Whats your favorite eightys song ?

[smuddan]

Jermaine Jackson - Do What You Do

Wham - Careless Whispers

REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling

 

[GotGusto]

I forgot to mention Music of the Night from Phantom of the Opera
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Imv-7F8zHy4

I somehow thought it was from the early 90's (when I saw the play) but actually it's from 1986. I love this song (in particular this version, sung by Michael Crawford).

 

[james t kirk]

Sunday Februrary 3, 1985. Parked outside of Mills Library in my mother's car with a girl who would become my first love (and my GF of three years) and I kissed her for the first time.

This song was on the radio. (I heard it on XM 44 tonight and it took me back.) Sigh....

 

[K Douglas]

Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Nasty Girls - Vanity 6
Moments in Love- The Art of Noise
PSK - Schoolly Dee
Paid in Full - Eric B n Rakim
If I Was Your Girlfriend - Prince

Wow. Someone else out there in terbland is a Schoolly D fan. Most people are like Schoolly who? PSK is one of the sicket drum beats put on wax.

 

[K Douglas]

... ..

Made my top 10 of the eightys. Great tune.

 

[K Douglas]

A few of the rarer 80's gems

Life in a Northern Town - Dream Academy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8YablrXxFCc

Whisper to a Scream - Icicle Works
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIxgHu5U1v4

Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKIs_6qc4cQ

Wouldn't It Be Good - Nik Kershaw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fIBzbdo2LjU

 

[maverick]

roxy music - more than this

simple minds - speed your love to me

u2 - with or without u

icicle works - birds fly (whisper to a scream)

modern english - i melt with you

ultravox - one small day

 

[maverick]

a flock of seagulls - space age love song

tears for fears - everbody wants to rule the world

cock robin - when your heart is weak

another one by cock robin, wasn't a hit in north america, but was a hit in europe, especially france and belgium
cock robin - the promise you made

til tuesday - voices carry

roxette - listen to your heart

 

[carpaltunnel]

How Soon is Now - the Smiths

My Ever Changing Moods - The Style Council

Sheep - The Housemartins

 

[maverick]

technically a 90's song, it was recorded in the '89 but released in the spring of '90 but one of the greatest metal power ballads ever

queensryche - silent lucidity

journey - only the young

journey - faithfully

a must listen song

til tuesday - coming up close

 

[jetfuel]

Too Shy - Kajagoogoo

Let me go - Heaven 17

First last everything - Endgames

Gosh thinking about the 80's music makes me want to cry. Does anyone even listen to todays music.?

 

[mexx]

A LICKY BOOM-BOOM DOWN!!!!!!

Informer
You know say daddy me snow me-a (gonna) blame
A licky boom-boom down
'Tective man he say, say Daddy Me Snow me stab someone down the lane
A licky boom-boom down

Police-a them-a they come and-a they blow down me door
One him come crawl through through my window
So they put me in the back the car at the station
From that point on I reach my destination
Well the destination reached in down-a East detention
Where they whip down me pants look up me bottom

 

[AnimalMagnetism]

I love this song

later covered by an excellent band

 

[mexx]

Another great tune and the chick in the video is so amazingly fuckable!

 

[AnimalMagnetism]

Another great tune and the chick in the video is so amazingly fuckable!

Not an eighties song, released in 97
"Barbie Girl" is a song in the bubblegum pop genre by the Danish dance-pop group Aqua, who released it in 1997 as their third single overall, and the first United Kingdom release. The song is included on the album Aquarium and was written by Claus Norreen and Søren Nystrøm Rasted after the group saw an exhibit on kitsch culture. The song topped the charts worldwide, particularly in European countries such as the UK, where it was a number-one hit for three weeks; it was also on top of the charts in Australia for the same length of time, and debuted and peaked at No. 7 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 on 6 September 1997.

 

[Bobzilla]

Way too many to list:

Der Kommissar--Falco
Something About You--Level 42
Another Nail for my Heart--Squeeze
Suicide Blonde--INXS
My Mistake--The Kingbees
Kiss & Tell--Bryan Ferry
Same Old Scene--Roxy Music
Talk to Ya Later--The Tubes
She's a Beauty--The Tubes
Meet Me in the Middle--The Arrows
Shattered Dreams--Johnny Hates Jazz
Promises Promises--Naked Eyes
Pump it Up--Elvis Costello
Games People Play--Alan Parsons Project
Lovers in a Dangerous Time--Bruce Cockburn (can't stand that Barenaked Ladies version, it sucks balls)
Wind Him Up--Saga
Melody--Boys Brigade
Eyes of a Stranger--Payolas
Stuck in the Rain Again--Payolas
Big in Japan--Alphaville

 

[ChaosTheory]

Remember these guys:

 

[1955pont]

 

[Machine]

I discovered most of the following songs this decade:

She Sells Sanctuary;
Africa (Toto);
Don't Stand So Close to Me;
The River (Bruce Springsteen);
I Melt with You.

 

[AnimalMagnetism]

Rest In Peace Ronnie James Dio
one of the greatest voices in rock