1982 was a great year. But, since I'm ancient I prefer 1972
I also wonder what the over/under is on how many of the songs in my list will be judged as not belonging in 1982 (my surmise is around 7-20)
Songs
1. Pretenders / Show Me
2. Michael Jackson / Billie Jean
3. Tears for Fears / Mad World
4. Michael Jackson / Beat It
5. The Beat / I Confess
6. Joe Jackson / Breaking Us In Two
7. Todd Rundgren / Bang The Drum All Day
8. Joe Jackson / Steppin' Out
9. Todd Rundgren / Hideaway
10. The Beat / End of the Party
11. .38 Special / Caught Up In You
12. Donald Fagen / New Frontier
13. Tears for Fears / Pale Shelter
14. Donald Fagen / I.G.Y.
15. Elvis Costello / Man Out of Time
16. Asia / Only Time Will Tell
17. Billy Idol / White Wedding
18. Asia / Heat of the Moment
19. Alan Parsons Project / Eye In the Sky
20. Chicago / Hard to Say I'm Sorry
21. The Pointer Sisters / I'm So Excited
22. Michael Jackson / Human Nature
23. Donald Fagen / The Nightfly
24. The Clash / Should I Stay or Should I Go
25. Pretenders / Back On the Chain Gang
26. Roxy Music / More Than This
27. Marvin Gaye / Sexual Healing
28. The Clash / Rock the Casbah
29. Roxy Music / Avalon
30. Pretenders / Thin Line Between Love and Hate
31. Fixx / Stand of Fall (Live)
32. Pretenders / Middle of the Road
33. Squeeze / Black Coffee In Bed
34. Todd Rundgren / Influenza
35. Van Halen / (Oh) Pretty Woman
36. Roxy Music / The Space Between
37. Michael Jackson / The Girl is Mine
38. Roxy Music / Tara
39. Bob Seger / Roll Me Away
40. Dan Fogelberg / Missing You
41. Roxy Music / To Turn You On
42. Donald Fagen / Green Flower Street
43. Roxy Music / True To Life
44. Donald Fagen / The Goodbye Look
45. Modern English / I Melt With You
46. Culture Club / Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
47. Todd Rundgren / Don't Hurt Yourself
48. The Beat / Save It For Later
49. Roxy Music / While My Heart Is Still Beating
50. Philip Ledger / Bach: Chorale Prelude "In Dulci Jubilo"
51. Michael Jackson / Pretty Young Thing
52. Donald Fagen / Walk Between the Raindrops
53. Michael Jackson / Baby Be Mine
54. Donald Fagen / Ruby Baby
55. Michael Jackson / The Lady In My Life
56. Donald Fagen / Maxine
57. Roxy Music / Take a Chance With Me
58. Van Halen / Dancing in the Street
59. Pretenders / My City Was Gone
60. Dire Straits / Private Investigations
61. Culture Club / Time (Clock of the Heart)
62. Michael Jackson / Thriller
63. Prince / Little Red Corvette
64. Michael Jackson / You Are Not Alone
65. Duran Duran / Hungry Like the Wolf
66. The Clash / Straight to Hell
67. Utopia / One World
68. Beat / Sugar and Stress
69. XTC / Senses Working Overtime
70. George Thorogood / Bad to the Bone
71. George Winston / Night Part 1. Snow Night Part 2. Midnight Night Part 3.Mistrels
72. Hall & Oates / Maneater
73. Herbert Von Karajan / Prokofiev Op. 25 - Symphony No. 1 in D Major - I. Allegro
74. Human League / Seconds
75. Herbert Von Karajan / Prokofiev Op. 25 - Symphony No. 1 in D Major - IV. Finale Molto Vivace
76. Iron Maiden / Invaders
77. Janet Jackson / Magic Is Working
78. Jim Carroll / Jealous Twin
79. Huey Lewis and the News / Do You Believe In Love?
80. Joe Jackson / Real Men
81. Marshall Crenshaw / Cynical Girl
82. Missing Persons / Destination Unknown
83. Peter Gabriel / Shock The Monkey
85. Marshall Crenshaw / Someday, Someway
85. Marshall Crenshaw / Mary Anne
86. Missing Persons / Words
87. Missing Persons / Walking In LA
88. Laura Branigan / Gloria
89. Elvis Costello / Town Cryer
90. Beat / Jeanette
91. Air Supply / Even the Nights Are Better
92. A Flock of Seagulls / I Ran (So Far Away)
93. Dionne Warwick / Heartbreaker
94. Fleetwood Mac / Gypsy
95. Men at Work / Down Under
96. Marshall Crenshaw / Not For Me
97. Pat Metheny / Are You Going With Me?
98. Pat Benatar / Shadows of the Night
99. Philip Ledger / Karg-Elert: Variations On "Nun Danket Alle Gott"
100. Utopia / Only Human
101. Supertramp / It's Raining Again
102. Roxy Music / The Main Thing
103. Santana / Hold On
104. The Cure / Let's Go to Bed
105. The Who / Eminence Front
106. Whitesnake / Here I Go Again
107. Willie Nelson / Always On My Mind
108. Michael McDonald / I Keep Forgettin'
109. The Motels / Only the Lonely
110. XTC / Ball and Chain
111. The Jam / The Bitterest Pill
112. The Bar-Kays / Anticipation
113. Survivior / Eye of the Tiger
114. Richard and Linda Thompson / Walking On A Wire
115. David Bowie (w/Queen) / Under Pressure
116. Duran Duran / Rio
117. Fleetwood Mac / Hold Me
118. Iron Maiden / Run to the Hills
119. John Cougar / Jack & Diane
120. Prince / 1999
121. Paul McCartney and Stevie Wonder / Ebony & Ivory
122. Robert Wyatt / Shipbuilding
123. Deniece Williams / It's Gonna Take a Miracle
124. Shalamar / I Can Make You Feel Good
125. Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five / The Message
126. Asia / Without You
127. America / You Can Do Magic
128. Alan Parsons Project / Old and Wise
129. .38 Special / Rough-Housin'
130. Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes / Up Where We Belong
131. Squeeze / Annie Get Your Gun
132. Steve Winwood / Valerie
133. The Jam / Town Called Malice
134. The Psychedelic Furs / Love My Way
135. Thomas Dolby / She Blinded Me With Science
136. Todd Rundgren / There Goes Your Baybay
137. Toto / Rosanna
138. Gary Portnoy / Theme from Cheers (Where Everybody Knows Your Name)
139. Vangelis / Chariots of Fire Theme
140. The Who / Relay
141. The Cure / The Hanging Garden
142. Steve Winwood / Help Me Angel
143. Simple Minds / New Gold Dream
144. Simple Minds / Someone Somewhere in the Summertime
145. Scorpions / Blackout
146. Rick Springfield / Don't Talk To Strangers
147. Scorpions / No One Like You
148. Richard and Linda Thompson / Did She Jump Or Was She Pushed
149. R.E.M. / Gardening at Night
150. Richard and Linda Thompson / Don't Renege On Our Love
151. Prince / International Lover
152. Pretenders / 2000 Miles
153. Pointer Sisters / Should I Do It
154. Paul McCartney / Here Today
155. Utopia / Swing to the Right
156. Patti Austin and James Ingram / Baby Come to Me
157. Orange Juice / Rip It Up
158. Marshall Crenshaw / There She Goes Again
159. Judas Priest / You've Got Another Thing Coming
160. Marshall Crenshaw / Rockin' Around In NYC
161. Judas Priest / Electric Eye
162. Marshall Crenshaw / She Can't Dance
163. Judas Priest / The Hellion
164. Joe Jackson / Cancer
165. Janet Jackson / Say You Do
166. Joe Jackson / Slow Song
167. Iron Maiden / Hallowed Be Thy Name
168. Janet Jackson / Love and My Best Friend
169. Iron Maiden / Children of the Damned
170. Human League / Darkness
171. Iron Maiden / Gangland
172. Graham Parker / Temporary Beauty
173. Flock of Seagulls / D.N.A.
174. Elvis Costello / Shabby Doll
175. Flock of Seagulls / Man Made
176. Elvis Costello / You Little Fool
177. Dire Straits / Love Over Gold
178. Elvis Costello / Beyond Belief
179. Culture Club / I'll Tumble 4 Ya
180. Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young / Southern Cross
181. Bill Cosby / The Grandparents
182. Beat / Ackee 123
183. Alan Parsons Project / Gemini
184. Anna and Kate McGarrigle / Sun, Son (Shining on the Water)
185. Alan Parsons Project / Children of the Moon
186. Adam Ant / Goody Two Shoes
187. Alan Parsons Project / Silence and I
188. AC/DC / For Those About to Rock
189. Bruce Springsteen / State Trooper
190. Gregory Isaacs / Night Nurse
191. Imagination / Just An Illusion
192. Kid Creole and The Coconuts / Annie I'm Not Your Daddy
193. Michael Jackson / Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'
194. Simple Minds / Promised You a Miracle
195. The Go-Go's / Speeding
196. The Gap Band / You Dropped A Bomb on Me
197. The Nails / 88 Lines About 44 Women
198. The Jam / Beat Surrender
199. The Weather Girls / It's Raining Men
200. The The / Uncertain Smile
201. Van Morrison / Dweller On the Threshold
202. Tommy Tutone / 867-5309/Jenny
203. Yazoo / Don't Go
204. Wah! / The Story of the Blues
205. The Associates / Party Fears Two
206. New Order / Temptation
207. Madness / Our House
208. Dexy's Midnight Runners / Come On Eileen
209. ABC / The Look of Love
210. Bow Wow Wow / I Want Candy
211. Olivia Newton John / Physical
212. Bertie Higgins / Key Largo
213. Melissa Manchester / You Should Hear How She Talks About You
214. Stevie Nicks / Edge of Seventeen
215. Ray Parker Jr. / The Other Woman
216. Stevie Nicks and Don Henley / Leather and Lace
217. Lindsay Buckingham / Trouble
218. Elton John / Blue Eyes
219. Sheena Easton / You Could Have Been With Me
220. Commodores / Oh No
221. Paul McCartney / Take It Away
222. Kenny Rogers / Love Will Turn Around
223. Barbra Streisand / Comin' In and Out of Your Life
224. Ronnie Milsap / Any Day Now
225. Stevie Wonder / Do I Do
226. Christopher Cross / Best That You Can Do
227. Kenny Rogers / Through the Years