Classic songs from the 80s...

primetime · Jun 18, 2011

I was listening to some songs today with a friend and this took us WAY back! Here are some songs from the 80s that were a lot of fun to listen to. This is what music was all about. Jams that make you want to dance. Not like most of "today's" music....

Hopefully others remember these too...

Chaka Khan "I feel for you"

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EU - "Doing the butt"

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Rockwell "Somebody's watching me"

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The Gap Band "Party Train"

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The Gap Band "Outstanding"

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De La Soul "Buddy"

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Those were the days!!

CurtWild · Jun 18, 2011

I love rocking out to cheesy 80's music

primetime · Jun 18, 2011

CurtWild said:
I love rocking out to cheesy 80's music

Lol

This stuff wasn't cheesy. This was really good stuff! A whole lot better than "today's music". Man, I miss my youth. Music was so much better then....

smokinj · Jun 19, 2011

primetime said:
Lol

This stuff wasn't cheesy. This was really good stuff! A whole lot better than "today's music". Man, I miss my youth. Music was so much better then....

Haha! Come on prime, 'Sombodys Watching Me' by Rockwell is cheesy as hell but nice selection otherwise. 80s music was the best!

ThatPercussionGuy · Jun 19, 2011

Nothing cheesy about 'Don't You Want Me' from Jody Watley. That woman was gorgeous.

SamuelKhan · Jun 19, 2011

Classic you say? This country crossover still stands out to this day...

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grandizer · Jun 19, 2011

I still miss my big hair bands. Damn you Nirvana!

Bohemianne · Jun 19, 2011

Bohemianne said:
"Dear God" - XTC
"Cities in Dust" - Siouxie and the Banshees
"Love Song" - The Cure
"Let's Go to Bed" - The Cure
"A Night Like This" - The Cure
"The Chauffeur" - Duran Duran
"What I am" - Edie Brickell
"The Metro" - Berlin
"Wicked Game" - Chris Isaac
"Need You tonight" - INXS
"Pale Shelter" - TFF
"Enjoy the Silence" - Depeche
"Stripped" - Depeche
"Killing Moon" - Echo & the Bunnymen
"Under the Milkyway" - The Church
"Sunday bloody Sunday" - U2
"King of Pain" & "Wrapped Around your finger" - Police
"Master of Puppets" - Metallica
"One" & "Fade to Black" - Metallica

^ retrieved from my past post.

unit5610 · Jun 19, 2011

Great list Bohemianne!

I would add

"New Toy" - Lena Lovich
"Echo Beach" - Martha and the Muffins
"The Perfect Kiss" - New Order
"Wishing" - Flock of Seagulls
"I Love a Man in a Uniform" - Gang of Four
"Homosapien" - Pete Shelly
"People Who Died" - Jim Carroll
"Feed the Tree" - Belly
"Desire" - Gene Loves Jezebel
"Uncertain Smile" - The The
"Gypsy Blood" - Mason Ruffner
"Ghost Town" - The Specials
"Genius of Love" - Tom Tom Club

grandizer · Jun 19, 2011

Safety Dance! Men without Hats

kopfhorer · Jun 20, 2011

Snail Shell · Jun 20, 2011

Soda Bobinski · Jun 20, 2011

tckleguy said:
Nothing cheesy about 'Don't You Want Me' from Jody Watley. That woman was gorgeous.

Also , you can't have an 80s music thread w/o something from muthafuckin' Thriller being on it :

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Vasker · Jun 20, 2011

Love the the Jim Carroll reference by Unit5610.

Icehouse - Icehouse
Joe Jackson - Sunday Papers
Madness - Our House
Peter Schilling - Major Tom
The Split Endz - I Got You

sheisgone24 · Jun 20, 2011

primetime said:
I was listening to some songs today with a friend and this took us WAY back! Here are some songs from the 80s that were a lot of fun to listen to. This is what music was all about. Jams that make you want to dance. Not like most of "today's" music....

Hopefully others remember these too...

EU - "Doing the butt"

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Those were the days!!

Those were the days and to prove it here is me "doin' da butt" .... but this might have been 1992 ..... [giggles] :rowfull:

Bohemianne said:
^ retrieved from my past post.

unit5610 said:
Great list Bohemianne!

I would add

"New Toy" - Lena Lovich
"Echo Beach" - Martha and the Muffins
"The Perfect Kiss" - New Order
"Wishing" - Flock of Seagulls
"I Love a Man in a Uniform" - Gang of Four
"Homosapien" - Pete Shelly
"People Who Died" - Jim Carroll
"Feed the Tree" - Belly
"Desire" - Gene Loves Jezebel
"Uncertain Smile" - The The
"Gypsy Blood" - Mason Ruffner
"Ghost Town" - The Specials
"Genius of Love" - Tom Tom Club

Bohemianne and Unit - v. very cool lists! I have to add some of my own too ...

I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel - really the whole So album!
Let's Dance - David Bowie - again we can throw in the whole thing!
Would I Lie to You? - Eurythmics
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Relax - Frankie
Bad - U2
Careless Memories - Duran Duran

I will stop right there in the early 80's .... :Kiss1:

primetime · Jun 20, 2011

kopfhorer said:
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I've always loved P-Funk!

ATOMIC DOG IS MY MUTHAF.... JAM!!!! I love that song.

Here goes some more old school classic 80's songs. These are songs that make you want to dance!! Thanks to all who have participated in this thread. Keep them coming!

Zapp & Roger - More Bounce to the Ounce

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Zapp & Roger - Doo Wa Ditty

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A Tribe Called Quest - Bonita Applebaum

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New Edition - If it isn't love

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More to come!!!

Kennethparker · Jun 21, 2011

I love "Billy Ocean - Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car".

Knox The Hatter · Jun 21, 2011

unit5610 said:
Great list Bohemianne!

I would add

"New Toy" - Lena Lovich
"Echo Beach" - Martha and the Muffins
"The Perfect Kiss" - New Order
"Wishing" - Flock of Seagulls
"I Love a Man in a Uniform" - Gang of Four
"Homosapien" - Pete Shelly
"People Who Died" - Jim Carroll
"Feed the Tree" - Belly
"Desire" - Gene Loves Jezebel
"Uncertain Smile" - The The
"Gypsy Blood" - Mason Ruffner
"Ghost Town" - The Specials
"Genius of Love" - Tom Tom Club

Mason Ruffner's 'Gypsy Blood' ranks as one of the ten greatest rock and roll songs I've ever heard in my life. He was a guitarist from New Orleans that Springsteen saw and liked. Shame he never caught on.

Knox The Hatter · Jun 21, 2011

kopfhorer said:
Are the lyrics thinly-veiled references to the then-new AIDS epidemic?

I can't stand this indecision, married with a blackout vision...

Nice hypothesis! I like how you think!

pfromptown · Jun 21, 2011

I love the eighties, such an important musical decade. I have hundreds of favourites from the electric-pop genre but I'd say these are up there more than the others:

Visage - Fade To Grey
Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark - Enola Grey
Human League - Love Action
Heaven 17 - Temptation
New Order - Blue Monday
Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Pet Shop Boys - Too many to name but chiefly: Suburbia, It's a Sin, Home And Dry, Heart, Always On My Mind, Opportunities and West End Girls
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Phil Oakley & Giorgio Moroder - Together In Electric Dreams
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
Spandau Ballet - Gold
Erasure - A Little Respect
Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home

General Zod · Jun 21, 2011

Gotta have some Duran Duran. 😀

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ShadowKat · Jun 21, 2011

I don't remember the artists for all of these:

867-5309
Sausilito Summer Nights
Run To You by Bryan Adams
Rio by Duran Duran
Major Tom
Entire album of Diary of a Madman by Ozzy (soundtrack of my senior high school year)
and anything from Rush, Yes, and Genesis that came out during that decade

Ishaanshah · Jun 22, 2011

pfromptown said:
I love the eighties, such an important musical decade. I have hundreds of favourites from the electric-pop genre but I'd say these are up there more than the others:

Visage - Fade To Grey
Orchestral Maneuvers in the Dark - Enola Grey
Human League - Love Action
Heaven 17 - Temptation
New Order - Blue Monday
Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels
Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Pet Shop Boys - Too many to name but chiefly: Suburbia, It's a Sin, Home And Dry, Heart, Always On My Mind, Opportunities and West End Girls
The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
Phil Oakley & Giorgio Moroder - Together In Electric Dreams
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
Spandau Ballet - Gold
Erasure - A Little Respect
Fine Young Cannibals - Johnny Come Home

Great list! In fact, I too am like these songs. :dogpile:

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