[Closed] Which 80s track epitomises that decade?

Club Tropicana

Relax!

Gotta be Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes

Don't you want me TJ.

Town Called Malice - if you want mainstream

Lots of others though...

I never bought into this 80s greed and tacky music nonsense that the media use to stereotype the whole decade.

80s were all about anger, bitterness, ****tting about with your mates, despair... and there was a whole stack of good music

human league, dont you want me baby.
im not saying its the best song tho.

Depends what you think the "80's" were all about, doesn't it?

Personally, I think it was all about me...

Two Tribes +1

I once did an album cover for Holly Johnson 8)

Lady In Red

deadlydarcy, go and sit on the naughty step and think about what you've done!

*sulks*

Anything by Wham or Duran Duran.

Not necessarily my favourite, in fact far from it, but Radio Ga Ga by Queen would get my vote

Docklands Light Railway, 1987

Surely this 😉

Even features Diana Dors

Have to agree with FGTH. also Baggy Trousers by Madness and Ghost Town by the Specials.

AAAAAGGGGGGGAAAAAAA do do do

Holiday in Cambodia- Dead Kennedys.

i think that this smacks of self indulgent pomposity 😉

i do like this though.

Hmmmmm, as I see it the 80's were divided into three seperate and quite different times. There was the dark early 80's of Thatcher's recession, best summed up by this gem

That's how I saw it anyhow.

The hair, the pouts, the make up and some women too, it's got to be

Then there was the really tacky, greedy, self indulgent, money making bit in the middle, where good taste evaporated into the ether leaving us with mullet powered hideousness like this. - Warning, it's bad.

This bit only happened in London, SE England and the Media

As the replies clearly show. There was just one song to define the 80s!

Energetic Toyah with her hairdo which constantly intrigued me ...

for al

could not find one called I am offensive man. I cause offence. Sorry

OT
Check out Steve Wright his clothes and hairstyle matched with the moaning discontent lefty

....and the Winner is;

Derek_Starship with Kraftwerk - The Model

Superb piece of music - released in UK in 1981. I remember spending hours listening to the album "Man-Machine" in my mates bedroom when I was about 14.

Still my fave 😆

First year at University, 1987. The album was the soundtrack to the start of the best 3 years of my life. Not sure what the single track to epitomise the feeling was, but given the quality of this video is better than the ones I can find for 'A Million Miles' it'll have to be

See what I done there....

If I remember right, "The Model" was originally released in 1978 as a b side to "The Robots". Anyway, it's on the album "Man Machine" which makes it 70s not 80s. 😉

followed immediately by

you cannot have one without the other

I'm not even a Van Halen fan but this is the 80's wrapped up in 2 songs for me

Or, only good tune pet shop boys ever did

Rock the casbah is me favourite, but this sums up the 80's for me.

[i]Holiday in Cambodia- Dead Kennedys[/i]

'79 IIRC

for every Heart, Wham or Pet Shop Boys, there was a New Model Army, Sisters Of Mercy, The Cult. So not all bad 😉
But The Clash had moved on my then, IMO - their best stuff was up to & including London Calling, in '79

Ah, Holiday in Cambodia was released in 1980 John Drummer. I'm not a pedant, honest.

Totally agree with you about The Clash. They were great until the 80's, plus, the best album by a clear mile is 'Give em Enough Rope', even if the critics disagree.

😉

ah, well it must have been close 😉 it was a long time ago, my memory's not what it was...

Pet Shop Boys - Rent
Or
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes

Magazine

Totally agree with Van Halen epitomising the 80s... everything that was crap about the 80s.

Kept Vienna off the #1 spot and my missus never lets me forget it...

hey that joe dolce is my karaoke song..!

Love this thread! I have always maintained that I hated 80s music, but it's actually quite diverse and pretty awesome in places.

New Order - Blue Monday

closely followed by Visage - Fade to Grey

This, shirley...

Reluctant - wasn't the 1978 release a German only thing. The release I refer to was the 1981 release as a B-side in the UK.

Jebus, Can't believe its got this far without mention, so given TJ's self imposed semi-exile, I'll throw this one down in his honour 😉

Kept Vienna off the #1 spot and my missus never lets me forget it...

If you want a retort for that, it wasn't just Joe Dolce. John Lennon was #1 (with, uh, Imagine I think) for the first week it was at #2.

Yesssss....Propaganda! Brilliant.

And I had so nearly completely forgotten about the awful Joe Dolce....back for some more therapy.....