THE EIGHTIES: Best New Wave and Pop Songs thereofMusic 

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Exactly what it sounds like. Let's try to make the biggest list we can (and I sorta, uh, need this by New Years Eve :p)!

Note: Any suggestions for original or remixes or remakes of songs by ABBA will be warned to moderators.

I've got some of the majors so far:

Michael Jackson - Billy Jean
-Thriller
-Bad
-Beat It
-Smooth Criminal
-Wanna Be Starting Something
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Not sure who - Tainted Love
Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party
Huey Lewis And The News - It's Hip To Be Square
-I Want A New Drug
Madonna - Material Girl
Roxy Music - More Than This
- In Every Dreamhome A Heartache
Bauhaus - Cry Little Sister
Billy Idol - Mony Mony
-You Spin Me Right Round
-Rebel Yell
-Dancing With Myself
-White Wedding
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes
Sigue Sigue Sputnik - Love Missile F1-11
Gary Numan - Cars
The Human League - (Keep Feeling) Fascination
Blondie - Atomic
Nena - 99 Luftballons
Kim Wilde - Kids in America
Tears for Fears - Pale Shelter
-Mad World
Corey Hart - Sunglasses At Night
ABC - Poison Arrow
A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
Animotion - Obsession
Spandau Ballet - Gold
Thomas Dolby - Hyperactive!
Romeo Void - Never Say Never
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Queen:
- Radio GaGa
-Bohemian Rhapsody, compulsory inclusion
...and We Are The Champions
...and We Will Rock You
-Under Pressure
-A Kind Of Magic
-I'm Going Slightly Mad
-Another One Bites The Dust
-Princes Of The Universe
-Invisible Man
-The Show Must Go On
-Mad The Swine
-Hammer To Fall
-Headlong
-Killer Queen
-Bicycle Race
-Fat Bottomed Girls
-I Want To Break Free
Prince:
-When Doves Cry
-Let's Go Crazy
-Purple Rain
-I Would Die 4 U
-Take Me with U
Foreigner - Waiting For A Girl Like You
-I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight
-Juke Box Hero
Meat Loaf - Modern Girl
Mötley Crüe - Looks That Kill (ok, it's not pop or new wave, sue me)
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
Kate Bush - Wow
Squeeze - Tempted
REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You
Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms (wait, what?)
Toto - Africa
Mr. Mister - Broken Wings
John Waite - Missing You
Jan Hammer - Crockett's Theme
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
Luther Vandross - Never Too Much
 
Tears for Fears:
-Everybody Wants to Rule the World

Van Halen:
- Pretty Woman
- Hot for Teacher
- Jump

RATT:
- Round and Round

Bon Jovi:
- Livin' On a Prayer
- Dead or Alive

Morris Day and the Time:
- Jungle Love

Phil Collins:
- In the Air Tonight
- Sussudio

Living Colour:
- Cult of Personality

...Some of the best 80s songs, IMO...
 
I have a whole playlist of 80's songs on my iPod...

a-ha
-Take On Me

Debbie Deb
-When I Hear Music

Depeche Mode
-Enjoy The Silence

Foreigner
-I Want To Know What Love Is

The Police
-Every Breath You Take

Roger
-I Want To Be Your Man

Roxette
-Dangerous

Zapp
-Computer Love
 
Erasure - Who Needs Love Like That
Depeche Mode - Master And Servant, Black Celebration, Everything Counts, Somebody, A Question of Lust, Get The Balance Right... actually pretty much all their stuff
Bronski Beat - Small Town Boy
Duran Duran - Reflex
Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't it be good
Flock of Seagulls - Wishing
Thomson Twins - Hold me now, Doctor doctor, you take me up

I'll think of more.

Corrections needed on original list:
Tainted love was performed by Soft Cell.
You Spin Me Right Round was that high energy weirdo with the eyepatch, not Billy Idol.
 
Oh boy, good songs listed but I really have to mention one of my favourite songs of the 80's.

New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
 
I just thought of a great one:

Q Lazarus - Goodbye Horses. The creepy Buffalo Bill song that's played during Silence Of The Lambs (and later referenced in Clerks 2).
 
Roxette - Dressed for success? or was that 90's..

Cyndi lauper - time after time.
 

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