80's Top Ten
 

And what about your 1980's top ten??? A cool decade that gave us cool music.

My list would be (of course nonmac songs):

Hold me Now - Thompson Twins
Enola Gay - OMD
Every breath you take - Police
She bops - Cyndi Lauper
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Let's go crazy - Prince
Time - Culture Club
Back to the chain gang - Pretenders
Walk like an egyptian - Bangles
We got the beat - Go Gos

Too pop? well,, those were the 80s

YAY!! My fave decade!!
 

This is extremely difficult. I have a 100 cd-changer that is full of 80 minute cdr's of 80's music. I am an 80's fanatic...

1. Tower of Strength -- The Mission UK
2. Lay You Hands on Me (Alex Sadkin (Pre-Nile Rodgers) 12" Mix) -- Thompson Twins
3. The Promise -- Arcadia
4. Forever Young -- Alphaville
5. It's My Life -- Talk Talk
6. IGY -- Donald Fagen
7. Mercy Street -- Peter Gabriel
8. E=MC2 -- Big Audio Dynamite
9. Never Let Me Down (Split Mix) -- Depeche Mode
10. With or Without You -- U2

Oy, I need a nap after that. I'm exhausted!

John

And as for the best '80's albums...

1. The Joshua Tree -- U2
2. Into the Gap -- Thompson Twins
3. Black Celebration -- Depeche Mode
4. So -- Peter Gabriel
5. Double Fantasy and/or The John Lennon Collection -- John Lennon
6. Legend -- Bob Marley and the Wailers
7. Document -- R.E.M.
8. Strangeways, Here We Come -- The Smiths
9. Please -- Pet Shop Boys
10. Low Life -- New Order

John

Little Lies (FM)
Africa (Toto)
Steam (Peter Gabriel)
You Win Again (BeeGees)
Billie Jean (MJ)
Love Shack (B52s)
Relax (Frankie Goes to Hollywood)
Another One Bites the Dust (Queen)
Great Southern Land (Icehouse)
You're the Voice (John Farnham)
+
That theme song from Flashdance - sooo 80s!
+
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun <-- fun song

Some of these could be early '90s, but close enough...


-Take On Me: A-HA
-Electric Youth: Debbie Gibson
-The Metro: Berlin
-Straight Up: Paula Abdul
-I Think We're Alone Now: Tiffany
-Like A Prayer: Madonna
-Eternal Flame: Bangles
-Right Stuff: NKOTB
-Hold Me Now: Thompson Twins
-Heaven's A Place on Earth: Belinda Carlisle


-Curt

Curt...
 

Thanks! I'm not a big fan of Tiffany either, but I love love love that remake.


-Curt

No particular order...

Change of Heart - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Brass in Pocket - The Pretenders
Where the Streets Have No Name - U2 (WAY too many U2 songs to list.)
Rapture - Blondie
Take on Me - Aha
Come on, Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
The Metro - Berlin
Borderline - Madonna
Heartbreaker - Pat Benatar
Sweet Child o' Mine - Guns N Roses (EDIT: I completely forgot about this song. How could I have forgotten it?!)

-Kate

Great picks! "Sweet Child o' Mine" is an awesome song with one of the most under-appreciated guitar riffs of the '80's.

John

How about the more obscure one-hit wonders...

Welcome to the Boomtown (David & David)
I Love the Things You Do to Me (Balaam & the Angel)
Mary's Prayer (Danny Wilson)
AEIOU Sometimes Y (EBN-OZN)
The Fanatic (Felony)
I LOVE a Man in Uniform (Gang of Four) :p
Whisper to a Scream (Icicle Works)
88 Lines about 44 Women (The Nails)
She Talk in Stereo (Gary Myrick and the Figure) <--Tom Petty sound-alike)
Eyes of a Stranger (Payola$)

and so many more unsung heroes!

John

Thanks. :) I adore SCOM. It has to be the greatest riff of all time, in my opinion.

Some other great songs I forgot (Gettin' kinda obscure)...

Bad, Gloria, The Unforgettable Fire, Two Hearts Beat as One and A Sort of Homecoming - U2
Mystery Achievement, Room Full of Mirrors, Time the Avenger and Up the Neck - The Pretenders
Angels on the Balcony, Call Me, Orchid Club and Faces - Blondie
Don't Come Around Here No More, Rebels, You Can Still Change Your Mind and Free Fallin' - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Handle With Care - The Travelling Willburys
I'll stop here. :laugh:

-Kate

Obscure is right!!!! I've never heard any of these. :sorry:


-Curtis

No prob. Send me a private email and I'll make you a cd. [email protected]

John :shrug:

1. How Soon Is Now-The Smiths
2. Big Mouth Strikes Again-The Smiths
3. Let's Dance-David Bowie
4. New Year's Day-U2
5. Into the Groove-Madonna
6. Change-Tears For Fears
7. Money For Nothing-Dire Straits
8. I Might Have Been Queen-Tina Turner
9. Hungry Like The Wolf-Duran Duran
10.Wrapped Around Your Finger-The Police


More later....

actually....steam was released in 1992. good song though. sounds very similar to sledgehammer which i think is better.

1. U2 - New Years Day
2. Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
3. Duran Duran - A View To A Kill
4. Berlin - The Metro
5. Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker/ Love Is A Battlefield
6. Van Halen - Jump
7. Take On Me - A-Ha
8. Madonna - Material Girl (guilty pleasure :laugh: )
9. REM - It's The End of the World As We Know It
10. The B-52's - Love Shack

In no particular order:

1. David Bowie- China Girl
2. Blondie- Rapture
3. Belinda Carlisle- Heaven On Earth
4. Tom Petty- Insider
5. Bonnie Tyler- Total Eclipse of the Heart
6. Pat Benatar- Love Is A Battlefield
7. The Go-Go's- Our Lips Are Sealed
8. Tina Turner- We Don't Need Another Hero/ Steel Claw
9. The Pretenders- Room Full of Mirrors
10. Queen and David Bowie- Under Pressure

That's from '79. ;)

Does anyone remember The Pretender's tracks from The Living Daylights OST? Where Has Everbody Gone and If There Was a Man -- great tracks. Are the Pretenders still recording nowadays?


John

Yeah, they're still recording. ;) Chrissie and her husband got a divorce, so their last album from '03 was pretty bitter!

Hmmmm...
 

Songs:
1."Who Wants To Live Forever"-Queen
2."Total Eclipse Of The Heart"-Bonnie Tyler
3."Estranged"-Guns N Roses
4."Leper Messiah"-Metallica
5."5150"-Van Halen
6."Something To Believe In"-Poison
7."Pour Some Sugar On Me"-Def Leppard
8."Insider"-(Live) Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers w/Stevie Nicks
9."Still Of The Night"-Whitesnake
10."The Audience Is Listening"-Steve Vai

Albums:
1.Pink Floyd-"Live-The Delicate Sound Of Thunder"
2.Def Leppard-"Hysteria"
3.U2-"Joshua Tree"
4.Metallica-"Master Of Puppets"
5.Guns N Roses-"Appetite For Destruction"
6.Queensryche-"Operation:Mindcrime"
7.The Cult-"Sonic Temple"
8.Tesla-"Mechanical Resonance"
9.Blue Murder-"Blue Murder"
10.Scorpions-"World Wide Live"

"With or Without You" --U.2.
"I Can't Stand Losing You"--The Police
"The Metro"--Berlin
"Hungry Like the Wolf"--Duran Duran
"Billie Jean"-- Michael Jackson
"We Will Be Invincible"--Pat Benatar
"Welcome to the Jungle"--GNR
"What About Love"--Heart
"Joey"--Concrete Blonde
"China Girl"--David Bowie

I never heard that one. Any good? ;)

:p :laugh:

I fixed it, so there!!

:wavey:

I'm going to form a band called China Girl and do a song called, "David Bowie." :laugh: :laugh: I'm rolling...

11. Rock The Casbah-The Clash
12. Don' You Forget About Me-Simple Minds
13. Eyes Without A Face-Billy Idol
14. Crumblin Down-John Mellencamp
15. I Know What Boys Like-The Waitresses


We haven't even got to the hair bands yet... :laugh:

:laugh:

It doesn't have the same punch, darling. :laugh:

Oh... lol. I'm always seeing it on 80's compilations, etc, so I figured it was 80's (I actually have the album it's on, so I should've looked there. Duh, Kate.) The song still owns, though. :)

-Kate

I Can't Stand Losing You.....70's

Curses! You get me every time! Okay let me replace that one with "Don't Stand so Close to Me."

forgot about Billy Idol...good one. Although I'd choose White Wedding :nod:

that works ;)

This was about impossible for me! I grew up and went to junior high/part of high school in the 80s. Therefore, there were too many songs I thought were important, for one reason or another. I have left out so many. Here are some of the ones I thought of aside from Stevie and Lindsey projects/Fleetwood Mac stuff produced in the 80s. Here goes in no particular order:

1. Tracy Chapman---"Fast Car"

2. Modern English--------"I Melt With You"

3. Tom Petty----"The Waiting"

4. Violent Femmes----"Add It Up "or "Kiss Off"

5. Heart-----"What About Love"

6. The Cars-------"Let's Go"

7. Duran Duran---------"Hungry Like the Wolf"

8. Prince----well......anything, but can only pick one so "When Doves Cry"

9. Eurythmics-----"Missionary Man"

10. John Lennon--------"Watching the Wheels"

Hair Band Song------Poison------"Talk Dirty to Me"

I feel compelled to add a few that i remember having first consciousness of being hits - How big of hits? I dunno, but i remember hearing them:
Karma Chameleon
Bette Davis Eyes
Playing With the Queen of Hearts? (Juice Newton)
Nine to Five
Time After Time
Maniac (probably already said)
Sta Ba
Jump (Van Halen)
True Colors

80's top ten
 

Alan Parsons Project: Eye in the Sky, Prime Time, Anything on the album Vulture Culture
The Police: Synchronicity album, Ghost in the Machine album
Supertramp: Breakfast in America, Rudy, It's Raining Again
Dire Straits: Walk of Life, Sultans of Swing
Springsteen: Born in the USA album-not a dud on it!
OMD: the song in the movie Pretty in Pink-I forget the name of it
Yaz-Winter Kills
Yes-Changes, Owner of a Broken Heart
Fixx-Say What You Mean
Van Halen-Jump
Ric Ocasek: Emotion in Motion
Don Henley-Boys of Summer
Journey: Forever Yours Faithfully
XTC-Oh God

What a great decade it was for music!

IF YOU LEAVE -- And their "Crush" album is great (or "neato" to coin an 80's term).

John

"Savage" - Eurythmics
"What About Love?" - Heart
"I Do" - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
"Alone" - Heart
"Can't Pull the Wool Down (Over the Little Lamb's Eyes)" - Maria McKee
"Why Can't This Night (Go On Forever)?" - Journey
"Here's Where the Story Ends" - The Sundays
"Love's Recovery" - Indigo Girls
"Ironbound/Fancy Poultry" - Suzanne Vega
"Kissing A Fool" - George Michael
"Miss You Much" - Janet Jackson
"Living It Up" - Rickie Lee Jones
"You Chase the Light" - The Innocence Mission

Most of the good 80's stuff was overlooked- especially when you consider all the crap that was out there....

You're preaching to an 80s fanatic here, so here goes my list lol.

1. Out Of The Blue- Debbie Gibson
2. Manic Monday- The Bangles
3. New Moon On Monday- Duran Duran
4. If Anyone Falls- Stevie Nicks
5. Suddenly Last Summer- The Motels
6. We Built This City - Starship
7. Human- The Human League
8. Goodbye To You - Scandal ft. Patti Smyth
9. It's My Life- Talk Talk
10. You Keep Me Hanging On- Kim Wilde

My list in no order:

"I.G.Y" by Donald Fagen
"Pressure" by Billy Joel
"Africa" by Toto
"Love Lies" by Michael McDonald (not a hit, though...)
"We Didn't Start the Fire" by Billy Joel
"Raspberry Beret" by Prince
"I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For" by U2 ("Bullet the Blue Sky" is good too!)
"Running Up That Hill" by Kate Bush
"Walk of Life" by Dire Straits
"That's All" by Genesis

Wow. I forgot about this song. Patti Smythe has an absolutely amazing voice. I hear she's married to John McEnroe these days...