there's a lot of good songs in the 80's. it's hard to rank them.

There are so so soooo MANY great songs to come out of the 80s! It was almost impossible to make this list. Honorable mentions: Head Over Heels- Tears For Fears, Dr Feelgood- Motley Crue, True Blue- Madonna, Thriller- Michael Jackson, Vacation- The GoGos, Dangerous- Roxette, Little Red Corvette- Prince, Easy Lover- Phil Collins & Phillip Bailey, You Should Hear How She Talks About You- Melissa Manchester, Electric Blue- Icehouse.

Mt is the one

i kind of leaned toward the rock side on this list but there was so much great rock n roll then these bands opened the door for the bands of today

the firesttt

Only ten songs...very hard to decide...got at least 20 songs more (without thinkin too much about it)that were 80s hits(for me)too

This list was mostly compiled based on my strong interest in music and the music charts. From late 1981 to 1992, I created my own weekly chart of current favorite songs (it varied from 20 to 30 songs per week). I made up a point system to evaluate each song based on weekly chart positions, peak position, and weeks spent on the chart; then at the end of the year, calculated each song's points and ranked them based on total points earned. Two songs listed (ANOTHER ONE BITES THE DUST and STARS ON 45 MEDLEY) were songs that were released before I began doing a formal weekly chart. They are included here because even though I didn't have a formal chart, I made a strong estimate of what sort of impact these two songs would've had if I had a weekly chart during 1980 & 1981, & I'm confident that these two songs would've finished in these positions for the 1980's. Call me "KT Kasem". ;-)

there are so many more great 80's songs, i can't list them all so I'm going to do some honorable mentions: How Will I Know, Whitney Houoston,Photograph, Def Leppard, I'll Never Let You Go, Steelheart; Honestly, Stryper(possibly the most forgotten ballad of the decade!),Love Bites,Def Leppard,Beat It, Michael Jackson, Don't Stop Believin', Journey, and Faithfully by Journey

Scorpions is still loving all of their fans

I don't like the eighties music that much.

Greatest

There really are too many to choose, i could have done the list 20 times over

This list is in no particular order. I love all of them. I hope there are some people will say 'I forgot that one, but it is a great song, indeed.'

I HATED the synth pop from the eighties. There was some awful stuff, bryan adams, huey lewis, hair metal. Fortunately there was some brilliant stuff as well.

It's hard to choose,so many good bands and song were in 80s,from Alphaville to U2,from Cyndi Lauper to Blondie,and so on...