80s Classics-Pick 5

[Annierak]

The Beat - Best friend
Pretenders - Back on the chain gang
Echo & Bunnymen - The cutter
Kate Bush - Sat in your lap
Associates - Breakfast

 

[Fictionist]

I Know You Got Soul - Eric B & Rakim
Raw - Big Daddy Kane
Jimmy - BDP
Have A Nice Day - Roxanne Shante
The Tables Are Turning - CJ McKintosh

 

[killer b]

hot streak - body work
break machine - break dance party
timezone - world destruction
key-matic - breakin' in space
mr fingers - washing machine

 

[Annierak]

The Fall - Cruisers Creek
Lotus Eaters - The First Picture Of You
Sisters Of Mercy - Temple Of Love
The Cure - Just Like Heaven
Man 2 Man meets Man Parrish - Male Stripper

 

[Dask]

Yazoo - Situation
Depeche Mode - People Are People
David Bowie - Let's Dance
When In Rome - The Promise
Animotion - Obsession

 

[Virginia Plain]

Lots of good choices on here...amongst many others mine would include....

Wild is the Wind – David Bowie
Stand and Deliver – Adam and the Ants
Tainted Love – Soft Cell
Jackie Wilson said – Dexys
9-5 – Dolly Parton

 

[Fictionist]

Terminator - Kid Frost
World Class - World Class Wreckin' Cru
808 Beats - Unknown DJ
Dance - Egyptian Lover
Naughty Boy - Uncle Jamm's Army

80's west coast!

 

[dynamicbaddog]

The Message - Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five
Driving Away From Home - It's Immaterial
Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
Two Tribes - Frankie Goes to Hollywood
Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

 

[kupsch]

Pointer Sisters -Automatic
Fiction Factory - Feels like Heaven
Hall and Oates - your kiss is on my list
Journey - Dont stop believing
Laura Branigan - Self Control
strawberry switchblade - since yesterday...oh shizer thats 6....

eh...strictly not 80s, but Q Lazarus - goodbye horses - belter....thats 7.

5 is not enough.

 

[bluestreak]

This thread proves that the 80s did contain some great stuff if you knew where to look.

The first 5 that I could find on my shelf that I can recommend:

The Clash - Hitsville UK
Jane's Addition - Jane Says
Crass - Don't Get Caught
The Smiths - Ask
The Cure - The Lovecats

 

[colacubes]

Yazoo - Don't go
Heaven 17 - Temptation
Call Me - Blondie
The Jam - Town called malice
Dexys Midnight Runners - Geno

 

[pk]

Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
Sade - Sweetest Taboo
New Order - Blue Monday
Blancmange - Living On The Ceiling
Art Of Noise - Close (to the edit)

 

[_angel_]

Something by a-ha
Something by prince
Something by the pet shop boys
Something by the smiths/ morrissey
All about eve - Martha's harbour

 

[Fictionist]

Another 5:

Take on Me - A-Ha
Moments in Love - Art of Noise
Twilight - Maze
Electric Kingdom - Twilight 22
Living it Up - Level 42

 

[kupsch]

martha and the muffins - echo beach
modern english - i melt with you
falco - der kommiser
52nd street - cant afford
rick james - superfreak