50 Songs From 1979 Remixed Into 3 Minutes

Featuring:
ABBA, AC/DC, Anita Ward, Billy Joel, Blondie, Boomtown Rats, The Buggles, The Cars, Charlie Daniels Band, Cheap Trick, Chic, The Clash, The Cure, Donna Summer, Doobie Brothers, Earth Wind & Fire, Electric Light Orchestra, Fleetwood Mac, The Flying Lizards, Gang of Four, The Gap Band, Gary Numan, Joy Division, Kiss, The Knack, Kool & The Gang, Lipps Inc, M, Michael Jackson, Pat Benatar, Pink Floyd, The Police, The Pretenders, Prince, Queen, Rainbow, Rupert Holmes, Sister Sledge, The Specials, Squeeze, The Sugarhill Gang, Supertramp, Talking Heads, Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, Van Halen, The Whispers, Wire

[raybailey]

In 1979, I was 19 and danced to a lot of these songs with my (now) husband Bob... we're still together 41years later... and these songs still take me right back to that time.

[myriamabbadie]

The two "dance the night away" intermixed parts by Van Halen and Michael Jackson are freaking amazing!

[SirViette]

A complete list with time stamps:

0:00 Boomtown Rats "I don't like Mondays" (Audio: Piano intro + Video: clap clap at 0:08 and 0:16)
0:02 Chic "Le Freak" (Lyric: "1, 2, 123")
0:03 Michael Jackson "Don't Stop Till You Get Enough" (Lyric: "Woo!")

0:04 Prince "I wanna be your lover" (Video: pink & black drummer / Prince waving his hair around + Lyric: "I wanna be your. Lover." at 0:28)
0:10 The Clash "Train in Vain" (Video: punk band dressed in black. Audio: Little guitar octaves riff)
0:11 Tom Petty "Refugee" (Video: Dark video of drummer with a mullet)
0:11 Tom Petty "Here Comes My Girl" (Audio: Drum fill)
0:14 Lipps Inc "Funkytown" (Audio: Non-drum percussion. Perhaps cowbells? Video: Blonde woman wearing black dances in front of a colourful space background)
0:18 Michael Jackson "Rock With You" (Audio: Drum riff from the start of his song)
0:19 The Clash “Train In Vain (Audio: Guitar riff + Video: The Clash's drummer, even though it's Michael Jackson's drum sound. The Hood Internet can mix!)
0:20 Doobie Brothers "What a fool believes" (Video: Electric piano / acoustic piano, Audio: Electric piano riff)
0:29 Michael Jackson "Don't stop till you get enough" (Audio: High string section riff)
0:30 The Whispers "And the beat goes on" (Video: 5 guys in brown jackets and white pants)

0:37 Abba "Gimme gimme gimme" (Audio: Keyboard riff + Video: Keyboard being played / mixing board / blonde and brunette in a car)
0:37 Gang of Four "Damaged Goods" (Audio: Electric guitar chord on the 2nd and 4th beat of the bar)
0:42 The Clash "London calling" (Video: Man wearing black clucks like a rooster)

0:44 Chic "Le Freak" (Lyric: "Awww ... ". Video: Four singers at mics, including a bassist.)
0:44 Charlie Daniels Band "The devil went down to Georgia" (Audio: violin riff + video: Cowboy in a red shirt plays a violin riff)
0:46 Chic "Good times" (Audio: Famous bass guitar riff. Video: Famous bass player playing a famous bass riff on a famous white bass, )
0:46 Donna Summer "Bad Girls" (Lyric: "Toot toot. Beep beep." + Video of a singer in purple in front of 3 women in a conga line.)
0:50 Anita Ward "Ring my bell" (Video: Woman wearing white)
0:51 Blondie "Atomic" (Video: Drum fill played by drummer wearing a t-shirt with a bullseye on it)

0:52 Electric Light Orchestra "Don't bring me down" (Video: Sign saying "Don't bring me down”)
0:53 Rainbow "Since you've been gone (Audio: Guitar riff + Video: Guitarist plays while drummer tosses his stick in the air behind him )
0:53 The Gap Band "Oops upside your head" (Video: Man in big red hat marching across the stage + Lyric: "Oops upside your head I said a oops upside your head”)
0:57 Pink Floyd "Another bring in the wall - Part 2" (Video: Lights come up on children + Lyric: "Hey!" (i.e. "Hey! Teacher! Leave them kids alone"))
0:59 Squeeze “Up the Junction" (Drum fill in a hexagonal frame)
1:00 The Knack “My Sharona” (Lyric “Wooo!” + Video: Man saying “Wooo!”)
1:00 Pat Benatar “Heartbreaker" (Woman in black with black background)
1:04 ? ? (Four orangey red circles with a band barely visible in front of them)
1:04 Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall” (Giant paper mache teacher with glowing eyes holds a baton)
1:05 ? ? (Drummer wearing a blue track-suit jacket with white stripes down the arms)
1:07 Rainbow “Since You’ve been gone” reprise (Bearded guitarist in green with a red and white guitar)

1:10 Pink Floyd “Another Brick in the Wall Part 2” (Lyric “Leave those kids alone)
1:10 Kiss “I Was Made For Lovin’ You” (Lyric: “Doo Doo Doo do-Doo do-Doo Doo Doo” + Video: Man with white face paint except a black star over his eye)
1:10 The Cure “Boys Don’t Cry” (Audio: Lead guitar riff + Video: A young pre-goth Robert Smith wears a black shirt at 1:12 )
1:10 Wire "I Should Have Known Better" (Audio: Hi hats)
1:17 AC DC “Highway to Hell" (Guitar riff)

1:17 M “Pop Music” (Lyric: “Talk about. Pop Music….”)
1:17 The Cars “Let’s Go” (Audio: Synth lead riff + Video from the TV show “Midnight Special”)

1:24 ? ? (Violin section)
1:26 Fleetwood Mac “Sara” (Video: Band with singer wearing a red dress / drummer at 1:29.)
1:26 Pink Floyd "Happiest Days of our Lives" (Audio: Faint guitar riff) [Thanks Geecy Project!]
1:27 The Police “Message in a Bottle” (Audio: Guitar solo + Video: Three-piece band, one of whom is wearing a bow tie)
1:27 Joy Division "She's Lost Control" (Audio: Snare drum sound, famously created by spraying an aerosol into a microphone. Repeated at 1:32)
1:29 The Flying Lizards “Money” (Man plays drums with his spoon at the breakfast table)
1:38 Michael Jackson “Rock With You” (Audio: High Synth sound + Video: White boots)
1:38 Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers “Don’t Do Me Like That” (Audio: Repeating piano chords)

1:42 The Sugarhill Gang “Rapper’s Delight” (Lyric: “Now what you hear is not a test, I’m rapping to the beat …”)
1:43 The Specials “A Message to You Rudy” (Man takes off a red hat in front of a crowd)
1:43 Billy Joel “My Life” (Billy Joel plays the keyboard while chewing something)
1:46 Gary Numan “Cars” (Audio: Low synth bass + Video: Singer in red top at 1:50 and singer clapping in front of light pyramid at 1:51)
1:49 ? ? (Organist in front of studio soundproofing)

1:50 Van Halen “Dance the night away” (Lyric: “Daaaance the night awaaaay”)
1:54 Michael Jackson “Rock With You” (Lyric: “Dance the night away”)
1:54 The Buggles “Video Killed the Radio Star” (Piano riff)
1:56 Queen “Crazy Little Thing Called Love” (Audio: Clapping + Video: Man in leather pants and white knees clicks his fingers)
2:05 ? ? (3 note drum fill)

2:06 Earth Wind and Fire “Boogie Wonderland" (Lyric “Dance” + Audio: Hectic drum beat + Video: African costumes)
2:09 Talking Heads "I Zimbra" (Video: Black and white hand drummer & kit drummer, full band with a purple wall in the background)
2:11 ? ? (Blond kit drummer wearing a green tie and no shirt)

2:13 Rupert Holmes “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)" (Guitar riff played on a yellow guitar)
2:13 Earth Wind and Fire “Boogie Wonderland” (Man in gold and white jumpsuit. Women in colourful shawls)
2:17 Donna Summer “Bad Girls” reprise (Lyric: “Beep beep. Toot toot”)
2:17 Chic “Le Freak” (Lyric “Ohhhh” (Not sung “Freak out!”) + Video: Four piece band - two guys in tan suits and two women in maroon pant suits)
2:19 The Buggles "Video Killed The Radio Star" reprise (Audio: Faint "Oh wah oh" + Video: A retro-futurist woman with purple foil wig is stuck in a clear tube)
2:23 The Clash “Train in Vain” reprise
2:29 The Pretenders “Brass in Pocket" (Video: A waitress gives a sleeping man a cup of tea)

2:31 Blondie “Heart of Glass” (Lyric: “Ooo ooo, woah oh” + Video of blonde woman with bright red lipstick)
2:31 Kool & the Gang “Ladies Night” (Lyric: “This is your night, tonight, everything’s gonna be, alright …”)
2:31 Supertramp “Goodbye Stranger” (Audio: Electric piano + Video: Man in white jump suit plays the electric piano)
2:42 The Knack "My Sharona" reprise (Video: Guitarist with a white shirt and black guitar)
2:48 Cheap Trick “I Want You To Want Me” (Audio: Ending guitar riff + Video: Guitarist in schoolboy uniform)

Thanks to the wonderful contributors: Jakob Mueller, h120mc, The Geecy Project, WDP Music and Chad Kayuha! (Alas, the original version of this list has disappeared)

Not in the video after all: Sister Sledge

Not found yet: Nothing! We have time stamps for every song on the Spotify list. Well done everyone!

[brandonrose]

I miss Hood Internet, Please start making Mixtape volumes again!

[Cutondogor]

What gets me is the number of different styles - we've got punk and rap and disco and pop and hard rock and new wave and soft rock and mid-America rock and ... so many! It's a time of changeover and amazing to see what was playing then.

[JoeBobTarheel]

To Hood Internet... One of the best channels I've seen in a long time!

[davek]

79 is quite interesting. The old boogie and R&B mixed with disco and KISS (love them!!) plus Rainbow! Great seeing Mr. Blackmore and co!

[MissNovemberTuesday]

I really wish you had one for 1978. A lot of great songs that year, too. I think that was the year that kicked off the changes in music I loved in the early 80s.

[jeannewaller]

This is absolutely great!Awesome Pina Colada Guitar solo ending the decade with !!!!👍🎶

[TheButcherofManchester]

Hood Internet is the highlight of the 2020 quarantine!

[cathygorgeous]

Who ever did this was a magician and I’m loving it every song I knew and loved.. I gave birth 1979 💖

[co]

We need your work on Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3

[perryryan]

I can't stop listening; this is the work of masters. Everything is so expertly incorporated.

[shawncuffley]

need mashups like this on Spotify so I can download them

[Tangerinetambourine]

y'all are killing it with these remixes, great job

[shescoots]

These are so amazing... thank you thank you for a warm and fuzzy flashback/vacation to a time when we didn’t shelter in place for months on end...

[dylanglatz]

I’m now incapable of listening to ‘I Wanna Be Your Lover’ without adding in the supplementary claps..! PuhLEASE release these on Spotify !!

[KeepQuirky]

Going to pretend this mashup was the #1 song of my birth year. So good.

[wws]

Album covers in the beginning:

Pink Floyd - The Wall
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Fleetwood Mac - Tusk
The Clash - London Calling

The Sugarhill Gang - Rapper's Delight
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers - Damn the Torpedoes
Gary Numan - The Pleasurable Principle
Gang of Four - Entertainment!

Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Supertramp - Breakfast In America
The Cure - Three Imaginary Boys
The Cars - Candy-O (Thanks to chrisrj9871)

[andybaio]

Here's what I've found so far, in rough order of appearance. Some of these are buried in the mix, but the music video clips match up to the song they're from.
Prince, “I Wanna Be Your Lover”
The Whispers, “And the Beat Goes On”
The Boomtown Rats, "I Don't Like Mondays"
The Clash, "Train in Vain"
Lipps Inc, “Funkytown”
Doobie Brothers, “What A Fool Believes”
Michael Jackson, “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough’
ABBA, “Gimme, Gimme, Gimme!”
The Clash, “London Calling”
Charlie Daniels Band, “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”
Donna Summer, “Bad Girls”
Chic, “Le Freak”
Anita Ward, “Ring My Bell”
Electric Light Orchestra, “Don’t Bring Me Down”
The Gap Band, “Oops Upside Your Head”
Pat Benatar, “Heartbreaker”
Rainbow, “Since You've Been Gone”
Squeeze, "Up the Junction"
The Knack, “My Sharona”
Pink Floyd, “Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2"
Kiss, “I Was Made For Lovin’ You”
The Cure, “Boys Don’t Cry”
The Cars, “Let’s Go”
AC/DC, “Highway to Hell”
M, “Pop Muzik”
Fleetwood Mac, “Sara”
The Flying Lizards, “Money”
The Police, “Message in a Bottle”
The Sugarhill Gang, “Rapper’s Delight”
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, “Don’t Do Me Like That”
The Special, "A Message To You Rudy"
Billy Joel, “My Life”
Gary Numan, “Cars”
Van Halen, “Dance the Night Away”
Talking Heads, "I Zimbra"
Earth, Wind, & Fire, “Boogie Wonderland”
Queen, “Crazy Little Thing Called Love”
Michael Jackson, “Rock with You”
The Buggles, “Video Killed the Radio Star”
Rupert Holmes, “Escape (The Pina Colada Song)”
The Pretenders, “Brass In Pocket”
Blondie, “Heart of Glass”
Supertramp, “Goodbye Stranger”
Kool & The Gang, “Ladies Night”
Cheap Trick, “I Want You To Want Me”

The ones I couldn't find (reply with a time code if you know what they are!):
Gang of Four
Joy Division
Sister Sledge
Wire