Your Top 10 Songs from the 80's!

[Mortymoose]

Sitting here on the fine Friday Afternoon, fire lit, beer a flowing , listening unabated to my personal favourite music,which includes many an 80"s tunes, an amazing generation for groundbreaking synthesizer vibes, anthems for a generation, pray tell, you rubik cube freak , what are your top ten tines of the 80's in no particular order!

1) electric dreams
2) forever young
3) with or without you
4) i won't let the sun go down
5) wake me up
6) arizona skies
7) road to nowhere - time bandits
8) dancing in the dark
9) red red wine - ub40
10) smalltown boy...

I could have made a top 500 tunes, what an era...

 

[MickeyD]

This is impossible...

My "rock" list:

1. Stairway To Heaven - Far Corporation
2. Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
3. Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
4. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - U2
5. Paradise City - Guns N Roses
6. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
7. Sister Christian - Night Ranger
8. Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd
9. Back in Black - AC/DC
10. Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leppard

 

[Mortymoose]

This is impossible...

My "rock" list:

1. Stairway To Heaven - Far Corporation
2. Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
3. Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
4. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - U2
5. Paradise City - Guns N Roses
6. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
7. Sister Christian - Night Ranger
8. Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd
9. Back in Black - AC/DC
10. Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leppard

Sister Christian, that's the one,...

You are so right, the topic should read, " the best top ten 80's songs that just popped into your head!"

As albert Hammond from the 70's sings free electric band!

 

[MickeyD]

"Pop" type songs..

1. Bad - Michael Jackson
2. West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
3. She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
4. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
5. Tainted Love - Soft Cell
6. Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
7. Mickey - Toni Basil
8. Love Of The Common People - Paul Young
9. Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
10. Shout - Tears For Fears

 

[MickeyD]

I typed out the songs as they "popped into my head" and then had to choose...

I Ran - A Flock of Seagulls
Hells Bells - AC/DC
You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
Stand And Deliver - Adam and the Ants
Poison - Alice Cooper
Mony Mony - Billy Idol
Against the Wind - Bob Seger
Livin’ On a Prayer - Bon Jovi
You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi
I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
Armageddon It - Def Leppard*
Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N Roses
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N Roses
The Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden
Centerfold - J. Geils Band
I Love Rock n’ Roll - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
(Just Like) Starting Over - John Lennon
Breaking the Law - Judas Priest
Down Under - Men at Work
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Beat It - Michael Jackson
99 Red Balloons - Nena
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
When Doves Cry - Prince
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
Don’t You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
Through The Barricades - Spandau Ballet
Luka - Suzanne Vega
Eye In The Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
Every Breath You Take - The Police
The Whole of the Moon - The Waterboys
Africa - Toto
Pride (In the Name of Love) - U2
With Or Without You - U2
Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes

And many more!!!!!

 

[RanzB]

I typed out the songs as they "popped into my head" and then had to choose...

I Ran - A Flock of Seagulls
Hells Bells - AC/DC
You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
Stand And Deliver - Adam and the Ants
Poison - Alice Cooper
Mony Mony - Billy Idol
Against the Wind - Bob Seger
Livin’ On a Prayer - Bon Jovi
You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi
I Don't Like Mondays - Boomtown Rats
Armageddon It - Def Leppard*
Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N Roses
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns N Roses
The Number Of The Beast - Iron Maiden
Centerfold - J. Geils Band
I Love Rock n’ Roll - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
(Just Like) Starting Over - John Lennon
Breaking the Law - Judas Priest
Down Under - Men at Work
Master of Puppets - Metallica
Beat It - Michael Jackson
99 Red Balloons - Nena
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
When Doves Cry - Prince
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
Don’t You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
Through The Barricades - Spandau Ballet
Luka - Suzanne Vega
Eye In The Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
Every Breath You Take - The Police
The Whole of the Moon - The Waterboys
Africa - Toto
Pride (In the Name of Love) - U2
With Or Without You - U2
Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes

And many more!!!!!

Needs more Metallica.

 

[greg0205]

This is impossible...

My "rock" list:

1. Stairway To Heaven- Far Corporation
2. Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
3. Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
4. I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For - U2
5. Paradise City - Guns N Roses
6. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
7. Sister Christian - Night Ranger
8. Learning to Fly - Pink Floyd
9. Back in Black - AC/DC
10. Pour Some Sugar on Me - Def Leppard

Impossible to be true, but point of order Mickey... Solsbury Hill was released in 1977. It was on Gabriel's first album, "Car". I know this 'cos its my favorite song of all time... Ever. Number two is Seger's 'Till It Shines but we'd still be talking about the 70's then.

So, top ten(ish) 80's tunes... I'ma splitting it up as well... US and UK...Here we go, Stateside first:

Brilliant Disguise - Bruce Springsteen
The Boys Of Summer - Don Henley
Faithfully - Journey
Rock And Roll Dreams Come Through - Jim Steinman
Midnight Blue - Lou Gramm
Shame - The Motels
When Your Heart Is Weak - Cock Robin
Waiting On A Friend - The Stones
Talk To Me - Stevie Nicks
Slippery People - Talking Heads

 

[greg0205]

This side of the pond:

Oh Yeah! - Roxy Music
Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
King Of Pain - Police
Speak Like A Child - Style Council
Only You - Yazzo
The Chaffeur - Duran Duran
Rise To The Occasion - Clime Fisher
Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) - Paul Young
Angel Of Harlem - U2
Las Palabras De Amor - Queen

It's torture figuring what to leave out. I can make another two US and UK lists easily...

 

[Mortymoose]

This side of the pond:

Oh Yeah! - Roxy Music
Mercy Street - Peter Gabriel
King Of Pain - Police
Speak Like A Child - Style Council
Only You - Yazzo
The Chaffeur - Duran Duran
Rise To The Occasion - Clime Fisher
Wherever I Lay My Hat (That's My Home) - Paul Young
Angel Of Harlem - U2
Las Palabras De Amor - Queen

It's torture figuring what to leave out. I can make another two US and UK lists easily...

No! Duran Duran , should be Wild Boys!

 

[greg0205]

No! Duran Duran , should be Wild Boys!

For most it is, for me The Chaffeur, then New Moon On Monday, THEN Wild Boys.

 

[Mortymoose]

For most it is, for me The Chaffeur, then New Moon On Monday, THEN Wild Boys.

Bastard!

In retrospect, the topic is too wide, as I sit here listening to Billy Idol singing Sweet.....?

 

[MickeyD]

I've bought all 8 Awesome 80s dvds.... http://www.takealot.com/music/all?qsearch=awesome+80s&_sb=1&_dt=5&_r=1

 

[Mortymoose]

I've bought all 8 Awesome 80s dvds.... http://www.takealot.com/music/all?qsearch=awesome+80s&_sb=1&_dt=5&_r=1

Somewhere in a remote street, in a quiet corner of PE, there is a toppie singing ABBA songs......

/as the Moose wails out Knowing Me, Knowing You....

 

[greg0205]

I've bought all 8 Awesome 80s dvds.... http://www.takealot.com/music/all?qsearch=awesome+80s&_sb=1&_dt=5&_r=1

Kinda emphasizes the point of how difficult this is... Volume 8 with 45 tracks per volume.

 

[greg0205]

Somewhere in a remote street, in a quiet corner of PE, there is a toppie singing ABBA songs......

/as the Moose wails out Knowing Me, Knowing You....

Europe and the rest of the world! Damn, should have done a third list!

 

[MickeyD]

Kinda emphasizes the point of how difficult this is... Volume 8 with 45 tracks per volume.

And it excludes the hard rock stuff that I also enjoy.

 

[greg0205]

And it excludes the hard rock stuff that I also enjoy.

I'd imagine. Been a while since I bought an actual CD. Ripped 'em all and they live in a Seagate now... Pretty sure I could make up just about all of those albums with tracks I already have.

 

[greg0205]

Somewhere in a remote street, in a quiet corner of PE, there is a toppie singing ABBA songs......

/as the Moose wails out Knowing Me, Knowing You....

Are you doing the look ahead then look right like the girls did in the video?

 

[MickeyD]

I'd imagine. Been a while since I bought an actual CD. Ripped 'em all and they live in a Seagate now... Pretty sure I could make up just about all of those albums with tracks I already have.

Same here, CD wise... but it's lekker to have the original DVDs as well.

 

[greg0205]

Same here, CD wise... but it's lekker to have the original DVDs as well.

So, as an Apple guy, when Steve said we don't like internal CD drives, I said okay. When he said we don't like DVDs and we prefer iTunes downloads, I said what the hell, I'm in. Still get what you're saying 'tho.