I'm looking for retro 80's songs you wouldn't normally see on a 80's mix CD.
Some of the common songs that I don't want hear about are-
Example:Whip it,cars,Micky,Safety dance,Obsession,and so forth.
Please be unique.Just stuff that you think isn't hardly remembered.
2007-01-12 08:37:11 · 10 answers · asked by Matty G 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
I'm really sorry that this list is much longer than 10 songs, but this is kind of a pet project for me. I have an 80's lyrics site and picked these out of the list of over 500 80s songs that I LOVE. These are a few that are underrepresented on CD compilations.
A Girl Like You - Smithereens
A Million Miles Away - Plimsouls
Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream) - Icicle Works
Dear God - XTC
Don't Pay the Ferryman - Chris DeBurgh
Electric Blue - Icehouse
Forever Young - Alphaville
Go Insane - Lindsey Buckingham
Goodbye - Night Ranger
Handle With Care - Traveling Wilburys
I Beg Your Pardon - Kon Kan
I Don't Mind at All - Bourgeois Tagg
I Know There's Something Going On - Frida
I Love You - Climax Blues Band
I Still Believe - The Call
I Still Want You - Del Fuegos
Into the Groove - Madonna
Into the Night - Benny Mardones
It's Inevitable - Charlie
Little Jeannie - Elton John
Make It Real - The Jets
Mary's Prayer - Danny Wilson
Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo
Modern Day Delilah - Van Stephenson
My Oh My - Slade
Orinoco Flow (Sail Away) - Enya
Salt in My Tears - Martin Briley
Someday - Glass Tiger
Taken In - Mike + the Mechanics
The Smile Has Left Your Eyes - Asia
They Don't Know - Tracey Ullman
Time - Alan Parsons Project
Turn Back the Clock - Johnny Hates Jazz
Valerie - Steve Winwood
Veronica - Elvis Costello
What About Me - Moving Pictures
What I Am - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
When I'm With You - Sheriff
You Don't Want Me Anymore - Steel Breeze
You Dropped a Bomb on Me - Gap Band
Young Turks - Rod Stewart
I hope you agree!
2007-01-12 11:33:50 · answer #1 · answered by The Skin Horse (formerly ll2) 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Heres a few off the top of my head.
Newcleus - Jam on it
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rah2UJ3sXic
James Ingram - Party Animal
J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame
Rick James - Super Freak
Bryan Adams - Summer of 69
Stray Cats - Stray cat strut
The Police - Every breath you take
White Snake - Still of the night
Rockwell - somebodys watching me
Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
Wang Chung - Everybody have fun tonight
Cyndi Lauper - She bop
Sheila E - Glamorous Life
The Cars - Moving in stero
Paul McCartney and Micheal Jackson - say say say
Men Without Hats - safety dance
Ray Parker, Jr. - Ghostbusters
Poison - Every thorn has a rose
2007-01-12 08:59:33 · answer #2 · answered by asgrafxx 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Boys Don't Cry - The Cure
Blister in the Sun - Violent Femmes
Don't Go - Yaz
This Town - The Go-Go's
Goody Two Shoes - Adam Ant
Talking in your Sleep - The Romantics
Union of the Snake - Duran Duran
Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx
2007-01-12 08:54:23 · answer #3 · answered by mrs_moby73 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Certain Things Are Likely by Kiss The Pink (KTP)
Watusi Rodeo by Guadalcanal Diary
A Girl Like You by The Smithereens
88 Lines About 44 Women by the Nails
2007-01-12 08:51:04 · answer #4 · answered by Poopy 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Endless Love by Diana Ross / Lionel Ritchie
Lady by Kenny Rogers
Say Say Say by Paul McCartney / Michael Jackson
Call Me by Blondie
Down Under by Men at Work
When Doves Cry by Prince
Physical by Olivia Newton-John
Upside Down by Diana Ross
Rock Me Amadeus by Falco
The Reflex by Duran Duran
Hope this helps you.
:o)
2007-01-12 08:48:18 · answer #5 · answered by Penny Mae 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm Alive by Love and Rockets
How Soon Is Now by The Smiths
Peek-A-Boo by Siouxsie and the Banshees
Eye of Fatima by Camper Van Beethoven
2007-01-12 08:53:06 · answer #6 · answered by esugrad97 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I suggest that you get on the web and do a search on 80's one hit wonders and see if there were other songs on the album that you might be interested in. The Vapors - Turning Japanese ...never liked that song like most people did.
2007-01-12 08:47:10 · answer #7 · answered by malinda_us 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything by Rick Springfield.
Soft Cell Tainted Love
Anything by ZZ Top
2007-01-12 08:50:37 · answer #8 · answered by harrisnish 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Richard Blade-Just got lucky
Timex Social Club-Rumors
Rockwell-Somebody's Watching Me
2007-01-12 08:49:51 · answer #9 · answered by ▒♥▒♥▒♥▒♥▒™ 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Cry little sister- The Sisters of Mercy
2007-01-12 08:43:50 · answer #10 · answered by Princess Piper 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋