THE iNFOMAN 1979 SINGLES OF THE YEAR
(compiled 1986, expanded 2003)

  1. The Pretenders - Kid

  2. Magazine - Give me everything/I love you you big dummy (cover of Captain Beefheart and the Magic Band)

  3. Lene Lovich - Say when

  4. Blondie - Heart of glass

      

  1. The Pretenders - Stop your sobbin' (cover of the Kinks)/The wait

  2. Lene Lovich - Lucky number

  3. The Flying Lizards - Money (cover of Barrett Strong)

  4. The Selecter - On my radio

  5. Blondie - Dreaming

  6. The Slits - Typical girls

  7. Suicide - Dream baby dream

  8. Lene Lovich - Bird song

  9. The Revillos - Where's the boy for me?

  10. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Mittageisen (Metal postcard)/Love in a void

  11. Siouxsie and the Banshees - Playground twist

  12. Blondie - Union City blue

  13. The Jam - Strange town

  14. The Undertones - Get over you

  15. B52s - Rock lobster

  16. The Undertones - Jimmy Jimmy

  17. The Mo-dettes - White mice

  18. Blondie - Sunday girl

  19. Roxy Music - Dance away

  1. Magazine - Rhythm of cruelty

  2. Siouxsie and the Banshees - The staircase (Mystery)/20th Century boy (cover of T Rex)

  3. The Rezillos - Cold wars

  4. Destroy All Monsters - Bored

  5. Joy Division - Transmission

  6. Roxy Music - Trash

  7. The Tours - Tourist information

  8. The Undertones - You've got my number (Why don't you use it?)

  9. Dire Straits - Lady writer

  10. Neil Young - My my hey hey (Out of the blue)

  11. XTC - Life begins at the hop

  12. Joni Mitchell - Dry cleaner from Des Moines

  13. Ry Cooder - Little sister (cover of Elvis Presley)

  14. The Molesters - End of civilisation

  15. Dave Edmunds - Queen of hearts

  16. Nils Lofgren - Shine silently

  17. Roxy Music - Angel eyes

  18. Ian Dury and the Blockheads - Hit me with your rhythm stick

  19. Nils Lofgren - No mercy

  20. Dave Edmunds - Girls talk (cover of Elvis Costello)

  21. The Jam - Eton rifles

  22. The Cure - Jumping someone else's train

  23. Delta Five - Mind your own business

  24. Ramones - Blitzkrieg bop

  25. The Damned - Smash it up

  26. The Undertones - Here comes the summer

  27. Dr Alimantado - Best dressed chicken in town

 Bubbling under:

  1. Squeeze - Up the junction

  2. The Beat - Tears of a clown (cover of Smokey Robinson and the Miracles)

  3. Kleenex - U/You

  4. Rickie Lee Jones - Danny's All Star Joint

  5. The Skids - Into the valley

  6. David Bowie - Boys keep swinging

  7. Pop Group - She's beyond good and evil

  8. Nick Lowe - Cracking up

  9. Rickie Lee Jones - Youngblood

  10. Abba - Angel eyes

This page was last updated on 25 January, 2004