[GoGoReggieXPowars]

Originally posted by wolfen:
NOBODY SAID DER KOMMISAR? WTF?!

It's on one of the mixes I linked, but had to drop it above for the 10 song criteria.

?: Words

Missing Persons.

And now on the iPod, some ELO! "Hold on tight..."

[The Mick]

Some goodies I haven't seen mentioned yet:

Pat Benatar - Shadows of the Night
Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died in your Arms Tonight
Yello - Oh Yeah
A Flock of Seagulls - Space Age Love Song
Queen - One Vision
Fleetwood Mac - Big Love
Oingo Boingo - Little Girls
Midnight Oil - Beds are Burning
Metallica - One
Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra
America - You Can Do Magic

[moonmonkey]

Originally posted by Hawkeye:
I'm trying to put together a couple of CDs to play DJ at a friend's 80's party and I'm looking for multiple people's opinions on what their top ten favorite 80's tunes are. Would you folks mind giving me your input?

Tiffany - I think we're alone now.
Toto - Africa

[Shaddim]

"No Sleep `til Brooklyn" - Beastie Boys
"Black Star" - Yngwie Malmsteen
"Surfing with the Alien" - Joe Satriani
"Danger Zone" - Kenny Loggins
"Rebel Yell" - Billy Idol

They're on my "fast driving" playlist.

[olePigeon]

STOP BEFORE YOU MAKE A FATAL MISTAKE!!! You can't have an 80s DJ without Another Brick in the Wall, by Pink Floyd.

I know it's like just before 1980s, but it set the ENTIRE genre of 80's music. That's like a requirement for the first song, otherwise just shoot yourslef in the head now and get it over with. If you don't play it first, they'll riot and torture you for 8 days.

[Hawkeye]

Originally posted by olePigeon:
STOP BEFORE YOU MAKE A FATAL MISTAKE!!! You can't have an 80s DJ without Another Brick in the Wall, by Pink Floyd.

I know it's like just before 1980s, but it set the ENTIRE genre of 80's music. That's like a requirement for the first song, otherwise just shoot yourslef in the head now and get it over with. If you don't play it first, they'll riot and torture you for 8 days.

Already on the Playlist you wise, wise [person].

[GoGoReggieXPowars]

Originally posted by olePigeon:
STOP BEFORE YOU MAKE A FATAL MISTAKE!!! You can't have an 80s DJ without Another Brick in the Wall, by Pink Floyd.

I know it's like just before 1980s, but it set the ENTIRE genre of 80's music.

Like hell it did. "Cars" by Gary Numan (1979) is far more indicative of 80s music style than "Another Brick In The Wall, pt. 2" ever could be.

[fhoubi]

Late, but... PowerMacMan, your taste is definitively mine!

[Hawkeye]

Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
Like hell it did. "Cars" by Gary Numan (1979) is far more indicative of 80s music style than "Another Brick In The Wall, pt. 2" ever could be.

O.k., now, boys, settle down. Frankly there can be no ONE track that defines an entire period of popular music. Sorry, but Pink Floy is not that pivotal; neither is Gary Numan. There are a number of tunes that helped to set up the predominant styles of the 80s.

"Cars" and "Another Brick in the Wall" are both excellent tunes. And I think I'll be using them both.

I would welcome hearing what others have to offer in terms of earlier innovations that influenced the 80s.

[olePigeon]

Originally posted by GoGoReggieXPowars:
Like hell it did. "Cars" by Gary Numan (1979) is far more indicative of 80s music style than "Another Brick In The Wall, pt. 2" ever could be.

<Mel Gibson> AAAHHH!! DIE HERETIC!!! </Mel Gibson>

[awaspaas]

[Stogieman]

Here's a few more that I want to add. I haven't seen these mentioned yet.

Voices Carry - Til Tuesday
Be With You - Mr. Big
Missing You - John Waite
Here I Go Again on My Own - Whitesnake
Walk This Way - Aerosmith/Run DMC
Crazy for You - Madonna
You've Got the Touch - Transformers the Movie
Axel F. - Harold Faltermeyer (Beverly Hills Cop Theme)
Funky Cold Medina - Tone Loc
Bust a Move - Young MC
Red Red Wine - UB40

Could someone please tell my why ITMS doesn't have the original Tommy Two-Tone version of 867-5309 (Jenny) but has this instead?

[GK]

New Order - True Faith

[f1000]

Originally posted by Stogieman:
Here's a few more that I want to add. I haven't seen these mentioned yet.

Probably because some of those songs weren't from the 80's.

[voodoo]

Originally posted by SeSawaya:
Slege Hammer - Peter Gabrial

and I just want to say Voodoos list is probably the worst list EVER compiled

That's Gabriel !

Now shut it or I'll compose even MORE awful playlists

[nredman]

just a few from my itunes library

mr. mister - broken wings
take me home tonight - eddie money
making love out of nothing at all - air supply
st. elmos fire - john parr
head over heels - tears for fears
shout - tears for fears
take on me - a-ha
down under - men at work
winning it all - the outfield
wake me up before you go-go - wham
everything she wants - wham


i think those are all from the 80's? thats the way they are grouped in my library (80's)

[ReggieX]

Originally posted by olePigeon:
<Mel Gibson> AAAHHH!! DIE HERETIC!!! </Mel Gibson>

Hee hee.

Originally posted by Hawkeye:
O.k., now, boys, settle down. Frankly there can be no ONE track that defines an entire period of popular music. Sorry, but Pink Floyd is not that pivotal; neither is Gary Numan. There are a number of tunes that helped to set up the predominant styles of the 80s.

"Cars" and "Another Brick in the Wall" are both excellent tunes. And I think I'll be using them both.

They're both great songs, but here's what I was getting at:

Gary Numan's sound was far more indicative of New Wave than "ABITW, pt.2" was. "ABITW, pt.2" was a lazy shuffle with a recycled disco/funk guitar part, and Waters himself would have told you that was the whole point of the tune. There was nothing particularly new in that sound.

"Cars" on the other hand, had just synthesizer, bass, and drums for the band, which was pretty different to the rest of the popular music landscape at the time. From 1979 to 1984-ish, the synth-dominated New Wave style was going to sound far more like Numan than Floyd.

Me, I prefer "Run Like Hell"

[shmerek]

Forgive me if some have been mentioned already

Prince - Purple Rain, Sign of the Times
Howard Jones - No one is to blame
Billy Ocean - Love Zone, Loverboy
Duran Duran - The Chauffeur, Save a prayer
The Ramones - I wanna be sedated
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell Flesh for Fantasy, White wedding
Cinderella - Don't know what you got til its gone
Def Leppard - Photograph (anything off pyromania)
Kingdom Come - Get it on
INXS - Need you tonight, Good times (Lost Boys soundtrack)
David Bowie - Modern Love
Midnight Oil - Beds are burning
Corey Hart - Never surrender
Sly Fox - Let's go all the way
Sherriff - When I am with you
Steve Perry - Oh Sheri
Tom Waites - Missing you
Van Halen - 1984 (complete album)
Scorpions - Rock you like a hurricane
Helix - Rock you
Cindi Lauper - Time after time
Frankie goes to Hollywood - Welcome to the Pleasure dome (complete album)
Peter Gabriel - Shock the monkey
Bon Jovi - Dead or alive, Livin on a prayer
Timex Social Club - Rumours
Morris Day and the Time - Jungle Love
Triumph - Follow your Heart
Sheena Easton - Strut
Shela E - Glamourous life
Debarge - Rhythm of the night
Andy Taylor - Take it Easy
Powerstation - Bang a gong, Some like it hot
The Cult - She sells sanctuary
Robert Palmer - Addicted to love
Queensreich - Empire, Silent lucidity
George Michael - Father figure, Freedom
Paul Young - Every time you go away
Big in Japan - Forever Young
Gap Band - Ride the white horse
Simply Red - Holding back the years
Modern English - Melt with you
Mars - pump up the jam
Pet Shop Boys - West end girls
Bronski Beat - small town boy
Scandal - The warrior

good enough for now

[dlefebvre]

How Soon is Now? - The smiths
Telegram Sam - Bauhaus
In Between Days - The Cure
Holliday in Cambodia - Dead Kennedys
People are People - Depeche Mode
Cities in Dust - Siouxie and the Banshees
Boys Don't Cry - The Cure
Love Will Tear us Apart - Joy Division
Safety Dance - Men Without hats
Rise - Public Image Ltd.
The One I love - REM
Tinted Love - Soft Cell
Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
No Mercy - The Stranglers
Lucretia My Reflection - The Sisters of Mercy