Cracking tune from the 80s

I've given it some serious thought in recent weeks and have decided for humanity's behalf that the below is the greatest pop song of the 80s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsHiG-43Fzg

Tears for Fears - Head Over Heels

Depeche Mode are easily my favourite band of all time, I've seen them live more times that I care to remember. I was waiting at Bedford train station earlier today to get back to Dulwich. I popped into the local pub and had a livener and lobbed a fiver in the jukebox and played all Depeche Mode songs for half an hour and I was singing away like a goodun!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YB2MQvt1Wzo  - Blasphemous Rumours live, it really doesn't get much better than this.

PP, I do also really like Tears For Fears as well but their best song, for me anyway and I play it very often is "Woman In Chains" an absolute masterpiece of a song and I love it hugely.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O5-c79LQ3aM

OMD did a few  good ones

Tears For Fears were excellent, I have been listening to this one a lot lately. Shannon - Let The Music Play.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_-0sUuGufmw

Right, if I get a chance I'll use my self-imposed position as auditor of good taste and come up with an 80's Pop Top 10 later. Did a spotify playlist for crimbo eve which was along those lines and frankly it was a belter.


Stay tuned kids!

stand down margaret by the beat was a corker

PP - be sure to include Deacon Blue!!

Plenty to mention but Real Gone kid is good..

https://youtu.be/5SD4lI9GKUE

Just made it into the 80s is C. Cross's 'Sailing'....too good, just too good..

https://youtu.be/7khQNR7s1Ho

Prefab Sprout were wonderful as well, don't you forget about them P.P. Their album "Steve McQueen" is a complete and utter 10/10 job.

Prefab Sprout are a good shout. Though my fave song of theirs is Bonny which inexplicably was never released.

Deacon Blue are ok. Just a bit beige for me.



Right here goes. Got my minions on it and this is the definitive list. All were Top 40 hits and I tried to keep them as "pop". There was plenty of good metal for instance, and I also resisted the good shouts from the likes of The Cure, The Fall and REM. Couple of mainstream rock artists here but they were big charting ones so I think they're valid. Any complaints speak to the manager.

10. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

9.  Prince - Raspberry Beret

8.  Lionel Richie - All Night Long

7.  Madonna - Like a Prayer

6.  Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

5.  The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

4.  Lloyd Cole - Lost Weekend

3.  A-ha - I've Been Losing You

2.  David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes

1.  Tears for Fears - Head Over Heels

Uncertain Smile = The The

surprised tinseltown in the rain by the blue nile not mentioned- a masterpiece.

10. Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

9.  Prince - Raspberry Beret

8.  Lionel Richie - All Night Long

7.  Madonna - Like a Prayer

6.  Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill

5.  The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic

4.  Lloyd Cole - Lost Weekend

3.  A-ha - I've Been Losing You

2.  David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes

1.  Tears for Fears - Head Over Heel

Well, I have to be honest with you P.P. That is a very disappointing top 10 from you from such a wonderful decade of music that was the 80's None of those songs apart from Lloyd Cole and Kate Bush would make in my in top 100 let alone my top 10.

See what they make of this beaut when I type that it's by **** Robin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=3pk3A_QSINI

Head Over Heels is a belter , features in the wonderful Donnie Dark film.

virginia plane.... roxy music   was it 80s or late 70s?

tears for fears.....shout shout let it all out these are things i can do with out....come on im talking to you come on

top song

nothing compares to you......sinead o'connor

classic

It's all a very subjective and a personal thing as to what songs are important and mean a lot to you. I'll do my top 10 80's songs tomorrow when I have a good think about it.

very true Slippers

If we're just going best songs then I'll probably have a completely different 10 to be fair. Tried to keep them "pop" and had to have been singles that cracked the top 40.

It is indeed Coachbuster, I already know what my number 1 song is from the 80.'s and it isn't a Depeche Mode track!

Brilliant Mind by Furniture, I'll have to think about the others. I must have listened to that song a thousand times mate.

"You must be out of your brilliant mind" ! Yes I probably am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JeEXP717T0

10 Grandmaster Funk - Whitelines

9 808 state - Pacific Stae

8 Salt N Pepper - Push It

7 Waterboys - The Whole of the Moon

6 Womack & Womack - Teardrops

5 Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

4 The Specials - Ghost Town

3 New Order - Blue Monday

2 Shannon - Let The Music Play

1 Prince - When Doves Cry

Its all subjective but my list is better.

1. You gotta fight for your right to party - Beastie Boys
2. Two Tribes - FGTH
3. I've been losing you - Aha
4. Love will save the day - Whitney Houston
5. Caribbean Queen (now we're sharing the same dream) - Billy Ocean
6. History - Mai Tai
7. Head over heals -Tears for fears
8. Self Control - Laura Brannigan
9. Living after midnight - Judas Priest
10.Shake the disease - Depeche Mode   


pretty difficult to do only 10  from this era

Self Control's a good shout.

Just reminded of Hazy Shade of Winter and World Shut Your Mouth too.

No mention of talk talk or ABC, just shows you how much quality there was during the 80s.

temptation...heaven 17

tainted love... soft cell

seedy city...... soft cell
sex dwarf........soft cell
tainted love......soft cell

album   non stop erotica

MC Roller, be in no doubt that "Talk Talk" will feature in my top 10 tomorrow.

Spirit Of Radio - Rush
Fine Time - New Order
War Baby - Tom Robinson
Just Like Starting Over - John Lennon
White Lines - Grandmaster Flash
There Is A Light - The Smiths
Head Over Heels - Tears For Fears
Torch - Soft Cell
Eloise - The Damned
Poison Arrow - ABC

Eighties, I'm living in the eighties
Eighties, I have to push, I have to struggle
Eighties, get out of my way, I'm not for sale no more
Eighties, let's kamikaze till we get there

And we sang
You do it this way

Eighties, by day we run by night we dance, we do
Eighties, I'm in love with the coming race
Eighties, I've got the best, I'll take all I can get
Eighties, I'm living for the eighties

Eighties, I'm living in the eighties, I push
Eighties, I'm living
Eighties, I'm living in the eighties, I struggle
Eighties, I'm living

Eighties, I'm living
Eighties, I'm living in the eighties
Eighties, I'm living in the eighties, I push
Eighties, push, push, struggle

Eighties, I'm living
Eighties, eighties, I'm living
Eighties, I'm living in the eighties, I push
Eighties, push, push, struggle

Mrs T & Ronnie in the vid as well.

just looking at 80s charts on retrocharts and fook me,  there are 1000s of great tracks  ...Stranglers ,Smiths, Human League ,Talk Talk ,Iron Maiden ...not to mention all the dance/soul  classics to add  ...

what happened ?

Some cracking tunes in there lads!

I'll have a wee think ...

food for thought....ub40
love action....human league
planet earth...duran duran
hyperactive.....thomas dolby
small town boy....communards
come on eileen......dexys
romeo and juliet ....dire straits
belfast child ....simple minds
new years day...u2
i ran ..afos


ten simply not enough, some great selections before my post too

Slippy i used to run the Qball snooker hall in Basildon in the late eighties
and attached to it was a night club called Triangles Depeche Mode Xmas party was
always here with Allison Moyet and a few others
The invite was nicked from the Sex Pistols
Never mind the Boll ocks here's the party.

Ace Of Spades - Motörhead
I Love Rock 'n' Roll - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
Born In The USA - Bruce Springsteen
Gimme All Your Lovin' - ZZ Top
747 Strangers In The Night - Saxon
Run To The Hills - Iron Maiden
Perfect Strangers - Deep Purple
Runaway - Bon Jovi
Call Me - Blondie

It's an absolutely impossible task for me to pick my definitive top 10 but this is what I have come up with.

1) Brilliant Mind - Furniture
2) Such A Shame - Talk Talk
3) Eton Rifles - The Jam
4) Stripped - Depeche Mode
5) Appetite - Prefab Sprout
6) With Or Without You - U2
7) Goodnight Saigon - Bliiy Joel
8) Blasphemous Rumours - Depeche Mode
9) Woman In Chains - Tears For Fears
10) Going Underground - The Jam

Forgotten gem for you: Maria Magdalena - Sandra 1985

Doubt it gets more '80s' than that.

If you haven't got any Associates songs on your list, you're doing it wrong

in no particular order

state of art- friends again
honey at the core- friends again
streets of your town- the go-betweens
tinseltown in the rain- blue nile
cant ignore the train- 10,000 maniacs
whistling in the dark- easterhouse
fall on me- rem
time aint nothing- green on red
greetings to the new brunette- billy bragg
the big e ( wont stop loving you ) - a certain ratio

Dec 28, 2018 -- 2:49PM, jed.davison wrote:

If you haven't got any Associates songs on your list, you're doing it wrong

Please don't start saying that or I'll start believing you

Dec 28, 2018 -- 1:59PM, SlippyBlue wrote:

It's an absolutely impossible task for me to pick my definitive top 10 but this is what I have come up with.1) Brilliant Mind - Furniture2) Such A Shame - Talk Talk3) Eton Rifles - The Jam4) Stripped - Depeche Mode5) Appetite - Prefab Sprout6) With Or Without You - U27) Goodnight Saigon - Bliiy Joel8) Blasphemous Rumours - Depeche Mode9) Woman In Chains - Tears For Fears10) Going Underground - The Jam

I have heard you mention that Furniture track before Slippers , which isn't bad at all ...just a really daft name for a band 

Ok, top 10 songs of the 80s. Not limited to pop. Not singles. Just released in the 80s

10. Fugazi - Waiting Room

9.  Van Halen - Panama

8.  Nick Cave - The Mercy Seat

7.  Talking Heads - And She Was

6.  Def Leppard - Die Hard the Hunter

5.  Nirvana - About a Girl

4.  The Sundays - Can't Be Sure

3.  XTC - Dear God

2.  Pixies - Gouge Away

1.  REM - Begin the Begin

Soft Cell- Say hello, wave goodbye.

Should be in every top ten.

Talk Talk had some of the best tracks of the 80s, unreal that in 1984 Its My Life and Such a Shame didn't even chart in the UK! but were massive in Europe and the Usa. Test of time though, Its My Life now still gets played more than most of the above!

Actual fave track, the epic Living In Another World with superb mouth organ and Steve Winwood on keyboards from the Colour Of Spring.

Sadly the lead singer hated fame and the music biz and packed Talk Talk in before 40 and has never reformed since ;(

I'll see if I can find the 80 singles poll I did a few years ago so you can see if you picked the same 10 songs then as you did now.

That is totally correct doridou, the lead singer of Talk Talk, Mark Hollis, just didn't want the money, fame nor glory. If they ever did reform, I would literally pay whatever it took to see them live. "It's My Life" is such a wonderful track as well, absolutely love it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ixRWvrkUHo

Any of you boys hear the Out of Season album Paul Webb did with Beth from Portishead. Was a cracking album.

Dec 28, 2018 -- 6:30PM, SlippyBlue wrote:

That is totally correct doridou, the lead singer of Talk Talk, Mark Hollis, just didn't want the money, fame nor glory. If they ever did reform, I would literally pay whatever it took to see them live. "It's My Life" is such a wonderful track as well, absolutely love it https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ixRWvrkUHo

Yep Slippy, baffles me how it didn't get in the top 40 in 1984, made no 1 in Usa dance charts! I was 11 but I know if i'd heard it I would have loved it, didn't discover them till the best of in 1990. Radio 1 must not have played it in 1984...

They are like two bands as a lot love the experimental side of the last 2 albums Spirit Of Eden and Laughing Stock, but I will always love their more commercial stuff just wish they had made more. Guess if he had just been after money and fame they would never have been as good.

soft cell    say hello wave goodbye

small town boy....communards (Bronski Beat), forgot how good that song is donny.

Blacks wonderful life is better , more beautiful than most of the other tinny thin hollow stuff from the 80s ,
mentioned so far

That includes anything by tears for fears or talk talk etc dreadful rubbish

and the communards , deary me

Say hello wave goodbye is good , very good although I prefer the David grey version

Fast Car , Tracy Chapman

Springsteen Atlantic City

this was my list copy and pasted from previous thread, from feb 2014, 3 the same.

honey at the core- friends again
state of art- friends again
south of love- friends again
tinseltown in the rain blue nile
thank you- pale fountains
jeans not happening- pale fountains
this charming man- smiths
bachelor kisses- go-betweens
story of the blues- wah
keep on keeping on- redskins

sonko there are so many on this thread i had forgotten were so good.

just pleased to have been around back then, my memories of music
late 70s to mid 90s will probably still be there when i have forgotten
everything else.

i've heard a couple of them ones morp!

good man

Story of the blues - w'ah, i have that on 7"

Pixies - Where Is My Mind ?
Sisters Of Mercy - This Corrosion
Rush - Spirit Of Radio
House Of Love - Destroy The Heart
My Blo0dy Valentine - You Made Me Realise
Propaganda - Dr Mabuse
Pixies - Debaser
The Cardiacs - Is This The Life
The Mission - Tower Of Strength
Kradtwerk - Tour De France

1.Dream academy - Life in a northern town
2.Kate bush - This woman's work
3.Propaganda - Duel
4.Wang Chung - Dance hall days
5.PHD - I won't let you down
6.Joy division - Love will tear us apart
7.The police - Every little thing she does is magic
8.Desireless - Voyage Voyage   
9.Imagination -just an illusion
10.Prefab sprout - Bonny

Daniel Johnston - The Story of an Artist

“Listen up and I’ll tell a story
About an artist growing old

recorded on a cassette alone in his home

great thread guys..nostalgia ain't what it used to be..could compose any number of lists but here are some sounds that evoke memories

give me the night-george benson
i found lovin-fatback band
never too much-luther vandross
dolce vita-ryan paris
the winner takes it all-abba
everybody wants to rule the world-tears for fears
i got you babe-ub40
what a feeling-irene cara
the best-tina turner
sweet child of mine-guns n roses
do you really want to hurt me-culture club

ok,that's eleven,never mind

1.Ghostown - Specials
2.She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
3.Planet Earth - Duran Duran
4.Push It - Salt n Pepa
5.Going Underground - The Jam
6.New Years Day - U2
7.Everything Counts - Depeche Mode
8.Say Hello Wave Goodbye - Soft Cell
9.Wouldn't it be good - Nik Kershaw
10.Find My Love - Fairground Attraction

four hours.. clock dva
thorn... my bloody valentine
dont fall... the chameleons
boys from county hell... poguemahone
love on the terraces ... serious drinking
freak scene .. dinosaur jnr
nagasaki nightmmare... crass
30th century man... catherine wheel
ace of spades... motorhead
into you like a train... psychedelic furs

Dec 28, 2018 -- 8:09PM, lfc1971 wrote:

Say hello wave goodbye is good , very good although I prefer the David grey version

you sir is mong.

Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band

Uptown Girl - Billy Joel

Radio 2 should be good tonight.

1700 sounds of the 60s
1900 sounds of the 70s
2100 sounds of the 80s
2300 sounds of the 90's
0100 dance anthems

i might make it to 2300

Passionate Friend - Teardrop Explodes. Remember taking a 21 year old to see them at Bradford University. She loved this song and I got to like it very much. Enen though I was just turned 30 and was one of the oldest ones there, I thoroughly enjoyed myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zK8q427kJiM