Oh, man- thanks, you're giving me a headache here, trying to remember them all. ;)

all Eurythmics
all Depeche Mode
The Cure- especially Pictures of You
The Police
Run DMC (oh, yeah!)
Nirvana
New Order
Michael Jackson (I used to be in love with him.....)
Men At Work
Oh, and who could forget Vanilla Ice- Ice, Ice, Baby! (Hey, that was a good song back in the day........)

Ummm... no, not really. Under Pressure was a good song back in the day. :D

Agreed.

http://www.deathsprite.net/mp3/underpressure.mp3

Here's a song which is so 80's that even when I was in the 80's it would remind me of the neon shirt that I was wearing.

http://www.arbabha.com/Simple%20Mind...About%20Me.mp3

my favorite source for 80s muci is this internet radio station www.club977.com I love 80s music, always have always will (I was a teenager in the 80s so i think that has somethin to do with it.)

Flock of Seagulls - I Ran :)

Well, it may be an age difference. I was in 7th or 8th grade the time that song hit it big. Everyone I knew loved it.
I am stating it on a "then" point of view- not like I enjoy it now. Also on a general popularity view, as well. That song sold really well.

Wow, this song completely owns, I cant believe I forgot about it! Totally reminds me of the breakfast club.

Thanks cj2112 for the cool link. Bookmarked. They're actually playing the theme song to the "Neverending Story" now!

All great responses. I would like to add anything from the Police, Corey Hart (He was the 'I wear my sunglasses at night' guy), Til Tuesday- Voices Carry. Remember Samantha Fox? :)

Oye! Kids today and the <b>Noise</b> they listen to!

Pardon my curmugeonry. It's just that Ice Ice Baby was the song that focussed attention on sampling for me (Grandmaster Flash slid completely under my radar for a long time.) and sampling is a pet peeve of mine. No one has yet been able to convince me that facility with a tape deck is a musical talent, so I give my props to the song sampled, not the sampler. And Under Pressure is a really, really good song.

Nevertheless, you have one thing right, for people of a certain age, that song is freighted with positive association.

Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
Where The Streets Have No Name - U2
Our Lips Are Sealed - Go-Go's
Kickstart My Heart - Motley Crue
One - Metallica

A-Ha
Madness
The Go- Gos
Hall & Oats

gotta go with any of the "hair band"---I really HATE that term many bands had members with hair over the years, but I digress-- especially Motley, Poison, Faster Pussycat, Tesla, Metallica...all ruled then and still do now!!

My list of favorites would take several pages so I'll just jot down a few::

Bette Midler - The Rose
B-52's - Rock Lobster
Christopher Cross - Sailing
Clash - Rock The Casbah
Devo - Whip It
Gary Numan - Cars
Kool & The Gang - Celebration
Queen - Another One Bites The Dust
Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
The Motels - Only The Lonely

other artists with several good songs were Journey, The Police, Phil Collins/Genesis, Eddie Money, Culture Club.. and on and on...

I'm such a sucker for 80's music. I think it was one of the best era's of hit music that we ever knew and may ever know.

Man, I was reading through this and wondering when someone was going to mention The Fixx. Leave it to Tophat!
Great band! ( not to mention Tophat's favorite BOC)

Eric Clapton - Cocaine
Annie Lennox - Walking On Broken Glass
Bananarama - I'm Your Venus
Bangles - Walk like an egyptian
David Bowie - China Girl
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Earth, Wind, and Fire - September
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Extreme - More Than Words
Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited
Wax - Building A Bridge To Your Heart
Steve Miller Band - Abra abra cadabra
Hewey Lewis and the News - Hip To Be Square
Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Peter Gabriel - Sledge Hammer
and ANYTHING and EVERYTHING by Phil Collins

Sugar Hill Gang -Rappers Delight

http://www.neeleshgokhale.com/sncwik...ersDelight.mp3

well i just made a mixed genre mix cd from the 80's
Slayer - Raining Blood(Metal)
X - Los Angeles(Punk)
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf(New Wave)
Sexual Harrassment - I Need a Freak(Rap)
Metallica - Battery (Metal)
Journey - Open Arms(Cock Rock)
Social Distortion - Moral Threat(Punk)
The Cure - Letter Elise(New Wave)
Morrisey - Thrashed(new Wave)
Drama Rama - Anything Anything(New Wave)

If I had to name just one 80s song that is my favorite, I'd have to go with the one that - 20 years after first hearing it - I still enjoy as if it's brand new.

Peter Shelley - Homosapien

ALTERNATIVE 80'S

The Cure
Depeche Mode
The Smiths
New Order
Joy Division
Bauhaus
Pet Shop Boys
Duran Duran
Erasure
Love and Rockets
OMD(Orchestral Manuevers in the Dark)
Social Distortion
Oingo Boingo
The Clash
The Ramones
REM
Bad Religion
Violent Femmes
B-52's
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Billy Idol
The Police
The Go-Go's
Dramarama
The Cult
Echo & the Bunnymen
Tears For Fears
Devo
INXS
Soft Cell
Sparks
Human League

I absolutely love the eighties and it's almost all that I listen to. I especially love songs that were once famous but everyone has now forgotten. I guess it doesn't bode well that I remember all the "forgettable" songs but they're wonderful. I don't know why we keep forgetting them...

• Payolas - Dirty Water
• Reflex - Politics of Dancing
• Kim Wilde - Kids in America
• The Box - Ordinary People
• General Public - Tenderness
• Split Enz - Six Months in a Leaky Boat
• Alphaville - Forever Young
• Payolas - Eyes of a Stranger

You probably don't remember any of these songs by name but I'm certain you'll recognize them if you hear them! So, go check them out on your favourite P2P network. You won't regret it!

Here are a few (slightly) more famous ones...

• Gino Vanelli - Wild Horses
• Level 42 - Human After All
• Romantics - Talking in Your Sleep
• Art of Noise - Paranomia
• Bruce Hornsby - The Way It Is
• Mike and the Mechanics - The Living Years
• Glass Tiger - Diamond Sun
• Gino Vanelli - Black Cars
• Level 42 - Lessons in Love

Enjoy!

I was just watching "Gigantic" and I smacked my self in the forehead when I realized that They Might Be Giants began in the 80s. At the very least, their first two albums, perhaps the first three. Took my first acid trip to their first album (and was that every whack). Songs? Ana Ng, Lie Still Little Bottle, Don't Let's Start, Puppethead, She's An Angel, Youth Culture Killed my Dog....

F*ckit! There are maybe 3 bad songs (maybe as few as one) on their first three albums, all the rest are incredible.

Anything that appears in a John Hughes movie ;)

great list! i made a nice 80's CD with all these ideas... i still got plenty more songs to choose from... great memories from my childhood

Great choice!!

hmmmmmm
nobody likes old ballad rock

Def Leppard
Van Halen?
come one, great 80 classics with the 80s hair
the dude that could drum with one hand

Reminds me of a joke:
What has seven arms and sucks?

(Kidding! I actually enjoy Def Leppard)

oh gosh, i just love 80's music, i have to practically anything by the cure and new order. I'm also a big fan of depche mode.

Ever hear the Simon and Garfunkel cut of this song? It's very good.



Take On Me ruled - especially the video. First time I'd ever seen rotoscoping in action.

OK, this station ROCKS. Man, i feel like a kid again. This is great. Thanks!

Who's Johnnie? by El Debarge

mmmm, power ballads..."Love Bites" is one of my favorite songs ever.

Its just not the 80's without 'Eye of the Tiger"

Favourite song is Ghost Town by the Specials.

Some other random 80's popstars that come to mind:

Human League
Herbie Hancock
Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam
Tom Browne
Kurtis Blow
Blondie
ABC
Aztec Camera
Salt N Pepper
The Primitives
Cameo
Earth, Wind & Fire
The Beastie Boys
Eric B & Rakim
Haircut 100
The Pointer Sisters
Eddy Grant
Smoky Robinson
The Police
Heaven 17
The Pretenders

other personal favorites from the 80's...

Mexican Radio -- Wall of Voodoo
So Alive -- Love & Rockets
You Might Think -- The Cars
Goody Two Shoes -- Adam Ant
I Want Candy -- Bow Wow Wow
I Wanna Be Sedated -- The Ramones

Don't forget Level 42

AHA - Take On Me (or is it Take Me On? Are they even called "Aha"? I CAN"T REMEMBER DAMMIT)

so many come to mind I wholeheartedly agree with this: and would add off the top of my head:
- 'One Night in Bangkok'
- Men at Work
- Wham! (at least the one well known song). I saw the whole album on iTunes and had no desire to even go near the rest of it.
- quite a few of the songs listed already
- J. Geils Band: Centerfold

Tears for Fears - The Working Hour
The Police - Every Little Thing She Does is Magic - Still my favorite song.
Missing Persons - Spring Session M
Depeche Mode - Black Celebration
David Bowie - Let's Dance

and - even though they don't really count as 80's - Sex Pistols - the Never Mind the Bollocks album.

Wow, I'm coming late to this thread, but here's my list (I confess I stopped listening to pop music around '86 when I went into a serious classic rock phase)

Bands:

The Police - Just about everything they did, but the "Zenyatta Mondatta" album was my favorite
Thompson Twins - their first album was great
Dire Straits - especially pre-"Brothers in Arms"
Depeche Mode - everything
Duran Duran - Their early days ("Rio" "Please Please Tell Me Now" etc), and their mid-80s days ("Reflex")
Phil Collins - "No Jacket Required" and "Face Value" albums. (To a lesser extent, also "Hello, I Must Be Going"_
Genesis - the Phil Collins years, especially the "Invisible Touch" and "Genesis" albums
Talking Heads - the "Stop Making Sense" album
Tears for Fears - "Shout,"
Prince!!!! - the "Purple Rain" and "1999" albums
Men At Work - the "Business as Usual" album
The Clash
Yaz - Upstairs at Eric's
REM - everything they did in the 80s
Def Leppard - the "Pyromania" and "Hysteria" albums

Songs:

Men Without Hats - Safety Dance, Pop Goes the World
Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't it Be Good
George Harrison - Got My Mind Set on You
The Traveling Wilburys - Margarita
Go-Gos - We Got the Beat
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round
Dream Academy -Life in a Northern Town
Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another
Frankie Goes to Hollywood -Relax
J Geils Band - Freeze Frame
Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
Til Tuesday - Voices Cary
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
Gary Neuman - Cars
Howard Jones - Assault and Battery, No One Is to Blame, New Song
Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine
Lipps, INc - Funkytown
Madness - Our House, One Step Beyond, House of Fun, Michael Caine, The SUn and the Rain
Mr. Mister - Kyrie
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Toto - Africa
John Cougar - Jack and Diane



.... this could just keep going and going..... and I keep thinking of new stuff to add

Chris DeBurgh - Lady in Red
Lady in reeeeeeed is dancing with meeeeeeee (cheek to cheek)

and

Wham - Careless Whisper
... I'm never gonna dance again Guily feet have got no rhythm