Song Contest Part XXII, Host: Ocha905, Theme: Favourite Genre, Votes Due: Sunday 10pm AEST Time

[JHF1870]

Just had a proud dad moment.
D1: Can I sell my Taylor Swift record (1989) so I can get The Queen Is Dead?

1989 is still an iconic album.

The Smiths have well and truly been tapped into in the comp. They've done fairly well with some shock results along the way.

 

[Fossie 32]

These are some of my faves from the 80s. Not all in the right order. Top 20 or so are fairly interchangeable

1 Don't Get Me Wrong - Pretenders
2 Learning To Fly - Pink Floyd
3 The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
4 Why Can't This Be Love - Van Halen
5 Coming Around Again - Carly Simon
6 Rip It Up - James Reyne
7 Friends of Mine - Kevin Johnson
8 Power and the Passion - Midnight Oil
9 New Year's Day - U2
10 Jimmy Sharman's Boxers - Midnight Oil
11 The Tide Is Turning - Roger Waters
12 People Get Ready - Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck
13 State of theHeart - Mondo Rock
14 Saturday Night - Cold Chisel
15 Xanadu - Olivia Newton - John
16 Magic - Olivia Newton - John
17 Chain Reaction- Diana Ross
18 Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - ThePolice
19 Glittering Prize - Simple Minds
20 Starting Over - John Lennon
21 We Live For Love- Pat Benatar
22 Whip It [Live EP] - Devo
23 Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
24 Armistice Day - Midnight Oil
25 Stand In Line - Midnight Oil
26 Under The Milky Way - The Church
27 Funky Town - Lipps Inc
28 1999 - Prince
29 Wherever I Lay My Hat - Paul Young
30 Woman - John Lennon
31 Chemistry - Mondo Rock
32 Stop Your Fussin’ - Toni Childs
33 The Power of Love - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
34 Invisible Sun - The Police
35 Some Time In Summertime - Simple Minds
36 Belfast Child - Simple Minds
37 Undercover - Rolling Stones
38 Time After Time - Cindy Lauper
39 Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime - Korgis
40 Love Song - Simple Minds
41 Girls On Film - Duran Duran
42 Short Memory - Midnight Oil
43 Beautiful Boy - John Lennon
44 Let's Get Rich Together - Eric Gradman
45 Irish Boy - Mark Knopfler
46 Stop The Cavalry - Jona Lewie
47 Walking On The Moon - Police
48 Hammerhead - James Reyne
49 Put Down That Weapon - Midnight Oil
50 Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
51 Every Breath You Take - Police
52 Do They Know It's Christmas Time - Band Aid
53 Life In A Northern Town - Dream Academy
54 Promised You A Miracle - Simple Minds
55 Wrapped Around Your Finger- Police
56 In The AIr Tonight - Phil Collins
57 Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads
58 Betty Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
59 Song To The Siren - This Mortal Coil
60 I Got You - Split Enz
61 Kokomo - Beach Boys
62 In The Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics
63 Reckless - Australian Crawl
64 Stay With Me Till Dawn - Judy Tzuke
65 Nobody's Perfect - Mike and the Mechanics
66 Toy Soldiers - Martika
67 I Hear Motion - The Models
68 Sons Of The West - Mike Brady
69 Soldier of Fortune - John Paul Young
70 The Bottom Line - Big Audio Dynamite
71 Woman In Love - Barbara Streisand
72 Late InTheEvening - Paul Simon
73 Slave To The Rhythm - Grace Jones
74 I'll Find My Way Home - John Anderson and Vangelis
75 Emotional Rescue - Rolling Stones
76 Talking To A Stranger - Hunters and Collectors
77 Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac
78 Tainted Love - Soft Cell
79 We Are The World - USA For Africa
80 Counting The Beat - The Swingers
81 That's What Friends Are For - Dionne Warwick
82 You're The Voice - John Farnham
83 All The Boys In Town - Divinyls
84 Electric Dreams - Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder
85 Bow River - Cold Chisel
86 Taxi Mary - Jane Clifton and Joe Camilleri
87 Say I Love You - Renee Geyer
88 One Perfect Day - Little Heroes
89 Short Note - Matt Finish
90 Seven Year Ache - Roseanne Cash
91 Call Me Al - Paul Simon
92 Taipan - Cold Chisel
93 The Winner Takes It All - Abba
94 Hazy Shade of Winter - Bangles
95 Forever Now - Cold Chisel
96 I Know You're Out There Somewhere - Moody Blues
97 Generals and Majors - XTC
98 Senses Working Overtime - XTC
99 Dancing In The Dark - Bruce Springsteen
100 Fire - Bruce Springsteen
101 Can You Feel It - Jacksons
102 I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner
103 When The World Is Running Down - Police
104 Let's Dance - David Bowie
105 Pleasure and Pain - Divinyls
106 Shuttered Palace - Ellen Foley
107 Total Control - Motels
108 He's Gonna Step On You - Party Boys
109 Highway Corroboree - Austentayshus
110 Message of Love - Pretenders
111 Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters
112 Everybody Wants To Rule the World - Tears For Fears
113 Australiana - Austen Tayshus
114 Perfect - FairgroundAttraction
115 Orinoco Flow - Enya
116 Tucker's Daughter - Ian Moss
117 All She Wants To Do Is Dance - Don Henley
118 We Can Get Together - Icehouse
119 Liitle Lies - Fleetwood Mac
120 So Long - Fischer Z
121 Our Lips Are Sealed - Go Gos
122 Abracadabra - Genesis
123 The Heat Is On - Glen Frey
124 Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
125 Flash - Queen
126 Day Trip To Bangor - Fiddler's Dram
127 Broken English - Marianne Faithful
128 Always Look On The Bright Side - Monty Python
129 Welcome To The Boom Town - David and David
130 True Colours - Cyndi Lauper
131 Electric Avenue - Eddie Grant
132 Start Me Up - Rolling Stones
133 King of Pain - Police
134 Heaven - Eurogliders
135 What I Am - Edie Bricknell
136 In Between Days - The Cure
137 Solid Rock - Goanna
138 99 Red Balloons - Nina
139 Going Home - Mark Knopfler
140 Driven To Tears - Police
141 Look of Love - ABC
142 China Girl - David Bowie
143 Bad To the Bone - George Thorogood
144 Cocaine - Eric Clapton
145 Lady In Red - Chris de Burgh
146 You Got It - Roy Orbison
147 Looking For Clues - Robert Palmer
148 Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
149 Coming Up - Paul McCartney
150 Keep On Loving You - Reo Speedwagon
151 NeutronDance - Pointer Sisters
152 Born In The USA - Bruce Springsteen
153 Under Pressure - Queen
154 Ashes To Ashes - David Bowie
155 Ain't No Age For Rock and Roll - Veterans
156 Come Said the Boy - Mondo Rock
157 Down Under - Men At Work
158 Brass In Pocket - Pretenders
159 Age of Reason - John Farnham
160 Drive - Cars
161 Planet Clare - B52s
162 She Makes My Day - Robert Palmer
163 Road To Nowhere - Talking Heads
164 Graceland - Paul Simon
165 Telegraph Road - Dire Straits
166 Close to Me - Cure
167 Mancini Shuffle - Matt Finish
168 Mirror Man - Human League
169 Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners

 

[Stokey]

No way I could even attempt a list like that.

Purple Rain would be close to No. 1 though.

Back on the chain gang would be my Pretenders song.

Ashes to Ashes 80s? I always thought it was early 70s. Learn something every day.

 

[Fossie 32]

It came out in 1980 just checked

 

[Stokey]

It came out in 1980 just checked

Wasnt questioning. Just surprised.

 

[spudmaster]

These are some of my faves from the 80s. Not all in the right order. Top 20 or so are fairly interchangeable

1 Don't Get Me Wrong - Pretenders
2 Learning To Fly - Pink Floyd
3 The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
4 Why Can't This Be Love - Van Halen
5 Coming Around Again - Carly Simon
6 Rip It Up - James Reyne
7 Friends of Mine - Kevin Johnson
8 Power and the Passion - Midnight Oil
9 New Year's Day - U2
10 Jimmy Sharman's Boxers - Midnight Oil
11 The Tide Is Turning - Roger Waters
12 People Get Ready - Rod Stewart and Jeff Beck
13 State of theHeart - Mondo Rock
14 Saturday Night - Cold Chisel
15 Xanadu - Olivia Newton - John
16 Magic - Olivia Newton - John
17 Chain Reaction- Diana Ross
18 Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - ThePolice
19 Glittering Prize - Simple Minds
20 Starting Over - John Lennon
21 We Live For Love- Pat Benatar
22 Whip It [Live EP] - Devo
23 Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
24 Armistice Day - Midnight Oil
25 Stand In Line - Midnight Oil
26 Under The Milky Way - The Church
27 Funky Town - Lipps Inc
28 1999 - Prince
29 Wherever I Lay My Hat - Paul Young
30 Woman - John Lennon
31 Chemistry - Mondo Rock
32 Stop Your Fussin’ - Toni Childs
33 The Power of Love - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
34 Invisible Sun - The Police
35 Some Time In Summertime - Simple Minds
36 Belfast Child - Simple Minds
37 Undercover - Rolling Stones
38 Time After Time - Cindy Lauper
39 Everybody's Got To Learn Sometime - Korgis
40 Love Song - Simple Minds
41 Girls On Film - Duran Duran
42 Short Memory - Midnight Oil
43 Beautiful Boy - John Lennon
44 Let's Get Rich Together - Eric Gradman
45 Irish Boy - Mark Knopfler
46 Stop The Cavalry - Jona Lewie
47 Walking On The Moon - Police
48 Hammerhead - James Reyne
49 Put Down That Weapon - Midnight Oil
50 Beds Are Burning - Midnight Oil
51 Every Breath You Take - Police
52 Do They Know It's Christmas Time - Band Aid
53 Life In A Northern Town - Dream Academy
54 Promised You A Miracle - Simple Minds
55 Wrapped Around Your Finger- Police
56 In The AIr Tonight - Phil Collins
57 Once In A Lifetime - Talking Heads
58 Betty Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
59 Song To The Siren - This Mortal Coil
60 I Got You - Split Enz
61 Kokomo - Beach Boys
62 In The Living Years - Mike and the Mechanics
63 Reckless - Australian Crawl
64 Stay With Me Till Dawn - Judy Tzuke
65 Nobody's Perfect - Mike and the Mechanics
66 Toy Soldiers - Martika
67 I Hear Motion - The Models
68 Sons Of The West - Mike Brady
69 Soldier of Fortune - John Paul Young
70 The Bottom Line - Big Audio Dynamite
71 Woman In Love - Barbara Streisand
72 Late InTheEvening - Paul Simon
73 Slave To The Rhythm - Grace Jones
74 I'll Find My Way Home - John Anderson and Vangelis
75 Emotional Rescue - Rolling Stones
76 Talking To A Stranger - Hunters and Collectors
77 Everywhere - Fleetwood Mac
78 Tainted Love - Soft Cell
79 We Are The World - USA For Africa
80 Counting The Beat - The Swingers
81 That's What Friends Are For - Dionne Warwick
82 You're The Voice - John Farnham
83 All The Boys In Town - Divinyls
84 Electric Dreams - Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder
85 Bow River - Cold Chisel
86 Taxi Mary - Jane Clifton and Joe Camilleri
87 Say I Love You - Renee Geyer
88 One Perfect Day - Little Heroes
89 Short Note - Matt Finish
90 Seven Year Ache - Roseanne Cash
91 Call Me Al - Paul Simon
92 Taipan - Cold Chisel
93 The Winner Takes It All - Abba
94 Hazy Shade of Winter - Bangles
95 Forever Now - Cold Chisel
96 I Know You're Out There Somewhere - Moody Blues
97 Generals and Majors - XTC
98 Senses Working Overtime - XTC
99 Dancing In The Dark - Bruce Springsteen
100 Fire - Bruce Springsteen
101 Can You Feel It - Jacksons
102 I Want To Know What Love Is - Foreigner
103 When The World Is Running Down - Police
104 Let's Dance - David Bowie
105 Pleasure and Pain - Divinyls
106 Shuttered Palace - Ellen Foley
107 Total Control - Motels
108 He's Gonna Step On You - Party Boys
109 Highway Corroboree - Austentayshus
110 Message of Love - Pretenders
111 Slow Hand - Pointer Sisters
112 Everybody Wants To Rule the World - Tears For Fears
113 Australiana - Austen Tayshus
114 Perfect - FairgroundAttraction
115 Orinoco Flow - Enya
116 Tucker's Daughter - Ian Moss
117 All She Wants To Do Is Dance - Don Henley
118 We Can Get Together - Icehouse
119 Liitle Lies - Fleetwood Mac
120 So Long - Fischer Z
121 Our Lips Are Sealed - Go Gos
122 Abracadabra - Genesis
123 The Heat Is On - Glen Frey
124 Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
125 Flash - Queen
126 Day Trip To Bangor - Fiddler's Dram
127 Broken English - Marianne Faithful
128 Always Look On The Bright Side - Monty Python
129 Welcome To The Boom Town - David and David
130 True Colours - Cyndi Lauper
131 Electric Avenue - Eddie Grant
132 Start Me Up - Rolling Stones
133 King of Pain - Police
134 Heaven - Eurogliders
135 What I Am - Edie Bricknell
136 In Between Days - The Cure
137 Solid Rock - Goanna
138 99 Red Balloons - Nina
139 Going Home - Mark Knopfler
140 Driven To Tears - Police
141 Look of Love - ABC
142 China Girl - David Bowie
143 Bad To the Bone - George Thorogood
144 Cocaine - Eric Clapton
145 Lady In Red - Chris de Burgh
146 You Got It - Roy Orbison
147 Looking For Clues - Robert Palmer
148 Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
149 Coming Up - Paul McCartney
150 Keep On Loving You - Reo Speedwagon
151 NeutronDance - Pointer Sisters
152 Born In The USA - Bruce Springsteen
153 Under Pressure - Queen
154 Ashes To Ashes - David Bowie
155 Ain't No Age For Rock and Roll - Veterans
156 Come Said the Boy - Mondo Rock
157 Down Under - Men At Work
158 Brass In Pocket - Pretenders
159 Age of Reason - John Farnham
160 Drive - Cars
161 Planet Clare - B52s
162 She Makes My Day - Robert Palmer
163 Road To Nowhere - Talking Heads
164 Graceland - Paul Simon
165 Telegraph Road - Dire Straits
166 Close to Me - Cure
167 Mancini Shuffle - Matt Finish
168 Mirror Man - Human League
169 Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners

Any songs that didn't make the list?

 

[Fossie 32]

Any songs that didn't make the list?

Readers' Poll: The 10 Worst Songs of the 1980s

Selections include 'Don't Worry, Be Happy,' 'Lady In Red' and 'The Final Countdown'

www.rollingstone.com

 

[Stokey]

Any songs that didn't make the list?

I didnt see Shuddup ya face.

 

[Stokey]

Didnt see this either.

Spoiler

 

[Fossie 32]

Didnt see this either.

Spoiler

 

[Plugger35]

I can't be bothered to put together a list of my favourite 80s songs but this was my favourite 80s compilation hits tape.

 

[Plugger35]

I don't know how these clowns got a gig on that Out of the Blue compilation tape, I don't remember it being a hit back in 1982.

 

[Stokey]

I can't be bothered to put together a list of my favourite 80s songs but this was my favourite 80s compilation hits tape.

My faves were:
1. Gone Troppo
2. Straight Ahead
3. Raiders of the pop charts
4. Throbbin'
5. The Hot Ones
6. Choose
7. Wired
8. Up in lights
9. With a bulket
10. Comes Alive

 

[Plugger35]

I also had Thru the Roof 83 and Choose 1985 and some other compilation tape from 1987 which I can't remember the name of.

They were all bought for me as birthday or Xmas presents as my relos had no idea what bands I liked and they were a safe bet.

 

[Stokey]

I also had Thru the Roof 83 and Choose 1985 and some other compilation tape from 1987 which I can't remember the name of.

They were all bought for me as birthday or Xmas presents as my relos had no idea what bands I liked and they were a safe bet.

It's funny and cant remember why but I had most of the early 80s ones on cassette but had from 85 to 89 on vinyl.

 

[Plugger35]

Choose 1985 was one of the best 80s compilations but looking at the list of songs they were mostly hits from 1984.

Like these bangers.

It's funny and cant remember why but I had most of the early 80s ones on cassette but had from 85 to 89 on vinyl.

All the ones I had were on cassette which I preferred as you could play them on your own radio tape deck or a walkman.

If they were on vinyl you had to play them on the record player in the family lounge room when no one else was around.

 

[Stokey]

Choose 1985 was one of the best 80s compilations but looking at the list of songs they were mostly hits from 1984.

Like these bangers.








All the ones I had were on cassette which I preferred as you could play them on your own radio tape deck or a walkman.

If they were on vinyl you had to play them on the record player in the family lounge room when no one else was around.

84 was just peak pop.

100 Best Singles of 1984: Pop's Greatest Year

From Prince to Madonna to Michael Jackson to Springsteen to Cyndi Lauper, 1984 was the peak of pop stardom. Here's the 100 best reasons why

www.rollingstone.com

 

[Plugger35]

84 was just peak pop.

100 Best Singles of 1984: Pop's Greatest Year

From Prince to Madonna to Michael Jackson to Springsteen to Cyndi Lauper, 1984 was the peak of pop stardom. Here's the 100 best reasons why

www.rollingstone.com

1984 was a great year for music that but that 100 best singles of 1984 is a joke, some of the singles were from 1983 or 1985.

Prince overrated as usual, Purple Rain at no.8 is bad enough but When Doves Cry at no.1 is even worse, both terrible songs,

This was the real no.1 song from 1984 imo and they ranked it at no.55.




They had Eyes Without A Face ranked at no.47 when that was nowhere near as big a hit for Billy Idol as Rebel Yell back then.

 

[Stokey]

1984 was a great year for music that but that 100 best singles of 1984 is a joke, some of the singles were from 1983 or 1985.

Prince overrated as usual, Purple Rain at no.8 is bad enough but When Doves Cry at no.1 is even worse, both terrible songs,

This was the real no.1 song from 1984 imo and they ranked it at no.55.




They had Eyes Without A Face ranked at no.47 when that was nowhere near as big a hit for Billy Idol as Rebel Yell back then.

 

[Plugger35]

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The hit song from the Footrot Flats film was released in 1986 so that was probably on my 1987 compilation hit songs casette tape.




This was the best NZ hit from 1984, the swansong for Split Enz.

 

[Stokey]

The hit song from the Footrot Flats film was released in 1986 so that was probably on my 1987 compilation hit songs casette tape.




This was the best NZ hit from 1984, the swansong for Split Enz.

Message to my Girl easily in my top 5.

If I really think about it my top 80s it would be

1. Under the Milky Way
2. Purple Rain
3. Message to my Girl
4. State of the Heart
5. Come Said the Boy
6. Razors Edge
7. Dont stop till you get enough
8. Dont Dream its Over
9. Charlotte Sometimes
10. Lovesong.
11. Change in Mood
12. Ashes to Ashes
13. Is she really going out with him
14. Coming Around again
15. Forever Young
16. Waiting for a Star to fall
17. St Elmos fire
18. Cry little Sister
19. back on the chain gang
20. Sledgehammer

 

[Plugger35]

Under the Milky Way would certainly be in my Top 10 songs from the 80s, maybe even no.1.

This Split Enz song from 1980 is hard to beat for no.1 though, it was no.1 in both NZ and Australia.

 

[Purple7x08_24]

Message to my Girl easily in my top 5.

If I really think about it my top 80s it would be

1. Under the Milky Way
2. Purple Rain
3. Message to my Girl
4. State of the Heart
5. Come Said the Boy
6. Razors Edge
7. Dont stop till you get enough
8. Dont Dream its Over
9. Charlotte Sometimes
10. Lovesong.
11. Change in Mood
12. Ashes to Ashes
13. Is she really going out with him
14. Coming Around again
15. Forever Young
16. Waiting for a Star to fall
17. St Elmos fire
18. Cry little Sister
19. back on the chain gang
20. Sledgehammer

Imagine thats our playlust

 

[Stokey]

Imagine thats our playlust

Its what the beginning of the SC was like.

Id be interested to know your votes.

 

[Riviat]

Its what the beginning of the SC was like.

Id be interested to know your votes.

Would have chosen DQ rather than listen to that playlist...

None of those songs, or many popular songs from the 80s appeal to me. My tastes have evolved way past that point. You would be hard pressed to find any 80s, let alone 90s albums on my Spotify.