80s Music

[ltmurnau]

Dammit, my eye won't stop twitching. It's really distracting.

Not much time today but with all the 80s music memes floating around I thought I would post this:

Top Ten Whatevers from www.popculturemadness.com (from 1982 as that was the year I turned 18)



I have bolded things I liked, struck out things I hated. Comments as desired.

Top Ten New Wave Rock/Dance Tunes:
1. Love Shack - B-52s I liked this, as I liked most B-52s stuff that came before it.
2. What I Like About You - Romantics Annoying and ubiquitous.
3. Dancing With Myself - Billy Idol
4. Rock The Casbah (Mustapha Dance) - the Clash This was cool. Used to play it in the mess all the time.
5. Antmusic - Adam and the Ants
6. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
7. Train In Vain (Stand By Me) - the Clash The song that was the summation of my military career.
8. Just Like Heaven - The Cure
9. Situation - Yaz (Yazoo)
10. Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel Bad song, worse video.
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Top Ten 80s Songs Mom and Dad Hated:
1. Me So Horny - 2 Live Crew
2. Fight For Your Right (To Party) - Beastie Boys
3. Like A Virgin - Madonna
4. We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister
5. Da Butt - E.U.
6. I Want Your Sex - George Michael
7. Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye
8. Wild Thing - Tone Loc
9. I Want a New Drug - Huey Lewis and the News
10. Birthday Suit - Johnny Kemp

I hated all of these too.
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Top Eleven 80s Songs Everybody Hated
1. Morning Train (9 to 5) - Sheena Easton
2. Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
3. To All the Girls I Loved Before - Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson
4. We Didn't Start The Fire - Billy Joel
5. Sussudio - Phil Collins
6. Puttin On The Ritz - Taco
7. Harlem Shuffle - Rolling Stones
8. Word Up - Cameo
9. Invisible Touch - Genesis
10. Goonies R Good Enough - Cyndi Lauper
11. The Twist (Yo, Twist!) - Fat Boys featuring Chubby Checker

These also hated I them.
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Top Eleven 80s One Hit Wonders
1. Mickey - Toni Basil I know it's annoying but I liked it.
2. Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice That this man has not died in some horrible, highly improbable yet ironic accident is proof to me that God does not exist (or if he does, he really doesn't care about the whole divine retribution thing).
3. Money - Flying Lizards These weirdos were great!
4. Da Butt - EU
5. Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
6. Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
7. U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer See above re Vanilla Ice.
8. People Who Died - Jim Carroll Band
9. Escalator Of Life - Robert Hazard
10. Funkytown - Lipps, Inc. And this one too. Just the mention of the title annoys me.
11. The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3
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Top Twenty 80s Pop/Rock Hits That You Need To Make Your Collection Complete:

1. I Melt With You - Modern English played far too much.
2. Mr Soul - Neil Young (Trans Album - new version)
3. Valley Girl - Frank Zappa featuring Moon Unit Annoying the first time you hear it and it never gets any better.
4. I Wanna Be Sedated - the Ramones yeah!
5. Dancing With Myself - Billy Idol
6. I Love Rock and Roll - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
7. Rock This Town - the Stray Cats
8. Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby Thomas Dolby was brillaint until he got into the acid.
9. Money - the Flying Lizards yeah yeah!
10. Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go - Soft Cell
12. Lawn Chairs - Our Daughter's Wedding
12. I Got You - Split Enz
13. Life During Wartime - Talking Heads ONe of my favourite Heads songs.
14. AEIOU (and Sometimes Y) - EBN OZN
15. Don't Pay the Ferryman - Chris DeBurgh
16. Life Sucks, Then You Die - the Fools
17. Wham Rap - Wham!
18. Escalator of Life - Robert Hazard
19. She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibals
20. I Ran (So Far Away) - A Flock of Seagulls
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The Top Ten Punk Songs!

1. Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones
2. Dancin With Myself - Generation X (Billy Idol)
3. I Fought The Law - the Clash
4. I Wanna Be Sedated - Ramones
5. God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols
6. Dirty Water - The Inmates
7. Ca Plane Pour Moi (This Life's For Me) - Plastic Bertrand I know, a one-hit wonder but it was good
8. Too Drunk To F*** - DK's (Dead Kennedys) great one!
9. Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes perennial college radio favourite
10. Where's Captain Kirk? - Spizzenergi
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The Top Ten 1980s Fad Songs:
1. Eye of the Tiger - Survivor Ugh.
2. Pac-Man Fever - Buckner and Garcia
3. Safety Dance - Men Without Hats I kind of like this, in an infantile way.
4. Thriller - Micheal Jackson Not even the Vincent Price voiceover could save this.
5. General Hospi-Tale - The Afternoon Delights
6. 867-5309/Jenny - Tommy Tutone
7. Fame - Irene Cara
8. Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
9. Flashdance... What A Feeling - Irene Cara I always thought the song had a line saying, "Take your pants off/ And see what happens..."
10. Theme From New York, New York - Frank Sinatra
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The Top Seven Attempts at a New Wave Song:
1. It's Still Rock and Roll To Me - Billy Joel
2. Kids In America - Kim Wilde
3. Clones (We're All) - Alice Cooper
4. Sunglasses At Night - Corey Hart
5. Paranoimia - Art of Noise and Max Headroom Max Headroom was brilliant.
6. She Bop - Cyndi Lauper
7. Mr. Roboto - Styx