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PostPosted: 06/08/06 - 20:09    Post subject:
Jesse's Girl - Rick Springfield

Sexual Healing - Marvin Gaye

Hot, Hot, Hot - Buster Poindexter

867-5309 - Tommy Tutone

Queen of Hearts - Juice Newton

This is 70s, but Love is a Rose - Linda Ronstadt
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PostPosted: 06/08/06 - 21:18    Post subject:
cherylpf wrote:
gretriever wrote:
cherylpf wrote:
I'm thinking that song "In cars" or whatever, who is that by?
Gary Neuman - "Cars"

thank you!



...correct me if im wrong - wasn't that '79??


Anyway, how 'bout: Tainted Love (Soft Cell) ... or Der Komissar (ATF)? I got a millon of 'em; there's two! Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 06/08/06 - 22:03    Post subject:
Some of my faves:

Breakfast Club - Right on Track
Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride
Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok
Information Society - Pure Energy

And absolutely no 80s mix is complete without:
Yello - Oh Yeah
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PostPosted: 06/08/06 - 22:04    Post subject:
phillycat wrote:
Psych Furs - Pretty in Pink
Duran Duran - Girls on Film, Rio, Hungry Like a Wolf
Joy Division - Shell Shocked
Tears for Fears - Shout
Thompson Twins - Lies, Lies, Lies
Blondie - call me
Adam Ant - Stand and Deliver
ABC - Poison Arrow
Spandeau Ballet - True
Haircut 100 - Love + 1
General Public - Save it for Later
Modern English - Melt with You
Madness - Our House
Flock of Seagulls - I Ran


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PostPosted: 06/08/06 - 22:18    Post subject:
Lets see...

Walking in L.A. - Missing Persons
Mexican Radio - Wall of Voodoo
Kiss Me - Stephen (Tin Tin) Duffy
Fade to Grey - Visage
Generals and Majors - XTC
What Do All the People Know - The Monroes (summer of '82 - couldn't escape that one!)
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PostPosted: 06/09/06 - 01:05    Post subject:
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now
Echo and the Bunnymen - Killing Moon
The Cure - Just Like Heaven ...or... Lullaby
10,000 Maniacs - Don't Talk ...or... Hey Jack Kerouac
Depeche Mode - Policy of Truth ...or... Personal Jesus
R.E.M. - Radio Free Europe
Joan Jett - Crimson and Clover
INXS - Need You Tonight
U2 - Bullet the Blue Sky
Stray Cats - Rock This Town
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Higher Ground ...or... Fight Like a Brave
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
The Clash - Rock The Casbah
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PostPosted: 06/09/06 - 03:13    Post subject:
blue wrote:
this is a collection of some of the worst hit songs i've ever seen...


then i guess we'd be remiss if we didn't mention pass the dutchie by musical youth


how about..........

million miles away - plimsouls
birds fly (whisper to a scream) - icicle works
red skies at night - the fixx
future's so bright - timbuk2
only the young - journey
change - john waite
sort of homecoming - U2
people get ready - jeff beck/rod stewart
mexican radio - wall of voodoo
discovering japan - graham parker
beats so lonely - charlie sexton
digging your scene - blow monkeys

pick something from squeeze, roxy music or elvis costello
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PostPosted: 06/09/06 - 08:35    Post subject:
airehead wrote:

Sittin' on the Dock of the Bay
You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling.

Check me on this, but as far as Eighties songs go, these two fail...because they were recorded in the Sixties. But perhaps they were covered by someone else other than Otis Redding (died in 1967) and the Righteous Brothers.

But what about...

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PostPosted: 06/09/06 - 10:26    Post subject:
prohemp wrote:
blue wrote:
this is a collection of some of the worst hit songs i've ever seen...


then i guess we'd be remiss if we didn't mention pass the dutchie by musical youth


how about..........

million miles away - plimsouls
birds fly (whisper to a scream) - icicle works
red skies at night - the fixx
future's so bright - timbuk2
only the young - journey
change - john waite
sort of homecoming - U2
people get ready - jeff beck/rod stewart
mexican radio - wall of voodoo
discovering japan - graham parker
beats so lonely - charlie sexton
digging your scene - blow monkeys

pick something from squeeze, roxy music or elvis costello




if I....if I....if I..didn't love you, I'd hate you
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PostPosted: 06/09/06 - 10:26    Post subject:
dire straights----so far away
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PostPosted: 06/09/06 - 10:37    Post subject:
prohemp wrote:
blue wrote:
this is a collection of some of the worst hit songs i've ever seen...


then i guess we'd be remiss if we didn't mention pass the dutchie by musical youth


how about..........

beats so lonely - charlie sexton


just saw a reincarnated Charlie Sexton last weekend at Antone's Memorial concert......he was rockin' hard.....incredible guitar player.....
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PostPosted: 06/09/06 - 20:53    Post subject:
Elton Motello - Jet Boy Jet Girl
B-52s - Party Out Of Bounds
APB - Summer Love
Kid Creole & the Coconuts - Endicott
The Normal - Warm Leatherette
Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy
Ultravox - Reap the Wild Wind
Camouflage - That Smiling Face

...and NOBODY mentioned Killing Joke - Eighties!
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PostPosted: 06/10/06 - 01:04    Post subject:
very good songs here.

no one mentioned(i think) Major Tom by Peter Schilling

I love 80's songs.

and blue,

do not mock what you do not understand. Mr. Green
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PostPosted: 06/10/06 - 10:01    Post subject:
I guess you better put some Bon Jovi in there. or else!!
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PostPosted: 06/10/06 - 11:46    Post subject:
Every Rose has a thorn by Poison (or was that in the 90's?)

In the Air tonight by Phil Collins


I need to go look at some of my mix tapes from high school that I still have in the garage somewhere to see what i else I used to put on them.
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