Well, yes. And your point is?
Smooth Operator - Sade
Orinoco Flow - Enya
Drive: The Cars
I’m on Fire: Bruce Springsteen
Oingo Boingo for '80s stuff.
First two albums especially.
“Africa” by Toto, and I don’t care who knows it!
Melt With You - Modern English. My vote for best straight up pop song ever, FWIW.
Free Bird
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
About the same as yours.
Today is tomorrow.
What is different?
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.
Black Betty was by Ram Jam, PapSett. My station “broke” that one out in Georgia!
Quasi
Forgot to mention Joe Jackson. Look Sharp to start with.
70s: “The Swimming Song” from Loudon Wainwright’s Attempted Mustache.
80s: “Town Cryer” from Elvis Costello’s Imperial Bedroom.
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!”
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
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.
Loved the drum part in that one, Hon!
Alabama group, IIRC.
Q
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.
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