Prince -Lovesexy
Beastie Boys - Shake your rump
Inxs - New Sensation
Level 42 - Something about you
Simple Minds - New gold dream
Depeche Mode - Never let me down again
Janet - What have you done...
General Kane - Crack killed applejack
Michael Jackson - PYT
Van Halen - Hear about it later
Pixies - Monkey gone to heaven
Terence Trent d'arby - Wishing well
.....

We're Talking 10 Years! And Since, the 80s was my decade (high school/college)
This is how it went down in Chicago (radio play)

1. Billie Jean/Michael Jackson
2. Erotic City (never released as a single but received more airplay than any P song)/Prince
3. Like A Virgin/Madonna
4. You Give Love A Bad Name/Bon Jovi
5. Where the Streets Have No Name/U2 (actually the entire Joshua Tree album)
7. Born in the U.S.A./Bruce Springsteen
8. Careless Whispers/Wham
9. Kiss/Prince
10. Walk This Way/Run D.M.C. and Aerosmith

I forgot this song!:

well,off the top of my head,#1song for me is:
"ComeSaidTheBoy" - MondoRock
INXS need you tonight & SOTT also up there but i love my 80s music,so tuff to nail down to 10

Frankie says

RELAX

Actually Rod Steward's "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy" was in 1979 and Tina Turner's comeback album was PRIVATE DANCER which contained the big hit "Whats Love Got To Do With It". The song "Love Will Keep Us Together" was a 1975 hit song by the Captain and Tenille.

prodigalfan said:

Wowugotit said:

I know what I meant. in my mind I was singing Love keeps us together... no matter whether the weather is good or bad...

I guess I replaced the word love for "lets stay together".

I getting a bit foggy in my older years.

As for Rod Stewart.... I thought that was in 1980 because I was graduating from grade school then. you know sometimes a song hit for so long that it may spill over to the next year. So we might both be correct on that one.



Oh and Let's stay together was the first hit song of Tina Turner's come back. she cut the album Private Dancer after she made a mega hit, the remake of Al Green's Let's stay together.

edit: clarification of song
[Edited 11/29/07 9:34am]

Paisley4u said:

I forgot Cameo - word up
and of course lots of Prince songs

Kiss,Erotic City and Love Bizarre with Sheila had
a great impact those days..

1. Little Red Corvette
2. When Doves Cry
3. Adore
4. Pop Life
5. When You Were Mine
6. Controversy
7. 1999
8. Private Joy
9. 17 Days
10. Erotic City

Hello, in no particular order i would choose: all this love- debarge sexual healing-marvin gaye when doves cry-prince jungle love-the time billy jean-michael jackson so ruff so tuff-zapp c'est la vie-robbie nevil word up-cameo 100mph-mazarati love over and over again-switch

i am sorry that was very unreadable, oops

1. "Brilliant Disguise" - Bruce Springsteen
2. "Sign 'O' the Times" - Prince
3. "Train in the Distance" - Paul Simon
4. "Good Evening, Mr. Waldheim" - Lou Reed
5. "Neighborhood Bully" - Bob Dylan
6. "Gigantic" - Pixies
7. "(Nothing But) Flowers - Talking Heads
8. "Everybody Knows" - Leonard Cohen
9. "What Do You Do/The Glory of Love" - Lyle Lovett
10."It's Money That Matters" - Randy Newman

Bonus tracks:

"She's So Young" - The Pursuit of Happiness
"Settle for Love" - Joe Ely

Arabia25 said:

Bonnie Tyler
she had a big hit in the '70s with "Heartache"
her voice also reminds me of Kim Carnes
who did some Jesus music in the late '60s or '70s
and had a HUGE hit in the '80s with "Bette Davis Eyes"
which would probably be in my Top 20 favs of the '80s
along with "Telefone (Long Distance Love Affair)" from Sheena Easton
and...