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Best songs from the 80's.......




i have got a few

1) simply red - holding back the years
2) martika - toy soldiers
3) cars - drive
4) pretenders - i'll stand by you
5) heart - alone
6) jose mari chan - beautiful girl
7) baltimora - tarzan boy
8) shakin stevens - because i love you
9) cutting crew - i just died in your arms
10) foreigner - i want to know what love is
11) stephen bishop - it might be you
12) richard marx - hazard

and the list goes on from chicago, air supply to The Police to Tears for Fears.....

any great songs from the 80's that you guys would like to share???

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At the time I was thinking that it was really too much as a business' music, you know: all carefully planned at the desk and carefully crafted by somewhat wannabe musicians. But I had fun listening to some groups and tunes of that period, and the time has given some of them back their worth.

As Groups in the '80 I liked Traveling Wilburys, The Clash, Scritti Politti, Madness, Tears For Fears, Kajagoogoo, Talking Heads...

Lately I'm still enjoying some:

Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
Kajagoogoo - Big Apple
Kajagoogoo - The Lion's Mouth
Tears For Fears - Change
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Tears For Fears - Shout
Tears For Fears - Sowing the Seeds of Love
Tears For Fears - Advice for the Young at Heart
Belouis Some - Imagination
Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine
Roxy Music - More Than This
Spandau Ballet - True
Spandau Ballet - Gold
Spandau Ballet - I'll Fly For You
Mike Oldfield _ Moonlight Shadow
Gazebo - I Like Chopin
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
Culture Club - Church Of The Poison Mind
Duran Duran - The Reflex
Duran Duran - Save a Prayer
Duran Duran - Girls on Film
Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know
Ultravox - Dancing With Tears in My Eyes
Talk Talk - Such a Shame
Talk Talk - It's My Life
Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It
Billy Idol - Eyes Without a Face
Billy Idol - Sweet Sixteen
Talking Heads - Born Under Punches (The Heat Goes On)
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere
Talking Heads - Slippery People
Talking Heads - Wild wild life
Talking Heads - And She Was
Paul Hardcastle - Nineteen
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Feargal Sharkey - A Good Heart
Billy Ocean - When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Get Going
Human League - Human
Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight
Living In A Box - Living In A Box
Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy
Go West - We Close Our Eyes
Go West - Call Me
Huey Lewis & The News - The Power of Love
Huey Lewis & The News - Hip to Be Square
Huey Lewis & The News - Stuck With You
Huey Lewis & The News - If This Is It
The B.B. & Q. Band - On the Beat
Peter Tosh - Johnny B Goode
The Stranglers - Golden Brown
The Special A.K.A. - Free Nelson Mandela
Robbie Nevil - C'est la vie
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two tribes
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Rage hard
Eurythmics - Sexcrime
Madness - One Step Beyond
Madness - Our House
Madness - Baggy Trousers
Madness - Sweetest Girl
Saxon - Ride Like The Wind
The Art of Noise - Moments in Love
Simple Minds - Don't you (forget about me)
Scritti Politti - The word girl
Scritti Politti - Perfect Way
Scritti Politti - Absolute
Scritti Politti - Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)
Scritti Politti - Flesh & Blood
Giorgio Moroder & Phil Oakley - Together in electric dreams
The Knack - My Sharona
Devo - Whip it
The Las - There She Goes
Propaganda - Duel
Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives me Crazy
Fine Young Cannibals - Good Things
David Byrne- Don't Fence Me In
...

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Omg thanks to everyone for all the suggestions! I love 80s music.

Some of my favs (some are late 70s):

I Wanna Know What Love is - Foreigner
Take on Me - Aha
Cheek To Cheek - Taco
Everytime You Go Away - Paul Young
Friday I'm in Love - The Cure
Gloria - Laura Branigan
Man in The Mirror - Michael Jackson
Lost in Love - Air Supply
Anything by ABBA
These Dreams - Heart
We Belong - Pat Benatar
Why - Annie Lennox
Trying to get that feeling again - Barry Manilow
Mandy - Barry Manilow
Push it To the Limit - Paul Engermann
Rainy Days and Mondays - The Carpenters
Escape (The Pina Colada Song) - Rupert Holmes
If You Leave Me now - Chicago
You're my Inspiration - Chicago


There's sooooo many more but this just from my IPOD list. Keep em coming!

"They say hunger is the best spice" - Spike

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