45 of 80

[ratzz]

So what's everyone’s favourite 'top-of-the-pops' that was playing in their bedroom's as your parents knocked on the ceiling with the broom and shouted “TURN IT DOWN”?

And, what does it say about us?

Ok here goes, and I’m prepared to fight anyone who disagrees 

1.   Huey Lewis & The News - The Power of Love [August 1985] (a great song and also a GREAT film)
2.   Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams [August 1983]
3.   A Ha - Take On Me [October 1985]
4.   Survivor - Eye Of The Tiger [August 1982]
5.   Olivia Newton John - Physical [December 1981]
5.   Prince - Purple Rain [November 1984].mp3

[SavannahLion]

Edit Oh the 80's? Sorry, I missed that. I'm an early 90's child myself.

[lharles]

The entire '1984' album by Van Halen.
The entire 'Sports' album by Huey Lewis And The News.
Lots o' 'The Beatles'.  Don't know why but I've always been a fan o' 'The Beatles'.

...that's all I can think of off o' the top o' my head. 

[Thenasty]

"Rebell Yell "
"Metal Health"
"Asia"
"Back in Black"

[jbox]

Edit Oh the 80's? Sorry, I missed that. I'm an early 90's child myself.

Way before Nirvana...

[JMB]

Not many top 40 songs.

[ratzz]

I have to agree with 1984 and Back In Black -- GREAT albums. I was a big VH, AC/DC fan in the 80's (and still am), but my choice were songs that whenever I hear them remind me of being on holiday with my parents, and spending my days in arcades.

Maybe the question should have been, what were the songs of your youth (for those who were not teenagers in the 80's).

Great list though. I think I may dust off some of those LP's in the attic! 

[DaveMMR]

I think pretty much any 45 from the 80's was played on my turntable throughout that decade.  Some Duran Duran, some Van Halen, some Culture Club some Adam & the Ants (aka Adam Ant).  Most of my collection was Top 40 back in the 80's.  As for full length albums, I remember playing Huey Lewis' "Sports" a lot as well as Prince's "Purple Rain", but for some reason, my collection was mostly 7" singles.

By the late 80's/early 90's, my musical horizon was broadened and I discovered life outside the Top 40.  I was blasting a lot of Replacements and XTC.  Then I went through that "Rush phase" and the house got it's fill of "Permanent Waves" and "Moving Pictures". 

I still have all the vinyl from my childhood - as well as the numerous 45s I've picked up over the years, stored in plastic bags ready to entertain whenever I feel the urge.  Pulling a black vinyl disc out of a picture sleeve and listening to the faint vibrations and crackle as you pop the needle down is definitely something you can't replicate with MP3s.

EDIT: Forgot to ask Ratzz - Why did you cross off "Physical" by ONJ?  If the charts are any indication, we were all pretty much blasting her records in the early 80's.   

[ratzz]

EDIT: Forgot to ask Ratzz - Why did you cross off "Physical" by ONJ?  If the charts are any indication, we were all pretty much blasting her records in the early 80's.   

Ahem .... not sure that all of us would be happy to admit to it -- maybe some of the Grease hits, but ONJ? Hmmmm ... 

[XyloSesame]

Nice to see Milo on someone's playlist. On heavy rotation, much to my parents' chagrin, in 1981/1982.



Still have both and both are still regulars on the turntable. My son loves Swan Lake/Death Disco...

[polaris]

xylo
is that planet rock on 12"?

[XyloSesame]

xylo
is that planet rock on 12"?

Oh yeah. The first album I purchased with my own money, round about nine or ten years old. And I still have it in the collection... I asked my folks to take me to a record shop on the other side of the city where I grew up; the store ended up being in a "less desirable" part of the city and my folks were noticeably concerned. A very vivid memory for me.

My hood was very diverse in musical taste - mostly punk and funk - but both camps had the same goal and message at the time. My good ol' days, I guess, the unity through (or as a result of) diversity.

[grantspain]

i don't remember anything good about the 80's apart from the baggy era at the end and the ska/mod revival at the start

[knave]

"Welcome to the Jungle baby" (1987)



edit**Now that I'm thinking of it I think I found a copy of this on vinyl at a garage sale.  I'm gonna have to go check to be sure.

[mountain]

"Welcome to the Jungle baby" (1987)



edit**Now that I'm thinking of it I think I found a copy of this on vinyl at a garage sale.  I'm gonna have to go check to be sure.

Yup, my all time favorite!

That came out the year I graduated. I remember a friend of mine taped it for me way before most people heard of it. The album was out like 9 months before it took off.