The best

The best

The best '80s ever!!!

i'm a huge fan

epitimized the groups sound

he mastered the 80s craft

one of the greatest artists of any time even greater song

its the truth!

one of the better r&b-rock songs

love this track

this is the eighties theme song

the most powerful voice of the decade.

from maybe the best album of the eighties, one of the best songs ever C one of the best songs ever recorded.

can you spell "one shot"?

maybe the most beautiful sound of the eighties.

from my favourite movie of the decade, a beautiful song by Giorgio Moroder.

oh, man..i was so young...

funny group, great song.

unforgettable video.

this is 100% eighties, at their best..

and this is 100,01% eighties, full stop.

my first real meaningful kiss i was shitting myself i think she thought what a pr**k

to all you boy racers put this on your stereo you'll feel like michael schumacher

if only i could have got of with that lass last night tasty

y didn't this reach no 1

come back nick your a tool

um i have no comment

not a word from your lips

go on son strut your stuff

i dig it out every xmas am i sad i dont think so

a living legend

One of my dads favorite songs. He told me about it about a year ago and i absolutely love it.

I heard this song very recently. i heard it on a Harrison Ford movie called "Frantic" Its some kind of Euro dance song but i love it, its so good. Its also a very rare song, i dont know where to get it. im dying to find it.

"WATCH OUT HERE I COME!!!" tough decision between song 1 and 2, but this will always be my favorite.

Personifies the synthesized, echo-like quality that so many 80's songs emulated.

What a song! I have fantastic nostalgia attached to this one.

The 80's would be the same without the efforts of this band.

Great fun song.

TACO. Did that band ever make it out of the 80's?

What says 80's more than the brooding depressed Robert Smith

The Cars music and videos shaped the programming on MTV like no other band I can think of.

I can't believe I haven't seen this one on anyone else's list!

Back when Brian Setzer was thin

Fantastic entry that just evokes a flood of 80's memories.

As a hair band freak, I had to put at least one on here. This is another great song to play in a cover band, as long as you can sing like Tom Keifer.

All I have to say is Tony Banks' keyboard solo is the most nostalgic and lovey sounding thing out of the eighties. EXCELLENT song.

I don't think there is any top ten list you couldn't put this song on. Great slow dance song and great all around tune. And boy am I glad Ric Ocasek didn't sing lead vox on this one ;)

I fell in love with a girl listening to this song back in High School, so it had to be mentioned. I absolutely love the Piano in this song.

Although I like the live version much better than the orignal, Edge's guitar licks in this one give me goosebumps every time I hear it.

As a huge Simple Minds fan, I didn't know where to rank this one, but I would also mention their song "Real Life," which is by far, one of the best most dramatic synth songs with GREAT lyrics.

As a keyboardist, I think this is one of the best songs to play and sing to. Great memory song to remind me of high school.

This song makes me nostalgic and sad at the same time every time I hear it. Me and my wife chose this song as "our song." Excellent!!!!

Great chords and lyrics. Roland Orzabal has one of the best male voices out of the eighties. The live version of Broken at the end is awesome!

Excellent use of synthesizers, great fade out, and a great song to play in a cover band ;)

I'm in awe... Out of all the lists I went through this song wasn't on any ones.

I don't need to say any more, everyone knows this song is amazing...

One slow song, and one... not so slow. Listening to wake me up before you go makes me wanna run outside and throw dirt at some random person... Great songs

This song really grew on me, I ended up playing it too many times, but I still love it.

Love the beat of this song, it's fast yet not... can't really explain.

This songs makes me very happy :)...

Another pair of great songs... GTA Vice city makes Africa even better.

Don't laugh, but I thought they were girls when I first heard them. I love this song, I sing it over and over, tad bit depressing though. :(

These crazy guys, I love them and their weird voices... Take on me, another high note hitter, one word of advice, do not try and sing this song, atleast not the chorus.

Awesome songs... I've listened to these so many times it would disgust most people. Definitly my #1 songs... I don't understand how Steve Perry hits notes so high! It's insane!

Haven't seen this on anyone's list so I put it on. Good song by a Canadian band.

A great song, I like that neat sound right after he says "wasting all my time..."

A classic, they just came out with a new cd. One of the few bands to survive the 80's.

I love the mood in the song.

My favourite by them, followed closely by Everbody Wants to Rule the World.

The keyboard is just over the top.

Good song, I like the singing.

Everbody knows this song.

Easy to sing along to.

Very catchy song, I love driving to it.

Maravillosa como todas las de Gary Moore

La mejor de todos los tiempos, me transporta inmediatamente a Irlada con sus maravillosos sonidos celtas.

This song is still great today.

Rush. No explaination needed

I was ten. This was a badass song.

Just a decent song. Listenable but not too preachy.

Mostly because of the Video. Cool song nonetheless. Straits had a lot better stuff out, though.

Devo is too often downplayed in the role they had defining 80's pop culture. Praise Bob!

One hit wonder form the album "Worlds Apart"

Kilroy was one of the best albums of the decade

I love this band

It's Tejano interpreted by a Brit. It's just too damn happy.

An awesome song. First time I listened to it, I repeated over and over again. So good was covered by No Doubt.

Catchy tune, just an overall good song.

This song reminds me of a relationship I was in.

I really love the video as it goes so well with the song.

I really like to dance to this song.

I like the song's lyrics and goes especially well with "The Breakfast Club"

Just an awesome song hit the dancefloor

I love "Visionquest", and after a while the song grew on me.

Guitar solo is awesome and song is just awesome.

My favorite dance song of all time, also my favorite 80's band so I had to rank this song #1

From before the time when 14 year old girls turned them into popstars. Raw, fun and a wicked guitar line.

It's like you get assaulted when you hear this one. Then you lick your wounds and play it again. Feedback good.

Andy Summers is God!

Slide guitar. If you think about it, it'll make you laugh. But if you play this one loud, it'll make your ears bleed. And the pain is so worth it.

All about the vocals. Bjork was right on for this one.

Give it a listen. Why it's great is immediately obvious.

Drums. Voice. Writing. Drums.

So what you can't understand what Ian's singing. The overall mood of the song, that hook and the Ian's suicide shortly after the recording makes this all the more haunting and beautiful. This is what he gave us, and then he went away.

Marc Almond was at the top of his game when this came out. Beautiful vocal, cutting lyrics, no maudlin crap, just the truth.

Hard-ass infectious dance groove with jazz horns. I dare you to keep still.

I bet no one of you knows this tune. If you like tunes performed in other languages than English, you'll surely like it. Radio Futura was one of the most important Spanish band in the 80's. In this decade all the music in Spain was very influenced by the British music, sometimes with a slight Spanish touch, as opposed to the Spanish commercial music of nowadays, very latin in general, total crap, almost. This tune 'Escuela de Calor', transl: 'School of Heat', was a successful anthem, and still use to sound (mainly in summer) in some good radio stations here in Spain. The starting lyrics: "Arde la calle al sol de poniente, hay tribus ocultas cerca del río esperando a que caiga la noche, hace falta valor, hace falta valor, ven a la escuela de calor". Transl.: "The streets are burning under the west sun, there're hidden tribes near the river, waiting for the night to come, you'll need courage, you'll need courage, come to the School of Heat".

Dark-soul-pop

Another great song by The Truth.

A very uplifting tune to be in tune.

I love this ballad!!

Sounds very Spandau-ish ;)

This English band, with a dark and semi-gothic pop sound, had their success with the tune "Things We Never Did". But this one is much better IMO. Fantastic guitar sound with echoes, alongside a perfect synth background.

This one sounds a little darker, but still very pop music

Another fantastic soul-pop tune by The Truth

The Truth is one of those bands of the 80's that I discovered recently (they're British), because they didn't get the success and popularity they actually deserved, maybe because they only did a fabulous album, Playground (1985), and the following ones had very few remarkable songs. But this album Playground...I can't understand why this album didn't get a huge success. It sounds like very soulful pop, somehow like Daryl Hall & Oates, and in my opinion even greater than these ones, and somehow like Spandau Ballet. There're two good songs they performed on the following album which were used in TV series or movie soundtracks: Weapons Of Love in the sci-fi movie The Hidden (1987), and The Edge Of Town, in the TV series Miami Vice. Always On My Mind is the tune I like the most among the ones in this great awesome album called Playground, very recommendable for those who didn't know about this band yet.

Hahaha....

nope.. no comment.. a beautifull melody

Ahh.. fantastic version

Soft 2

Hehehe.. im a sucker ;)

soft

Great song

A very najs song..

Hehe.. the wiking!

Yeap.. Im a toto fanatic!