your top 20 hits of the 80’s

This is my childhood you're talking about ... in fact right now I'm listening to Dexy's Midnight Runners' Best Of ... If you hear Come On Eileen and see dungarees and feel old ... well join the club!

Here's a list I just happened to have handy  ... of 80s singles that are still logged in my memory (max 1 per artist!)

Bryan Adams - Run To You
Black - Wonderful Life
Cameo - Word Up
Tracy Chapman - Talking About A Revolution
The Christians - Hooverville
Cock Robin - When Your Heart Is Week
Christopher Cross - It's Alright
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
Culture Club - Karma Charmeleon
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
Terrence Trent D'Arby - If You Let Me Stay
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen
Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms
The Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Harold Faltermayer - Axel F
Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Rage Hard
Genesis - Land Of Confusion
Eddy Grant - Gimme Hope Joanna
Hall & Oates - Maneater
Bruce Hornsby And The Range - The Way It Is
The Housemartins - Caravan Of Love
Michael Jackson - Man In The Mirror
Nik Kershaw - The Riddle
Level 42 - Lessons In Love
Marillion - Incommunicado
Men At Work - Down Under
Opus - Life is Life
Orchestral Manouevres In The Dark - If You Leave
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Refugee
The Pogues - Young Ned Of The Hill
The Pretenders - 2000 Miles
Queen - A Kind Of Magic
The Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep
Feargal Sharkey -  You Little Thief
Labi Sifre - (Something Inside) So Strong
Simply Red - Holding Back The Years
The Smiths - Panic
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Sting - Russians
Talking Heads - Road To Nowhere
Ultravox - We Came To Dance
UB40 - Sing Our Own Song
U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
Suzanne Vega - Gypsy
Steve Winwood - Higher Love
Yazoo - Only You
Paul Young - Love Of The Common People

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Urgh, I really despise the '80s, I like very few '80s tunes.

Guns 'n Roses - Welcome To The Jungle and Paradise City
Billy Idol - White Wedding
Alice Cooper - Poison
And too much Queen to list here...
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
B52s & R.E.M. - Shiny Happy People
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus and Enjoy The Silence (really preferring these now, never liked them back then)

I'm struggling now, I really don't like '80s music.


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Good topic this.

I used to listen to a lot of 80's stuff before I found prog, so I'm going to find this difficult, but here goes:
1) Europe - The Final Countdown
2) Toto - Africa
3) Housemartins - Caravan of Love
4) Men at Work - Down Under
5) Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen, no, wait, make that Geno...
6) Phil Collins + Philip Bailey - Easy Lover
7) The Cars - Drive
8) Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes
9) Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
10) Kraftwerk - The Model

Probably missed out loads, and I'm not sure some of them might even be from the 80's, but meh...

OK, I can't resist... I will continue my list in order to make it into a top twenty version

• Y&T - This Time
• Prince - Purple Rain
• Dire Straits - Brothers In Arms (how could I miss this one in my first post!)
• Wham! - Everything She Wants
• Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
• Huey Lewis & The News - The Power of Love
• Scorpions - There's No One Like You (from World Wide Live)
• Bon Jovi - Livin' On A Prayer
• Depeche Mode - Shake The Disease
• the theme song from Fame, definitely! 

 

 

In no order...

Ghosts - Japan
Head over Heels - Tears for Fears
Mad World - tears for Fears
Hymn - Ultravox
Souvinir - OMD
Save a Prayer - Duran Duran
Master and Servant - Depeche Mode
Pride - U2
Money for Nothing - Dire Straits
Cloudbusting - Kate Bush
Bithday - The Sugacubes
Big Log - Robert Plant
How soon is Now - The Smiths
This Corrosion - Sisters of Mercy
Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson
Sychronicity II - The Police
The one I love - REM
Mama - Genesis
Cities in Dust - Siouxsie & the Banshees
Ghost Town - The Specials
Senses working Overtime - XTC

A few late additions..

 

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Gosh, only ten?? (what about the headline of this topic? ) Anyway, I may as well give this a try...

• Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia
• The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger
• Toto - Africa
• A-Ha - Take On Me
• Bon Jovi - Born To Be My Baby
• Madonna - La Isla Bonita
• Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
• Billy Idol - White Wedding
• Duran Duran - Save A Prayer
• U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name

And many many more... *sigh* Those were the times!

Edited by Fritha

greenback wrote: Zac M wrote: Starship's other hits "Sara" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" are quite good as well. Oh, I forgot Toto's "Africa," that's a great song. The 80s was definitely the best decade for Pop music! oh yeah! there are TONS of excellent hits! police's king of pain,  every little thing she does, every breath you take are unforgettable!

Totally agreed!!!!

Starship's other hits "Sara" and "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" are quite good as well.

Oh, I forgot Toto's "Africa," that's a great song. The 80s was definitely the best decade for Pop music!


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Zac M wrote: In no order: 1. Take on Me-A-Ha 2. Open Your EYes-Asia 3. Twilight Zone-Golden Earring 4. Almost Paradise-the guy in Loverboy and the girl in Heart (don't know their names...) 5. If You Leave-OMD 6. New Order-State of the Nation Remix 7. Hard for to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away-Chicago 8. We Built This City-Starship 9. Oh Sherry-Steve Perry 10. Journey-Escape This was hard, I used to listen to A LOT of 80's pop music.

oh sherry, by steve perry is quite memorable!

the 80's was a VERY important decade for me: the fact that i passed from a teenager to an adult world in 1985 is partly a reason. what was your 10 most memorable hits during this decade, made of (if possible) non prog artists?

ME: (not in  order)

1. robert plant - big log
2. tears for fears - advice for the young at heart
3. phil collins - against all odds
4. joe jackson - stepping out
5. spandau ballet - true
6. supertramp - it's raining again (exceptional)
7. eurythmics - sweet dreams
8. red rider - human race
9. foreigner - i wanna know what love is
10. human league - human

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