Top 80's Pop Tunes!

Howard Jones – Like To Get To Know You Well

loads of hooks, flying with the falsetto bit.

‘Don’t you think now is the time
We should be feelin’
Just want to simply say
Won’t let you slip away’

There can be only one…

yeah take on me is probably *the* definitive 80s tune.
Obviously there’s so many that don’t seem part the genre, Queen’s a Kind of Magic, Michael Jackson’s thriller or billie jean or any of the Madonna tunes. I’d like to say British 80’s pop tunes. However Aha are Swedish but definitely count in the genre.

yeah take on me is probably *the* definitive 80s tune.

Plus a contender for the greatest pop video of all time.

simply the best song from the whole of the 80’s

from a band that could have been huge. unique and sad.

And, of course:

But finally, the most glorious pop song ever:

Aha are Swedish

erm Norwegian, I thought

I wanted to go out today but being a massive 80 throwback I’m not moving.. Love it

keep em coming, cleaning the downstairs on an 80s tip. Bronski beat is ace.
Yazoo – Don’t Go (1982).

This classic, obviously:

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There can be only one…

Which is a 90s song? 😕

(I struggled to decide which one from adam and the ants should be included)

Great thread- Tears for Fears ‘Head Over Heals’

(Though I always thought “Self!” was the better track.)

An 80s thread wouldn’t be complete with:

Just in case your day is going well here’s an earworm (and some eighties outfits!) to completely ruin it for you lol

Matthew Wilder – ‘Break My Stride’

There can be only one…

Which is a 90s song?

My thoughts also, although wikipedia claims that it was first released in 1988 (released 1990)…

Proof that not even po-face prog rock bands were impervious to a touch of eighties electro pop flamboyance. Produced by Trevor Horn (natch! 😉 )

Yes- ‘Owner of a Lonely Heart’

B52’s – Roam

Oh girl dancing down those dirty and dusty trails. Take it hip to hip rocking through the wilderness.

That one magical line has made this one of my favourite songs ever – it could, should, must have been written about mountain biking. Every time I hear it, it takes me to oh so many special places, brief fleeting moments of summers past. 8)

My thoughts also, although wikipedia claims that it was first released in 1988 (released 1990)…

Ermmm!

It was recorded in mid-1990, and was first released as a single in May 1991 in the UK. The single did not go on sale in the U.S. until four months later.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiny_Happy_People

Oh wait. 😳

😆 😆 😳

Alphaville – ‘Big in Japan’
Bomb The Bass – ‘Beat Dis’ 12 inch remix
B52’s – Private Idaho (The Grid Remix)
Can we have a thread on best 12 inch remixes please, but no Blue Monday as I’m sick to death of hearing it?

cleaning upstairs now, I must pay my penance if I wish to go cycling this evening. Here’s another belter
sly fox let’s go all the way

The Cult 1985

Billy Idol 1983