good 80's pop dance songs?

Question

i love dancing to michael jackson especially "the way you make me feel" soft cell, janet jackson, etc. but what are some other good songs that i'm missing?

i want really up-beat songs that make you not care and go crazy dancing

Answer 1

Okay like this is totally my favorite decade of pop music however I tend to like the lesser known hits but I'll just list what comes to my head. Keep in mind it's all purely my opinion of good songs.

Wild One - Iggy Pop
Breakout - Swing Out Sister (I Love this band)
If You Leave - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (Love this song too)
New Sensation - INXS
Wild, Wild West - Escape Club
Hangin' Tough - New Kids On The Block (gotta know the bad
to be able to know what's good)
The Cars - Magic
You Spin Me Right Round - Dead Or Alive
Love In The First Degree - Bananarama
Pop Goes The World - Men Without Hats
O'Lamour - Eurasure
Video Killed The Radio Star - The Buggles
Jump - The Pointer Sisters
How Will I Know - Whitney Houston
Let's Here It For The Boy - Denice Williams
You Were Always On My Mind - The Pet Shop Boys
Let's Go All The Way - Sly Fox
I Wear My Sunglasses At Night - Corey Hart
Walking On Sunshine - Katrina And The Waves
More Than You Know - Martika (One of my favourites)
Tell It To My Heart - Taylor Dayne
Flashdance...What A Feeling - Irene Cara
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Rapture - Blondie
Don't You Want Me - Human League
Under Pressure - Queen and David Bowie
Let's Dance - David Bowie
Missionary Man - Eurythmics
All Night Long(All Night) - Lionel Richie
The Best - Tina Turner
Gloria - Laura Brannigan
Conga - Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine
Wake Me Up Before You Go Go - Wham!
I Love Rock And Roll - Joan Jett And The Blackhearts
Maniac - Michael Sembello
New Attitude - Patti Labelle honey!
The Heat Is On - Glen Frey
Walk Like And Egyptian - The Bangles
Mickey - Toni Basil
Oh Shelia - Ready For The World
Let's Go Crazy - Prince (I love thins song!)
Celebration - Kool And The Gang
Give It Up - KC And The Sunshine Band
Anyway You Want It - Journey (yeah a rock song but any "real" dance club plays this song anyway or Don't Stop Believing)
Sussudio - Phil Collins
Money For Nothing - Dire Straights
Get Out Of My Dream (Get Into My Car) - Billy Ocean
Simply Irresistible - Robert Palmer
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
There's A Meeting In The Lady's Room - Klymaxx
Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung
I Think We're Alone Now - Tiffany
Only In My Dreams - Debbie Gibson
Opposites Attract - Paula Abdul
You Dropped A Bomb On Me - The Gap Band
Walk This Way - Run D.M.C And Aerosmith (originally it was just Aerosmith)
I Want A New Drug - Huey Lewis And The News
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
You Love Is King - Sade
Relax - Frankie Goes To Holly Wood
Bizzare Love Triangle - New Order
Like A Prayer - Madonna
Gold - Spandau Ballet
To Shy - Kajagoogoo
Don't Forget Me When I'm Gone - Glass Tiger
I'll Tumble 4 Ya - Culture Club
Love Shack - B-52's
Yaz - Situation
Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam
Expose - Point Of No Return
Shannon - Let The Music Play
Head To Toe - Lisa Lisa And The Cult Jam
Glamorous Life - Sheila E.
Will To Power - Dreamin'
Hungry Like The Wolf - Duran Duran
Goodie Two Shoes - Adam Ant
Promises - Basia (My favourite singer)
Whip It - Devo
Let My Love Open the Door - Pete Townshend
Just the Two of Us - Grover Washington, Jr.
Dancing With Myself - Billy Idol
Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club
Super Freak, Pt. 1 - Rick James
Valley Girl - Frank Zappa
Look of Love, Pt. 1 - ABC
Lay Your Hands - Thompson Twins
Goodbye to You - Scandal
We Built This City - Starship
Kyrie - Mr. Mister
Weird Science - Oingo Boingo
99 Luftballons - Nena
Don't Get Me Wrong - The Pretenders
Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes
Something About You - Level 42 (Another great track)
Talk Talk - Talk Talk
True Blue - Madonna
The Promise - When In Rome
Summer In The Street - Carrie Lucas (Fantastic forgotten gem)
Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac
Stand Back - Stevie Nicks
Just Like Jessie James - Cher
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton
Don't Come Around Here No More - Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers
End Of The Line - The Traveling Willburies
Tall Cool One - Robert Plant
Let It Roll - Little Feet
The Goonies Are All Right - Cyndi Lauper
Bang On A Drum All Day - Todd Rundgren
Freeze Frame - J. Geils Band
Here I Go Again - Whitesanke (You need your power rock)
Animal - Def Leopard
Back In Black - AC/DC
Love In And Elevator - Aerosmith
Under Cover Of The Night - The Rolling Stones
Some Guys Have All The Luck - Rod Stewart
Take My Breath Away - Berlin (Yes, a slow dance but one you belt along with)
Girlfriend - Pebbles
Catch Me I'm Falling - Pretty Poison
Two Of Hearts - Stacy Q.
Hand On Your Heart - Kylie Minogue

Ciao,
Bear

Answer 2

Dance Songs Of The 80s

Answer 3

OMG!
There are to many to tell you about. But below is a website that I go to, to find 80's artists. But my favorite groups to get dancing music from the 80's are Depeche Mode and Erasure.

Answer 4

Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
Super Freak - Rick James
You Dropped A Bomb On Me - The Gap Band
Jungle Love - The Time
The Bird - The Time
Give Me Tonight - Shannon
Let The Music Play - Shannon
Situation - YAZ
U Got The Look - Prince
Let's Go Crazy - Prince
Conga - Miami Sound Machine
Pray - Tina Cousins

Answer 5

Politics of Dancing by Re-Flex
Into the Groove by Madonna
It's My Life by Talk Talk
No More Words by Berlin
Goodbye to You by Scandal
Dancing with Myself by Billy Idol
Freedom by Wham
Would I Lie to You by the Eurythmics

Answer 6

Men Without Hats - Safety Dance

Answer 7

Oh I want to dance with somebody by Whitney Houston
Love is a Battlefield by Pat Benatar
Come on Feel the noise by Quiet Riot

Answer 8

Pat Benitar
Queen

Answer 9

Girl's just wanna have fun. No matter who bad I'm feeling listening to that song always cheers me up.

Answer 10

I was just going to say any MJ songs. Try Cindy Loper, Tiffany (running just as fast as we can) Footloose I love.