Best of the 80s

By Rob Sheffield. Lighters up for the late, great Biz Markie, one of the most beloved music heroes of the Eighties or any other decade.

The s may have been the decade of questionable fashion choices, but we'll probably say the same about the s in a few years It was also the decade of great movies, the rise of video games and downright fantastic music. We've attempted the ridiculously hard but not in any way a chore task of picking the very best s songs ever. Here are our picks - are your favourites in there? You might not have realised it, but Neil Diamond first recorded this song back in But it's UB40's cover that became the most well-known in The song truly brought the band to the mainstream, and reached number one in the UK.

Best of the 80s

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Shout-out to Bobby, who manages to die three times.

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By Rob Sheffield. Lighters up for the late, great Biz Markie, one of the most beloved music heroes of the Eighties or any other decade. The Diabolical One. The Human Beatbox. The class clown of old-school hip-hop. You got what I neeeed! Then I knew it was gonna be a good record. A German girl sings about nuclear apocalypse in a perky New Wave bop about the end of the world. The dawn of the shoegaze era.

Best of the 80s

The s may have been the decade of questionable fashion choices, but we'll probably say the same about the s in a few years It was also the decade of great movies, the rise of video games and downright fantastic music. We've attempted the ridiculously hard but not in any way a chore task of picking the very best s songs ever. Here are our picks - are your favourites in there? You might not have realised it, but Neil Diamond first recorded this song back in But it's UB40's cover that became the most well-known in The song truly brought the band to the mainstream, and reached number one in the UK. It ended up topping the US charts too in , after being performed at Nelson Mandela's birthday tribute concert.

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Ultravox - Vienna Official Music Video. The Beasties went out of the '80s with the genre-changing Paul's Boutique , the first step in distancing themselves from the shouty frat-pack obnoxiousness that made them household names. Oh, that ill-fated bassline. It was the theme tune to the Michael Douglas movie The Jewel in the Crown and its sequel, and was later a number one for Boyzone in in aid of Comic Relief. You got what I neeeed! Neither made any other record with this sound. A number one hit in America in , this power ballad helped turn U2 in rock giants. One of the greatest '80s movie moments is surely Judd Nelson's John Bender fist pumping the sky to the tune of this '80s banger. There's not many songs that can feature both a drum breakdown and a saxophone solo closer and still be a massive pop hit. Glam metal rocks the Sunset Strip. He wrote it after the chaos created when his mother left the family when he was three years old. It remains perhaps the greatest pop song of all time, and has that timeless quality that will never disappoint. Kate Bush relented and changed the title. An early proto-riot-grrrl pipe bomb. But Graceland slaps.

The 80s were an interesting time in music, with the heyday of 70s rock, soul, and jazz giving way to exciting new iterations and subgenres. Disco was on the way out, but it helped lead to house music, electronic, and hip-hop.

But Graceland slaps. Here are our picks - are your favourites in there? Log In. The song is generally about sex, with the lyrics being loaded with Sade is just so damned smooth. Heart - Alone. Is this the happiest song ever written? The song became one of his most popular and enduring tracks. And that bit that sounds like made-up gibberish? Kate Bush relented and changed the title.