Your Top 10 Songs from the 80's!

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  1. Back in Black - AC/DC
  2. Blue Monday - New Order
  3. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
  4. Too Drunk To Fuck - Dead Kennedys
  5. Do they owe us a living? - CRASS
  6. I want to be free - Toyah
  7. Papa's Got a Brand New Pig Bag - Pigbag
  8. What Difference Does It Make? - The Smiths
  9. Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops - Cocteau Twins
  10. Can Your Pussy Do the Dog? - The Cramps

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New Order - Blue Monday
Africa - Toto
Alice Cooper - Poison
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Sandra - Everlasting Love
Desireless - Voyage Voyage
Joan Jett - I Love Rock'n'Roll
Chris De Burgh - The Lady In Red
Erasure - Sometimes

Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night
ELO - Calling America
Julee Cruise - Falling
Peter Schilling - Major Tom
Maria Vidal - Body rock
Chris Rea - The Road To Hell
Berlin - Take My Breath Away
Roxy Music - Jealous Guy
Queen - Radio Ga Ga
Koto - Visitors

Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin
John Ireland - I Like
Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Tanita Tikaram - Twist In My Sobriety
Prince - Purple Rain
Styx - Mr. Roboto
Silver Pozzoli - Around My Dream
People Like Us - Deliverance

Lime - Guilty
Hazell Dean - They Say It's Gonna Rain
Blondie - Heart of glass
Kiss - I was made for lovin you
Grace Jones - Slave to the rhythm
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
Van Halen - Jump
Nazareth - Love Hurts

studied, worked, dj'ed, etc...
 
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Eye In The Sky - The Alan Parsons Project
Come on Eileen - Dixys Midnight Runners
Self Control - Laura Branigan
The Final Countdown - Europe
In the air tonight - Phil Collins (and anything Genesis)
Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil
The Final Cut (tHe whole album) - Pink Floyd
Africa - Toto
Brothers in Arms - Dire Straights
Out in the field - Gary Moore
Jump - Van Halen

Geez, I can't stop, haven't even touched Queen :sick:l
 
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mika1000 said:
New Order - Blue Monday
Africa - Toto
Alice Cooper - Poison
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Kate Bush - Wuthering Heights
Sandra - Everlasting Love
Desireless - Voyage Voyage
Joan Jett - I Love Rock'n'Roll
Chris De Burgh - The Lady In Red
Erasure - Sometimes

Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night
ELO - Calling America
Julee Cruise - Falling
Peter Schilling - Major Tom
Maria Vidal - Body rock
Chris Rea - The Road To Hell
Berlin - Take My Breath Away
Roxy Music - Jealous Guy
Queen - Radio Ga Ga
Koto - Visitors

Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin
John Ireland - I Like
Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Tanita Tikaram - Twist In My Sobriety
Prince - Purple Rain
Styx - Mr. Roboto
Silver Pozzoli - Around My Dream
People Like Us - Deliverance

Lime - Guilty
Hazell Dean - They Say It's Gonna Rain
Blondie - Heart of glass
Kiss - I was made for lovin you
Grace Jones - Slave to the rhythm
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
Van Halen - Jump
Nazareth - Love Hurts

studied, worked, dj'ed, etc...
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Mika, thumbs up, let me know whe you want to tour my end of the world!
 
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no, this one!

[video=youtube;7wRHBLwpASw]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7wRHBLwpASw[/video]
 
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Mortymoose said:
Addicted to love ? Robert Palmer?
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The ABBA girls... Morty, no man, ever, can pull off the girls in Robert Palmer's video.

EDIT: This one. When its late, the braai is done, the drinks are flowing and we break out the 80's tunes, my mates an I make a point of doing the face-you-face-me ABBA stuff. ;)

[video=youtube;iUrzicaiRLU]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUrzicaiRLU[/video]
 
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzdHxqwTO-4

Just started high school when this came out :)

9. Bangles - Enternal Flame :)
8. Boomtown Rats - Banana Republic
7. EMF - Unbelievable
6. Gary Numan - Cars
5. Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking
4. Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies
3. OMD - Elona Gay
2. The Stranglers - Skin Deep
1. The Style Counsil - Shout to the top

plenty more I guess
 
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Scorpion - Winds of Change
Suicidal Tendencies - Institutionalized
Violent Femmes - Kiss Off
Pixies - Here Comes Your Man
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round
10000 Maniacs - Gun Shy
REM - Stand
Jane's Addiction - Jane Says
Smiths - Some Girls are Bigger than Others
NIN - Head Like a Hole
 
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satanboy said:
  1. Back in Black - AC/DC
  2. Blue Monday - New Order
  3. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
  4. Too Drunk To Fuck - Dead Kennedys
  5. Do they owe us a living? - CRASS
  6. I want to be free - Toyah
  7. Papa's Got a Brand New Pig Bag - Pigbag
  8. What Difference Does It Make? - The Smiths
  9. Pearly-Dewdrops' Drops - Cocteau Twins
  10. Can Your Pussy Do the Dog? - The Cramps

too many to mention
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I'm impressed SB, I never thought Crass made it to SA. But apart from Toyah, you're music taste is almost good as mine ;)

Thinking about it now though, when I first graced these shores in 1990, I worked in a bar in Table View for a while and I remember chatting to a lad about Crass and him telling me how it was difficult to get a hold of decent music back then. You're from around that area aren't you?
 
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Spizz said:
I'm impressed SB, I never thought Crass made it to SA. But apart from Toyah, you're music taste is almost good as mine ;)

Thinking about it now though, when I first graced these shores in 1990, I worked in a bar in Table View for a while and I remember chatting to a lad about Crass and him telling me how it was difficult to get a hold of decent music back then. You're from around that area aren't you?
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Yup, but it wasn't me. I have all the Crass vinyl...bought it from Ragtime Records in Cape Town (long closed :().

I had the hots for Toyah as a 18 year old, even received an autographed picture from "her" when I wrote to her in the 80's.
 
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Ok, a Scottish top 10 from the 80s...

Hue & Cry - Labour of Love
Big Country - One Great Thing
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
Hipsway - Tinder
Lloyd Cole & The Commotions - Lost Weekend
Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer
PhD - Shoulda Known Better
The Exploited - Punks Not Dead
Deacon Blue - Dignity
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
 
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satanboy said:
Yup, but it wasn't me. I have all the Crass vinyl...bought it from Ragtime Records in Cape Town (long closed :().

I had the hots for Toyah as a 18 year old, even received an autographed picture from "her" when I wrote to her in the 80's.
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Haha, probably some old bird with red lipstick signing her name and kissing the photo :D

Crass are legendary though. I got Feeding of the 5000 for my 12th birthday but no way did my Mum know what she was buying. Still listen to them even now. I watched a great interview with Penny Rimbaud not so long ago on Youtube, just made me love them even more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mADo_8D8nmc

Sorry for the derail :)
 
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Spizz said:
Haha, probably some old bird with red lipstick signing her name and kissing the photo :D

Crass are legendary though. I got Feeding of the 5000 for my 12th birthday but no way did my Mum know what she was buying. Still listen to them even now. I watched a great interview with Penny Rimbaud not so long ago on Youtube, just made me love them even more https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mADo_8D8nmc

Sorry for the derail :)
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Awesome to discover a fellow Crass lover.
 
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Parisienne Walkways - Gary Moore

Purple Rain - Prince

With or Without You - U2

In the Air Tonight - Phil Collins

That Was Yesterday - Foreigner

Tainted Love - Soft Cell

Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears for Fears

Enjoy The Silence - Depeche Mode

Don't Go - Yazoo

Refugee - Tom Petty
 
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Schit, I missed Goodbye Mr Mackenzie from that Scottish list, they were brilliant. Face to Face was their best one.

But let me have a go at my top 10 form the 80's..

The Ruts - Staring at the Rude Boys
The Jam - A Town Called Malice
Stiff Little Fingers - Nobody's Hero
The Pixies - Monkey Gone to Heaven
The Clash - Magnificent Seven
The Damned - Alone Again Or
The Style Council - Shout to the Top
The 4-Skins - Chaos
Crass - Bloody Revolutions
The Stranglers - Always the Sun
 
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