Here's my list of some of my favorite songs from 1983...

25. The Members "Working Girl"
24. Billy Joel "Uptown Girl"
23. Adam Ant "Strip"
22. Total Coelo "I Eat Cannibals"
21. Sparks & Jane Wiedlin "Cool Places"
20. The Police "Synchronicity II"
19. Tears For Fears "Change"
18. Quiet Riot "Bang Your Head (Metal Health)"
17. Romantics "Talking In Your Sleep"
16. Talking Heads "Burning Down The House"
15. Culture Club "Karma Chameleon"
14. The Cure "Let's Go To Bed"
13. UB40 "Red Red Wine"
12. Duran Duran "Save A Prayer"
11. U2 "Sunday Bloody Sunday"
10. Men Without Hats "The Safety Dance"
9. Tears For Fears "Mad World"
8. Thomas Dolby "She Blinded Me With Science"
7. Madness "Our House"
6. Michael Jackson "Billie Jean"
5. Duran Duran "Union Of The Snake"
4. New Order "Blue Monday"
3. Prince "Little Red Corvette"
2. Def Leppard "Photograph"
1. Modern English "I Melt With You"

Ugh! This time you picked what I believe was by far the best year for music in the '80s! :-) Way too many good tunes to name only 25! :-( Therefore, I'll limit my list to more obscure tunes that failed to even make the top 40 here in the U.S...

In no particular order:

01) "The Fanatic" - FELONY
02) "Inside Love (So Personal)" - GEORGE BENSON
03) "How Can I Refuse" - HEART
04) "Fool Moon Fire" - WALTER EGAN
05) "The Night" - THE ANIMALS
06) "Betcha She Don't Love You" - EVELYN KING
07) "Shoot for the Moon" - POCO
08 )"Outstanding" - THE GAP BAND
09) "New Year's Day" - U2
10) "Just Be Good to Me" - THE S.O.S. BAND
11) "Magnetic" - EARTH, WIND & FIRE
12) "Escalator of Life" - ROBERT HAZARD
13) "All Touch" - ROUGH TRADE
14) "Fight Fire with Fire" - KANSAS
15) "Love Me Again" - THE JOHN HALL BAND
16) "Why Me?" - PLANET P
17) "Do You Compute?" - DONNIE IRIS
18 )"I Eat Cannibals" - TOTAL (TOTO) COELO
19) "Save the Overtime (For Me)" - GLADYS KNIGHT & THE PIPS
20) "Freak-A-Zoid" - MIDNIGHT STAR
21) "Don't Try to Stop It" - ROMAN HOLLIDAY
22) "Rockit" - HERBIE HANCOCK
23) "Solid Rock" - GOANNA
24) "Change" - TEARS FOR FEARS
25) "Caught in the Game" - SURVIVOR
26) "Keep it Tight" - SINGLE BULLET THEORY
27) "No One Can Love You More Than Me" - MELISSA MANCHESTER
28 )"I Won't Be Home Tonight" - TONY CAREY
29) "State of the Nation" - INDUSTRY
30) "Feet Don't Fail Me Now" - UTOPIA
31) "Fade Away" - LOZ NETTO
32) "A Million Miles Away" - THE PLIMSOULS

And many, many more... :-)

MY TOP 25 for 1983
Not in ranking order, except my number 1 is definitely
number 1!
1.   A Flock of Seagulls: Wishing
2.   The Fixx: Saved By Zero
3.   Heaven 17: Let Me Go
4.   Planet P: Why Me?
5.   Modern English: I Melt With You
6.   Talking Heads: Burning Down the House
7.    Real Life: Send Me An Angel
8.    Big Country: In A Big Country
9.    Madness: Our House
10.   David Bowie: Modern Love
11.   Eurythmics: Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
12.   Kajagoogoo: Too Shy
13.   A Flock of Seagulls: Nightmares
14.   The Fixx: One Thing Leads to Another
15.   The Human League: Mirror Man
16.   Culture Club: Karma Chameleon
17.   Thomas Dolby: She Blinded Me With Science
18.   Duran Duran: Hungry Like the Wolf
19.   Ultravox: We Came to Dance
20.   The Police: Everybreath You Take
21.   The Human League: (Keep Feeling) Fascination
22.   Thompson Twins: Lies
23.   The Go-Gos: Vacation
24.    Peter Schilling: Major Tom (Coming Home)
25.    David Bowie: Let's Dance
These are all songs I was actually listening to in 1983, and were hits in 1983 (either US or UK).  There's TONS of really cool stuff from 1983 that I didn't discover until later!