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Howard Jones - Like To Get To Know You Well
loads of hooks, flying with the falsetto bit.
'Don't you think now is the time
We should be feelin'
Just want to simply say
Won't let you slip away'
There can be only one...
yeah take on me is probably *the* definitive 80s tune.
Obviously there's so many that don't seem part the genre, Queen's a Kind of Magic, Michael Jackson's thriller or billie jean or any of the Madonna tunes. I'd like to say British 80's pop tunes. However Aha are Swedish but definitely count in the genre.
yeah take on me is probably *the* definitive 80s tune.
Plus a contender for the greatest pop video of all time.
simply the best song from the whole of the 80's
from a band that could have been huge. unique and sad.
And, of course:
But finally, the most glorious pop song ever:
Aha are Swedish
erm Norwegian, I thought
I wanted to go out today but being a massive 80 throwback I'm not moving.. Love it
keep em coming, cleaning the downstairs on an 80s tip. Bronski beat is ace.
Yazoo - Don't Go (1982).
This classic, obviously:
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more srsbsns
There can be only one...
Which is a 90s song? 😕
Great thread- Tears for Fears 'Head Over Heals'
(Though I always thought "Self!" was the better track.)
An 80s thread wouldn't be complete with:
Just in case your day is going well here's an earworm (and some eighties outfits!) to completely ruin it for you lol
Matthew Wilder - 'Break My Stride'
There can be only one...Which is a 90s song?
My thoughts also, although wikipedia claims that it was first released in 1988 (released 1990)...
Proof that not even po-face prog rock bands were impervious to a touch of eighties electro pop flamboyance. Produced by Trevor Horn (natch! 😉 )
Yes- 'Owner of a Lonely Heart'
B52's - Roam
[i]Oh girl dancing down those dirty and dusty trails. Take it hip to hip rocking through the wilderness.[/i]
That one magical line has made this one of my favourite songs ever - it could, should, must have been written about mountain biking. Every time I hear it, it takes me to oh so many special places, brief fleeting moments of summers past. 8)
My thoughts also, although wikipedia claims that it was first released in 1988 (released 1990)...
Ermmm!
It was recorded in mid-1990, and was first released as a single in May 1991 in the UK. The single did not go on sale in the U.S. until four months later.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shiny_Happy_People
Oh wait. 😳
😆 😆 😳
Alphaville - 'Big in Japan'
Bomb The Bass - 'Beat Dis' 12 inch remix
B52's - Private Idaho (The Grid Remix)
Can we have a thread on best 12 inch remixes please, but no Blue Monday as I'm sick to death of hearing it?
cleaning upstairs now, I must pay my penance if I wish to go cycling this evening. Here's another belter
sly fox let's go all the way
The Cult 1985
Billy Idol 1983
I've not posted a youtube link before, so here goes....
ps. Shouldn't really be an 80's pop thread without some Stock, Aitken and Waterman, but I just can't bring myself to post any.
I know it's a cover, but the Communards' version of 'don't leave me this way'
was massive down my way.
Our german teacher used to let us listen to it in class.
Ah, Wendy James.
I'll be in my bunk.
Don't forget Kim
I was enjoying the fact that there wasn't any stock, aiken or waterman tunes.
I so want to add a 1979 track, I never bought until 1980.....sod it I'm sneaking this one in.
Paul Buchanan,one of the 80s greats
I heard this on the speakers at IKEA a while ago, and was pleasantly surprised with the memory.
The video is a bit 'Eyes Wide Shut'-ish.
And of course, this may have been one of the best tunes of the decade!
Toto Africa! You're not having that - no way 🙂 It contains the single worst lyric in the history of popular music FFS.
“I know that I must do what’s right/ As sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Seeeeeh
rengeti”
Great blasts from the pasts chaps. Just blasting out Ghost on the big TV think it's Blue Nike next
Quiet Life Japan what a tune
No smiths yet?
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Echo and the Bunnymen, "the killing moon"
Cool thread.
Due to the lack of names and titles to go with the videos on many of these, and not having had time to explore them, often the case with these threads, I'm not sure about posting anything and double-posting, so it'll be a while...
However, I saw Yazoo play Golddiggers in Chippenham on their first tour, and what I think might have been only the second date, and when Alf walked on stage it was a classic rabbit-in-the-headlights moment - the poor girl looked absolutely terrified! It was a good gig, though, she's got a superb voice.
So many good tunes above.
Lets dance, any police track, Duran Duran
www.youtube.com/watch?v=opkzgLMH5MA
THis was on in the Coop a couple of weeks ago; Shazam'd it.
Terry Wogan played this on radio 2 a couple of weeks ago. Was on my way to site, so stuck a note in my phone so I'd remember to google who it was when I was back in the office. Another banger.
This is absolutely class, sadly he died earlier this week.
This is probably one of my top ten fave songs. If you're ever feeling a bit low, give it a listen; works best with the video.
and that's not duplicating the above. there're a LOT of good tunes that buck the shitn 80's stereotype
If we're going to do this, let's do it properly:
Shame thread started with Howard Jones. I bloody hated Howard Jones. And Nick Hayward. Barf.
From the west:
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Terry Wogan played this on radio 2 a couple of weeks ago. Was on my way to site
funny what youtube throws up, Howard Jones & Nik Kershaw colab over 20 years later!
Wat no Hall & Oates.
Echo and the Bunnymen.
Def Leppard, Animal.. yeahhhhhh.