Which are your 5 favorite 80s tunes?

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What are your top 5 favorite (or less) 80s songs?

MrOracle · Accepted Answer

Trying to narrow it down to just 5 is nearly impossible, but I'll give it a shot.

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Duran Duran's "Rio" is definitely one of the greatest 80s songs. It's up-tempo, it's got a mind-blowing bassline, a hot sax solo, and a sing-along chorus. Plus, the band was at their pinnacle at this time, not just musically, but also with their fame and image.

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Originally intending to be a punk band (Tubeway Army), Gary Numan went into a little studio where he'd booked recording time in the "off hours" (early morning), and found that another band had left a Moog Minimoog synthesizer in the studio. After playing with it a few hours, he completely re-conceptualized his band's first album around the synth. That album was a success, and he was able to talk his record company into advancing him enough money to buy a pair of Moog's then-new high-end synths, the Polymoog and the more simplified (and cheaper) Polymoog Keyboard, to record his second album, the Pleasure Principle, which he released under his own name, rather than the punk-sounding Tubeway Army band name. The big hit was the amazing "Cars", which highlighted these then-state-of-the-art synthesizers and created sounds no one had ever heard before. Highlighted in Cars is a preset on the Polymoog Keyboard called "Vox Humana", which is the high, soaring sound you hear in the song, and became Numan's signature sound.

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Trevor Horn's first fame was being the lead singer and bass player of The Buggles, known for their hit Video Killed The Radio Star. But after a single album, Horn felt that the rapidly changing music scene had passed the Buggles, and he'd discovered that his passion was producing, using the latest music equipment that was being released at the time. He built a production rig around a new "drum machine" - the Roland TR-808 - and set about to find a band where he could demonstrate his production skills to the world. That band turned out to be ABC, a synth-pop band that was a combination of the New Romantic movement and 60s soul music. Under Trevor Horn's guidance, ABC released their album The Lexicon Of Love, and the second single from that album was The Look Of Love, which became their signature song, and widely recognized for its amazing production.

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The Cure was a band that was big in the UK, but was more of a cult band in the US, until the release of their album Kiss Me Kiss Me Kiss Me in 1986. That album had 3 big singles, but the biggest was this song - Just Like Heaven. Well-known for their more gloomy dirges, this song was up-beat, positive, and beautiful, and was a smash hit that's since been covered by dozens of bands, and it broke the Cure into the mainstream in the US, just in time for their magnum opus: their album Disintegration, which would be released a couple of years later.

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Scottish rock band Simple Minds proudly wrote nearly all of their own music, but writer/director John Hughes knew their sound would match up well with a song the composers Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff had written for his new movie, The Breakfast Club. After Simple Minds declined several times, including after a screening of a work print of the movie, the song was offered to a number of other artists, including Bryan Ferry, Billy Idol, and Corey Hart. All declined for one reason or another. Finally, Forsey sent a demo of the song to Simple Mind's lead singer Jim Kerr's wife, Chrissie Hynde of the Pretenders, and she ultimately convinced him to record the song. It became their biggest hit, much to their chagrin, and it took years to get over having their biggest hit not be a song they'd written themselves.

AviatorTom · Accepted Answer

The 1980s had some of the best songs ever. Coming up with just 5 songs is hard. Here are 5 good ones...

whereismyjohnny · Accepted Answer

This was difficult because there are too many good songs from the 80s, lol.

rachel776 · Accepted Answer

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Orangekiss · Answer

I like these.

Sonorous · Answer

All time favorite: The others:

FunkyMonkee · Answer

I don't know that I can pick JUST 5.
Not including the ones my band made, I guess the list would have to include these although, they might not be at the very top of the list and not in any particular order.

Darkest-Knight · Answer

Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55 Iron Maiden - The Evil That Men Do AC/DC - Shoot To Thrill Black Sabbath - Heaven and Hell Motley Crue - Girls Girls Girls

Exterminatore · Answer

1. Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran
2. The Longest Time - Billy Joel
3. Keep On Loving You - REO Speedwagon
4. Dancing In the Dark - Bruce Springsteen
5. Take Me Home Tonight - Eddie Money

I limited my responses to 80’s pop as I assume that is what you’re referring to.

NathanDavis · Answer

let's start with this one...

Likes2drive · Answer

I like them all since I was in my late teens and driving listening to them all and remember them well, Girls just want to have Fun is probably the most popular, it’s used in movies often

Sparkie460 · Answer

I don't really have any favorite songs from the 80's. I love all the classic rock songs

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