That is a fantastic list, andymoon. I can't believe nobody's mentioned Madonna. She did her best stuff back then and was arguably the decade's biggest star. Ditto for Michael Jackson and Prince not being mentioned, though their music is timeless. other totally 80s tunes: Nothing But a Good Time - Poison Centerfold, Freeze Frame - J. Geils Band Heaven is a Place on Earth - Belinda Carlisle Cherry Pie - Warrant Seventeen - Winger I Wanna Dance With Somebody, How Will I Know? - Whitney Houston Straight Up, Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul
INXS Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy, Good Thing, I'm Not The Man I Used To Be A Split Second - Rigor Mortis Yaz - Don't Go (fav from ABC's Wide World of Sports) Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't It Be Good Big Audio Dynamite - e=mc2 Spandau Ballet - True Echo & The Bunnymen The Church - Under The Milky Way The Art Of Noise - Moments In Love Information Society Nitzer Ebb - Join In The Chant Culture Club Howard Jones Rap... Timex Social Club - Rumors Run DMC Boogie Boys - Fly Girl Joeski Love - Pee Wee's Dance Whodini - Friends UTFO - Roxanne, Roxanne Kurtis Blow - Basketball edit: Tom Tom Club - Genius Of Love
Señor Lil Pun, does "she" like SPANISH? What, if anything, would she like from the 80's? Magneto? Bronco? I was born in '75 and came here in '86, but listened to ALL this crap because there were few if any Spanish stations in that era. Hence, I annoy my coworkers with THIS PLAYLIST: 2 Live Crew - Big Booty Hos 2 live crew - ghetto bass 2 Live Crew - We Want Some P*ss* ACDC - You Shook Me All Night Long Al B Sure - Nite And Day Bangles - Manic Monday, Walk Like An Egyptian Beach Boys - Kokomo Bel Biv Devoe - Poison blue oyster cult - dont fear the reaper Bobby Brown - Every Little Step I Take, My Prerogative Brooks and Dunn - Boot Scootin' Boogie Cars - Angel is a Centerfold Chicago - Please Don't Go Chris DeBurgh - Lady In Red Dodgeball movie Cinderella - Don't Know What You Got (Till It's Gone) Club Nouveau - Lean on Me Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me, Karma Chameleon Cyndi Lauper - I Drove All Night D.O.C. - The Formula Daryl Hall & John Oates - You Make My Dreams, Baby Come Back, Because your Kiss Is On My Lips, I Can't Go For That (No Can Do), One on One, Say It Isn't So Debbie Gibson - Only In My Dreams Dee Lite - Groove Is In The Heart Depeche Mode - enjoy the silence, I just can't get enough, People Are People, World In My Eyes Don Henley - All She Wants to Do Duran Duran - A View To A Kill, Come Undone, Hungry Like The Wolf, Notorious, Relax don't do it eazy-e - boyz in the hood, Eazy Duz It Eddie Money - take me home tonight Egyptian Lover - Egypt Egypt El De Barge - Rhythm of the Night Erasure - A Little Respect, Always, Chains of Love, Sometimes, Take A Chance On Me Eric B and Rakim- Paid In Full Europe - The Final Countdown Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung Fleetwood Mac - Little Lies, Sara Front 242 - Headhunter Garth Brooks - I Got Friends In Low Places George Michael - Faith Ghetto Boys - Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta Office Space, My Mind Is Playin' Tricks On Me grand master flash - rapper's delight, White Lines Gun's and Roses - Sweet Child Of Mine House of Pain - Jump Around huey lewis and the news - back in time, Doing it all for my baby, Happy to Be Stuck With You, i need a new drug, power of love Ice T - Six In The Morning Information Society - Pure Energy Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off joan jett - i love rock and roll Jody Watley - Looking For A New Love Journey - When The Lights Go Down In The City Kim Wilde - You Keep Me Hanging On Kriss Kross - Jump Kylie Minogue - Locomotion Lionel Ritchie - All Night Long Lipps Inc - Funky Town Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam - Head to Toe Marrs - Pump Up the Volume MC Hammer - Can't Touch This Miami Sound Machine - Conga Michael Jackson - Beat It, Billie Jean, Thriller milli vanilli - girl you know it's true Nenah Cherry - Buffalo Stance New Edition - If It Isn't Love New Kids on the Block - Step by Step, The Right Stuff New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle, Blue Monday Nine Inch Nails - Head Like A Hole Nitzer Ebb - Let Your Body Learn,Warsaw Ghetto No Mercy - Please Don't Go Omd - Touch You Once, Touch You Twice Pat Benatar - We Belong Paula Abdul - Cold Hearted Snake Pebbles - Girlfriend Peter Cetera - Glory Of Love Phil Collins - Don't Lose My Number, In the Air Tonight, One More Night Prince - When Doves Cry q lazzarus - good bye horses Quiet Riot - Come On Feel The Noise Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up, Please Don't Go, Together Forever Robert Palmer [R.I.P.] - Addicted To Love, Doctor Doctor, I Didn't Mean To Turn You On, Looking For Clues, Mercy Mercy Me, Simply Irresistible, Some Like It Hot Rod Stewart - Tonight's The Night rodney o & joe cooley - Everlasting Bass, nobody disses me, this is for the homies Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep Sade - Smooth Operator Scorpions - Big City Nights, No One Like You, Rock You Like A Hurricane, Winds of Change Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me Sir-Mix-Alot - I Like Big Butts Soul II Soul - Back To Life (How Ever Do You Want Me) Starship - We Built This City streets of fire - I Can Dream About You Survivor - The Moment Of Truth Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart Technotronic - Get Up!, Move This, Pump Up The Jam The Cure - Friday i'm in love, I'll Stop the World and Melt With You, Love Song, Lullaby, Why Can't I Be You The Gap Band - Ride the White Horse, You Dropped a Bomb on Me The Outfield - Since You've Been Gone Tiffany - Think We Are Alone Now Timmy T - One More Try Tone Loc - Funky Cold Medina, Wild Thing Toto - Africa Twisted Sister - I Wanna Rock, We're Not Gonna Take It Ub40 - Red Red Wine Van Halen - Can't Stop Lovin' You, Dreams, Finish What Ya Started, Jump, Love Comes Walking In, Love Walks In, Panama, Right Now (90's?), Runnin' With The Devil, Top Of The World, Why can't this be love, You Really Got Me Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby Wham! - Wake Me Up Before You Go Go When In Rome - The Promise Will To Power - Baby I Love Your Way In Bold are some of my favorites. If some of these ARE NOT 80's, please advise this poor Mexican.
Xymox - Stranger Shriekback - Nemesis Front 242 - Quite Unusual The The - This Is The Day Cult - the whole "Love" album Love and Rockets - Ball of Confusion INXS - "Don't Change" and many others
Well they only had 4 top 40 hits (American wise - can look it up ) in "So in Love" - #26 "(Forever) Live And Die" - #19 "Dreaming" - #16 And of course "If You Leave" - #4. I agree that OMD was great but their stuff for the most part was not popular enough to dent the American top 40. The songs outside of "If You Leave" were minor hits at best and rarely played on '80s weekends on the radio. FB, Same thing as explained to RIET - those bands had songs that were not major hits - top 40 wise on the pop charts. I remember "Fields of Fire" but "In a Big Country" was Big Country's only American top 40 hit (you can look it up if that seems hard to believe). Believe it or not - Alphaville never even had an American top 40 hit although I agree with you that "Forever Young" is heard almost as much as "Big in Japan". The 2 A Flock of Seagulls songs you mentioned were great but only reached #30 ("Space Age Love Song") and #26 ("Wishing (If I Had a Photograph of You)"). I don't know if you remember "The Sun Always Shines On T.V." by a-ha but that song got to #20 on the pop charts, so technically a-ha is not a one-hit wonder either. But the songs I listed earlier were songs that you are most likely to hear on the radio or that artist's most well-known song. As great as some of these other songs are, only die-hard fans would really know them - the casual music fan does not know "Fields of Fire", "Dreaming", "Space Age Love Song", etc.
Chris Isaaks -- Wicked Game http://www.vh1.com/shared/droplets/util/track_sample.asx?trackId=513791 /me resists the urge to thrash plcmnts to within a inch of his life with a Flyin V..
an overly underated omd song is "was it something you said". if you're a fan.. you gotta listen to it
Good find. I think technically if hits top 40 it is a hit. I remember the videos from Fields of Fire, and Wonderland, so I just assumed one if not both were minor hits for Big Country. I remember tha Wonderland video not being played too infrequenty. I do actually remember that othe a-ha song as well. I didn't see it near as much as the two Big country videos I mentioned, but maybe it is just selective memory, or I was already asleep at the slumber parties by the time the second aha video got the extensive airplay. I did only see the Big in Japan video from Alphaville, but it just seemed like 'Forever Young' was everywhere else. Your facts trumps my supposition alright. But it is like a line that I will paraphrase from a play. -Sometimes the memory becomes more real than the experience.
FB, Well it is really a gray area in what determines a song to be a hit or not. Classic example is "Tempted" by Squeeze. That song never hit the American top 40 chart which to me is unbelievable. Yet you hear that song all the time, even on TV commercials. So, to me even though it did not hit the American top 40, it was still a "hit" as it is the one song that most Americans associate with Squeeze (which is a damn shame as they had so many other good songs, reminds me of Erasure as they were the same way). It probably was unfair to say that "Big in Japan" was the more popular Alphaville song as the more I think about it, "Forever Young" gets just as much or more airplay than "Big in Japan" (BTW - that album titled "Forever Young" has to be the greatest synth pop album ever along with a-ha's "Hunting High and Low"). So when I am in doubt about a song being the only "hit" for an artist, I go by what song is played the most on radio but it is definitely a gray area, no question about it.
Are you kidding? A "hit" is a song that was in the top 10 at some point. The idea that The Big Country Song "Big Country" off the Album "Big Country" wasn't a one hit wonder in anyone's minds is amazing. Look, I like a lot of songs by so called "one hit wonders". But the fact is, they are just that. Here's a great song for y'all to download... try 1993's "The Gift" by INXS
Didn't OMD come to Houston in 1986? I could've sworn they came to the Southern Star Ampitheatre at Astroworld with Depeche Mode. I should remember this...I was there...was just a bit too long ago. All I can remember was that at some point during DM's performance, Dave Gahan threw out a sweat towel into the audience...my direction. I reached up and got a hand on it and next thing I know, there's a wall of ninth-grade chicks falling down on my back. I quickly gave up the struggle. That show was pretty awesome...I had floor tickets in the second section of seats (probably about row 35 or so)...but had some friends in the third row. As soon as the show started, the crowd bum-rushed the stage area and we wedged in with our friends on the third row. Jeesh...I have never seen so many teenagers wearing black Cure t-shirts (I was one of them). I was such a poser!!! I also remember going to see Utah Saints and The Shamen in the early 90's. That was a good show also!!!
In '86 Depeche Mode played Astroworld with Book of Love for the Black Celebration album. I think it was one year later, or maybe '88 when OMD and Depeche Mode played together.
