What are your favorite 80's bands and/or singers...and favorite song of each?

Question

Here are some of mine:

1) Sade... "Smooth Operator"...
2) Def Leppard..."Bringing on the Heartbreak"...
3) Journey..."Lovin', Touchin', Squeezin'"...
4) Foreigner..."Waiting for a Girl like You"...
5) Heart..."Never"...
6) Little River Band..."Night Owl"

Answer 1

1) New Order - Blue Monday

2) Lena Lovitch - Lucky Number

3) Thowing Muses - Vicki's Box

4) Heart - Bebe Le Strange

5) Til Tuesday - Voices Carry

6) REM - These Days

Answer 2

I'm an 80's fan too! Bon Jovi, Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, Culture Club, Madonna, Michael Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, Pat Benatar, Sheila E, Paula Abdul, Janet Jackson, Chaka Khan, Wham, Pet Shop Boys, Hall & Oates, Flock of Seagulls.... lots more. You can check out "The best of the 80's" at Yahoo Launchcast. You'll find there a great collection of songs from that era.

Answer 3

1. Def Leppard Rock Of Ages

2. Bon Jovi Runaway

3. Motley Crue Too Fast For Love

4. Tesla Modern Day Cowboy

5. Ratt Way Cool Jr

6. Skid Row Youth Gone Wild

Answer 4

Guns N Roses - Paradise City

AC/DC - Thunderstruck

Metallica - Eye Of The Beholder

Led Zeppelin - Hey Hey What Can I Do?

Scorpions - No One Like You

Quiet Riot - The Wild and the Young

Black Sabbath - Paranoid

Def Leppard - Armageddon It

Iron Maiden - The Trooper

Answer 5

Def Leppard- anything by them

Foreigner- Juke Box Hero

Skid Row- In a Darkened Room

Journey- Separate Ways

Answer 6

ADAM AND THE ANTS - ANTMUSIC

ARCADIA - ELECTION DAY

ASIA- HEAT OF THE MOMENT

B-52'S - GIRL FROM IPANEMA GOES TO GREENLAND

BEAUTIFUL SOUTH - SONG FOR WHOEVER

BIG AUDIO DYNAMITE MEDICINE SHOW

BIG COUNTRY - FIELDS OF FIRE

MIGUEL BOSE - BANDIDO

DAVID BOWIE - CHINA GIRL

LINDSEY BUCKINGHAM - GO INSANE

BUGGLES - I AM A CAMERA

KATE BUSH - HOUNDS OF LOVE

CAMOUFLAGE - THE GREAT COMMANDMENT

THE CARS - DRIVE

THE CLASH - ROCK THE CASBAH

JOHNNY CLEGG - SCATTERLINGS

DIRE STRAITS - LOVE OVER GOLD

THOMAS DOLBY - EUROPA AND THE PIRATE TWINS

DURAN DURAN - THE CHAUFFEUR

THE FIXX - SECRET SEPARATION

PETER GABRIEL - GAMES WITHOUT FRONTIERS

GTR - WHEN THE HEART RULES THE MIND

HOUSEMARTINS - CARAVAN OF LOVE

JAPAN - GENTLEMAN TAKE POLAROIDS

JOBSON, EDDIE/ZINC -

KAJAGOOGOO - WHITE FEATHERS

KID ABELHA OS ABOBORAS - SEU ESPIAO

KING - TASTE OF YOUR TEARS

THE KINGS - THIS BEAT GOES ON/SWITCHIN' TO GLIDE

SHONA LAING - SOVIET SNOW

CYNDI LAUPER - TIME AFTER TIME

LEVEL 42 - SOMETHING ABOUT YOU

SARAH MCLACHLAN - INTO THE FIRE

MECANO - HIJO DE LA LUNA

PETER MURPHY - TIME HAS GOT NOTHING TO DO WITH IT

OINGO BOINGO - WE CLOSE OUR EYES

ORCHESTRAL MANOEUVRES IN THE DARK - JOAN OF ARC

THE ALAN PARSONS PROJECT - AMMONIA AVENUE

PREFAB SPROUT - APPETITE, WHEN LOVE BREAKS DOWN

QUEEN - DRAGON ATTACK

STAN RIDGEWAY/WALL OF VOODOO - MEXICAN RADIO

ROXY MUSIC - MORE THAN THIS

ROXY MUSIC/BRYAN FERRY STREET LIFE

SAGA - AMNESIA

RYUICHI SAKAMOTO - CORBIDDEN COLOURS

SIMPLE MINDS - PROMISED YOU A MIRACLE

SIOUXSIE AND THE BANSHEES - CITIES IN DUST

SPARKS - ALL YOU EVER THINK ABOUT IS SEX

SQUEEZE - BLACK COFFEE IN BED

DAVID SYLVIAN - ORPHEUS

TALK TALK - IT'S MY LIFE

TALKING HEADS - BURNING DOWN THE HOUSE

TEARS FOR FEARS - SUFFER THE CHILDREN

THEY MIGHT BE GIANTS - ANA NG

PETE TOWNSHEND - LET MY LOVE OPEN THE DOOR

U2 - SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY

ULTRAVOX - REAP THE WILD WIND

MIDE URE - IF I WAS

WATERBOYS - THE WHOLE OF THE MOON

WHEN IN ROME - THE PROMISE

THE WHO - YOU BETTER YOU BET

XTC - THE MAYOR OF SIMPLETON

YAZ - ONLY YOU

YO LA TENGO - AUTUMN SWEATER

Answer 7

1) Iron Maiden- Paschendale or Aces High or ECT! ooooh! and Run to the Hills!



2)Guns N Roses-Sweet Child and Welcome to the Jungle.



3)Dio- Holy Diver or Last in Line



4) Black Sabbath- After All (the Dead) or Neon Knights?



5)Aerosmith- Blind Man



6)Metallica -Master of Puppets



7)Megadeth- Sweating Bullets!



8)AC/DC- Back in Black (the entire album!)



*I could go on... but I'll stop...





I wasn't born till the end of 1989 so yeah... BUT... I do like some 80's bands!

WOOT!

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p.s. I'm learning Stairway to Heaven on Guitar! MWAHAHAHHAHAHA!!!! *People are going to hate me... Fun song!

Answer 8

Guns 'N Roses - Welcome to the Jungle and Rocket Queen

Tesla - Love Song

Billy Idol - Rebel Yell

Blondie - Call Me

Pat Benetar - Heartbreaker

Talking Heads - Burning Down the House

The Cure - Just Like Heaven and Pictures

Answer 9

Corey Hart- Sunglasses At Night and Never Surrender

Cutting Crew- (I Just) Died In Your Arms Tonight

The Smiths- There Is a Light That Never Goes Out



80's pop and new wave is freaking sweet.

Answer 10

1980's :~



Stevie Nicks ~ 'Edge of Seventeen'

Eurythmics ~ 'Who's That Girl?'

Fire Inc ~ 'Nowhere Fast'

The Cult ~ 'She Sells Sanctuary' {long version}

Guns N' Roses ~ 'Sweet Child O'Mine'





Pre-1980's acts, with 80's output :~



Dire Straits ~ 'Tunnel of Love'

Mike Oldfield ~ 'Family Man'

Robert Palmer ~ 'Addicted to Love'

Fleetwood Mac ~ 'Big Love'

Queen ~ 'A Kind of Magic'

Jethro Tull ~ 'Broadsword'

Heart ~ 'Alone'

Meat Loaf ~ 'Nowhere Fast'

Answer 11

Huey Lewis and the News...Back in Time

Answer 12

Megadeth - Rattlehead

Answer 13

Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood



Tesla - Don't De-Rock Me

Answer 14

GUNS N ROSES- sweet child o mine and welcome to the jungle

MOTLEY CRUE- smokin in the boys room( an ok song) and home

was QUEEN in the 80s- any song of thrs-momma and another one bights the dust

MICHAEL JACKSON- beat it and thriller

weird al- fat and eat it ( i think that wuz in the 80s)????

Answer 15

Bon Jovi..."Dead or Alive"

Answer 16

Epic Faith No More

Answer 17

van halen-jump



i dont classify them is 80's rock but they were playin then so....

Answer 18

OMG I WASN'T FAST ENOUGH TO ANSWER WHAT THEY HAVE!YEAH MOSTLY THE ONES IN THIS PAGE ARE GOOD,