Ok, folks…Here’s the thread where you can post your favorite 80’s makeout music. List by artist, genre and title, if you care…otherwise, just the title is cool.
Keep it to the 80’s folks! That’s when I went to High School, and that’s what we’re here for - a trip down Nostalgia Lane!
Here are a few I remember:
Chicago - You’re the Inspiration
Bill Whithers - Just the Two of Us
Chris de Burgh - Lady in Red
Lionel Richie - Easy Like Sunday Morning
Anyone else??
*“When I See You Smile” - Bad English. I remember the DJ playing this one at the high school dance right after “New Sensation” by INXS. People went from energetic dancing to lip locking like flipping a switch.
*“Missing You” - John Waite.
*“Is This Love?” - Whitesnake. By now, can you tell most of the girls I was making out with at the time were bigtime fans of acid-washed denim?
Having attended both high school and college in the 80’s, I can hereby attest that I’ve made out to every single one of those songs. Sadly, I wouldn’t have chosen any of them.
Sting’s first solo album and anything by Prince (“God” a 12-inch remix was a great makeout song. You had to be a serious Prince fan to even be aware of its existence) would have been one of my choices. (Referring now to the college boyfriend.)
“Stone in Love” by Journey (whew. dating myself, like majorly ) and
“Summer of '69” by Bryan Adams, were, oddly enough "our"songs. (Referring to the high school boyfriend.) He was also the master of discovering now-defunct but great-when-they-were-big bands, years after their demise. The Tubes come to mind. I think Crowded House also befell that fate.
I’d pick Tool, Radiohead or Portishead these days.