Favorite 80s Tunes

[tigershoops31]

Publicly you'd have to go with Def Leppard, ACDC, etc...for no red blooded American male would want to fess up to rocking out to Belinda Carlisle "Heaven is a Place on Earth" or Tiffany "I Think We're Alone Now". (Eyes dart around work space nervously checking to make sure nobody saw this post):nerd6bs:

 

[Todd]

anyone remember Romeo Void?
Favorite 80's band though was the Replacements.

 

[Angie]

Publicly you'd have to go with Def Leppard, ACDC, etc...for no red blooded American male would want to fess up to rocking out to Belinda Carlisle "Heaven is a Place on Earth" or Tiffany "I Think We're Alone Now". (Eyes dart around work space nervously checking to make sure nobody saw this post):nerd6bs:

I love it!! And, come on guys... You know some of you listened to NKOTB. :rolleyes5cz:

"Another First Kiss" by They Might Be Giants might be the most beautiful song ever, johnsonjj.

 

[Wesley]

http://www.lyricsdepot.com/phil-collins/take-me-home.html for lyrics.
This is a great free link for those words you search for.

Here is a reorganized set of songs based on what the thread people have liked and the 100 set of songs - note the slashed items are ones not mentioned by the thread people specifically.
XBox 360 new game coming out this summer is karoake -some of these songs will become known to the youngsters.

Someone may want to do a poll of ten top groups to see which is most popular.

ABC / "Look of Love (Part One)"
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Aerosmith / "Janie's Got a Gun"
Africa - Toto
Ah-Ha - Take on me.
Air Supply - All out of Love
Animals - House of Rising Sun
Animotion - Don't You Want Me Baby,/Fascination,
Obsession Another One Bites the Dust
Asia - Heat Of The Moment
Baltimora - Tarzan Boy
Bananarama / "Cruel Summer"
Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique
Beastie Boys / "Fight For Your Right"
Berlin - Take my Breath Aaway
Billy Idol / "White Wedding"
Billy Idol - Mony
Billy Ocean - Carribean Queen
Billy Ocean - Dancing with Myself
Billy Ocean - Get out of Dreams/Get into my car
Billy Ocean - Going gets Tough
Blondie / "Call Me"
Bobby Brown / "My Perogative"
BoDeansBon Jovi - Living on a Prayer
Bonnie Tyler - Total Exlipse of the heart
Bow Wow Wow / "I Want Candy"
Britany Fox - Girlschool
Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA
Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
Cameo / "Word Up!"
Chaka Khan / "Ain't Nobody"
Cheap Trick - The Flame
Cinderella - Coming Home
Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night
Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
Culture Club / "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me"
Cyndi Laufer - Time after Time
Cyndi Lauper / "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"
Dead Milkmen - Punk Rock Girl
Dead or Alive / "You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)"
DeBarge or Ready for the World (No Parkin' Baby, No Parkin' on the Dance Floor...)
Debbie Gibson / "Only in My Dreams"
Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar on Me
Depeche Mode / "Just Can't Get Enough" Devo / "Whip It"
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
Dire Straights - Walk of Life
Doors - Light My Fire/Break on thru to the other side
Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town
Duran Duran - Hungry like a Wolf
Duran Duran - ReflexEddie Money -Take me home tonight
Eddie Murphy - Party all the Time
Europe - The Final Countdown by Europe
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams, Would I Lie to You?
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
Flock of Seagulls - I Ran so Far
Flock of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had A Photograph)Foreigner - Urgent
Foreigner / "I Want to Know What Love Is"
Gary Numan / "Cars"
George Michael / "Faith"
Go-Go's / "Our Lips Are Sealed"
Guns n' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
Guns n' Roses - Welcome to the Jungle
Hall & Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)
Hall & Oates - Maneater
Huey Lewis and the News- The Power of Love
Human League / "Don't You Want Me?"
INXS / "Need You Tonight"
Janet Jackson / "Nasty"
Jesse James Dupree - The Lumberjack Song
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts/ "I Love Rock N' Roll"
Joe Esposito - You're the Best
John Fogarty - Centerfield
John Mellenkamp - Jack and Diane
Journey - Any Way You Want It
Journey - Don't Stop Believing
Journey - Guilty Pleasures
Journey - Separate Ways
Juke Box Hero
Kajagoogoo / "Too Shy"
Katrina and The Waves / "Walking On Sunshine"
Kenny Loggins - Meet Me Half Way
Led Zeppelin
Lionel Richie / "All Night Long (All Night)"
Loverboy - Don't Tell Me You Love Me
Loverboy / "Working for the Weekend"
Madness - Our House
Madonna / "Like a Virgin"
Martika -Toy Soldiers
M4eatloaf - Love by the Dashboard
Men At Work - Down Under
Men at Work - Dr. Hekyll & Mr. Jive
Men at Work - Who Can it Be Now
Men Without Hats - Safety Dance
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Michael Jackson / "Beat It"
Mike Reno - Whenever There's a Night
Modern English - I Melt with You
Motley Crue - Home Sweet Home
Motley Crue / "Dr. Feelgood"
Mr. Brownstone.
Ms Jett - I Love Rock 'n Roll
Naked - Always Something There to Remind Me
New Edition / "Candy Girl"
New Kids on the Block / "You Got It (The Right Stuff)"
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
Nina - 99 Lufta Balloons
Outfield - Your Love
Ozzie Osbourne and Black Sabbath
Pat Benetar "Love Is A Battlefield"
Pat Benetar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Paula Abdul / "Straight Up"
Pet Shop Boys - What've I Done to Deserve This
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer, Red Rain, Shock the Monkey, I Have the Touch.
Phil Collins - Take Me Home
Phil Collins / "In the Air Tonight"
Pink Floyd - Momentary Lapse of Reason album
Pixies
Poison / "Every Rose Has It's Thorn"
Poinson - Talk to me
Pretenders
Prince - Purple Rain
Prince / "Kiss"Prince / "Little Red Corvette"
Prince Purple - When Doves Cry
Public Enemy / "Fight the Power"
Queen and David Bowie / "Under Pressure"
Quiet Riot - Bang Your Head
R.E.M / "It's The End of the World As We Know It (and I Feel Fine)"
R.E.M. - Central Rain
R.E.M. - Strange Currencies
Ramones - I wanna be Sedated
Ratt / "Round and Round"
REO Speedwagon - Keep on Luvin U
Replacements -
Rick Astley - Never gonna give you up, never gonna let you down
Rick James / "Super Freak"
Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl
Right Said Fred - On the Catwalk
Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock / "It Takes Two"
Robert Palmer -Simply Irresistible
Rockwell's -"Somebody's watching me
Rolling Stones- Brown Sugar Shack
Ronnie James Deo - Holy Diver
Run- DMC - Walk This Way
Salt-N-Pepa / "Push It"
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
Siouxie Sue
Smiths
Softcell - Tainted Love
Squeeze / "Tempted"
Starship - We Built This City
Stevie Nicks and Tom Petty -Stop Draggin My Heart Around
Stray Cats - Rock this Town
Styx - Don't Let it End
Styx - Mr. Roboto
Super Bowl Shuffle
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Taco Oskerse - Puttin' On the Ritz
lTalking Heads- Burning Down the house
Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World
Tears For Fears - Shout
The B-52's / "Love Shack"
The Bangles / "Walk Like an Egyptian"
The Clash / "London Calling"
The Cure / "Just Like Heaven"
The Fixx / "One Thing Leads to Another"
The Pogues - A pair of brown eyes
The Police - Synchronicity
The Police / "Every Breath You Take"
The Pretenders / "Brass in Pocket"
The Rolling Stones / "Start Me Up"
The Romantics / "What I Like About You"
The Vapors - Turning Japanese
They Might Be Giants - Another First kiss
Thomas Dolby / "She Blinded Me With Science"
Tom Petty - Sister Christian
Tommy Tutone / "867-5309 / Jenny"
Tone-Loc / "Wild Thing"
Toni Basil / "Mickey"
Toto - Stranger in Town
Tubes - She's a Beauty
Twisted Sister - We're Not Gonna Take It
U2 / "Pride (In the Name of Love)"
U2 / "With Or Without You"
Winger - 17
Van Halen - Jump
Van Halen - Panama
Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun
Wang Chung / "Everybody Have Fun Tonight"
Wham! / "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go"
Whitesnake / "Here I Go Again"
Whitney Houston - Always Love You
Whitney Houston - How Will I know
Young M.C. / "Bust a Move"
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[zdorr40]

I love it!! And, come on guys... You know some of you listened to NKOTB. :rolleyes5cz:

You mean OFOTC?

 

[Wesley]

New Kids might be 40 now - they have been around the block. I noticed no one mentioned Madonna or cited David Bowie much.

 

[zdorr40]

New Kids might be 40 now - they have been around the block. I noticed no one mentioned Madonna or cited David Bowie much.

All fat and nasty with bags under their eyes, smoking cigarettes, living in a trailer with their boyfriends.:laugh8kb: But their hair is still pretty.

 

[Wesley]

OFOTC - It didn't matter for the Rolling Stones - they look like skeletons and they just roll on like a stone.

 

[zdorr40]

OFOTC - It didn't matter for the Rolling Stones - they look like skeletons and they just roll on like a stone.

Mick Jagger looked like the Cryptkeeper at the Super Bowl last year, with his midriff revealing his wrinkled 70-year-old stomach and his flabby triceps flapping about while he clapped to the beat. At least their tunes are good.

 

[OWLCITYCYFAN]

My one roomy loved Billy Idol "Dancing With Myself" and "Mony Mony" on the way to Granddaddy's (OK that dates me as I bet most of you don't knwo where that was!)

My other roomy loved Triumph "Fight the Good Fight"

When I got to Ames in 1981, the same guy owned Granddaddy's, Cave-In and that bar on Chamberlain Street (changed names at least five times while I was at ISU). You'd buy one large glass mug that was good at all three bars on different nights; can't drink PBR to this day as that's what was on tap...

Triumph and Rush both played Vet's Memorial within two months of each other and KGGO seemingly used the same commercial for both bands. It'd start out with, "CANADIAN POWER TRIO _____" will be rocking...

Good times...

 

[tolar]

What about Air Supply. All out of Love.
If it is good enough to be on the Family Guy it is good enough for me

 

[SilverCyclone]

Any early R.E.M. as well...So. Central Rain comes to mind. Anyone else see them in C.Y. Stephens in the mid 80's?

.... excellent question.... wish I could remember the question.... eeerrrrrr , I mean answer...

.... I vividly remember going to C.Y. Stephens for the concert ... awesome acoustics except, unfortunately, Michael Stipes voice cracked on an accopello(SP) solo....I had just discovered the advantages of a "Graphics" bong and the Pizza Pit delivery number so I can only place the semester somewhere between fall of 83 until somewhere around fall of 84... I KNOW I WAS THEiR PHYSICALLY THOUGH... (*the ticket stub is still in my parents attic somewheres*).... :rofl8yi:

 

[SilverCyclone]

.... anybody else see "Third World" reggae band in the early 80's at CY Stephens as well.... no problem with smoking back then !!!.... lmfao...

--- Welcome To Iowa... Where The Grass Is Always Greener !!! :rolleyes5cz:

 

[SilverCyclone]

80's songs for $1,000.00 Alex....


"WHAT IS"...


---.... "Voices Carry" by Til' Tuesday .... :rofl8yi:

 

[spanny]

If you dig 80's music the Great American Music Festival at Steamboat Days in Burlington is where it's at, in the past def leopard, survivor, zz, it rocks out man

 

[garn91]

Winger's 17 & Poision's Talk Dirty to Me. I love it when these 2 come on The Bus, driving along and the radio get's blasted. Ahhhhh....memories of cruising on a Friday night.

Oh, it may have been 90-91 timeframe when it came out, but was by an 80's band: Warrant's Cherry Pie. Oh my god, what a video.

 

[Wesley]

Meatloaf Love by the Dashboard

 

[OWLCITYCYFAN]

Meatloaf Love by the Dashboard

"Paradise by the Dashboard Lights" is soooo 1970's, man! I played that album to death on my JC Penney compact stereo (turntable, 8-track & radio!) when I was in elementary school! Of course I had to wear earphones so my parents wouldn't hear the vulgar lyrics...:sweet:

 

[garn91]

Anything by the Violent Femmes.

Thanks alot, i've had Blister in the Sun stuck in my head for the last 24 hours.

 

[johnsonjj]

Someone mentioned Springstein's "Born in the USA". I was on the Ag travel course in '85. We stayed in a international hotel (no locals, only people hard currency) where they let us bring our own music. We were too immature to realize that belting out the lyrics to everysong on that CD in the bar probably helped with the ugly American syndrome...