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Zenan Plains - Site Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: ZeaLitY on July 28, 2007, 03:56:59 am
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I have two "Perfect 80s" discs, which feature my favorite and most positive songs of the 80s. I just went on a music video downloading binge, so here you go. Thanks to Club977! MsBlack knows how great it is to be doing whatever and suddenly hear an awesome 80s song. It brightens your day! I guess Wang Chung gets a lot of coverage in my list, even with one of their moody pieces. If I could replace something right off, it'd be "Walk Like an Egyptian", because Suzanne Somers's blows. It's like a 4 year old's voice, and not in a cutesy way. Honestly, that song's fallen out of my favor.
Disc One has a couple moody ones because I originally assembled it before realizing that late 80s songs suck. Removing them created a few gaps; I filled most, but had to substitute Wang Chung and something else as well.
Disc One
- 01 - 1982 - Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fx7GqfQCZeg)
- 02 - 1979 - The Knack - My Sharona (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kXVitkINDp0)
- 03 - 1986 - Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F0U5JfGYx4c)
- 04 - 1987 - George Harrison - Got My Mind Set on You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BpOrIlYPil4) Awesome song; last solo Beatles #1
- 05 - 1986 - Timbuk3 - The Future's So Bright (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3KPhOjF_H3o) Low budget
- 06 - 1981 - J. Geils Band - Centerfold (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx6t11D99tA) Awesome video
- 07 - 1986 - The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeBZDlnj9zo) Only good song they ever recorded
- 08 - 1984 - Huey Lewis and the News - I Want a New Drug (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJN8BIHgXTA) GREAT band
- 09 - 1982 - Dazz Band - Let It Whip (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDNFGeTrDxw&mode=related&search=) Indiana Jones will have to do; can't find a video
- 10 - 1986 - Peter Gabriel - Sledgerhammer (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VArQABogDL4) Won most MTV video awards ever
- 11 - 1984 - Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKwO1aB1W3I) Take your baby by the hand...great audio quality
- 12 - 1982 - Prince - Delirious (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2fhGgMw7is) No video; enjoy the VR-4
- 13 - 1980 - The Vapors - Turning Japanese (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJsIrxwHtnc) Classic; the melody is perfect
- 14 - 1986 - Mr. Mister - Kyrie (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TU7bp8aj99E) Backing synth sounds like Lavos's final theme if you pretend
- 15 - 1985 - Wang Chung - To Live and Die in L.A. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBVxvFxRClM) Moody 80s at its best
- 16 - 1985 - ZZ Top - Sleeping Bag (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8MyN-Rd87w) Perhaps their farthest foray into synth
- 17 - 1983 - Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me with Science (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IlHgbOWj4o) New Wave fun
- 18 - 1985 - Howard Jones - Things Can Only Get Better (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJE5cBGgTSU) I admit, this is a little moody; its another Disc 1 replacement
- 19 - 1986 - Prince - Kiss (http://www.noolmusic.com/blogs/YouTube_Music_Videos_80s_90s_-_Prince_-_Kiss.shtml). Universal is hellbent on rooting out any and all Prince on Youtube, and a recent suit against a lady who aired an inaudible clip of Crazy is now blowing up in their face. I went outside of Youtube for this one. Anyway, any man confident in his sexuality can look past Prince's moves or voice here and appreciate the minimalist funk...well, and his voice. And, Wendy Melvoin's not so bad looking, you know. Prince is a true musical genius and player / arranger of many instruments, and it shows when he concentrates his power into simple funk like this. At least, it showed in the 80s!
Notice how anything from 1987 on is missing? Yeah, there's a reason for that. George Harrison is talented enough to be an exception.
Late 80s sucked. Music began dying in the late 80s, replaced by vocalists who could swoon idiot audiences. Vocalists who don't write their material, sing most of their concerts, or have two brain cells to rub together, that is. Instrumentalism's last bastion is rock, but with crap like Nickelback coming out, talent's being pushed even farther back to heavy / true metal. Pop music has been forfeited to worthlessness. It's assimilated everything! No longer does R&B carry funk, or rap challenge with basic melody and complicated lyrics (for the former, think of Tone Loc's Wild Thing or Funky Cold Medina). Even Jazz has been supplanted with the different threat of Kenny G. And country? It died before the others as the new, honky tonk urban cowboy awfulness blasted decent songwriters to smithereens and ostracized them forevermore from the country music establishment.
Disc two tomorrow.
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Awesome! Thanks. As you linked to youtube, I'm guessing you don't mind me linking to raw mp3s: you've encouraged me to make a list too.
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Disc two rules!
- 01 - 1984 - Prince - Let's Go Crazy (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6325685823719994814&q=prince+let%27s+go+crazy&total=92&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=2) Perfect half-time song for the Colts' Super Bowl win this year
- 02 - 1981 - J. Geils Band - Freeze Frame (http://youtube.com/watch?v=ebkl7Yk_OLE)
- 03 - 1989 - Robert Palmer - Simply Irresistible (http://youtube.com/watch?v=M3geoXOdnJQ) Awesome for a 1989 song
- 04 - Incognito right now...just take 1982 - Prince - Automatic (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2302989490095748864) or 1980 - Devo - Whip It (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxH39QlRuhg)
- 05 - 1984 - Huey Lewis and the News - Heart of Rock and Roll (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QfvlrX3BbuU) I remember this from a childhood Disney music video
- 06 - 1986 - Wang Chung - Let's Go (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJtz3PPrnGQ) I admit, this is an acid trip of 80s cheese, all in good fun
- 07 - 1981 - Donnie Iris - Ah! Leah! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyTu_ZdcBCo) Than a body has a right to
- 08 - 1982 - Dave Edmunds - Slipping Away (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jM9DAySyIL0) Awesome song; the 80s garage and that old highway make me long for the past. It's a springtime of youth song and video!
- 09 - 1982 - Gap Band - You Dropped a Bomb on Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Nn-f2uCSNY) Fun band
- 10 - 1989 - Was (Not Was) - Walk the Dinosaur (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNRsIFKLDBk) Okay, I promise; no more 1989. Listen to the lyrics and think of 65,000,000 B.C.
- 11 - 1986 - Boys Don't Cry - I Wanna be a Cowboy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfJ4M9gRlJ8) And you can be my cowgirl
- 12 - 1983 - The Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vnyCe9TO1zo)
- 13 - 1986 - Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMylfkSDKV0) I'm in the springtime of youth
- 14 - 1982 - Missing Persons - Destination Unknown (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DywDz5lbyQI) When you don't know...where you're going to
- 15 - 1982 - Men Without Hats - Safety Dance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HcOZ6xFxJqg) Bizarre video
- 16 - 1985 - Animotion - Obsession (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5C1Eq4dPnE&mode=related&search=) My number #1 80s song; turn the volume up for this
- 17 - 1984 - The Time - Jungle Love (http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4536568836158906570&q=jungle+love+the+time&total=279&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=5) Revolution (Prince band) spinoff
- 18 - 1984 - Kenny Loggins - Footloose (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syAJ1I3kOQc) Bonus: amateur Rock Lee AMV (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=whU-Ldo19Cs) with better audio quality
I'll do another bonus round later.
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Ms. Black first edition:
- 1983 - Styx - Mr. Roboto (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4Ct4Iy-TFw) [mp3] (http://ericzhang.com/upload/media/styx%20-%20Mr%20Roboto.mp3)
- 1979 - Styx - Come Sail Away (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BARLfUmyBJA) [mp3] (http://slay.miniumguild.org/Styx%20-%20Come%20Sail%20Away.mp3)
- 1982 - ABC - Poison Arrow (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X69xQl-xF1k) [mp3] (http://www.ladyo.net/Poison%20Arrow%20ABC%20New%20Wave%20Hits%20of%20the%2080s%20Vol%209%20New%20Wave%20128kbps.mp3)
- 1983 - Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tqf9PuKi63E) [mp3] (http://www.gorko.ru/content/img/mp3/2003/3/img/CyndiLauperGirlsJustWannaHaveFun.mp3)
- 1986 - Cyndi Lauper - True Colors (Damn Illiterate Americans!) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ph7p7DT53Y) [mp3] (http://www.mindgamezcarclub.com/media/Cyndi_Lauper_-_True_Colors.mp3)
- 1981 - Aneka - Japanese Boy (Only Top of the Pops for this one, no mp3 :() (http://youtube.com/watch?v=nCH1IlOfDTM)
- 1982 - Berlin - The Metro (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aVY2uI_mQ3c) [mp3] (http://www.forte-intl.com/~ronald/music/80_caliber/info/performances/the_metro.mp3)
Edit: That Rock Lee AMV should have had the scene from Episode 48 I think where he drops his leg weights and even Kakashi is shocked.
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- 1983 - Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams Are Made of This (http://youtube.com/watch?v=OufZbzsUtIo) [mp3] (http://pappyleo.net/music/eurythmics/Eurythmics%20-%20Sweet%20Dreams.mp3)
- 1981 - Foreigner - Jukebox Hero (Live video) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z5_qhnWByA4) [mp3] (http://wma.com/foreigner/multimedia/foreigner_Jukebox%20Hero.mp3)
- 1984 - Foreigner - I Want to Know What Love Is (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z9OGfBGOCpk) [mp3] (http://www.bc-webmaster.com/superchoices/i%20want%20to%20know%20what%20love%20is.mp3)
- 1981 - Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vm9rLUDdCsE) [mp3] (http://thep2pband.com/music/Person%20to%20Person%20-%20Ive_Been_Waiting.mp3)
- 1982 - Toto - Rosanna (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuD746QqPp4) [mp3] (http://digstudio.free.fr/toto/energy/Rosanna.mp3)
- 1983 - The Fixx - One Thing Leads To Another (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lzymBKGV8rw) [mp3] (http://ia300232.us.archive.org/0/items/TheFixxOneThingLeadstoAnother/The_Fixx__Reach_The_Beach__One_Thing_Leads_to_Another.mp3)
- 1982 - Peter Schilling - Major Tom (Coming Home) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1Hs2AQwDgA)
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I am sorry, but you all suck. Here is a list of must have 80's albums:
- 1988 - Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daydream_Nation)
- 1980 - Talking Heads - Remain in Light (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remain_in_Light) (something Z would definetely like)
- 1988 - Pixies Surfer Rosa (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surfer_Rosa)
- 1984 - Prince and the Revolution - Purple Rain (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Purple_Rain_(album))
- 1989 - Beastie Boys - Paul's Boutique (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul's_Boutique)
- 1988 - Public Enemy - It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (http://It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back)
- 1984 - Black Flag - My War (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/My_War)
- 1984 - Replacements - Let It Be (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Let_It_Be_(Replacements_album))
- 1981 - Gang of Four - Solid Gold (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_Gold_(album)) (Z would like this as well, though their '79 album Entertainment! is better)
- 1984 - Throwing Muses - Untitled (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throwing_Muses_(1986_album))
- 1986 - Smiths - The Queen is Dead (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Queen_is_Dead)
- 1985 - The Fall - This Nation's Saving Grace (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/This_Nation's_Saving_Grace)
Add some Michael Jackson, Tom Waits, Joy Division, Bruce Springsteen, Metallica, Jesus and Mary Chain, Dinosaur Jr and David Bowie, and there ya have it! Perfect 80s! See, unlike most people, I don't believe synth pop, shitty funk and hair metal were the main 80's genres - I believe instead that post-punk and New Age ruled this great decade. Having never lived through it myself, however, I can't tell how important these genres were during this time.
Oh, and tell me if I missed something I care about.
PS. I know they should've been in youtube links, but it is quite hard to find youtube links with entire albums :P
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As you didn't live through the decade, what gives you grounds to make such brash statments?
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As you didn't live through the decade, what gives you grounds to make such brash statments?
Well, because I have heard a lot of 80's stuff. And it sucked.
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a) Justify that statement.
b) That answer doesn't cover how you concluded the following:
I don't believe synth pop, shitty funk and hair metal were the main 80's genres - I believe instead that post-punk and New Age ruled this great decade.
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He's right that some musicians managed to not have fun during the 80s. David Thorpe has the best idea of post punk, since defining punk is hard to do regardless without trying to invoke shattered britpop:
If the term "post-punk" sounds stupid and nondescript to you, you're on the right track. It's tough to describe just what post-punk is. Maybe UK punks realized that they were having too much fun and should concentrate harder on spreading their half-understood notions of Marxism through music. Maybe they thought punk music wasn't abrasive enough, so they felt the need to add some dorky dub basslines and clattering drums. Perhaps it was a pity-based humanitarian effort to create a style of music so ridiculous that not even poor Mark E. Smith would be laughed out of it. However it came to be, post-punk still holds some sort of imaginary relevance to a certain type of guy in cuffed jeans, and quite a few new bands seem to be enthralled by the style's endless possibilities for intellectual posturing; be sure to read the latest issue of NME if you're in the mood to read lazy critics mistake Art Brut or Selfish Cunt's tedious, affected nihilism for cleverness.
Nadir: I once saw a Bauhaus video in which Peter Murphy walked up to a coffin on the stage and threw it open. Light spilled out of it, and he pulled a cape up over his face as if to protect his eyes. Now that's comedy.
(http://i.somethingawful.com/mjolnir/images/dannymanic~postpunk.jpg)
Ian Curtis illustrating the vitality of post-punk
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Ouch. The ol' Ian Curtis pwnage. Well, not all post-punk was dark, gothic and a vehicle for, as he said, half understood Marxism. Television? Wire?
a) Justify that statement.
b) That answer doesn't cover how you concluded the following:
I don't believe synth pop, shitty funk and hair metal were the main 80's genres - I believe instead that post-punk and New Age ruled this great decade.
a) It was pretty shit.
b) Well, I think I came off the wrong way. While those other genres were definetely the most popular, I personally felt the best thing to come out of the 80's were post punk and New Age. You probably don't feel the same way, but I like Godspeed You! Black Emperor and Slint, so I'm not exactly normal.
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HELL YES THE AUTOMATIC VIDEO HAS BEEN FIXED!
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1130037626879077724&q=prince+automatic&total=28&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
It's a 9 minute tour-de-force of 80s synthesizer Prince (before he did Raspberry Beret and plunged the soundfont of 1999 and his earlier works into the trash can). It's very purple! How magical it would have been to experience in the early 80s...
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1983 - Toto - Africa (http://youtube.com/watch?v=K3mRy9Q_Ofk) [mp3] (http://digstudio.free.fr/toto/energy/Africa.mp3)
I don't know what it is about this, but every time I hear it, I get an explosion of youth!
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Yeah, Toto are pretty awesome.
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- 07 - 1986 - The Bangles - Walk Like an Egyptian (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MeBZDlnj9zo) Only good song they ever recorded
LIEZ
The Bangles - Eternal Flame (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Sxf6Xd75yUo&mode=related&search=) [mp3] (http://www.parkpdmusic.com/04/Bangles-Eternal%20Flame.mp3)
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Tom Sawyer - Rush (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNZru4JG_Uo)
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Thanks for re-reminding me to try out more of Rush's stuff. I'll probably forget again though
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Is it just me or does Cyndi Lauper still sound like a little kid?
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We love you, RetroVault!
1984 - Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok (http://youtube.com/watch?v=t8b0y9GsJ80) [mp3] (if it ever finishes uploading) (http://members.lycos.co.uk/jetblacktro/media/audio/One%20Night%20in%20Bangkok.mp3)
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1981 - Quincy Jones - Ai no Corrida (http://youtube.com/watch?v=ZBUh_OWitKI)
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1984 - Nena 99 LuftBallons (http://youtube.com/watch?v=jQYQTFudrqc)
I used to dance to this song to relieve stress so many years ago...
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the 80s sucked hard.
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the 80s sucked hard.
Oh? Are you an Amy Winehouse groupie mired in her savage filth, or is minitruth getting you down tonight in the land of Airstrip One?
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This thread might do well with a dash of Billie Jean.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dzp0JETG0Pw
Leave Me Alone is my fave Michael Jackson music video, though it was done dangerously close to the 90s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CbH04pY7alA
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the 80s sucked hard.
Oh? Are you an Amy Winehouse groupie mired in her savage filth, or is minitruth getting you down tonight in the land of Airstrip One?
I am an Electronica swinger entranced in the epic sounds of the 90s and early 2000s. And no, the 80s, in my opinion, sucked hard. And yes I was alive for the majority of that decade...but not one song has stuck to me. The 90s on the other hand, had a plethora of good music. "La Pequena Amy Winehouse" is more my style, than the original.
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I am an Electronica swinger entranced in the epic sounds of the 90s and early 2000s. And no, the 80s, in my opinion, sucked hard. And yes I was alive for the majority of that decade...but not one song has stuck to me. The 90s on the other hand, had a plethora of good music. "La Pequena Amy Winehouse" is more my style, than the original.
Would you say I have a plethora of flowers? LOL! (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b6E682C7Jj4)
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FOUR ON THE FLOOR LET'S DANCE "E" GLOWSTICKS HOORAY
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1980: Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (http://youtube.com/watch?v=55nTwg5NIPM)
1981: Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now? (http://youtube.com/watch?v=swQi4CAzmrA)
1982: Moving Pictures - What About Me? (http://youtube.com/watch?v=zawR7VYNdNg)
1983: Men At Work - Overkill (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Lcu7OCIqlqE)
1989: Michael Penn - No Myth (http://youtube.com/watch?v=Pcy9jL4fSQo)
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Instrumentalism's last bastion is rock, but with crap like Nickelback coming out, talent's being pushed even farther back to heavy / true metal.
I agree with just about everything you said in your first few posts about music in general, though I would like to ask why you think Nickelback is crap?
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Instrumentalism's last bastion is rock, but with crap like Nickelback coming out, talent's being pushed even farther back to heavy / true metal.
I agree with just about everything you said in your first few posts about music in general, though I would like to ask why you think Nickelback is crap?
They're too emo without being emo.
I'd say My Chem and Bullet for my Valentine are ruining Rock.
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Instrumentalism's last bastion is rock, but with crap like Nickelback coming out, talent's being pushed even farther back to heavy / true metal.
I agree with just about everything you said in your first few posts about music in general, though I would like to ask why you think Nickelback is crap?
They're too emo without being emo.
I'd say My Chem and Bullet for my Valentine are ruining Rock.
Interesting. I agree that My chemical Romance is emo. I do not know if I have heard Bullet for my Valentine, what is a popular song they make? I never thought of Nickelback as emo, but I also have only heard a handful of their songs. My younger sister likes My Chemical Romance, though I do not like them. Emo bands seem to becoming more popular with the emo generation. Not sure if they are ruining rock so much as they are changing the popular sound of rock. It happens every generation or few. I do not like it, but it is also not what I grew up with. In 10 or 20 years they will probably be saying the same thing.
Anyway, I will try to get a list together to contribute to the thread. I was only a kid in the 80s but I listen to enough music to hear a lot of things from that period. It will be based purely on music I like though, since I know very littel about social impact or anything else that might affect what songs I would list as great 80s songs.
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We are forgetting some very important people on this list...
The Godhead of shoegaze, My Bloody Valentine:
Sometimes: http://youtube.com/watch?v=hNTnguJ3mw
Only Shallow: http://youtube.com/watch?v=GB8nCE2EoIw
Soon: http://youtube.com/watch?v=ASF30_WXL9E
The Godhead of NewWave, Tears For Fears:
Everybody Wants to Rule the World: http://youtube.com/watch?v=FOA4ixV-3jU
Break It Down Again: http://youtube.com/watch?v=AEwmsX7zuzU&feature=related
Head Over Heels: http://youtube.com/watch?v=c2s4wbFAhFw&feature=related
One of the Godheads of all musicdom, David Bowie:
Modern Love: http://youtube.com/watch?v=vF3SBrLrgmE
Magic Dance (from Labyrinth): http://youtube.com/watch?v=DjoYzLBp34o
China Girl: http://youtube.com/watch?v=8qjTStVY6Hk
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Edge of Seventeen by Stevie Nicks (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aaochA4mmAw&feature=related).
EDIT: I also bring to you Centerfold by J. Geils Band (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx6t11D99tA).
EDIT 2: Who could forget Money for Nothing by Dire Straits (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ehl_VQuKRTc)?