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Need forgotten 80s hits for playlist?

I'm trying to find some not-so-known 80s songs that will spark some nostalgia...not crap like Billie Jean or We Are the World...more less known like:

-Sidewalk Talk by Jellybean

-Rumors by Timex Social Club

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  • 8 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club

    Voices Carry - 'Til Tuesday

    ABC - The Look of Love

    Aldo Nova - Fantasy

    The Alan Parsons Project - Eye in the Sky

    Amy Grant - Everywhere I Go

    The Art of Noise - Close (to the Edit)

    Baltimora - Tarzan Boy

    Berlin - The Metro

    Billy Falcon - Power Windows

    The Boogie Boys - A Fly Girl

    Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy

    Boys Don't Cry - I Wanna be a Cowboy

    Cameo - Word Up

    Source(s): Self - cat of the 80's : )
  • Anonymous
    4 years ago

    Forgotten 80s Hits

  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    Missing Persons - Walking in LA

    Art Of Noise - Close (To the Edit)

    The Parachute Club - At The Feet Of The Moon

    Roxette - The Look

    Luba - Everytime I See Your Picture

    Loudness - Crazy Nights

    Scandal - Goodbye To You - The Warrior

    Lee Aaron - Metal Queen

    Headpins - Turn it Loud

    Huey Lewis and the News - I Want a New Drug

    Boys Don't Cry - I Wanna Be A Cowboy -

  • Senses Working Overtime - XTC

    867-5309 - Tommy Tutone

    Sausalito Summernite - Diesel (one of the best one hit wonders of the 1980s)

    Pop Music - M

    Who Can It Be Now? - Men At Work

    Overkill - Men At Work

    Down Under - Men At Work

    C'mon Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners

    Pass The Dutchie - Musical Youth

    Tenderness - General Public

    Love Plus One - Haircut 100

    Money For Nothing - Dire Straits

    Girl In Trouble - Romeo Void

    Safety Dance - Men Without Hats

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  • dman63
    Lv 7
    8 years ago

    I Melt With You - Modern English

    Don't Walk Past - Blue Peter (saw them in London, Ontario in 1982)

    Killing Moon - Echo and the Bunnymen

    Silver - Echo and the Bunnymen

    Flying North - Thomas Dolby

    Ghostdancing - Simple Minds (saw them in Toronto, Ontario in 1991)

    Sanctify Yourself - Simple Minds

    Add It Up - Violent Femmes

    Bitching Camaro - The Dead Milkmen

    Take The Skinheads Bowling - Camper Van Beethoven

    You Suck - Consolidated

    In Between Days - The Cure

    Love Song - The Cure

    The Lovecats - The Cure

    The Walk - The Cure

    Echo Beach - Martha and the Muffins

    She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult

    Gold - Spandau Ballet

    Talk To You Later - The Tubes

    Sushi Girl - The Tubes

  • 8 years ago

    A few more; I'll try not to repeat songs already listed..

    "Kids in America" - Kim Wilde

    "We Got the Beat" - The Go-Go's

    "Stray Cat Strut" - The Stray Cats

    "What I Like About You" - The Romantics

    "The Stroke" - Billy Squier

    "One Thing Leads to Another" - The Fixx

    "Original Sin" - INXS

    "Walk Like an Egyptian" - The Bangles

    "Harden My Heart" - Quarterflash

    "Life in a Northern Town" - Dream Academy

    "Rapture" - Blondie

    "Small Town Boy" - Bronski Beat

    "Working for the Weekend" - Loverboy

    "What I Am" - Edie Brickell & New Bohemians

    "Der Kommissar" - After the Fire

    "You Better You Bet" - The Who

    "Only the Lonely" - The Motels

    "True" - Spandau Ballet

    "Buffalo Stance" - Neneh Cherry

    "Shattered Dreams" - Johnny Hates Jazz

    I agree with Soviet Canuckistan on..."Sausalito Summernight" - Diesel (my fave 80's one-hit wonder).

  • Jenny
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    I Ran - A flock of seagulls.

    Hyperactive - Thomas Dolby

    Who Can it Be Now, Down Under, B Good Johnny - Men at Work

    Safety Dance - Men Without Hats.

    I Don't Like Mondays - The Boomtown Rats

    Athena - The Who

    Heart of Glass - Blondie

    All sorts of stuff by the Cars, Devo, B52s, REM

  • David
    Lv 5
    8 years ago

    Little Guitars by Van Halen

    So Caught Up In You by 38 Special

    Nothings Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship

    Tainted Love by Soft Cell

    I Cant Drive 55 by Sammy Hagar

    New World Man by RUSH

    Distant Early Warning by RUSH

    The Wild & The Young by Quiet Riot

    I Want Action by Poison

    Let My Love Open The Door by Pete Townsend

    Don't Tell Me You Love Me by Night Ranger

    When You Close Your Eyes by Night Ranger

    Smokin In The Boys Room by Motley Crue

    Footloose by Kenny Loggins

    Lovin Every Minute Of It by Loverboy

    Crazy Crazy Nights by KISS

    Parental Guidance by Judas Priest

    Some Day Love Will Find You by Journey

    R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A. by John Mellencamp

    I Hate Myself For Loving You by Joan Jett

    Innocence by Harlequin

    Once Bitten Twice Shy by Great White

    Dont Forget Me (When Im Gone) by Glass Tiger

    Money For Nothing by Dire Straits

    Just Like Paradise by David Lee Roth

    We Didn't Start The Fire by Billy Joel

    Poison by Alice Cooper

  • 8 years ago

    i'll add more as i think of them, but this one keeps replaying in my head over and over - and it was 30 years ago!

    BANANARAMA - Cruel Summer

    it was never too big but i just loved it, saved my allowance and road my bike to TG&Y and bought the 45! :)

    dont forget:

    tears for fears

    u2!!!!

    the eurythrythmics (sp?)

    early cindy lauper

    pat benatar

    joan jett

    heart

    billy idol

    try the lesser known songs of all of the above :)

    the whole soundtrack from the breakfast club & related movies!

    anthrax - insane in the membrane - late 80s or just at 1990?

    older motley crue! shout! shout! shout at the devil! she's got the looks that kill!

    duran duran - oh i had the BIGGEST crush! HAHAHA

    madonna's lesser known songs but you HAVE to have "like a virgin" or it aint an 80s set!

    talking heads! burning down the house

    ASIA!!! :)

    A-HA!!! take on me!

    who do i remember in funky red hats in their video? ??

    again, also lesser known songs from the above :)

    LMAO @ we are the world - no one back then could stand that song you know.

    oh, my head is swirling now! i'ma hit youtube! :)

    CURIOUS: WHAT AGE IS THE ASKER?

    Source(s): old enough to have been the perfect age in the 80s! the COOLEST generation EVA! well. but the aquanet was overkill. HAHA
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