What is one of your favourite songs from the 80's?

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Mine is Bronski Beat 'Small Town Boy' just love the dance music and the video is class..Still reminds me of a friend from all those years ago...

Jitterbug!

I wasn't even though off in the 80s so sorry Im not good with the names but I do believe I was born in the wrong decade as I love the 80s
Then I remember n sync and Britney and I'm glad I grew up in early 00s 😄

You’re older than you think?

I Don’t Like Mondays was 1979.

Singles : I still love Billie Jean, it was MJ at his absolute peak. That bass line is such a classic.

Albums : I will always love The Queen is Dead by the Smiths, but my vote has to go to The Joshua Tree by U2. I queued up with my friends from sixth form outside Our Price in Derby to buy our copies on the day it was released in 1987. The hype [😉] about the album had been so massive that it couldn’t possibly live up to it, could it? Oh, yes it could. And more. After the first play, I knew it was a classic and that it would make U2 the biggest band in the world.

Where to begin?! So many great mentions already.
Small Town Boy is definitely one of my all-time favourites.
I was just listening to Promised You a Miracle by Simple Minds. Loved that song.
Lucky Star by Madonna
Erotic City by Prince (we used to replace the lyrics as kids with Neurotic Kitty and sing it to our deaf and neurotic white cat).
In fact, everything by Prince then and now.
Strip by Adam Ant
I Confess and also, Save It For Later by The Beat
Der Telefon Anruf by Kraftwerk
Bow Wow Wow's I Want Candy
Up All Night by Boomtown Rats
Uncertain Smile by The The
Unloveable by The Smiths
I could go on forever, to be honest.

I used to sit by my radio, literally praying for that song to come on... alternatively, I would turn to my other shrine, Mtv, and just wait and wait and wait for the video to come one. I was 10. I still love that song.

Something About You

and hundreds of others! It was a great decade for music.

Grew up listening to Dire Straits, love Roxy Music same old scene, David Bowie China girl. Some pet shop boys, New Order True Faith

clinkeymonkey

Aye, the tins of Insette hairspray I got through. (Elnett if I was flush) and monstrous tubs of jade green extra strength hair gel for a whole British pound.

I was merely transitioning from her to full on Siouxsie though hair wise. So I will throw Happy House and Spellbound in. Because I can.

And This Corrosion because it still thrills me.

@ClinkeyMonkey I bloody loved Siouxsie.
I’d forgotten all about that hair gel but now you mention it, I remember it vividly 😁

Oh hiya pals, we having a disco?

I was lucky enough to be Scottish in the 80's where for ten minutes we ruled the actual (music) world:

Deacon Blue - I mean, anything, but particularly anything on Raintown
Orange Juice - Rip it Up
Aztec Camera - Somewhere in my Heart and Oblivious
The Associates - Party Fears Two
Hue and Cry - Labour of Love
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Perfect Skin
Big Country - everything they ever recorded

But my funeral music is Together in Electric Dreams. God I love that song.

Rent - pet shop boys

Modern love - Bowie

Loads more but I've had a fucktonne of vodka......

IceHouse - Hey Little Girl.

Och now. Party Fears Two. And Billy. An impossibly beautiful man.

St Elmo's Fire by John parr

I worked in Our Price when Joshua Tree was released!
It was all any one bought for a whole week, then hardly ever sold another copy. Everyone who wanted it got it fast!

I was born mid 80s, so only remember what my parents used to play. Brothers in Arms by Dire Straits. Oh and The Sultans of Swing. Jack and Diane by John Mellencamp. Eternal Flame by The Bangles. You're the Voice by John Farnham.

I LOVE Free Fallin' by Tom Petty

Great thread and so many good suggestions one of my favourites is I found loving- fatback band

@Antarcticant
Thanks for reminding me of this song it's brilliant.

Don't Stop Believing by Journey
Animal - Def Leppard
Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks (not a FM fan though)
Most of my playlists are 80s rock or punk/indie stuff
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Love Like Blood by Killing Joke

Wrap Up The Rockets by The Freshies
Treason by Teardrop Explodes

What have I done to deserve this by the Pet Shop Boys.

@Daisychainsandglitter
Dusty Springfield just brings me to tears in that song.

So many good songs. Thanks for the reminders.
My all time favourite is say hello wave goodbye. My funeral song.