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Subject: Favorite 80s songs NOT in Top 40
Written By: Midnite on 07/20/07 at 12:08 pm
What are the best 80s songs that are NOT "Top 40" songs?
I like:
Wonderful Life by Black
Gentlemen Take Polaroids by Japan
Talk About the Passion by REM
Cuts You Up by Peter Murphy
Feels Like Heaven by Fiction Factory
Ah Leah by Donnie Iris
The Killing Moon by Echo and the Bunnymen
Crazy by Icehouse
Switching To Glide by The Kings
Subject: Re: Favorite 80s songs NOT in Top 40
Written By: ladybug316 on 07/20/07 at 2:09 pm
Switching to Glide is a great tune!!
I always loved "What Do All The People Know" by the Monroes. I don't think it ever charted.
Subject: Re: Favorite 80s songs NOT in Top 40
Written By: tv on 07/20/07 at 4:43 pm
Don;t Take It Personal-Jermaine Jackson. I think "Don;t Take It Personal" was from 1989 I think.
Subject: Re: Favorite 80s songs NOT in Top 40
Written By: whistledog on 07/20/07 at 11:04 pm
Depends on what country you are in. Here's a random (except the first song) Top 10 for me based on Canadian charts ...
♦ Close My Eyes - Paul Janz
♦ Long Hot Summer - The Style Council
♦ That's When I Think of You - 1927
♦ Pressure Down - John Farnham
♦ Yeh Yeh - Matt Bianco
♦ Don't You Just Know It - Amazulu
♦ Each Time You Break My Heart - Nick Kamen
♦ Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order
♦ Say it Again - Jermaine Stewart
♦ Don't Go - Hothouse Flowers
Subject: Re: Favorite 80s songs NOT in Top 40
Written By: midnite on 07/23/07 at 3:37 pm
Whistledog, i havent heard of most of those songs. i will have to check them out.
Anyone else have any good 80's songs?
Here's some dancier R&B stuff.
I Can't Wait by Nu Shooz
Don't Wanna Fall In Love by Jane Child
The Rain by Oran Juice Jones
Is it a crime by Sade
A Night to remember by Shalamar
Good Life by Inner City
A Lover's Holiday by Change
Subject: Re: Favorite 80s songs NOT in Top 40
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/23/07 at 4:30 pm
What are the best 80s songs that are NOT "Top 40" songs?
I like:
Wonderful Life by Black
Gentlemen Take Polaroids by Japan
Talk About the Passion by REM
Cuts You Up by Peter Murphy
Feels Like Heaven by Fiction Factory
Ah Leah by Donnie Iris
The Killing Moon by Echo and the Bunnymen
Crazy by Icehouse
Switching To Glide by The Kings
Of course, you are refering to the US Charts?
Subject: Re: Favorite 80s songs NOT in Top 40
Written By: midnite on 07/24/07 at 8:55 am
Just songs that are good but didn't happen to chart well. Not specific to US or UK. Top 40 can be used loosely. Thanks!
Sahara Nights by FR David
A Good Heart by Feargal Sharkey
Real Gone Kid by Deacon Blue
Subject: Re: Favorite 80s songs NOT in Top 40
Written By: Philip Eno on 07/24/07 at 8:57 am
I only know FR David for only one record and that is "Words".
Subject: Re: Favorite 80s songs NOT in Top 40
Written By: ladybug316 on 07/24/07 at 9:16 am
What about "Make A Circuit With Me" by the Polecats? I love that song and I don't think it ever charted here in America.
Subject: Re: Favorite 80s songs NOT in Top 40
Written By: whistledog on 07/24/07 at 11:36 am
What about "Make A Circuit With Me" by the Polecats? I love that song and I don't think it ever charted here in America.
It was a great song. I listen to it often 8)
That song wasn't even a big hit in their native UK. It just missed the Top 75
Subject: Re: Favorite 80s songs NOT in Top 40
Written By: midnite1 on 07/24/07 at 1:05 pm
Sahara Nights by FR David is great. If you heard the song, you may faintly recognize it. It is better than words.
Make a circuit wih me is a great song too!!
Annie, I'm Not Your Daddy by Kid Creole and the coconuts
Live is Life by Opus
Belly of the Whale by Burning Sensation
Subject: Re: Favorite 80s songs NOT in Top 40
Written By: ladybug316 on 07/24/07 at 2:15 pm
It was a great song. I listen to it often 8)
That song wasn't even a big hit in their native UK. It just missed the Top 75
"...Just plug in and go, go, go. I'll be your human dynamo" ;D
Subject: Re: Favorite 80s songs NOT in Top 40
Written By: Lorelei on 07/24/07 at 10:23 pm
One of my favorites: Age of Consent--New Order. Lucky Me, we have our own station at work and just about anything from the 80's can be heard there.... ;)