A-ha, Erasure, Eurythmics, Pet Shop Boys. All big in the 1980s. What is your favourite song or songs from each ?

[WildRosie]

A-ha: Hunting High And Low
Erasure: Stop!
Eurythmics: Thorn In My Side
Pet Shop Boys: West End Girls

PSB in particular have been inventive and prolific and made many great records but in my opinion, they peaked very early with West End Girls.

A-Ha - The Blood that Moves the Body
Eurythmics - This City Never Sleeps
Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin
Erasure - Respect

If we’re adding the Communards, then Small Town Boy.

Erasure - Sometimes
PSB - Go West

@Hen2018 wasn't that Bronski Beat?

A-Ha; Living A Boy's Adventure Tale. Love it.

I don't know songs from the others

And whomever mentioned The Mighty Wah The Story of the Blues - I absolutely adore that song!

If we're adding The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues. We spent many a night, drunkenly murdering that one.

Erasure - respect, AHa - the sun always shines on TV, Eurythmics - here comes the rain again (very apt for the coming few days 😂) and PSB - it's a sin or always on my mind. The latter reminds me of club Tropicana at Manchester university in the 90s. If anyone else is a club trop veteran please comment as I don't know of anyone else to reminisce with.

A ha - Stay on these roads
Erasure - Respect
Pet Shop Boys - Se a vida e, that’s the way life is
Eurythmics - Thorn in my side

Erasure passed me by, sorry.

Pet Shop boys - It's A Sin/ West End Girls

A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV

Eurythmics - Love Is A Stranger

Love any and all 80's. Best decade for music and films ever!

Aha - Sun Always Shines on TV
Erasure - Sometimes

@AnoymousCoward

And whomever mentioned The Mighty Wah The Story of the Blues - I absolutely adore that song!

Serendipitously, I've just read something about Wah! in Stuart Maconie's book and wanted to come and add it to The Whole of the Moon as perfect 80s pop. Fabulous.

@DrCoconut- Tropicana and every other club in Manchester between 1984 and 1992 when I moved away to Liverpool.

Pet Shop Boys - Kings Cross
Erasure - Ship of Fools
A-ha - Take on Me
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams

@TooBigForMyBoots

If we're adding The Waterboys - Fisherman's Blues. We spent many a night, drunkenly murdering that one.

Yep. Was on the university jukebox. Spent loads playing it. Another favourite of the Waterboys is Red Army Blues. "I saw my first American, he looked a lot like me" analysed and over-analysed when pissed ridiculous and finding Russians and Communism both terrifying and vaguely sexy at the same time.

And whomever mentioned The Mighty Wah The Story of the Blues - I absolutely adore that song!

As do l!

But watch the video, the Mighty Pete sort of twitches when he’s dancing. Very strange.

@DrCoconut- Tropicana and every other club in Manchester between 1984 and 1992 when I moved away to Liverpool

I was in Manchester then! The Hac, the Ritz, The Venue, Berlin, Legends

Happy daze…

Yes- I just watched the video for the first time...and wtf is going on there?

A-Ha Take on me. I quite like "Stay on these roads" too.
Pet Shop Boys What have I done to deserve this. Also like "Domino Dancing"
Erasure Wasn't really into them but the one that stands out most to me is "Sometimes".
Eurythmics Who's that girl - fun fact about the video, all current and past members of Bananarama appear in it.

@ArseInTheCoOpWindow

And whomever mentioned The Mighty Wah The Story of the Blues - I absolutely adore that song!

As do l!

But watch the video, the Mighty Pete sort of twitches when he’s dancing. Very strange.

Oooh so he does. His twitching is all out of synch with the beat.

Pet Shop Boys - West end girls / left to my own devices
Erasure - A little respect
A-ha - Take on Me
Eurythmics - Here comes the rain again

And I am a ClubTrop/Ritz/Boardwalk veteran!

Yes to 'Red Army Blues' - Waterboys

• brilliant live!

And another club that was under an arch down the road at the side of the Cornerhouse, that used to play Ministry, NIN, Radiohead etc

[quote ArseInTheCoOpWindow]**@DrCoconut- Tropicana and every other club in Manchester between 1984 and 1992 when I moved away to Liverpool

I was in Manchester then! The Hac, the Ritz, The Venue, Berlin, Legends

Happy daze…[/quote]
I never went to Legends, and invariably ended up in the Venue when the queue was too long for the Hac. Venue always on a Friday. Ritz on Monday and Wednesday. Berlin was where, in early 1986, I first wore "trendy" leggings which as a New Thing didn't come in different lengths and I am long. So spent entire evening panicking trendy leggings would come out of little boot and ride up leg revealing untrendy skin. I'll add Playpen/42nd street on a Tuesday and one which came later under the railway arches (Fridays and Saturdays, can't remember name) Occasionally Jilly's and The Banshee though Jilly's was invariably a disappointment as one hoped for beautiful boys with gleaming locks but usually found hairy bikers in double denim.

Yes- 42nd street, and 5th avenue too.

Really hard to choose for every one of these. My choices may well change tomorrow.

Aha - Stay On These Roads
Eurythmics- Here Comes the Rain Again
Erasure- Oh L'Amour
PSB - Heart