Some of my favorites.

With or Without You - U2
Heat Is On - Glenn Frey
Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
We Built This City - Starship
Every Breath You Take - The Police

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We Built This City - Starship

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I hope you're kidding. Why I might not agree with all the other songs you listed as being the "Best of the '80s," they are at least OK songs. "We Built This City" belongs on the Worst Top 10 Songs of All Time list.

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Welcome to the Jungle- Guns and Roses
Rock the Casbah- The Clash
Crazy Train- Ozzy Ozborne
Dancing With Myself- Billy Idol

Songs our 80's band performed [and therefore are "best"] >

Should I Stay Or Should I Go - Clash
Love Removal Machine - The Cult
I Melt With You - Modern English
White Wedding - Billy Idol
Radio Free Europe - REM
I Wanna Be Sedated - Ramones
The Authority Song - John Mellencamp
A Million Miles Away - The Plimsouls
I Will Follow - U2
Behind The Wall Of Sleep - Smithereens
I'll Be You - The Replacements
One Thing Leads To Another - Fixx
Breakaway - The Producers
And what band didn't do 'What I Like About You'?
We we're some jammin' dudes in our day. Made a living at it anyway.

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I Wanna Be Sedated was from the late 70s. Good call on Smithereens though.

Debaser - Pixies
Bigmouth strikes again - Smiths

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Oooo, nice pick.

Any list of "Best 80's Songs" that doesn't have at least a couple of Cheap Trick tunes on it is just plain wrong. I'd also throw in some Devo (not "Whip It", though), Oingo Boingo, and some Talking Heads.

The soundtrack of "RAD" including, but not limited to, Send Me An Angel...

Soft Cell - "Tainted Love"

Crazy Train
Rock You Like a Hurricane
When Doves Cry
Message In A Bottle
Billy Jean
Pride
View To A Kill

Pink Houses - John Mellencamp
Money for Nothing - Dire Straights
Wanted Dead or Alive - Bon Jovi

I always loved "Major Tom" by Peter Schilling and "Just Like Heaven" by The Cure.

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"Like it or not, without the Corps Texas A&M would be Texas Tech" - aggie93

"Everybody Wants to Rule the World" - Tears for Fears
"Don't Dream It's Over" - Crowded House

Anything by Def Leppard

Scandal - Goodbye to You
Berlin - The Metro
Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio

"One Way To Rock" by Sammy Hagar
"Relax" by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
"Melt With You" by Modern English
"Breakin' The Law" by Judas Priest
"Hungry Like The Wolf" by Duran Duran

The Final Countdown-Europe

Holy Diver ~~Dio

You've Got Another Thing Comin'~~Judas Priest

Run to the Hills ~~Iron Maiden

Attack Ships on Fire ~~Revolting Cocks

Do You Fear(For Your Child) ~~My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult

Voodoo Ray ~~A Guy called Gerald

Whole of the Moon ~~The Waterboys

Love Plus One ~~Haircut 100

Our House ~~Madness

Under the Milky Way ~~The Church

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You've Got Another Thing Comin'~~Judas Priest

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I'd loved that song too.

Still it's kind of funny when JP burst on the scene and people were like, "Dude, these guys rock!" and then it came out that the lead singer was gay. The air was let out of that balloon.

"Take On Me" by A-Ha
"Jump" Van halen
Anything by The Police

"*******s of Young" - The Replacements
EDIT: add "Institutionalized" by Suicidal Tendencies

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Wait this IS Texags.com, right?

What's with all this wussified syncopated crap?

The One I Loved Back Then (George Jones)
Whiskey Bent and Hell Bound (Hank Jr.)
Pancho and Left (Willie Nelson & Merle Haggard)
Highwayman (The Highwaymen)
Copperhead Road (Steve Earle)

Pancho and Lefty was written by Townes Van Zandt. In the 70s.

Whisky Bent and Hell Bound was released in 1979.

1. Everything on Judas Priest's British Steel, Point of Entry, Screaming for Vengeance, Defenders of the Faith, and Ram it Down albums.

2. Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden

3. Balls to the Wall by Accept

4. Headhunter by Krokus

These are a couple that I never and I mean NEVER hear anymore, but I really liked them back in junior high:

Sausalito Summernights--Diesel
You Don't Want Me Anymore--Steel Breeze

Fall On Me--R.E.M.
Ain't Even Done With The Night--John Cougar (hadn't added Mellencamp yet)
How Soon Is Now?--The Smiths
The Living Years--Mike & The Mechanics
Little Red Corvette--Prince
Pour Some Sugar On Me--Def Leppard
Fight For Your Right To Party--Beastie Boys...coulda picked several off of License To Ill or even one from Cookie Puss

Buck, I'm with you 100% up to Defenders of the Faith. JP hit their apex with Screaming for Vengeance. In fact, SFV ought to be considered the best metal album ever, by any group, period.

Steppin Out by Joe Jackson
Bullet the Blue Sky
She Sell Sanctuary


Best album not by U2 - Skylarking by XTC

Mr Mister - Kyrie

second vote for Def Leppard - personal favorites are Armageddon It, Coming Under Fire, Run Riot, Lady Strange, Photograph.

Also gotta give some love for Boston - Feelin' Satisfied, We're Ready, and several others.

Loverboy - Workin' for the Weekend

Heart - Never

Tom Petty - Won't Back Down

Alabama - Roll On, many others

Oakridge Boys - Old Flame

Milsap - Smokey Mt Rain

Hope all of these were from the 80's - my memory ain't so good since I got married & had chilluns.

The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
The Cult -Wild Flower
The Cult - Fire Woman
Smithereens - A Girl Like You
Lenny Kravitz - Let Love Rule
REM - Superman
Metallica - Master of Puppets
Metallica - One
Guns N Roses - Paradise City
Queensryche - Eyes of a Stranger
Judas Priest - Love Bites
Judas Priest - Some Heads are Gonna Roll
U2 - Bad
Public Enemy - Night of the Living Baseheads
Peter Gabriel - In Your Eyes

I'll keep my heavy metal pick out of it since they are mostly covered.

Gotta agree with Peter Gabriels - In Your Eyes
Tears for Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule the World

"In fact, SFV ought to be considered the best metal album ever, by any group, period."


I consider it the best metal album ever. My other big favorite from the early 80's was Back in Black, but I classify that more as hard rock than metal.

Forgot that song...

AC/DC - Back in Black

I second "Take On Me" as a good one

Here are some of my favorite dance/industrial and hip hop songs from the 80's. Then include most of what everyone else has above.

Headhunter - Front 242
New York New York - Microchip League

Bring The Noise - Public Enemy
Paul Revere - Beastie Boys
Plug Tunin' - De La Soul
Peter Piper - Run DMC
My Philosophy -Boogie Down Productions


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