It's again time to list favorite 80s songs ...

[Arugula Latte]

What are your top picks from the Reagan era?

Here are some of my favorites. Some are good songs; some just evoke good memories; some are just fun. In no particular order:

How Soon Is Now? – The Smiths
Love Will Tear Us Apart, Again – Joy Division
The Killing Moon – Echo and the Bunnymen
This is the Day – The The
Blue Monday – New Order
Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream) – Icicle Works
West End Girls – Pet Shop Boys
A Million Miles Away – Plimsouls
Blister in the Sun – Violent Femmes
Love My Way – Psychedelic Furs
Ashes to Ashes – David Bowie
Sooner or Later – English Beat
Cuts You Up – Peter Murphy
Pictures of Matchstick Men – Camper Van Beethoven
What’s So Funny (‘Bout Peace, Love and Understanding) – Elvis Costello
Driver 8 – REM
I Don’t Know Why I Love You – House of Love
Dramarama – Anything Anything
Vienna – Ultravox
Goodbye to You – Patty Smith
Melt With You – Modern English
The Riddle – Nik Kershaw
The Promise – When In Rome
Talk Talk – Talk Talk
Turning Japanese – The Vapors
Right Here, Right Now – Jesus Jones
Watusi Rodeo -- Guadalcanal Diary

[Divameow77]

1. I have always loved

Dead Man's Party by Oingo Boingo

[Arugula Latte]

2. Oh yeah, that's a catchy one. n/t

[Mad_Dem_X]

24. LOVE that song!

"Don't run away, it's only me!" :)

[MadAsHellNewYorker]

3. Run Away by Bronski Beat

One of my all time faves

[Arugula Latte]

4. Oh yeah. Good dance tune.

Love that pumping beat.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

11. The title is "Smalltown Boy." (nt)

[Dora]

27. At least once a month I get this earworm

"left me this morning with everything you have in a little black case..."

[Dora]

5. Dancing on the Jetty - INXS

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

13. Need You Tonight. Suicide Blonde.

[Arugula Latte]

20. I always liked "The One Thing"

Well you know just what you do to me
The way you move soft and slippery
Cut the night just like a razor
Rarely talk and that's the danger

It's the one thing
You are my thing

You know your voice is a love song
It's a cat call from the past
There's no ice in your lover's walk
You don't look twice cause you move so fast

It's the one thing
You are my thing

You've got a dozen men behind you
You've got dead flowers on the floor
You're too pretty in the daylight
It keeps them coming back for more

It's the one thing
You are my thing

It's the one thing
You are my thing

It's the one thing
You are my thing

[Initech]

6. A few of my favorites:

Frank Zappa - Dumb All Over
Frank Zappa - Cocaine Decisions
Ozzy Osbourne - Hellraiser
Iron Maiden - The Number Of The Beast
Slayer - Reign In Blood
Megadeth - Peace Sells But Who's Buying
Queensryche - The Needle Lies

[Arugula Latte]

17. So, this is you:

:headbang:

[Initech]

28. Exactly!

:headbang: :headbang: :headbang:

[billyskank]

7. The Reflex - Duran Duran

In fact, probably most of their songs. :)

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

14. Planet Earth. The Chauffeur. Is There Something I Should Know.

[BelleCarolinaPeridot]

32. Planet Earth as well .

[Dora]

8. Life During Wartime - Talking Heads

[Arugula Latte]

18. "I ain't got time for that noooooow..."

Yes, good tune. I also like "Once in a Lifetime."

My 8-year-old son and 5-year-old daughter love the Talking Heads. Makes me feel old!

[Dora]

25. If your kids like it

at least it's only making you feel old.

Old is much better than totally uncool.

[Mad_Dem_X]

26. "Burning Down the House" reminds me of

my cousin, who used to love that group. I remember being over his house and he was singing "Burning Down the House," making me and my sister laugh. Unfortunately, he committed suicide in 2001, but I think of him every time I hear that song. :)

[Patiod]

9. Walking on Sunshine

Katrina and the Waves

Pop dreck yes, but it nevers fails to cheer me up.

"When You See a Chance" from Stevie Winwood on Arc of a Diver

[Arugula Latte]

16. Those two always get me cheered up, too.

I'll admit it!

[terrya]

10. "Love Plus One" by Haircut 100....

"The Look of Love" by ABC

"It's My Life" by Talk Talk (though I also like No Doubt's version)

Among others. :-)

[Arugula Latte]

21. Remember "Shoot that Poison Arrow"

through my heeeeeaaaaaarrrrt ...

I was a fan, too.

I think I saw a thing on Haircut 100 on VH1's "Bands Reunited," but it was late at night.

[Commie Pinko Dirtbag]

12. "My Kind of Lady" by Supertramp (nt)

[imperialismispasse]

15. I might be embarased by this but

I like pretty much everything Motely Crue recorded.

[tigereye]

19. The Replacements

hard to pick a fave song... I really like Westerberg's later solo stuff, like Aching to Be.

http://www.nyrock.com/features/eighties.htm

and Romeo Void: Never Say Never was one of my faves.

http://www.aurealm.com/voids.htm

[Arugula Latte]

23. "I might like you better if we slept together."

I loved her voice on that song!

[patcox2]

33. Alex Chilton, the perfect rock-n-roll song.

perfect song, perfect intro, perfect hook, perfect guitar solo, perfect, absolutely my favorite song. Ever.

And its about falling in love with a song, and it describes what I felt when I heard it.

[tigereye]

44. hard to argue with Alex Chilton!

[dajoki]

22. "when love comes to town"- U2 with B. B. King

:woohoo:

[no name no slogan]

29. "Take A Chance With Me", Roxy Music

"I'm Falling" -- Comsat Angels
"She's In Parties" -- Bauhaus
"Nostalgia" -- The Chameleons (UK)
"Love Under Will" -- Fields of the Nephilim
"Just Like Honey" -- Jesus and Mary Chain
"Saudade" -- Love & Rockets
"All Of This And Nothing" -- Psychedelic Furs
"Eighties" -- Killing Joke

Basically my entire CD collection could be on this list.

[Arugula Latte]

42. Roxy Music -- I never get tired of the "Avalon" album.

So classic.

[no name no slogan]

43. One of my "desert island" CDs for sure

If you're into the technical end, this article is a must read:
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/aug03/articles/roxymusic.htm

[Dora]

30. This Thread is Driving me BATTY!!!

Dammit! So many songs in my head taking up such valuable space...

"Always something there to remind me..."

[Arugula Latte]

38. I know. Ear worms galore! n/t

[patcox2]

31. Costello, the Vapors, 70s, but otherwise we have identical tastes.

And I would include them anyway, as well. Really bizarre how you have put together a list that is almost exactly the list I would make.

I would add the Housemartins, Happy Hour or The Worlds On Fire, and also 500 Miles by those scottish twins. 4th of July, by X, I Held Her In My Arms by the Violent Femmes, Different Drum by the Lemonheads (that was 80s, right?) and lots more I forget now because I am old.

[Arugula Latte]

36. Great minds and all that!

Oh, and thanks for the reminder about Alex Chilton!!! ("I'm in love ... with that song") :hi:

[Arugula Latte]

37. Here are the lyrics:

Alex Chilton by the Replacements

If he was from venus, would he feed us with a spoon?
If he was from mars, wouldn’t that be cool?
Standing right on campus, would he stamp us in a file?
Hangin’ down in memphis all the while.

(chorus:)

Children by the million sing for alex chilton when he comes ’round
They sing I’m in love. what’s that song?
I’m in love with that song.

Cerebral rape and pillage in a village of his choice.
Invisible man who can sing in a visible voice.
Feeling like a hundred bucks, exchanging good lucks face to face.
Checkin’ his stash by the trash at st. mark’s place.

(chorus)

I never travel far, without a little big star

Runnin’ ’round the house, mickey mouse and the tarot cards.
Falling asleep with a flop pop video on.
If he was from venus, would he meet us on the moon?
If he died in memphis, then that’d be cool, babe.

(chorus)

[patcox2]

40. Wow, almost everything I thought it was saying is wrong.

It never really bothered me that I couldn't make out the words, its the perfect song, its all emotion and energy and rebellion and grungy guitar and snarly vocals but still somehow vulnerable, defiant in defeat. As I said, rock and roll.

[tigereye]

45. Happy Hour! The House Martins!

yeah X should be on there too!

[patcox2]

48. Did You Know that Fatboy Slim was in the Housemartins?

He was the guitar player. Thats the strangest piece of music trivia I know.

[tigereye]

49. nope!

[AnarchoFreeThinker]

34. DBs: Amplifier. Camper Van: Eye of Fatima. Echo & the Bunnymen: Lips Like

Sugar.

(ed for dumbass spelling)

[DelawareValleyDem]

35. Fast Car - Tracy Chapman

One More Minute - Al Yankovic
Deeper and Deeper - The Fixx
Forever- Little Steven & The Disciples of Soul
Thinking About You- London Beat

[El Fuego]

39. "Wild Wild West" by Escape Club

Forty-seven dead beats living in the back street
North east west south all in the same house
Sitting in a back room waiting for the big boom
I'm in a bedroom waiting for my baby


CHORUS:
She's so mean but I don't care
I love her eyes and her wild wild hair
Dance to the beat that we love best
Heading for the nineties
Living in the wild wild west
The wild wild west


Mandy's in the backroom handing out Valium
Sheriff's on the airwaves talking to the D.J.'s
Forty-seven heartbeats beating like a drum
Got to live it up live it up
Ronnie's got a new gun


CHORUS


Now put your flags in the air and march them up and down
You can live it up live it up all over the town
And turn to the left, turn to the right
I don't care as long as she comes tonight


CHORUS


Heading for the nineties living in the eighties
Screaming in a back room waiting for the big boom
Give me give me wild west
Give me give me safe sex
Give me love give me love
Give me time to live it up


CHORUS

[Dora]

41. I Want to be a Cowboy - __?__

circa 1985

[Merrick]

46. New Kids On The Block - You Got It (The Right Stuff)

[Zomby Woof]

47. Here goes, 25 in no order

"Dumb All Over" - Frank Zappa (1981)
"No More" - Neil Young (1989)
"Fallen Angel" - Robbie Robertson (1987)
"On The Turning Away" - Pink Floyd (1987)
"Don't Worry, Baby" - Los Lobos
"I Saw It On TV" - John Fogerty (1984)
"My Life (Your World)" - Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers (1987)
"Blind Willie McTell" - Bob Dylan (1983)
"Raining Blood" - Slayer (1986)
"Turquoise Jewelry" - Camper Van Beethoven (1988)
"Fall of the Peacemakers" - Molly Hatchet (1983)
"YYZ" - Rush (1981)
"Diary of a Madman" - Ozzy Osbourne (1981)
"Desert Highway" - Judas Priest (1981)
"The Number of the Beast" - Iron Maiden (1981)
"One" - Metallica (1988)
"Sentimental Hygiene" - Warren Zevon (1987)
"Don't Misunderstand Me" - Rossington-Collins Band (1980)
"Roll Me Away" - Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band" (1982)
"One Known Soldier" - Allen Collins Band (1983)
"Pearl Necklace" - ZZ Top (1981)
"Couldn't Stand The Weather" - Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble (1984)
"When A Guitar Plays The Blues" - Roy Buchanan (1985)
"Smoking Gun" - Robert Cray (1986)
"Fireplace" - REM (1987)

[SuperWonk]

50. Cruel Summer

Bananarama