Favorite 80s songs

[SunshineDays2019]

Oh wow, listening to music on You Tube and forgot how much I loved these songs in my teens:
Sugarbox by Then Jericho
Feels Like Heaven by Fiction Factory
Story of the Blues by Wah
I'm Falling by The Bluebells

Does anyone share my taste?

Don’t Tell Me - Blacmange
Oblivious - Aztec Camera
Big in Japan - Alphaville
Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel
Bang Bang - BA Robertson

And obviously anything by Duran Duran

Does anyone share my taste?

Nope! Or at least, I don't! Not that I don't like them, but I don't know them

I'm all about the 'pop' from the 80s, with a whole load of Bruce Springsteen thrown in, and a few power ballads. Give me chart hits any day of the week.

Wonderful Life - Black

Brilliant Mind - Furniture
The Last Film - Kissing the Pink
Ccccan't You See - Vicious Pink
No Memory - Scarlet Fantastic

Story of the Blues - Wah - absolutely share your taste, brilliant song!
Hold Me Now - Thompson Twins
We Don't Need This Fascist Groove Thing - Heaven 17
Slave To the Rhythm - Grace Jones
The Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen

I might not know all the artists

Japanese Boy
Rock me Amadeus -Falco or Falcon
Down under- Men at work
Stepping out -Joe Jackson
Everything counts - Depeche Mode
Total eclipse of the heArt - Bonnie Tyler
Dinner with Gershwin- Donna Summer
Look away- Big Country
On my own- Micheal McDonald and Patti Labelle
We didn’t start the fire- Billy Joel
Super women-Karyn White
Once bitten twice shy
Zoom- Fat Larry’s band.
Piano in the Dark-Brenda Russell
Also YY to Wonderful life

What is love- Howard Jones
Is this love-White Snake
With or without you- U2
Shattered Dreams- Johnny Hates Jazz

I like Feels Like Heaven too! Also Evangeline by Icicle Works, On The Wings of Love by Jeffrey Osborne, To Be or Not To Be by BA Robertson.

I also like Script for a Jester's Tear by Marillion but it's a bit long...

Come on Eileen

I’ve even requested that it’s played at my funeral, much to DH’s disgust, best friend though will ensure that this happens (should she be alive...) 😂

Love your taste OP, just listened to two of those this evening!

Yay for poster who mentioned Scarlet Fantastic No Memory - a top favourite of mine too!

Sign of the Times, The Belle Stars

Anything by Rick Astley, Paul Young, Duran Duran and (because I babysat his dog once 😂) Curiosity Killed the Cat!

Story Of The Blues is a righteous song. When I first heard it I couldn't quite believe no one had created it before because obviously if you've got music at your disposal you should do that with it.

I like loads of these. I like loads of 80s songs. It was a very varied decade really. Little bits of leftover punk, mods obviously, dark synth pop, disco blended to high nrg, bubblegum pop, power pop, rock and metal still continued of course but also hair rock and power ballads, rap, electro-house, dance, goth, preppy pop ... It had it all, stuffed into ten incredible years.

@BerwickLad I wish that this forum had a like post!

@MelanieFrontage cheers fellow 80s fan! Did you really dogsit for Ben Unpronounceable-Name? (As Smash Hits called him.)

Space Age Love Song - awwwwww!

Smalltown Boy - Bronski Beat
White Wedding - Billy Idol

@BerwickLad I really did, it was at my gym and they had some kind of road show there and Ben had bought his dog along and I had to look after him (it) for the day, I can’t remember the breed, except it was small, but I do remember being pissed off that as designated dog sitter I couldn’t join in. To make matters worse I didn’t even get to meet Ben whatsisface!

Other favourites (for now)
You Can Call Me Al - Paul Simon
Party Fears Two - The Associates
Living On A Prayer - Bon Jovi
True Faith - New Order
This Charming Man - The Smiths
Peekaboo - Siouxie And The Banshees
Hide And Seek - Howard Jones
You Spin Me Round - Dead Or Alive
Enola Gay - OMD
Boop Here To Go - Sly And Robbie

@MelanieFrontage aw, shame. So near and yet so far!

But the funny thing is with Ben whatshisface is that I was particularly talented at drawing portraits but wasn’t studying Art (that came later in my life) and my bestie at the time was studying Art O level....
She had an assignment to draw a portrait, she got a grade A and I’d like to think that most of it was down to me drawing Ben whatsisname on her behalf 😂

Time is precious- Boy George
A different corner- George Michael
Hungry like the wolf- Duran Duran
Hard habit to break- Chicago

To name just a few:

Biggest Part of Me - Ambrosia
Time – Alan Parsons Project
Adult Education – Hall and Oates
Saved by Zero – The Fixx
Sharp Dressed Man – ZZ Top
Careless Memories – Duran Duran
Ain’t Nobody – Chaka Khan
Synchronicity II – The Police
Jungle Love – The Time
Run to the Hills – Iron Maiden
If Anyone Falls – Stevie Nicks
Der Kommissar – After the Fire
Subdivisions – Rush
Pressure – Billy Joel
Wild Side – Motley Crue
Sexy Eyes – Dr. Hook
Blue Monday – New Order
Woman in Chains – Tears for Fears
Girlfriend is Better – Talking Heads

There are some brilliant songs on here thank you, I look forward to getting back on YouTube this evening after work and stepping back in time again! Have a good day all!

I used to love Ben from Curiosity. And I loved their 2 hits!!!

I also love:
Wouldn't it be Good - Nik Kershaw
She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
Poison - Alice Cooper
Alone - Heart
Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil

How could I forget beds are burning?! I love that song!