5 favorite singles of the 80's

[Austrian Gull]

Talk Talk - It's my Life
Split Enz - Six Months in a Leaky Boat
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
Associates - Party Fears Two
The Cure - A Forest

 

[BadFish]

Love Will Tear Us Apart
A Forest
Special AKA Live EP (Too Much Too Young, Guns if Navaribe etc)
Ceremony or The Perfect Kiss (or Temptation or Sub-Culture or Bizarre Love Triangle... Get the message?)
Geno

If I can have 6, I'd add The Message by Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five

Get the Message was Electronic in the 90's

 

[Weststander]

Talk Talk - It's my Life
Split Enz - Six Months in a Leaky Boat
Bronski Beat - Smalltown Boy
Associates - Party Fears Two
The Cure - A Forest

Brilliant choices. With Split Enz, I loved the well known hit 'I Got You'.

'A Forest' has been mentioned a few times in this thread, which is great .... as not the most played/well known Cure track.

 

[jgmcdee]

I could probably pick 50 rather than 5 and not be able to put them in any sort of order, so 5 off the top of my head.

Depeche Mode - Shake the Disease
Propaganda - Duel
Elvis Costello - Shipbuilding
James - Sit Down
The Cure - Just Like Heaven

 

[Sergio Garcia]

Well if we're playing that game...........
Pictures Of You - The Cure
Worlds Apart - Cactus World News
This Is The Day - The The
Sugar Hiccup - Cocteau Twins
Love Like Blood-Killing Joke[/B]

Top Band Killing Joke - this thread has made me dig out Night Time on cassette

 

[Sergio Garcia]

Top Band Killing Joke - this thread has made me dig out Night Time on cassette

has anybody got a cassette player going spare ?

 

[Weststander]

has anybody got a cassette player going spare ?

Still have a fully working Akai one as part of my hifi, but not going spare.
Lots of background hissing sound even with Dolby.

 

[nipponseagull]

Duran Duran - Hungry like the Wolf.
OMD - Enola Gay.
Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer.
The Specials - Ghost Town.
The Jesus & Mary Chain - Head On.
Very different genres but I didn't stay a skinhead all through the 80s !

 

[Uncle Spielberg]

has anybody got a cassette player going spare ?

You can get on at the Shoreham boot fair on a sunday for a fiver

 

[Randsta]

Too many to give a top 5 but special mention to New order - Blue Monday timeless classic

 

[hans kraay fan club]

The Jesus & Mary Chain - Head On.

Absolutely bloody MAJESTIC.

 

[Mellotron]

Enjoy The Silence by Depeche Mode is only JUST a 90s song - it was released in the early months of the 1990s. I think this is a bit of a shame as I think of it as the QUINTESSENTIAL 80s song.

 

[hans kraay fan club]

Enjoy The Silence by Depeche Mode is only JUST a 90s song - it was released in the early months of the 1990s. I think this is a bit of a shame as I think of it as the QUINTESSENTIAL 80s song.

That's only because you are so YOUNG, and what YOU think of as 'quintessentially 80s' is actually just 'late 80s...

 

[Mr Icicle Boots]

Top Band Killing Joke - this thread has made me dig out Night Time on cassette

Great album.

" And we sang, in these Eighties"

 

[piersa]

Enjoy The Silence by Depeche Mode is only JUST a 90s song - it was released in the early months of the 1990s. I think this is a bit of a shame as I think of it as the QUINTESSENTIAL 80s song.

A truly magical song.

 

[fatfingers mk2]

Simple Minds - Someone Somewhere in Summertime
The Stone Roses - Sally Cinnamon
UB40 - The world dies screaming
New Order - 1963
The Jam - English Rose

well for today ........

 

[Mellotron]

That's only because you are so YOUNG, and what YOU think of as 'quintessentially 80s' is actually just 'late 80s...

Sorry GRANDAD.

 

[piersa]

OK. I've reached the same conclusion as you. As of 16:55, my choices are:

Emma's House - The Field Mice
Destroy The Heart - House of Love
Good Life - Inner City
Purple Rain - Prince & The Revolution
Therese - The Bodines

Was this meant to be UK singles only?

Have you heard I don't know why I love you - House of Love?

 

[tinycowboy]

Have you heard I don't know why I love you - House of Love?

I have. Many times. It's a great song, but IMO Destroy The Heart is better - more original, takes more risks than IDKWILY, and the B-sides are brilliant too. I onec played IDKWILY at an indie disco and we all discovered that you can't dance to it.

 

[Trufflehound]

I have. Many times. It's a great song, but IMO Destroy The Heart is better - more original, takes more risks than IDKWILY, and the B-sides are brilliant too. I onec played IDKWILY at an indie disco and we all discovered that you can't dance to it.

Destroy the Heart is easily better than IDKWILY. So is just about every single track off the first album.

IDKWILY is a great song. It's just the others are greater... IMO.