A thread about 1980s pop music!

[ShawnD1]

Give me some tunes to listen to! I'll start off with the classics that everyone in the entire world obviously loves

Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BoXu6QmxpJE

Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-xpJRwIA-Q

The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8I8mWG6HlmU

Animotion - Obsession
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIs5StN8J-0


Please add more. Most of these guys are unemployed by now and could really use the royalties from when I buy these on itunes

 

[guyver01]

Pop Muzik

Get up...
Get down...

Radio, video
Boogie with a suitcase
You're livin' in a disco
Forget about the rat race
Let's do the milkshake, sellin' like a hotcake
Try some buy some fee-fi-fo-fum

Talk about, pop muzik
Talk about, pop muzik

Shoobie doobie do wop
I wanna dedicate this
Pop pop shoo wop
Everybody made it
Shoobie doobie do wop
Infiltrate it
Pop pop shoo wop
Activate it

New York, London, Paris, Munich
Everybody talk about pop muzik
Talk about, pop muzik
Talk about, pop muzik
Pop pop pop pop muzik

Singing in the subway
Shuffle with a shoe shine
Fix me a molotov
I'm on the headline

Wanna be a gun slinger
Don't be a rock singer
Eenie meenie minie moe
Tell me where you wanna go

Talk about, pop muzik
Talk about, pop muzik

Shoobie doobie do wop
Lyin' in the tree (?)
Pop pop shoo wop
Eenee meenie
Shoobie doobie do wop
(?)
Pop pop shoo wop
You know what I mean

Hit it...

Now you know what to say...

Talk about, pop muzik
Pop pop pop pop muzik

All around the world
wherever you are
dance in the street anything you like
do it in your car in the middle of the night

La la la la la la la la la
La la la la la la la

Dance in the supermart
Dig it in the fastlane
Listen to the countdown
They're playin' our song again

I can't get jumping jack
I wanna hold - get back (?)
Moonlight muzak (?)
Knick knack paddy whack

Talk about, pop muzik
Talk about, pop muzik

Shoobie doobie do wop
It's all around you
Pop pop shoo wop
Gonna surround you
Shoobie doobie do wop
It's all around
Pop pop shoo wop

Hit it...

New York, London, Paris, Munich
Everybody talk about pop muzik
Talk about, pop muzik
Talk about, pop muzik
Pop pop pop pop muzik

Now... listen...
Talk about,
Pop pop pop pop muzik...

 

[stargazr]

The Police - Don't Stand So Close to Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNIZofPB8ZM

Soft Cell - Tainted Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBWrLhgiX74

INXS - What You Need
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gkLL7JdnIk0

The Clash - Train in Vain
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0hDeEIHlvwI

Blondie - Accidents Never Happen
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3yZZK_vCJeA

Joan Jett & the Blackhearts - I Hate Myself for Loving You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPkTGm4RtVM

Talking Heads - Burning Down the House
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xNnAvTTaJjM

Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vEtbfzMLVWU

Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UBytH7ljp3c

Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bo9riZYUpTw

 

[ultimatebob]

Come on guys... How you can you forget Jenny/867-5309 or 99 Red Balloons?

 

[Arcadio]

A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran

I like it because of GTA Vice City, not because I'm an 80's guy.

 

[mcurphy]

Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vtPk5IUbdH0

Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swQi4CAzmrA

Toto - Africa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azVqekQBK8g

 

[Scotteq]

Toto - Africa
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=azVqekQBK8g

I was a big metal head in those days, but even I liked Toto. Great songs!


Here's one: Dire Straits: Money for Nothing

 

[zebano]

Men at Work - Land Down Under
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6oAFlPLGA8

Murray Head - One Night IN Bangkock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9mwELXPGbA

 

[PottedMeat]

watch some 80's john hughes movies for more ideas?

billboard top 100's:
1980: http://longboredsurfer.com/charts/1980.php
thru 89

 

[alkemyst]

http://80music.about.com/od/top10list1/tp/toppunkhardcorebands.htm

 

[dawp]

Eddie and the Cruisers - On the Dark Side

Pink Cadillac http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qD5Vythvxig

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IlHgbOWj4o

Devo - Whip It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xbt30UnzRWw

The Human League - Don't You Want Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPudE8nDog0

 

[spidey07]

New York, london, paris, munich
Everybaody talking 'bout
mmmmmm
Pop Music!

And don't forget Wall of Voodoo "Mexican Radio"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyCEexG9xjw

 

[mb]

Come on guys... How you can you forget Jenny/867-5309 or 99 Red Balloons?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5QYIlgRg9TY
My fav version

 

[Loop2kil]

This is really my Hair bands folder and some of the songs don't have artist but you should be able to figure them out...They are 'mostly' from the 80's

 

[Kev]

Tears for Fears - Shout
Tears for Fears - Everybody wants to rule the world
A-ha - Take on me
Genesis - Land of Confusion
Genesis - Tonight Tonight Tonight
Cars - Just what I needed
Cars - Drive
Don Henley - Boys of Summer
Smiths - How soon is now
Talking Heads - once in a lifetime
Talking Heads - And she was
The Cure - Just like heaven

 

[OutHouse]

Cars - Drive

many many many make out sessions to that song when i was in high school.

 

[WT]

'Shoobie doobie do wop' indeed !!! That's the first song to pop into my head, and it will not leave.

 

[mcurphy]

Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3MXiTeH_Pg

Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Iwuy4hHO3YQ

The Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWP-AsG5DRk

Quiet Riot - Cum On Feel The Noize
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KW2J_UZ8lQU


The Buggles song was actually released at the end of '79, but I always relate it to the 80's.

 

[GagHalfrunt]

This is really my Hair bands folder and some of the songs don't have artist but you should be able to figure them out...They are 'mostly' from the 80's

You categorize Ozzy and ZZ Top as "hair bands"?

 

[M0oG0oGaiPan]

i'm the scatman

 

[Loop2kil]

You categorize Ozzy and ZZ Top as "hair bands"?

Should not be but I did simply because I only like a few of their songs and this is a way to get a listen.

 

[rudder]

Der Komissar

After the Fire version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Guvo7gUdUnE

Falco version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rNHkWrUcLvU

 

[Sentrosi2121]

On my iPhone right now I have the following 80s bands:

a-ha: Take On Me
Black Sheep: The Choice is Yours
The Dream Academy: Life in a Northern Town
New Order: True Faith
Pet Shop Boys: Discography: The Complete Collection
Peter Murphy: Cuts You Up, Indigo Eyes
The Police: Do Do Do, Da Da Da (my 2yr old Son's favorite song)
The Psychadelic Furs: Heartbeat

 

[rudder]

Divinyls I touch myself

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wv-34w8kGPM