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Subject: Top 10 Favorite Songs From 1985?
in no particular order:
10) I Can't Hold Back: Survivor
9) St. Elmo's Fire: John Parr
8) Sentimental Street: Night Ranger
7) Oh Sheila: Ready For The World (you can't help but not sing along on this tune!)
6) The Boys Of Summer: Don Henley
5) Everybody Wants To Rule The World: Don Henley
4) Head Over Heals: Tears For Fears
3) Don't You Forget About Me: Simple Minds
2) Broken Wings: Mr. Mister
1) Voices Carrey: Till Tuesday
-Thomas
Subject: Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs From 1985?
Top 10 from '85! (In no special order)
10. The Cure "Inbetween Days"
9. OMD "So In Love"
8. Mister Mister "Broken Wings"
7. Huey Lewis & The News "Power Of Love"
6. Prince "Raspberry Beret"
5. Oingo Boingo "Weird Science"
4. Tears For Fears "Shout"
3. Motley Crue "Home Sweet Home"
2. Simple Minds "Alive and Kicking"
1. Power Station "Some Like It Hot"
Subject: Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs From 1985?
Not necessarily in order:
1. OMD: So In Love
2. The Cure: In Between Days
3. Malcolm McLaren: Madam Butterfly
4. Thompson Twins: Lay Your Hands on Me
5. Echo & The Bunnymen: Bring on the Dancing Horses
6. The Smiths: How Soon Is Now?
7. Howard Jones: Things Can Only Get Better
8. New Order: The Perfect Kiss
9. Depeche Mode: Fly on the Windscreen*
10. The Waterboys: The Whole of the Moon
*My favorite of the new tracks presented on "Catching Up With Depeche Mode"
There's a lot of stuff I was listening to in '85 that came out earlier (Aztec Camera, Split Enz, Psychedelic Furs, Heaven 17), and stuff that came out in '85 that I didn't like until '86 or '87 (Cabaret Voltaire, Front 242, Shriekback, Sisters of Mercy, Love & Rockets)
Subject: Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs From 1985?
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9. Depeche Mode: Fly on the Windscreen*
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My favourite Depeche Mode song just happens to come from 1985 (and is on Catching Up... as well)! "Shake The Disease!" :) As for "Fly On The Windscreen," I prefer the "final" one that's on Black Celebration.
Quoting:There's a lot of stuff I was listening to in '85 that came out earlier (Aztec Camera, Split Enz, Psychedelic Furs, Heaven 17), and stuff that came out in '85 that I didn't like until '86 or '87 (Cabaret Voltaire, Front 242, Shriekback, Sisters of Mercy, Love & Rockets)
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Good bands...my favourites there being The Psychedelic Furs and Love And Rockets. I'll have to go through my stuff to see what favourites from 1985 I can come up with. I agree with several of the choices though! :)
Absolutely Vile
Subject: Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs From 1985?
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Good bands...my favourites there being The Psychedelic Furs and Love And Rockets. I'll have to go through my stuff to see what favourites from 1985 I can come up with. I agree with several of the choices though! :)
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These two albums by L&R, "The Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven," and "Earth, Sun, Moon," are golden greats. Their work after that became spotty and less cohesive. Good songs here and there, but no single album I found worthwhile.
Peter Murphy's done some interesting music, and some quite boring. His latest, "Dust," is excellent. He's been living in Turkey and the music has a heavy Middle Eastern influence.
Subject: Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs From 1985?
10.'Trapped' - Colonel Abrams
9. 'Money for nothing' - Dire Straits
8. 'Ya Mo B There' - James Ingram and Michael McDonald
7. 'Everybody wants to rule the world' - Tears for fears
6. 'Nightshift' - The Commodores
5. 'We close our eyes' - Go West
4. 'I can dream about you' - Dan Hartman
3. 'St Elmo's fire' - John Parr
2. 'Rhythm of the night' - Debarge
1. 'A good heart' - Feargal Sharkey
Subject: Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs From 1985?
In no order -
Don Henley - Boys of Summer
Cure - Inbetween days
Madonna - Material Girl and Crazy For You and Into The Groove and Dress You Up (can't decide, like them all pretty much the same :))
Huey Lewis & The News - Power of Love
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Style Council - Walls Come Tumbling Down
Billy Idol - White Wedding
Smiths - Boy With The Thorn In His Side
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Eurythmics - There Must Be An Angel
Special mention to Fergal Sharkey - A Good Heart. Bloody awful song, but holds great memories for me as was the first 80s song i really loved back when I was just a toddler.
Subject: Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs From 1985?
Billy Idol - White Wedding Actually from 1982.
Smiths - Boy With The Thorn In His Side Actually from 1986.
Subject: Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs From 1985?
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Special mention to Fergal Sharkey - A Good Heart. Bloody awful song, but holds great memories for me as was the first 80s song i really loved back when I was just a toddler.
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It's kinda cornball, I suppose, but I still love it. It reflected a lot of my true sentiments about love at sixteen. "A Good Heart" was written by Maria McKee of Lone Justice. You may remember their country-rock hit "Ways to be Wicked." Great song. I didn't hear the Undertones until after I heard FS solo. The Undertones were one of the coolest and cleverest punk bands of all! :D
Subject: Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs From 1985?
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It's kinda cornball, I suppose, but I still love it. It reflected a lot of my true sentiments about love at sixteen. "A Good Heart" was written by Maria McKee of Lone Justice. You may remember their country-rock hit "Ways to be Wicked." Great song. I didn't hear the Undertones until after I heard FS solo. The Undertones were one of the coolest and cleverest punk bands of all! :D
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I only know one Undertones song and that's 'My Perfect Cousin'. Brilliant song.
Maria McKee also sung 'Show me heaven' which was also a brilliant song.
Subject: Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs From 1985?
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These two albums by L&R, "The Seventh Dream of Teenage Heaven," and "Earth, Sun, Moon," are golden greats. Their work after that became spotty and less cohesive. Good songs here and there, but no single album I found worthwhile.
Peter Murphy's done some interesting music, and some quite boring. His latest, "Dust," is excellent. He's been living in Turkey and the music has a heavy Middle Eastern influence.
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Just out of curiosity...are you confusing Love And Rockets with Bauhaus? Love And Rockets did release Seventh Dream Of Teenage Heaven and Earth, Sun, Moon, and both bands share the same members, except Peter Murphy sang with Bauhaus, who did their "hit," "Bela Lugosi's Dead" and other great songs. They broke up, and Murphy didn't want to reunite with the rest of them, so Daniel Ash, David J, and Kevin Haskins formed Love And Rockets with Daniel Ash and David J on vocals.
Forgive me if I've missed something somewhere...;D
Absolutely Vile
The Bubblemen are coming! The Bubblemen are coming!
Subject: Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs From 1985?
1. Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
theme song from my favorite movie, "The Breakfast Club"
2. Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears
Just like in the video, I feel like driving through the country with my windows down
3. People Are People - Depeche Mode
My first exposure to Depeche Mode. I'm surprised nobody has tried to cover this great tune
4. Long Long Way to Go - Phil Collins (with Sting)
Phil and Sting harmonize great on this one
5. Your Latest Trick - Dire Straits
Love the arrangement of this song
6. Secret - OMD
I Sing this song out loud when nobody's around!
7. Say It Isn't So - The Outfield
Not quite the hit that "Your Love" was, but a great song!
8. Can't Get There From Here - REM
I wish REM still sounded this good!
9. Slave To Love - Bryan Ferry
Great song to make out to!
10. Goodbye - Night Ranger
Ultimate song to end an 80s compilation CD!
Subject: Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs From 1985?
I love Bauhaus, too. I just didn't mention the Bauhaus origins of both PM and L&R. My favorite Bauhaus album is "Mask," but "The Sky's Gone Out" is a close second. I like the fact that I still see young Goth kids wearing Bauhaus shirts. 8)
Subject: Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs From 1985?
Should've made this the "Top-20 Faves", I had to do some narrowing down. :) In no particular order:
Godley and Creme - "Cry"
Mr.Mister - "Kyrie"
Bryan Adams - "Run To You"
Bryan Adams - "Summer of 69"
Til Tuesday - "Voices Carry"
The Hooters - "All You Zombies"
Franky Goes To Hollywood - "Relax"
Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - "Don't Come Around Here No More"
Don Henley - "Sunset Grill"
Journey - "Only The Young"
Some of you might want to check out: http://www.gramble.com/music/80sdate2.html
Subject: Everything from this album
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Subject: Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs From 1985?
Keep reading these songs and get such a lonely sickly (inexplicable) feeling of memories from that time, when we lived in Denver. When I look at the listings above, each song causes a quick flash of a place I must have been, when I heard the song, just can't express the feeling, but I kinda like it :D!
Subject: Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs From 1985?
1.A View To A Kill - Duran Duran
2.The Wild Boys - Duran Duran
3.Take On Me - A-ha
4.Out Of Touch - Hall & Oates
5.Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds
6.Everybody Wants to Rule The World - Tears For Fears
7.Everytime You Go Away - Paul Young
8.The Power Of Love - Huey Lewis and The News
9.Heaven - Bryan Adams
10.Shout - Tears For Fears
Subject: Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs From 1985?
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Billy Idol - White Wedding Actually from 1982.
Smiths - Boy With The Thorn In His Side Actually from 1986.
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Actually, I beg to differ - they were all released in 1985 in the UK.
Check www.everyhit.com :)
Subject: Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs From 1985?
Although there are many decent songs listed, I always thought that 1985 was kind of the "off" year during the decade when it came to music. Compared to the years surrounding it, 1985 just plain stunk. And, "The boys of summer" was definitly a 1984 hit!
Subject: Re: Everything from this album
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Right on! 8)
Subject: Re: Top 10 Favorite Songs From 1985?
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Actually, I beg to differ - they were all released in 1985 in the UK.
Check www.everyhit.com :)
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Criz, either everyhit.com is inaccurate or UK was way behind the times with "White Wedding." I thought it sounded weird, because I heard it way before 1985 here in the US. So, I went to billyidol.com and it said it was released in 1982 and it charted in 1983 where it peaked at #36, but was huge on MTV. Things that make you go hmmmm..... :-/