What's your favorite 80s love song?

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For me right now, it's Love is a Battlefield by Pat Benatar

rachel776 · Accepted Answer

live performances are always exciting especially from the olden days, but below is the studio version of this track from EMI which is quite nice some interesting history from my dad, in addition to a full studio orchestra with  real  instruments, you can hear the old Fender Rhodes MK II piano where nowadays our guys use a software plugin with samples for this kind of instrumentation. i thought what sounds like a synth grand piano was the Mk III but my dad said no, it was a Steinway 9' Model D re-tuned with metallic hammers and then revoiced and recorded in an empty Albert Hall in London. that same piano is now in a back rehearsal room in a London studio with the same configuration for specialty recording, and needs to be fully tuned and voiced before every session which costs a fortune we have 4 or 5 times as many trucks and buses on our tours than these artists did back then (and we have 4 planes and i don't think they had any). we also have about 10 times more personnel on the road the travel space we need now is for LED light assemblies and towers, which are massive but very light, screens, scrims and amps, which they didn't even have, and back then they had to carry all of their sound production equipment wherever they went, which for us is mostly on a Mac Book Pro (with 7 backups in the hands of 7 different people in the event the worst of the worst happens, which it did for us one night for half an hour and you would have thought the world was coming to an end) studio version

WhiteSteve · Accepted Answer

Oh man, I love that song. ALL-TIME banger, and just decidedly 80s in its feel. And that creepy guy in the video is straight out of Central Casting, could not look more lecherous, lmao.

So hard to narrow down, I grew up on 80s music, so I’ve heard so much of it, and not just the ones that get remembered the most retrospectively. 80s pop music scene was unreal, and I’m not even a huge pop music guy. I could give you at least 50 that I’d consider for contention. Don’t worry, I won’t😅 But I’d maybe throw like four non-researched, off-the-top-of-the -head sub-divisional winners out there.

Pop Division: A-Ha - Take On Me. I mean, this is just one of the best songs of the 80s, period….

https://www.youtube.com/embed/djV11Xbc914

First Dance Wedding Ballad Division: I’m going Atlantic Starr - Always…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/dM-CiPKZF4g

Boy Band Division: New Kids On The Block - Please Don’t Go, Girl….. why did we stop talking about this one?😭😭😭 So good, and the video girl has that haircut that I’d only see on the cover of the style books at the hair salon my mom would drag me to as a kid while she got her 80s perm, lmao…

https://www.youtube.com/embed/2txArOEsLPc

R&B Division was tough, but in the end, I gotta go with Love You Down by Ready For The World. The Jheri curl was just too strong to go in any other direction with this one….

https://www.youtube.com/embed/r3Ui8_oqc9Q

Lynx122 · Accepted Answer

I wanna know what love iiiiiiis

Cinematic Lily · Accepted Answer

"Love is a Battlefield" is such a classic! 🎶 My favorite 80s love song has to be "Take My Breath Away" by Berlin. It has a timeless melody and was also prominently featured in the iconic movie *Top Gun*. The emotional depth and nostalgia of the song are just unparalleled. Plus, it never fails to transport me back to that era!

abc3643 · Answer

Love song... hmmm...

I'd have to think about this because there are probably a few, but this one sticks out in my mind at the moment.

It's the extended version of "Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)" by A Flock of Seagulls.

https://www.youtube.com/embed/L5tNI1d5cEk

FreyaRed · Answer

there is a lot of good songs in the 1980thies, it was probably the zenith of human culture and society. Today are """artists""" just lazy or scammers and produce just remake after remake.

Miristheiss · Answer

Take my breath away (Berlin)

Total Eclipse of the Heart (Bonnie Tyler)

Eternal Flame (Bangles)

The Rose (Bette Midler, technically 1979)

Carless Whisper (Wham)

The Beautiful Ones (Prince)

With or Without you (U2)

I love all of these songs. I cannot pick one.

Shiprex · Answer

Growing up in the 80s i wasn't into love songs. It was rock music mixed in with pop, but one song and video I liked was Take on me by Ah ha.

Maybe_Maybe_not · Answer

From 1987 then:

KostasKouvalis · Answer

No One Like You Damn. Yours is dark. That song is about abusive relationships

Nikki1989 · Answer

I like a lot of mellow music but can't stand vomit-inducing love songs.

jazzy34 · Answer

Gosh, I can’t pick just one. Such a great decade for music.

Iron_Man · Answer

The Eye Of The Tiger  I Ran So Far Away

LiamJHayden · Answer

Probably "Shelter" by Lone Justice.

exitseven · Answer

Lost `in Love by Air Supply.

Arcadian222 · Answer

Self Control - Laura Branigan

ohsheeT · Answer

KOZZ. Radio station I like all songs

leahzrc · Answer

All I will ever need

DrPepper12 · Answer

Spandex Enormity by MOD

Xawyx-2 · Answer

Eternal Flame by The Bangles.

Mark987 · Answer

Richard Marx - ight here waiting for you

fish5505_87 · Answer

Van Halen - Love walks in!

Bklynbadboy12 · Answer

That was my shit!!!😍😍😍😍😍

qwerty2469 · Answer

When in Rome. "Promise"

BrownEyeGirl5 · Answer

Manic Monday- The Bangles

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