What are your top five 80s songs?

[smahala1991]

In no specific order

Africa by Toto
Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode
End of the Line by The Traveling Wilburys
I'm on Fire by Bruce Springsteen
Rapture by Blondie

Updates

9 mo

Another favorite is Walk Of Life by Dire Straits

[WhiteSteve]

Oh boy, just five? I was alive for it, so that’s a lot of music to choose from, haha.

Tell you what, I’m going to go with my favorite 80s songs more from the pop genre, as that’s the most quintessentially 80s-sounding. Like Welcome To The Jungle is 80s, but it’s hard rock 80s. I’m looking for stuff with more synthesizer, lmao.

Africa would definitely be up there, but you covered that one already. I guess I’ll go with….

Ah-Ha - Take On Me is classic

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

I love Jackson Browne - Somebody’s Baby

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Xk2NHZukTYg

Love Is A Battlefield by Pat Benatar

https://www.youtube.com/embed/IGVZOLV9SPo

Take Me Home Tonight by Eddie Money still goes dumb hard….

https://www.youtube.com/embed/3aJvIFK9-xk

And I’ll finish up with Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World

https://www.youtube.com/embed/aGCdLKXNF3w

[WhiteSteve]

One kinda interesting thing to add: in the Eddie Money song, the female vocalist is Ronnie Spector, lead singer of The Ronettes, the girl group from the 60s that sang that really famous Be My Baby song, probably 20-ish years prior. So that would be like some current singer breaking out Christina Aguilera or Pink or something from the 00s, and incorporating a lyric from one of their old hits, haha
m.youtube.com/watch

[Titanic1912]

Somebody’s Baby from Fast Times. I love it when it’s playing during the sex scenes with Mike and Stacy.

Stacy’s mom did NOT have it going on.

[WhiteSteve]

@Titanic1912 I don’t know if we ever saw Stacy’s mom🤔 BUT…. she always had iced tea on deck, lmao. What a preposterous “invite yourself in” line. “Do you have any iced tea?”😂 What a random question🤣🤣🤣

[Titanic1912]

@WhiteSteve, we did. She kissed Stacy good night before she snuck out with Mike to the baseball field.

[WhiteSteve]

@Titanic1912 OH, that’s right! Poor form by me, haha

[Titanic1912]

I Can’t Drive 55-Sammy Hagar
Poison-Alice Cooper
Rock Of Ages-Def Leppard
Poundcake-Van Halen
Turn Up The Radio-Autograph


I know Poundcake was in the 90s, but it’s my fourth favorite song of all time. The other 4 songs are 80s hits.


For my 5th 80s hit, it will be Hot For Teacher by Van Halen!

[Simslover92]

Self Control by Laura Branigan
Out of Touch By Hall and Oates
Head Over Heels by Tears for Fears
Love Shack by the B-52s
Under the Milky Way by the Church

[smahala1991]

I always thought Love Shack was 90s, but I think it was released in 89?

[Simslover92]

Yeah it was.

[Titanic1912]

I love Love Shack!

[rachel776]

Africa performed by Weezer with Weird Al instead of Rivers Cuomo

https://www.youtube.com/embed/mk5Dwg5zm2U

[Darkest-Knight]

No particular order

One Way to Rock - Sammy Hagar

The Evil That Men Do - Iron Maiden

Shoot to Thrill - AC/DC

Girls Girls Girls - Motley Crue

No More Tears - Ozzy Osbourne

[Titanic1912]

Love Sammy Hagar. He was one of my inspirations.

[Tonita91996]

No more tears is 90s.

[Anonymous]

Pour Some Sugar On Me - Deff Leppard

I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston

Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper

Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley

Faith - George Michael

[docster]

"Take On Me" by A-Ha.
"I Want To Know What Love Is" by Loverboy.
"Shout" by Tears for Fears.
"Who Can it be Now" by Men at Work.
"Allentown" by Billy Joel.

[Titanic1912]

I Want To Know What Love Is-Foreigner.

Not LoverBoy.

[docster]

Thank you. I stand corrected.

[Anonymous]

Metallica enter sandman

Def Leppard pour some sugar on me

Scorpions Rock you like a hurricane

Whitesnake Here I go again & is this lovr

(Not 80s but just as impressive) Bradley Cooper Black Eyes

Motorhead Time To Play The Game

[LiamJHayden]

The Friends of Mr. Cairo - Jon (Anderson) & Vangelis
Perfect Water - Blue Oyster Cult
Surfing With the Alien - Joe Satriani
Cool the Engines - Boston
Heaven and Hell - Black Sabbath (with Ronnie James Dio)

[Titanic1912]

I ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️Cool The Engines by Boston. I love listening to The Launch as it goes right into Cool The Engines! I loved seeing the song live as the flying guitar was flying through a field of asteroids!

[Tonita91996]

Roxanne by the police

what love got to do with it by Tina Turner

I think we’re alone now by Tiffany

Running up that hill by Kate Bush

This Woman’s Work by Kate Bush

[HelenaHandbasket]

I don’t know many 80s songs but I like the music from Guardians of the Galaxy and Deadpool.

[msc545]

I'll also vote for end of the line. In this context it was and is a great song.

[nojdug76]

Personal Jesus, Rebel Yell., van halen why can't this be love, Sunglasses at night

[Titanic1912]

I frakkin’ love Van Halen!

[AttaTony]

Really dig Miley Cyrus