What are your fave songs from '84?  Here's just a few I like:

Adult Education/Out of Touch - Hall & Oates
Holiday/Borderline/Lucky Star - Madonna
She-Bop/All Through the Night - Cyndi Lauper
Cool it Now - New Edition
Stuck On You - Lionel Richie
Runaway - Bon Jovi
Sunglasses at Night - Corey Hart

That's just a few to start with - I'm sure I'll think of more later.  :)

One particular favourite of mine:

99 Red Balloons ~ Nena

8)

Duran Duran "The Reflex"
INXS "Oringinal Sin"
Madonna "Borderline"
Bruce Springsteen & The E-Street Band "Born In The USA"
Ratt "Round & Round"
U2 "Pride (In The Name Of Love)"
The Cars "Drive"
Tina Turner "What's Love Got To Do With It"
Thompson Twins "Hold Me Now"
Billy Idol "Eyes Without A Face"
Depeche Mode "People Are People"
Howard Jones "New Song"
General Public "Tenderness"
New Edition "Cool It Now"
Twisted Sister "We're Not Gonna Take It"
REM "South Central Rain"
Wham! "Wake Me Up Before You Go Go"
Bon Jovi "Runaway"
Band Aid "Do They Know It's Christmas"
Huey Lewis & The News "I Want A New Drug"

Not as good as '85 and '86 but another year in the '80s with a lot of good songs

Some of my favorites...

The best

Our House -- Madness
Forget Me Nots -- Patrice Rushen
Time (Clock of the Heart) -- Culture Club
Love Plus One -- Haircut One Hundred
Human Nature -- Michael Jackson
Whisper to a Scream -- Icicle Works
Run Runaway -- Slade
Tainted Love -- Soft Cell
It's My Life -- Talk Talk
Dance Hall Days -- Wang Chung
Pride (In the Name of Love) -- U2 (already mentioned)

And some other good ones

What I Like About You -- The Romantics (from their 1980 album)
Owner of a Lonely Heart -- Yes
Cruel Summer -- Bananarama
The Glamorous Life -- Sheila E.
All Through The Night -- Cyndi Lauper
Everyday is Halloween -- Ministry
Promises, Promises -- Naked Eyes
Caribbean Queen -- Billy Ocean
Major Tom -- Peter Schilling
Rock You Like A Hurricane -- Scorpions 
Let`s Stay Together -- Tina Turner
Black Butterfly -- Deniece Williams

(again, all 1984 songs where I live)

:)

Radio Ga Ga/ I Want to Break Free/It's A Hard Life/Hammer To Fall  -Queen
Flesh For Fantasy/Rebel Yell/Catch My Fall/Eyes Without A Face -Billy Idol
A Beat For You -Pseudo Echo
The Dream -Culture Club
Smalltown Boy -Bronski Beat
Flame Trees -Cold Chisel

Some more...  8)  :D


Prince "When Doves Cry"
Sheena Easton "Sugar Walls"
The Go Go's "Head Over Heels"
Depeche Mode "Master & Servant"
Banarama "Cruel Summer"
INXS "I Send A Message"
Duran Duran "Wild Boys"
Echo & The Bunnymen "Seven Seas"
Bruce Springsteen "Dancing In The Dark"
Cyndi Lauper "Time After Time"
Tina Turner "Private Dancer"
Madonna "Lucky Star"

A few more:

Van Halen "Jump"
DeBarge "Who's Holding Donna Now"
Corey Hart "Never Surrender"
The Cars "Magic"

And one that was mentioned, "The Reflex" by Duran Duran.  That one sticks out because it was #1 on my local top 40 radio station's nightly countdown for nearly the entire summer.

A few more:

Van Halen "Jump"
DeBarge "Who's Holding Donna Now"
Corey Hart "Never Surrender"
The Cars "Magic"

And one that was mentioned, "The Reflex" by Duran Duran.  That one sticks out because it was #1 on my local top 40 radio station's nightly countdown for nearly the entire summer.


Oh, and "Thr Reflex" was eventually unseated on said survey by..."Ghostbusters."

A few more:

Van Halen "Jump"
DeBarge "Who's Holding Donna Now"
Corey Hart "Never Surrender"
The Cars "Magic"

And one that was mentioned, "The Reflex" by Duran Duran.  That one sticks out because it was #1 on my local top 40 radio station's nightly countdown for nearly the entire summer.


Believe it or not, "The Reflex" was also the first Duran Duran song to be #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 (US) Charts.

Just a few more:

The War Song - Culture Club
There's No Stoppin Us - Ollie & Jerry
On the Dark Side - John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band
Tenderness - General Public
Talk Talk - Talk Talk

1984

1/.  Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face
2/.  Jane Clifton - Girl On The Wall 
3/.  INXS - I Send A Message
4/.  Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days
5/.  Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie
6/.  Dear Enemy - Computer One
7/.  Foreigner - That Was Yesterday
8/    Nena - 99 Luft Balloons
9/.  Non Stop Dancers - Shake This City
10/. Uncanny X-Men - Everybody Wants To Work

One particular favourite of mine:

99 Red Balloons ~ Nena

You mean "99 Luftballon", don't you?

You mean "99 Luftballon", don't you?

"99 Red Balloons" is the English version for "99 Luftballon", if you didn't know.
I don't know why there are people who actually didn't know Nena recorded this song in English when I actually grew up on this one.

Also, there are some songs that were promo singles before 1984 such as Culture Club's "Time". This song's from the album "Kissing To Be Clever" (1982) but I guess it became famous in the USA a year later.
The same thing happened to "Karma Chameleon": This song was originally released in 1983 but it came to be known in the USA in 1984.

Another 1984's good songs are A-Ha's "Take On Me", Laura Branigan's "Self-Control", Wham!'s "Wake Me Up Before You Go - Go", Katrina And The Waves' "Walking On Sunshine", Berlin's "No More Words" among others.

"99 Red Balloons" is the English version for "99 Luftballon", if you didn't know.
I don't know why there are people who actually didn't know Nena recorded this song in English when I actually grew up on this one.

I'm not really sure you can call "99 Red Balloons" the english version, since the two sets of lyrics have absolutely nothing in common, but I guess you'll have to understand german to hear that, I just think that "99 Luftballon" is the best version and many people don't seem to realize that it's two different songs.

Radio Gaga ~ Queen

I don't know why there are people who actually didn't know Nena recorded this song in English when I actually grew up on this one.

If I remember rightly, the group had to record it in English as British record buyers were (at the time) pretty loathe to buy anything not sung in the native tongue - a lot of European records went via this route, 'Dolce Vita' and 'Words' (both '83) being a couple of examples...

But the music (and tabloid) press were more interested in what was growing in Nena's armpit more than anything else...!

1984

1/.   Billy Idol - Eyes Without A Face
2/.   Jane Clifton - Girl On The Wall 
3/.   INXS - I Send A Message
4/.   Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days
5/.   Steve Perry - Oh Sherrie
6/.   Dear Enemy - Computer One
7/.   Foreigner - That Was Yesterday
8/    Nena - 99 Luft Balloons
9/.   Non Stop Dancers - Shake This City
10/. Uncanny X-Men - Everybody Wants To Work



My history teacher was in Dear Enemy hahaha ;D

My history teacher was in Dear Enemy hahaha ;D


The Real Life's "Send Me An Angel" has to be the best song ever from 1984. There's no question of it being rubbish. No one can put any other song in it's place.