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American Top 40 - This Week in 1979 (1 Viewer)

Interlude: #1 songs of the decade

"Convoy" CW McCall

This song was about a mile out of ShakeyTown

 
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8. "Still" - Commodores

I was pretty sure Lionel Richie was going solo after "Three Times A Lady", but this record nailed it down.

 
6. "Sail On" - Commodores.

Don't nary one of y'all bust on this one. I know it's dumb, but so was Grand Funk. 

 
3. "Don't Stop Til You Get Enough" - Michael Jackson

Lord,one of the top two is gonna be that god-awful "Pop Musik" isn't it?

 
2. "Pop Musik" - M

Oh, holy Jesus.

There are few songs I think are dumber than this garbage pail full of vomit. "Seasons In The Sun"., "Sugar Shack",  "We Built This".....whatever. Well done. "M".

 
Leroy Hoard said:
Good point. It took someone already at the top of the charts to get this played on "regular" radio.
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That whole album was just so weird. I can't recall any other superstar artist other than Stevie Wonder cutting a record this bizarre while they were on top.While all of the hip rock critics were busy jerking off to punk and other underground music, here's probably as famous (& mainstream) a band as there was in the world at that time putting out something that was way more startling than anything the Ramones did.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
2. "Pop Musik" - M

Oh, holy Jesus.

There are few songs I think are dumber than this garbage pail full of vomit. "Seasons In The Sun"., "Sugar Shack",  "We Built This".....whatever. Well done. "M".
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"The Candy Man" 

 
Uruk-Hai said:
19. "My Sharona" - The Knack

Another song I resisted because of the HS clique who adopted it. I do remember reading some articles saying they were the next big thing.
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Most hated song of all time by me.   lyrics terrible along with everything else, but it stuck a chord with everyone else.   I still think it's a horrible representative of good rock.  IMO

it's now in my head.  good god, that song.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
19. "My Sharona" - The Knack

Another song I resisted because of the HS clique who adopted it. I do remember reading some articles saying they were the next big thing.
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Love this song and Dream Police. Nothing wrong with either song.

 
Uruk-Hai said:
26. "Lonesome Loser" - Little River Band

Love this band. Whoever that dude is that sings lead can sing, brothers & sisters
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Whenever Ryan Leaf's name comes up I remember this song because of the heckler.

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/leaf-blows-up-at-heckler/

The fan, 32-year-old Sean Peck, had been heckling Leaf during the Chargers' combined workout with the Miami Dolphins, including singing lyrics from the song Lonesome Loser by the Little River Band.
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I think we all need to realize this was the LAST year of the 70's, which led right into the craptastic 80's.  Seems about right to me.

 
irishidiot said:
Most hated song of all time by me.   lyrics terrible along with everything else, but it stuck a chord with everyone else.   I still think it's a horrible representative of good rock.  IMO

it's now in my head.  good god, that song.
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great guitar lick with some pretty nice filthy lyrics plus a a very nice 45 sleeve

Back when "My Sharona" was released in 1979, it shot them to superstardom. Before "My Sharona," The Knack, then made up of Fieger, guitarist Berton Averre, drummer Bruce Gary and bassist Prescott Niles, was a part of the L.A. club scene, playing haunts like the Troubadour and the Starwood. They had a loyal local fan base, yet they were consistently turned down by record companies who were only looking for disco acts. In the late '70s, as their following grew—and, of course, as disco started to die—record honchos began to take notice. In November 1978, 13 record companies were fighting for their signatures.

They signed with Capitol and released Get The Knack, which went platinum in a mere seven weeks. Rolling Stone called them "the next fab four."

"We were told we would be lucky if [Get The Knack] sold 250,000 copies," laughs Fieger. "We had no idea it would take off the way it did."

After "My Sharona," the band released a follow-up single, "Good Girls Don't," which reached number 11 on the charts, and embarked on a sold-out world tour.

On the advice of a novice PR man, The Knack refused to do interviews.

"He thought it would give us a mystique," Fieger recalls.

"It was a mistake."

Though the band's songs were hits, the media changed its tune. They started hurling obscenities like "one-hit wonder," "knock off" and "derivative."

"We are not a one-hit wonder," Fieger counters. Although he's clearly bitter about how he says The Knack was treated by the music industry (including journalists and label execs), he alternates his harsh statements ("[Record label executives] don't know anything about music; they want to appear hip and cool to their buddies—and they want to get laid") with little doses of soothing philosophy ("As Oscar Wilde once said, 'Criticism is the highest form of art'").

Less than a year later they released their second album, …but the Little Girls Understand, which fared well on the charts.

Then a ramshackle "Nuke the Knack" movement sprouted in Los Angeles. It wasn't quite a movement, contends Fieger, it was the work of one man who "was out to make a buck
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