A thread about 1980s pop music!

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guyver01

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by the way, what has 9 arms and sucks?

Dead or Alive? But... they don't suck

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DrPizza

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

Always irritates me when people pop that song into my head. It'll be stuck there for days now.

edit: and when I first heard it, I was in junior high school. So, it's a 1979 song, not 1980's song.
 

Born2bwire

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Always irritates me when people pop that song into my head. It'll be stuck there for days now.

edit: and when I first heard it, I was in junior high school. So, it's a 1979 song, not 1980's song.

/me starts to spam DrPizza's inbox with lyrics.
 

Dr. Detroit

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Samantha Fox - Naughty Girls Need Love Too - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-j5GOsRtlk

Milli Vanilli - Blame it on the Rain - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rB0Le3oM1b8

Modern Talking - Brother Louie - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xl9cEKo8zfo&

Talk Talk - It's My Life - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXQYyKzyDaE

Robert Palmer - Simply Irrestible - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UrGw_cOgwa8

Peter Gabriel - Shock The Monkey - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qfNtZjfy2UA

Don Henley - Boys of Summer - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdnDOMUpnsk

Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h-LbvFckptY

Oran Juice Jones - The Rain - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dZW1C3neao

Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7YvAYIJSSZY&
 

spacejamz

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No Beasties??

Brass Monkey
Paul Revere
No Sleep Til Brooklyn

The other song you would always hear at the beach in 1986 was 2 Live Crew's "We Want Some &^#+"
 

Dr. Detroit

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Eddie Murphy - Party All The Time - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5LX16zia2k

Sheena Easton - Sugar Walls - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8WZ-Ba-gps&

Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound machine - Rythm is Gonna get You - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3A7CVrBFC7M

Paula Abdul - Opposites Attract - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xweiQukBM_k

Ub40 - Can't help Falling in Love - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ajp0Uaw4rqo

Living Colour - Cult of Personality - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0

Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWsRz3TJDEY

Soul II Soul - Back To Life - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TB54dZkzZOY&
 

Bird222

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

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

I wish I could find a compilation that had like the top 100 songs from every year of the 80's. That would be heaven.

I can't believe no one mentioned these two yet.

Toni Basil - Oh Mickey
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvQex1RQ5G4

Duran Duran - The Reflex

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDnNF5cHCdo

And who didn't want a Roland keyboard back then. :)
 

alkemyst

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Feb 13, 2001
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LOL@Milli Vanilli.

Did they ever find out who really sang that shit?

It was known from almost the start.

In all fairness the original did not list any credits at all. It just featured the two on the cover.

The sad thing was they could actually sing pretty decent, but never recovered.

The whole thing wasn't really their fault, they were just hired talent...
 

Kadarin

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Peter Godwin - Images of Heaven - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rdHOyrS72jg
Peter Godwin - Babies in the Mountains - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gs6l5xP8BK0
Real Life - Send me an Angel - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6zBjYIyz-0
Echo and the Bunnymen - Bring on the Dancing Horses - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaWs79v0ugE
Freur - Doot Doot - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opaeNiiizxo
General Public - General Public - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzkH45CmcdE
Electronic - Disappointed - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HD2KLChjsdE&feature=related (Electronic is an 80s supergroup composed of Bernard Sumner from New Order, Johnny Marr from the Smiths, and Neil Tennant from Pet Shop Boys)
INXS - Not Enough Time - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm8fHrkqA24&feature=related

The 80s had so much great music!
 

Dr. Detroit

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Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA

Bryan Adams - Summer of '69 - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFjjO_lhf9c

Cutting Crew - I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ua26qTEK25U

Oingo Boingo - Dead Mans Party - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iypUpv9xelg

Mr. Mister - Broken Wings - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWyeVfuolT4

Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiEqqQo0Pko

Jefferson Starship - Sara - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqRTtkEHrA4