A kung fu fighter in a disco

This was competing with "Whoot," which unfortunately didn't make the poll. I actually might go back and tick "Whoomp." Unlike Tom, I had an incredibly hard time limiting myself to nine. I've got another ten that I considered tickable. And it isn't that I loved the year's music particularly; I was drifting in my tastes, out of sorts with what was popular, but there turned out to be lots and lots of pleasing inventive stuff off in genres that weren't my main emotional movers.