1980's Hit Songs - Popular Songs, 1980s Music

1. Love Shack - B-52s
2. What I Like About You - Romantics
3. Dancing With Myself - Billy Idol
4. Rock The Casbah (Mustapha Dance) - the Clash
5. Antmusic - Adam and the Ants
6. Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
7. Train In Vain (Stand By Me) - the Clash
8. Just Like Heaven - The Cure
9. Situation - Yaz (Yazoo)
10. Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel

The Top Ten 80's Songs That Mom and Dad Hated:

1. Me So Horny - 2 Live Crew
2. Fight For Your Right (To Party) - Beastie Boys
3. Like A Virgin - Madonna
4. We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister
5. Da Butt - E.U.
6. I Want Your Sex - George Michael
7. Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye
8. Wild Thing - Tone Loc
9. I Want a New Drug - Huey Lewis and the News
10. Birthday Suit - Johnny Kemp

Top Eleven 80's Songs That Everybody Hated:

1. Morning Train (9 to 5) - Sheena Easton
2. Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
3. To All the Girls I Loved Before - Julio Iglesias and Willie Nelson
4. We Didn't Start The Fire - Billy Joel
5. Sussudio - Phil Collins
6. Puttin On The Ritz - Taco
7. Harlem Shuffle - Rolling Stones
8. Word Up - Cameo
9. Invisible Touch - Genesis
10. Goonies R Good Enough - Cyndi Lauper
11. The Twist (Yo, Twist!) - Fat Boys featuring Chubby Checker

The Top Eleven 80's One Hit Wonders:

1. Mickey - Toni Basil
2. Ice Ice Baby - Vanilla Ice
3. Money - Flying Lizards
4. Da Butt - EU
5. Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
6. Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
7. U Can't Touch This - MC Hammer
8. People Who Died - Jim Carroll Band
9. Escalator Of Life - Robert Hazard
10. Funkytown - Lipps, Inc.
11. The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades - Timbuk 3

The Top 20 Rock/Pop Hits of the 1980's That You Need To make Your Collection Complete:

1. I Melt With You - Modern English
2. Mr Soul - Neil Young (Trans Album - new version)
3. Valley Girl - Frank Zappa featuring Moon Unit
4. I Wanna Be Sedated - the Ramones
5. Dancing With Myself - Billy Idol
6. I Love Rock and Roll - Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
7. Rock This Town - the Stray Cats
8. Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
9. Money - the Flying Lizards
10. Tainted Love/Where Did Our Love Go - Soft Cell
12. Lawn Chairs - Our Daughter's Wedding
12. I Got You - Split Enz
13. Life During Wartime - Talking Heads
14. AEIOU (and Sometimes Y) - EBN OZN
15. Don't Pay the Ferryman - Chris DeBurgh
16. Life Sucks, Then You Die - the Fools
17. Wham Rap - Wham!
18. Escalator of Life - Robert Hazard
19. She Drives Me Crazy - Fine Young Cannibles
20. I Ran (So Far Away) - A Flock of Seagulls

The Top Ten Punk Rock Songs of the 1980's!

1. Blitzkrieg Bop - Ramones
2. Dancin With Myself - Generation X (Billy Idol)
3. I Fought The Law - the Clash
4. I Wanna Be Sedated - Ramones
5. God Save The Queen - Sex Pistols
6. Dirty Water - The Inmates
7. Ca Plane Pour Moi (This Life's For Me) - Plastic Bertrand
8. Too Drunk To F*** - DK's (Dead Kennedys)
9. Blister In The Sun - Violent Femmes
10. Where's Captain Kirk? - Spizzenergi

The Top Ten Power Rock and Cowboy Ballads of the 1980's:

1. Every Rose Has Its Thorn - Poison
2. Wanted Dead Or Alive - Bon Jovi
3. Patience - Guns N Roses
4. Almost Paradise - Mike Reno & Ann Wilson
5. Black Velvet - Alannah Myles
6. When I'm With You - Sheriff
7. Love Hurts - Nazareth
8. Honestly - Stryper
9. Sister Christian - Night Ranger
10. Don't Know What You Got (Til It's Gone) - Cinderella

The Top Ten Fad Songs of the 1980's:

1. Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
2. Pac-Man Fever - Buckner and Garcia
3. Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
4. Thriller - Micheal Jackson
5. General Hospi-Tale - The Afternoon Delights
6. 867-5309/Jenny - Tommy Tutone
7. Fame - Irene Cara
8. Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
9. Flashdance... What A Feeling - Irene Cara
10. Theme From New York, New York - Frank Sinatra

The Saddest Attempts at a Punk Rock/New Wave Songs of the 1980's:

1. It's Still Rock and Roll To Me - Billy Joel
2. Kids In America - Kim Wilde
3. Clones (We're All) - Alice Cooper
4. Sunglasses At Night - Corey Hart
5. Paranoimia - Art of Noise and Max Headroom
6. She Bop - Cyndi Lauper
7. Mr. Roboto - Styx

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