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Best 80s song?!

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whytemyke

Honorary Canadian.
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If it's music/
we can use it/
we need to dance/
we dont have the time for psychological romance/
no romance- no romance, no romance on me
maaaaa-ma come on baby tell me what's the word...

word up

everybody say, when you hear the call you've got to get it under way

....I guess A-Ha's "take on me" gets second place.
 
"Do you like Phil Collins? I've been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn't understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins' presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group's undisputed masterpiece. It's an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums. Christy, take off your robe. Listen to the brilliant ensemble playing of Banks, Collins and Rutherford. You can practically hear every nuance of every instrument. Sabrina, remove your dress. In terms of lyrical craftsmanship, the sheer songwriting, this album hits a new peak of professionalism. Sabrina, why don't you, uh, dance a little. Take the lyrics to Land of Confusion. In this song, Phil Collins addresses the problems of abusive political authority. In Too Deep is the most moving pop song of the 1980s, about monogamy and commitment. The song is extremely uplifting. Their lyrics are as positive and affirmative as anything I've heard in rock. Christy, get down on your knees so Sabrina can see your asshole. Phil Collins' solo career seems to be more commercial and therefore more satisfying, in a narrower way. Especially songs like In the Air Tonight and Against All Odds. Sabrina, don't just stare at it, eat it. But I also think Phil Collins works best within the confines of the group, than as a solo artist, and I stress the word artist. This is Sussudio, a great, great song, a personal favorite. "
 
Personally I think A Trick of the Tail is the Genesis masterpiece, but Invisible Touch is also a great album. I think the whole late 70s-early to mid 80s (A Trick of the Tail, Duke, Abacab, Genesis, Invisible Touch) era is Genesis's best.
 
evil ways said:
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Hey Paul!!
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actually when he is killing Paul, he is talking about Huey Lewis


Patrick Bateman: Do you like Huey Lewis and the news?
Paul Allen: They're OK.
Patrick Bateman: Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83,I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consimante professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour.
Paul Allen: Hey Halberstram.
Patrick Bateman: Yes, Allen?
Paul Allen: Why are their copies of the style section all over the place, d-do you have a dog? A little chow or something?
Patrick Bateman: No, Allen.
Paul Allen: Is that a rain coat?
Patrick Bateman: Yes it is! In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.
[raises axe above head]
Patrick Bateman: Hey Paul!
 
Can you also post the Whitney Houston and Huey Lewis and the News passages?
Great book!


The one song that DEFINES THE 80'S:

"Video Killed the Radio Star"
 
Link1110 said:
Personally I think A Trick of the Tail is the Genesis masterpiece, but Invisible Touch is also a great album. I think the whole late 70s-early to mid 80s (A Trick of the Tail, Duke, Abacab, Genesis, Invisible Touch) era is Genesis's best.
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I have to agree with A Trick of the Tail being Genesis's best. I wore that album out when I first heard it in '77. Although The Lamb Lies Down on Broadway is right there with it also in my opinion. Genesis on their Duke tour ranks in my top five concerts ever too.
 
Won't you come see about me...
I'll be alone dancin', you know it, baby
Tell me your troubles and doubts
Givin' me everything inside and out
And love's strange,
So real in the dark
Think of the tender things
That we were working on
Slow change may pull us apart
When the light gets into your heart, baby

Don't you forget about me
Don't, don't, don't, don't
Don't you forget about me
Will you stand above me
Look my way, never love me
Rain keeps falling
Rain keeps falling, down, down, down
Will you recognize me
Call my name or walk on by
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down, down

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Don't you try and pretend
It's my feeling, we'll win in the end
I won't harm you or touch your defenses
Vanity, insecurity
Don't you forget about me
I'll be alone dancin', you know it, baby
Goin' to take you apart
I'll put us back together at heart, baby

Don't you forget about me
Don't, don't, don't, don't
Don't you forget about me
As you walk on by
Will you call my name, as you walk on by
Will you call my name,
when you walk away
Oh, will you walk away
Will you walk on by
Come on call my name
Will you call my name...

I said
La, la la la la
La la la la
La la la la la la la la la
 
Ninja Scooter said:
Won't you come see about me...
I'll be alone dancin', you know it, baby
Tell me your troubles and doubts
Givin' me everything inside and out
And love's strange,
So real in the dark
Think of the tender things
That we were working on
Slow change may pull us apart
When the light gets into your heart, baby

Don't you forget about me
Don't, don't, don't, don't
Don't you forget about me
Will you stand above me
Look my way, never love me
Rain keeps falling
Rain keeps falling, down, down, down
Will you recognize me
Call my name or walk on by
Rain keeps falling, rain keeps falling
Down, down, down, down

Hey, hey, hey, hey, hey
Don't you try and pretend
It's my feeling, we'll win in the end
I won't harm you or touch your defenses
Vanity, insecurity
Don't you forget about me
I'll be alone dancin', you know it, baby
Goin' to take you apart
I'll put us back together at heart, baby

Don't you forget about me
Don't, don't, don't, don't
Don't you forget about me
As you walk on by
Will you call my name, as you walk on by
Will you call my name,
when you walk away
Oh, will you walk away
Will you walk on by
Come on call my name
Will you call my name...

I said
La, la la la la
La la la la
La la la la la la la la la
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BIG BIG COINCIDENCE. I was reading your post trying to know that music and Winamp started Simple Minds - Don't you forget about me. Very Very strange coincidence.
 
It's too hard to pick a fav, but off the top of my head I'll say almost anything Electro Funk
and when it comes to singing "Head over Heels" by Tears for Fears is probably my favorite.
 
I can't pick a number one favourite, but the few I really like that come to mind are:

Aha - Take on Me

Berlin - Take my Breath Away

Nena - 99 Red Luft Balloons

Cindy Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
 
"Once in a Lifetime" by Talking Heads is my perennial favorite in these types of polls.

"Where is My Mind" is another good choice.
 
AlphaSnake said:
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence
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Violator came out in 1990.




My choice at the moment:

Every Breath You Take - The Police



Still amazes me how so many people still believe it's a love song.
 
Sholmes said:
Violator came out in 1990.




My choice at the moment:

Every Breath You Take - The Police



Still amazes me how so many people still believe it's a love song.
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What?! *listens to it*
nah. it's cute. chicks dig it when you keep callin'. I've tried, and it's gotten me laid a whole never times. Plus that whole "you belong to me" thing?

It's too bad puffy sampled this, cuz eminem could have done a good sample of this.

"Every move you make, every step you take, i'll be watchin--/
BITCH I'M A KILL YOU! you don't wanna fuck with me"
I smell an MTV Mashup.
 
Sholmes said:
Violator came out in 1990.




My choice at the moment:

Every Breath You Take - The Police



Still amazes me how so many people still believe it's a love song.
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I actually think the song hit the radio at the very, very, very end of 89. I remember VH1 regarding it as the greatest song to ever end a decade or year or week.
 
Sholmes said:
My choice at the moment:

Every Breath You Take - The Police



Still amazes me how so many people still believe it's a love song.
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:lol I've heard it's been played at a ton of weddings. :lol

Man, to pick one favourite song from the 80's is a tough deal. Rush being one of my favourite groups has some good ones...Spirit of Radio, Jacob's Ladder, Natural Science, Tom Sawyer, Subdivisions and Losing It. U2 obviously has some stellar songs as well...Unforgettable Fire, Bad, Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, With or Without You, Bullet The Blue Sky and Exit.

Can't forget the one hit wonders...Aneka's Japanese Boy and When In Rome's The Promise were two of my favourites. Also loved Van Halen's Panama, Peter Gabriel's Sledgehammer and In Your Eyes, Phil Collins' Against All Odds, Marvin Gaye's Sexual Healing, Billy Ocean's Dancing on the Ceiling, .38 Special's Second Chance, Lionel Richie's Hello, some Jacko guy with Thriller, Dirty Diana, Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' and Bille Jean, Prince's Cream and Raspberry Beret, Public Enemy's Fight the Power, Rob Base's It Takes Two, Don Henley's Boys of Summer, Enya's Sail Away, and a ton I'm obviously forgetting.

But if I had to pick one, it'd probably be Bruce Hornsby's The Way It Is...that song is just timeless, and I'm a sucker for beautiful piano playing. A song like that could never be a hit now, which I guess speaks volumes about how much things have changed.
 
kablooey said:
Well, it is. Sort of.
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I saw a show on VH1 where Sting said that it's not a love song. Also on the show, his reply to people who use it at their weddings is "Okay, good luck!".

Also you know a song is good when there are like 20 shitty covers of it on iTunes.

Shinobi said:
But if I had to pick one, it'd probably be Bruce Hornsby's The Way It Is...that song is just timeless, and I'm a sucker for beautiful piano playing. A song like that could never be a hit now, which I guess speaks volumes about how much things have changed.
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Major props bro, Hornsby's amazing. Also it brings up a good point how a good deal of hits in the 80s were legitimately good.
 
AlphaSnake said:
I actually think the song hit the radio at the very, very, very end of 89. I remember VH1 regarding it as the greatest song to ever end a decade or year or week.
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No way, that was like 1983! The Police weren't even still together in '89. :lol

EDIT: You're probably talking about Depeche Mode tho?
 
Teddman said:
No way, that was like 1985! :lol
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No it wasn't. The single came out on CD in February of 1990. It hit the radio in December of 1989 and probably was released on tape around the same time.

Edit: I'm not talking about The Police...read my previous posts and look what post of mine he quoted...
 
Teddman said:
You gettin' sloppy with the quote button tho.

Anyway, that's not anywhere near the best song of the '80's. :p
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You're gettin' sloppy with reading. ;)

And yes it is.
 
AlphaSnake said:
You're gettin' sloppy with reading. ;)

And yes it is.
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If you have to pick an 80's single off that album, "Personal Jesus" also qualifies, it was released before "Enjoy the Silence." Which is weird, they actually released two singles before Violator came out.

Policy of Truth is the best track off of it, 80's or not, imo.
 
Teddman said:
If you have to pick an 80's single off that album, "Personal Jesus" also qualifies, it was released before "Enjoy the Silence." Which is weird, they actually released two singles before Violator came out.

Policy of Truth is the best track off of it, 80's or not, imo.
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If only Violator was released in the 80s it'd be the best album release of the decade. Ah well, it's still one of the best albums ever.
 
Geez, just one. some names and albums rather than just one song

heres a list. much from Prince off 1999, Purple Rain, Sign o the Times, Tears for Fears, Simple Minds, ABCs look of love album in total, Pet Shop Boys, Hoodoo Gurus, The Clash, Duran Duran, Metallica, Madonna (like a Prayer was fantastic), DEVO, Madness, Goanna, Wired for Sound by Cliff Richard (Sony Walkman ode) and a whole bunch more, Joy Division!!!, Heaven 17, DIRE STRAITS and lots more.
 
gentlemen, gentlemen. there IS'NT one best song of the 80s.
there is just too much to choose from.
also you have early 80s and late 80s. and you have east atlantic, west atlantic.
also Rock 80s and pop 80s were completely different (although now, its hard to tell Ü)

so if you REALLY must choose, there has to be 4 songs.

and 1990's doesnt count, so Violater is out, even if its one of the best albums of the early 90s east atlantic.

for my money i would throw into the mix:

aha - take on me
eddi money - take me home tonight
pet shop boys - surburbia
alphaville - big in japan


you see, it is impossible, i just destroyed my own 'rule'

my should make a 80s complication disc. with the ULTIMATE track listing. that MAY be achievable...
 
Park the car at the side of the road
You should know
Time's tide will smother you
And I will too
When you laugh about people who feel so
Very lonely
Their only desire is to die
Well, I'm afraid
It doesn't make me smile
I wish I could laugh

But that joke isn't funny anymore
It's too close to home
And it's too near the bone
It's too close to home
And it's too near the bone
More than you'll ever know ...


Kick them when they fall down
Kick them when they fall down
You kick them when they fall down
Kick them when they fall down
You kick them when they fall down
Kick them when they fall down
You kick them when they fall down
Kick them when they fall down


It was dark as I drove the point home
And on cold leather seats
Well, it suddenly struck me
I just might die with a smile on my
Face after all


I've seen this happen in other people's
Lives
And now it's happening in mine


I've seen this happen in other people's
Lives
And now it's happening in mine


I've seen this happen in other people's
Lives
And now it's happening in mine


I've seen this happen in other people's
Lives
And now it's happening in mine
Oh ...


I've seen this happen in other people's
Lives
Oh ...
And now it's happening in mine
Happening in mine
Happening in mine
Happening in mine
Happening in mine


I've seen this happen in other people's
Lives
Oh ...
And now, now, now it's happening in mine
(I've seen this happen)
Happening in mine
Oh... now, now


I've seen this happen in other people's
Lives
Oh ...
And now it's happening in mine
(Happen)
Happening in mine
Oh ...
Happening in mine
Happening in mine
Happening in mine


I've seen this happen in other people's
Lives
Oh ...
And now, now, now it's happening in mine
Happening in mine
Mine, mine
Happening in mine
 
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