# Your favorite songs from 70s and 80s. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 9, 2012, 11:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245 "2012-04-09T11:51:15Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Pai325](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Pai325](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Pai325)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/21 "2012-04-10T02:18:21Z")
😃 > [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](#): > > Ha ha! That’s funny, 'cuz I always thought music from the 60s sounded like the incoherent, self-indulgent ramblings of a bunch of drugged out narcissists. Well, yes. And your point is? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/22 "2012-04-10T02:37:31Z")
Smooth Operator - Sade Orinoco Flow - Enya ---
**Author:** ![mkecane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9e8a1a/32.png) [@mkecane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mkecane)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 3:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/23 "2012-04-10T03:11:12Z")
Drive: The Cars I’m on Fire: Bruce Springsteen ---
**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/24 "2012-04-10T03:22:21Z")
Oingo Boingo for '80s stuff. First two albums especially. ---
**Author:** ![TonySinclair](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/49beb7/32.png) [@TonySinclair](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TonySinclair)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 3:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/25 "2012-04-10T03:33:55Z")
“Africa” by Toto, and I don’t care who knows it! ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/26 "2012-04-10T03:44:10Z")
Melt With You - Modern English. My vote for best straight up pop song ever, FWIW. ---
**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 4:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/27 "2012-04-10T04:57:56Z")
_Free Bird_ ---
**Author:** ![Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tim_r.mortiss/32/142_2.png) [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 5:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/28 "2012-04-10T05:18:45Z")
> [@Oly](#): > > Melt With You - Modern English. My vote for best straight up pop song ever, FWIW. You must be my soulmate. That is my all time favorite song of all time, ever. Also FWIW, my favorite of my own playlists is my “One Hit Wonders of the Eighties.” Yes, I know that some of these artists have TWO songs on my One Hit Wonders list. Deal with it… a-ha - Take On Me.mp3 ABC - Poison Arrow.mp3 After The Fire - Der Kommissar.mp3 Animotion - Obsession.mp3 Berlin - Sex (I’m A…).mp3 Big Country - In A Big Country.mp3 Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy Boys Don’t Cry - I Wanna Be A Cowboy.mp3 Corey Hart - I Wear My Sunglasses At Night Cutting Crew - I Just Died In Your Arms Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Right Round.m Dexy’s Midnight Runners - Come On Eilleen Don Dixon - Praying Mantis.mp3 Donnie Iris - Ah! Leah!.mp3 Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue.mp3 Escape Club - Wild Wild West.mp3 Falco - Der Kommissar.mp3 Falco - Rock Me Amadeus.mp3 Flash And The Pan - Hey, St. Peter.mp3 Flock of Seagulls - I Ran.mp3 Haircut 100 - Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) Haircut 100 - Love Plus One.mp3 Joe Boxers - Just Got Lucky.mp3 Kajagoogoo - Too Shy.mp3 Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine Love and Rockets - So Alive.mp3 MAYBE KEEP - Dramarama - Last Cigarette.m Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance.mp3 Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning.mp3 Missing Persons - Walking In LA.mp3 Missing Persons - Words.mp3 Modern English - I Melt With You.mp3 Murry Head - One Night In Bangkok.mp3 Naked Eyes - Always Something There To Remind Me Nena - 99 Luftballons.mp3 Payola$ - Eyes of a Stranger.mp3 Peter Schilling - Major Tom Psychedelic Furs - Heartbreak Beat.mp3 Psychedelic Furs - Pretty In Pink.mp3 Quarterflash - Harden My Heart Re-Flex - The Politics Of Dancing Real Life - Send Me An Angel.mp3 Rockwell - Somebody’s Watching Me.mp3 Scandal - Goodbye To You.mp3 Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking.mp3 Simple Minds - Dont You (Forget About Me) Soft Cell - Tainted Love.mp3 Spandau Ballet - True.mp3 The Boomtown Rats - I Don’t Like Mondays The Fixx - Saved By Zero The Fixx - One Thing Lead To Another The Icicle Works - Whisper to a Scream.mp The Plimsouls - A Million Miles Away.mp3 The Polecats - Make A Circuit With Me.mp3 The Rembrandts - Just The Way It Is, Baby The Replacements - Hold My Life.mp3 The Replacements - Waitress In The Sky.mp The Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep.mp3 The Style Council - My Ever Changing Moods The Vapors - Turning Japanese.mp3 Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science Tommy Tutone - Jenny-867-5309.mp3 Wall Of Voodoo - Mexican Radio Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight.m Yaz - Don’t Go.mp3 ---
**Author:** ![Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dread_pirate_jimbo/32/3897_2.png) [@Dread\_Pirate\_Jimbo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dread_Pirate_Jimbo)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/29 "2012-04-10T05:37:46Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > 😃 > > Well, yes. And your point is? 😃 About the same as yours. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Indian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/c0e974/32.png) [@Indian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Indian)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/30 "2012-04-10T13:32:52Z")
> [@Fiddle\_Peghead](#): > > 70s: “Fool’s Gold” from Graham Parker’s _Heat Treatment_. > > 80s: “Little Mascara” from the Replacement’s _Tim_. > > Ask me tomorrow and they will be different. Today is tomorrow. What is different? ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 4:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/31 "2012-04-10T16:04:18Z")
American Pie- Don McLean Ballroom Blitz- Sweet Only the Good Die Young- Billy Joel Black Betty (Can’t remember the artist at the moment) Hotel California- The Eagles (pretty much ANYTHING by the Eagles, actually) Queen Barry Manilow That is my favorite music period, actually. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 10, 2012, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/32 "2012-04-10T17:22:34Z")
Black Betty was by Ram Jam, **PapSett**. My station “broke” that one out in Georgia! 🙂 Quasi ---
**Author:** ![4d3fect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/4d3fect/32/9728_2.png) [@4d3fect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/4d3fect)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 12:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/33 "2012-04-11T00:12:11Z")
Forgot to mention Joe Jackson. Look Sharp to start with. ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 12:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/34 "2012-04-11T00:22:27Z")
> [@indian](#): > > Today is tomorrow. > > What is different? 70s: “The Swimming Song” from Loudon Wainwright’s _Attempted Mustache_. 80s: “Town Cryer” from Elvis Costello’s _Imperial Bedroom_. ---
**Author:** ![Oly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/oly/32/8255_2.png) [@Oly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oly)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 2:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/35 "2012-04-11T02:40:49Z")
> [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](#): > > ?..“One Hit Wonders of the Eighties.”… Like the list. One I’d hafta add is When The Walls Came Down - The Call “They stood there laughing. They’re not laughing anymore!” ---
**Author:** ![Truman\_Burbank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@Truman\_Burbank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Truman_Burbank)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/36 "2012-04-11T03:03:28Z")
Watching the Detectives, most anything from his first 3 albums. Dire Straits/Mark Knopfler were at their best during this time period. And “Burning Down The House” by the Talking Heads ---
**Author:** ![PapSett](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/ecc23a/32.png) [@PapSett](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PapSett)\ **Post date:** [April 11, 2012, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/37 "2012-04-11T13:22:09Z")
> [@Quasimodem](#): > > Black Betty was by Ram Jam, **PapSett**. My station “broke” that one out in Georgia! 🙂 > > Quasi Thanks Bill! It was on the tip of my tongue but I couldn’t quite spit it out! One of my favorite songs of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Quasimodem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/e274bd/32.png) [@Quasimodem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quasimodem)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/38 "2012-04-12T22:07:39Z")
Loved the drum part in that one, Hon! Alabama group, IIRC. Q ---
**Author:** ![Lobot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ce7236/32.png) [@Lobot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lobot)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 11:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/39 "2012-04-12T23:39:10Z")
Here are my picks: Blondie: “Heart of Glass” Lindsey Buckingham: “Trouble” Buggles: “Video Killed the Radio Star” The Cars: “Just What I Needed” Alice Cooper: “No More Mr. Nice Guy” Fleetwood Mac: “Gypsy” Peter Gabriel: “Solsbury Hill” Hall & Oates: “Maneater” Don Henley: “The Boys of Summer” Michael Jackson: “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” Elton John: “I Guess That’s Why They Call It the Blues” Kate Bush: “Running Up That Hill” Midnight Oil: “Power and the Passion” Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers: “Refugee” Pink Floyd: “Comfortably Numb” The Police: “Wrapped Around Your Finger” Prince: “Little Red Corvette” Roxy Music: “Avalon” Talking Heads: “Burning Down the House” Toto: “Africa” In terms of singles, the late '70s/early '80s is probably my era. Some great stuff was released back then. ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [April 12, 2012, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245/40 "2012-04-12T23:49:57Z")
> [@Pai325](#): > > 😃 > > Well, yes. And your point is? 😃 Reminds me of the joke: Q. What did the Deadhead say when he ran out of drugs? A. “This band sucks.” Mine: 70’s Even the Losers - TP&tHB Spirit of the Radio - Rush Closer to the Heart - Rush Little Willy - The Sweet Ballroom Blitz - The Sweet Squeeze Box - The Who Carry On Wayward Son - Kansas Don’t Bring Me Down - ELO 80’s Love is a Stranger - Eurythmics So L.A. - Motels Masquerade - Berlin Running Down a Dream - Tom Petty [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-songs-from-70s-and-80s/618245.md?page=3)