For me it's this.
[i]Eye to eye stand winners and losers
Hurt by envy, cut by greed[/i]
Catchy synth driven melodies, Euro accent and a very indulgent video.
(Edit^ that was bit self indulgent too!! :oops:)
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.