Your favorite 80s music

I’m finally nearing the end of finishing up my gameroom (maybe by the end of the month?). My MP3 jukebox is almost done too! I want to make sure I have a good variety of 80s music for everyone to choose from to play in the arcade. I have the top 100 songs from every year from 1982-1988 already, but what songs would *you* make sure you had for an arcade? Leave your suggestions in the comments.

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7 thoughts on “Your favorite 80s music

  1. Kevin Corbett
    • Games Without Frontiers – Peter Gabriel
    • Cantina Theme – Star Wars: A New Hope (if 70’s allowed; if not, then Imperial March – Star Wars: Empire Strikes Back)
    • Under The Milky Way – The Church
    • Electric Avenue – Eddie Grant
    • It’s A Mistake – Men at Work
    • Time After Time – Cyndi Lauper
    • Fields of Fire – Big Country
    • Just Like Heaven – The Cure

    RESPONSE: I don’t have most of those! I totally forgot about “Under the Milky Way” what a great song! And how could I forget the Star Wars cantina theme? I have Electric Avenue and Time After Time :)
    –Brian

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  2. Travis

    Kevin’s got some good ones, and I’m sure I’ve forgotten a lot that I loved but here are some ideas:

    • Anything by Men at Work is great: Overkill or Land Down Under (got it already)
    • Who did Jungle Boy? That was a pretty funny song for the time (You mean the Tarzan song form the Listerine commercial? Got it already)
    • Phil Collins and Phil Whatshisname: Easy Lover (got it already)
    • If you want to go heavy: Appetite for Destruction or Van Halen 1984 or I&II(those were 70’s I think though) (I’ve got the big hits from AfD)
    • The Police: Anything off of Synchronicity Album (got it already)
    • Huey Lewis: Heart and Soul (got it already)
    • Beastie Boys: Fight for Your Right, No Sleep Til Brooklyn, Girls, Rhymin & Stealin’, Paul Revere (Basically that whole album!) (got it already – I have Beasties out the Yin-Yang)
    • Kool Moe Dee: Wild, Wild, West (got it already – I love 80s rap)
    • Flock of Seagulls: I Ran (got it already)
    • Escape Club: Wild Wild West (got it already)
    • LL Cool J: Going back to Cali (got it already)

    REPSONSE: Looks like I have you covered for music :) –Brian

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  3. Jay

    I haven’t had a chance to see what you’ve already got up there, but off the top of my work-muddled head, here are some that I like. I would guess that you probably have the first four up, and probably don’t have the last four.

    Only The Lonely — The Motels
    Anything, Anything — Dramarama
    Hazy Shade Of Winter — The Bangles
    Ashes To Ashes — David Bowie
    All Of This And Nothing — Psychedelic Furs
    Sex Beat — The Gun Club
    Computer Love — Kraftwerk
    All I Want — The Cure

    RESPONSE: I only have “Only The Lonely ” and “Hazy Shade Of Winter” :( –Brian

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  4. The Wiz

    Here’s a few from my iPod.

    Don Henley – The Boys Of Summer (DJ Sammy Mix)

    U2 – Anything from The Joshua Tree

    Mark McGrath – Ghost In You (Psychedlic Furs Cover)

    Modern English – I Melt With You

    Dead or Alive – You Spin Me Round

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  5. Alan

    Don’t forget the music from all the John Hughes movies: Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, etc.

    Don’t You (Forget About Me) – Simple Minds
    Fire In The Twilight – Wang Chung
    We Are Not Alone – Karla DeVito
    If You Leave – Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark
    Left of Center – Suzanne Vega w/ Joe Jackson
    Do Wot You Do – INXS
    Pretty In Pink – The Psychedelic Furs
    Shell-Shock – New Order
    Bring On The Dancing Horses – Echo & The Bunnymen
    Please Please Please Let Me Get What I Want – The Smiths

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  6. Mark

    This is a random “quick pick” browsing through my directory. There really was a lot of good music out in the 80’s. Wonder how my tastes compare to what you have in mind. Geez, I could make a really long list… and not just for the 80’s! I was gonna just do songs but that would take too long plus most of the albums and artists I listed I consider good enough to listen to in entirety.

    Artists:
    Warren Zevon
    Jane’s Addiction
    Michael Hedges
    REM
    Pretenders
    Van Morrison
    Chili Peppers
    Soundgarden
    Husker Duu
    Replacements
    Elvis Costello

    Albums:
    Flaming Lips/Hear It Is
    Bob Mould/Workbook
    Drivin’ N Cryin’/Scarred But Smarter
    U2/Boy -does that count, came out in 80 methinks.
    Waterboys/Fisherman’s Blues
    Love and Rockets/eponymous
    David Olney/Deeper Well
    Jim Carroll/Catholic Boy
    Roy Buchanan/When A Guitar Plays The Blues
    Saccharine Trust/Worldbroken
    Leo Kottke/My Father’s Face
    The Cult/Love
    The Beastie Boys/Paul’s Boutique
    Lone Justice/Shelter
    Living Color/Vivid
    Laurie Anderson/Mister Heartbreak
    Peter Gabriel/Peter Gabriel

    Songs:
    Replacements/Tim/Here Comes A Regular -one of the best drunkards songs
    Richard Thompson/Small Town Romance/ Down Where The Drunkards Roll
    Joy Division/Love Will Tear Us Apart

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