I don’t remember the video for it either. I think it’s connection to the movie messes up the memory of it for me.
I was a kid in the 80s, though. I was into “The Goonies”, “The Neverending Story”, and “Labryinth” much more than “The Breakfast Club”.
Gotta agree with “Don’t You Forget About Me.” Other potential candidates are Tears for Fears’ “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” and Robert Palmer’s “Addicted to Love.”
Yes.
I’m not actually sure I’ve ever seen the video
I’m embarrassed to say, I actually am not sure what scene this is. I’ve seen “Breakfast Club” a couple of times, but I don’t remember this.
You like Huey Lewis and the News? Their early work was a little too New Wave for my taste, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He’s been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. In '87, Huey released Fore!, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is “Hip to Be Square,” a song so catchy, most people probably don’t listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it’s not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it’s also a personal statement about the band itself!
It’s the ending: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TkVjkvaeFnQ
I can’t honestly say I’m a huge fan of Huey Lewis and the News. It’s not my cup of tea, but they just SCREAM 80s to me. I don’t think they’re bad, though. But they’re not any kind of music I’d ever want to make, either. I’ve actually never listened to “Sports” as a whole, and I’m kind of curious now.
Actually, now re-reading your description of Huey Lewis, I do want to listen a little bit more attentively…
Do you like Phil Collins? I’ve been a big Genesis fan ever since the release of their 1980 album, Duke. Before that, I really didn’t understand any of their work. Too artsy, too intellectual. It was on Duke where Phil Collins’ presence became more apparent. I think Invisible Touch was the group’s undisputed masterpiece. It’s an epic meditation on intangibility. At the same time, it deepens and enriches the meaning of the preceding three albums.
This.
If I had to pick a single song to characterize an entire decade of music – particularly one that had so many things going on all at the same time – this would be it. It has the New Wave sensibility that Simple Minds brought to the table along with the rock influence of the song’s writer, Keith Forsey, along with the context of being intertwined with a definitive 80s John Hughes movie. The only thing it’s missing, as my wife has astutely pointed out, is a sax solo, which seemed to be something that happened a lot in the 80s and now is completely gone from music (thanks for that, grunge bastards. :mad:).
Looking through the 1600+ songs I have in my 80s collection on my iPod, other songs I might add to the potentials mix, if “Don’t You” were rejected, might be “When Doves Cry” by Prince and the Revolution, “Flesh For Fantasy” by Billy Idol, “Careless Whisper” by George Michael/Wham!, “Obsession” by Animotion, “Caribbean Queen” by Billy Ocean, “You Belong To The City” by Glenn Fry, “Maneater” by Hall and Oates, “Who Can It Be Now?” by Men At Work, or “Shake It Up” by the Cars.
Never mind all the other candidates - I have the perfect song that epitomizes the '80s! 
LOL. I think that was all in your imagination.
Maybe you’ve just seen Back To The Future too many times.
Released as a single September '79, so just misses the cutoff.
Oh, don’t worry. We’re full of ourselves enough that it doesn’t matter.
We all loved “99 Luft Balloons” though. A song about balloons being mistaken for nuclear war. You can’t get more 80’s then that.
Yeah, it doesn’t make the slightest bit of sense to me.
Even though I went to a Breakfast Club looking high school in the 80’s, I don’t see how that song epitomizes anything.
Really, the 80’s was the don’t forget about me decade? That’s what things were about in the 80’s, acknowledging people in casual encounters? It’s more the song of to-day, considering the popularity of Facebook and scrap booking.
If you’re going to go with a song just because of a movie, try the Ghostbusters song. I think we were all just a little less afraid of ghost thanks to that song.
Ca. 1990, I dated a man who owned a used record store, and this was one artist whose albums (in all formats) they couldn’t give away. The other artists that come to mind were Asia, Twisted Sister, and (this was most surprising) Bob Seger.
Which Huey Lewis song was in that?
I’m not sure what it is, but, for whatever reason, my early 80s memories seem to have Huey Lewis a lot in the background. I remember coming home from Warren Dunes (a beach) in the back of my aunt’s car in the summer, listening to some Top 40 countdown show with “Heart of Rock ‘n’ Roll” playing. Or perhaps it was “Power of Love.” Also, now that I think about it, “Addicted to Love” by Robert Palmer also strikes me as quintessential 80s pop that can only exist in the 80s.
While I agree with “Don’t You Forget About Me” (or “Take On Me” or whatever) as being THE definitive 80s song, I just feel someone like Huey Lewis or Robert Palmer is so completely tied to that decade of pop music, that it can’t exist outside that time period. In other words, even if it came out today “Don’t You Forget About Me” or “Take On Me,” I think could pass as modern songs, perhaps with a retro feel, and enjoy moderate success. I can’t see someone aping Huey Lewis now and getting away with it.
Snerk 
I actually like this song…
Huey Lewis himself was in that.
Huh. I actually did not know that. And, apparently, the song is “Back in Time,” right? :smack: duh.
“Power of Love” is also in it, when Marty skateboards around '80s Hill Valley to set up the big before-and-after contrast with its '50s-era “Mister Sandman” counterpart.