I was born 1980 so I actually grew up with this music from brothers and parents and just the fact that 80s music is sooo very much unique to any other type of era of music out there. I have never felt the way about music like the 80s has so ever changed my view on awesome music. I Dj 80s music for a radio station. Its awesome. http://www.radio.timelessdreamz.net/

The 80s were by far the best decade in terms of songs and bands. I am not that old to remember all of them but the ones that I have in my mind are so excellent. Viva the 80s..........

This partial list is by no means my complete list but just a few of my personal faves...

Other cool songs: She blinded me with Science by Thomas Dolby, and anything by Wham, The Talking Heads, Pat Benatar, Howard Jones, Erasure, The Cars. EVERYTHING from the 80's is pretty good.

It was hard, I have left like a hundred more songs, actually it's impossible to number them in order to make a true list, there are all awasome.

80's rulz, and im obsessed with Paula Abdul, go Paula yay!

I started the 80s as a 14 yr old high school student in a small canadian town where the music heard on Casey Kasem's American Top 40 was the norm. I ended the 80s as a 24 yr old graduate student wondering how I could keep the 80s going on forever. It's now 2006, I have 10,000 plus albums spanning from the 50s to the present, but the decade that is best represented is the 1980s. 5,300 albums, 53,000 songs, and I can only put 10.....what a crock! ;)

There are so many other albums I would love to include like Asia's debut album (1982), Tracy Chapman's debut (1987), The Stone Roses' debut (1989), Fascination Street by the Cure (1989), The Trinity Session by the Cowboy Junkies (1987), Sound Affects by The Jam (1980), Like A Virgin by Madonna (1984 - yes, musical diversity is a must!), Nena's debut album (1983), Dream Street Rose by Gordon Lightfoot (1980), Suddenly by Billy Ocean (1984), Flowers Of Romance by PiL (1981), Life's Rich Pageant by R.E.M (1986), Love At First Sting by the Scorpions (1984), Psonic Psunspot by Dukes of Stratosphear/XTC (1987), Thunder Seven by Triumph (1984), War by U2 (1983), Down To The Moon by Andreas Vollenweider (1986), and the Violent Femmes debut album (1983). It should be noted that the contents of this list would have been much different if it weren't for college

Peter Gabriel really did good music during the 80's era.

i know i have alot of love songs on my list but i cant help it. its not just the fact that i grew up hearing these songs. you just know all of 80's love songs was written from the heart. and all of these songs give a good reputation to this era. how i wish every time i sit down to watch pretty in pink or hear culture club on the radio i wish i was old enough to enjoy and appreciate that wonderful era even more. but it will always go on just as long the radio keeps playing those timeless classics.

And another very beautifull song of Foregneir, Starship,Jhon Waite,Paul Young,Styxs,Billy Idol,Beverley Craven,Level 42...Hall and Oates (I can´t go For That)etc.... is so hard make a list!! i´ll remember so many song and i can´t concentrate my musical memory!!!!

Honourable Mentions: Worlds Away / We Run by Strange Advance, What Does it Take by Honeymoon Suite, The Sun Always Shines on TV by A-Ha, and all of the Honeydrippers. There was also Loverboy, the Scorpions, Phil Collins. The 80s were my entire teenage years. I love these lists!

Honorable mention: "Crossfire" (Stevie Ray Vaughn), "Steppin' Out" (Joe Jackson), "All Night Long" (Joe Walsh), "Our House" (Madness), "Hero Takes a Fall" (Bangles)...to name a few!