your 80's top 10

[amethyst]

Re: your 80's top 10

I am going to add a few of my choices that have not been mentioned
1jump-Van Halen
2.Moonlight Shadow-Maggie Riley
3.Touch of grey-Grateful dead
4.Cheap Sunglasses-ZZTop
5.Boys of summer-Don Henley
6.Heat is on-Glenn Frey
7.Africa-Toto

[WhiteChristmas]

Re: your 80's top 10

Excellent subject. I, too, could list a few hundred, but have forced myself to try and identify the songs which had the biggest impact on me at the time.


I've settled on;


Going Underground - The Jam
Enola Gay - OMITD
Don't You Want Me - Human League
Bedsitter - Soft Cell
Planet Earth - Duran Duran
Uncertain Smile (12" mix) - The The
Fields of Fire - Big Country
Run to the Hills - Iron Maiden
Oblivious - Aztec Camera
Photograph - Def Leppard


That leaves out Orange Juice, Spandau Ballet, Visage, Sheena Easton, Echo & the Bunnymen, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, the Cult, the Thompson Twins, Deacon Blue and the Teardrop Explodes, any one of which might provide two or three songs to an equally valid list.


And they're only the Brit acts! In the second half of the decade I listened almost exclusively to American rock bands from Kiss and Motley Crue through to Journey and REO Speedwagon.

Good times.

[Jedi Knight]

Re: your 80's top 10

I can't do just 10, so here goes:

Imagination - Belouis Some (all time 80's favourite)
Some Like it Hot - Power Station
I didn't mean to turn you on - Robert Palmer
Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
Obsession - Animotion
Shake your love - Debbie Gibson
Rock me Amadeus - Falco
Same old scene - Roxy Music
Big in Japan - Alphaville
More than this - Roxy Music
Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung
The look of love part 1 - ABC
All the things she said - Simple Minds
Like a Virgin - Madonna
Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics
Big Love - Fleetwood Mac
Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac
Cyndi Lauper - Time after time
The Reflex - Duran Duran
Modern Love - Bowie
Let's Dance - Bowie
Out of touch - Hall & Oates
Hip to be Square - Huey Lewis


Just to name a few.

[darren]

Re: your 80's top 10

some crackers there mate.

trying to do a top ten from this decade is near impossible.
great song that by the police its one of them songs i hear and when i do it transprts me back in time.

1. Every Breath You Take-The Police
2.Vienna-Ultravox
3.I Can Dream About You-Dan Hartman
4.Sweet Dreams-Eurythmics
5.So Emotional-Whitney Houston
6.Town Called Malice-The Jam
7.Radio Gaga-Queen
8. I Want To Know What Love Is-Foreigner
9.It Must Be Love-Madness
10.Like A Prayer-Madonna

[lovetolookback]

Re: your 80's top 10

1,sowing the seeds of love,tears for fears.2,real gone kid,deacon blue.3,king of rock and roll,prefab sprout.4,cherish,madonna.5,somewhere in my heart,aztec camera.6,brothers in arms,dire straits.7,drama,erasure.8,you win again,bee gees.9,if i could turn back time,cher.10,we didnt start the fire,billy joel.

[onthebusesfan]

Re: your 80's top 10

1. Every Breath You Take-The Police
2.Vienna-Ultravox
3.I Can Dream About You-Dan Hartman
4.Sweet Dreams-Eurythmics
5.So Emotional-Whitney Houston
6.Town Called Malice-The Jam
7.Radio Gaga-Queen
8. I Want To Know What Love Is-Foreigner
9.It Must Be Love-Madness
10.Like A Prayer-Madonna

[Chris-T]

Re: your 80's top 10

-Old topic bump-

This is tricky but I'll try (probably could do this fifty times over with different songs!)

In no particular order:

1. Ultravox - Vienna
2. Visage - Fade To Grey
3. Paul Hardcastle - Rainforest
4. Human League - Love Action
5. Dire Straits - Romeo & Juliet
6. Wham! - Blue (Armed With Love)
7. Kraftwerk - Tour De France
8. Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
9. Hot Chocolate - Started With A Kiss
10. Imagination - Body Talk

[darren]

Re: your 80's top 10

ah right mate no probs


.http://youtu.be/Lr0xJBsVbZY
yeah it does not make sense.
another one of mine.


es not make sense.

I wasn't taking the mick or anything, I actually don't get what "take on me" means, it deosn't make sense.

[havasack]

Re: your 80's top 10

what i meant to say was a ha and take on me.
im sure u knew what i meant though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QBISF26Kd4

I wasn't taking the mick or anything, I actually don't get what "take on me" means, it deosn't make sense.

[darren]

Re: your 80's top 10

what i meant to say was a ha and take on me.
im sure u knew what i meant though.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QBISF26Kd4

darren mentioned Take on me- A Ha....what on earth did that mean, "Take on me", take me on I can understand, Lean on me also, but Take on me....always lost on me.

[tonyblue]

Re: your 80's top 10

1, Kings of the wild frontier- Adam and the ants
2, Stand deliver- Adam and the ants
3, Friend or foe- Adam ant
4, Apollo 9 - Adam ant
5, Ant music- Adam and the ants
6, two tribes- Frankie goes to hollywood
7, Love shack- B52's
8, The voice (live)- Ultravox
9, Dancing with tears in my eyes- Ultravox
10, This corrosion- Sisters of mercy.

[havasack]

Re: your 80's top 10

darren mentioned Take on me- A Ha....what on earth did that mean, "Take on me", take me on I can understand, Lean on me also, but Take on me....always lost on me.

[branny]

Re: your 80's top 10

go west pet shop boys.
the spy who loved me theme song


1993 and 1977 respectively. Easy to lose track of time at our age though.

[darren]

Re: your 80's top 10

just a few to start with.


go west pet shop boys.
all time high rita coolidge
for your eyes only sheena easton
t pau china in your hand
cyndi lauper girls just wanna have fun etc.
the spy who loved me theme song.
peter cetera glory of love
belinda carlisle heaven is a place on earth
take my breath away.
a ha take on me.

ill post more later.

[branny]

Re: your 80's top 10

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Driving In My Car (1982) -- Madness
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Seriously? I know they didn't make it that big in the US but so much of their stuff is of a much higher standard. How much have you heard?