WHAT IS YOUR TOP 10 80's SONG LIST?

[bill]

I really found it hard to pick ten tracks. I mean the 80s was pretty diverse in terms of musical selection. I just tried to pick the songs I was actually listening to back then. I have to say there is really a massive amount of excellent new music to be found in this era if you are willing to poke underneath the surface a bit. I mean none of the bands on my list were commonly known in Vancouver back in the day either.

 

[Reli]

All of your top 10's suck compared to mine:

Def Leppard -Gods of War
XTC - Senses Working Overtime
Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place
Van Halen - Summer Nights
Run DMC - It's Like That
Run DMC - Jam Master Jay
Metallica - Harvester of Sorrow

 

[Radio 80's FM]

Like Talking Heads do we?

 

[Matrixambience]

"Stand or Fall" by The Fixx, or "Red Skies at Night" by The Fixx
"West End Girls" by Pet Shop Boys
"Major Tom" by Peter Shilling
"Girl U Want" by Devo
"Stand and Deliver" by Adam and the Ants
"Photograph" by Def Leppard
"The Roof Is On Fire" by Grandmaster Flash?
"Jam On It" by Nucleus
"Sausalito Summernight" by Diesel
"Fantasy" by Aldo Nova

Not in any particular order, but just a few that stick in my mind from when I was in jr. high to high school from 1979 to 1986.

 

[Reli]

"Fantasy" by Aldo Nova

The intro is an excellent way to test the Wide setting on a boombox.

 

[bill]

All of your top 10's suck compared to mine:

Def Leppard -Gods of War
XTC - Senses Working Overtime
Talking Heads - Burning Down The House
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Talking Heads - This Must Be The Place
Van Halen - Summer Nights
Run DMC - It's Like That
Run DMC - Jam Master Jay
Metallica - Harvester of Sorrow

Good list but I think psycho killer is a 70s track.....

 

[baddboybill]

I have over 2000 songs on my IPhone ...95% 80's songs... I could not even give a top ten album or even group for that matter I remember when we were picking top 10 bbx's and I had 2 lists But I am liking all the songs on all these other lists

 

[bantytfv]

In no particular order, some of my favorites, ten is too small a number for me:

"Into The Groove" Madonna
"The Flame" Cheap Trick
"Photograph" Def Leppard"
"Like A Virgin" Madonna
"You Shook Me All Night Long" AC/DC
"I Don't Know" Ozzy (with Randy Rhoads)
"Call Me" Blondie
"Girls,Girls,Girls" Motley Crue
"CrazyTrain" Ozzy (with Randy Rhoads)
"Still Of The Night" Whitesnake
"Gimme all Your Lovin" ZZ Top
"Back In Black" AC/DC
"Any Way You Want It" Journey
"I Love Rock And Roll" Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
"Centerfold" J. Geils Band
"Nasty" Janet Jackson
"Fantasy" Aldo Nova
There are a lot more.
Madonna knew how to handle her box.

 

[wowminister]

Can't do it, but I have the Top 10 acts.

1. Stone Roses
2. The Smiths
3. Depeche Mode
4. Public Enemy
5. Pet Shop Boys
6. The Specials
7. Madonna
8. Human Leauge
9. Heaven 17
10. Soft Cell

And ....

11. Erasure
12. Frankie knuckles
13. New Order
14. OMD
15. Duran Duran
16. Frankie goes to Hollywood
17. Propaganda
18. Madness
19. Rob Bass and DJ easy rock
20. Paul Simon....

Oh and Malcom Mclaren.

And Ultravox, visage and Eurythmics.


Hummmm.

 

[Andy_from_Perth]

a few more..

1999 - Prince

Miss free love, Bittersweet - Hoodoo Gurus

Little pink houses, Jack & Diane - John Cougar

edit: Bad boy for love - Rose Tattoo

 

[restocat]

Good topic, good replies.

Lots of great 80s music to pick from. I always had trouble with the 90s music, it just lost something. The 80s music was the party, and the 90s music was the melodramatic hangover.

short list:
1. Judas Priest "Some heads are gonna roll"
2. A-ha "Take on me" (some hate the video but I find it ok)
3. Queensryche "Operation Mindcrime"
(I miss the 80s concept albums. Seems to be a dying art, although power metal still uses it, in Sweden, Norway,etc)
4. Journey , Frontiers: "Separate ways"