2007-05-14 06:19:08 · 12 answers · asked by sticks 1 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
For 80s rock songs I would go with some Oingo Boingo tunes like Just Another Day, Nasty Habits, The Winning Side, they've got a lot of great songs.
Also, for the late 80s the Pixies records Come On Pilgrim and Surfer Rosa should just make the cut. Surfer Rosa might be 1990, not sure.
2007-05-14 08:02:00 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ok.. I'd suggest that you should listen to every song on this list..
song -- artist
1. Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
2. Every Breath You Take - Police
3. When Doves Cry - Prince
4. The Message - Grandmaster Flash & The Furious 5
5. Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye
6. Like a Virgin - Madonna
7. Walk This Way - Run DMC
8. Sweet Child O' Mine - Guns N Roses
9. Don't You Want Me? - Human League
10. Born In the U.S.A. - Bruce Springsteen
11. What's Love Got To Do With It? - Tina Turner
12. Call Me - Blondie
13. Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division
14. Planet Rock - Afrika Bambaataa & The Soul Sonic Force
15. With or Without You - U2
16. Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
17. Celebration - Kool & The Gang
18. Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
19. Tainted Love - Soft Cell
20. I Love Rock N Roll - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
21. Little Red Corvette - Prince
22. Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
23. Beat It - Michael Jackson
24. Jump - Van Halen
25. Whip It - Devo
26. Flashdance...What a Feeling - Irene Cara
27. Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
28. Super Freak - Rick James
29. (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right (To Party!) - Beastie Boys
30. Blue Monday - New Order
31. Fight the Power - Public Enemy
32. Kiss - Prince
33. Upside Down - Diana Ross
34. Fame - Irene Cara
35. You Shook Me All Night Long - AC/DC
36. Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
37. We Are the World - U.S.A. for Africa
38. Saving All My Love For You - Whitney Houston
39. Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
40. One - Metallica
41. **** Tha Police - N.W.A.
42. Purple Rain - Prince
43. Into the Groove - Madonna
44. Papa Don't Preach - Madonna
45. Nasty - Janet Jackson
46. I Feel For You - Chaka Khan
47. I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For - U2
48. Sign O' the Times - Prince
49. Start Me Up - Rolling Stones
50. Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
51. Physical - Olivia Newton-John
52. Our Lips Are Sealed - Go-Gos
53. Faith - George Michael
54. 1999 - Prince
55. Rock the Casbah - Clash
56. Back In Black - AC/DC
57. Livin' On a Prayer - Bon Jovi
58. Take My Breath Away - Berlin
59. Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
60. Pour Some Sugar On Me - Def Leppard
61. It's Like That - Run DMC
62. Holiday - Madonna
63. Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
64. (Just Like) Starting Over - John Lennon
65. Like a Prayer - Madonna
66. Rockin' In the Free World - Neil Young
67. Free Fallin' - Tom Petty
68. Love Shack - B-52s
69. That's What Friends Are For - Dionne Warwick (& Friends)
70. Addicted To Love - Robert Palmer
71. Up Where We Belong - Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
72. The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
73. Ghost Town - Specials
74. Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
75. Everybody Wants To Rule the World - Tears For Fears
76. This Charming Man - Smiths
77. Wishing Well - Terence Trent D'Arby
78. Rockit - Herbie Hancock
79. Bring the Noise - Public Enemy
80. Radio Free Europe ('83 version) - R.E.M.
81. (I've Had) The Time of My Life - Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes
82. Centerfold - J. Geils Band
83. I Wanna Dance With Somebody - Whitney Houston
84. Pride (In the Name of Love) - U2
85. Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Riders
86. Walk Like An Egyptian - Bangles
87. Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
88. Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran
89. Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
90. She Works Hard For the Money - Donna Summer
91. Greatest Love of All - Whitney Houston
92. Dancing In the Dark - Bruce Springsteen
93. Take On Me - A-Ha
94. Careless Whisper - WHAM! feat. George Michael
95. Do You Really Want To Hurt Me? - Culture Club
96. I Can't Go For That (No Can Do) - Hall & Oates
97. Legs - Z.Z.Top
98. West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
99. Freeway of Love - Aretha Franklin
100. The Power of Love - Huey Lewis & The News
2007-05-14 13:34:11 · answer #2 · answered by jay boi 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Kashmir", "Stairway to Heaven-" Led Zeppelin
Any Beatles
'Maybelline'- Chuck Berry
'Keep a-Knockin', 'Tutti Frutti'- Little Richard
"Good Lovin Gone Bad", "Feel Like Making Love"- Bad Company
'Go Your Own Way', 'Rhiannon', 'Gold Dust Woman'- Fleetwood Mac
"We Are the Champions", "Now I'm Here"- Queen
"Nights in White Satin", Story in Your Eyes"- Moody Blues
"Burn", "Smoke on the Water" (live)- Deep Purple
"Baba O'Riley", "Pinball Wizard", "Squeeze Box", "Naked Eye"- The Who
'Carry on Wayward Son', 'Dust in the wind"- Kansas
'Logical Song', 'Breakfast in America'- Supertramp
'Solid Rock', "Expresso Love'- Dire Straits
'Oh!'- Sleater Kinney
'Black Magic Woman'- Santana
'Peace Train', 'Morning Has Broken'- Cat Stevens
'Come Sail Away'- Styx
'The Boys Are Back in Town', 'Jailbreak'- Thin Lizzy
'Limelight', "The Spirit of Radio', 'New World Man'- Rush
'I've Seen All Good People'- Yes
'Magic Man', 'Crazy on You', 'Barracuda'- Heart
'All Along the Watchtower', "Purple Haze', "Manic Depression"- Jimi Hendrix
'School's Out'- Alice Cooper
'More Than a Feeling', 'Don't Look Back', 'Foreplay/Long Time Gone'- Boston
'Karn Evil 9'- ELP
'Highway to Hell', 'Shook Me All Night Long', 'It's a Long Way to the Top'- AC/DC
'Gimme Shelter', 'Miss You", "Rocks Off'- Rolling Stones
'Little Guitars', 'Unchained'- Van Halen
'Get It On (Bang a gong)'- T-Rex
'Deceptacon'- Le Tigre
'Too Kool to Kalypso', 'Away From Home', 'Don't Care'- Klark Kent
'Blue Morning, Blue Day', 'Cold As Ice'- Foreigner
'Stay With Me', 'Maggie May'- Rod Stewart
'American Girl', 'Breakdown'- Tom Petty
'Queen *****', 'Hang on to Yourself', 'Star'- David Bowie
'Positively 4th Street'- Bob Dylan
'Just What I Needed'- The Cars
'Do Ya', 'Mr. Blue Sky'- ELO
'Pulling Mussels from a Shell', 'Another Nail in My Heart'- Squeeze
'Wish You Were Here', 'Brain Damage/Eclipse'- Pink Floyd
'Draw the Line', 'Back in the Saddle', 'Dream On'- Aerosmith
'Alright Now'- Free
'Surrender', 'I Want You to Want Me (live)- Cheap Trick
'Living in the Past', 'Aqualung'- Jethro Tull
'Reelin In the Years'- Steely Dan
'Hotel California', - The Eagles
'Layla', 'Mainline Florida', - Eric Clapton
'Carry On', "Wooden Ships'- CSN&Y
'Old Man', 'Heart of Gold'- Neil Young
"King of Pain', 'Roxanne'- The Police
2007-05-14 14:38:24 · answer #3 · answered by Fonzie T 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Old Rock: Queen
80's Rock: Duran Duran
2007-05-14 13:27:13 · answer #4 · answered by Meshisha 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ratt, Def Leppard, Poison, Cinderella, throw in some 80's Ozzy.
2007-05-14 13:27:43 · answer #5 · answered by rabbitsrabid 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Sweet Child of Mine - Guns and Roses
Talk Dirty to Me - Poison
Girls, Girls, Girls - motley crue
Dr. Feelgood - motley crue
Thunderstruck - AC/DC
Money Talks - AC/DC
Look what the cat dragged in - Poison
Welcome to the Jungle - G-n-R
Everyone wants to rule the world - Tears for Fears
Hero - Bonnie Tyler
White Wedding - Billy Idol
Hungry like the wolf - duran duran
I need you tonight - INXs
2007-05-14 13:56:53 · answer #6 · answered by karma 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Anything by Guns N' Roses, Motley Crue, Poison, or Bon Jovi. I've just revealed my guilty pleasures. Except GNR, they're badass and I let everyone know.
2007-05-14 13:28:16 · answer #7 · answered by Steeler Phoenix 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Scorpions - Rock you like a hurricane
2007-05-14 13:28:13 · answer #8 · answered by marci4tony 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Photograph - Def Leppard
2007-05-14 13:22:56 · answer #9 · answered by Dave R 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Try anything by Rick Springfield or Eddie Money.
2007-05-14 13:22:19 · answer #10 · answered by fmxkrazyone 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋