# Best of the Rest of the Top 40: 1980

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1980/712649>\
**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Created:** [February 14, 2015, 5:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1980/712649 "2015-02-14T17:16:18Z")\
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**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 12:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1980/712649/21 "2015-02-17T00:32:03Z")

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Oh come on people, it’s nowhere near that dreadful – it’s got _Cars_ prefiguring the 80s. If you just want to be having some good times someone’s _Cruisin’_ together with Smokey, it’s _Ladies’ Night_ and the feeling’s right (ooh what a night) but it may be _Too Hot_. Oh, and speaking of Ladies, Chrissie has \*Brass in Pocket \*and she’s gonna use it to get our attention while Bette reminds us there’s a seed that with the Sun’s love in the spring becomes _the Rose_. It’s by no means hopeless.

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**Author:** ![JohnT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnt/32/15048_2.png) [@JohnT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnT)\
**Post date:** [February 17, 2015, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1980/712649/22 "2015-02-17T01:56:03Z")

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> [@Nema98](#):
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> “Working My Way Back To You” sounds much older than 1980.

Well, at the time it was a cover of a [14 year-old song](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Working_My_Way_Back_to_You) by [the Four Seasons](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sfpm2I0dev8), so yeah.

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**Author:** ![Chicagojeff](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b19c9b/32.png) [@Chicagojeff](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chicagojeff)\
**Post date:** [February 24, 2015, 8:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/best-of-the-rest-of-the-top-40-1980/712649/23 "2015-02-24T08:44:25Z")

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i had to vote with the group…Brass is just special… its the pinnacle…has Honey… chrissie at her finest… Ride like the Wind… and Lost in Love are great songs… we just refused to admit that we enjoyed them today…  
Ray Goodman and Brown… special mention…i remember listening to my big sis 8 track of that song…they worked that shit out!!!

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