Ultimate Album Side-80's Pop Music

[twist]

1. M - Pop Music
2. T'Pau - Heart and Soul
3. Honeymoon Suite - Feel It Again
4. Scandal - Goodbye to You
5. Slade - My Oh My
6. Zot - Uranium

 

[OrbWeaver]

2. The Vapors - Turning Japanese

Turning Japanese, I think I'm turning Japanese, I really think so. I really think so.

That song is amazing!

 

[BenMech]

5 songs UNRANKED
TFF - Year of the Knife
Don Henley- Boys of Summer or Dirty Laundry
Tesla - (Time's Making) Changes
Jacko - Man in the Mirror
Beastie Boys - Fight For Your Right to Party

 

[mloanna]

Oh Dear God.....

1. Gary Numan - Cars
2. The Vapors - Turning Japanese
3. A Flock of Seagulls - Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)
4. Gene Loves Jezebel - Desire
5. Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - Do Ya Wanna Touch Me There?
6. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart

......aaaahhhhhh!!!!!!

- A Joy Division mention.

 

[Ruthven]

Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl
Rick Springfield - I've Done Everything For You
Rick Springfield - Don't Talk To Strangers
Rick Springfield - I Get Excited
Rick Springfield - Human Touch
Rick Springfield - Love Somebody

 

[lady_space]

Aha - Take On Me (this one is stock, IMO)

Agreed. It's the only thing that jumped into my mind.

Shaye

 

[Braxil]

Aha - Take On Me (this one is stock, IMO)

I demand a metal cover of this at Progpower.

 

[OrbWeaver]

I demand a metal cover of this at Progpower.

Just so long as it's not as godaweful as the Vision Divine cover of it. Fabio Leone just...GAH. It made my brain cryyyyyy.

 

[Creeps]

1. Wishing (I Had A Photograph of You) - Flock of Seagulls
2. I Know (There's Something Going On) - Frida
3. Election Day - Arcadia
4. Always Something There To Remind Me - Naked Eyes
5. Eyes Without A Face - Billy Idol
6. When doves Cry - Prince

 

[Nigel Tufnel]

Pete Townsend - Let My Love Open the Door
Flock of Seagulls - I Ran
The group that sings 99 Lufballoons
Billy Idol -Dancing With Myself
Sparklemotion - Time After Time
The song they play at the end of The BReakfast Club

 

[Magius]

Aha - Take On Me
Duran Duran- Hungry Like The Wolf
The Hooters- All You Zombies
Billy Idol- Flesh For Fantasy
Huey Lewis & The News- Walking On A Thin Line
Billy Joel- Goodnight Saigon

 

[See You In Hell]

Missing Persons - "Walking in LA"
Devo - "Beautiful World"
Tears For Fears - "Shout"
The Police - "Spirits in the Material World"
The Cars - "Hello Again"
Adam Ant - "Goody Two Shoes"

 

[Magius]

Aha - Take On Me
Duran Duran- Hungry Like The Wolf
The Hooters- All You Zombies
Billy Idol- Flesh For Fantasy
Huey Lewis & The News- Walking On A Thin Line
Billy Joel- Goodnight Saigon

*Bonus Track:
Chris DeBurg- Don't Pay The Ferryman

 

[Purveyor Of Evil]

I'm not really a fan of 80's pop, so my picks will be the ones that were hits that everyone knows. Nevertheless, I still do like these songs tremendously.

DON HENLEY - "Boys of Summer"
THE OUTFIELD - "Your Love"
QUARTERFLASH - "Harden My Heart"
BILLY IDOL - "Eyes Without a Face"
VANGELIS - Theme to "Chariots of Fire"
FOREIGNER - "Waiting for a Girl Like You"

 

[Pellaz]

Smple Mnds, "Don't You Forget About Me" (live vers. from LiveAid)
Duran Duran, "Hungry Like the Wolf" or "Rough Boys"
A-ha, "Take On Me"
The Smiths, "How Soon Is Now?"
Tears for Fears, "Everyone Wants to Rule the World" or "Mother's Talk" or "Listen"
INXS, "Don't Change"



Side 2 :

Q-Feel, "Crosstalk"
Diesel, "Sausalito Summer Nights"
Tom Cochrane and Red Rider, "Lunatic Fringe"
Rednex, "Cotton-Eyed Joe"
Peter Gabriel, "In Your Eyes" (that looong, live radio vers.)
Icicle Works, "Whisper To A Scream (Birds Fly)"

 

[Gordy36]

1)Sunday Bloody Sunday-U2
2)Tempted-Squeeze
3)Always Something There To Remind Me-Naked Eyes
4)New Years Day-U2
5)Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You-Billy Squier
6)She's A Beauty-The Tubes


Gordy

 

[Braxil]

Just so long as it's not as godaweful as the Vision Divine cover of it. Fabio Leone just...GAH. It made my brain cryyyyyy.

How have I not heard this? Lol, thanks for the heads up.

 

[VenomGA]

*Bonus Track:
Chris DeBurg- Don't Pay The Ferryman

AWESOME song!! I couldn;t believe it years later when the same guy did that awful "Lady In Red" song....

 

[OrbWeaver]

How have I not heard this? Lol, thanks for the heads up.

It's on the Send Me An Angel album. Awesome album. But the cover is...uhh...well I'm sure there are some VD fans that think it's great.

 

[Stingray11214]

Squeeze - Hourglass
U2 - Where the Streets Have no Name
Musical Youth - Pass the Dutchy
Duran Duran - Dance into the Fire (From "A View to a Kill)
Chris de Burgh - Don't Pay the Ferryman
Michael Jackson - Thriller