Tell me your favourite female - sung records from the 1980s, whether or not they were singles or hits.

[WildRosie]

Mine, in no particular order, are:

Thorn In My Side - Eurythmics
They Don't Know - Tracey Ullman
Super Trouper - ABBA
Only You - Yazoo
Sign Of The Times - Belle Stars
Hymn To Her - Pretenders
Is This Love ? - Alison Moyet
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton
The Greatest Love Of All - Whitney Houston

True Colours by Cyndi Lauper

Manic Monday by The Bangkes, I still love them and god, yes to Luka!

Ironic - Alanis Morrisette

Gloria by Laura Branigan!
Lets hear it for the boy
Kids in america by kim wilde

When Tomorrow Comes by Eurythmics.
A New England by Kirsty MacColl.
Move Closer by Phyllis Nelson.
Piano In The Dark by Brenda Russell.

@TinkersRucksack

Suzanne Vega's Luka

By this time I'd left home & lived in a flat. Takes me back to that time in a flash. I played it to death. My bf at the time was SO fed up of it 🤣

Sally - by Carmel
All around the world - by Lisa Stansfield

@MercyBooth

Julia Fordham Happy Ever After. Laura Branigan Solitaire. Laura Branigan I Wish We Could Be Alone (b side to Gloria) Joan Armatrading Drop the Pilot. Joan Armatrading The Weakness in Me and More than One Kind of Love. Laura Branigan Sanctuary, Self Control, Close Enough.

Bloody love Drop the pilot!

Little Lies by Fleetwood Mac.
Marlene On The Wall by Suzanne Vega.

Tpau- Bridge of spies
Tracy Chapman- Baby can I hold you tonight
They dont know and A new England - Kirsty Macoll
Belinda Carlisle- Leave a light on
Everything but the girl- I dont wanna talk about it
Pretenders-2000 miles

Hounds of Love by Kate Bush

Only you by Yazoo

@WildRosie

Great thread!!!

Far too many to choose from & it's weird to think I was 10 - 20 in that decade. Big big life changes, seems like I fit at least 20 years into that decade 🤣

If she knew what she wants - The Bangles
Cloudbusting - Kate Bush
All Cried Out - Alison Moyet
Self Control- Laura Brannigan
Here comes the rain again -Eurythmics
Automatic - The Pointer Sisters
Stop - Sam Brown
Spellbound- Siouxsie and the Banshees

@WitchesBritchesPumpkinPants - ha, snap! Somewhere else in the world there were 2 other 10 year old girls doing the same! I would run up the street in the evening to my friends house with the record under my arm, cue hairbrushes

anything by roxette!!
kate bush wuthering heights
xanadu by Olivia newton John

I don't want a Lover - Texas

Great thread.

Someone should Spotify List this 👍🏼

There were lots of great female singers form the 1980's.

Alanis Morisette was 1990's though ( I remember exactly which tree I sat under at Bletchley that year when she came on the radio) but still one of the best female singers in my opinion.

Turning back to the 1980's. We all cried for days at my work when we heard Karen Carpenter had died. Not known as mainstream 1980's as her main works were 1970's, but who can ever not be moved by Close To You. She died in the wings of that song.

Dear Prudence - Siouxsie and the Banshees

And we played her through the 1980's. We play her now.

Man with the child in his eyes - Kate Bush
ANYTHING by the late, great Kirsty McCall, but especially In These Shoes and Days
The Bangles Eternal Flame
Madonna - Borderline and This Used to be my Playground
Hazel O Connor Will You
Pat Benatar - Love is a Battlefield and We Belong
Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen

@ChaosTrulyReigns

I don't want a Lover - Texas

Great thread.

Someone should Spotify List this 👍🏼

Oh yes, loved Texas.

And Perfect - by Fairground Attraction

Robert de Niro's waiting - Bananarama
Nathan Jones - Bananarama
La isla bonita - Madonna
I don't want to fight anymore - Tina Turner

Love is a stranger (in an open car) - Eurythmics
Dusty Springfield 'what have i done to deserve this' (with the Pet Shop Boys)
and
Nothing has Been Proved (about the Profumo scandal)
Vanessa Paradis Joe le Taxi

If Only by Hazel O'Connor.
Jackie and Troy, both by Sinead O'Connor.
Adrian by The Eurythmics.
Since Yesterday by Strawberry Switchblade
Cccan't You See by Vicious Pink
That one verse in The Last Film that the girl sings solo.