Terrible 80's Songs You Can't Resist

[Gail Simone]

Harden My Heart

[shrike]

Take On Me

[TomStillwell]

Come On Eilene

[escapegoat]

Fish Heads

[KevinTBrown]

My Sharona









Oops. That was '79.

[Infra-Man]

"Xanadu" by Olivia Newton John

[bert]

Harden My Heart

HEY!

don't dis the 'flash!

QUARTERFLASH rock!. . . not only w/ "Harden my Heart", but also "Find Another Fool", "Take me to Heart", and "Take another Picture"

yeah. .the song titles get a bit repetative. . but c'mon. . that SAX!

http://youtube.com/watch?v=hAA0BR2Q4Kg

http://youtube.com/watch?v=0jWta-If3A0

http://youtube.com/watch?v=sLHbYLcvfjg&feature=related

http://youtube.com/watch?v=G1_E6pHa3hc&feature=related

[Yue]

"Relax" by Frankie Goes to Hollywood.

[bert]

and I'll sing along to this one every time:

Eddie Grant: Electric Avenue

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vtPk5IUbdH0

[Flamebird]

The entire soundtrack to Flashdance?

[escapegoat]

Oooo! Oooo! Another couple

The Theme Song to Flash Gordon - Queen
"Making Love out of Nothing at All" - Air Supply

[Flamebird]

Tarzan Boy

[escapegoat]

OMG....can't believe I forgot this one...

"Waiting for a Star to Fall" - Boy Meets Girl

[Cam63]

'80s muzak is the musical equivalent of Fosters Lite for me.

[Buzz Dixon]

Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
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Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume
Pump Up The Volume

[JKCarrier]

Everybody Wang Chung Tonight!

[Cam63]

Everybody Wang Chung Tonight!

Go ahead...

http://www.tubapants.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/01/dirtyharry.JPG

[rick]

Why Me?


http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/7458/c856353og7ufu9.jpg

[escapegoat]

"I Ran" - Flock of Seagulls
"Safety Dance" - Men Without Hats


.....man I loved the 80s.....

[shrike]

Everybody Wang Chung Tonight!

When I was young I totally barfed on my elementary school bus while that song was playing on the radio... it makes me nauseous to this day.

TMI, I know. :wink:

[Cam63]

'Shame you didn't hit the radio.

[shrike]

'Shame you didn't hit the radio.


I have terrible vomit aim, Linda Blair is like the person I aspire to be one day.

[Eliseu Gouveia]

Down on the street (http://youtube.com/watch?v=KVazpHH3jSU)

Night to remember (http://youtube.com/watch?v=pVAm_obRPQ8)

All night long (http://youtube.com/watch?v=3c7dONn9cNo)

Fresh (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Ha8MRSaILMk)

Slightest Touch (http://youtube.com/watch?v=HcahkiUSD-o)

Frankie (http://youtube.com/watch?v=W2Vc_aFtnqE)

Woodpeckers from space (http://youtube.com/watch?v=3Qo1__kbwrA)

[Red Jack]

LOVE SHACK, baby.

[LtMarvel]

Ha, I avoided the 80s pop music by following country before Hank Williams Jr drove me away. So I'm completely invuln
Take On Me
Ooo wasn't that the first cool music video where the guy was animated...
and I'll sing along to this one every time:

Eddie Grant: Electric Avenue

http://youtube.com/watch?v=vtPk5IUbdH0
Let's all go to A and Doubleyou
(sorry when I first heard it I went all Madison Avenue on it).



Crap...maybe I listened to some of this after all...

[Cam63]

I have terrible vomit aim, Linda Blair is like the person I aspire to be one day.

Projectile vomiting requires little aim at the very least.

...A bit like a claymore mine.

[Royal]

Shock The Monkey!

[Adam C]

Come On Eilene

Therein lies the flaw with your post. "Come On Eileen" is not terrible. In fact it's frickin' brilliant and among the best successful pop songs of the eighties.

[escapegoat]

Therein lies the flaw with your post. "Come On Eileen" is not terrible. In fact it's frickin' brilliant and among the best successful pop songs of the eighties.

Most of these choices arent' terrible to me.....I've wanted to mention several other tunes, but the problem I'm finding is that I don't think they're terrible at all, so I've been trying to pick songs that I'm guessing others might find terrible. :tongue:

[Yue]

I forgot one.

"Small town boy" by Bronski Beat.

[Cam63]

Just remember, it's TERRIBLE '80s songs you like, not the good stuff.

[Eliseu Gouveia]

Just remember, it's TERRIBLE '80s songs you like, not the good stuff.

Ooops!

I take my whoile post back. :)

[bfrank]

867-5309, and 777-9311.

[Cam63]

I see....





...NO, I DON'T !

[Adam C]

I forgot one.

"Small town boy" by Bronski Beat.

My comments on "Come on Eileen" also apply to this one. Granted it's not nearly as idiosyncratic.

[Adam C]

I forgot one.

"Small town boy" by Bronski Beat.

My comments on "Come on Eileen" also apply to this one. Granted it's not nearly as idiosyncratic.

[the4thpip]

Your kiss is on my list

[twilight]

Poison Arrow by ABC.

-Twi

[DungeonmasterJim]

"I Want Candy"



DM Jim

[Alan Lynch]

Most of Duran's Duran's output. It's all guff, but of the best kind.

[Alex L]

It's the Final Countdown!

[Alan Lynch]

It's the Final Countdown!
Da da da da, DA DA DA DA DAAAAAA!

[JohnPopa]

Surely, I'm not the only 'Mexican Radio' song here on the boards :)

[Infra-Man]

This thread needs more "Sunglasses at Night" by Corey Hart

I can't stop listening to that silly little song any time I hear it.

[4PointOh]

"The Reflex" by Duran Duran. "When I Think Of You" by Janet Jackson.

[Mr.EZ]

Surely, I'm not the only 'Mexican Radio' song here on the boards :)

Hell no, I love that shit!

Also...

SAFETY DANCE!

[LewisH]

http://www.mbgtop40.com/top100s/1980s/chart.html

I love all 100 of these songs. Whether they are good or bad they all evoke memories of good times and fun places. Many of you are too
young to have been around for the premier of MTV when they only had a limited number of videos that they played constantly without
commercials. I spent many happy hours with fellow college students in the Student Union with the tv set to that station talking
about life or classes or just chilling.

Back when my girlfriend was an exotic dancer, she used to dance
to many of these songs. She used to have these very sexy tiger
striped outfit she wore for Maneater. She had a pretty cool trench
coat for Private Eyes.

The really bad songs that aren't on here that I used to love were by
DEVO though. I was a bit surprised at the time that Whip It actually made it onto the charts. I thought only warped nerds like
me and some of my friends liked them.

[valentine]

Blame It On The Rain
Funky Cold Medina

[Your Imaginary Pal]

Don't You Want Me Baby...only because my mom thought it was the most overtly sexual song ever, but somehow Prince was okay.....
My Inspiration, or anything by chicago
say say say, paul mcCartney & the boy toucher

[AndrewCrossett]

Probably the stupidest 80's songs I actually liked were "Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats (But Ivan....*why* am I supposed to look at my hands?) and "Everybody Have Fun Tonight" by Wang Chung.

The 80's were a weird decade for music...the early 80's probably was my favorite time for music during my life (maybe because I was in high school at the time). But the late 80's were just terrible. That was when the horrible synthesized dance pop took over, and we started getting phoney-baloney crap like the "California Raisins" getting a top 10 album, and Milli Vanilli, and Bruce Willis as a "bluesman." And the advent of Boy Bands *ptui*.

[scout1279]

"Amadeus" by Falco

I love the 80s though, so everything that's been mentioned here is something that I love.

[MartinRedmond]

Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight
Lita Ford - I'm Out for Blood
MC something? - It's a Rainy Day, or was that the 90s?

The 80s are the best thing to happen to pop music. It's the only popular radio period I can stand to listen to cause all the songs are catchy.

[Matt Algren]

You Got The Touch (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkYuK3AKrxc)

[JKCarrier]

It's the Final Countdown!

Have you seen this version?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IliwQImJrYE

[MartinRedmond]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4uI88uu67w&feature=related

[Your Imaginary Pal]

oh the winner
Party All The Time - Eddie Murphy
written by the late Rick James, (BITCH)
honorable mention
Somebody's Watchin' Me - Barry Gordy's son...feat. the Boy Toucher

[Matt Algren]

Dancin on the Ceiling (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bO49xzfEijE)

[jesse_custer]

Anything off of Whitesnake's popular 1987 self-titled album, which includes:

"Crying in the Rain"
"Still of the Night"
"Here I Go Again"

[Timberoo]

Harden My Heart

How dare you. I once had a great make-out session with my girlfriend in the back of her Dodge Aries K to Quarterflash.

[Agent Helix]

The entire Poison catalogue, more or less.

[Christopher Cross Is God]

MC something? - It's a Rainy Day, or was that the 90s?


That was Ice MC, which was from the mid-90's. He was part of that mid-90's Eurodance craze that was all over Europe & Canada back then.......Most of the songs pretty much sounded the same, with the female vocal/male rap combo to a dance beat. American radio played about a handful of acts (Real McCoy, La Bouche, etc.), so it wasn't that big in the US (Aside from dance clubs) and Ice MC and the like weren't well known, if at all.

I love a lot of 80's music, so some of the songs listed on this thread I don't consider to be "terrible".......But, songs I like, which I would consider "terrible" (Due to stupid lyrics or sounding cheesy), from the 80's, are:

Eddie Murphy "Party all the Time"
M.C. Miker 'G' & Deejay Sven "Holiday Rap"
Corey Hart "Sunglasses at Night"
Men Without Hats "Safety Dance"

And maybe some of the hit songs by Billy Ocean or The Go-Go's. The only Go-Go's song I consider to be "good" is "Head Over Heels", the rest of their hit songs were really cheesy, but I still liked them.

[LtMarvel]

Have you seen this version?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IliwQImJrYE
Too cool for school.

[Buzz Dixon]

oh the winner
Party All The Time - Eddie Murphy
written by the late Rick James, (BITCH)
Ya gotta b/w Murphy's "Boogie In Your Butt"

[Buzz Dixon]

Most of these choices arent' terrible to me....."Pump Up The Volume" sucks wet farts out of dead pigeons, to paraphrase Dave Sim.

[Dr Ray Palmer]

I love almost all these songs, although a few of you have managed to name '80s tunes I actually dislike ("Harden My Heart," the Milli Vanilli and hair metal stuff, "Dancing on the Ceiling" *shudder*).

What's the consensus on "Mickey" by Toni Basil: terrible or fantastic? I love it either way, but am not sure whether it fits this topic or not.

http://www.cyberattic.com/stores/fuzzyizzy/items/218931/catphoto.jpg

It was the first 45 I ever bought!

[Buzz Dixon]

"Oh, Mickey/You so fine/You so fine/You blow my mind/Hey Mickey!"

[escapegoat]

I needed to ask myself the same with Styx's "Mr Roboto"....to me it's just totally awesome, but to others it may not be so.

[Dr Ray Palmer]

I always think of the "Simpsons" episode where Bart is asked to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and says, "Hey, America, you're so fine. You're so fine you blow my mind. America."

[Stressfactor]

"Who's Johnny" from the movie Short Circut http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6jaWPQ3Z7FE

and


"We Built this City (on Rock and Roll)" http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH-UqB7uYiE



(runs and hides in shame now)

[Dr Ray Palmer]

"Who's Johnny" from the movie Short Circut

Oh, yikes, that song is incredibly terrible! I know because I own that 45, too. :wink:

Someone mentioned Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus" earlier. I'll see your "Rock Me Amadeus" and raise you a "Vienna Calling," which was the follow-up single. That one is also fairly terrible, by which I mean awesome, by which I mean terrible.

[Trey Krimsin]

Speaking of Falco, his version (original, really) of Der Kommisar is horrible. However, After The Fire's version is fantastic.

[Christopher Cross Is God]

I needed to ask myself the same with Styx's "Mr Roboto"....to me it's just totally awesome, but to others it may not be so.


I forgot to list "Mr Roboto" & "Rock Me Amadeus".........Two stupid songs which I adore!

[escapegoat]

"We Built this City (on Rock and Roll)"

(runs and hides in shame now)

It took this long for someone to finally admit they like this song! :eek:

Actually I liked it when it came out way back then, but have since grown to dislike it, thus forbidding me to pick it as one of my choices for this thread.

[Adam C]

What's the consensus on "Mickey" by Toni Basil: terrible or fantastic? I love it either way, but am not sure whether it fits this topic or not.

http://www.cyberattic.com/stores/fuzzyizzy/items/218931/catphoto.jpg


O_O

'Oh Mickey, what a pity, you don't understand/You take me by the heart when you take me by the hand'

Fucker! Now you have stuck it's awfulness in my head!

PAALLMMMEEEEEEERRRR!!!

[Michael P]

All of them.

[Adam C]

"Amadeus" by Falco


True story. I was once in a D&D group where one of the players named his wizard 'Falco' and he had a falcon familiar named 'Amadeus' whom he would call to hium by saying 'Rock Me Amadeus!'

*GROAN*

[bfrank]

"No Parking On The Dance Floor" Midnight Star

"Meeting in The ladies Room" Klymaxx

[Flamebird]

Speaking of Falco, his version (original, really) of Der Kommisar is horrible. However, After The Fire's version is fantastic.

How about Laura Branigans version?

Deep in The Dark.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=823aeo0WU_k

[Dr Ray Palmer]

'Oh Mickey, what a pity, you don't understand/You take me by the heart when you take me by the hand'

Fucker! Now you have stuck it's awfulness in my head!

PAALLMMMEEEEEEERRRR!!!

Then my work here is done!

[bert]

Let's all go to A and Doubleyou
(sorry when I first heard it I went all Madison Avenue on it).




no, no, no:

"We're going to go down to,

K-mart to get some shoes.

they're only two dolla!

BLUE LIGHT!! (vroom) BLUE LIIIIIIIGHT"

[darkhanamaru]

Alisha!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D4T6CSgykWA&feature=related

[MartinRedmond]

"Meeting in The ladies Room" Klymaxx

Wasn't that a Mary Jane Girls song??? :O

[MartinRedmond]

The only Go-Go's song I consider to be "good" is "Head Over Heels", the rest of their hit songs were really cheesy, but I still liked them.

I love Vacation.


Yuck, eurodance. The bad times in life is like a telephone!

[Dr Ray Palmer]

The only Go-Go's song I consider to be "good" is "Head Over Heels", the rest of their hit songs were really cheesy, but I still liked them.

"Head Over Heels" is my favorite Go-Go's single, but that whole album (Talk Show) is a gem and one of the best records of the '80s IMO.

I also really, really loved their comeback album a few years ago, God Bless the Go-Go's, which totally rocks and would've been a hit if there were any justice in the world.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61K02A0N2SL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

[Red Jack]

Wasn't that a Mary Jane Girls song??? :O

Klymaxx.

Somebody slap me.

[escapegoat]

"Head Over Heels" is my favorite Go-Go's single, but that whole album (Talk Show) is a gem and one of the best records of the '80s IMO.

I also really, really loved their comeback album a few years ago, God Bless the Go-Go's, which totally rocks and would've been a hit if there were any justice in the world.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61K02A0N2SL._SL500_AA240_.jpg

"Head Over Heels" - also personal fav Go-Go's tune. Jane Wiedlin and Charlotte Caffey were such hotties back then.

[Melbourne Mew Mew]

Dr Ray Palmer, for a moment I read your name as "Ray Parker"

Which of course brings up...

If there's something strange
In your neighbourhood
Who you gonna call?
GHOSTBUSTERS!

And while we're on media related songs...

Star Trekkin', across the universe,
On the Starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk!
Star Trekkin', across the universe
Boldly going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse!

[scout1279]

And while we're on media related songs...

Star Trekkin', across the universe,
On the Starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk!
Star Trekkin', across the universe
Boldly going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse!

I remember that song! I don't think I've even heard it since the 80s.

[saintsaucey]

How dare you. I once had a great make-out session with my girlfriend in the back of her Dodge Aries K to Quarterflash.

I had a dodge aries. not sure if it was a k or not.

Here I go again is an awesome song.

I'd have to look them up to know if they are eighties or not, Air Supply Two less lonely people is the first song I felt.

[TCJohnson]

It's amazing how much of this stuff is on my IPOD.

[TCJohnson]

Surely, I'm not the only 'Mexican Radio' song here on the boards :)

I play that song a lot when I am at the gym.

Also love: Video Killed the Radio Star (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LB6Q_oycfQ)

[Stressfactor]

"No Myth" by Michael Penn -- Emo before emo!

"Break my Stride" by Matthew Wilder.



You know, this thread really makes me consider....... WHAT THE HELL WAS I THINKING?!?!?!?!?!

[RachelEvil]

Surely, I'm not the only 'Mexican Radio' song here on the boards :)

Y'know, I've heard a total of two Wall of Voodoo songs in my entire life. One that I loved, and one that I hated.

That is not the one that I loved.


Back on topic: Pretty much any Human League, but especially "Don't You Want Me" and "(Keep Feeling) Fascination".

[bfrank]

Wasn't that a Mary Jane Girls song??? :O


No, it wasn't.......

[bfrank]

Somebody slap me.

I'm not in the mood.....

[Darediva]

Careless Whisper, anyone? Anyone?

[Monty_Cristo]

"Break my Stride" by Matthew Wilder

i remember falling off of my bike once and this song taking my mind off of the excruciating pain.

[GozertheGozarian]

I used to own this.

http://i2.iofferphoto.com/img/1144393200/_i/11329340/1.jpg

[prismablue]

Glory Of Love
Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
Seasons Change
Anything by The Miami Sound Machine.

[stealthwise]

Billy Idol - White Wedding, Rebel Yell
Pretenders - 500 Miles (or whatever it's called)
and... "Get out of my dreams, get into my car"

[bert]

I used to own this.

http://i2.iofferphoto.com/img/1144393200/_i/11329340/1.jpg

I still have the whole album!

"do the Centipede!" indeed. . .

[bfrank]

"do the Centipede!"


Oh yeah: "Centipede" - Rebbie Jackson.

[JeffreyWKramer]

Pretenders - 500 Miles (or whatever it's called)


I think you mean the Proclaimers.

[stealthwise]

I think you mean the Proclaimers.

Probably. Now I can't stop hearing what a Pretenders version might sound like though.

[AndrewCrossett]

I think you mean the Proclaimers.

Or you may have been thinking of "2000 Miles," which *was* a Pretenders song.

[JeffreyWKramer]

Or you may have been thinking of "2000 Miles," which *was* a Pretenders song.

Yup, there is that.

Probably. Now I can't stop hearing what a Pretenders version might sound like though.

Ms. Hynde could probably take even a turd of a song like "Sunglasses at Night" and make it wonderful.

[scout1279]

I think you mean the Proclaimers.
I don't think "500 Miles" by the Proclaimers was an 80s song though.


And a quick check on my Benny & Joon DVD tells me I am right. Man did I love that movie, and song, and Johnny Depp.

[Copper]

My Inspiration, or anything by chicago

Ah well...looks like they'll never live that song down. They were a lot better when Terry Kath was around to rein Peter Cetera in.

[RachelEvil]

Oh, yeah... I own this on vinyl:

http://a0.vox.com/6a00c22520c0ff549d00d4143664b8685e-320pi

[rick]

Speaking of Falco, his version (original, really) of Der Kommisar is horrible. However, After The Fire's version is fantastic.


Just the opposite I think.

After The Fire 's version of Der Kommisar is a weak remake, from a studio band hired to make an English cover of a truly great German pop song.

Falco's original version is a beautiful slice of Pop Beauty.

[Adam C]

I don't think "500 Miles" by the Proclaimers was an 80s song though.

And a quick check on my Benny & Joon DVD tells me I am right. Man did I love that movie, and song, and Johnny Depp.

As it turns out it was originally released in August 1988 in, but only the UK and Australia where it became a hit. It was not released in the US until 1993 due to the movie Benny & Joon.

That said I am saddened that people think "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" this is a terrible 80s song.

[Suzanne]

Almost anything by Whitesnake
Y&T's Summertime Girls
Sam Kinnison's Wild Thing
Nasty Girl and Pretty Mess by Vanity

[scout1279]

Nope. It was originally released in August 1988 in the UK where it became a hit. It didn't become a hit in the US until it's re-release in 1993 with the movie Benny & Joon.

That said I am saddened that people think "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" this is a terrible 80s song.
I actually thought of that possibility after I posted my comment. Then I figured I'd just leave it as is since someone would surely correct me if I was wrong and then I would know for sure. Now I know. And knowing is half the battle. Thank you.

So, was the video (minus the scenes from the movie) from 1988 too?


Oh, and has anyone mentioned "Hello" by Lionel Ritchie? I can totally pass over the song if I were to hear it on the radio, but if I were to come across the music video, I have to watch that sucker.

[Adam C]

I actually thought of that possibility after I posted my comment. Then I figured I'd just leave it as is since someone would surely correct me if I was wrong and then I would know for sure. Now I know. And knowing is half the battle. Thank you.

So, was the video (minus the scenes from the movie) from 1988 too?

I-I-I don't KNOW!!!

*falls over sobbing that his music snobbery has failed*

(Though the cheesy visual filters certainly scream eighties.)

[rick]

I don’t care what people say, the music of the early 1980 was mostly awesome and definitely produced some of the best songs of the late 20th century.

Oh sure, there’s some crap out there, but there’s crap in every era, the truth is that for me anyway, the 80’s were great.

And not just the pop stuff either, the 1980’s were a great time for Rock, Punk, New Wave and of course Rap. So really, in my humble opinion, the music of the 1980’s holds up against the music of any era, and absolutely beats the hell out of the bland, boring and pretentious decade that followed it.


These are All great songs from the 80’s.


Billie Jean
White Wedding
Let’s Go Crazy
Sweet Child O’ Mine
Desperate, But Not Serious
9-11 Is A Joke
Holiday in Cambodia
Welcome to the Pleasuredome
Once In A Lifetime
You Shook Me All Night Long
Infected
Under Pressure
Rake at the Gates of Hell
Fly by Night
White Lines
Disappointed
Freeze Frame
One Night in Bangkok
Sowing the Seeds of Love
Money For Nothing
Take On Me
Language is A Virus
Turning Japanese
Straight Outta Compton
I Don’t Like Mondays
Electric Avenue
Peak A Boo
Der Kommisar
Talking Out of Turn
Saved By Zero
Heaven Or Las Vegas
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Vacation
Whip it
Cars
Sunset Grill
Fight For Your Right, To Party
Roam
She Bop
Like A Virgin
Save It For Later
Homecoming Queen’s Got a Gun
Blister in the Sun
Town Called Malice
She’s So Cold
Wonderin’
Paper and Fire
The Love Cats
Bed Are Burning
Teenage Enema Nurses In Bondage
Mickey
Fine, Fine, Day
You Might Think
Mirror In The Bathroom
Love Without Anger
Stay
Every Day I Write the Book
Valotte
Sexy & 17
Kids in America
I Love LA
Sweet Cherry Pie
Love Will Tear Us Apart
Dancing in the Dark
Ghost Town
Round and Round
I Wanna Be a Cowboy
Mexican Radio
Pop Musik
Cum On Feel the Noize
Come On Eileen
Institutionalized
Leave It
Major Tom
How Soon Is Now
The Safety Dance
Limbo
Our Lips Are Sealed
Why Me
& Making Plans for Nigel


And those songs are just the ones that popped off the top of my head.

The 80’s ruled.

[RachelEvil]

Oh, yeah, the 80s had tons of awesome stuff. I mean, Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Pixies, Swans, Einsturzende Neubauten, Butthole Surfers, etc., etc. Great stuff.

But that stuff isn't the point of this thread.

[rick]

Oh, yeah, the 80s had tons of awesome stuff. I mean, Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Pixies, Swans, Einsturzende Neubauten, Butthole Surfers, etc., etc. Great stuff.

But that stuff isn't the point of this thread.


I understand what you mean, but my point is that the pop songs were great too.

Even the really bad ones.

[RachelEvil]

Fair enough.

[berk]

As it turns out it was originally released in August 1988 in, but only the UK and Australia where it became a hit. It was not released in the US until 1993 due to the movie Benny & Joon.

That said I am saddened that people think "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" this is a terrible 80s song.It was big in eastern Canada in the late 80s or very early 90s, or at least with the people I hung out with at the time, well before Benny & June. I know, because after I moved to Ottawa in 89, people used to laugh at me because I listened to this stuff. Then when the song became popular from the movie a few years later, they all suddenly loved it. But I don't think it's a bad song. I still like a lot of their music. Great voices.

[Alan Lynch]

The Proclaimers have been huge over here for fucking years. I've seen people seriously claim that 500 Miles should be our national anthem. You want to see a party in Scotland kick off? Play that song. I've injured my shoulder bouncing up and down in a circle, arms round folks, drunkenly singing that song. And the best part? It is crap. It's not their even The Proclaimers' best song. But we do love it so.

[the4thpip]

"Meeting in The ladies Room" Klymaxx

Oooh, I just listened to that on my iPod the other day at the gym. Great workout song.

[Dr Ray Palmer]

"Head Over Heels" - also personal fav Go-Go's tune. Jane Wiedlin and Charlotte Caffey were such hotties back then.

Jane was always my favorite Go-Go. I had major crushes on her and on Charlotte and they probably started my lifelong attraction to women playing guitars. (Charlotte is still one of my favorite guitar players.)

All the Go-Go's look great these days -- I think better than they did back then. Same goes for the Bangles, too, actually. Their comeback album a few years ago was also great.

As for the Proclaimers, Sunshine on Leith, the album with "500 Miles," was a minor hit on college radio in the US when it first came out, several years before the movie. I remember because I owned the CD while I was in high school in the late '80s/very early '90s (graduated in '91), having heard "500 Miles" on the local college radio station. (Billboard says that record scraped the US album chart back on its initial release in 1989, and "500 Miles" was #8 on the Modern Rock (i.e. college) chart in '89). But they didn't have any mainstream success and you sure as hell wouldn't have heard them on Top 40 radio until the song ended up on the Benny & Joon soundtrack 5 years later.

I think my favorite Proclaimers song is either "I'm On My Way" from Sunshine on Leith or "Letter from America" from ... erm ... the album before that. (This Is The Story?). They did a cover of "King of the Road" a few years later that I also really liked.

[Agent Helix]

Shootin' at the walls of heaaaartaaaaaaache.. I am the Warrior!

[Dr Ray Palmer]

Shootin' at the walls of heaaaartaaaaaaache..

BANG BANG!

That's my favorite part. It's best if you do gun motions with your fingers as you yell that part.

[Agent Helix]

Just the fact that they had that as a master track pretty much sealed my purchase of Guitar Hero 80s.

[the4thpip]

"Meeting in The ladies Room" Klymaxx

Here is the fab video:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=t6A4LbAZ0pg

[Alex L]

Have you seen this version?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IliwQImJrYE

*epic thud*

Dr Ray Palmer, for a moment I read your name as "Ray Parker"

Which of course brings up...

If there's something strange
In your neighbourhood
Who you gonna call?
GHOSTBUSTERS!

And while we're on media related songs...

Star Trekkin', across the universe,
On the Starship Enterprise, under Captain Kirk!
Star Trekkin', across the universe
Boldly going forward, 'cause we can't find reverse!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ize84Bf8myw&feature=related

My backpack's got jets
Well I'm Boba the Fett
Well I bounty hunt for Jabba Hutt
To finance my 'Vette

And how could this thread be complete without Rick Astley?


www.youtube.com/watch?v=3AdFA6WWJ7E
♫ ...never gonna give you up
Never gonna let you down
Never gonna run around and desert you ... ♫

[buttler]

"Total Eclipse of the Heart" for me. I can't help singing along. Also, "I Eat Cannibals."

Back when "Harden My Heart" was on the radio the first time around, I thought she was singing, "I'm gonna swallow mighty earth." I thought that was totally hardcore. Many years later I realized she was actually gonna swallow "my tee-ears," which was kind of a letdown.

[Tyr]

"I Ran" - Flock of Seagulls
"Safety Dance" - Men Without Hats


.....man I loved the 80s.....

Ditto for Safety Dance, the worst and most obnoxious song on my list by far.

[David O Burcham]

"The Curly Shuffle"
Horrible, HORRIBLE song... but, damned if I didn't turn the radio up everytime it came on.

"When Smokey Sings"
This song was the reason I bought my first MoTown record. My musical tastes were never the same.

[Cam63]

Have you seen this version?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IliwQImJrYE

That was quite good !

[Draconomicon]

Sheeee's a Maniac!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_wcnyaUwHg

You give love a bad name!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GccfzxHIXaY

[Tobias March]

Come On Eileen....must be the chorus line to every drunken night out on the town ever.

[Dr Ray Palmer]

I'm not sure whether this one qualifies as "terrible" or "awesome," but I do love "Heart & Soul" by T'Pau. C'mon, she's doing a white-girl rap AND a shouty singalong at the same time -- you've gotta respect that!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJK7dMSd31k

[Infra-Man]

Does "Separate Ways" by Journey count, or do people consider that a good 80s song?

[JKCarrier]

Does "Separate Ways" by Journey count, or do people consider that a good 80s song?

Nothing by Journey counts as a good 80s song. :tongue:

[Infra-Man]

Nothing by Journey counts as a good 80s song. :tongue:

Haha, awesome.

Okay, then I humbly submit the Journey albums Escape and Frontiers for this thread.

[scout1279]

Speaking of Journey, or, more specifically, Steve Perry, listening to the radio this morning reminded me that I cannot get enough of "Oh Sherry." It must be listened to and sung along with loudly.

[bfrank]

"Oh Sherry."

Hold On!!!

[Stressfactor]

Nothing by Journey counts as a good 80s song. :tongue:


Aw, come on, "Faithfully" isn't THAT bad.....



But, as much as I like Phil collins and Genesis... What the hell was "Sussdio" all about anyway?!

[Dr Ray Palmer]

But, as much as I like Phil collins and Genesis... What the hell was "Sussdio" all about anyway?!

I think the idea was that if there was anybody left who didn't want to punch Phil Collins in the face, "Sussudio" was supposed to rectify that situation.

[Tyr]

Does "Lover Boy" by Billy Ocean count? I did like the Star Wars Catinaesque video, even if it was low budget.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdXryyFw7No

Oh and heres some more Billy Ocean nerdeness for my fellow yabsters! :biggrin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KOvCEinYXdM

[Tyr]

"Total Eclipse of the Heart" for me.

Ever seen the video? very Mary Cay Laturno....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55nTwg5NIPM

Speaking of Bonnie Tyler, I can't seem to get through one session of Justice League Heroes or Marvel Ultimate Alliance without playing this song at least once.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f_HsjpSVaI&feature=related

[socool8520]

It's got be Eye of the Tiger by survivor. Also Love Plus One (not sure who sings it)

[socool8520]

Ever seen the video? very Mary Cay Laturno....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55nTwg5NIPM

Speaking of Bonnie Tyler, I can't seem to get through one session of Justice League Heroes or Marvel Ultimate Alliance without playing this song at least once.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f_HsjpSVaI&feature=related

Yeah, Ninjas running around. You don't see too many ninjas in videos these days. lol.

[Tyr]

Yeah, Ninjas running around. You don't see too many ninjas in videos these days. lol.

Ninjas? where? Are you sure your not getting confused by this video instead?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LLaeRUsWr0

Not one of Heart's best, but I still like it. :smile:

[Dr Ray Palmer]

Also Love Plus One (not sure who sings it)

Surely you haven't forgotten the extremely long-lived and wildly successful Haircut 100?

Those of you who have the Music Choice music channels on your digital cable, if you like great '80s music, you should check out their station Retro-Active. Tons of great new wave stuff, '80s-tastic songs you haven't heard in ages, and things that should've been hits but weren't. I love it!

[Flamebird]

It's got be Eye of the Tiger by survivor. Also Love Plus One (not sure who sings it)

Surely you haven't forgotten the extremely long-lived and wildly successful Haircut 100?

Those of you who have the Music Choice music channels on your digital cable, if you like great '80s music, you should check out their station Retro-Active. Tons of great new wave stuff, '80s-tastic songs you haven't heard in ages, and things that should've been hits but weren't. I love it!

Forget? I still have the twelve inch mix on vinyl. :redface:

[Spiffy]

"The Warrior".

Horrible, horrible over the top song (and even worse video) but I love it on some level.

Someone on Wikipedia claims (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warrior_(song)) that besides me, apparently Bjork is also a big fan of the song. Which kind of makes me angry, sad and ashamed of myself all at the same time.

[Pink Bat Maxine]

"The Warrior".

Horrible, horrible over the top song (and even worse video) but I love it on some level.

Someone on Wikipedia claims (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Warrior_(song)) that besides me, apparently Bjork is also a big fan of the song. Which kind of makes me angry, sad and ashamed of myself all at the same time.

Ohhhhh yes. Good one.

Love Is A Battlefield as well.

[Tyr]

Jesus, was We Belong the only good song Pat Benatar came up with in the 80's?

[cedardryad]

In Your Eyes
Never Gonna Give You Up
Take On Me
Come On Eileen
Hungry Like a Wolf
Let's Dance
Kokomo
Karma Cameleon
I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight
Hurts So Good
Rock Me Amadeus

This is what happens when all you watch is VH1 after school when you are in elementary school.

[socool8520]

Forget? I still have the twelve inch mix on vinyl. :redface:

I totally need to cop that! lol

[socool8520]

Ninjas? where? Are you sure your not getting confused by this video instead?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7LLaeRUsWr0

Not one of Heart's best, but I still like it. :smile:

There's not dudes dressed up in ninja costumes along with fencers and alot of other young males as a matter of fact in that video? ( i'm actually quite disturbed that i have seen the video now lol.) Yeah isn't she like the only woman in the mansion she's running around in?

[Crowley]

Does "Lover Boy" by Billy Ocean count? I did like the Star Wars Catinaesque video, even if it was low budget.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdXryyFw7No


That's one the craziest goddamn things I've ever seen... I especially like the chorus of Jawas at the end. I dub it Star Wars canon.

"Something About You" Level 42
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-dx9xe44W0

"Voices Carry" Til Tuesday (with Aimee Mann)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zInCs634aYw

"It's My Life" and "Life is what you make it" by Talk Talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvAVJTQeFiQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvMoRVrqx_I&feature=related

"The Promise" When in Rome
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqNZekTvzBU

[scout1279]

Jesus, was We Belong the only good song Pat Benatar came up with in the 80's?

What are you talking about? "We Belong," "Shadows of the Night," "Invincible" these are great songs. "Love Is a Battlefield" is just a really bad video. The song is classic.

[socool8520]

What are you talking about? "We Belong," "Shadows of the Night," "Invincible" these are great songs. "Love Is a Battlefield" is just a really bad video. The song is classic.

Holy Crap, I know all those songs!!! I must be oldest 22 year old in the world. hahaha

[Infra-Man]

In Your Eyes
Let's Dance

"Let's Dance" was good for Bowie's 80s stuff. It's no "Modern Love," but it's still okay.

And if you say "In Your Eyes" is terrible, you'll make Lloyd Dobler cry
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/5051/lloydsa3pr7.jpg

[Chuck Dixon]

Toy Soldiers

[MacQuarrie]

"Making Love out of Nothing at All" - Air Supply

"Total Eclipse of the Heart" for me. I can't help singing along.

Speaking of Bonnie Tyler, I can't seem to get through one session of Justice League Heroes or Marvel Ultimate Alliance without playing this song at least once.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7f_HsjpSVaI&feature=related

I still have an enduring fondness for the excesses of Jim Steinman.

Discounting Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell (1977), the terrible '80s songs by Steinman that I like in spite of myself are the ones above, as well as "I'm Gonna Love Her for Both of Us", "I'll Kill You if You Don't Come Back", and "Read 'em and Weep", and "Dead Ringer for Love", all from Meat Loaf's 1981 sequel, Dead Ringer."

I also, for God knows what reason, kinda like Barry Manilow's cover of "Read 'em and Weep" and Barbra Steisand's version of "Left in the Dark", which was originally recorded by Steinman on his 1981 "Bad for Good" album, every song of which is still a guilty pleasure for me. The opening of "Stark Raving Love" got recycled into "Holding Out for a Hero."

I even kind of like Celine Dion's "It's All Coming Back to Me Now."

In fact, I even like the horrifically bad songs from "Batman: the Musical"

[scout1279]

I still have an enduring fondness for the excesses of Jim Steinman.

Discounting Meat Loaf's [i]Bat Out of Hell[/i} (1977), the terrible '80s songs by Steinman that I like in spite of myself are the ones above, as well as "I'm Gonna Love Her for Both of Us", "I'll Kill You if You Don't Come Back", and "Read 'em and Weep", and "Dead Ringer for Love", all from Meat Loaf's 1981 sequel, [i]Dead Ringer."

I also, for God knows what reason, kinda like Barry Manilow's cover of "Read 'em and Weep" and Barbra Steisand's version of "Left in the Dark", which was originally recorded by Steinman on his 1981 "Bad for Good" album, every song of which is still a guilty pleasure for me. The opening of "Stark Raving Love" got recycled into "Holding Out for a Hero."

I even kind of like Celine Dion's "It's All Coming Back to Me Now."

In fact, I even like the horrifically bad songs from "Batman: the Musical"
Ah, "Batman: the Musical." (http://www.freewebs.com/batman_themusical/home.htm) It would have been a classic.

I went to go see "Dance of the Vampires" during its very brief run on Broadway. It was supposed to be campy, but the only audible laughter came when Michael Crawford and the female lead began their duet of "Total Eclipse of the Heart." I loved it though. God bless Jim Steinman. Only he could have produced something so cheesy.

[RachelEvil]

Jesus, was We Belong the only good song Pat Benatar came up with in the 80's?

Hey... "Hell Is for Children" is a damn good song.

[Night Swordsman]

Was not going to post,but i love this subject with all my heart,as this was my favorite era of music. Great song choices.

Most of my choices have been taken:

Magic : Olivia Newton John
Calling America : ELO
Dream Warriors : Dokken
Heart: Never
Police: Synchronicity 2
Joey Scarbury: Theme to Greatest American Hero

Just a few..i could go on for pages alone.

I now retire. Bye.

And Journey was GOOD,Dammit!

[Tyr]

In Your Eyes
Never Gonna Give You Up
Take On Me
Come On Eileen
Hungry Like a Wolf
Let's Dance
Kokomo
Karma Cameleon
I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight
Hurts So Good
Rock Me Amadeus

This is what happens when all you watch is VH1 after school when you are in elementary school.

I believe In Your Eyes is a 90's song, though I could be wrong.

[Tyr]

That's one the craziest goddamn things I've ever seen... I especially like the chorus of Jawas at the end. I dub it Star Wars canon.


Yeah, plus Billy Ocean could make for Lando's brother :wink:

Best song about the Japan ever! :biggrin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLg0f5qU7os

And yes its better then this one....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpCcelpvkps

Which is really about a brake up and not about the Japanese.

[Tyr]

There's not dudes dressed up in ninja costumes along with fencers and alot of other young males as a matter of fact in that video? ( i'm actually quite disturbed that i have seen the video now lol.) Yeah isn't she like the only woman in the mansion she's running around in?

I think theres some chics in the choris, but that could just be young boys with makeup on.

[Spiffy]

Ohhhhh yes. Good one.

Love Is A Battlefield as well.
Ha! I'll go you one worse:

"We Built This City", by Starship.

PURE craplicious cheeze! Really, its stinks, but like many of the songs on this list, it's made interesting by a bizarre video (I LOVE the part where the statue of Abe Lincoln gets up and sings! And then the band makes archy eyebrows at him!)

In fact... its SO bad that: Blender Magazine ranked it as the biggest stinker ever... (http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2004-04-18-worst-songs_x.htm)

WORST EVER. Could there be ANYTHING to be more ashamed about kind of enjoying, in a self-flagellating kind of way?

Blender's whole list of stinkers is hilarious too:


1. We Built This City Starship 1985
2. Achy Breaky Heart Billy Ray Cyrus 1992
3. Everybody Have Fun Tonight Wang Chung 1986
4. Rollin' Limpbizkit 2000
5. Ice Ice Baby Vanilla Ice 1990
6. The Heart of Rock & Roll Huey Lewis & The News 1984
7. Don't Worry, Be Happy Bobby McFerrin 1988
8. Party All the Time Eddie Murphy 1985
9. American Life Madonna 2003
10. Ebony and Ivory Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder


Actually, I REALLY like "The Heart of Rock & Roll". And NOT in a jokey "its so bad" way like "We Built This City". But otherwise? This list is dead on.

[Pink Bat Maxine]

Ha! I'll go you one worse:

"We Built This City", by Starship.

PURE craplicious cheeze! Really, its stinks, but like many of the songs on this list, it's made interesting by a bizarre video (I LOVE the part where the statue of Abe Lincoln gets up and sings! And then the band makes archy eyebrows at him!)

In fact... its SO bad that: Blender Magazine ranked it as the biggest stinker ever... (http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2004-04-18-worst-songs_x.htm)

WORST EVER. Could there be ANYTHING to be more ashamed about kind of enjoying, in a self-flagellating kind of way?

Hmmm... Radio Ga-Ga by Queen is a great one.... and Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go is insanely fun. :biggrin:

[Spiffy]

Yeah, plus Billy Ocean could make for Lando's brother :wink:

Best song about the Japan ever! :biggrin:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fLg0f5qU7os

I'd never heard this before, but actually... I kind of like it. I listened to a lot of New Wave music back in the 80s and this brings me back.

[section 8]

the Safety Dance by men without hats
99 red balloons
Dreaming (Blondie)
I just died in your arms tonight.
anything by Journey

[Tyr]

Ha! I'll go you one worse:

"We Built This City", by Starship.

PURE craplicious cheeze! Really, its stinks, but like many of the songs on this list, it's made interesting by a bizarre video (I LOVE the part where the statue of Abe Lincoln gets up and sings! And then the band makes archy eyebrows at him!)

In fact... its SO bad that: Blender Magazine ranked it as the biggest stinker ever... (http://www.usatoday.com/life/music/news/2004-04-18-worst-songs_x.htm)



I personally don't take any magazine or online magazine top tens seriously anymore, no matter how serious they make them out to be. That especially goes for Wizards Top Ten, any Tops by Blender, and Time Magazines Top ten most influential people of the year, and Gamespy top tens especially after I wrote one (http://www.gamespy.com/articles/489/489743p1.html).

Be that as it may that song is just plain awful.

the Safety Dance by men without hats
99 red balloons
Dreaming (Blondie)
I just died in your arms tonight.
anything by Journey

Weird Al played a bit of that song on "Hooked on Polkas" funny thing that song actually works as a polka, even though it probably shouldn't. :biggrin:

[Adam C]

"It's My Life" and "Life is what you make it" by Talk Talk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvAVJTQeFiQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvMoRVrqx_I&feature=related

It's funny to think that the band who made these songs eventually ended up producing an album that gave birth to one of the more experimental sub styles of rock music.

[bert]

I'd never heard this before, but actually... I kind of like it. I listened to a lot of New Wave music back in the 80s and this brings me back.

ooo. .I LOVE Alphaville.

"Dance w/ Me" and "Red Rose" are great songs too. . .

but this one if my all time favorite by them "Universal Daddy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMak4fFwvsk

[Tyr]

ooo. .I LOVE Alphaville.


Yeah, I love Big In Japan

Though you got to admit the lead singer was pretty damn ugly in that video. :tongue:

Btw has anybody have "I touch myself" on their list, something tells me we need that up here for it to be a proper YABS thread.

[escapegoat]

ooo. .I LOVE Alphaville.

"Dance w/ Me" and "Red Rose" are great songs too. . .

but this one if my all time favorite by them "Universal Daddy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DMak4fFwvsk

Personal Alphaville faves - Lassie Come Home and Afternoons in Utopia. HEck....there was a lot I liked from their first 2 albums.

My brother was a big fan of theirs...all of his stuff eventually managed to trickle over to my side because he would play it so much :tongue:

[escapegoat]

"Let's Dance" was good for Bowie's 80s stuff. It's no "Modern Love," but it's still okay.

And if you say "In Your Eyes" is terrible, you'll make Lloyd Dobler cry
http://img80.imageshack.us/img80/5051/lloydsa3pr7.jpg

I haveta agree with Infra on both of these....neither are terrible, and "In Your Eyes" is one of Peter Gabriel's best songs ever.

[MacQuarrie]

The single worst song and video of that decade has to be this one: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jzpe1Rq6f3o

Awful song. Awful band. Awful video.

Ew. ick. yuck.

But it's really off-topic, because this is not a terrible '80s song I can't resist. It's a terrible '80s song I can't stnad a single second of, from a terrible '80s band that should be swept from the collective memory of the human race. Nothing whatsoever to recommend it.

[escapegoat]

....and don't any of you guys start dissing Journey! They were awesome!

Along with Toto, Asia, REOSpeedwagon, Styx, Kansas, Night Ranger.....

....yeah, I was a child of the 80's alright...... :biggrin:

[MacQuarrie]

....and don't any of you guys start dissing Journey! They were awesome!

Along with Toto, Asia, REOSpeedwagon, Styx, Kansas, Night Ranger.....

....yeah, I was a child of the 80's alright...... :biggrin:

I'll concede all the others, but Journey blows. The guy can only sing one note, so he substitutes changes in volume. enh.

[Tyr]

Damn, "I touch myself" was from 91, so it doesn't qualify.... Ok folks we need an 80's equivalent. Hmmm....I got it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLHc-yIAPbg

There, now this feels more like an official YABS thread! :biggrin:

Now...who wants to see the nsfw version of Frankie Goes to Holywood's "Relax"?

[JeffreyWKramer]

I heard one today - "Some Like It Hot" by Power Station.

Not a great song by any stretch, but I can't resist that Tony Thompson drumming.

[JeffreyWKramer]

....and don't any of you guys start dissing Journey! They were awesome!

Along with Toto, Asia, REOSpeedwagon, Styx, Kansas, Night Ranger.....

....yeah, I was a child of the 80's alright...... :biggrin:

This post contains the best list of truly awful bands I've ever seen.

[Infra-Man]

I may have missed it, but has anyone said "Man in Motion" (from St. Elmo's Fire) by John Parr? That's one of those stinkburgers I love.

[JeffreyWKramer]

I may have missed it, but has anyone said "Man in Motion" (from St. Elmo's Fire) by John Parr? That's one of those stinkburgers I love.

For some reason or another, I thought about that song fairly recently... the last month or so anyhow.

More specifically, my thought was "That's a song I haven't heard in a long while, and that's a good thing."

[section 8]

Rod Stewart's "Someone Like You" has been stuck in my head lately

[Tyr]

I may have missed it, but has anyone said "Man in Motion" (from St. Elmo's Fire) by John Parr? That's one of those stinkburgers I love.

I actually have that song on one of my 80's billboard hits cds I got lying around...hmmm, I may rip it one day...when I've got nothing better to do. :wink:

Rod Stewart's "Someone Like You" has been stuck in my head lately

Rod Stewart.....what ever happened to that guy? Last time I checked he was getting all sentimental with songs like Lost in You, then Forever Young (which is actually a great song in my opinion), and Rhythm of my Heart.. that last one I think was what? 10 years ago or so?

[mgs]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=du9iX7Zzgs8

[OzBat!]

Weird Al played a bit of that song on "Hooked on Polkas" funny thing that song actually works as a polka, even though it probably shouldn't. :biggrin:
Did he do the english or the german language version? For some reason, the german version was really big for a couple of weeks during my final year of senior high.

[Tyr]

Did he do the english or the german language version? For some reason, the german version was really big for a couple of weeks during my final year of senior high.

German, of course, which is why it works as a polka when it shouldn’t. :wink:

Harden My Heart

Has some been playing GTA: Vice City a bit to much? Maybe thats just me. :redface:

[Pinball]

The entire "hair metal" genre, really.:biggrin:

And lemme tell you something; unlike a lot of 80s metalheads, i had no trouble playing "poser" bands like Motley Crue, Bon Jovi, Ratt, and Dokken alongside the "poser killer" bands of the day like Venom, Metallica, Slayer, and Death ... watch!

Poison - Talk Dirty To Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4qVJnhZwWY)
*rocks out*

Possessed - Swing Of The Axe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qE9tOm8EJV4)
*rocks out again*

[Major Comma]

They dont know by Tracy Ullman.

[mgs]

Has some been playing GTA: Vice City a bit to much? Maybe thats just me. :redface:

not sure about Gail, but they've been playing it a LOT on one of the oldies rock stations around here. maybe due to GTA, but not sure.

[JohnPopa]

Ah, "Batman: the Musical." (http://www.freewebs.com/batman_themusical/home.htm) It would have been a classic.

I went to go see "Dance of the Vampires" during its very brief run on Broadway. It was supposed to be campy, but the only audible laughter came when Michael Crawford and the female lead began their duet of "Total Eclipse of the Heart." I loved it though. God bless Jim Steinman. Only he could have produced something so cheesy.


For what it's worth, Steinman hated the Broadway 'Dance.' The original production in Europe wasn't quite so ridiculous. The big difference is originally the Count played things straight, whereas on Broadway, Crawford wanted all the laughs, which made the whole thing, well, rather bad.

I generally like Steinman and his craziness, though.

And speaking of musicals, am I the only 'One Night in Bangkok' fan around here?

[40footwolf]

Twilight Zone by Golden Earring

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"Tempted" by Squeeze.

[40footwolf]

"Tempted" by Squeeze.

...:frown:

[mgs]

...:frown:

are you sad cause that's actually not a terrible song but a good one?

[40footwolf]

Yeah.

I remember that my dad said that Squeeze never got a lot of attention because they were too clever for their own good.

[Kirayoshi]

I haveta agree with Infra on both of these....neither are terrible, and "In Your Eyes" is one of Peter Gabriel's best songs ever.
Anyone who believes that In Your Eyes is a bad song desperately needs to hear a live version. Like this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGao0UZmHpU&feature=related), with Youssou N'Dour in background vocals. This is what pure joy sounds like.

Any XTC fans out there? I always liked Senses Working Overtime, and Dear God(although I preferred the version by Sarah McLachlan).

[escapegoat]

For some retarded reason, I've always liked NKOTB "Hangin' Tough" and "The Right Stuff"....

[ForkedTongue]

Gerard McMann - "Cry Little Sister (Theme From The Lost Boys)"