“Walk Like an Egyptian” used to get my whole family up and bouncing around back in the day. One of my favorite family home ‘movies’ is of my husband and two sons dancing around to this song. 
I like “Wake Me Up Before You Go Go” by Wham!.
Also “Get Outta My Dreams Get Into My Car” by Billy Ocean.
Agree, except for the remixed studio version where they added a whole bunch of bombastic and unnecessary crap to the song.
The Stroke, Billy Squier still gets me doing air guitar.
That’s a good one but for me it’s not quite ‘80’s’. And by that I mean quinticentially (sp) 80’s. It kind of falls in with the Motels stuff for me. Speaking of which I would add “Suddenly Last Summer” to my list.
Just looked up Bette Davis Eyes on Youtube…there’s a Miley Cyrus/ Ariana Grande version of “Don’t Dream it’s Over”? well ok.
Your Love - The Outfield
Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Africa - Toto
Kyrie - Mister Mister
Only Time Will Tell - Asia
Eye In The Sky - Alan Parsons
Fantasy - Aldo Nova
** Don’t Look Back** - Boston
And lots more…
I’m tempted to say “all of them”: the 80’s (specifically, from about 1982 through 1985) was my prime time for listening to and enjoying the songs that were currently popular on the radio and video channels.
I agree with many of the songs already mentioned, and could add to the list:
New Song - Howard Jones
The Longest Time - Billy Joel
Girls Just Wanna Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
Eat It - Weird Al Yankovic
Come Dancing - The Kinks
Radio Ga Ga - Queen
Sitting at the Wheel - The Moody Blues
Down Under - Men At Work
Mr. Roboto - Styx
Samson and Delilah - Bad Manners
Say Say Say - Paul McCartney & Michael Jackson
Fascination - Human League
Somebody’s Watching Me - Rockwell
and many more, including
Also Wings of a Dove, It Must Be Love, House of Fun, and others.
Too many to list.
U2 was in their prime.
Sunday Bloody Sunday
New Year’s Day
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
Where The Streets Have No Name
I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For
With Or Without You
Bullet The Blue Sky
Rush put out quite a few good tunes in the 80s.
Closer to the Heart
The Spirit of Radio
Limelight
Tom Sawyer
Subdivisions
New World Man
Distant Early Warning
Red Sector A
Time Stand Still
The Moody Blues had a comeback:
The Voice
Blue World
Your Wildest Dreams
I Know You’re Out There Somewhere
Sitting at the Wheel (Already mentioned)
As did Deep Purple:
Knocking at Your Back Door
Perfect Strangers
John (Cougar) Mellencamp:
Rain on the Scarecrow
Small Town
Paper in Fire
Check It Out
Cherry Bomb
That’s the sort of stuff I was into in the 80s. Still a good decade for music.
If this thread were a fastball, I’d hit it into the stadium parking lot, 'cause it’s right in my wheelhouse. Heck, I’m not sure if there are any 80’s songs that aren’t feel good.
I wish I could scrub my brain of some of these music videos, though.
And We Danced - The Hooters
My Kinda Lover - Billy Squier
Closer to the Heart - Rush
Our House - Madness
Feeling Hot Hot Hot - Buster Poindexter
I Love L.A. - Randy Newman
Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones
Run Runaway- Slade
Jump - Van Halen
Faith - George Michael
Touch of Grey - Grateful Dead
Orinoco Flow - Enya
Good Times- Jimmy Barnes & INXS
Every Little Thing She Does is Magic - The Police
Walk of Life - Dire Straits
Rhythm of the Night - El Debarge
All Night Long - Lionel Richie
Borderline - Madonna
Caught up in You - 38 Special
Technically 80’s music, but not really 80’s music:
Late in the Evening - Paul Simon
Turn it on Again - Genesis
Runnin Down a Dream - Tom Petty
Closer I Am to Fine - Indigo Girls
Celebration - Kool & The Gang
You must have a different definition of “happy”. I mean, I like those songs (Rush, especially) but they are about 1) the dead-end life of modern teenagers, 2) the Holocaust* and 3) the disappearance of the lifestyle of family farms.
The good depressing song thread is two doors down. 
*or perhaps, alien invader or Skynet death camps. “Are we the only human beings to survive” sounds more science fiction-y than Nazi-y.
Ooh, and The Breakup Song.
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Good point! I just like good, well-written songs. Every song on that list would make me happy if it came on the radio. 
Ooh, good ones.
I’ll add:
Paul Young’s Come Back and Stay
Hall & Oates: Private Eyes, **Method of Modern Love **(and the rest)
Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill
**Heart and Soul **by T’Pau
Ah! Leah! by Donnie Iris
One Night In Bangkok, Murray Head
I’m with you there.
Rio by Duran Duran
Amadeus, by Falco
Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Tears for Fears
Cynical Girl by Marshall Crenshaw
Legal Tender by the B52s
Fantastic Day by Haircut One Hundred
Faron by Prefab Sprout
Amplifier by the dBs
Oblivious by Aztec Camera
Make up with Me by Let’s Active
She’s an Angel by They Might Be Giants
My Baby She’s Alright by Scruffy the Cat
Kiss Me on The Bus by the Replacements
Put the Message in the Box by World Party
Genius of Love by the Tom Tom Club
Cool Places by Sparks and Jane Wiedlin
This is the Day by The The
Tried not to double up on artists or mention songs previously mentioned. Most of these bands have tons of stuff that make me feel great.