Best songs of 1981
MTV signed on and how a song looked became part of its argument. Synthesizers got cheap enough that two people with no training could make a hit, and enough of them did that the guitar spent the next four years on the back foot.
Songs from the albums of 1981, ordered by their own ratings rather than the record's.
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Mobile BayJohnny Cash · The Baron - 46
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Feel the Real Phats and Smalls MIXDavid Bendeth · Just Dessert - 48Feel the Real (feat. Carl Cox)David Bendeth · Just Dessert
- 49Acapulco (feat. Billy Cobham)David Bendeth · Just Dessert
- 50Better Believe ItDavid Bendeth · Just Dessert
One great song, one bad album
Tracks carry their own ratings here, so a record you would never play front to back can still have a song worth defending.
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