song never gets old

won him many grammys, did the moonwalk live at the grammys during this song

the rocky anthem

the best song by the best entertainer of the 80's

One of the best pop-jazz songs ever. One of the best vocalists ever... I mean really... Need I say more....

Not such agreat vocalist, but his background singers brought out the best in this tight rocker... An 80's classic....

If you aren't familiar with house... this is a good time to start... Strong Teddy Pendergrass like vocals and hard beats...

One of those good dance grooves...

If you don't know now you know...!

Right up there with any rock song... Mean ass guitars, top flight vocalist just a great song...

Could give Sexual Healing a hard run for it's money...!

Just listen to it and drive... in a convertible or a car with T-tops....

Need I say more...One of the STRONGEST and most soulful voices in rock/metal and one of the catchiest hooks. Could be number one as well...!

Ultimate motivator. Heavy rock-not quite metal, but still heavy and powerhouse vocalist could give Steve Perry a run for his money...

It's actually supposed to be quite philosophical. I'll let you figure out the song by yourself. Loved Green's vocals... the prettiest voice on earth from a male.

Really teary eyed type of song. Makes you feel like crying. I loved the lyrics, it's just so sweet. Well, the music is not bad, but the music is cool.

I liked the music on this one. Moderate pace and the lyrics are quite good. One of my favorites from The Boss.

Motley Crue definitely rock! You can just feel the energy in this one and the lyrics. Really wild and gets you singing and doing wild stuff. Really good song when you're bored.

The title just says it all. Who wouldn't want that after hard work and sweat. Loved the energy in the lyrics and music. C.C. is one of the best guitarists out there.

Okay okay! I'm synth lover, can't blame it all on me! I like the lyrics in this one. The way the song is about a really bad relationship and the sort of story behind it. The music is not bad, I thought it was good.

Just the music. I liked the heavy synth and Barnard's mono voice sounds as if it's part of the music. Really cool dance song and really weird lyrics. Dunno why I'm addicted.

I feel really stupid saying this. I like this song alot mainly due to the energetic music and the musical tune. I can't stand the lyrics and I can't stand Donny either but I got addicted to this one and the beat is good.

I think Right Here Waiting was meant to be a dedication. Really beautiful lyrics, simple but nice melody. I loved this one and still do. Endless Summer Nights has really nice music

Sigh! It's way too hard to say which is better. I liked them a lot. The first two are about friendship and very deep friendship. The music is also really good. The third one is really beautiful, excellent use of synth, vocals, and lyrics writing. Very original type of bad. Sadly, I can't put all 32 favorites up.

This song, like no other, represents 80's music to me.

Elton John at his best, this is one of the catchiest songs I've ever heard.

This Duran Duran side project is often overlooked. Great song.

This song is just so much fun.

This spooky song is extremely catchy.

While this may not have been one of Queen's biggest 80's hits, this song is definetly one of their best.

This song is one of my all time favourites. Phil Collins is a genius.

Frankie made the cold war a little hotter with this classic. Great song, great video, great band. Too bad they only recorded 2 albums.

The ultimate 80's band, Duran Duran are still going strong after 20 years, this is one of their greatest classics.

One of the best musicians of the 20th century, and this is one of this greatest musical masterpieces.

great little tune.

this song means alot to me.

love to play this one loud.

still love this song.

worth the price of a CD by itself.

a masterpiece

Great tribute for a great quitarist who left us way to young.

brings back great memories of my rocker days when this was my my trade mark song.

one of the best songs that nowbody's heard of.

without a question, this song comes from the greatest album of the 80's

check it out!

Lately i found that LP 'Midnight Shift' as CD in Amazon or such store.

yes, they were brilliant too. especially the depressive atmosphere on the second (first album wthout Vince Clare who left to make Yazoo with Alison Moyet, later Erasure) album is cool. Forget all after 'music for the masses'.

So, noone mentioined them, but again a 'band' (Roddy Frames all-time hiegth) with a brilliant debut, the later stuff - forget it.

One of the more innovative bands in early 80's! As usual: First album was the best

Yes! actor went music, and this time it worked (for 2 songs :-) nice stuff 2 dance

I love that guy. Ingenious album i have only on CompactCassette...

Although critcs said he can't either sing nor play snyth, i find he made some genious stuff in the 80's (look mama, ...)

OK, we all had our roller-skate moments back then... just napstered it :-)

sofrt cell was pretty good at 82, as 82 is my favourite year for pop music ever!! the Pale Fountains, Heaven 17, ABC, Tears for Fears, Orange Juice, ...

Well, great band

I love that woman, her voice, her music.

I prefer the Extended Version.

I still start crying when I listen to that song.

I remember that I did not have enough money to buy this single.

I bop, too.

Well, I still love this song.

One of the greatest ballads ever written.

It is so powerful.

I am Madonna fan since about 1983/84. I could have mentioned nearly every single song from her but I guess this song expresses everything: Have fun and dance and - it's Madonna! - have sex :-)

Could never figure out what they were saying. I didn't know the name of the song back then, but I loved this song when it came on the radio.

Anytime I hear this song it gives me major 80's flashbacks. Those 80's flashes can be a bit scary. This song was great sounding though.

All my buds wanted to make it with Janet cuz she was hot. I thought she looked too much like Michael, so I would get wierded out on the thought.

Not too many people I knew liked Pet Shop Boys because they sounded a little too flamerish, but they loved this song.

why do I feel like I'm in the Twighlight Zone and I always feel like somebody's watching me!! have we forgot this one?

whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa!! When I was twelve when this song was popular I thought this was what heavy metal was. Yeah I was a sheltered kid!!

Puts you in a good mood to hear this one. Was easy to figure out to play the piano piece and impress your friends.

I couldn't stand Cindy Lauper, but two songs I liked from her was this song and the very obvious Goonies song.

Really lame now days to cruise down the street listening to this song, but back then this song was really cool.

I could never figure out who La Luna was. =P Anyways, this song rocked. They are still my favorite band. These guys would have stomped the boy bands of today. They had way more sex appeal and style.

a great band of the 80s

this song is like heaven....

another great ballad written by martin gore.... one of the best song writers ever...

The best dance song ever.... still played at clubs... enough said

GOOOD!!!

Yeah!

no comment...

Swedish power!

Quite a same as Opus...

I just say WOW!

That guy...

A great techno song

very close to Beat it

just GREAT!

This group never cracked the American market but were a moderate success here in Canada. Give this song a download to see what you were missing.

If there is ever a Rap Hall of Fame these guys should be the first inductees. This song is as catchy as it is empowering and meaningful. A true piece of art.

At the risk of offending reto purists everywhere I've included this retro rip-off of a retro song. This tune uses the famous "How Soon is Now" melody by The Smiths in a funky kind of way.

There were other songs by John Cougar that were more popular but this one stands out as a personal favourite.

These group barely made a splash in North America but were big in their native Britain. Some of the best eighties music I heard growing up was on this English music show called "Top of Pops" where I first heard this song.

This band's punk roots where temporarily forgotten for this beautiful song. A great song to chill-out to.

A retro classic.

If this song doesn't make you want to get up and dance your probably not breathing.

I'm the only guy I know who thinks this song is their best work. This song has a certain tranquility to it, slow and methodic.

I just adore this tune, a must have for any retro collection.

A terribly misunderstood band that emerged triumphant, at least creatively speaking. Hollis, Webb, and Harris, along with producer-co-conspiritor Tim Friese-Greene, produced some wonderful work that was for the most part roundly and undeservedly ignored in America. This song actually got some airplay. If you check out no other band in this list, I strongly urge you to look into TT's back catalog. Start with "The Colour Of Spring" or "It's My Life"--if you start earlier you'll see them as a techno-pop outfit and probably be turned off; likewise if you get anything more recent you may be put off by their transformation into "organic" music some have compared to jazz. Hey, it's all good. I envy anyone the discovery process. I sure did enjoy it!

Hojo was and is a wonderfully uplifting artist, and on "Human's Lib" he approached pop perfection. There's nary a bad song on it, and "New Song" is so utterly appealing to me it got played over and over and over again. It's one of those albums I bought initally on cassette and then had to buy again as a CD because I wore the tape out!

Okay, so I misinterpreted the lyrics for so long. That's okay. This is still a wonderful tune, and the line, "oh let me fly, give me something to show for my miserable life" is so poignant it hurts. Great stuff, just what I came to expect from the Great Kate for so long. But when will we hear from her again?

When all else fails, this song can lift me out of the depths. True, it also made me cry, but as such it's something of a cathartic. And Kate, as usual, is simultaneously sensuous and comforting...as this song would have her be. Nearly perfect.

Okay, so it's a guilty pleasure. Sue me. Pete Burns ain't George O'Dowd, and I'm glad of it. There's room for both. This sound POUNDS. Plain and simple. Get out on the dance floor and shut up!

No one does an offbeat ballad like Cole, and this is one of the better ones he did with mate Blair Cowan and company. Only LC could intentionally mispronounce "Eve Marie Saint" so it would rhyme with "On The Waterfront" and have it work. Cole's solo work, especially the album "Don't Get Weird On Me Babe" is vastly superior, but it was recorded in the 90s and hence can't make this list. Pity!

I felt dirty listening to Shriekback and was almost horried that I loved it so. It was as if were the kind of music I'd hear playing at some forbidden ritual. Mercy, it was powerful. "Creepy" and "Insidious" are two words I hear applied to their music, and they fit. So does "Brilliant".

I am not a big fan of Morrissey personally, but my, this song hit home with deadly accuracy. My therapist had a field day with THIS one.

Oy. How could a band that produced an album so good be so ignored? I remember going to buy the album after seeing the video and getting an empty stare from the clerk at Camelot. Yes, it's dance music, but it doesn't merit being filed where I eventually found it: in the "Disco" section. Ye gods.

They had better albums and better (more lucid!) songs, but none that ricked quite as ferociously as this one. I still don't understand the rather cryptic lyrics--they don't refer to race as much as attitude, if I recall George's defense--but I respond to the beat. Powerful, even today.

Well, why not?

Who could forget that lovely piano, and those gorgeouse lyrics?

A lovely haunting song

Another song to jump around the room to.

Brings back lovely memories.

Wonderful. Still gets me jumping.

"There's a club if you'd like to go, you could meet somebody who really loves you. So you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home and you cry and you want to die" Heartbreakingly real.

I love it. So sorry about Kirsty MacColl.

I don't know what it's about either

"Why is the bedroom so cold? You've turned away on your side. Is my timing that flawed? our respect run so dry?" What a wonderful song.

Neil Finn is my hereo. Nuff said.

Ultimate feel good song about Suburban Britain; and believe me, only a Madness song could make you feel good about that!

Everybody move to improve the groove........indeed!

Spinning on that dizzy edge, I kissed her face and kissed her head, dreamed of all the different ways I had to make her glow.......

This song broke my heart...well, I was only 15...

Who wasn't moved by the Breakfast Club as a teenager?

Who could resist that slightly off-key voice? Sleaze at its best

Remember the video? Blew me away!

Can't have a top 10 80s list without Sting and his boys! This is an unbelievably catchy song that you can't help but sing to! I always wanted a guy to sing this to me. Corny but true!

Not too may people will remember this one hit wonder from the 80s, but it's always been one of my favorites. Just a sweet song. "That's where you belong, in my arms baby yeah!"

Remember when we used to sing this song and it seemed like 1999 was soooo far in the future?!? We thought we'd NEVER see the day! Now the year has come and gone, but this will always be one of my favorite party songs!

A true 80s One Hit Wonder! Couldn't get this one out of your head for days! (still can't!)

To this day, this song makes me think of my crushes in grade school and junior high. "I know a guy who's tough but sweet...he's so fine he can't be beat! Got everything that I desire...sets the summer sun on fire!"

Makes me think of 8th grade graduation, high school graduation, college graduation! "We're going to have a good time tonight...let's celebrate...it's all right!!"

I wanted to BE Madonna when I was in junior high! She was so cool, sexy and rebellious! This is my favorite 80s song of hers! The amazing thing about Madonna is that she's cool, sexy & rebellious to this day! I still wouldn't mind being her! One of my top 5 all time favorite artists!

I haven't seen a single mention of Mr. Mellencamp on any other list! How can you have a Top 10 list with out one of his "Little Ditties"?!? This song is the epitome of high school sweethearts, "growing up in the Heartland!"

Another Makes-Me-Want-to-Dance-Song! "I swear at this moment, you mean EVERYTHING to me!" An eternal 80s great!

My ULTIMATE HAPPY song! I can't sit still when I hear it! I'll be 60 and still singing "I used to think maybe you loved me, now baby I'm sure!"

The absolute perfect rock-pop song...sends chills up my spine...the video is so powerful too...the pain, the longing, the circular motion of life...awesome song.

This *was* created in the eighties right? Like...'89? Anyway, this song has got to be the most incredible soul/r&b/jazz song ever written and performed. Never has a song described death and grief so eloquently, elementally, and become so ingrained in our minds that whenever we listen to it, we can't help but shed a tear for anyone who has experienced the desolate loneliness of someone's death.

This song DEFINED modern r&b music, and it continues to be cloned today, but never with the same soul, haunting passion, and powerful vocals with which grace this song.

A pure joy to listen too...the perfect car song, party song, everyday good-feeling song.

Sure, everyone loves to hate her, but this song not only had an innovative style, but a really cool video too, something MTV forgot to produce after a while. (ahumm, as in videos from the nineties)

One of the best pop songs ever created.

Given. Innovative, intricate, exciting, haunting, memorable, historical...the list goes on.

Classic. A pure beach boys tune, which rivals the best music they ever created.

The closes thing to alternative music in the eighties...really great song, with sort of a subtle subliminal tune which reaches inside of you and never lets go. ;)

The catchiest pop song, and the some of the best vocals Madonna has ever produced.

Great song. Overlooked band.

Hey, when you've got two of the greatest artists ever working together on a colaboration you get a great song.

David Bowie's comeback. And what a comeback.

The one, the only hit from the band, nevertheless good song.

Aw, what the hell. It was a pretty good song for what it was.

Beautiful song that is often overlooked.

Lyrics are awesome and meaningful.

An artist that just recently has stopped getting the recognition that he deserves. What a shame.

Great song. Even better music video.

Queen rules! An example of how they reinvented themselves in the 80's.

Now, my father loves the Boss, I can't stand him. But this song deserves it. Anyway, who knew that a FRIEND would be in this video?

Do people still talk about the weather?

You gotta love Michael

Can't forget that song.

Who could forget her and all her wild hair colors? (I used to think her and Madonna were sisters...don't ask)

This song just plain rocks

And she's still going strong after all these years!

Brings back memories of a trip that exists on old photos and my memories

You know it.

Whaddaya expect?