Continuing on with a new series following on from yesterday's 1980 posts with a Top 50 countdown of singles from that year. Not all necessarily favourites of mine though the majority are, just trying to give a flavour of what that year was like. Only one song per artist because there was so much going on and the chart placement intended to indicate the value of the song and perhaps a comment on my assessment of the band or artist's significance in the scheme of things.
We start at # 50 with The Boomtown Rats. They had been major chart players with five top five hits in a row over the previous couple of years and a couple of huge Number Ones. Perhaps 1980 showed the beginning of their decline success wise. Never the hippest of bands, they were opportunists at times but they delivered strong tunes and interesting themes and Geldof was never less than a diverting frontman. Banana Republic came at the end of the year, appropriated loose reggae rhythms and made Number 3. The lyrics are a denunciation of the band's homeland The Republic of Ireland.
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