Songs of the 80's

[pacz]

The 80's had some unusual songs, what are your favorites, or those that you thought were rediculious?

Micky - Toni Basil
Get It On (Bang a Gong - The Powre Station
Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
Turning Japanese - The Vapors
Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung
Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Cruel Summer - Bananarama

 

[iflookscouldkill]

Ooh...Lord it would take forever to make a list like that

 

[SJB69]

Ooh...Lord it would take forever to make a list like that

I agree...that's why my iPod is pretty much full...

 

[marcde]

Now you have struck a chord close to my heart - the good old 80's

Some of my favourites were/are

I Want To Be Free / TOYAH
D-Days / HAZEL O'CONNOR
Mirror Mirror / DOLLAR
Tell It To My Heart / TAYLOR DAYNE
Since Yesterday / STRAWBERRY SWITCHBLADE
The Winner Takes It All / ABBA
It's You, Only You (Mein Schmerz) / LENE LOVICH
Just Can't Get Enough / DEPECHE MODE
Don't You Forget About Me / SIMPLE MINDS
Atomic / BLONDIE
How Soon Is Now / THE SMITHS
Stand And Deliver / ADAM & THE ANTS
Lover Come Back To Me / DEAD OR ALIVE
Don't You Want Me / HUMAN LEAGUE
Song To The Siren / THIS MORTAL COIL
Vienna / ULTRAVOX
Just What I Always Wanted / MARI WILSON
Breathing / KATE BUSH
Total Eclipse of The Heart / BONNIE TYLER

and so many more sorry to bore

 

[Tigryto]

Get It On (Bang a Gong) - The Power Station

This is one of my favourites. Also "Some Like It Hot". Great drums...

I take the hard rock way. I Love these...

"Rock You Like A Hurricane" and "Still Loving You" - Scorpions
"Heat Of The Moment" - Asia
"I Surrender" and "Stone Cold" - Rainbow
"Here I Go Again" and "Still Of The Night" - Whitesnake
"Owner Of A Lonely Heart" - Yes
"Rag Doll" and "Dude (Looks Like A Lady)" - Aerosmith
"Walk This Way" - Run DMC (featuring Joe Perry and Steven Tyler)
"Yankee Rose" - David Lee Roth
"Jump" and "Hot For Teacher - Van Halen
"Photograph" and "Women" - Def Leppard
"Urgent" - Foreigner
"Welcome To The Jungle" and "Sweet Child O' Mine" - Guns N' Roses
"I Love Rock N' Roll" - Joan Jett

 

[xyboyms]

One of my all time favorite 80s hits is definitely Dead or Alive's You Spin Me Around (Like A Record). I listen to it all the time to this day! Unfortunately, Jessica Simpson is currently butchering it on her new album.

 

[miatajeff]

I saw the wierd guy/girl creature perform live-he was pretty awful, and he was in drag from the waste up, wore only a jockstrap and girly boots on bottom. There were cameras on the stage and he kept showing his droopy butt hole on the camera-pretty gross, but he was a great recording artist...

Thought y'all might want to hear a tidbit of 80's gay pop culture history...


Good thread idea pacz
xoxoxo

 

[CuppaJoe]

Some of my favorites:

Peter Schilling - Major Tom



Nena - 99 Luftballoons



Double - Captain of Her Heart



Taco - Putting on the Ritz



Tracey Ullman = They Don't Know

 

[eastietop]

How could you forget Kaja Goo Goo (SP?) Too Shy and Falco's Rock me Amadeus.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

Do You Really Want To Hurt Me

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

Nena ------- 99 Luftballons

 

[Mako247]

then there was

Johnny are you queer by Josie Cotton(?)
and
Homecoming queen's gotta gun by julie brown

 

[NedNickerson]

Eurythmics - Here Comes The Rain Again



Billy Preston and Syreeta - With You, I'm Born Again



Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire



Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time



Blondie - The Tide Is High

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

^The Tide is High.......... Great Song.

but I'll always remember it because of the movie Longtime Companian. Too Sad.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

how about this girl.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

I'm so fucking old.

first concert I ever went to was The Boss.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

and we can never forget Light Of Day.

from 2 of my favs................

 

[techboywi]

Some of my favs
Don't Stand So Close To Me - The Police
Take On Me - Aha <--- one of the best, most creative videos I've ever seen
Listen To Your Heart -- Roxette
Edge Of Seventeen -- Steve Nicks
Weird Science -- Thomas Dolby
Wild Boys -- Duran Duran
Runaway -- Bon Jovi

 

[starlight70]

Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Every Breath You Take - Police
Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics
Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
Like A Virgin - Madonna
Venus - Bananarama
Forever Young - Alphaville

Why no one mentions of Olivia Newton-John's Xanadu and Physical, since that Physical was the No. 1 single of the decade..

I miss her.

 

[PreTTy PeTe]

^Olivia Newton-John was the best

and John Travolta was a cutie.