1981

Voltando às postagens sobre a década de 80 vou falar do ano de 1981.
Nesse ano os tops de vendas nos EUA foram invadidos e dominados por:
(o numero entre parêntesis indica o numero de semanas que lideraram o top de vendas)

"(Just Like) Starting Over" - John Lennon (4 )
"The Tide Is High" - Blondie (1)



"Celebration" - Kool & the Gang (2)
"9 to 5" - Dolly Parton (2)
"I Love a Rainy Night" - Eddie Rabbitt (2)
"Keep On Loving You" REO Speedwagon (1)
"Rapture" - Blondie (2)
"Kiss On My List" - Daryl Hall & John Oates (3)
"Morning Train (9 To 5)" - Sheena Easton (2)
"Bette Davis Eyes" - Kim Carnes (9)



"Stars on 45 Medley" - Stars On 45 (1)
"The One That You Love" - Air Supply (1)
"Jessie's Girl" - Rick Springfield (2)
"Endless Love" - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie (9)
"Arthur's Theme (Best That You Can Do)" - Christopher Cross (3)
"Private Eyes" - Daryl Hall & John Oates (2)
"Physical" - Olivia Newton-John (6)
Enquanto no Reino Unido o top era dominado por:
"There's No-one Quite Like Grandma" - St Winifred's School Choir (1)
"Imagine" - John Lennon (4)
"Woman" - John Lennon (2)
"Shaddup You Face" - Joe Dolce Music Theatre (3)
"Jealous Guy" - Roxy Music (2)
"This Ole House" - Shakin' Stevens (3)
"Making Your Mind Up" - Bucks Fizz (3)
"Stand and Deliver" - Adam and the Ants (5)
"Being With You" - Smokey Robinson (2)
"One Day in Your Life" - Michael Jackson (2)
"Ghost Town" - The Specials (3)
"Green Door"- Shakin' Stevens (4)
"Japanese Boy" - Aneka (1)
"Tainted Love" - Soft Cell (2)
"Prince Charming" - Adam and the Ants (4)
"It's My Party" - Dave Stewart & Barbara Gaskin (4)
"Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" - The Police (1)
"Under Pressure" - Queen & David Bowie (2)
"Begin the Beguine" - Julio Iglesias (1)
"Don't You Want Me" - The Human League (3)
Também foi o ano em que foram lançados, entre outros, os álbuns:

• Abacab - Genesis
• Alles ist gut - D.A.F.
• Almost Blue - Elvis Costello and the Attractions
• Amy Grant in Concert - Amy Grant
• And Don't the Kids Just Love It - Television Personalities
• Another Ticket - Eric Clapton
• Anthem - Toyah
• Architecture & Morality - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
• As Falls Wichita, So Falls Wichita Falls - Pat Metheny
• As Far as Siam - Red Rider
• Atomkraft? Nein, Danke! - Earthstar
• Bad Religion (EP) - Bad Religion (debut album)
• Bad Reputation - Joan Jett
• Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Shakes, Hanoi Rocks - Hanoi Rocks
• The Baron - Johnny Cash
• Beauty and the Beat - The Go-Go's
• Being with You - Smokey Robinson
• Bella Donna - Stevie Nicks
• The Best of Blondie - Blondie
• Best of the Blues Brothers - The Blues Brothers
• The Best of Top of the Pops '81 - Top of the Poppers
• Beyond the Valley of 1984 - Plasmatics
• Big City - Merle Haggard
• Black & White - The Pointer Sisters
• Black President - Fela Kuti
• The Blasters - The Blasters
• Block to Block - De Press
• Bobby & the Midnites - Bobby and the Midnites
• Boonoonoonoos - Boney M.
• Breaker - Accept
• Breakin' Away - Al Jarreau
• Buchenwald - Whitehouse
• Bucks Fizz - Bucks Fizz
• Burning Blue Soul - The The
• Business as Usual - Men at Work (Australia, debut album)
• Captured - Journey
• The Catherine Wheel - David Byrne
• Chances Are - Bob Marley & The Wailers
• ChangesTwoBowie - David Bowie
• Chariots of Fire - Vangelis
• Children of Paradise - The Greatest Hits of Boney M. - Vol. 2 - Boney M.
• Christmas Album - Boney M.
• Circle of Love - Steve Miller Band
• Coconut Telegraph - Jimmy Buffett
• A Collection of Great Dance Songs - Pink Floyd
• The Completion Backward Principle - The Tubes
• Computer World - Kraftwerk
• Connections & Disconnections - Funkadelic
• Controversy - Prince
• Come an' Get It - Whitesnake
• Cool Night - Paul Davis
• Coup de Grâce - Mink DeVille
• Cowboy Jubilee - Riders in the Sky
• Crumbling the Antiseptic Beauty - Felt
• Curiosum - Cluster
• Dad Loves His Work - James Taylor
• Damaged - Black Flag
• Dance - Gary Numan
• Dangerous Acquaintances - Marianne Faithfull
• Dare - The Human League
• Dark Continent - Wall of Voodoo
• Dead Ringer - Meat Loaf
• Dead Set - Grateful Dead
• Deaf - You've Got Foetus On Your Breath
• Deceit - This Heat
• Dedicated to Peter Kürten - Whitehouse
• Dedication - Gary U.S. Bonds
• Denim and Leather - Saxon
• Deuce - Kurtis Blow
• DEV-O Live - Devo
• Diary of a Madman - Ozzy Osbourne
• Difficult to Cure - Rainbow
• Directions - Miles Davis
• Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap - AC/DC
• Discipline - King Crimson
• Document and Eyewitness - Wire
• Don't Say No - Billy Squier
• Don't Stop - Billy Idol
• Drama of Exile - Nico
• Dreamtime - Tom Verlaine
• Duran Duran - Duran Duran
• Earthshaker - Y&T
• East Side Story - Squeeze
• El Loco - ZZ Top
• The Electric Spanking of War Babies - Funkadelic
• El Rayo-X - David Lindley
• Entre Lajeunesse et la sagesse a.k.a. French Record - Kate and Anna McGarrigle
• Escape - Journey
• Escape Artist - Garland Jeffreys
• Exit...Stage Left (live album) - Rush
• Extended Play (EP) - The Pretenders
• Evangeline - Emmylou Harris
• Face Dances - The Who
• Face Value - Phil Collins
• Fair Warning - Van Halen
• Faith - The Cure
• Fancy Free - The Oak Ridge Boys
• Fire of Love - The Gun Club
• Fire of Unknown Origin - Blue Öyster Cult
• Flowers of Romance - Public Image Ltd.
• The Fool Circle - Nazareth
• For Those About to Rock We Salute You - AC/DC
• For Those Who Think Young - Rough Trade
• 4 - Foreigner
• The Fox - Elton John
• Freelancing - James Blood Ulmer
• Freetime - Spyro Gyra
• Freeze Frame - The J. Geils Band
• Fresh Fruit in Foreign Places - Kid Creole and the Coconuts
• Friday Night in San Francisco - Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin and Paco de Lucía
• From the Lions Mouth - The Sound
• Get Lucky - Loverboy
• Ghost in the Machine - The Police
• Give the People What They Want - Jimmy Cliff
• Give the People What They Want - The Kinks
• Go for It - Stiff Little Fingers
• Gonna Ball - Stray Cats
• Gosh It's... - Bad Manners
• Greatest Hits - Queen
• Happy Birthday - Altered Images
• Hard Promises - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
• Hardware - Krokus
• Healing - Todd Rundgren
• Heartbreak Radio - Rita Coolidge
• Heaven Up Here - Echo & the Bunnymen
• High 'n' Dry - Def Leppard
• Higher Plane - Al Green
• Hit and Run - Girlschool
• Hooligans - The Who
• Honi Soit - John Cale
• Hoy-Hoy! - Little Feat
• I Could Rule the World If I Could Only Get the Parts - The Waitresses
• I Love Rock 'n' Roll - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
• Icehouse - The Flowers a.k.a. Icehouse
• If I Should Love Again - Barry Manilow
• In Concert Volume Two - Amy Grant
• In God We Trust, Inc. - Dead Kennedys
• In My Eyes (EP) - Minor Threat
• In Our Lifetime - Marvin Gaye
• In the Garden - Eurythmics
• In the Pocket - Commodores
• Individuellos - La Düsseldorf
• The Innocent Age - Dan Fogelberg
• Insect and Individual Silenced - Nurse with Wound
• Intensities in 10 Cities (live) - Ted Nugent
• It Must Be Magic - Teena Marie
• The Jacksons Live! - The Jacksons
• Jane Siberry - Jane Siberry
• Joy - The Minutemen
• The Judgement of Paris - Kevin Dunn and the Regiment of Women
• Juice - Juice Newton
• Juju - Siouxie & the Banshees
• Jumpin' Jive - Joe Jackson
• Killers - Iron Maiden
• Kim Wilde - Kim Wilde
• King Cool - Donnie Iris
• Kiss Me Deadly - Generation X as Gen X
• Kix - Kix
• Koo Koo - Debbie Harry
• La Folie – The Stranglers
• Land Speed Record - Hüsker Dü
• Law and Order - Lindsey Buckingham
• Let Them Eat Jellybeans - Various Artists from Alternative Tenticles Records
• Magnetic Fields - Jean-Michel Jarre
• Level 42 (debut) - Level 42
• Long Distance Voyager - The Moody Blues
• Long Play Album a.k.a. Stars on Long Play - Stars on 45
• The Lounge Lizards - The Lounge Lizards
• Love Is Only Feeling - Donovan
• Love Songs - Cliff Richard
• Lustwandel - Hans-Joachim Roedelius
• Made in America - The Carpenters
• Magic, Murder and the Weather - Magazine
• Magic Window - Herbie Hancock
• Magnetic Fields - Jean-Michel Jarre
• Maiden Japan (EP) - Iron Maiden
• The Man with the Horn - Miles Davis
• Marauder - Blackfoot
• Mark of the Mole - The Residents
• Mask - Bauhaus
• Material - Moebius & Plank
• Mecca for Moderns - The Manhattan Transfer
• Minor Threat (EP) - Minor Threat
• Mistaken Identity - Kim Carnes
• Mob Rules - Black Sabbath
• Modern Times - Jefferson Starship
• Mondo Bongo - The Boomtown Rats
• Movement - New Order
• Moving Pictures - Rush
• M.S.G. II - Michael Schenker Group
• Music from "The Elder" - Kiss
• My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - David Byrne & Brian Eno
• The Nature of the Beast - April Wine
• Never Too Much - Luther Vandross
• New Traditionalists - Devo
• Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports - Nick Mason's Fictitious Sports
• Nightclubbing - Grace Jones
• 9 to 5 and Odd Jobs - Dolly Parton
• Nine Tonight - Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band
• No Sleep 'til Hammersmith (live) - Motörhead
• Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret - Soft Cell
• October - U2
• Odyshape - The Raincoats
• Of Skins and Heart - The Church
• Offramp - Pat Metheny Group
• Only a Lad - Oingo Boingo
• Paradise Theatre - Styx
• Party - Iggy Pop
• Party Mix! - The B-52's
• Penis Envy - Crass
• Penthouse and Pavement - Heaven 17
• Performance - Ashford & Simpson
• Physical - Olivia Newton-John
• Pirates - Rickie Lee Jones
• Place without a Postcard - Midnight Oil
• Play Me Out - Helen Reddy
• The Plimsouls - The Plimsouls
• Point of Entry - Judas Priest
• Positive Touch - The Undertones
• The Poet - Bobby Womack
• Prayers on Fire - The Birthday Party
• Precious Time - Pat Benatar
• Present Arms - UB40
• Present Arms in Dub - UB40
• Pretenders II - The Pretenders
• Prince Charming - Adam and the Ants
• Private Eyes - Hall & Oates
• A Product of ... (Participation) - Thompson Twins (debut)
• Public Service (EP) - Various Artists
• The Punch Line - Minutemen
• Punk's Not Dead - The Exploited (debut)
• Quarterflash - Quarterflash
• Quiero Ser - Menudo
• Rage in Eden - Ultravox
• Raise! - Earth, Wind & Fire
• Re-ac-tor - Neil Young and Crazy Horse
• Reckoning - Grateful Dead
• Red - Black Uhuru
• Red Mecca - Cabaret Voltaire
• Reflections - Gil Scott-Heron
• Rock until You Drop - Raven
• 7 - Madness
• Shake It Up - The Cars
• She Shot Me Down - Frank Sinatra
• Shot of Love - Bob Dylan
• Shut Up 'n Play Yer Guitar - Frank Zappa
• Signals, Calls, and Marches (EP) - Mission of Burma
• Six Pack (EP) - Black Flag
• Slates - The Fall
• Snaz (live) - Nazareth
• Solid Gold - Gang of Four
• Something Special - Kool & the Gang
• Somewhere in England - George Harrison
• Songs in the Attic - Billy Joel
• Sonic Attack - Hawkwind
• Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call - Simple Minds
• Sorry Ma, Forgot to Take Out the Trash - The Replacements (debut)
• Speak & Spell - Depeche Mode
• Special Forces - Alice Cooper
• Standing Hampton - Sammy Hagar
• Standing Together - Midnight Star
• Stands for Decibels - The dB's
• Stray Cats - Stray Cats
• Step by Step - Eddie Rabbitt
• Still - Joy Division
• Stop and Smell the Roses - Ringo Starr
• Street Songs - Rick James
• Strictly Personal - The Romantics
• Take It Off - Chic
• Take No Prisoners - Molly Hatchet
• Talk Talk Talk - The Psychedelic Furs
• Tattoo You - The Rolling Stones
• Ten Out of 10 - 10cc
• There Goes the Neighborhood - Joe Walsh
• There Must Be a Better World Somewhere - B.B. King
• Three Quartets - Chick Corea
• Time - Electric Light Orchestra
• The Time - The Time
• Tin Drum - Japan
• Tinseltown Rebellion - Frank Zappa
• To the Bone - Kris Kristofferson
• Tom Tom Club - Tom Tom Club
• Tonight I'm Yours - Rod Stewart
• Too Fast for Love - Mötley Crüe
• Too Late the Hero - John Entwistle
• Torch - Carly Simon
• Trio - Trio
• Trust - Elvis Costello & the Attractions
• Turn Back - Toto
• Underneath the Colours - INXS
• The Visitors - ABBA
• Waiata - Split Enz
• Wanted Dread and Alive - Peter Tosh
• Welcome to Hell - Venom
• What's THIS For...! - Killing Joke
• Why Do Fools Fall in Love - Diana Ross
• Wild-Eyed Southern Boys - 38 Special
• Wild Gift - X
• Wild Things (EP) - The Creatures
• Word of Mouth - Jaco Pastorius
• Wünsche fliegen übers Meer - Die Flippers
• Working Class Dog - Rick Springfield
• You Are What You Is - Frank Zappa
• You Want It You Got It - Bryan Adams
• You're the Guy I Want to Share My Money With - Laurie Anderson, William S. Burroughs and John Giorno
• Zebop! - Santana
Em Portugal o ano de 1981 ficará lembrado como o ano em que surgiram, entre outras pérolas:

Telepatia – Lara Li



O Rapaz do Cubo Mágico – Lara Li
Baile no Bosque – Trovante
Balada das Sete Saias / Companha – Trovante
Rua do Carmo – UHF
À Flor da Pele – UHF
Portugal na CEE / Espelho Meu – GNR
Sê um GNR / Instrumental nº1 – GNR
Vígaro Cá, Vígaro Lá – Lena d’Água
Patchouly – Grupo de Baile
(não consegui um video mas arranja-se a musica)



Chiclet – Taxi
Heróis do Mar – Heróis do Mar
Dá-me Lume/Ribeira – Jáfumega
Flor Sonhada/Foram Cardos, Foram Prosas – Manuela Moura Guedes (ela mesmo)
Totobola/Ela Controla – Roquivários



Pronto a Curtir – Roquivários
Robot/Armagedom – Salada de Frutas
Se Cá Nevasse – Salada de Frutas
Tudo Bem/1984 - TNT