Favorite '80s song?

Corvina · 2016-07-20 05:46:30

Again, hard for me to decide mine, especially given how much great music came out of that decade. My favorite song ("Driven Like the Snow") is from the 80s, so I guess that's it.

What's yours?

[feel free to post video]

Tatterhood · 2016-07-20 05:47:43

the 80s and tom lehrer, truly the two best decades

Imipolex G · 2016-07-20 05:48:18

waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too many to choose from.

probably something by Rush, though. "Limelight" or "Subdivisions" perhaps.

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-07-20 05:53:13

—or—

—although there are may other candidates.

thenamelesssamurai · 2016-07-20 05:55:31

As people have said, way too many to choose from, though "The Golden Section" by Coil and "Peace Sells" by Megadeth are the two songs that immediately come into mind.

Obā-san · 2016-07-20 05:56:18

Imipolex G · 2016-07-20 06:03:08

mentions of an honorable kind:
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Iron Maiden - Revelations
New Order - Blue Monday
Sisters of Mercy - Lucretia, My Reflection
Megadeth - Black Friday
Simple Minds - Don't You Forget About Me
Van Halen - Jump
U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
Kraftwerk - Computer Love
Judas Priest - Bloodstone
Killing Joke - Eighties
Slayer - Raining Blood

Corvina · 2016-07-20 06:29:40

I oughtta just make a list, one song per album. I'll post it later.

MetaFour · 2016-07-20 16:58:33

The very first thing that comes to mind is Daniel Amos: "The Pool".

MetaFour · 2016-07-20 17:15:05

Others:

David Byrne: "Don't Want to Be a Part of Your World"

The Church: "Under the Milky Way"

Dirty Dozen Brass Band: "Voodoo"

The (English) Beat: "Rotating Head"

Herbie Hancock: "Saturday Night"

The Jam: "Funeral Pyre"

Joy Division: "Love Will Tear Us Apart"

New Order: "Blue Monday"

Pet Shop Boys: "Always on My Mind / In My House"

The Swirling Eddies: "Hold Back the Wind, Donna"

Talking Heads: "Once in a Lifetime"

UB40: "Reefer Madness"

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-07-20 17:54:33

Crap, not only did I not mention Coil, but what might be the perfect single passed me by entirely.

Which is funny, because it's on my profile activity page right now.

Salix Babylonika · 2016-07-20 18:21:32

LETTING THE DAYS GO BY

Corvina · 2016-07-20 18:36:10

Jane said:
LETTING THE DAYS GO BY

Dammit, now it's playing in my head

Odradek · 2016-07-20 20:08:41

Oh my god too many to name, I really like New Wave you guys

Salix Babylonika · 2016-07-20 20:17:39

That's because it's good.

Section42L · 2016-07-21 02:48:02

Just to name a few:

Bauhaus - Terror Couple Kill Colonel
Brian Wilson - Love and Mercy
The Buggles - Living in the Plastic Age
The Cure - Catch
The Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town
The Dukes of Stratosphear - 25 O’Clock
The Flaming Lips - One Million Billionth of a Millisecond on a Sunday Morning
Guided By Voices - Hey, Hey Spaceman
New Order - Temptation
Nirvana - Blew
Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done To Deserve This?
R.E.M. - We Walk
The Smiths - Sweet and Tender Hooligan
The Sisters of Mercy - This Corrosion
They Might Be Giants - Ana Ng

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-07-21 02:50:54

Odradek said:
Oh my god too many to name, I really like New Wave you guys

It was a great period for music.

The late '80s got a little dodgy on the pop charts but the really underground stuff was at least consistently interesting.

Salix Babylonika · 2016-07-21 02:53:15

are you trying to say that "Living In A Box" by Living In A Box, off their debut album Living In A Box, is not one of the best songs ever made.

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-07-21 02:54:43

They can't all be Living In A Box-level classics, Jane.

Imipolex G · 2016-07-21 04:43:44

oh yeah, I forgot Video Killed the Radio Star

Alduin · 2016-07-21 10:39:48

I think Walk Like An Egyptian is the song that plays in my head whenever I think about 1980s America. It's just so iconic to the timeframe and location that it's difficult to imagine anything else.

Hexartes · 2016-07-21 14:33:10

Take On Me is the apotheosis of 80s pop, I refuse to hear otherwise, and I'm indignant that it's taken 21 posts for it to have even been mentioned. For. Shame.

Princess Alice · 2016-07-21 15:01:41

Kexruct said:
Take On Me is the apotheosis of 80s pop, I refuse to hear otherwise, and I'm indignant that it's taken 21 posts for it to have even been mentioned. For. Shame.

Best music video, too.

Imipolex G · 2016-07-21 15:02:27

'tis a good song for sure

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-07-22 05:53:50

It's the apotheosis of '80s Pop as a concept, but there were other sublime songs in the '80s, both pop and otherwise. So many that it's easy to forget even amazing songs.

Hell, I even forgot this, and it's one of my all-time favourites:

Salix Babylonika · 2016-07-22 05:54:38

actually in all seriousness my favorite 80s band is almost certainly The Blue Nile who I have never seen anyone else even mention in that conversation.

Hats is an all time personal favorite.

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-07-22 05:55:48

I will look into them!

Also, seriously, listen to "Ceremony" and "100000 Fireflies", please. They are just so perfect.

Salix Babylonika · 2016-07-22 05:59:21

magnifique

Imipolex G · 2016-07-22 06:01:14

been listening to New Order's singles compilation in the car recently and they had a lot of good ones - "Bizarre Love Triangle" and "True Faith" are two that come to mind.

I also love "If You Leave" by OMD even though I am a cheeseball for this

Salix Babylonika · 2016-07-22 06:02:06

Orchestral Manouvres In The Dark also released one of my favorite 80s pop albums, Dazzle Ships.

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-07-22 06:06:56

OMD wrote multiple hit songs about Joan of Arc. That is wild.

New Order have, in general, released many, many excellent singles, but "Ceremony" is a strangely elemental song.

KilgoreTrout · 2016-07-23 16:19:28

I forget whether it was here or not when I last said that "Bizarre Love Triangle" by New Order may just be the best song ever recorded in my humble opinion, but if I haven't said it here before I'm saying it here now. So that's one, but I want to mention a few others I like since everybody else is and it's difficult to pick just one anyway.

Raspberry Beret - Prince

Here Comes The Rain Again - Eurythmics

Stand Back - Stevie Nicks

KilgoreTrout · 2016-07-23 16:22:15

Imipolex G said:
been listening to New Order's singles compilation in the car recently and they had a lot of good ones - "Bizarre Love Triangle" and "True Faith" are two that come to mind.

I also love "If You Leave" by OMD even though I am a cheeseball for this

I had forgotten that song existed ("If You Leave"), but thank you for reminding me so that I can listen to it for the first time in years. :)

Also, I somehow forgot about Pet Shop Boys. I like most of their stuff. I see "What Have I Done To Deserve This?" listed above and that's a great song, but if "Opportunities" hasn't been mentioned yet I'll do so now.

Imipolex G · 2016-07-24 02:04:52

I am now going to mention:
Duran Duran - "Girls on Film" "Rio"
Depeche Mode - "Everything Counts" "Strangelove"
The Cars - "Drive"

consider these mentioned

Vriska · 2016-07-24 02:08:22

Well, it's one of them. I don't even know why.

KilgoreTrout · 2016-07-24 03:11:22

Ooo, The Cars! "You Might Think" is also a great song.

As for Dead Or Alive, they may be primarily known for "You Spin Me Round", but I think another single by them is worth a listen if you haven't heard it before, namely this one:

KilgoreTrout · 2016-07-24 03:14:51

And here's some Queen.

KilgoreTrout · 2016-07-24 13:02:27

Here's one that became a favourite fairly recently. I first heard "Juicy" by one Biggie Smalls many years ago, but didn't hear the song he sampled to make it until I played GTA: Vice City. That's this song, and I think it's very good.

Salix Babylonika · 2016-07-24 19:39:07

Ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh that makes me angry. I want to harshly shake that video's uploader.

Nothing gets me pissed quite like Youtube clips of songs that omit the artist. The song is by M'Tume.

Imipolex G · 2016-07-24 22:16:57

I forgot Def Leppard's "Photograph".

I'm just gonna keep posting here until I've named every 80s song I ever liked

Salix Babylonika · 2016-07-24 22:18:33

outta luck

outta love

got a photograph:

picture of

KilgoreTrout · 2016-07-25 00:45:15

"Passion killer/you're too much/You're the only one/I wanna touch..."

Love me some Def Leppard. The title track off of "Hysteria" immediately springs to mind.

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-07-25 00:52:10

How could I forget: Every song off of Ludus' The Seduction and Coil's Horse Rotorvator, but particularly "Unveiled (A Woman's Travelogue)" and "Ostia (The Death of Pasolini)" respectively. For your edification:

thenamelesssamurai · 2016-07-27 02:25:29

Sredni Vashtar said:
How could I forget: Every song off of Ludus' The Seduction and Coil's Horse Rotorvator, but particularly "Unveiled (A Woman's Travelogue)" and "Ostia (The Death of Pasolini)" respectively. For your edification:

I thought about putting "Ostia (The Death of Pasolini)" instead of "The Golden Section", since it holds special place in my heart (for several reasons), but the last 3 songs on Horse Rotorvator are just so damn good, even if every song on that album is good.

Corvina · 2016-07-31 02:33:43

Heart and Soul -- Joy Division
Blue Monday -- New Order
M -- The Cure
A God in an Alcove -- Bauhaus
Thursday's Child -- The Chameleons
Once in a Lifetime -- Talking Heads
Driven Like the Snow -- The Sisters of Mercy
Talk About the Weather -- Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Molly's Lips -- The Vaselines

There are others I'm sure but these come to mind first

Tre · 2016-07-31 03:31:44

New wave is rad as hell.

- Rush -- "Tom Sawyer" and "Red Barchetta"
- Soft Cell -- "Tainted Love"
- Herbie Hancock -- "Rockit"
- Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five -- "The Message"
- Joe Jackson -- "Steppin' Out" (albeit in covered form, courtesy of AM & Shawn Lee)
- Cyndi Lauper -- "Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" (see also: STRFKR's version)
- Michael Jackson -- most of the singles from Thriller and Bad, tbh

more if I can think of any

Imipolex G · 2016-07-31 04:47:34

*Rush fistbump*

and since you mentioned Cyndi Lauper, I'd toss in "Time After Time" if I haven't already

KilgoreTrout · 2016-07-31 19:37:02

"She-Bop" is worth a listen as well. Best song about female masturbation I've ever heard! (If I were typing this on TV Tropes, it would look like this in the edit: [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative best song about female masturbation]].)

buttercrispy · 2016-07-31 19:45:52

At the moment it's harden my heart by quarterflash, but that's largely because i'm delving into what the originator of why i like certain vocal styles of late.

Sredni Vashtar · 2016-07-31 20:33:59

Corvina said:
Heart and Soul -- Joy Division
Blue Monday -- New Order
M -- The Cure
A God in an Alcove -- Bauhaus
Thursday's Child -- The Chameleons
Once in a Lifetime -- Talking Heads
Driven Like the Snow -- The Sisters of Mercy
Talk About the Weather -- Red Lorry Yellow Lorry
Molly's Lips -- The Vaselines

There are others I'm sure but these come to mind first

Most of these are quite good, although few are personal favourites. I mean, "Thursday's Child" is nowhere near "Second Skin" or "Perfume Garden" for me, the former being kind of perfect; "M" has a sterling main riff, but structurally it's a bit inert, and there are so many other great songs from that period of their career; and "Once in a Lifetime"... well, uh, OK, no problem there, but most of that album is that good.

Salix Babylonika · 2016-07-31 21:02:49

I feel like this thread has kind of become a lowkey pissing contest.

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