your top 3 songs of the 80,s

[tcufrog]

It just can't be done, man! My brain is in overload. I've tried to come up with a top 3 but I just can't! I give up. I'm just going to go curl up in a corner and listen to all my 80's CD's( yes, I am that far back technologically that I don't even stream yet )

I totally agree. Asking me to choose is one of the meanest things you've done low-key.

If you were asking me to choose the most depressing song of the 80's though, I would definitely have to choose In the Living Years. Great song but it's bad for my mental health.

 

[tcufrog]

I just thought of two related questions.

1. Which movie(s) have/had the best usage of 80's music?

2. 80's musician/singer hair was a very special thing. Who had the best hair?

1. Gross Point Blank

2. Flock of Seagulls

 

[low-key]

I totally agree. Asking me to choose is one of the meanest things you've done low-key.

If you were asking me to choose the most depressing song of the 80's though, I would definitely have to choose In the Living Years. Great song but it's bad for my mental health.

bring ack a sad time in your life ?

 

[AustinTink]

2. 80's musician/singer hair was a very special thing. Who had the best hair?

 

[Toolulu22]

This is just an awesome list. There is something so very distinctive about 80’s music- lots of good songs and styles came out then. I can’t choose three, but I do want to go listen to most of that 100!

 

[low-key]

This is just an awesome list. There is something so very distinctive about 80’s music- lots of good songs and styles came out then.

you know why in the 50,s and early 60,s r&r was fun, then from mid 60,s thru mid 70,s it was drug induced, lol. Then disco, then after that, we all had enough and in the 80,s we just wanted to have fun again

 

[Deanna404]

In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
Let's Go Crazy - Prince

 

[tcufrog]

bring ack a sad time in your life ?

Nope. The combo of the lyrics and the way it's sung just depress me.

 

[LovesTimone]

Bon Jovi - all of it.... can't pick just one
Lynyrd Skynyrd - all time fav : Simple Man" love it... as well all their other music....
Aerosmith - Love some Steven Tyler... the range of his voice... Toys in the Attic, Sweet Emotion, Love in a Elevator, Don't want to miss a thing...
Journey - Steve Perry voice is just amazing.... Open Arms and Don't Stop Believing...
Queen - amazing vocals... again and again can't just pick one song
Elton John.... lucky enough to see him in Concert... "Daniel" all time favorite
George Straight - Amarillo by Morning.... Fireman
Guns and Roses - Welcome to the Jungle

 

[RedAngie]

Best women's hair of the 80's. Patricia Morrison of The Sisters of Mercy



Siouxsie Sioux.

 

[L&Lfan]

More favorites:

Breakin’...There’s No Stopping Us/Ollie and Jerry

I Guess That’s Why They Call It The Blues/Elton John

Think of Laura/Christopher Cross

Thriller/Michael Jackson

Let the Music Play/Shannon

Borderline/Madonna

They Don’t Know/Tracey Ullman

 

[AustinTink]

Siouxsie Sioux.

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Or Robert and Siouxsie together. I had this poster in college.

 

[Cannot_Wait_4Disney]

I was always in charge of Tazing Robert Smith and Siouxsie Sioux before concerts.

 

[TheFloatingBear]

My Girl (Gone, gone, gone) - Chiliwack
Summer of 69 - Bryan Adams
Heaven is a place on earth - Belinda Carlisle
Jessie’s Girl - Rick Springfield
Karma Chalmeleon -Culture Club
Manic Monday- The Bangles
Patio Lantern - Kim Mitchell
Pop goes the world - Men without hats
We didn’t start the fire - Billy Joel

Love that song - an underappreciated 80s hit!

 

[TheFloatingBear]

Another 80's graduate...don't know where to start so may have to categorize like @RedAngie

I would NOT call these my top three, just stream of consciousness since we're talking 80s...since we're on the topic of hair and/or music (please note Mickey Mouse reference)… could also be categorized as early music video fun...

 

[RedAngie]

More fun music and hair from the 80's.

 

[low-key]

More fun music and hair from the 80's.

I loved that song and thought she was so sexy, I wonder if she aged as well as the "I ran" guy

 

[RedAngie]

I loved that song and thought she was so sexy, I wonder if she aged as well as the "I ran" guy

 

[L&Lfan]

Twist of Fate/Olivia Newton-John

Flashdance...What A Feeling/Irene Cara

Islands in the Stream/Kenny Rogers and Dolly Parton

She Works Hard for the Money/Donna Summer

Love Is A Battlefield/Pat Benatar

Love Is A Stranger/Eurythmics

Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)/Sheena Easton

 

[Jafar30]