# 80's songs that make you happy **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 27, 2015, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927 "2015-05-27T01:09:36Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/61 "2015-05-29T02:03:57Z")
I don’t really like the song or the band but [Workin’ For The Weekend by Loverboy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahvSgFHzJIc) brings back some good memories. There was a rock and roll nightclub that I had a lot of good memories of. I swear every time I walked into that club, this song was playing or played pretty soon. Fun place, saw a lot of fairly big name bands there. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 2:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/62 "2015-05-29T02:19:01Z")
[Ways To Be Wicked, by Lone Justice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWdwe9LFPtY) ---
**Author:** ![Leaffan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/leaffan/32/299_2.png) [@Leaffan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaffan)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/63 "2015-05-29T02:29:30Z")
Was Aldo Nova’s [Fantasy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPQgfaB3S1c) popular outside of Canada? ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/64 "2015-05-29T02:50:18Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Was Aldo Nova’s [Fantasy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPQgfaB3S1c) popular outside of Canada? Yes! ---
**Author:** ![Senegoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senegoid/32/6606_2.png) [@Senegoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Senegoid)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 5:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/65 "2015-05-29T05:14:32Z")
Ray Stevens, [Mississippi Squirrel Revival](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K16fG1sDagU), circa 1985. ---
**Author:** ![Infovore](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/infovore/32/420_2.png) [@Infovore](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Infovore)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 8:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/66 "2015-05-29T08:31:07Z")
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This), Eurythmics And a whole lot of the other stuff mentioned in this thread. I love 80s music, from around 80 to 85 especially. End of high school and beginning of college. ---
**Author:** ![Hook](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/ecae2f/32.png) [@Hook](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hook)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 11:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/67 "2015-05-29T11:31:12Z")
Did I miss it or has Love Shack by the B52s not been mentioned yet, I skimmed through both pages and did not see it. According to Wiki, it was released in 1989. [The B-52's - Love Shack (Official Music Video) - YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9SOryJvTAGs) ---
**Author:** ![romansperson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/romansperson/32/17100_2.png) [@romansperson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/romansperson)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/68 "2015-05-29T17:57:05Z")
[Sledgehammer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q), Peter Gabriel ---
**Author:** ![stillownedbysetters](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/41988e/32.png) [@stillownedbysetters](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/stillownedbysetters)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 6:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/69 "2015-05-29T18:01:56Z")
> [@romansperson](#): > > [Sledgehammer](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJWJE0x7T4Q), Peter Gabriel For my money, “So” was far and away the best album of the 1980s. It’s one of the few cassette tapes I still have and play regularly. ---
**Author:** ![Tangent](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tangent/32/3098_2.png) [@Tangent](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tangent)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/70 "2015-05-29T19:30:54Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > [And We Danced, by The Hooters](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB1Q-PfUvN0) Love that song! One maybe not mentioned yet: [I Can’t Hold Back](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GaMcsKtBDwE), by Survivor. The video is so very 80s. I love it. ---
**Author:** ![Cinnamon\_Imp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58956e/32.png) [@Cinnamon\_Imp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cinnamon_Imp)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/71 "2015-05-29T19:39:02Z")
> [@MrDibble](#): > > [Loaded](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsjDnLII1Go) by Deacon Blue (OK, _not_ the happiest of songs, but the young Lorraine McIntosh always makes _me_ happy, anyway) Also by them - [Wages Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KuVhm8qT8RQ) (“You can have it all!”) [Real Gone Kid](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZHTI31XuQxk) (“Hoo-oo hoo–oo hoo-oo!”) Aztec Camera - [Somewhere in my heart](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4pWcVPUybE) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 8:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/72 "2015-05-29T20:07:45Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > 1990 is the 10th year of the eighties. Except that, of course, it isn’t. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 10:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/73 "2015-05-29T22:05:03Z")
> [@madsircool](#): > > 1990 is the 10th year of the eighties. I’ll go with it! They have music from the 1980’s that isn’t 80’s music, so I’m way okay with a song from the 1990’s that really _is_ 80’s music. Roam qualifies, I say. (Also, per Wiki, it was recorded in 1989, just not released until 1990.) ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [May 29, 2015, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/74 "2015-05-29T22:11:24Z")
> [@Moonchild](#): > > I’ll go with it! > > They have music from the 1980’s that isn’t 80’s music, so I’m way okay with a song from the 1990’s that really _is_ 80’s music. Roam qualifies, I say. (Also, per Wiki, it was recorded in 1989, just not released until 1990.) Well, “Roam” was on the album, and it was the B-side of [one the US 7" singles of _Love Shack_](http://www.discogs.com/B-52s-Love-Shack/release/2724285), both released in the States in '89, so that’s close enough. ---
**Author:** ![bmoak](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@bmoak](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bmoak)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 10:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/75 "2015-05-30T10:23:08Z")
Quite a few happy songs that I thought of as 80’s songs were actually released in '79, but I didn’t hear of them until the rise of MTV (Rock Lobster, Turning Japanese, Cruel to Be Kind). Just to avoid repeating others: [Rip it Up by Orange Juice](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ESy-Z8vqMrE) [In a Big Country by Big Country](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YdX9_hA-cs) [(Keep Feeling) Fasincation by the Human League](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QqqBs6kkzHE) [Someday, Someway by Marshall Crenshaw](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sgQYHQSqjQ) [Save it for Later by the English Beat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0nndsXLxGdU) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/76 "2015-05-30T11:06:11Z")
All of these by _Madness_: [One Step Beyond](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOJSM46nWwo) [House Of Fun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2X9SANsME) [It Must Be Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmezIIrFQmY) All of these by _Split Enz_: [Six Months In A Leaky Boat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAzIzmfzN_Q) [I See Red (ENZSO version)](http://eddierayner.bandcamp.com/track/i-see-red) ---
**Author:** ![Dale\_Sams](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/779978/32.png) [@Dale\_Sams](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dale_Sams)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 10:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/77 "2015-05-30T22:22:40Z")
> [@GuanoLad](#): > > All of these by _Madness_: > > [One Step Beyond](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SOJSM46nWwo) > [House Of Fun](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJ2X9SANsME) > [It Must Be Love](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vmezIIrFQmY) > > All of these by _Split Enz_: > > [Six Months In A Leaky Boat](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hAzIzmfzN_Q) > [I See Red (ENZSO version)](http://eddierayner.bandcamp.com/track/i-see-red) While not a happy song…the ENZSO version of “Stranger Than Fiction” is very moving. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 10:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/78 "2015-05-30T22:45:45Z")
Was [Runnin’ With The Devil](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i5txwFv-zYM) in the eighties? Part of the soundtrack to one of the best parts of my life. Can’t quite remember whether it was the late seventies or early eighties, maybe due to excessive weed consumption. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [May 30, 2015, 10:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/79 "2015-05-30T22:50:32Z")
> [@Equipoise](#): > > Yay Jane! There are three Maps. If you’re talking about [Map of the World Part II](https://youtu.be/ELuckSuWrGk), link. > > She has a slew of fun, happy songs. > > [“Symmetry”](https://youtu.be/vkpg0tlcAZw) > > [“Extra Executives”](https://youtu.be/YyDT2aJzueQ) (someone set the song to scenes from American Psycho) > > [“Everything Reminds Me Of My Dog”](https://youtu.be/fLJ1mPsOIQ4) > > [“One More Colour”](https://youtu.be/-legaFvTlI4) > > [“Bound By The Beauty”](https://youtu.be/Pj0eSfz7YZM) > > [“Mimi On The Beach”](https://youtu.be/x7MB9Mvzycg) Jane Siberry was an astonishing singer until she went off the rails in the late 1990s. Is she still singing, and did she go back to using her real name? The song for me? “Head To Toe” by Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam. Yes, it’s commercialized. I like it anyway. ---
**Author:** ![madsircool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/madsircool/32/3432_2.png) [@madsircool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/madsircool)\ **Post date:** [May 31, 2015, 5:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927/80 "2015-05-31T05:38:11Z")
> [@pulykamell](#): > > Except that, of course, it isn’t. But it is. The first year was 1…now count those fingers. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-songs-that-make-you-happy/720927.md?page=5)