Top 100 rock songs of the 80's

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Call Me - Blondie

Celebration - Kool & The Gang

Fame - Irene Cara

The Tide Is High - Blondie

26 Just the Two of Us - Grover Washington Jr. with Bill Withers


Give Me the Night - George Benson

Misunderstanding - Genesis

Turn It On Again - Genesis

Hey Nineteen - Steely Dan

While You See a Chance - Steve Winwood

Tainted Love - Soft Cell

Waiting for a Girl Like You - Foreigner

Turn Your Love Around - George Benson

Abacab - Genesis

Come on Eileen - Dexys Midnight Runners

Eye of the Tiger (Theme from "Rocky III") - Survivor

Jack and Diane - John Cougar

Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler

Bad to the Bone - George Thorogood

Heat of the Moment - Asia

Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson

Come Dancing - Kinks

That's All - Genesis

Against All Odds (Take a Look At Me Now) - Phil Collins


Run to You - Bryan Adams

Sea of Love - Honeydrippers

Forever Man - Eric Clapton

Land of Confusion - Genesis

Harlem Shuffle - Rolling Stones

Tuff Enuff - Fabulous Thunderbirds

Invisible Touch - Genesis

Throwing It All Away - Genesis

Tonight, Tonight, Tonight - Genesis



Good stuff! I highlighted my personal faves you listed! :grinthumb
 

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I can't stand it anymore. Yes, I can appreciate the work that Magic put into compiling these lists since it was clearly a lot. But I don't subscribe to this notion that if you can't say anything nice, then say nothing at all - and overall her lists make me cringe.

In general, why is her list so completely dominated by thrash/hair metal? If that's all or the best that the eighties offer, it's no wonder so many music critics say the decade was a wasteland.

Specifically, I see lots of track by bands that make me shudder such as Van Halen, U2, Queen, Culture Club and Guns 'n Roses, but I see not a single Rolling Stones' track.

:wtf:

Where for example are these Stones' tunes:

Start Me Up

She's So Cold

Harlem Shuffle

One Hit to the Body

Mixed Emotions

Almost Hear You Sigh


Oh, and if you want me to suggest a diversified list of tracks Magic has not included by eighties artists other than the Rolling Stones, here are a few more:

The Night - Animals

Rock Lobster - B52s

Tarzan Boy - Baltimora

People Get Ready - Jeff Beck

We Belong - Pat Benatar

Cat People (Putting Out Fire) - David Bowie

Living in America - James Brown

Copperhead Road - Steve Earle

I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner

Relax - Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Mama - Genesis

I Drink Alone - George Thorogood & the Destroyers

Pretty Bad Boy - Goddo

A Criminal Mind - Gowan

Mustang Sally - Buddy Guy

Innocence - Harlequin

New Girl Now - Honeymoon Suite

Suicide Blonde - INXS

Super Freak (Part 1) - Rick James

Centerfold - J. Geils Band

Switchin' to Glide - Kings

Don't Forget to Dance - Kinks

Fresh - Kool & Gang

Turn Me Loose - Loverboy

Like a Prayer - Madonna

Cars - Gary Numan

Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer

He's So Shy - Pointer Sisters

Purple Rain - Prince

Don't Be Afraid of the Dark - Robert Cray Band

Infatuation - Rod Stewart

Psycho Killer - Talking Heads

Jungle Love - Time

Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club

Tweeter and the Monkey Man - Travelling Wilburys

Turning Japanese - Vapors


Granted, my list isn't so diversified as to include bands with singers as annoying as those fronting AC/DC and Rush....

:drums:

Let me take you by the ears, foxhound, and explain something to you.

First off, I dont let elite music critics tell me what to listen to and what I should or should not like.

Second, each person has his own musical experiences. My Eighties experience was an intense love for glam and hair bands. Sure I enjoyed some of the bands and songs you listed, and a lot of those songs are on my alternate list.

If you could see my seventies list, you would be appalled. It would have a lot of Disco on the list.

And my nineties list would make you vomit with all the grunge, alternative, and heavy metal I would list.

Dare I say, my millenium list would give you a coronary, because I have a couple nu-metal rap bands that would sneak into the list along with a couple cookie monster bands, too.


Moral of story.....never assume that what you like is what other's like. The beauty of the world is diversified tastes.....whether that be in music, art, or food!


So if you cant play with the big dog on my music tastes, stay outta my yard!

:lmao:
 

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Oh, but not me? Fine, be that way.

But seriously, whose list is that? Yours? Rolling Stones? Local or online radio station? Just curious. Lots of good songs listed, but a couple stand out as being from different years. Ex: Rush's "Closer To The Heart" is from 1977 not 1982. Well, it's also on their live album Exit... Stage Left, but even that was 1981. What's the deal? Should I just not have said anything at all? :heheh:

The Rush Song is a slight oversight and there are probably more in the wrong year, too. I only listed what got put on "repeat" the most :flirt

It took me a week or more to put these together, and I probably had that song on the early 80's list as something I listened to quite a bit.....

If you guys wanna pick the lists apart be my guest.....saves me from having to go back and look up when each song was recorded and released :grinthumb
 

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^^Not me I don't have the time, I did enjoy reading the "Fox Smack Down" though, maybe there's a song in there somewhere...:heheh:
 

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I will say this, making a list for an entire decade is tiresome. I started with a list of about 1100 songs from the 80's, then began narrowing them down by what I listened to the most.

The list isn't an actual 1-100, meaning that the first song listed isn't my all time favorite song from the 80's, it is just the top 100 songs I listened to the most.

Then I tried to make a decent playlist from each year....but I guess I failed miserably at that :bonk:
 

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I wouldn't even bother trying to compile a list like that myself...so good on you Magic for putting that effort into it, and if they are your most popular songs from the "General Vicinity" of the 80's that is good enough for me.:cheers:
 

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Magic said:
If you could see my seventies list, you would be appalled. It would have a lot of Disco on the list.

And my nineties list would make you vomit with all the grunge, alternative, and heavy metal I would list.

Dare I say, my millenium list would give you a coronary, because I have a couple nu-metal rap bands that would sneak into the list along with a couple cookie monster bands, too.

Yes, if disco or any single genre completely dominated your list, I would vomit.

Magic said:
Moral of story.....never assume that what you like is what other's like. The beauty of the world is diversified tastes....

And that too was precisely the moral/point of my post. Diversity, Magic, diversity. If you strip everything but the headbanging tunes out from the entire decade thus condensing the music down to the most narrow frame of reference possible, the music loses its magic. Diversity is exactly the key.

Magic said:
I dont let elite music critics tell me what to listen to and what I should or should not like.

Thank you! I'm called many names, but elite is not typically one of them.

And you absolutely, positively deserved a good spanking for leaving the Stones out of the decade.

:tongue:
 

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Tst, Tst.

foxhound, what am I going to do with you! You missed my point. I like what I like and you like what you like. I did diversify, I covered a ton of glam artists, each one with different hair and costumes!


The 80's rock! Glam is da bomb :D


Naw, I like my list just fine without Mick Jagger!
 

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