To ask your favourite 80s song?

[Wildlady]

Mine is Red Red Wine. UB40

They are cool those two. write some interesting lyrics and do great covers.
The power ballad was huge in the 80s - you dont get that many these days.

Temptation - Heaven 17

Impossible to choose - I was a teen in the 80s and so I love literally thousands of 80s songs.

However, if absolutely pushed:

Big Country - Fields of Fire (still get teary when I think of what it sounds like sung by about 10,000 people in an arena)

Honourable mentions:
Pet Shop Boys - Rent (sad, cynical and beautifully ambiguous)
Kool and the Gang - Celebration (floor filler)
Jackson 5 - Can you feel it (floor filler)
Nelcy Sedibe - Holotelani (joyful and reminds me of the AA campaigns of my youth)
Fairground Attraction: Moon on the Rain (first year of university)

Just Can’t Get Enough Depeche Mode. What a perfect pop song! It just sums up the excitement of being young and the emergence of electronic music. I still get a thrill when I hear it!

A lot of 80s songs are truly perfect ‘pop songs’.

the chauffeur Duran Duran

Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure. The "can't we give ourselves one more chance" part is probably my favourite bit of any song!

Ooooh so tough to choose just one. Duel by Propaganda.

Killing Moon - Echo and the bunnymen

Oh god, there is just so many x x

Oh Patti by Scritti Politti. Could name a million more though!

Don't you want me, Human League.

Suburbia - Pet Shop Boys
Only you - Flying Pickets version

Yes, Duel is fabulous! Also Teenage Kicks by the Undertones ( or was that 70s?)

Yep, 1978, dang.

The Headmaster Ritual.

Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
Listen to my heart - everything but the girl (I know it's a cover)
Prince Charming - Adam Ant
Land of make believe - Bucks Fizz
Every single Wham song

Don't You (Forget About Me) by Simple Minds is my favourite song of all time. 1985.

Erasure- A Little Respect/ Oh L'Amour
Toto- Africa
Yazoo- Only You
Alison Moyet- Is This Love
John Farnham- You're The Voice
Jim Diamond- I Should Have Known Better

And so many more, 80s had the best music.

This thread brings tears to my eyes. So many amazing songs connected with happy times back then. I wish I could time travel.

Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Every Breath You Take -Police
Las Palabras de Amor-Queen
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner
I Guess That's Why Call It The Blues -Elton John
Yazoo (all of it)
Brothers In Arms (everything on the album) Dire Straits, in fact most things by Dire Straits
Ditto, Bon Jovi
Vienna -Ultravox.......was there last month, walking around humming snatches from the song as the snow fell....'walked through the cold Qur'an.

Hate auto correct, that should be cold air, not cold Qur'an obviously!!!

How to choose?! So much good music.

Wild Boys - Duran Duran
Just can't get enough and See You - Depeche Mode
Take on Me Aha

Later in the 80's

Crash - The Primitives
Baby I don't care - Transvision Vamp

Gosh, hard to choose
Time after Time - Cyndi Lauper
Jealous Guy - Roxy Music
Graceland- Paul Simon
Whose Going to Drive You Home - The Cars
Golden Brown -The Stranglers
Thats just off the top of my head too ...!

Can I have a top 3 please?

The Story of the Blues - Wah!

Fields of Fire - Big Country (saw this performed at Larks in the Park, fantastic)

Torch - Soft Cell

The Stone Roses - Waterfall

The Stone Roses - Waterfall

Was just about to write that

Africa by Toto