Music through the 80ies, Year by Year

[Supafly]

I did some searching for similar threads, but did not find this kind. I want to collect, with your input, our fave 80ies songs, year by year.

I am relying mainly on the Billboard 100, but will do little excursions on german and other specific charts, too.

Let's kick this of with the year 1980, which has still some 70ies tracks, but already shows where things are going:

№ Title Artist(s)
1 "Call Me" Blondie
2 "Another Brick in the Wall, Part II" Pink Floyd
3 "Magic" Olivia Newton-John
4 "Rock with You" Michael Jackson
5 "Do That to Me One More Time" Captain & Tennille
6 "Crazy Little Thing Called Love" Queen
7 "Coming Up" Paul McCartney
8 "Funkytown" Lipps Inc
9 "It's Still Rock and Roll to Me" Billy Joel
10 "The Rose" Bette Midler
11 "Escape (The Piña Colada song)" Rupert Holmes
12 "Cars" Gary Numan
13 "Cruisin" Smokey Robinson
14 "Working My Way Back to You/Forgive Me, Girl" The Spinners
15 "Lost in Love" Air Supply
16 "Little Jeannie" Elton John
17 "Ride Like the Wind" Christopher Cross
18 "Upside Down" Diana Ross
19 "Please Don't Go" KC and the Sunshine Band
20 "Babe" Styx

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billboard_Year-End_Hot_100_singles_of_1980

Here is Blondie with a prime example of eighties music, and for the ladies: There is Richard Gere's naked ass in that video

 

[assari]

Good 80s music:

-Dead Kennedys

-Guns And Roses

-Nirvana

Bad 80s music:

-Poison

-Bon Jovi

-Madonna

So bad 80s artist that his music is almost good:

(Cliff Richard)

 

[Will E Worm]

Some Of The Best 80's Music Compilation (316 Songs)

 

[John_8581]

John Lennon 1980

 

[Supafly]

1981

 

[Jack Davenport]

Good 80s music:

-Dead Kennedys

-Guns And Roses

-Nirvana

Bad 80s music:

-Poison

-Bon Jovi

-Madonna

So bad 80s artist that his music is almost good:

(Cliff Richard)

Nirvana did not hit the national and world scene until the early 1990's. They are widely considered 90's grunge and alternative. Not 80's.

 

[Jack Davenport]

1981

Burning For You- Blue Oyster Cult
What She Does To Me- The Producers
Over The Mountain- Blizzard Of Oz

The Breakup Song - The Greg Kihn Band
Let It Go- Def Leppard
Limelight -Rush

 

[John_8581]

George Harrison 1981

Paul McCartney and Elton John 1982

 

[meesterperfect]

So much music to consider. Whole Lotta music came out in 1980
The Wall came out in 79 but was huge in 1980.
Springsteen The River.
Lennon Double Fantasy
Back in Black , probably the biggest.
Ozzy Blizzard of Oz
The Police were getting pretty popular.
Van Halen Women and Children
Iron Maiden and Judas Preist had some good stuff that year.
Pete Townsend Empty Glass was one of my favs
Squeeze had a great album that really set an 80's tone especially for British groups.
Benatar, Blondie and The Pretenders
Devo Whip it
Another one Bites the Dust was huge, too huge if you ask me.
The Clash, The Cars , Rush and Reo Speedwagon were big
A lot of good Punk was coming out that year too
Plus the Goth Anthem by Joy Division

 

[mokbel69]

Some of my fav songs from the early 1980s

1980






1981


1982

 

[John_8581]

Enough of all this death. ... Next, something a bit more happy

Genesis Abacab 1981

 

[mokbel69]

then there was this kinda stuff that the early 1980s gave us lol

 

[assari]

Nirvana did not hit the national and world scene until the early 1990's. They are widely considered 90's grunge and alternative. Not 80's.

For one reason or another, all new happens in Finland first.

Ford Mustang was introduced in Finland (12.04.1964 Area Oy Ford exhibition) before Americans saw it (17.04.1964).

I remember that I first heard Nirvana's music at the end of the 1980s when they were not yet sold out and pop.

Nirvan was initially interesting band but then they ran out of heroin or something like that.

 

[assari]

This song appeared for the first time at the end of the 1980s and it's kind of amusing protest song.

(Kari Peitsamo)

 

[LunaMo]

This is an excellent idea for a thread!

 

[John_8581]

Peter Gabriel ...

You need to exclude the 1970s singles ... 1977 "Solsbury Hill" and 1978 "Do It Yourself." They don't meet the criteria.

However, these do.

1980 "Games Without Frontiers" and "Biko"

1982 "Shock The Monkey" and 1986 "Red Rain"

 

[Supafly]

1982

 

[mokbel69]

These are the Aussie songs I grew up on from that era....which generated a genre known as Pub Rock. No idea why.... :glugglug:

Could not have a list without mentioning Men At Work, for better or worse haha
1981


1982
Midnight Oil


Cold Chisel - pretty much every one of their songs is an alternative to our own National Anthem, and dare say most Aussie know more of the words to their songs than to Advance Australia Fair...
1984


1985
Hoodoo Gurus


1986
The Saints

 

[Supafly]

I love the input from home countries. I will add some german songs later

 

[DrakeM]

Fuck yeah! Enjoying this thread, these are the songs that got me through high school and university, and got me a wife. Keep it coming.