What are your favorite non-U2 songs from the 1980's and why ?

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What are your picks of your favorite or (what you think are)
the very best non-U2 song/s released in the 1980's and please say why, for any choice/s named.
 
Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners - great bar song!
Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield - never gets old
Land Down Under - Men At Work - sang it a capella in jazz choir
Africa - Toto - sang it a capella in jazz choir
Just What I Needed - The Cars - sang it a capella in jazz choir
My Hometown - Springsteen - could be about all of the little dying towns in iowa
Paradise City - GNR - reminds me of the ballpark i worked at this summer
 
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what a question! Insert contents of my Itunes here lol

Unguarded Moment - The Church
Almost With You - The Church
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Stand and Deliver - Adam & The Ants
I Want You - Cabaret Voltaire
Rock The Casbah - The Clash


hang on I will come back to this in a minute
 
lots and lots of springsteen songs.

the clash - straight to hell (and others, but that would be the best 1980s clash song, if not the best clash song ever--it's one of the top 3).
 
The Church, Skid Row, Adam & the Ants, Dire Straits, Soft Cell, Michael Jackson, Bananarama, Kym Wilde, Samantha Fox, Cheap Trick, Talking Heads, Simple Minds, Dragon....

Geez...

:reject:

All songs, any songs. Same as everyone else though really.
 
just about anything by Talk Talk, Talking Heads, The Church, Inxs

and of course Live it Up by Mental as Anything
 
Man, I could make a list of unbelievable size telling what other '80's songs are my favorites. I can honestly listen to the local '80's/New Wave/Original-Alternative station and sing along to most every song they play. I dig me some '80's. :up:
 
my choice would be "there is alight that never goes out" from the smiths, but i think that i only discovered that in the 90's.

the 80's for me was all about the goth's. the mission, sisters of mercy, the cult, bauhaus (well, this one is still one of my favourites) were the bands. The reason was probably the looks, my bunch thought that we had style in those clothes. Anyway, the music was also intersting.

So the most representative song of this can only be "She sells sanctuary" from The Cult.
 
Stand & Deliver - Adam and the Ants
Take On Me - A-Ha
White Wedding - Billy Idol
Living on the Ceiling - Blancmange
Call Me - Blondie
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
I Want You - Cabaret Voltaire
Cheap Wine - Cold Chisel
Better Be Home Soon - Crowded House
Man Eater - Daryl Hall & John Oates
Forbidden Colours - David Sylvian & Ryûichi Sakamoto
You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) - Dead or Alive
Just Cant Get Enough - Depeche Mode
Whip It - Devo
Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Save a Prayer - Duran Duran
The Cutter - Echo and the Bunnymen
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
Der Kommissar - Falco
A Good Heart - Faregal Sharkey
Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Temptation - Heaven 17
Don’t You Want Me - Human League
Talking To A Stranger - Hunters & Collectors
Great Southern Land - Icehouse
Cry for love - Iggy Pop
Don’t Change - INXS
Woman - John Lennon
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush
Kids in America - Kim Wilde
99 Luft Balloons - Nena
Blue Monday - New Order
Xanadu - Olivia Newton-John
Biko - Peter Garbiel
Orange Crush - R.E.M.
Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
The Warrior - Scandal Featuring Patty Smyth
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
To Cut a Long Story Short - Spandau Ballet
Dirty Creature - Split Enz
Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
Shout - Tears for Fears
Change - Tears for Fears
Unguarded Moment - The Church
Almost With You - The Church
Should I Stay Or Should I Go - The Clash
Head On - The Jesus & Mary Chain
I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) - The Proclaimers
Turning Japanese - The Vapors
It's Raining Men - The Weather Girls
What Does It Take? - Then Jericho
Da Da Da I Dont Love You You Dont Love Me - Trio
Vienna - Ultravox
Underneath The Radar - Underworld
Fade To Grey - Visage
Careless Whisper - Wham
 
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Thanks Bedouin. It took me quite some time to paste the contents of my Itunes in here. Except I accidently omitted The Church, theyre on my first little list.

Im such an 80s dag :D
 
In no particular order:

Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
Echo and the Bunnyman - The Killing Moon
George Michael - Faith
Prince - When Doves Cry
Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes
Just about everything Bruce Springsteen and INXS released
And lots more...
 
Everything on this compilation. I mean, just look! The Cure, R.E.M., Robyn Hitchcock, the Replacements, the Smiths, the Jesus & Mary Chain, New Order, Husker Du, the Jam, Ultravox, the Smithereens, Minutemen, the Meat Puppets, the dBs, Violent Femmes, Sisters of Mercy, Echo & the Bunnymen, the Feelies, Psychedelic Furs, the Church, Love & Rockets, the Pixies.... :combust:
 
It looks like my incessant pimping of The Church is working!! :D

Pretty much everyone I would have mentioned has already been mentioned.... Well I don't think I saw General Public's "Tenderness" listed. I always liked that song. Why? It's just fun.

The why for some bands, like The Replacements, The Cure, Echo & the Bunnymen, and yeppers...The Church (duh!), is cause they were good. I don't really feel their music is all that dated, so it's still at the top of my list.

Besides, cute guys wearing eyeliner -- what's not to love?

(ok, I could have done without the mullets....)
 
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I could spend all day discussing 80's songs. I am an 80's guy. :cool: Instead I'll pop 10 songs here. Some of the songs that have been mentioned are great and I'll try not to repeat those ones here.

China Girl - David Bowie (actually, that album Let's Dance is one of the most brilliant albums of that decade)

In a Big Country - Big Country (I actually heard this one before I heard ANY U2 song. they were probably my #1 band until U2's UF was released.)

How Soon is Now? - the Smiths (This song still kicks ass today!)

Kiss the Dirt (Falling from the Mountain) - INXS (from my favorite inxs album Listen Like Thieves)

Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds

Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics (I think I realised was being "horny" was all about when I first saw Ann Lennox)

In Between Days - the Cure (80's Cure is best!)

She Sells Sanctuary - the Cult (this band opened my heart to the heavier side of rock)

Add it Up - Violent Femmes (this band was my Chilli Peppers side before I got into that band)

She's a Mystery To Me - Roy Orbison (yes, I know the Edge and Bono wrote this, but this one truely feels like its Roy's all the way. It still one of the most beautiful songs even today. Plus, it is kind of cool picking a Roy Orbision track from the 80's. What a voice!)

Bonus: Best 80's Soundtrack - The Lost Boys

:yes:
 
Forgive me! How dare I not mention New Order. :reject:

They had a lot a great songs. Bizarre Love Tiangle of course, but I think my favorite one was the Perfect Kiss and that album it originated from (Low-life).
 
Here are some:

Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Metallica - Seek And Destroy
Metallica - For Whom The Bell Tolls
Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
Bruce Springsteen - Born In The U.S.A.
The Rolling Stones - Start me Up
The Rolling Stones - One Hit To The Body
Katrina And The Waves - Walking On Sunshine
Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle
AC/DC - Hell Bells
AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
Anthrax - Caught In A Mosh
Judas Priest - Metal Gods
Judas Priest - Electric Eye



I'm not a big fan of the 80's though.
 
alia612 said:
Everything on this compilation. I mean, just look! The Cure, R.E.M., Robyn Hitchcock, the Replacements, the Smiths, the Jesus & Mary Chain, New Order, Husker Du, the Jam, Ultravox, the Smithereens, Minutemen, the Meat Puppets, the dBs, Violent Femmes, Sisters of Mercy, Echo & the Bunnymen, the Feelies, Psychedelic Furs, the Church, Love & Rockets, the Pixies.... :combust:

i agree, that about sums everything i loved (and still love) about the 80s.

:up:
 
Salome said:
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and of course Live it Up by Mental as Anything

Salome I am now making you definately an unofficial Australian- your knowledge of Aussie music is just phenomenal!!! I totally remember this song and the film clip too- very cool song indeed:wink:

I just love 80s music and some fave pics would be,

The reflex- Duran Duran
Be good Johnny- Men at work
The hurting- Tears for fears
Before too long- Paul Kelly









I know there are more, but I cant think at the moment!!!!
 
macphisto23 said:
I cant believe nobody has mentioned THe Police?


Oops.

Synchronicity II
Invisible Sun
Don't Stand So Close To Me
Spirits in the Material World
Every Breath You Take (even if it is overplayed)
Bombs Away
Driven to Tears
 
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