I'm putting together a couple of 80s compilation Cds for an upcoming road trip: One disc will be of all my favourite 80s songs, for the second I would like some imput. Please help by completing the following, list as many songs as you wish:
"For me, the world's greatest 80s compilation would not be complete without......"
Thanx in advance,
Dee  :-*

For me, the world's greatest 80s compilation would not be complete without.....
- Def Leppard (Pour Some Sugar, Rock of Ages, Photgraph, Love Bites...)
- New Order (Blue Monday, Regret...)
- Duran Duran (Rio, Girls on Film, Hungry Like The Wolf...)
- Tears For Fears (Shout, Head Over Heels, Everybody Wants To Rule The World...)
- J Geils Band (Freeze Frame, Centrefold...)  8)
- Wham! (Wake Me Up Before You Go Go)  ;D

. . .

Human League (Don't you want me at least)
Rick Astley (Never gonna give you up at least)
Bananarama (Venus at least)
Soft cell (Tainted love)
Kim Wilde (Kids in America at least)
Dead or alive (You spin me 'round)
Adam and the Ants (Stand and deliver at least)
Culture Club (Karma Chameleon at least)
Level 42 (Running in the family)
Living in a box (Living in a box)
Wham! (Wake me up before you go go)

Throw a couple of odd ones in . . .

'Wipeout' - Fat boys
'Star trekkin'' - The Firm
'Living in video' - Trans-X
'Spirit in the sky' - Dr and the Medics
'One night in Bangkok - Murray Head

Intriguing to say the least.  ;D

99 Red Balloons (German version)-Nena
Hungry Like the Wolf and Rio-Duran Duran
She Blinded me with Science-Thomas Dolby
Eat It-Weird Al
Tainted Love-Soft Cell



There are more but that is all I can think of right now.



Cat

Human Nature - Michael Jackson
True - Spandau Ballet
Promises, Promises - Naked Eyes
Mickey - Toni Basil
Tell Her About It - Billy Joel
Flashdance - What A Feeling - Irene Cara
If You Leave - OMD
Take My Breath Away - Berlin
Eternal Flame - Bangles
Melt With You - Modern English
Take On Me - A-Ha
Sweet Child of Mine - Guns & Roses
I May Hate You Sometimes - The Posies
Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
Suburbia - Pet Shop Boys
Oh L'Amour - Erasure
Major Tom - Peter Schilling
Down Under - Men At Work
8675309 - Tommy Tutone
Rock This Town - Stray Cats
Talking In Your Sleep - The Romantics
We Are The World - USA For Africa
When The Children Cry - White Lion
The Flame - Cheap Trick
Love Is A Battlefield - Pat Benatar
Careless Whisper - Wham
One More Try - George Michael
Because I Love You - Stevie B
Summertime, Summertime - Nocera

oh yeah.. youre only making 2 cd's... i'll stop now..

Eye of The Tiger - Survivor
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
Miami Vice Theme - Jan Hammer
We Built This City on Rock N' Roll - Starship
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
Back In Black - AC/DC
Jump - Van Halen
Nuetron Dance - The Pointer Sisters
Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits
Mony Mony - Billy Idol
Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N' Roses
(Fight For Your Right) To Party - The Beastie Boys

See, I knew I would think of a few more:


Stray Cat Strut-The Stray Cats
I'm So Excited-The Pointer Sisters
When the Going Gets Tough-Billy Ocean
Land of Confusion-Genesis
Pressure-Billy Joel
The Longest Time-Billy Joel
Panama-Van Halen
Jenny/867-5309-Tommy Tutone


There are many, many more.



Cat

I'll try not to make this too long a list, but I recommend as much music used on Miami Vice as you can fit!

Jan Hammer, "Miami Vice" & "Crockett's Theme"
Glenn Frey, "Smuggler's Blues" & You Belong To The City"
Phil Collins, "In The Air Tonight" & "Take Me Home"
Tina Turner, "Better Be Good To Me"
Chaka Khan, "Own The Night"
Ted Nugent, "Little Miss Dangerous"
Sheena Easton, "Follow My Rainbow"

That should cover the essentials. I'll post again if I think of enought for another list. But hey, why stop at 2 CDs?

Your Pal,
Doc
8)

Prince - Little Red Corvette and his 1999.
Queen: Crazy Little Thing Called Love
Romantics - What I Like About You
Pat Benatar- Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Hell Is For Children
John Cougar - Hurts So Good
Jon Jett - I Love Rock and Roll and Bad Reputation
Rick Springfield - Jesse's Girl
Blondie - Call Me
Foreigner - Jukebox Hero
Loverboy - Turn Me Loose and Working for The Weekend
Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now
The Cars - Shake It Up
The J Geils Band - Freeze Frame
Tommy Tutone - 867-5309
David Bowie - China Girl
Madness - Our House
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
Katrina and The Waves - Walking On Sunshine

Rush, Tom Sawyer
Scorpions, Still Loving You
Rick Springfield, Honeymoon in Beirut
Thin Lizzy, Thunder and Lightning
Dire Straits, Telegraph Road
ZZ Top, Sharp Dressed Man
Van Halen, Why Can`t this be Love

Thankyou everyone for your input. :) I have burnt my discs and the track listings are as follows:
Disc 1:
Divine -You Think You're A Man
Split Enz -I Got You
Culture Club -I'll Tumble 4 Ya
Siouxsie And The Banshees -The Passanger
Suzi Quatro -Rock Hard
Steve Miller -Abracadabra
New Order -Blue Monday
Malcom McClaren -Aria On Air
Wham! -I'm Your Man
Phil Oakey & Giorgio Moroder -Electric Dreams
The Cure -Lovesong
Sting -Russians
Roger Waters -The Tide Is Turning
Freddie Mercury -My Love Is Dangerous
Cold Chisel -Cheap Wine
Richard Clapton -I Am An Island
INXS -Mystify
Uncanny X-Men -Don't Wake Me

Disc 2:
Jan Hammer -Miami Vice Theme
Naked Eyes -Always Something There To Remind Me
Kajagoogoo -Too Shy
Duran Duran -Hungry Like The Wolf
The Go Gos -We Got The Beat
Wham! -Wake Me Up Before You Go Go
Billy Idol -Flesh For Fantasy
INXS & Jimmy Barnes -Good Times
Uncanny X-Men -How Do You Get Your Kicks?
Split Enz -Message To My Girl
Gerry Rafferty -Baker Street
The Cure -In Between Days
Malcom McClaren -Madame Butterfly
Boy George -Love Is Leaving
Devo -Girl U Want
Van Halen -When It's Love

I think these should make the trip some Sydney to Canberra a bit more enjoyable. (I'm going to see my idol, Brian Mannix perform :D) There are other tracks I would have liked to fit on, but 80 minutes is 80 minutes. 8)

I want to thank everyone also!  You've reminded me of a bunch more songs that I can have my hubby burn for me!
:)

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Well kidz, I am now unofficially in the business of burning 80s compilations. 2 was not enough, I now have 3 (track listing for no.3 below) and am working on no.4! The reason? I think cos I'm always hanging round here and being reminded of great songs that I might include! :)

1.Uncanny X-Men -Truckin On Into Alice
2.Kids In the Kitchen -Change In Mood
3.INXS -Devil Inside 12"
4.The Go Gos -Our Lips Are Sealed
5.Siouxsie & The Banshees -Candy Man
6.Stevie Nicks -Talk To Me
7.Malcolm McLaren -Something's Jumpin In My Shirt
8.Aha -Take On Me
9.The Cure -Let's Go To Bed
10.Freddie Mercury -Love Kills 12"
11.Boy George -Sold 12"
12.David Bowie & Mick Jagger -Dancing In The Street
13.Simple Minds -Don't You Forget About Me 12"
14.Prince -When Doves Cry
15.Pink Floyd -Learning To Fly
16.Bee Gees -You Win Again
17.Def Leppard -Hysteria

Michael Jackson-Billie Jean or Thriller
George Michael-I want your sex
Breakfast Club-Right on track
38 special-So caught up in you (80's?)
Cyndi Lauper-Money Changes everything
Great White-once bitten, twice shy (80's-90's?)
Toto-Rosanna
Talk Talk-Its my life
Berlin-No more words

Most that everybody mentioned  :)


"Only In My Dreams" Debbie Gibson

end of the innocence and boys of summer by don henley

Well kidz, I am now unofficially in the business of burning 80s compilations. 2 was not enough, I now have 3 (track listing for no.3 below) and am working on no.4! The reason? I think cos I'm always hanging round here and being reminded of great songs that I might include! :)

And here is the track listing for no.4, recently completed:
1.Can't Stand Losing You -The Police
2.Making Your Mind Up -Bucks Fizz
3.Rock The Casbah -The Clash
4.Turning Japanes-The Vapours
5.Peek-A-Boo -Siouxsie & The Banshees
6.Edge Of Seventeen -Stevie Nicks
7.I Want To Break Free -Queen
8.Temptation -Heaven 17
9.Move Away 12" -Culture Club
10.Lay Your Hands On Me -Thompson Twins
11.One Slip -Pink Floyd
12.Dancing With Myself -Billy Idol
13.Waterfalls -Paul McCartney
14.Jealous Guy -Roxy Music
15.Baby, You're So Strange -Icehouse
16.Reckless -Australian Crawl

Currently working on 80s compilation no.5 :D

Weather Girls - It's Raining Men
Miguel Brown - So many men, so little time
Rah Band - Clouds across the moon (my alltime fav  ;) )
Michael Jackson - Beat it - Thriller
Frankie goes to Hollywood - Relax, War, Two tribes, welcome to the pleasuredome
Taffy - I love my radio
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Kenny Loggins - Welcome to heartlight
Ultravox Hymn, Vienna
Yazoo - Don't go
Ready for the word - Oh sheila

(can keep on typing till the sun comes out)

How could you guys forget "Cars" by Gary Numan? The best one hit wonder of the 80's. Probably the only one hit wonder that doesn't sound dated. It was actually ahead of its time. This song should definitely be included in your compilation No. 5.

If it were up to me I'd pick the following (among many others):

The promise - When In Rome
Maid of Orleans (Waltz Joan of Arc) - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Private investigations - Dire Straits
Told you so - Depeche Mode
Somebody - Depeche Mode
Fly on the windscreen - Depeche Mode
Little 15 - Depeche Mode
Vienna - Ultravox
Don't dream it's over - Crowded House

That's all (for now...)

Well, I really never imagined when I started on this humble project, that I would end up with 5 discs worth of music -with the possibility of another on the way!
Track listing for disc 5:
Bad Reputaion -Joan Jett
You Shook Me All Night Long -AC/DC
I Hear Motion -The Models
Rain -Dragon
Love My Way -Psuchedelic Furs
Relax -Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Cars -Gary Numan
Small Town Boy 12" -Bronski Beat
Catch My Fall -Billy Idol
You Spin Me Right Round -Dead Or Alive
Time After Time -Cyndi Lauper
Leather And Lace -Stevie Nicks/Don Henley
I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues -Elton John
Believe It Or Not -Joe S?
I Know You're Out There Somewhere -Moody Blues
The Killing Jar -Siouxsie & The Banshees
Working For The Weekend -Loverboy
Love Stinks -J.Jeils Band

I got another one for your next compilation. 'Just Like Paradise' from David Lee Roth. This was the last cheesy rock song to become a hit before Guns N Roses burst onto the music scene.

Just finished no.6, burn baby burn! :D
Tracklisting:
Heartbreak Beat -Psychedelic Furs
Fade To Grey 12" -Visage
I Ran -Flock Of Seagulls
We Can Get Together -Icehouse
Hold On -The Models
Patience -Guns N Roses
It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back) -Eurythmics
I Want Candy -Bow Wow Wow
Mixed Emotions -Rolling Stones
Red Light -Siouxsie And The Banshees
Eyes Without A Face -Billy Idol
You Got It -Roy Orbison
Don't Stop Believing  -Journey

...so where does that leave our input? ???

...so where does that leave our input? ???

It's not like I'm ignoring what you guys say! I get reminded of great songs all the time on this message board, not just through this post but others as well. Am just about to download a bunch of songs from Ultravox (whom I don't remember so well from the the day)  and  Depeche Mode.

It's not like I'm ignoring what you guys say! I get reminded of great songs all the time on this message board, not just through this post but others as well. Am just about to download a bunch of songs from Ultravox (whom I don't remember so well from the the day)  and  Depeche Mode.


Music to my ears!

Roman Holliday - Don't Try to Stop It; Stand By
Real Life - Send Me and Angel; Catch Me I'm Falling
Talk Talk - It's My Life
Lipps, Inc. - Funkytown
Fools - It's a Night for Beautiful Girls
B-52s - Rock Lobster
Church - Under the Milky Way
Double - Captain of Her Heart
Blow Monkeys - Diggin' Your Scene
Blondie - Tide is High
Alan Parsons - Games People Play
Any Trouble - Second Choice
A's - A Woman's Got the Power
Bluebells - Cath
Blue Oyster Cult - Burning for You
Loverboy - Working for the Weekend
Soft Cell - Tainted Love/Where did our love go
Payolas - Eyes of a Stranger
Human League - Don't you want me


Anything by Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, Men at Work,

New Order-Bizzare Love Triangle
Night Ranger-Sister Christian
Duran Duran-Wild Boys
Culture Club-Time
Mr. Mister-Kyrie
Crowded House-Don't Dream it's Over
Pet Shop Boys-Always on My Mind




Erin :)

Finally finished 80s compiloation no 7! :) TRack listing:

Love Is The 7th Wave -Sting
I Got You Babe -UB40 & Chrissie Hynde
Kyrie -Mr Minster
Do You Wanna Hold Me? -Bow Wow Wow
Tell Me Why -Bronski Beat
Vienna -Ultravox
Just Can't Get Enough -Depeche Mode
99 Luft Balloons -Nena
Guardian Angel -Masquerade
Send Me An Angel -Real Life
Hold Me -Colin James Hay
Listening -Pseudo Echo
The Flame -Cheap Trick
For The Longest Time -Billy Joel
Rosanna -Toto
Comfortably Numb -Pink Floyd
One Night In Bangkok -Murray Head
Ce Plane Pour Moi -Plastic Bertrand

Finally finished 80s compiloation no 7! :) TRack listing:

Love Is The 7th Wave -Sting
I Got You Babe -UB40 & Chrissie Hynde
Kyrie -Mr Minster
Do You Wanna Hold Me? -Bow Wow Wow
Tell Me Why -Bronski Beat
Vienna -Ultravox
Just Can't Get Enough -Depeche Mode
99 Luft Balloons -Nena
Guardian Angel -Masquerade
Send Me An Angel -Real Life
Hold Me -Colin James Hay
Listening -Pseudo Echo
The Flame -Cheap Trick
For The Longest Time -Billy Joel
Rosanna -Toto
Comfortably Numb -Pink Floyd
One Night In Bangkok -Murray Head
Ce Plane Pour Moi -Plastic Bertrand



Don't know about Australia, but that one was released in the Netherlands in 1978. I don't mind, though - Plastic Bertrand is a must in every compilation! ;)

Comfortably Numb is from the 70's. Maybe you should put Floyd's 'Learning to Fly' in its place. Or you could use 'Touch of Grey' by the Grateful Dead.

"Comfortably Numb" was released as a single 1980 -with the album from which it came (The Wall) already out the previous year.

I always put Neneh Cherry's "Buffalo Stance" on a compilation. Also:

"Genius of Love" tom tom club
"I Touch Roses" book of love
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" joy division?
"Tom's Diner" suzanne vega
"Big Country" big country
"It's My Life" talk talk
"Away" the bolshoi

Amd many more fab songs!

I always put Neneh Cherry's "Buffalo Stance" on a compilation. Also:

"Genius of Love" tom tom club
"I Touch Roses" book of love
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" joy division?
"Tom's Diner" suzanne vega
"Big Country" big country
"It's My Life" talk talk
"Away" the bolshoi

Amd many more fab songs!


I know Paul Young did that, not sure about Joy Division.

I know Paul Young did that, not sure about Joy Division.

They did. Great song.  8)

Mine would have to include some Huey Lewis & the News. "Heart of Rock & Roll", "Heart and Soul" or "Do You Believe in Love" would take me back.

Band Aid ~ Do They Know It's Christmas?

Peter Schilling- Major Tom
Kyrie- Mister Mister
Purple Rain- Prince
Lunatic Fringe-Red Rider
The Wall( entire CD)- Pink Floyd
Tainted Love( extended Version)- Soft Cell
Rain in the Summertime- The Alarm
Friday Im in Love- The Cure
This Time-Y&T