Your Top Ten Eighties Singles

[plastic penguin]

This is my least favourite period for music, but there have been some crackers from the 'hangover' decade. I make no apologies for omitting 'New Romantics', such as Duran Duran, OMD, The Cure blah blah...

1) The bitterest pill - The Jam
2) Let love rule - Lenny Kravitz
3) Tempted - Squeeze
4) Town called malice - The Jam
5) Somebody Else's Guy - Jocelyn Brown
6) Everday I write the books - Elvis Costello
7) Wishing well - Terence trent D'arby
8) Oblivious - Aztec Camera
9) Fields of Fire - Big Country
10) Cuddly Toy - Roachford

 

[The_Lhc]

Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling, gutted their 12" has been pulled from RSD2014. Only one I can think of at the moment but I don't really think in terms of singles so it's an odd one for me to bring to mind, especially as I wasn't buying records at that time.

 

[Frank Harvey]

I only ever bought 12" singles in the 80's, so my Top 10 is based on 12" singles. This covers a cross section of what I was listening to at the time, and its a shame I couldn't include a couple already mentioned (Tempted and Living On The Ceiling)

Herbie Hancock - Rockit

Animal Magnet - Welcome To The Monkey House

Level 42 - How Water

New Order - Blue Monday

Grandmaster Melle Mel & The Furious Five - White Lines

Simple Minds - Don't You

Cameo - Word Up!

Dynamix II Ft. Too Touh Tee - Just Give The DJ A Break

Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer

Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime

 

[Macspur]

Dire Straits Romeo and Juliet

Odyssey, If you're looking for a way out

Soft Cell, Say hello, Wave goodbye

Shakatak, Night birds

Sugar Hill Gang, Rapper's delight

Alexander O'Neal, If you were here tonight

Cameo, Word up

Luther Van Dross, Never too much.

REO Speedwagon, Keep on loving you

Squeeze, Labled with love

Bound to have forgotten some obvious ones.

Mac

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