Favourite 80's Music Single

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I am having fun putting together the play list for my wedding, I grew up in the 80's !! :clap: where music was clearly at it's best :) so we are including a few classic's !!

What's your favourite track ... ?

So far I have:

Europe - The final Countdown :lol:
Belinda Carlisle, TPAU :cuckoo:

I mean does it get any better !

Ta,
Neil
 
Just about anything from Queen, Hammer to fall, one vision, would be two faves, but they aren't really wedding songs.


you should have had the final countdown as a stag do anthem............your dooooooooooooomed :exit:
 
i deline, my list would go on for pages.

Meatloaf - Bat Out Of Hell
Pat Benatar - Love is a Battlefield
Patty Smith Group - Because the night

anything by ELO, Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Bruce Springsteen.... i'm gonna stop now :lol:
 
New Order - Blue Monday
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Dexies Midnight Runners - Come on Eilleen
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax

Bring back the early Eighties :)
 
..NOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

I spent most of that era listening to Chris De Burgh....but i did have postnatal depression at the time!:lol::lol::lol:

GENESIS ROCKS!!!!

Chris De Blurgh would give anybody postnatal depression :gag:
 
Echo Beach - Martha and The Muffins (Just about scrapes the 80's i think, just like me lol ;))

Like these too :)

New Order - Blue Monday
Dexies Midnight Runners - Come on Eilleen
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
 
Echo beach, thats a bit of a class track that is :thumbs:

I might make a ring tone out of that now :D
 
My one at the moment is - Crash, by the primatives, my mum now has it as a ringtone as I gave her my phone! :lol:


..... and Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour!

.......... Life in a Northern Town, Dream academy

.......... Wham, Duran Duran, Culture Club, Kajagoogoo, Spandau Ballet, The Smiths, Bauhaus, Heaven 17, Jewel,

there are sooooo many,
 
Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday
Boomtown rats - Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
The Cure - Love Cats
Department S - Is Vic There?
Eigth Wonder - I'm Not Scared
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes (12" Mix - with the last voice!)
Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F
Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination
Landscape - Einstein a Go-Go
scritti politti - wood beez
Stan Ridgeway - Camouflage
Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy - Kiss Me
The Kinks - Come Dancing
The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
XTC - Making Plans for Nigel


among many many others :D :woot:
 
fiction Factory - Feels like heaven

The The, Echo and the Bunnymen, Blancmange, The Associates.... !!!!!
 
New Order - Blue Monday
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Dexies Midnight Runners - Come on Eilleen
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax

Bring back the early Eighties :)

Strawberry Switchblade - Since Yesterday
Boomtown rats - Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays
The Cure - Love Cats
Department S - Is Vic There?
Eigth Wonder - I'm Not Scared
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes (12" Mix - with the last voice!)
Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F
Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination
Landscape - Einstein a Go-Go
scritti politti - wood beez
Stan Ridgeway - Camouflage
Stephen 'Tin Tin' Duffy - Kiss Me
The Kinks - Come Dancing
The Psychedelic Furs - Pretty in Pink
XTC - Making Plans for Nigel


among many many others :D :woot:

These all sum up what the eighties were about!
Just add Nik Kershaw, Paul Young, flying lizard & bananarama to that & we could have a great compilation album.:woot:
 
Adam Ant - Ant Music
The Specials - Message to you Rudy
Madness - One Step Beyond
Arthur Brown - Breakers Revenge
The Clash - Rock the Casbah
The Stranglers - Golden Brown
Run DMC - It's Tricky......

....too many more...:)
 
Joe T will hate this thread, as the only cd's in my car this week will be PURE 80's, have just got to play it all again!!!



...... Erasure, Teardrop Explode, The Cure, the Damned, Big Audio Dynamite.....
 
Bauhaus - Bela Lugosi's Dead
Cocteau Twins - Ivo
Teardrop Explodes - Reward
Birthday Party - Release the Bats
My Bloody Valentine - Sunny Sundae Smile
The Pastels - I'm Alright With You
Jesus and Mary Chain - Never Understand
Big Black - Kerosene
Carcass - Reek of Putrifaction
Diamanda Galas - Saint of the Pit
Cabaret Voltaire - Nag Nag Nag

etc etc
 
Oh man, to say i was only 11 when the 80s ended there are sooo many great tracks from that decade... Below are my pick simply from the ones in my iTunes playlist.

A-Ha - Take on me
Billy Idol - Hot in the city
Blackbox - Ride on time
Blondie - Atomic
David Bowie - Lets Dance
Eurythmics - There Must be an Angel
Falco - Rock me Amadeus
Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F
Micheal Jackson - Thriller
The Jam - Town Called Malice
Queen - Is this the world we created
Rappers Delight - Sugarhill gang (not strictly 80s, but very lates 70s)
 
I love the 80's - my playlist is comedy though - half is made up of Pantera, machinehead, disturbed, etc & the other half, Duran Duran, Erasure, Toto, the Jovi, Def leppard, Dio, etc :lol:

Rio Speedwagon - St. Elmo's fire (awesome song!!!)
Stan Bush - Dare (well, all of the Transformers soundtrack tbh :thumbs:)
Toto - Africa,
Bucks Fizz - The land of make believe (that was 80's wasn't it?)
Scorpions - Wind of change & Lonely nights
Huey Lewis & the News - The power of love

Am playing all of my cheesiest music now, cheers Chewy :thumbs:
 
are you flirting again? :eek:
or after a rummage in my vinyls? :lol:

I have no idea what your talking about.....in fact i'm shocked to the core by your suggestion :eek:

Would I flirt with a woman who's into vinyl ? :cuckoo:




:)
 
Hmmm! You probably wouldnt like my taste in the decade of hairspray but for parties/weddings , I think...

Should I Stay Or Should I Go ... The Clash.
She Sells Sanctuary ... The Cult.
Liberator ... Spear Of Destiny.
Brilliant Mind ... Furniture.
Rock This Town ... Stray Cats.
Need You Tonight ... INXS.
Just cant get Enough... Depeche Mode.
West End Girls ... Pet Shop Boys.
Dont You Want Me ... The Human League.
I Ran... Flock Of SeaGulls.
Safety Dance ... Men Without Hats.
You Spin Me Round - Dead or Alive.

OOh its all coming back to me now:gag:
 
Need you tonight Glo - Wicked ! and dead or Alive !!

Ooh! Im on a roll now, more dancefloor fillers...

We Dont Need This Facist Groove Thang/Temptation ... Heaven 17.
I Want Your Love ... Transvision Vamp.
The Model ... Kraftwerk.
99 Red Balloons ... Nena.
Addicted To Love ... Robert Palmer.
Poison Arrow ... ABC.
Gloria ... Laura Brannigan.

.... And not a Bucks Fizz track in sight :D
 
Kenny Loggins - Danger zone from the Top Gun soundtrack.
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (I have accidentally found that one on youtube and I still sort of like it... not the video, but the song itself).
Van Halen - Jump
Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson - Say Say Say
Stevie Wonder - Part-time lover
Europe - The final countdown
Billy Joel - We didn't start the fire
Queen - Who wants to live forever
 
What's your favourite track ... ?

So far I have:

Europe - The final Countdown :lol:
Belinda Carlisle, TPAU :cuckoo:

I mean does it get any better !

Ta,
Neil

If you're looking for advice on Belinda Carlisle - look no further, I happen to know a guy ;) who has EVERY single and album she released (except for this latest French one she has done). In various formats 7", cds, 12", cassette single, picture disc and all those cd singles that were marked as cdx..... denoting that it was a fancy package type thing with postcards, posters etc etc.

Who is this guy, oh that'll be me then....... :wave:


Apart from that, the 80's was a classic decade for music, just a few -

Animotion - Obsession
Belouis Some - Imagination
Anything from Tears For Fears
Duran Duran - Planet Earth
Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart
Level 42 - Something About You
Kim Wilde - Kids In America
Pat Benatar - Love Is A Battlefield
Haysi Fantayzee - John Wayne Is Big Leggy

....the list could go on and on and on and...
 
I'm shocked at the number of these tracks I have on my ipod :eek:

Maybe you could ditch the dj and hire my ipod :D
 
I love the 80s :love:

Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Love Action - Human League
Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Fantastic Day - Haircut 100
Stand and Deliver - Adam and The Ants
Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles
White Wedding - Billy Idol
A Night to Remember - Shalamar
Don't You - Simple Minds
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
Road to Nowhere - Talk Talk
You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate
Only You - Yazoo


I could go on ..... :)
 
Journey - Dont stop believing
 
Oooh.. I like this thread - have some stars :D
Now I have to go and have a think :eek: about what 80's music I like, as very much like MooMike, my 80's collection is very erm... mixed. It goes from Musical Youth :embarrassed: to Megadeth :lol:

<Goes off to have a think>
 
Wasn't it John Parr - Not that I have the single or anything :)

Yes, it was John Parr - from my hometown :)

Ok, had a little think. I did warn you that my 1980's tastes were mixed. Not all exactly suitable for a wedding disco though :lol:

Tracy Chapman - fast car
ZZ Top _ legs
Irene Cara - fame
Men at work - Down Under
J Geils Band - centrefold
Toto - Africa
Jennifer Warnes - Time of my life (Dirty dancing)
Wham - Wake me up before you go-go
Dexys - Come on Eileen
U2 - desire
Elvis Costello - Olivers Army
The Cure - Love Cats
Iron Maiden - Can I play with madness
Motley Crue - Girls Girls Girls
Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In pink
Poison - talk Dirty to me
Prince - Purple Rain
Gary Moore - Over The Hills
Skid Row - 18 and Life
Metallica - One
Transvision vamp - I want your Love
Tiffany - I think we're alone now
Def Leppard - Pour some sugar on me
Guns n Roses - Sweet Child O Mine
Megadeth - Peace sells but who's buying
Anthrax - Caught in a mosh


I could go on forever... the 1980's were fab :D
 
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