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Oct 26, 2023 · Diana Ross's 10 greatest songs of all time, ranked. 8 songs you didn't know were written by Barry Gibb and the Bee Gees. Despite being a number one success in many countries including the UK in 1985, it amazingly only reached number 95 in the US!
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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.
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No.Song ArtistTitle1Another Brick in the Wall (part 2) Pink ...2A Woman in Love Barbra Streisand3(Just Like) Starting Over John Lennon4Upside Down Diana RossAug 23, 2015 · 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. August 23, 2015. Welcome to our list of...
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- I Wanna Dance with Somebody’ by Whitney Houston. In 1987, Houston was still very much a fresh-faced siren with the crystal-clear voice and a world of possibilities at her feet.
- The Perfect Kiss’ by New Order. Sure, the album version of ‘The Perfect Kiss’ (on 1985’s ‘Low Life’) is also an excellent song; a glitzy, funky display from a ’80s seminal pop bands at the height of their powers.
- Modern Love’ by David Bowie. Bowie was all over the place during the ’80s: duetting with Jagger, clambering into spandex for Labyrinth, getting buried alive for Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and ultimately embarking on a midlife crisis that resulted in a worrying beard and Tin Machine.
- Once in a Lifetime’ by Talking Heads. You really have Brian Eno to thank for ‘Once In A Lifetime’. Under his guidance, Talking Heads pieced together snippets of jam sessions and the beginning of a song titled ‘Right Start’ to (unbeknown to them) create a moment in music history.
Feb 4, 2024 · Our list of the best 80s music is a collection of songs from rock, hip-hop, electronic, and more, reflecting the wide variety of sounds from the decade. The 80s were an interesting time in...
Jun 10, 2022 · Africa – Toto. Eye of The Tiger – Survivor. Beat It – Michael Jackson. Sweet Child O Mine – Guns N’ Roses. Straight Outta Compton – NWA. Push It – Salt-N-Pepa.