Key Eighties Pop Songs

I've already found Micheal Jackson's "Thriller", "Pat Benetar's "Love is a battlefield", Van Halen "Hot for Teacher", Toto's "Africa", Men At Work "I Come From a Land Down Under", Twisted Sister "We're not Gonna Take It", Tesla's "Love Song". I'm looking for suggestions. Any good ones I've missed. I'm strolling through the bad music of my childhood again. And I've been playing "Vice City" again.

 

My 80s exposure is likely to be a tad more UK and Australian influenced than yours. But who could forget:

Blancmange's "Living on the Ceiling"; Rocky Burnett Jr's "Tired of Toein' the Line"; Joe Dolce's "Shaddapa You Face"; The Vapors' "Turning Japanese"; Bryan Ferry's "Let's Stick Together" (or is that 70s?); Depeche Mode's "Just Can't Get Enough"; AC/DC's "You Shook Me All Night Long"; Rose Tattoo's "Bad Boy For Love"; Joy Division's "Love Will Tear Us Apart"; The Cure's "Killing An Arab" ... the list goes on ... and on ...

 

I don't have all that much eighties exposure, and that's my major difficulty. I turned seven in 1989, so most of my eighties is retro-active experience. Hence coming and seeking the wisdom of the fuglyites.

 

What about Journey? I know "Don't stop believing", but that's all I can think of right now.

 

:? Where to begin...Journey lets see, Don’t stop believing, Stone in Love, Separate ways, I bet they still play faithfully at high school dances, Just the same way, Steve went solo there was: Oh Sherrie, Strung Out just a drop in the bucket for Journey off the top of my head. I got a lot of MP3s from Eighties.

 

Mid eighties and beyond rock started going out of mainstream. Music went big record company designer type. Let’s get a bunch of punky kids and have them go through a fag clothes makeover and teach them to dance together with lots of gel in their hair. The rest we will take care of with sound studios and voice synthesizers.

Bands that Rocked:

AC/DC, Whitesnake, Deep Purple, Dio (You never understood why I called you a rainbow in the dark did you) The Firm, Van Halen, Metalica, Fog Hat, Sammy Haggar, Journey, BTO, Cars, Zepplin, Aldo Nova, Toto, Scorpions, Def Leopard, Boston (a perfect example of the difference between musical talent ment to sound good on an album or at a live concert. As opposed to no talent robots that do what the big money record execs say got no idea really about how to put on a live show) thats all kinda mixed up off the top of my head you want eighties corney but good still.
Outfield, Hewey Lewis, Men at Work, INXS, Hall and Oats, Who sang that "We can dance" song?

 

Start naming names. And I don't want to hear anything about Mr. T "Be somebody or be somebody's fool".

 

Damn it Dio there are just to many so give me a catagory,

-You want pop? Bubble gum rock?

 

He wants his hair to feather itself when the songs start!

 

I'm thinking Synth Pop right now. Depeche Mode, that kind of stuff. The basic rock stuff I've already pulled a decent catalogue. Yeah, Bengals.

 

I knew a guy who seriously loved Ratt. (That's not a recomendation though :twisted: )

 

could do that and clean the earwax out of his ears at the same time.

 

You could do what? Love a rat?

 

I thought I was posting right after that

 

And you admitted it! You're not drinking ar you? Having an after-van party, hmmmm?

 

Heh, having another insomniac episode. I typed it... fuck it nm

 

Your into first person shooter games arn't ya DrBungle?

 

Sometimes!

I played through Call of Duty 2.

 

Wrong forum, I need eighties music, damnit.