# Favorite 80s song to sing in the shower
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [December 14, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527 "2005-12-14T02:40:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Burrido](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Burrido)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/1 "2005-12-14T02:40:29Z")
How soon is now? - The Smiths
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### Author:  [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 2:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/2 "2005-12-14T02:51:50Z")
Off to the forum about the arts.
Moved from IMHO to CS.
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### Author:  [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 2:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/3 "2005-12-14T02:52:18Z")
Chains of Love–Erasure
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### Author:  [@Zahava424](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zahava424)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 2:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/4 "2005-12-14T02:53:40Z")
Let’s Hear It For the Boy - Denise Williams
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### Author:  [@Grrr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grrr)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/5 "2005-12-14T02:55:27Z")
**Electic Avenue** by um…??? it goes something like this \*“We’re gonna walk on down to [said in an electronic voice\> electriuc avenue\< an then we’ll take it higher…”
**Wheel in the sky"** Journey
various AC/DC songs as well.
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 4:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/6 "2005-12-14T04:32:44Z")
> [@SHAKES](#):
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> **Electic Avenue** by um…??? it goes something like this \*“We’re gonna walk on down to [said in an electronic voice\> electriuc avenue\< an then we’ll take it higher…”
Eddie Grant.
For me, it’s either “Chains of Love” by Erasure, or “My Sharona,” by The Knack.
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/7 "2005-12-14T04:39:50Z")
I have a radio in my shower, so I’m usually singing along to whatever’s on.
My favorites have to be “I want your sex” or whatever it’s called, by that guy from Wham! His name escapes me at the moment (maybe I’ll go to the park and see if it’s written on the wall in the men’s room, or if he’s in there I’ll ask him what his name is). Or maybe it’s “Me and Mrs. Jones”, I like to sing it Sandra Bernhard-style. Or “Let’s Go Crazy” by Prince.
Ah, whatever. It’s just fun to sing in the shower.
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### Author:  [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 4:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/8 "2005-12-14T04:46:06Z")
> [@trublmakr](#):
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> My favorites have to be “I want your sex” or whatever it’s called, by that guy from Wham! His name escapes me at the moment.
George Michael.
Come on, someone!!! PLEASE start naming these 80’s singers before I do. I’m looking rather pathetic, here.
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### Author:  [@bouv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bouv)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/9 "2005-12-14T04:54:45Z")
People, people!
The correct answer is:
“Walkin’ on Sunshine.”
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### Author:  [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 4:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/10 "2005-12-14T04:58:15Z")
> [@bouv](#):
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> “Walkin’ on Sunshine.”
Oh, yeah! That is a good one.
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### Author:  [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 5:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/11 "2005-12-14T05:10:53Z")
There is A Light That Never Goes Out- The Smiths
My Kingdom- Echo and the Bunnymen
Seven Seas- Echo and the Bunnymen
Love My Way- The Psychedelic Furs
I try to imitate their voices and everything.
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### Author:  [@wolf\_in\_second\_hand\_clothing](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wolf_in_second_hand_clothing)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/12 "2005-12-14T05:37:22Z")
_I Just Died in your Arms Tonight_ by the Cutting Crew. But only when I’m certain no one’s around.
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### Author:  [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 8:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/13 "2005-12-14T08:55:03Z")
The song by Katrina and the Waves is _Walking on Sunshine_, not _Walkin’_.
When I’m not belting out _Oh, What a Beautiful Morning_ in the shower, I’ll sing Culture Club’s _I’ll Tumble 4 Ya_.
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### Author:  [@TellMeI\_mNotCrazy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TellMeI_mNotCrazy)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 8:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/14 "2005-12-14T08:58:39Z")
Matthew Wilder’s “Break My Stride”.
Pretender’s “Brass in Pocket”.
and Dexy’s Midnight Runner’s “Come on Eileen”.
Poor old Johnny Ray…
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### Author:  [@priapus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/priapus)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 9:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/15 "2005-12-14T09:40:03Z")
How can I start the day without the Jeffersons theme song?
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### Author:  [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 10:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/16 "2005-12-14T10:27:24Z")
Man, what is it with the Smiths in the shower? I like “I Started Something I Couldn’t Finish”. Sometimes “A Rush And A Push and the Land Is Ours” (I love attempting the weird growl on “A rrrrrrrrrrrr_RRRRRRRush_!” My version tends to sound like a baby lion trying to roar, but I like to try anyway.)
When taking a bath, sometimes I will sit, all by myself, and start singing “I Know It’s Over”… I just love to build all the way up to the end wailing: “Ooooooooh mother, I can feeeeeeel the soil, falling over myyyyyy heaheheeeeeaaaad!” This amuses my husband to no end.
Not the Smiths:
Temptation - Heaven 17 (I become schizophrenic for this one)
Pearl’s Cafe - The Specials
Baggy Trousers - Madness
Wide Boy - Nik Kershaw
Rudie Can’t Fail - The Clash
Ant Music - Adam Ant
One Night in Bangkok - Murrey Head (I get my kicks _above_ the waistline, sunshine!)
And, oddly, Tracy Ullman’s “They Don’t Know”. I haven’t actually _heard_ the song in years and years, not since I was a wee stump, but I still remember it clearly, as well as most of the lyrics, and sing it often. In the shower.
I sing a lot of stuff in the shower, but that’s about all the 80s stuff I can think of that I’ve sung in the past month or so.
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### Author:  [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 1:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/17 "2005-12-14T13:31:38Z")
_Sometimes I Wish I Was A Pretty Girl_ by **Robyn Hitchcock** …
\*Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl
So I could (oop) myself in the shower
Sometimes I wish I was a pretty girl
So I could (oop) myself in the shower
Been on my own so long
I cant tell left from wrong
Bloody red bats
Squelching offal
Foaming mutilations in the kiss of death
\*
Yeeehaaa!
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### Author:  [@Susie\_Derkins](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Susie_Derkins)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 1:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/18 "2005-12-14T13:42:57Z")
> [@Anastasaeon](#):
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> And, oddly, Tracy Ullman’s “They Don’t Know”. I haven’t actually _heard_ the song in years and years, not since I was a wee stump, but I still remember it clearly, as well as most of the lyrics, and sing it often. In the shower.
I _love_ that song! I even remember the video, with Paul McCartney at the end. It is perfect for the shower, especially the “bay-_bee_” part! 🆒
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### Author:  [@parthenokinesis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/parthenokinesis)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/19 "2005-12-14T13:48:15Z")
Sad, snakry, and true, but the answer is Rio by Duran Duran.
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### Author:  [@Anastasaeon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Anastasaeon)
#### Post date: [December 14, 2005, 3:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-80s-song-to-sing-in-the-shower/335527/20 "2005-12-14T15:24:07Z")
> [@Susie Derkins](#):
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> I _love_ that song! I even remember the video, with Paul McCartney at the end. It is perfect for the shower, especially the “bay-_bee_” part! 🆒
HA! I actually remember that! In the car, with Paul and Tracy on the windshield (or was it Paul Loves Tracy? I remember Paul looking distinctly nervous 😉 ), some part where she’s watching old movies, looks like a woman or kid getting hit, near the beginning there was a slimy looking guy at a bowling alley… and at the end, her pushing a shopping cart in a store in her big fuzzy slippers.
I don’t know why I was enamoured of the video, or why I remember so much of it today. I was probably only five or six when I saw it last. :eek:
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