Just wondering what are your favorate songs that came out in the 1980s?
Here are some of my faves:
- Walking on Sunshine
- You Spin me Round(Like a Record)
- Ghostbusters
- Most of the Beastie Boys 80s songs
- Can't touch this
- Run DMC music
- Sweet Dreams(Are made of these)
- We are the champions
I have more cept naming a couple of my faves

We already have threads like this.......

Isnt that "Ur favorite band in the 80's"? THis is about songs.... thier is a difference.

So far this is all I have found

http://www.retrojunk.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=15164&highlight=80s+songs

So until either I or someone else finds a thread this one stays open.

And I am moving this to memory lane.

The Saftey Dance- The music that will be played at my funeral! :D

in honor of today's date, Alice Cooper's He Back...The Man Behind the Mask.

- Heaven is a Place on Earth

- I Get Weak (both this one and the above one only when they are performed by Belinda Carlisle)

-Safety Dance

-Breathing

-Sat in Your Lap

-Experiment IV

.....there are others but I'm too lazy to list every single one. :P

out of the popular mainstream songs ?
here is some of what I liked

Walking on Sunshine
Ghostbusters
We are the champions
Karma Chamelon
Safety dance
I love Rock & Roll
We got the beat
Hey Mickey
Footloose
99 red baloons
The power of love
We are the world
On our own

I love a lot of the 80s rap songs. And I love 80s punk (and 70s) too. I could never get into hair metal though.

Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
Every Little Step - Bobby Brown
Straight Up - Paula Abdul
Roll with It - Steve Winwood

come on...the locomotion...hahahaha!!

My favorite songs of the '80s are:

Anything by Lionel Richie from his solo career (since leaving The Commodores), including:

"Endless Love" (duet with Diana Ross; featured in the movie "Endless Love") (1981)
"Truly" (1982)
"You Are" (1982)
"My Love" (1982)
"All Night Long (All Night)" (1983)
"Hello" (1983)
"Penny Lover" (1983)
"Say You, Say Me" (featured in the movie "White Nights") (1985)
"Dancing on the Ceiling" (1986)

Also:

"Ashes to Ashes" - David Bowie (1980)
"Hard to Say I'm Sorry/Get Away" - Chicago (1982)
"It's Raining Again" - Supertramp (1982)
"Let's Dance" - David Bowie (1983)
"You're the Inspiration" - Chicago (1984)
"Cannonball" - Supertramp (1985)
"Will You Still Love Me?" - Chicago (1986)
"Look Away" - Chicago (1988)

-Benjamin "Mario" Edge (RetroBen81)