What is your favorite 80s song and artists?
14 years ago
General
My favorite 80s songs are:
- Locomotion by Kylie Minogue
- Billie Jean by Michael Jackson
- Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by Eurythmics
- Footloose by Kenny Loggins
- Together Forever by Rick Astley
- Forever Young by Alphaville
- The Promise by When In Rome
- Take On Me by A-Ha
- You Spin Me Right Round by Dead Or Alive
- Cruel Summer by Bannarama
- Straight Up by Paula Abdul
What are yours?
- Locomotion by Kylie Minogue
- Billie Jean by Michael Jackson
- Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) by Eurythmics
- Footloose by Kenny Loggins
- Together Forever by Rick Astley
- Forever Young by Alphaville
- The Promise by When In Rome
- Take On Me by A-Ha
- You Spin Me Right Round by Dead Or Alive
- Cruel Summer by Bannarama
- Straight Up by Paula Abdul
What are yours?
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Songs:
1. A-ha - Take On Me
2. Human League - Don't You Want Me
3. Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
4. Thompson Twins - If You Were Here
5. OMD - If You Leave
6. The Cure - Plainsong
7. Kraftwerk - Autobahn
8. Camouflage - The Great Commandment
9. Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
10. Depeche Mode - People Are People
11. New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle, The Perfect Kiss, True Faith
Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran
Do They Know It's Christmas? - Band-Aid
The Promise - When In Rome
Breaking the Law - Judas Priest
Subdivisions - Rush
In a Big Country - Big Country
Wouldn't It Be Good? - Nik Kershaw
Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson
Cum On Feel the Noize - Quiet Riot
Heart & Soul - T'Pau
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
99 Red Balloons (in English) - Nena
Keep Feeling Fascination - Human League
Major Tom - Peter Schilling
Magic - Olivia Newton-John
Wonderful Christmastime - Wings
A Little Respect - Erasure
And the list goes on...
Toto Coelo - I Eat Cannibals
Baltimora - Tarzan Boy
Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok
Oingo Boingo - Little Girls
George Michael - Monkey
Beastie Boys - Brass Monkey
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Could You Be Loved?
Eddie Money - Think I'm in Love
ELO - All Over the World
Journey - Seperate Ways
Prince - Delirious, Little Red Corvette (his whole 80's catalog really)
Fleetwood Mac - Everywhere, Big Love
That's jus' a few right off the top of my head XD
Ultravox - Reap the Wild Wind
ABC - The Look of Love
Dionne Warwick - Heartbreaker
Melissa Manchester - No One Can Love You More Than Me
Scritti Politti - Boom! There She Was
Jane Wiedlin - Inside a Dream
Eurythmics - There Must be an Angel Playing With My Heart
Pretty Poison - Catch Me I'm Falling
Oh, the list could go on and on, but these came to mind pretty quickly.
80s Synth Pop for the WIN!!!
808 State - "Pacific State"
A-ha - "The Sun Always Shines On TV"
The Beautiful South - "Song For Whoever"
Blancmange - "Living On The Ceiling"
Bronski Beat - "Small Town Boy"
Bryan Adams - "Run To You"
Culture Club - "Karma Chameleon"
Dire Straits - "Money For Nothing", "Walk Of Life"
De La Soul - "The Magic Number", "Eye Know"
Electronic - "Getting Away With It"
Kajagoogoo - "Hang On Now"
Karaftwerk - "The Model"
Nik Kershaw - "Wouldn't It Be Good?"
OMD - "Secret"
The Pretenders - "Don't Get Me Wrong", "If There Was A Man"
Queen - "Radio Ga-Ga", "A Kind Of Magic"
The Smiths - "There Is A Light That Never Goes Out"
Talk Talk - "Life's What You Make It"
Thompson Twins - "Hold Me Now"
U2 - "I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For"
Ultravox - "Vienna"
Van Halen - "Jump"
Cock Robin - The Promise You Made (Extended Mix)
Depeche Mode - Never Let Me Down Again (Split Mix)
Spagna - Easy Lady (Extended Mix)
Ken Laszlo - Hey Hey Guy (Extended Mix)
Blind Date - My Heart Keeps Burning (Extended Mix)
Electra - Cuando, Cuando (Extended Mix)
Den Harrow - Don't break my heart (Extended Mix)
A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV (Extended Mix)
Depeche Mode - Nothing to Fear
Secret Service - A Flash In The Night (Extended Mix)
The 49ers - Touch Me (Extended Mix)
Exposé - Tell Me Why (Extended Mix)
I could go on and on of course but these are pretty much a handful of those I'd press on an emergency-CD for surviving ;)
ABC ("The Lexicon Of Love" is one of the best albums of the decade, hands down)
a-ha
Arcadia
the Art Of Noise
Culture Club
the Cure
David Bowie
Def Leppard
Depeche Mode
Devo
Duran Duran (my all-time favorite band. Their latest album, "All You Need Is Now", is AMAZING)
Eurythmics
Falco (don't laugh-- he was a lot more than "Rock Me Amadeus"!)
the Fixx
Gary Numan
George Michael
Hall & Oates
the Human League ("Don't You Want Me" still sounds fresh after 30 years!)
INXS
Journey
Kraftwerk
Missing Persons
Naked Eyes
New Order
Pet Shop Boys
the Police
the Pretenders
Prince
the Psychedelic Furs
Queen
Soft Cell (I did a cover of their song Youth)
Tears For Fears
Thomas Dolby
Thompson Twins
U2
Wire
Those are just some of the bands. My list of songs would take severeal hours to type out lol.
Private Idaho - The B-52's
Photograph of You - Depeche Mode
Strangelove (Album version) - Depeche Mode
Girls On Film - Duran Duran
Telecommunication - The Flock Of Seagulls
Together In Electric Dreams - The Human League
All The Way - New Order
Sub-Culture - New Order
Maid Of Orleans- Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Electricity - Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
Always On My Mind - Pet Shop Boys
Talking In Your Sleep - The Romantics
Prince
Phil Collins
The Beatles
David Bowie
Hall & Oats
Weird Al
I'm a britboy so I know ska