Best & Worst Songs Of the '80s

[Songseeker]

What do you think they are?

My picks for best are:

Only A Lad ~ Oingo Boingo
Institutionalized ~ Suicidal Tendencies
Roxanne ~ The Police
Add It Up ~ The Violent Femmes
She Blinded Me With Science ~ Thomas Dolby
David Bowie ~ Ashes To Ashes

Worst:

Too Shy ~ Kajagoogoo, who incidentally had one of the worst band names to go with the awful song.
Mickey ~ Toni Basil

I'm sure I'll think of others the moment I hit the "submit" button. LOL!

[Elleth Faewen]

Best:
Styx, Show Me the Way
The B-52's, Love Shack
Robert Palmer, Addicted to Love
Mike and the Mechanics, The Living Years


Worst:
Buggles, Video Killed the Radio Star
M, Pop Musik
Soft Cell, Tainted Love
Wham!, Wake me up before you go-go

The Wham! song almost sounds like kajagoogoo.

[diamond1]

There's too many to mention for both good and bad songs..i still think Joe Dolce was awful and is hard to be beaten in terms of worst song at that time..
Tie a Yellow Ribbon got on your nerves after a while also...

[floria]

How about for worst:

Billy Ray Cyrus and his Achy Breaky Heat and his mullet hair cut

[Songseeker]

Nice list Ellen!

[Songseeker]

Diamond, I'm unfamiliar with Joe Dolce. Is that a song or a performer?

[floria]

Joe Dolce singer who sang "what's the matter you" in his Italian(??) accent

[JiveBunny]

Shaddupa your face! (Joe Dolce sang that - I'm not just shouting at you)

[Jeff76]

So many great songs: Tears For Fears- "Head Over Heels"
Don Henley- "Boys of Summer"
The Fixx- "Red Skies at Night" etc...
Falco- "Rock Me Ammadeus"
Really BAD songs: The Waitresses- "I Know What Boys Like"
Bobby Farrin- "Don't Worry, Be Happy"
Jefferson Starship- "We Built This City"
Erasure- "Chains of Love"

[JM28Cardiff]

My best

Dance Hall Days by Wang Chung

Safety Dance by Men Without Hats?

Rock Me Amadeus by Falco

Worst

Love Missile F1-11 by Sigue Sigue Sputnik

[Popsicle]

So many to choose from!

Some of my favourites include Owen Paul's cover of "My Favourite Waste of Time", Deacon Blue's "Real Gone Kid", "Down Under" by Men At Work, "Love Shack" by The B52s, "Kayleigh" by Marillion, "Give it Up" by KC and the Sunshine Band, "Together in Electric Dreams" by Giorgio Moroder and Phil Oakey and I always had a soft spot for The Timelords "Doctorin' The Tardis"!

Some horrors are of course Billy Ray Cyrus (Does anyone actually like this now?) and the ghastly Joe Dolce "Shaddap You Face". I liked a lot of Culture Club songs, but I cannot stand "Do You Really Want To Hurt Me". maybe it just got played too much....

[Weremadog]

Best Songs of the 70's and 80's?

Best Songs ... Too many to list but have to include Another Brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd, anything by Paul Weller and or The Jam (except Aunties and Uncles which definately goes down as duff!) anything by Van Morrison and Madness - The Chicken Song from Spitting Image .... ok it's weird but I like it.

Worst ....
Agadoo
The Birdy song
Micky - Toni Basil

There are more but I have steam coming out of my ears from all that thinking - well at my age ....

[dean80's]

am i the only person to like the frog chorus by Paul Mccartney????

[Popsicle]

Quite possibly.

Although my father quite liked it, especially the accompanying video!

[80s gail]

best and worst of 80's

I will never forget as long as I live the travesty that was shaddup you face by Joe Dolce, it kept vienna by Ultravox off the no 1 spot. I will never forgive the record buying british public for that! I couldn't possibly post all my favs from the 80's too many and varied.