good 80's songs?

Question

Hey peeps! yea i know i'm only 14, but i LOVE the 80's. the style,the shows, the music. i love it all!! i wanted to know some really good 80's songs. also, where i could find some cute 80's styles. thanks a bunch!

Answer 1

Here's a bunch:

Kids In America - Kim Wilde
Rebel Yell - Billy Idol
99 Luft Balloons - Nena
Take On Me - A-Ha
Wake Me Up - Wham
Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
What I Like About You - Romantics
Whip It - Devo
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
We Got the Beat - The Go Go's
Relax - Freddie Goes to Hollywood
You Spin Me - Dead or Alive
Come On Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners
Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant
Like A Virgin - Madonna
Blue Monday - New Order
Turning Japanese - The Vapors
Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
The Metro - Berlin
Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode
Reflex
Please Please Tell Me Now
Hungry Like a Wolf
Girls On Film
Rio - Duran Duran
Melt With You - Modern English
Our House - Madness
Don't You Want Me - Human Leauge
I Ran - Flock of Seagulls
Walkin' In L.A. - Missing Persons
Blinded Me With Sceince - Thomas Dolby
Cars - Gary Numan
Fascination - Human Leauge
Talking In Your Sleep - The Romantics
Rock the Casbah - The Clash
Land Down Under - Men At Work
Video Killed the Radio Star -
Just Like Heaven - The Cure
Obsession - Berlin
Oh Mickey - Toni Basil
Pop Musak - M
Always Something There to Remind Me - Naked Eyes

BTW, here's a really fun 80's tribute band - The Spazmatics:
http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/TheSpazmatics/

Answer 2

My tastes run toward good solid Pop/Rock as opposed to big hair bands and the 80s jive of early metal. Metal didn't really mature until Kobain's influence in the 90s. In any event, here is the playlist of an 80s CD I made for myself a few months ago. The friends I've given it to have been very pleased by it.

01TheStones --- Start Me Up
02.38 Special --- Hold On Loosely
03The Police --- Every Breath You Take
04Kim Carnes --- Bette Davis Eyes
05Bryan Adams --- Run To You
06Cyndi Lauper --- Time After Time
07J. Geils Band --- Centerfold
08A Flock of Seagulls --- I Ran
09Paul McCartney --- Take It Away
10Eric Clapton --- Forever Man
11Heart --- These Dreams
12Don Henley --- Boys of Summer
13Richard Marx --- Don’t Mean Nothing
14Tom Petty --- Refugee
15Peter Gabriel --- Big Time
16Billy Idol --- White Wedding
17Madonna --- Cherish
18Huey Lewis & The News --- Power of Love
19Van Halen --- When Its Love
20Paul McCartney --- My Brave Face

Huey Lewis, Peter Gabriel, Tom Petty are all 80s standards. Seagulls and Kim Carnes had great one hit wonders in the 80s. Paul's My Brave Face (written, as we know now, while his treasured Linda was fighting cancer) is one of his best post-Beatle compositions. .38 Special was an MTV staple (and on that subject, Fleetwood Mac is on my second CD). 'Cherish' is one of only 2 songs Madonna ever did where she gave more energy to the singing than she did to the whore-image thing. Don Henley made his bones as a solo artist in the 80s. And, of course, the guitar riff in "Start Me Up" is so classic one can't believe it wasn't featured until that moment. Play these songs for anyone over 35, and they'll smile at all of them.

There's my list ... best to you.

Answer 3

The Smiths were AMAZING!, Psych Furs, B-Movie-Nowhere Girl, Talk Talk-It's My Life, Oingo Boingo-Alive, The Cure-Head on The Door, Depeche Mode-Speak and Spell, Anything Box, Soft Cell-Tainted Love, Murryhead-One Night in Bangkok, Simple Minds-Breakfast Club Theme Song, XTC-Dear God, Talking Heads-Sand in the Vaseline, Bauhaus-Bela Lugosi is Dead, Love and Rockets-So Alive, U2(most), UB40-Red Red Wine,
The Pogues-Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah, too many good songs to list...

Answer 4

OMG, the 80's....Cyndi Lauper, Styx, Def Leppard, Poison, Ratt, Warrant, Dokken, Cinderella, Madonna, Prince, Joan Jett, REO Speedwagon, Toni Basil, Rick Springfield (he was sooooooo cute!), Blondie, Motley Crue, Twisted Sister, Van Halen, Michael Jackson (when he was actually good), Whitney Houston, Tu Pau, Peter Cetera, Bruce Springsteen, Duran Duran, Men at Work, The Bangles (one of my favorites!), Berlin, Belinda Carlisle, Billy Idol, J. Geils Band (Love Stinks!), Dire Straits, Flock of Seagulls (I ran...!), Falco, Firehouse, Hall & Oates, Heart (How do I get you Alone??), Loverboy, Billy Joel, Mister Mister, Olivia Newton-John, Dolly Parton, Sheena Easton, The Cars, Timbuk 3 (I Gotta Wear Shades!), ZZ Top, Toni Toni Tone, A-Ha, Dexy's Midnight Runners (Come on Eileen), Depeche Mode, Erasure (Rapture), Glen Frey, Eddie Murphy (Party all the Time!), The Knack, The Jets, Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam, Falco (Rock Me Amaddeus!), The Ramones, The Romantics, Corey Hart, The Buggles, The Clash, Kyper (Tic Tac Toe), INXS, Kylie Minogue, Matthew Wilder, Jermaine Stewart, Kenny Loggins (Footloose!), Quiet Riot, Le Tigre (the cars that go boom!), Rockwell (Somebody's watching me!), Rick Astley, The Go Go's, Sly Foxx, Dead or Alive, Culture Club (Do you really want to hurt me?!) By now you probably do.

Gosh, I really want to get out my CD's now and jam. This is just off the top of my and my husband's heads!

As far as clothes/styes, ask your parents, try garage sales, or eBay.

Answer 5

Good 80's music...Look towards the UK:

Madness, The Jam, Even a bit of Duran Duran!

Don't forget Adam & the Ants (brilliant but under estimated!)

Answer 6

your speakin' my language now honey. there are some good songs listed here already. I would like to add;
the B-52's, Debut album is a must have. The bolshoi, (away). David bowie, just about anything, but "Let's dance" came out around "83". Oingo boingo, any damn thing they mad is the stuff good uncomercialized badass music is made of. My favorite album is "only a lad" and "good for your soul". The cars, first five albums, self title "the cars", "candy-o", "panorama", "shake it up", and "heartbeat city". The dead kennedys, "holiday in cambodia". Depeche mode, a good all around compilation of theirs is "catching up with depeche mode". Devo, "are we not men, we are devo". Duran duran of course, "rio" is a must have album. the english beat, anything by them. If you like techno or industrial; try anything by these bands; "Front line assembly", "front 242", "skinny puppy", "birmingham 6", "hate dept". , Now, back to mainstream punk, and pop music. Peter gabriel, "security". Gene loves jezebel, "(come and get it ) Desire". Anything , and I do mean anything by "L7", or "Lunachicks". This may be slightly later than the"80's", but it is top notch "all girl punk". Ministry, oh yeah!! Ministry baby, nuff said!! The motels, "only the lonely", and "suddenly last summer". The normal, "warm leatherette". Pantera, anything by these guys. The police, any of their early albums are great like, "regatta de blanc", "outlandous D'amour", "zenyatta mondatta", "ghost in the machine", and "synchronicity". The pretenders, same thing, early albums like, self titled "the pretenders", "the pretenders II", "learning to crawl". Prince, yeah prince, he was good back then. Quarterflash, "harden my heart". THE RAMONES! nuff said!! Romeo void, "benefactor". Rush, anything and everything by these guys. Sex pistols, are right up trere with the Ramones. Siouxie and the banchees, "kiss them for me". The talking heads, well, let me just say that everything David byrne and the Talking heads did is freakin' golden. Download everything you can, I did. The 5,6,7,8's are a great japanese female trio, good stuff there. Thomas dolby, "she blinded me with science". Thompson twins, "lies", "doctor, doctor". The cure, all good. The smiths, all good. The violent femmes, all good, but debut album is a must have self titled "violent femmes". X-ray specs, Good pioneering punk band. Download all you can. Yaz, "upstairs at erics". Again, while not particularly "80's", Frank Zappa is a must have. Everything clean and dirty this man made is the reason why I listen to music...Hope this helped, I can think of more. email at "[e-mail]" for more info on music.

Answer 7

If you like the 80's and any of the current music of today I'd reccomend you check out Punk Goes 80's, it's really fun.

Answer 8

Michael jackson/Madonna defined the Pop world in the 80's.
Various hair metal bands like GNR defined the rock of the 80's.
Everybody sucks.According to me ...move on to 90's there are more interesting stufff there. Ever heard of the grunge revolution...

Answer 9

come on eileen is a fantastic song
so is
when the going gets tough by billy ocean
higer love by steve winwood
wouldn't it be good by nick kershaw
kids in america by kim wilde
c'est la via by robbie neville
jessie's girl by rick springfield
run to paradise by the choirboys
theres heaps some are probably early 90's but check them out , i often get cool 70's and 80's cd's from bargin shops

Answer 10

Given your age Im guessing something by madonna could give you some choices in music and fashion.But I could be wrong and you hate Madonna.You might want to mention what style of music you prefer.That might get you some more acurate responses.