80's Top Ten

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by gldstwmn

13. Eyes Without A Face-Billy Idol

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

[MikeVielhaber]

Originally Posted by cliffdweller

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

that works

[golddustwoman77]

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"

[amber]

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

[Vianna]

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!

[jwys_soapbox]

Originally Posted by Vianna

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

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

[The Tower]

"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....

[Wild_Heart03]

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

[littlelies7]

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

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by Wild_Heart03

8. Goodbye To You - Scandal ft. Patti Smyth

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

[DownOnRodeo]

Good work Nick. I don't know how I forgot We Built This City. That song is SOO 80s!! (Although Mike will probably inform us that is was released in the 60s! lol)

[cliffdweller]

Originally Posted by DownOnRodeo

Good work Nick. I don't know how I forgot We Built This City. That song is SOO 80s!! (Although Mike will probably inform us that is was released in the 60s! lol)

[Claudia]

Gee... So many...

- 'Luka' - Suzanne Vega
- 'Kids In America' - Kim Wilde
- 'Call Me' - Blondie
- 'Road To Nowhere' - Talking Heads
- 'Bette Davies Eyes' - Kim Carnes
- 'Alone' - Heart
- 'Money For Nothing' - Dire Straits
- 'Sweet Dreams' - Eurythmics
- 'I Won't Back Down' - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
- 'Fast Car' - Tracy Chapman

[TheBlueLamp]

1. Private Dancer- Tina Turner
2. Sweet And Low- Deborah Harry
3. Promises In The Dark- Pat Benatar
4. Robert De Niro's Waiting- Bananarama
5. Why- Carly Simon
6. Cambodia- Kim Wilde
7. Gloria- Laura Branigan
8. Burning Up- Madonna
9. Love Is A Stranger- Eurythmics
10.War Child- Blondie

Nick

[Wild_Heart03]

Originally Posted by DownOnRodeo

Good work Nick. I don't know how I forgot We Built This City. That song is SOO 80s!! (Although Mike will probably inform us that is was released in the 60s! lol)

Those darned cover songs...

LOL... just kidding.