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Oct 26, 2023 · We've attempted the ridiculously hard (but not in any way a chore) task of picking the very best 1980s songs ever. Here are our 100 picks - are your favourites in there? UB40 - 'Red Red Wine'
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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.
Apr 27, 2024 · Top 80s Songs. While many artists across a multitude of genres — including new wave, alt-rock, electronic dance, heavy metal and pop — were all taken into account when comprising this list, the...
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Aug 23, 2015 · The 200 Best Songs of the 1980s. From house to hip-hop, college rock to techno, bubblegum pop to post-punk, heavy metal to hardcore—here are our favorite tracks of the 1980s. By Pitchfork.
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- Don’t You Want Me – The Human League. This Human League hit was released as the fourth single from their album, Dare. Its lyrics describe a disagreement between two individuals, in which one of them is bitter about helping the other gain popularity.
- Smalltown Boy – Bronski Beat. “Small Town Boy” is the debut single from British synth-pop group Bronski Beat, released in 1984. The song is based on a young man’s naivety about the world due to his sheltered life.
- Relax – Frankie Goes To Hollywood. As you can see, the 80s were filled with synth-pop hits, and this one also proved successful! “Relax” is believed to be an overtly sexual song, describing the frustrations of delayed pleasure in the bedroom.
- Beat It – Michael Jackson. This MJ hit talks about a man who avoids violence by walking away from a fight. “Beat It” is also featured on our best songs to wake up to playlist.
Mar 26, 2017 · 19. ‘Atmosphere’. The song that John Peel played after announcing Ian Curtis’s death is unbearably close and brooding, but allows the occasional shaft of light. Stephen Morris’s pattering ...
200 Most-Streamed Songs From the ’80s. Apple Music Hits. Preview. Few songs are as recognizable—or smile-inducing—as Toto’s 1982 instant classic “Africa.” And as this playlist confirms, its sheen has hardly dissipated in the four decades since its release.
