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Best song of the 1980's
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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too many to choose from arrggghhhhh
I loved ska/2tone......mirror in the bathroom one of my faves
senses working overtime - XTC
(feeling) Fascination - Human League
The Cutter - Echo and the Bunnymen
Centrefold - J Geils Band
Games Without Frontiers - Peter Gabriel
Call Me - Spagna
this list could go on and on lol  |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Love like blood by Killing Joke
Fools gold by the Stone Roses
Ghost town by The Specials
Once in a lifetime by Talking Heads
How soon is now by The Smiths
Promised you a miracle By Simple Minds |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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Madness baggy trousers
UB40 1 in 10
Tears for fears everybody wants to rule the world
Howard Jones like to get to know you well
Frankie goes to Hollywood. .relax
So many more I can choose but won't bore you . |
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Ten Toptastic Toons From the 1980s (Off the top my head - probs loads I have forgotten):
1/Guns N' Roses - Sweet Child O' Mine
2/Hanoi Rocks - Don't You Ever Leave Me
3/Waterboys - Pan Within
4/Poison - Every Rose Has It's Thorn
5/Bob Marley & The Wailers - Could You Be Loved
6/The Specials - Rat Race
7/Gregory Isaacs - Hush Darling
8/Aerosmith - F.I.N.E
9/Van Halen - Jump
10/AC/DC - Back In Black |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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"So many!!! One I love and play time and time again is 'King of Rock and Roll' by Prefab Sprout."
That was one of my favourites along with 'love and pride' King |
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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago
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Some good songs so far! Did the cult make the greatest song of the eighties with she sells sanctuary? Or Duran Duran with save a prayer? Soft cells tainted love must be close! |
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By *immyXXMan
over a year ago
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After reading the threads there are some good nominations!!!
Special mention to back in black with Hanoi Rocks!! God I thought I was the only one left!!!!
But the best song is ,,(although not my fav GnR song),,,,, sweet child of mine!! X  |
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By *onnie55Man
over a year ago
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"After reading the threads there are some good nominations!!!
Special mention to back in black with Hanoi Rocks!! God I thought I was the only one left!!!!
But the best song is ,,(although not my fav GnR song),,,,, sweet child of mine!! X "
It's also the best head-turning ringtone ever! |
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"Some good songs so far! Did the cult make the greatest song of the eighties with she sells sanctuary? Or Duran Duran with save a prayer? Soft cells tainted love must be close! "
As good as Soft Cells 'Tainted Love' is, it's not a patch on the original 1965 version by Gloria Jones. A Northern Soul, timeless, classic  |
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"Vienna Ultravox never got to number 1 travesty! and Blue Monday New Order was in Navy and it was played all over the world in 86!"
100% agree about vienna,joe bloody dolce has a lot to answer for methinks
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"After reading the threads there are some good nominations!!!
Special mention to back in black with Hanoi Rocks!! God I thought I was the only one left!!!!
But the best song is ,,(although not my fav GnR song),,,,, sweet child of mine!! X "
Hanoi Rocks are possibly the most under-rated band of all time! They were the template for Guns N' Roses. Until I Get You & Don't You Ever Leave Me are equal to anything Guns N' Roses did. Bar, of course, Sweet Child.... |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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The Jam
Inxs
Fun Boy Three
The Communards
Fine Young Cannibals
The Specials
The Blow Monkeys
Swing Out Sister
Blondie
The Police
The Undertones
Queen
Robert Palmer
Madonna
and loads more. The fashion was shit in the 80s but the music was amazing  |
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"Love like blood by Killing Joke
Fools gold by the Stone Roses
Ghost town by The Specials
Once in a lifetime by Talking Heads
How soon is now by The Smiths
Promised you a miracle By Simple Minds"
I like your style, good choices! |
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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago
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As for any decade it is so difficult to pick out one song. But there are songs which represent the decade for me. Here are a few of my suggestions.
Relax
Blue Monday
Fairytale of New York
Ride on time
Come on Eileen
Don't you want me
Uptown Girl
I could go on lol. |
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By (user no longer on site)
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"Love like blood by Killing Joke
Fools gold by the Stone Roses
Ghost town by The Specials
Once in a lifetime by Talking Heads
How soon is now by The Smiths
Promised you a miracle By Simple Minds"
Fools gold call only got in by the skin of its teeth Nov 1989 I believe |
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Hard to pick a best song as so many good ones, but as a teenager in the early eighties Ghost Town sticks in my mind, it was at the time of inner city riots, that song seemed to capture the feeling of people at the time, awesome song |
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