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- Sweet Child of Mine. 2,290 votes.
- Don't Stop Believin' 1,731 votes. More Don't Stop Believin' #2 of 69 on The Best Songs to Sing at Karaoke. #14 of 71 on The Best Workout Songs. #3 of 35 on The Best Songs For Your New Year's Eve Party Playlist.
- You Shook Me All Night Long. 2,030 votes. More You Shook Me All Night Long. #3 of 36 on The Best Angus Young Guitar Solos Of All Time. #20 of 35 on The Best Songs For Your New Year's Eve Party Playlist.
- You Give Love a Bad Name. 1,609 votes. More You Give Love a Bad Name. #37 of 168 on The Best '80s Pop Songs, Ranked. #29 of 102 on The Best Party Songs Of The '80s, Ranked.
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- Biz Markie, ‘Just a Friend’ Lighters up for the late, great Biz Markie, one of the most beloved music heroes of the Eighties or any other decade. The Diabolical One.
- Nena, ’99 Luftballons’ A German girl sings about nuclear apocalypse in a perky New Wave bop about the end of the world. Yet it’s also a doomy teen romance, at a time when half the hits on the radio were about the end of the world.
- My Bloody Valentine, ‘Feed Me With Your Kiss’ The dawn of the shoegaze era. My Bloody Valentine give an early taste of their power on their debut album, Isn’t Anything: Irish guitar madman Kevin Shields’ tremolo overdrive and feedback-loop noise, Belinda Butcher’s breathy vocals, awesome power-klutz drumming.
- Bobby Brown, ‘My Prerogative’ The sound of New Jack Swing. Bobby Brown dishes the dirt on celebrity gossip, as the young Harlem prodigy Teddy Riley soups up a beat that would rule the radio for the next few years.
- Top 10 Rock Songs of The '80s
- Glam Metal and AOR in The '80s
- #11—20
- Hard Rock in The '80s
- #21—30
- Speed and Thrash Metal in The '80s
- #31—40
- Rock Ballads and Music Promotion in The '80s
- #41—50
- #51—70
"Sweet Child O' Mine"—Guns N' Roses"Back in Black"—AC/DC"Livin' on a Prayer"—Bon Jovi"Every Breath You Take"—The PoliceGlam metal, a heavy metal subgenre, reached dizzying heights. Fiery high-pitched vocals became the focal point of hair bands and glam metal bands during this decade of "lipstick and leather." Rock songs reached a wide audience. While mainstream rock bands did bag major record deals with recording companies, a number of indie rock bands also found c...
11. "Rock You Like a Hurricane"—Scorpions 12. "Don’t Stop Believin’"—Journey 13. "I Wanna Know What Love Is"—Foreigner 14. "Another One Bites the Dust"—Queen 15. "Summer of 69"—Bryan Adams 16. "Keep on Loving You"—REO Speedwagon 17. "I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll"—Joan Jett 18. "The Final Countdown"—Europe 19. "Money for Nothing"—Dire Straits 20. "Start Me ...
The hard rock scene, which was prevalent in the '70s, changed dramatically in the '80s. Guitar-driven hard rock that combined gut-wrenching riffs and blazing guitar solosbecame the quintessential rock sound of the decade. A number of shred guitar players became exceedingly popular for their guitar work. The '80s witnessed guitar players employing a...
21. "Welcome to the Jungle"—Guns N’ Roses 22. "Still Loving You"—Scorpions 23. "Here I Go Again"—Whitesnake 24. "Every Rose Has Its Thorn"—Poison 25. "Dancing in the Dark"—Bruce Springsteen 26. "One"—Metallica 27. "I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For"—U2 28. "You Give Love a Bad Name"—Bon Jovi 29. "Ace of Spades"—Motorhead 30. "Dude (Looks L...
During this decade, a number of extreme subgenres emerged through the underground music scene. Speed metal and thrash metal bandscame into prominence in the '80s, paving the way for today's extreme music subgenres. A number of present-day rock bands associated with extreme metal genres cite speed metal bands and thrash metal bands of this decade as...
31. "Girls Girls Girls"—Motley Crue 32. "The Flame"—Cheap Trick 33. "Rebel Yell"—Billy Idol 34. "18 and Life"—Skid Row 35. "Free Fallin'"—Tom Petty 36. "Should I Stay or Should I Go"—The Clash 37. "Hallowed Be Thy Name"—Iron Maiden 38. "These Dreams"—Heart 39. "Walk of Life"—Dire Straits 40. "(I Just) Died in Your Arms Tonight"—Cutting Crew
Acoustic intros in rock ballads and power ballads gave new meaning to song structure in the '80s. Rock balladsand power ballads became hugely popular with youth globally. A number of albums released by rock bands featured hard-hitting ballads that had chart-topping success. Music television channels, MTV in particular, helped a significant number o...
41. "Faithfully"—Journey 42. "Poison"—Alice Cooper 43. "Living After Midnight"—Judas Priest 44. "Born in the U.S.A."—Bruce Springsteen 45. "Run to the Hills"—Iron Maiden 46. "I Remember You"—Skid Row 47. "Dr. Feelgood"—Motley Crue 48. "Need You Tonight"—INXS 49. "We’re Not Gonna Take It"—Twisted Sister 50. "When I See You Smile"—Bad English
51. "Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now"—Starship 52. "You’ve Got Another Thing Coming"—Judas Priest 53. "We Didn’t Start The Fire"—Billy Joel 54. "Master of Puppets"—Metallica 55. "Amanda"—Boston 56. "Just Like Heaven"—The Cure 57. "Love Bites"—Def Leppard 58. "Crazy Train"—Ozzy Osbourne 59. "Paradise City"—Guns N’ Roses 60. "Stop Draggin’ My Heart Aroun...
Apr 4, 2024 · With a mix of unforgettable classics and old school dance hits, the '80s pop songs featured on our list include chart-toppers from legends such as Whitney Houston, Prince, and David Bowie. So, grab your boombox and get ready to moonwalk down memory lane with the top pop songs of the 1980s.
With disco and punk relegated, new genres emerged such as New Wave and synth-pop (see a-ha’s classic “Take On Me,” which straddles both and which is in at number eight here) and, in the rock space, metal and indie (that Stone Roses record helped, in part, usher in the birth of the latter).
