I heart the 80’s....

Well after a few conversations about the 80's I thought I should write about it and show you my to ten favorite 80's songs. Ok but let us get this out of the way... This will not be a post about power ballads... So no Twisted Sister or Ratt... Sorry... I just like 80's songs... So here goes... In no particular order...

Tears for Fears - Shout
Let's start of with a band that did nothing after the eighties... After all they wrote this song because they were both going over trauma. Anyway... It was the eighties... Everyone was going through tramua... Lord knows I was...


Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy
In the 80's, it seems like nothing climbed the music charts faster than a song where the lead singer sounded like he was getting his balls squeezed in a vice. The worst instance of this was Journey but since I have already mentioned them I have to pick someone else...


Bob Seger - Old time Rock and Roll
This song actually came out in 1978 but since it did not become famous until 1983's Risky Business I am putting it here. Everyone knows that scene where pre-couch-jumping Tom Cruise dances around in his underwear. Go ahead guys. Try this at home for your little lady. Dance around like a tool in your underwear and if she really, really, loves you... she will still have sex with you when you are done.


Van Halen - Hot For Teacher
I swear, I would have been on the honor roll every quarter if my teachers looked like this. The Dawson knows what I am talking about when they had this song in Varsity Blues. And Roth... well... I am glad that you tried to be a game show host but just leave us out of it...


Gloria Gaynor - I will survive
I remember I was listening to this song in the car once... I was driving down the palisades towards the bridge and this song came on. Well this song came on and I turned the radio up to sing along... I am totally singing out loud when I get to the tollbooths by the bridge. I roll down the window (still singing... mind you...) and go to hand the tollbooth lady my money... Well there was this rather large African-American woman. She was not to happy to see me singing this song...


Billy Idol - White Wedding
James Marsters... Oh... I mean Billy Idol came up with this song it was to condemn the up coming wedding of his younger sister. And if you think about it... It's lame... For some reason this is the song that most people remember when others have actually gotten higher on the charts...


David Bowie - China Girl
This has got to be the most politically incorrect love song on the planet. But since it is sung by androgynous and ambiguous sexually orientated British man it seems fine. Might as well get a mannequin to sing your next love song because when the Goblin King sings it... it seems kind of creepy.


Paul Simon - You Can Call Me All
Well take the half of Simon and Garfunkel that actually has talent... Add Chevy Chase (while he was still good) lip syncing and you have music video gold. Too bad Paul Simon's next album not do so well.


Soft Cell - Tainted Love
This song has been covered so many times it's not even funny. But everyone remembers the Soft Cell synthpop version. The first time I heard this song was in 1997 when Spike Jonze featured this song in a Levi's commercial. In a brilliant move he matched the synthesized beat to the EKG machine.


Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
You would think that a video with four hot chicks would be really interesting... But you know... It's not... And neither is the three other videos that copied this one... Here is a hint ladies... If you are pretending to be playing the guitar try moving your hands to another fret...
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