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Your favourite Song:
Your favourite Album:
Your favourite Band:
Your favourite Male singer:
Your favourite Female singer:

Song with Best Piano or Keyboard solo:
Song with Best Saxophone solo:
Song with best Guitar Solo:
Song with best Bass Guitar:
Song with best Drum work:

Song with best Lyrics:
Best Christmas Song:
Best Soundtrack song:
Best Movie Soundtrack Album:
Best TV Theme Song:

Best Guest Appearance on a Song:
Best Vocal Duet:

Least favourite song:

I'l fill in some most:

Your favourite Song: Eternal Flame - Bangles
Your favourite Album: Zenyatta Mondata - Police
Your favourite Band: Police
Your favourite Male singer: Phil Collins
Your favourite Female singer: Cyndi Lauper


Least favourite song: Don't know, but "Pass the Dutchie" is way up there, together with any rap song in the 80s.

Your favourite Song:  Close My Eyes - Paul Janz http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
Your favourite Album:  Fantastic! - Wham
Your favourite Band:  M1ke + The MeChan1C5
Your favourite Male singer:  Steve Winwood
Your favourite Female singer:  Laura Branigan

Song with Best Piano or Keyboard solo:  In Your Letter - REO Speedwagon
Song with Best Saxophone solo:  Ain't Good Lovin' - Diamond in the Rough http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png
Song with best Guitar Solo:  Heart Like A Wheel - Steve Miller Band
Song with best Bass Guitar:  Every Breath You Take - The Police (Different kind of bass, I know)
Song with best Drum work:  Eighties - Killing Joke

Song with best Lyrics:  I Feel Like Buddy Holly - Alvin Stardust
Best Christmas Song:  Another Rock and Roll Christmas - Gary Glitter
Best Soundtrack song:  Ever Fallen in Love - Fine Young Cannibals (Movie:  Something Wild)
Best Movie Soundtrack Album:  Night Shift
Best TV Theme Song:  Theme From Super Password

Best Guest Appearance on a Song:  Nikita - Elton John (background vocals by George Michael)
Best Vocal Duet:  Do You Know What I Mean? - Myles Goodwyn and Lee Aaron http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y7/whistledog/canada-1.png

Least favourite song:  Kiss - Prince

Your favourite Song: Cruel Summer - Bananarama (among many, many other songs from the 80s)
Your favourite Album: Faith - George Michael and Thriller - Michael Jackson
Your favourite Band: The Cars
Your favourite Male singer: Michael Jackson
Your favourite Female singer: Madonna

Best Christmas Song: Last Christmas - Wham!
Best Soundtrack song: Fame - Irene Cara
Best Movie Soundtrack Album: Purple Rain
Best TV Theme Song: Thank You For Being a Friend - The Golden Girls

Best Vocal Duet: Baby, Come to Me - Patti Austin and James Ingram

Least favourite song: Walk Like An Egyptian - The Bangles

Your favourite Song: Crush On You – The Jets
Your favourite Album: Luxury Of Life – Five Star
Your favourite Band: Five Star
Your favourite Male singer: Michael McDonald
Your favourite Female singer: Whitney Houston

Best Christmas Song: Winter Wonderland – Dolly Parton
Best Soundtrack song: Maniac – Michael Sombello / Let’s Hear It For The Boy – Deniece Williams
Best Movie Soundtrack Album: Dirty Dancing
Best TV Theme Song: Greatest American Hero

Best Vocal Duet: Far too many but off the top of my head... All Of You – Julio Iglesias and Diana Ross

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Your favourite Song: Right Stuff by Vanessa Williams
Your favourite Album: Bad by Michael Jackson
Your favourite Band: DeBarge and Whitesnake
Your favourite Male singer: Michael Jackson and El DeBarge
Your favourite Female singer: Whitney Houston and Taylor Dane

Song with Best Piano or Keyboard solo: ???
Song with Best Saxophone solo: ???
Song with best Guitar Solo: Beat It by Michael Jackson (Solo by Eddie Van Halen)
Song with best Bass Guitar: ???
Song with best Drum work: The Glamourous Life by Shelia E.

Song with best Lyrics: LAdy in my Life by Michael Jackson
Best Christmas Song: Jingle Bell Rock by Hall and Oates
Best Soundtrack song: Lemon Crush by Prince (Batman soundtrack 1989)
Best Movie Soundtrack Album: Purple Rain by Prince and the Revolution
Best TV Theme Song: Miami Vice

Best Guest Appearance on a Song: Rick James on Eddie Murphy's Party All the Time
Best Vocal Duet: I can't remember the name but I think Patti Labelle and Michael McDonald sang it...

Least favourite song: I Like It, by DeBarge. The high note El hit at the end RUINED it!  ::)

Best Vocal Duet: I can't remember the name but I think Patti Labelle and Michael McDonald sang it...

That would be "On My Own" - nice choice!

Liking all your other votes too. I'm a big fan of Debarge and El's solo work in the 80s. Sheila E's "Glamorous Life" was a favourite too!

Least favourite song: Walk Like An Egyptian - The Bangles


Ooh, that's one of my favorite songs from the 80s. :)

Your favourite Song: 'More Than This' - Roxy Music
Your favourite Album: 'Forever Young' - Alphaville
Your favourite Band: Duran Duran
Your favourite Male singer: Bryan Ferry
Your favourite Female singer: Kate Bush

Song with Best Piano solo: 'The Way It Is' - Bruce Hornsby & The Range
Song with Best Keyboard solo: 'The Voice' (album version) - Ultravox
Song with Best Saxophone solo: 'I Can't Go For That' - Hall & Oates
Song with best Guitar Solo: 'Smugglers Blues' - Glenn Frey
Song with best Bass Guitar: 'Club Country' - Associates
Song with best Drum work: 'In The Air Tonight' - Phil Collins

Song with best Lyrics:'Boy In The Bubble' - Paul Simon
Best Christmas Song: 'A Fairytale Of New York' - Kirsty MacColl and The Pogues
Best Soundtrack song: 'Holiday Road' - Lindsey Buckingham
Best Movie Soundtrack Album: The Living Daylights Motion Picture Soundtrack
Best TV Theme Song: Theme From 'The Fall Guy'

Best Guest Appearance on a Song: Elton John on George Michael's 'Don't Let The Sun Go Down On Me'
Best Vocal Duet: 'On My Own' - Patti la Belle & Michael McDonald

Least favourite song: 'I Know Him So Well' - Elaine Paige & Barbara Dixon

From the 80s:

Your favourite Song: "Blue Monday" - New Order
Your favourite Album: Hunting High And Low - a-ha
Your favourite Band: Depeche Mode
Your favourite Male singer:  Daryl Hall
Your favourite Female singer: Taylor Dayne

Song with Best Piano or Keyboard solo: Shep Pettibone's remix of Madonna's "Into The Groove" from the album You Can DanceSong with Best Saxophone solo:  "Rio" - Duran Duran
Song with best Guitar Solo:  fave is from "Let's Go Crazy" - Prince & The Revolution
Song with best Bass Guitar: "One" - Metallica
Song with best Drum work: "The Glamorous Life" - Sheila E.

Song with best Lyrics: "Reap The Wild Wind" - Ultravox
Best Christmas Song: "Last Christmas" - Wham!
Best Soundtrack song: "I'm Free (Heaven Helps The Man)" - Kenny Loggins
Best Movie Soundtrack Album: Purple Rain
Best TV Theme Song: Knight Rider Theme

Best Guest Appearance on a Song:  Sheena Easton on Prince's "U Got The Look"
Best Vocal Duet: "I Knew You Were Waiting (For Me)" - Aretha Franklin & George Michael

Least favourite song: "Come On Eileen" - Dexys Midnight Runners  8-P

^^Dude!^^

How can you not like "Come on Eileen?" That song was great!  :) One of my faves!

Your favourite Song:        Japan - Nightporter / Echo & The Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Your favourite Album:      A-ha - Scoundrel Days / Japan - Gentlemen Take Polaroids
Your favourite Band:        Japan / A-ha / Pet Shop Boys
Your favourite Male singer:  Sting / David Sylvian
Your favourite Female singer:  Gloria Estefan

Song with Best Piano or Keyboard solo:  Naked Eyes - When The Lights Go Out
Song with Best Saxophone solo:            Haircut 100 - Love Plus One
Song with best Guitar Solo:                    ACDC - Back In Black / Metallica - Master Of Puppets
Song with best Bass Guitar:                    Police - Every Breath You Take
Song with best Drum work:                    Rush - YYZ

Song with best Lyrics:                    Beastie Boys - She's Crafty
Best Christmas Song:                    Waitresses - Christmas Wrapping
Best Soundtrack song:                  Jackson Browne - Somebody's Baby (Fast Times At Ridgemont High)
Best Movie Soundtrack Album:        ?
Best TV Theme Song:                  Theme From Greatest American Hero

Best Guest Appearance on a Song:  Michael Jackson in Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me"
Best Vocal Duet:                          Bonnie Bianco & Pierre Cosso - Stay               

Least favourite song:                    Simply Red - If You Don't Love Me By Now

Your favourite Female singer:   Gloria Estefan

Nice...


Best Guest Appearance on a Song:  Michael Jackson in Rockwell's "Somebody's Watching Me"

And nice again!

^^Dude!^^

How can you not like "Come on Eileen?" That song was great!  :) One of my faves!




Midas isn't the only one - I think it sucks as well!  8-P

^^Dude!^^

How can you not like "Come on Eileen?" That song was great!  :) One of my faves!




OVERplayed.  OVERhyped.  OVERrequested.  OVERrated.  As I've stated before on this board, when I held a 5-year 80s night DJ residency a few years back, I did everything from breaking CDs to giving them away so people could listen to the freakin' song in their car to running a scam with my ex-wife to give me a large sum of money not to play it on those nights.  I think I averaged playing it once every 6 months, and it probably got played maybe 2 or three times on the 6 years of Retro Dance Party.    8-P

Your favourite Song: Bad Day - Carmel
Your favourite Album: Dare - Human League
Your favourite Band: Eurythmics
Your favourite Male singer: Paul Heaton (House martins, Beautiful South)
Your favourite Female singer: Carmel McCourt

Song with Best Piano or Keyboard solo: glory days - springsteen
Song with Best Saxophone solo:Careless Whisper - George Michael)
Song with best Guitar Solo: One - Metallica
Song with best Bass Guitar: Willow Weep for Me - Carmel
Song with best Drum work: People are People - Depeche Mode

Song with best Lyrics: Tempted - Squeeze
Best Christmas Song: Do They Know It's Christmas - Band Aid
Best Soundtrack song: Don't You Forget About Me - Simple Minds (Breakfast Club)
Best Movie Soundtrack Album: Purple Rain
Best TV Theme Song: Yellow Pearl - Phil Lynnot (Top of the Pops)

Best Guest Appearance on a Song: Phil Collins on - No one is to Blame by Howard Jones
Best Vocal Duet: Arms of Orion - Prince and Sheena Easton

Least favourite song:  Every Breath you Take - The Police

Frank - Your favourite Band: Police never got it! (loved- Can't stand losing you, but got too up there own asses imho  ???

Whistledog - Your favourite Band:  M1ke + The MeChan1C5 how good were they! Paul Carrick is an amazing singer

coqueta83, Midas & apollonia1986- Best Movie Soundtrack Album: Purple Rain  ;)

robby76 - Your favourite Band: Five Star i remember playing "rain or shine" on the jukebox all night when it first came out  ;D

Chasey - Song with Best Piano solo: 'The Way It Is' - Bruce Hornsby & The Range that is an awesome intro  :)


Midas - Least favourite song: "Come On Eileen" - Dexys Midnight Runners lol  :-X


midnite - Your favourite Female singer:   Gloria Estefan she's great, didnt get into her till the 90s :o oo-er mrs

OVERplayed.  OVERhyped.  OVERrequested.  OVERrated. 


Unless you show me a wedding invitation with the name "Eileen" on it, it ain't getting played.

Unless you show me a wedding invitation with the name "Eileen" on it, it ain't getting played.

I thought C'Mon Eileen was a fabulous song, one of the best of the 80s

I thought C'Mon Eileen was a fabulous song, one of the best of the 80s


I didn't mind the track much myself, but (at least in North America) it was overplayed.  The first wave of 'retro' as a cultural fad took place in the mid-90s, and it was played at least once every night at every such club.  Unlike something like Tainted Love, it's just not danceable enough to tolerate that sort of abuse :)

I didn't mind the track much myself, but (at least in North America) it was overplayed.  The first wave of 'retro' as a cultural fad took place in the mid-90s, and it was played at least once every night at every such club.  Unlike something like Tainted Love, it's just not danceable enough to tolerate that sort of abuse :)

Yup. C'Mon Eileen is not quiet a danceable song. Tainted love is a better dance song.  Yes, I do remember it was overplayed as well, but I still like it. Lots of good danceable songs from the early's 80s when New Wave was starting out. Some unknown ones were really quite good. Don't know if you remember a song by Visage called, I think it was called "fade to grey". Nice dance song.

Yup. C'Mon Eileen is not quiet a danceable song. Tainted love is a better dance song.  Yes, I do remember it was overplayed as well, but I still like it. Lots of good danceable songs from the early's 80s when New Wave was starting out. Some unknown ones were really quite good. Don't know if you remember a song by Visage called, I think it was called "fade to grey". Nice dance song.

I will forever associate 'Come On Eileen' with dodgy British nightclubs.  You know the sort - where the ratio of male to female is about 100/1, and where one hundred pissed chavs have scared the last remaining females off the dance floor by linking arms with each other, sloshing copious amounts of Carlsberg beer all over the place in time to their over-aggressive high kicking in the process.

<shudders>

Tainted love is a better dance song.

Well....that depends on which version you hear.  The original version of 'Tainted Love' is obviously a classic, but sometime in the late 1980's/early 90's Marc Almond re-recorded a new version and video for release on his 'Soft Cell/Memorabillia Greatest Hits' album, and it's not a patch on the original IMHO; It's weak, lacks cutting edge and is just boring. Sadly, this version is the one that is used on VH1 now.

Some unknown ones were really quite good. Don't know if you remember a song by Visage called, I think it was called "fade to grey". Nice dance song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UT8ZOB0MIV4

Love Visage.  However, I wouldn't say that 'Fade To Grey' is very danceable....I've seen people contort their bodies into positions I never thought possible whilst dancing to this!  :o

Final point to note was that I think the diversity of the early 80's was never better demonstrated by 'Fade To Grey' and 'Come On Eileen', which represented complete opposite ends of the spectrum.  

Unless you show me a wedding invitation with the name "Eileen" on it, it ain't getting played.


Thank you!


Well....that depends on which version you hear.  The original version of 'Tainted Love' is obviously a classic, but sometime in the late 1980's/early 90's Marc Almond re-recorded a new version and video for release on his 'Soft Cell/Memorabillia Greatest Hits' album, and it's not a patch on the original IMHO; It's weak, lacks cutting edge and is just boring. Sadly, this version is the one that is used on VH1 now.


Love Visage.  However, I wouldn't say that 'Fade To Grey' is very danceable....I've seen people contort their bodies into positions I never thought possible whilst dancing to this!  :o

Final point to note was that I think the diversity of the early 80's was never better demonstrated by 'Fade To Grey' and 'Come On Eileen', which represented complete opposite ends of the spectrum. 



If you mix Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" with Visage's "Frequency 7", it becomes more dance-able :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrLE0K28vYI

'Come on Eileen' isn't a bad song.  I can voluntarily listen to it every now and again, but in my 1000 favourite songs of the 80s, I don't think it would place.

If you mix Soft Cell's "Tainted Love" with Visage's "Frequency 7", it becomes more dance-able :D

Me likes...a lot!  Thanks, Midas  :)

Have you heard the original version of 'Frequency 7' by Visage?  I uploaded it to my Youtube account:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5CK4ph_gJjA

Your favourite Song: Lonely in Your Nightmare - Duran Duran
Your favourite Album: Seven and the Ragged Tiger - Duran Duran
Your favourite Band: Duran Duran
Your favourite Male singer: Paul Young
Your favourite Female singer: Martika

Song with Best Piano or Keyboard solo: Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics
Song with Best Saxophone solo: She's Like The Wind - Patrick Swayze / Far From Over - BLVD.
Song with best Guitar Solo: Beat It - Michael Jackson
Song with best Bass Guitar: Rio - Duran Duran
Song with best Drum work: Rasputin - Boney M.

Song with best Lyrics: Everytime You Go - Paul Young
Best Christmas Song: Do They Know It's Christmas - Band-Aid / Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer - Corey Hart
Best Soundtrack song: Don't You (Forget about Me) - Simple Minds
Best Movie Soundtrack Album: Cocktail
Best TV Theme Song: Dr. Who - Tom Baker & Peter Davison 1980-1985

Best Guest Appearance on a Song: Easy Lover - Phil Collins feat. Philip Bailey (Only other I could think of is Rockwell feat. Michael Jackson)
Best Vocal Duet: Endless Love - Diana Ross & Lionel Ritchie

Least favourite song: We Built This City - Starship

Least favourite song: We Built This City - Starship


It's one of those songs you love for the first week it's out and then slowly grow to hate.  ;D Not bad as a song I suppose but it was overplayed.

'Come on Eileen' isn't a bad song.  I can voluntarily listen to it every now and again, but in my 1000 favourite songs of the 80s, I don't think it would place.


With 10 cans of Tennants Super lager, suddenly it becomes the greatest song ever!  :D

Me likes...a lot!  Thanks, Midas  :)

Have you heard the original version of 'Frequency 7' by Visage?  I uploaded it to my Youtube account:




I have and I likes a lot too. ;)

Hot Tracks Remix Service put out a mix of "Tainted Love" with a little bit of "Frequency 7" in the break back in the day.

Your favourite Song: Lonely in Your Nightmare - Duran Duran
Your favourite Male singer: Paul Young
Your favourite Female singer: Martika



Thats my favorite Duran Duran song too!

Martika?  I only know of her one song.


A couple revisions for my post:
Song with best Bass Guitar: Talking In Your Sleep - The Romantics

Song with best Lyrics: Fischer Z - So Long

Your favourite

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Your favourite Song: wow, that's a tough one! Cure's "Love Song"?
Your favourite Band: Duran Duran ( back then it was NKOTB  ::) )
Your favourite Male singer: Bryan Adams
Your favourite Female singer: Pat Benatar

Song with best Guitar Solo: Beat It (Michael Jacskon)

Best Christmas Song: Do They Know It's Christmas Time (Band-Aid)
Best Soundtrack song: Fame
Best Movie Soundtrack Album: Footloose

Best Vocal Duet: It's Only Love (Bryan Adams and Tina Turner)

Least favourite song: 1999 (Prince)/Somebody's Watching Me (Rockwell)

Your favourite Song: "Take on Me" (that's so hard but I guess if I had to pick just one)
Your favourite Album: Cant Slow Down- Lionel Richie
Your favourite Band: Hall & Oates probably
Your favourite Male singer: Phil Collins (just cuz he's got so many good songs between him solo and Genesis)
Your favourite Female singer: tossup between Paula and early Madonna

Song with Best Piano or Keyboard solo: "Every Little Kiss"-Bruce Hornsby (love the piano at the beginning)
-I think "True" had the best background music too
Song with Best Saxophone solo: "Waiting for a Star to fall"- Boy Meets Girl
Song with best Guitar Solo: "Living on a Prayer"-Bon Jovi (best pop metal song ever)
Song with best Bass Guitar: uhh, not sure
Song with best Drum work: "Magic"-the cars

Song with best Lyrics: "Rush Rush"-Paula Abdul (it's '91 sue me lol - it's her best song and she's an 80s artist)
Best Christmas Song: "Last Christmas"-Wham
Best Soundtrack song: "Power of Love"-Huey Lewis
Best Movie Soundtrack Album: Fast Times (lots of unknown great songs plus the Jackson Browne one)
Best TV Theme Song: America's Funniest Home Videos theme

Best Guest Appearance on a Song: Eddie Van Halen on "Beat it"
Best Vocal Duet: "That's What Friends are for" (it's corny even for its time, but it's a pretty slow song)

Least favourite song: "Addicted to Love"-Robert Palmer (it's not horrible or anything, but it's kinda dull and I never understood why it or its video was so popular)

Good survey. :)

Your favourite Song: "Take on Me" (that's so hard but I guess if I had to pick just one)
Your favourite Album: Cant Slow Down- Lionel Richie

Best Movie Soundtrack Album: Fast Times (lots of unknown great songs plus the Jackson Browne one)

Good survey. :)


A-ha was good and has much better songs than "Take On Me" but thats a good choice!!!!
When I was a kid I had Lionel Ritchie's "Can't Slow Down" on cassette and listened to it all the time!!! I loved that album. 
Fast Times At Ridgemont High is a "cool" soundtrack and yes, Jackson Browne's song rocks!!