Your favorite 80's songs

Oppressed Radical wrote:

I'm pretty sure its got something to do with wanking. Or metaphysics. But probably wanking.

"Turning Japanese" is about wanking

So is EVERYTHING that New Order have ever recorded.

Don't care if these were 'hits' in the mainstream sense or not......

Safety Zone and Sensoria by Cabaret Voltaire

Yu-Gung and Letztes Biest (Am Himmel) by Einsturzende Neubauten

Learning To Cope With Cowardice by Mark Stewart

Train To Doomsville by Lee 'Scratch' Perry

Ceremony

The Green Door by The Cramps

Frantic Drift by The Chills

Dive For Your Memory by Go Betweens

Talking To A Stranger by Hunters & Collectors

Wendell Gee by R.E.M.

Lost by Meat Puppets

Forget by Mission Of Burma

Why Theory? by Gang Of Four

Memphis Egypt by Mekons

She Pays The Rent by The Lyres

If Reagan Played Disco by Minutemen

Kerosene by Big Black

all of the Replacements Hootenanny album (plus If Only You Were Lonely b-side)

Slipping Into Something by Feelies

New Mind by Swans

I Love Her All The Time by Sonic Youth

Winds Of Change by Robert Wyatt

.......way too many others....

A few more:

Rock the Casbah - The Clash Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen Heartbreak Beat - Psy. Furs Land of Confusion - Genesis (hey, the video was cool for 1985/6 or whenever) Someday Someway - Marshall Crenshaw Beat It - Michael Jackson (I'm being serious) First of the Last Calls - Husker Du (only discovered this song a few years ago, excellent tune) Cars - Gary Neuman I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats Wild One - Iggy Pop

If I think of anymore, I'll let you know

*Fetches iPod mini and calls up 80s playlist*

Bear with me, as some artists are too "good" and need more than one track to represent themselves.

Jefferson Starship - Sara & We Built This City on Rock & Roll Big Country - In A Big Country ABC - How to be a Millionare, The Look of Love & Be Near Me Double - Captain of Her Heart Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes & Welcome to the Pleasuredome Genesis - Man on the Corner & Tonight, Tonight, Tonight Tears for Fears - Shout Heaven 17 - Temptation & Let Me Go Alphaville - Big in Japan & Sounds Like a Melody Kon Kan - I Beg Your Pardon Neenah Cherry - Buffalo Stance Expose - Point of No Return & Seasons Change Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor! Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a Place on Earth/Circle in the Sand/I Get Weak Cameo - Word Up & Candy Depeche Mode - Now This is Fun, Leave in Silence, Shake the Disease, Stripped, Strangelove The Cure - A Hundred Years, Charlotte Sometimes, The Walk, Screw, Hot Hot Hot!, Plainsong, Disintegration, Love Song, Facination Street, Lullaby A Flock of Seagulls - Wishing (A Photograph of You) PSB - Two Divided By Zero, Kings Cross, Love Comes Quickly, Suburbia, What Have I Done to Deserve This?, West End Girls, Violence

Enough for ya?

AgentWood wrote:

CuanaD - D-plus wrote:

steveone wrote: Wang Chungs "Dance Hall Days" also comes quite high on my 80s list.

High on your list of rubbish, I hope!

No?

That's just me then:D

and me. along with 'everybody wang chung tonight'. what the hell does it mean?

If you don't know what it means, then you're not cool on craze.

Sheds on a Plane wrote: *Fetches iPod mini and calls up 80s playlist*

Bear with me, as some artists are too "good" and need more than one track to represent themselves.

Jefferson Starship - Sara & We Built This City on Rock & Roll Big Country - In A Big Country ABC - How to be a Millionare, The Look of Love & Be Near Me Double - Captain of Her Heart Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes & Welcome to the Pleasuredome Genesis - Man on the Corner & Tonight, Tonight, Tonight Tears for Fears - Shout Heaven 17 - Temptation & Let Me Go Alphaville - Big in Japan & Sounds Like a Melody Kon Kan - I Beg Your Pardon Neenah Cherry - Buffalo Stance Expose - Point of No Return & Seasons Change Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor! Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a Place on Earth/Circle in the Sand/I Get Weak Cameo - Word Up & Candy Depeche Mode - Now This is Fun, Leave in Silence, Shake the Disease, Stripped, Strangelove The Cure - A Hundred Years, Charlotte Sometimes, The Walk, Screw, Hot Hot Hot!, Plainsong, Disintegration, Love Song, Facination Street, Lullaby A Flock of Seagulls - Wishing (A Photograph of You) PSB - Two Divided By Zero, Kings Cross, Love Comes Quickly, Suburbia, What Have I Done to Deserve This?, West End Girls, Violence

Enough for ya?

I think you and I probably have very similar CD collections!

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: oh dear, there is some rather poor music in some of those lists... Starship???

Except Starship!! Let me make it perfectly clear that I don't own any Starship, Jefferson Starship, Jefferson Airplane, Airplane, or Jefferson CD's! Never have, never will. Most of the rest of the list I like, though.

Missy Jem wrote: Like yer outfit cock. I didn't know you were in Bugsy Malone!

You should see my "splodge gun"!!

Jeffari-al-Texani wrote: oh dear, there is some rather poor music in some of those lists... Starship???

The Starship is purely flippant! I play it simply to annoy those around me...and I don't own any of these artists on CD!

Melt With You - Modern English If You Leave - OMD With or Without You - U2 Where The Streets Have No Name - U2 More U2 Everything New Order Strangelove, Behind The Wheel - Depeche Mode No One is to Blame, Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones Wouldn't It Be Good - Nik Kershaw How Soon is Now? - The Smiths Close To Me, In Between Days - The Cure Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen Relax, Two Tribes - FGTH Cuts Like a Knife - Bryan Adams Venus, Cruel Summer - Bananarama (admit it, you liked them too) Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush Land of Confusion - Genesis

Heaven 17 were on GMTV this morning talking about their albums being re-released,and they performed "Temptation". I forgot how good they were in the eighties.

J. Sluddens list hits the mark.

mostly same.

Missy Jem wrote:

Breakmachine - Breakdance

...when you see us city kids, spinnin on our back.

remember that well, coz the lino mats started appearing in our playground and round the streets.

I'm too embarassed to say..... :shy:

Sheds on a Plane wrote: *Fetches iPod mini and calls up 80s playlist*

Bear with me, as some artists are too "good" and need more than one track to represent themselves.

Jefferson Starship - Sara & We Built This City on Rock & Roll Big Country - In A Big Country ABC - How to be a Millionare, The Look of Love & Be Near Me Double - Captain of Her Heart Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes & Welcome to the Pleasuredome Genesis - Man on the Corner & Tonight, Tonight, Tonight Tears for Fears - Shout Heaven 17 - Temptation & Let Me Go Alphaville - Big in Japan & Sounds Like a Melody Kon Kan - I Beg Your Pardon Neenah Cherry - Buffalo Stance Expose - Point of No Return & Seasons Change Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor! Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a Place on Earth/Circle in the Sand/I Get Weak Cameo - Word Up & Candy Depeche Mode - Now This is Fun, Leave in Silence, Shake the Disease, Stripped, Strangelove The Cure - A Hundred Years, Charlotte Sometimes, The Walk, Screw, Hot Hot Hot!, Plainsong, Disintegration, Love Song, Facination Street, Lullaby A Flock of Seagulls - Wishing (A Photograph of You) PSB - Two Divided By Zero, Kings Cross, Love Comes Quickly, Suburbia, What Have I Done to Deserve This?, West End Girls, Violence

Enough for ya?

Kon Kan, there's a name I haven't heard in a very long time. I didn't think people outside of Canada even knew they existed. I had their first tape, liked it quite a bit at the time.

D'oh! wrote:

Sheds on a Plane wrote: *Fetches iPod mini and calls up 80s playlist*

Bear with me, as some artists are too "good" and need more than one track to represent themselves.

Jefferson Starship - Sara & We Built This City on Rock & Roll Big Country - In A Big Country ABC - How to be a Millionare, The Look of Love & Be Near Me Double - Captain of Her Heart Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes & Welcome to the Pleasuredome Genesis - Man on the Corner & Tonight, Tonight, Tonight Tears for Fears - Shout Heaven 17 - Temptation & Let Me Go Alphaville - Big in Japan & Sounds Like a Melody Kon Kan - I Beg Your Pardon Neenah Cherry - Buffalo Stance Expose - Point of No Return & Seasons Change Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor! Johnny Hates Jazz - Shattered Dreams Belinda Carlisle - Heaven is a Place on Earth/Circle in the Sand/I Get Weak Cameo - Word Up & Candy Depeche Mode - Now This is Fun, Leave in Silence, Shake the Disease, Stripped, Strangelove The Cure - A Hundred Years, Charlotte Sometimes, The Walk, Screw, Hot Hot Hot!, Plainsong, Disintegration, Love Song, Facination Street, Lullaby A Flock of Seagulls - Wishing (A Photograph of You) PSB - Two Divided By Zero, Kings Cross, Love Comes Quickly, Suburbia, What Have I Done to Deserve This?, West End Girls, Violence

Enough for ya?

Kon Kan, there's a name I haven't heard in a very long time. I didn't think people outside of Canada even knew they existed. I had their first tape, liked it quite a bit at the time.

Yeah, I have their CD. The one with "I Beg Your Pardon" on it.

i forgot down under by men at work. one of the most under-rated bands of the '80s.

Most under-rated bands of the 80's. There's another thread!

AgentWood wrote: i forgot down under by men at work. one of the most under-rated bands of the '80s.

she just smiled and gave me a Vegemite sandwich. dooo de doo do....

Ornaments of Gold by Siouxsie and the Banshees

Hit by The Sugarcubes

anything by Blondie

Hmm, those are all female singers....

I loved so many eighties songs it would be hard to pick favourites without missing so many out. However, some I liked were:

True Faith and anything by New Order (obviously) C'mon Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners Raspberry Beret and anything by Prince Shout to the Top - Style Council We Can Get Together and anything by Icehouse With or Without you and anything by U2 Heart and Soul - T'Pau Too Shy - Kajagoogoo Gold, True - Spandau Ballet Girls on Film - Duran Duran Beds are Burning and most songs by Midnight Oil Flame Trees - Cold Chisel Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood (althought the film clip made me want to chuck) Antmusic - Adam and the Ants Livin on the Ceiling - Blancmange Love Cats - The Cure

I'll be here forever if I try to think of any more - tea's starting to burn :)

I'm mad about the 80's, but choosing faves is bloody hard work...

Edge of Heaven- Wham! How Soon Is Now?- The Smiths. Slow Train to Dawn- The The. Birthday- Sugarcubes. S-Express- S-Express. That's Entertainment- The Jam. The Power- Snap! Never Take Us Alive- Spear of Destiny. Move Closer- Phyliss Nelson. Star Trekkin'- The Firm. Notorious- Duran Duran. Sometimes- Erasure. One- Metallica. Suburbia- Pet Shop Boys.

ETC... I could go on all day...

The 80's was the apex of Western Civilization!

Barnette wrote: I loved so many eighties songs it would be hard to pick favourites without missing so many out. However, some I liked were:

True Faith and anything by New Order (obviously) C'mon Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners Raspberry Beret and anything by Prince Shout to the Top - Style Council We Can Get Together and anything by Icehouse With or Without you and anything by U2 Heart and Soul - T'Pau Too Shy - Kajagoogoo Gold, True - Spandau Ballet Girls on Film - Duran Duran Beds are Burning and most songs by Midnight Oil Flame Trees - Cold Chisel Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood (althought the film clip made me want to chuck) Antmusic - Adam and the Ants Livin on the Ceiling - Blancmange Love Cats - The Cure

I'll be here forever if I try to think of any more - tea's starting to burn :)

Ever gone to a club that does 80s music? C'mon Eileen is a fave in one club that I went to.... everyone was on the dance floor. It was freaking hilarious!

Emma

Yeah, it's amazing how everyone is up and dancing when C'mon Eileen is played. It's a classic.

Barnette wrote: Yeah, it's amazing how everyone is up and dancing when C'mon Eileen is played. It's a classic.

apparently those guys wore nothing under those overalls.

here are some of my fav 80s... 'lost & found' [when music matters] :D

very nostalgic!

warning: too many to mention, but here's a short "short" list(s) :D

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle & Love Vigilantes (pretty much anything by n/o [too many to mention]) Joy Division - She’s Lost Control & Passover (too many to mention) Pet Shop Boys - King’s Cross & It’s A Sin (anything by psb really / too many to mention) The Smiths - There’s A Light That Never Goes Out (too many to mention) China Crisis - Wishful Thinking & When The Piper Calls Fra Lippo Lippi - Thief In Paradise & Everytime I See You Friends Again - State Of Art Lotus Eaters - It Hurts & German Girl The Dawn - Enveloped Ideas Strange Advance - We Run Robert Palmer - Johnny And Mary Heaven 17 - Let Me Go Care - An Evening In The Ray Wild Swans - The Worst Year Of My Life & Bringing Home The Ashes Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better Hubert Kah - Carrousel & It’s Me Cathy (Follow My Heart) Human League - Don’t You Want Me & (Keep Feeling) Fascination Industry - State Of The Nation Jane Wiedlin - Blue Kiss Pale Fountains - Thank You, ...From Across The Kitchen Table & Palm Of My Hand Paul Young - Come Back And Stay Xmal Deutschland - Matador Seona Dancing - More To Lose Two Minds Crack - Upside Down Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love B Movie - Nowhere Girl Bananarama - Cruel Summer & Love In The First Degree Bazooka Joe - Smallville Red Flag - If I Ever & Russian Radio Blancmange - Don’t Tell Me & Sad Day Camouflage - The Great Commandments & Love Is A Shield The Church - Golden Dawn & As You Will The Cure - A forest & 10.15 Saturday Night David Bowie - China Girl & Modern Love Depeche Mode - See You & Leave In Silence Devo - Beautiful World Dream Academy - Please, Please Let Me Get What I Want Echo & The Bunnymen - Killing Moon & Bring On The Dancing Horses

Other Than New Order:

M Pop Muzik Gary Numan Cars Ultravox Vienna ABC Poison Arrow A Flock Of Seagulls I Ran Blancmage Living On the Ceiling Culture Club Church Of The Poison Mind Freeez I.O.U. Men Without Hats Safety Dance Kids In the Kitchen Change In Mood Frankie Goes To Hollywood Relax Bronski Beat A Beat For You Eurhythmics Sweet Dreams Visage Fade to Grey Nena 99 Luftballons Tears For Fears Shout Cyndi Lauper Girls Just Want to have Fun Men At Work Down Under Murray Head One Night In Bankok Samantha Fox Touch Me Australian Crawl Reckless Pet Shop Boys It’s A Sin Tears For Fears Mad World Siouxsie And The Banshees Dazzle Madonna Material Girl Bananarama Love In The First Degree Splint Enz Message To My Girl Blondie Heart Of Glass. The Cure Boys Don’t Cry Transvision Vamp I Want Your Love ELO Hold On Tight

there are more, but this will do for now. my fav abba and boney m tunes just fall on the wrong side of the 70s.

I think i have all these somewhere.