
65	2680	Peaches and Herb	Reunited
66	2691	Wire	Blessed State	Listen
67	2712	Dave Edmunds	Girls Talk	Listen
68	2716	Supertramp	The Logical Song	Listen
69	2724	Marianne Faithfull	The Ballad of Lucy Jordan	Listen
70	2725	Funky Four Plus One	Rappin' and Rocking the House
71	2969	The Brains	Money Changes Everything
Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Demics	New York City
		Public Image Ltd.	Memories	Listen
		Roxy Music	Dance Away
		Dennis Brown	Money In My Pocket
		Prince	I Wanna Be Your Lover
		Earth, Wind & Fire	After the Love Has Gone	Listen
		The B-52's	Dance This Mess Around	Listen
		Anita Ward	Ring My Bell
		Neil Young with Crazy Horse	Powderfinger	Listen
		Madness	My Girl
		Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers	Don't Do Me Like That	Listen
		Funkadelic	(Not Just) Knee Deep
		Kiss	I Was Made for Lovin' You
		Sister Sledge	Lost in Music
		The Selecter	On My Radio
		The Germs	Manimal
		The Buzzcocks	Everybody's Happy Nowadays