** = funk/disco/soul/hiphop/jazz/reggae/world/ska/or combinations
no stars = something else
# = guilty pleasures

My top 14 of favorite songs of the year 1979 (out of 26 listed here):

1. Madness – Night boat to Cairo **
2. The Specials – Gangsters **
3. The Selector – On my radio **
4. Madness – One step beyond **
5. Michael Jackson – Don’t stop ’til you get enough **
6. Fat Larry’s Band – Looking for love **
7. Michael Jackson – Off the wall **
8. Sister Sledge – We are family **
9. Roy Ayers – Don’t stop the feeling **
10. The Specials – Too much too young **
11. Tubeway Army – Are friends electric?
12. The Light Of Sabe – Africa **
13. Clyde Alexander & Sanction – Got to get your love **
14. Abba – Does your mother know

My other favorites, the ‘subtop’ part (above is the potential ‘all time top 500′ stuff):

• Azoto – San salvador **
• Chic – Good times **
• Chic – My forbidden lover **
• The Clash – The guns of Brixton **
• Funky 4 + 1 – Rappin’ and rockin’ the house **
• Gary Davis – Got to get your love **
• Godley & Creme – An Englishman in New York
• Lou & The Hollywood Bananas – Kingston kingston **
• Massara – Margherita **
• Orlando Julius – Disco hi-life **
• Sugarhill Gang – Rapper’s delight **
• Telex – Moscow discow #