In Episode 341 of History in Five Songs with Martin Popoff, Martin rings in the "new year” of 1980 by examining how classic rock, metal, punk, and new wave bands either reinvented themselves, stalled out, or flat-out quit as the calendar flipped from the ’70s into the radically different ’80s.

1. Y&T – “Shake It Loose”
2. Led Zeppelin – “Carouselambra”
3. Black Sabbath – “Wishing Well”
4. The Damned – “Plan 9 Channel 7”
5. David Bowie – “Ricochet”

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