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The Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 1979

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  The Top 10 Best Hit Songs of 1979 What’s up guys, it’s Fire, and welcome back to Fire’s Flaming Hot Takes. Today, we’ll be examining the top 10 best hit songs of 1979!! In my worst list, I highlighted how 1979 was a year where the best and worst list showed some very obvious patterns as to which songs made the lists. This was the year of Disco Demolition Night, an event that killed disco’s mainstream relevance. And yeah, listening to the year-end list for 1979, there was so much disco that it really got tedious to sit through it all. However, in small doses, the disco hits this year were pretty great for the most part. And that’s what makes 1979 such a great year for music in my opinion. Even though disco was incredibly oversaturated here, the abundance of disco hits made for a really fun time when processed in manageable doses. And outside of that...well after Disco Demolition Night the music industry was desperately searching for a new sound for mainstream music, meaning that while
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The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1979

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  The Top 10 Worst Hit Songs of 1979 Hey guys, it’s Fire and I’m back with another year-end list!! I know what I said at the end of last list but I found enough motivation and time to bash this out over the long weekend!! Today we’re examining the top 10 worst hit songs of 1979!! So 1979 is a year that for music is probably best known for Disco Demolition Night, an event that basically killed disco’s mainstream dominance. It’s easy to look back on this event and view it as racist and homophobic since disco was a genre that encouraged black and LGBTQ representation, but honestly taking a bit of a step back from that angle, could you really call it racism and/or homophobia or was it just an extreme reaction to disco's overexposure? The year-end list for 1979 is flooded with disco tracks that honestly, for me, got a bit tiresome after a while. To me, I’m pretty sure people were just burned out on disco at the time, leading to Disco Demolition Night, leading to the complete collapse of
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The Top 25 Best Hit Songs of 1996

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  The Top 25 Best Hit Songs of 1996 What’s up guys, it’s Fire, and we’re back with the top 25 (!!!) best hit songs of 1996!! So in my worst list, I expressed that 1996 was such a great year for music that I couldn’t even do a full dishonorable mentions list. So for the first time in my blog’s history, I’m gonna expand the best list to a top 25 as I think this is the best way to highlight the amount of real gems that were there in 1996. And while the worst list had a bunch of boring and icky R&B and boy band songs cheesier than a bowl of Kraft Mac & Cheese, the best hits this year were a ton of amazing music from the international circuit; we got some pretty terrific eurodance and europop and spoilers for the list proper but - hi “Macarena” - and we also have some amazing rock music here. And as interchangeably boring and icky as the worst R&B hits this year were, the truly excellent R&B really shined through. And as stated in my worst list, many of the biggest hits of t
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