The fifth most underrated song of the 1980s is New Order’s synth-pop classic ‘Blue Monday.’ This is the best selling 12-inch single in history and widely considered one of the best songs of its decade, but it has pretty much fallen off the map.
The closest most modern listeners have likely gotten to ‘Blue Monday’ is through its interpolation in Rihanna’s ‘Shut Up and Drive,’ a great song in its own right.
I continue to be endlessly impressed with Rihanna’s last album, Good Girl Gone Bad. To put it in terms of Michael Jackson, which seems to be required these days, it’s as chock full of hits as Thriller.
I just picked up Rihanna’s previous album, A Girl Like Me, and though I haven’t had a chance to listen to it all the way through yet, the first single ‘SOS’ is as groovily infectious as the new stuff. I don’t know how she has managed to float to the top of all the similar singers out there. She doesn’t write any of her songs so it’s probably a matter of her (or her management, or both) recognizing top songwriting and producing talent and lining her up with the right people. She also has a great presence and is a strong performer, so maybe it’s the writers and producers who want to be in business with her.
Tomorrow I will begin the countdown of my ten favorite songs of 2008, so I’m taking a breather now and highlighting the 80s classic ‘Bizarre Love Triangle’ by New Order.
I have nothing of interest to say about this song except that I dig it.
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