Iconic 80's songs

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I'm trying to put together an 80's album.

I was born the wrong end of the eighties so all I have to go on was from what I remember my sisters listening to and from what I remember hearing on vice city :)

so far I'm set on

Don't you want me - The Human League
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Don't you (forget about me) - simple minds
Head over heals - Tears for fears
cars - garry numan
Take on me - aha

got a few others but want to see what you guys think
 
new order - blue monday

dont think there will ever come a time when ill be bored of it. 80s was an amazing decade for music

could write a forum long list of 80s genre defining house and techno records but dont think thats what your looking for judging by the list of cheese (which i love too...)
 
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Billy Idol - White Wedding
Chris Isaak - Wicked Game
Guns N' Roses - Welcome To The Jungle and/or Paradise City
Fat Larry's Band - Act Like You Know and/or Zoom
Toto - Africa (apparantly Hold The Line was released just before the 80s)
Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran [So Far Away]
The Vapors - Turning Japanese
Ultravox - Vienna (kept off the number 1 slot by Joe Dolce of all people)

There may be a few more if you want defining songs such as Wham - Club Tropicana but they're not necessarily what I'd call good.

//edit and how could I forget Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight.
 
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Frankie - Relax

Survivour - Eye of the tiger

Irene Cara - Fame

Paul Hardcastle - 19



Many more, but a couple that don't spring to mind that were absolutely huge at the time, 19, fame ect..
 
Mister Mister - Broken Wings.

Police - Roxanne, Every breathe you take, Everything thing she does is magic .. etc

Maddness - Baggy Trousers (a track not on the 1979 One Step Beyond album)

Belinda Carlilse - Circle in the Sand..

(Grrr Deelite was 1990)
 
Have a few No.1's:

Jam - Going Underground
Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me
Abba - Super Trouper
John Lennon - Imagine
Specials - Ghost Town
Madness - House Of Fun
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
UB 40 - Red Red Wine
Stevie Wonder - I Just Called To Say I Love You
Feargal Sharkey - A Good Heart
Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way
Pet Shop Boys - It's A Sin
Fairground Attraction - Perfect
 
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Ahemmm... (see sig)

Ghost Town -The Specials

The eighties wasn't all inane jangly pop:mad: It has a real hard dark side;)

Reward -Teardrop Explodes
68 Guns -The Alarm
Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream) -Icicle Works
 
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Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Billy Idol - White Wedding or Rebel Yell
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing or Sultans of Swing
Don Henley - Boys of Summer
Huey Lewis and the News - The Power of Love
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer or Salisbury Hill
Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere/Naive Melody(This Must Be the Place)/Psycho Killer/Once in a Lifetime
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
John Waite - Missing You

80's child? Me? lol

I want an 80's mix myself now - those songs are amazing....

Edit: Whitesnake - Here I Go again or Is This Love?

Edit (again): Q-Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses
 
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