List Your Favorite 80's Song(s)

[Violent VictiM]

One song at a time, list a song that made you just fuckin', drop whatever you were doing and dye your hair pink.

(Just for the record, I was only alive for 4 years and 2 months of the 80's, but it still remains my favorite decade for music. I constantly wish I was born in the 70's so I could have experienced the 80's. Then again, I hate cocaine so I probably wouldn't have had that great of a time :()

The Outfielders - "Your Love"

[Wheatjedi]

I was born in the mid-70s, and the 80s were a fantastic time for me. The music, movies and TV shows of that era remain my favorites, and I'd do anything to be able to relive that.

Picking a favorite song will be tough. I have the entire Sounds of the Eighties collection from Time/Life as well as their Modern Rock series in addition to the dozens upon dozens of CDs from the 80s. To start off though, I'll go with....

Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me

For those of you who love the 80s, you might want to get a book called Totally Awesome 80s by Matthew Rettenmund. It's the best and funniest book about that decade I've ever read.

[Violent VictiM]

I meant to make the thread title Song(s)...dag, if a mod could change it that'd be sweet, but still remember, one at a time.

Michael Jackson - "Billie Jean"

[hack slash]

Motley Crue- Home Sweet Home

[Special Killa B]

Thinking of the 80's reminds me of MTV's Headbangers Ball! So I'll pick one song I seen on there many times.

Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane

[Kat]

Girl's Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper

It screams 80's to me

[Wheatjedi]

INXS - New Sensation

[Violent VictiM]

Duran Duran - "Hungry Like the Wolf"

[Autobotsdie]

Alice Cooper - "Poison"

[Shoesalesman]

Head Over Heels - The GoGos :shifty:

[girlychaos]

I love the 80's...I'm gonna post here a lot...great thread!

I'll start with:
Spandau Ballet - True

I've always loved that song...I already liked it when I watched Sixteen Candles for the first time and I heard it there...it made me like the movie even more! :)

[hack slash]

Twisted Sister- We're not gonna take it:bang:

[Violent VictiM]

Rick Springfield - "Broken Wings"

New Wave and emo collide into one crybaby ass, yet awesome, song.

[DavidDunn]

RATT - Round And Round.

One of my favorite hair metal tracks. I'm planning on using this in my upcoming Casey Jones fan film. Oh yeah, and I tweaked the thread title to Song(s), VV. And I don't think that Rick Springfield did Broken Wings. I'm pretty sure that was Mr. Mister.

[Just Jeans]

ribbon - Little Date

It's the first Japanese song I ever listened to. It was released as a single in 1989. I really dug it. It sparked my love for J-pop/J-rock, so it holds a place in my heart as one of my favorite 80s songs.

Didn't make me want to dye my hair pink, I'm afraid.

[hack slash]

Prince- Purple Rain

[Violent VictiM]

In honor of Jeansie...

The Vapors - "I Think I'm Turning Japanese"

[Melanie Jarvis]

"Don't You Want Me"- The Human League
"Vacation"- The Go-Go's
"In Your Eyes"- Peter Gabriel

[Wheatjedi]

Peter Cetera - "Glory of Love (Theme from The Karate Kid Part II)"
The Romantics - "Talking in Your Sleep"
Culture Club - "Karma Chameleon"
Katrina and the Waves - "Walking on Sunshine"
Van Halen - "Jump"
Huey Lewis and the News - "The Heart of Rock and Roll"

[DavidDunn]

For a small list:
The Outfield - Your Love
Metropolis - The Darkest Side of The Night
Divinyls - Back To The Wall
Bobby Brown - Every Little Step
New Kids on the Block - The Right Stuff
Pebbles - Mercedes Boy
Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible
Nu Shooz - I Can't Wait
Van Halen - Panama
Steve Winwood - Higher Love
Quarterflash - Harden My Heart
Belinda Carlisle - I Get Weak
Pseudo Echo - His Eyes
Bananarama - Cruel Summer
Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
Skid Row - 18 & Life
Autograph - Turn Up The Radio
Pat Benatar - Shadows of The Night
Samantha Fox - Touch Me (I Want To Feel Your Body)
Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart
Huey Lewis And The News - The Power of Love

[girlychaos]

Hey guys....I thought we were supposed to post one song at a time. :thinking: :confused:

Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield

[hack slash]

KISS- Heaven's on Fire
Let's put the X in Sex

[Speck]

Huey Lewis and the News - The Power of Love

[CanadianFonzie]

well my favourite song (like 80% of my favourite songs) are 80's songs, hell I made 80's songs for a living, lol

but my favourite is Here I Go Again (1987) by Whitesnake

[Wheatjedi]

Bruce Springsteen - Glory Days
John Mellencamp - Jack and Diane
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - You Got Lucky

[Just Jeans]

After thinking about it most of today, my absolute favorite song from the 1980s would have to be I'm Falling by The Comsat Angels. If you're a fan of mid-80s post-punk or alternative rock, you owe it to yourself to listen to The Comsat Angels. I'm Falling is by far my favorite song from the 1980s. I'm not sure why. The song has just always stuck with me.

I've got a copy of it in digital format taken from the original LP. I've had this copy of the song since long before the CD hit stores in 2001. While I one day plan to buy the CD, I like the way the original album version sounds. That slight hiss and crackle from the album just adds something totally 80s to the feel of it.

[CanadianFonzie]

okay if we're talking Metal I'd pick:
-Balls to the Wall and Fast as a Shark by Accept
-anything off Judas Priests Vengeance through Ram It Down albums
-Children of the Sea by Black Sabbath
-Screaming in the Night by Krokus

there's others I gotta think of

for hair/glam metal:
-anything by Van Halen
-anything by Def Leppard...specifically Love Bites though
-well as I previously stated my favourite song of all time, which is Here I Go Again (1987) by Whitesnake, as well as that entire album which is my favourite album of all time
-most power ballads, could never choose a favourite

and for rock or whatever you'd like to call it
-Jack and Diane by John Cougar Mellencamp, as well as I Need a Lover
-In The Dark, Eye On You and Don't Let Me Go by Billy Squier
-anything by Boston
-Roll on Down the Highway by Backman-Turner Overdrive

like I said there are alot more, I just can't think of them right now

[Just Jeans]

Love Bites is good, but I prefer Women. It's one of my favorite songs from Hysteria.

[MaDMaNMaRz]

Skid Row - 18 & Life

Great song. Sebastion Bach has such an amazing voice.

[CanadianFonzie]

um, Ratt's Givin' Yourself Away

[A. Remin' D.]

Most of the music I listen to is from the 80's. :eek: So this is very hard for me.

I'll just list my favorite 80's artists...

The Smiths
The Cure
Tears For Fears
Echo & The Bunnymen
Jesus & Mary Chain
Primal Scream

[Darth Sinister]

Man, oh man. In no particular order

-Ghostbusters
-Cleanin' Up The Town
-Savin' The Day
-Magic
-Ghostbusters II soundtrack
-Footloose
-In The Air Tonight
-Land Of Confusion
-Holiday Road
-I'm All Right
-Hero
-Safety Dance
-Private Eyes
-Every Step You Take
-Thriller
-Relax
-The Reflex
-Everybody Wang Chung Tonight
-Workin' For The Weekend
-Nightmare On My Street
-White Wedding
-Welcome To The Jungle
-Dr. Feelgood
-A View To A Kill
-Shakedown
-The Heat Is On
-Gotta Wear Shades
-Puttin' On The Ritz
-Paradise City
-We're Not Gonna Take It
-Walk This Way
-Dude Looks Like A Lady
-Who Made Who
-Back In Black
-Almost all of Weird Al Yankovic's 80's albums
-When Doves Cry
-1999
-Kiss
-Batman movie soundtrack
-I Ran
-Gotta Wear Shades
-High & Low
-Glory Of Love
-Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
-He's Back (The Man Behind The Mask)
-Dream Warriors
-The Tide Is High
-Sledgehammer
-She Drives Me Crazy
-Big Time
-Born In East L.A.
-Glory Days
-Addicted To Love
-Simply Irresistable
-Get It On, Bang A Gong

That's just off the top of my head.

[CanadianFonzie]

wait, Givin' Yourself away was released in '90, damn and that's my favourite Ratt song

um, Jukebox Hero by Foreigner

[MaDMaNMaRz]

White Lion - When the Children Cry

[Special Killa B]

Journey - I'll Be Alright Without You

[girlychaos]

The Police - Every Breath You Take

[MaDMaNMaRz]

Ozzy Osbourne - Shot in the Dark

[Wheatjedi]

Billy Crystal - You Look Mahvelous

[MaDMaNMaRz]

Metallica - Master of Puppets

[Violent VictiM]

Call me weird, but I liked Madonna songs. There may be more of them further into the countdown...

Madonna - Dress You Up In My Love