Acclaimed Music - The Top Songs from 1979

The Top Songs from 1979
Rank	All Time Rank	Artist	Song	Sample
1	34	The Clash	London Calling	Listen
2	78	Chic	Good Times	Listen
3	163	The Sugarhill Gang	Rapper's Delight
4	242	Pretenders	Brass in Pocket	Listen
5	290	Michael Jackson	Don't Stop 'Til You Get Enough	Listen
6	473	Gary Numan	Cars
7	493	The Cure	Boys Don't Cry	Listen
8	519	AC/DC	Highway to Hell
9	591	Pink Floyd	Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2	Listen
10	630	The Clash	Train in Vain (Stand by Me)	Listen
11	638	Joy Division	Transmission
12	650	Sister Sledge	We Are Family
13	662	The Specials	Gangsters	Listen
14	670	Bauhaus	Bela Lugosi's Dead
15	676	The Jam	The Eton Rifles
16	698	Neil Young with Crazy Horse	Hey Hey, My My (Into the Black)	Listen
17	773	Elvis Costello and The Attractions	Oliver's Army
18	797	The Buggles	Video Killed the Radio Star
19	825	The Police	Message in a Bottle	Listen
20	857	XTC	Making Plans for Nigel	Listen
21	907	Donna Summer	Hot Stuff	Listen
22	917	Squeeze	Up the Junction
23	1024	Joy Division	She's Lost Control	Listen
24	1078	Michael Jackson	Rock With You	Listen
25	1115	The Knack	My Sharona
26	1139	The Pop Group	She Is Beyond Good and Evil
27	1163	Donna Summer	Bad Girls	Listen
28	1253	Blondie	Atomic	Listen
29	1254	Talking Heads	Life During Wartime	Listen
30	1278	Suicide	Dream Baby Dream	Listen
31	1280	Cabaret Voltaire	Nag Nag Nag
32	1312	Ian Dury and The Blockheads	Reasons to Be Cheerful, Part 3
33	1386	Patti Smith Group	Dancing Barefoot
34	1448	The Specials	A Message to You Rudy	Listen
35	1449	M	Pop Muzik
36	1561	Gang of Four	At Home He's a Tourist
37	1584	The Flying Lizards	Money
38	1618	Smokey Robinson	Cruisin'
39	1693	Public Image Ltd.	Death Disco
40	1767	Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers	Refugee	Listen
41	1830	Earth, Wind & Fire with The Emotions	Boogie Wonderland	Listen
42	1846	Pink Floyd	Comfortably Numb	Listen
43	1878	Dead Kennedys	California Uber Alles
44	1894	The Jam	Strange Town
45	1921	The Police	Walking on the Moon	Listen
46	1977	Tubeway Army	Are 'Friends' Electric?
47	2013	Madness	One Step Beyond
48	2105	Gang of Four	Anthrax
49	2142	The Clash	Lost in the Supermarket	Listen
50	2220	The Clash	I Fought the Law
51	2277	The Slits	Typical Girls
52	2414	James Chance & The Contortions	Contort Yourself
53	2445	Blondie	Dreaming	Listen
54	2508	McFadden and Whitehead	Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now
55	2520	Rickie Lee Jones	Chuck E.'s in Love	Listen
56	2545	Madness	My Girl
57	2562	The Selecter	On My Radio
58	2607	Neil Young with Crazy Horse	My My, Hey Hey (Out of the Blue)	Listen
59	2645	Charlie Daniels Band	The Devil Went Down to Georgia
60	2691	Marianne Faithfull	The Ballad of Lucy Jordan	Listen
61	2767	The Boomtown Rats	I Don't Like Mondays
62	2805	Machine	There But for the Grace of God Go I
63	2838	Joy Division	Disorder
64	2915	Fleetwood Mac	Tusk	Listen
65	2951	Candido	Jingo
66	2990	The Clash	The Guns of Brixton
Some songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 3000:
		Sister Sledge	Lost in Music
		Nick Lowe	Cruel to Be Kind
		The Specials	Too Much Too Young	Listen
		Public Image Ltd.	Memories	Listen
		Funky Four Plus One	Rappin' and Rocking the House
		Rainbow	Since You've Been Gone
		The Records	Starry Eyes
		Supertramp	The Logical Song	Listen
		Wire	Blessed State	Listen
		Dave Edmunds	Girls Talk	Listen
		Pretenders	Kid	Listen
		Roxy Music	Dance Away
		Demics	New York City
		Pretenders	Stop Your Sobbing	Listen
		Prince	I Wanna Be Your Lover
		Anita Ward	Ring My Bell
		Dennis Brown	Money In My Pocket
		The Slits	I Heard It Through the Grapevine
		The Brains	Money Changes Everything
		Talking Heads	Memories Can't Wait
		Earth, Wind & Fire	After the Love Has Gone	Listen
		The B-52's	Dance This Mess Around	Listen
		Neil Young with Crazy Horse	Powderfinger	Listen
		Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers	Don't Do Me Like That	Listen
		Kiss	I Was Made for Lovin' You
		Funkadelic	(Not Just) Knee Deep
		The Germs	Manimal
		Buzzcocks	Everybody's Happy Nowadays