Nope. Total and complete failure in actually reading the brief.

Born to Run

(controversially – FGTH version, which gets in into the 80’s)

Slackboy – good effort, but you seem to have added a lot of Big Country…

Absolutely no problem with that.

Berlin – Metro.

AC/DC – You Shook me All Night Long
Rainbow – I Surrender
ZZ Top – Gimme All Your Lovin’
Soul 2 Soul – Back To Life
Van Halen – Jump

Survivor – Eye of the Tiger.

Eye Know – De La Soul
Night of the Living Baseheads – Public Enemy

Transvision Vamp – Baby I Don’t Care

Lynyrd Skynyrd – Freebird

Ivan Meets GI Joe – The Clash
Bankrobber – The Clash
Mirror in the Bathroom – The Beat
Racist Friend – The Specials

I’m sulking.

Rock the Casbah – The Clash
Eton Rifles – The Jam
Down in the Tube Station at Midnight – The Jam Dammit. 70s.
Blue Monday – New Order
New Year’s Day – U2

Going to stop now…

Lots of not ’80s stuff in this thread.

Laura Brannigan – Self Control
Mike Hornsby and the Range – That’s Just The Way It Is
Van Halen – Why Can’t This Be Love?
Win – You’ve Got The Power
Then Jericho – The Motive
Mental As Anything – Live It Up

I’m sulking.

Who sang that? 😆

I’m sulking.

Who sang that?

Morrisey? Sounds like one of his.

or Mike Hornsby. 😉

Then Jericho – Big Area

Do you want to know which ones I’ve got so you can remove them from the playlist? 😛

I hope Slackboy is keeping up 🙂

or Mike Hornsby.

Now wondering who he was and how he supplanted Bruce in my memory.

Maybe he was the model trains guy.

Bruce and the Mechanics – Over my Shoulder

Anything by Motorloaf or Meathead.

Brucey! by Toni Basil

Yello: The race
Pat Banatar: Love is a battlefield
Chris Rea: Road to hell
Pet Shop Boys: Suburbia
Eurythmics: Angel
Genesis: Tonight, tonight, tonight
The Police: Syncronicity II

Roll Me Away – Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band, surely the epitome of an 80’s driving song

Dire Straits – Telegraph Road

Meat Loaf – Bat out of Hell

Passed my test in 1980. This one is what I used. 1600cc Corrina with suspension stiffness of French proportions. Happily upgraded to Carlos Fandango Mini 8)

I hope Slackboy is keeping up

collaborative playlist – anyone can join the fun…

Disturbed – Down with the sickness. ‘OH WA HA HA HA’

you like driving fast yeah?

Joe Jackson – ‘Steppin Out’ ?

I remember 1983 fresh out of school driving around Birmingham City Centre after dark on way to a club in a friend’s metallic green Fiat X1-9 with this playing on the tape machine. Stellar flashback!

Oh, and surely GTA Vice City OST?!

Tight Fit – The Lion Sleeps Tonight

In a slighty off-topic kind of way, we went to the MotoGP at the weekend and stumbled across a Mexican eighties cover band, and they were FANTASTIC. There’s no eighties music like Mariachi eighties music. 😀

Depeche mode everything counts

Violent femmes Blister in the Sun

The Cure Close to me

Duran Duran Hungry like the wolf

Robert Palmer Addicted to love

David Bowie Lets Dance

Phil Colins Sussudio

Jan Hammer Crockets Theme

Well having endured a trip to Switzerland with two U2 fans, I can tell you what I would leave off.

For those of us over-biked and under-pedalled:

Weak in the Presence of Beauty by Alison Moyet

Oh, its a long time since I saw you
Well you know how time can fly
It seems like yesterday we were lovers
Now we pass each other by
But if we’re left alone tonight, don’t ask me to hold you tight
I go weak
I go weak
I go weak
I go weak, weak in the presence of beauty

Love Missile F1-11 – Sigue Sigue Sputnik

I think that long drives – especially late night ones, are great for concept albums

eg: Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWipIji35Cg

Jump by van Helen

(Ch)easy lover by Phil Collins and Philip bailey

Playlist all up to date. I’m going off shift now, don’t forget you can add your own

Heres the link to that playlist again

Playlist

spotify app link

Crash by The Primitives

IHN – Member
Then Jericho – Big Area

Oh bravo… Well played

I’m going to counter dire straits telegraph road and suggest tunnel of love instead.
Republica ready to go. (Not 80s though)

Def Leppard photograph
Iron Maiden run to the hills
As the sun is setting on this endless dad drive..Bon Jovi, wanted dead or alive,

Definitely mainstream me:

Paul Simon – Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
Frankie – Two Tribes
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
Stone Roses – Waterfall
Oakey and Moroder – Together in Electric Dreams
Phil Collins – You can’t Hurry Love
James Brown – Living in America