I think we all need to know which two Dopers voted forWe Built This City. :eek::dubious:
Heck, I’ll join you. It had a lot of star power, and it worked in a way that hadn’t yet become an oft-parodied cliché.
The other songs I was tempted to vote for don’t need my help.
I agree - lot of respect for George Michael - I hear the craft behind the Wham! songs and we hear a distinctive voice emerge from Faith on. Great talent.
With good reason. Peter Gabriel’s solo career consists of interesting, innovative music. Phil Collins’ solo career consists of sappy love ballads and Disney theme songs. The one exception is “In the Air Tonight,” which is a fucking great song and rightfully considered a classic.
My mistake – quite right.
Couldn’t vote!! I love 80s music, too many great choices!
Simple minds, but Wham!, Dire Straits, Jan Hammer, Duran Duran, A-Ha, and Foreigner are all up there too.
That ain’t workin’. That’s the way you do it.
You play the geetar on the MTV.
“Home By The Sea” is a jam, though.
Genesis has lots of good music. As does Collins on his first two albums.
By the way, the aforementioned “Take Me Home”, features Peter Gabriel. (and Sting, I think)
I’m surprised that Tears for Fears (Some of the most genuinely talented people on that list) are getting so little love.
Careless whisper (credited to George Michael solo in the Netherlands’ charts) got my vote, ahead of Duran Duran and Dire Straits.
I went for “Money for Nothing” over “Shout”, but it was a close thing.
“Money for Nothing”, If not on it’s own merits, then on the strength of the “Brothers in Arms” CD. This song bears the distinction of being one of the few songs I can remember where I was when I first heard it, and precious few songs have hit me so positively on first listening.
It’s a far better list than 1984, which had sent me running from the top-40 stations to the rock stations. I suppose I should be grateful for that.
I went with a-ha, although it was a tough decision. Want to shout out to Grace Slick and Starship. Seeing her work in the 60s, who would have ever guessed she could have such great commercial success in the 80s?
I know she hated it, but it’s just music, get over it.
I like some pretty artsy stuff, but I also like the musical equivalent of a cheeseburger. No artist should be ashamed of making good, simple fluff. Especially when for every brilliant song you wrote, you wrote three that were a rambling, drug induced mess.
We’re also coming up on another band that was a cult favorite in the 70s but went on to huge commercial success in the 80s, even more than Starship: Heart. They’ve also pretty much abandoned that sound. Must suck to go to a Heart show today and only hear like three songs you know, and only because the local rock station kept on playing Barracuda in the 80s.
Heart had multiple platinum albums in the 70s and were ubiquitous on the radio…definitely not a cult band.
For its pure poppy goodness and encapsulation of the mid-80s sound, I had to go with a-ha and “Take On Me.” This list takes a huge nosedive in quality from 1984, but there’s a handful of contenders on here. Dire Straits, of course, Tears for Fears, too. The Simple Minds was iconic for the era, too. And Huey Lewis is perhaps a bit under-appreciated in this day and age.
Yeah - adaher, where are you located? In the U.S., Heart had great 70’s success with a number of hits. The 80’s comeback phase was the add-on - now, granted it was during MTV’s hair-metal phase, so I am sure their video’s opened up a lot more visibility worldwide. But their reputation is much more established on their 70’s work, which was great.
I love me some Nancy Wilson - great rhythm guitarist.
I tunred 18 and graduated in '85. Took a road trip to Pensacola to visit my sister and BIL, and we went out to a bar one night (had to be 18 to get in, couldn’t legally drink, obviously, but I managed somehow), and the whole bar did a drunken singalong to Money for Nothin’ at one point.
That one moment kind of defined 1985 to me.
The guy from American Psycho had good things to say about Huey Lewis of this era, also solo Phil Collins and Whitney Houston. I think he would’ve loved this playlist!