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...

Head over heels tears for fears

Break Out - Swing Out Sister
Saturday Love - Cherelle & Alecander O'Neill
Left to my own devices - Pet Shop Boys

Thanks everyone yes brilliant songs and brings back great memories and makes us all nostalgic for the carefree days...

Can anyone remember this

m.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd2VDEzR3M0

I'm sure it was the last dance late 80's but I was always pissed and my oppo insists I remember it from the pub.

I had an LP, Raiders of the Pop Charts, when I was little in the 80s- been trying to remember what was on it. Fantasy Island by Tight Fit and Cacharpaya definitely were,

Agree with loads of these--classics
Heart-Alone
Bryan Adams--Heaven
Electric dreams
Winds of change
Take my breath away
Hazard
Cher galore
Tina Turner galore

What an era!

I can't possibly pick just one!

Your Love - The Outfield
Story Of The Blues - The Mighty Wah!
The Motive - Then Jerico
Love Is A Wonderful Colour - The Icicle Works
Chocolate Girl - Deacon Blue
Father Figure - George Michael
Glittering Prize - Simple Minds
There It Is & A Night To Remember - Shalamar
You Came - Kim Wilde

I'm sure I'll be back later with more! I was an 80s teen and the music is everything to me.

Europop was brilliant in the 80s, too.

Dolce Vita - Ryan Paris.
Maria Magdalena - Sandra.

Thanks for this brilliant thread, OP!

The power of love (the third song of the decade with this name!) - Huey Lewis and the News
Dr Beat - miami sound machine
Walking on sunshine - katrina and the waves
In the air tonight - Phil Collins
You're the Voice - John Farnham
Wake me up before you go go - wham
I wanna dance with somebody- Whitney
Never ending story - limahl
Rio - Duran duran
Don't leave me this way - communards
Take on me - aha
A little respect - Erasure
Dont you want me - Human league

Europop was brilliant in the 80s, too

Yes - the fabulous London Boys (RIP) - with Requiem, London Nights and Harlem Desire in the late 80s. Not just great songs but some of the best dance performances I have ever seen!

DC Lee - See The Day
So many Gloria Estefan songs - Can’t Stay Away From You, Don’t Wanna Lose You, Betcha Say That, and although I just checked and it was released in 1990 - Cuts Both Ways. Beautiful song.

Shout - tears for fears (in fact anything by tears for fears!)
Don't dream it's over - Crowded House
Stripped - Depeche mode - RIP Fletch :-(

Tears for Fears were the first gig I went to - Shout was amazing live with the audience joining in.
I'm also a big Crowded House fan - Don't Dream it's Over would be one of my dessert island discs.
Other 80s songs I love are Just an Illusion by Imagination, Big in Japan by Alphaville, I Got You by Split Enz. I could be here all night.

Anyone remember 'big area' by Then Jericho? Loved that. Also 'cuddly toy' by roachford.

Starship - nothing's gonna stop us now, Labi Siffre, something inside so strong, all Whitney Houston, all Michael Jackson

LOVE IT!

Big in Japan by alphaville obviously!!
Also huge madness fan, spent many happy times bouncing to baggy trousers, house of fun, one step beyond, night boat to Cairo, my girl and those other nutty tunes! Never grown out of them 😂

Take on me or Waiting for a star to fall. I could never pick one over the other, I absolutely love them. Takes me right back. Love the 80's

Love Resurrection by Alison Moyet.

Temptation by Heaven 17

West End Girls by Pet Shop Boys

Cry Wolf by Aha

There are also loads of songs I wasn't that keen on at the time, but I now appreciate and enjoy with a dollop of nostalgia.

Ghosts by Japan/David Sylvian
Cry boy Cry - Blye Zoo
Fireworks Siouxie and the banshees
one in 10 UB40
Will you hazel o Connor

But actually too too many - god I love the 80s!

Obsession by Animotion is another

WeAreTheHeroes Loved Just An Illusion.

Also whoever sang Abracadabra and Video Killed The Radio Star, was that the 80's and The Safety Dance..

Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band

Video Killed the Radio Star was The Buggles

Safety Dance - Men Without Hats

I think hearing stuff on the radio and recording favourites was something a lot of us did!

Duel by propaganda
Feels like heaven - fiction factory