{"id":16615,"date":"2017-06-01T06:09:04","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T11:09:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=16615"},"modified":"2017-06-01T06:09:04","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T11:09:04","slug":"quiz-which-of-the-top-selling-albums-of-1980-do-you-own","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2017\/06\/01\/quiz-which-of-the-top-selling-albums-of-1980-do-you-own\/","title":{"rendered":"Quiz: Which of the Top Selling Albums of 1980 Do You Own?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s not a quiz, Percy.  But Best Classic Bands has a <a href=\"http:\/\/bestclassicbands.com\/1980-top-selling-albums-5-30-17\/\" target=\"_new\">list of the best-selling albums of 1980<\/a>, and I thought I&#8217;d list them out, quiz-style for you.<\/p>\n<p>The ones I own are in bold:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><b><em>Glass Houses<\/em><\/b> Billy Joel<\/li>\n<li><b><em>The Wall<\/em><\/b> Pink Floyd<\/li>\n<li><b><em>Against the Wind<\/em><\/b> Bob Seger &#038; the Silver Bullet Band<\/li>\n<li><em>The Game<\/em> Queen<\/li>\n<li><em>Urban Cowboy (Orig. Soundtrack) <\/em> Various Artists<\/li>\n<li><em>The Long Run <\/em> Eagles<\/li>\n<li><em>Diana <\/em> Diana Ross<\/li>\n<li><em>Guilty <\/em> Barbra Streisand<\/li>\n<li><b><em>Xanadu (Orig. Soundtrack)<\/em><\/b> \u2013 ELO, Olivia Newton-John<\/li>\n<li><em>Hold Out<\/em> Jackson Browne<\/li>\n<li><b><em>Damn the Torpedoes <\/em><\/b> Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers<\/li>\n<li><em>Mad Love<\/em> Linda Ronstadt<\/li>\n<li><em>Emotional Rescue <\/em>The Rolling Stones<\/li>\n<li><em>Kenny Rogers\u2019 Greatest Hits<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Crimes of Passion<\/em> Pat Benatar<\/li>\n<li><em>Christopher Cross<\/em> Christopher Cross<\/li>\n<li><em>Give Me the Night<\/em> George Benson <\/li>\n<li><em>On the Radio \u2013 Greatest Hits, Volumes I &#038; II<\/em> Donna Summer <\/li>\n<li><em>Back in Black<\/em> AC\/DC <\/li>\n<li><em>Women and Children First <\/em>Van Halen <\/li>\n<li><em>Phoenix<\/em> Dan Fogelberg <\/li>\n<li><em>Kenny<\/em> Kenny Rogers <\/li>\n<li><em>The Whispers<\/em> The Whispers <\/li>\n<li><em>The River<\/em> Bruce Springsteen <\/li>\n<li><em>Cornerstone<\/em> Styx <\/li>\n<li><em>One Step Closer<\/em> Doobie Brothers <\/li>\n<li><em>Hotter Than July<\/em> Stevie Wonder<\/li>\n<li><em>The Empire Strikes Back (Orig. Soundtrack)<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Go All the Way<\/em> Isley Brothers<\/li>\n<li><em>Just One Night<\/em> Eric Clapton<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Well, that&#8217;s not a lot, but I turned eight in 1980.  I didn&#8217;t get my first album until I picked up a second-hand copy of Huey Lewis and the News&#8217; <em>Sports<\/em> at a yard sale in the trailer park in 1986.<\/p>\n<p>Of all of the ones I don&#8217;t have now, the only ones I&#8217;ll keep my eye out for, probably on vinyl, are Linda Ronstadt&#8217;s <em>Mad Love<\/em> and maybe <em>The Empire Strikes Back<\/em> soundtrack.  I won&#8217;t turn aside <em>Back in Black<\/em>, <em>On the Radio<\/em>, <em>Christopher Cross<\/em>, <em>On the Radio<\/em>, the Van Halen, and a couple of the others if I find cheap CDs of them, but it&#8217;s not likely.  Funny, I don&#8217;t really seek out old albums for themselves.  I pick up what&#8217;s available at book sales, garage sales, and the thrift stores, but mostly on LPs.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, your mileage may vary, especially if you&#8217;re any younger than I am.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, it&#8217;s not a quiz, Percy. But Best Classic Bands has a list of the best-selling albums of 1980, and I thought I&#8217;d list them out, quiz-style for you. The ones I own are in bold: Glass Houses Billy Joel The Wall Pink Floyd Against the Wind Bob Seger &#038; the Silver Bullet Band The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","category-quizzes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16615"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16618,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16615\/revisions\/16618"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}