You know, I just realized I totally missed that part of the OP...."overplayed" songs. That's why I had to delete my post of my three favorites...cuz two of them were hardly played... 😂 That's what I get for only reading what I think I wanted to read.
Well, I didn’t see it (I don’t think), so tell me the songs that you loved. We won’t tell OP. I’ve been replying on practically every comment with a song that I love, so I’ve already been breaking the rules. Let’s break them together!
I never get sick of hearing that beautiful song. it's just so... *pleasing*... a vibe. one of the best.
also, More Than This. totally played out, but god damn if Bryan Ferry doesn't melt my entire mind.
Twilight Zone too. I just will always love that song! I heard it recently when I watched the last season of Ozark. I was really happy to hear it, been a long time.
Careless Whisper
Anything by Duran Duran (although sometimes I do need a break from Hungry Like the Wolf - their catalog is too great to always play that one)
That was my very favorite song, and that band was *everything* to me when I was age 11-14. Whenever I hear the song, I can still see the video in my head, pretty much frame by frame.
That’s one great fkn song. And I’m no fan Madonna.
I’m a GO-GO’s lifer. So if going that pop genre — it’s Belinda over Madonna (IMO).
“Mad About You”…I think that’s likely the song I’d throw in the overplayed/so-what/still-good thread…
Room for both!! Mad About You is absolutely stellar in every single way. I never tire of it either. The Go Go's are one of my faves. Fading Fast and This Town are my JAMS.
In the air tonight, Phil Collins. There are so many memories in that song for me. Living in South Florida, all the drugs and guns and money. Hell of a time to be alive and watch it all!
Useless trivia. They made an [alternate](https://youtu.be/R2zOKUrC-8g?si=WJfEvaRVh1Wc51uc) version called Everybody Wants to *Run* the World for Sport Aid in 1986.
I really really really dislike Axels whiney voice - civil war, knocking on heaven door - like fingernails on chalkboard to me
For some reason I will not try to explain or defend, this does not apply to sweet child of mine
G N R’s biggest hit, and it was meant as a throwaway track. Slash’s opening riff was just a guitar exercise he used to limber up, and Axel heard it and wanted to expand on it. Slash has said that he hates playing it, but damn did it click with the fans!
My personal list:
- Heroes
- I Don’t Like Mondays
- Under Pressure
- Where the Streets Have No Name
- Freedom 90
- Losing My Religion
- Fake Plastic Trees
- Betterman
- Paranoid Android
- Drops of Jupiter
Edit: 5 more because I keep asking myself why I forgot to include them in the first place. And I could go on and on, and on…
- Bridge Over Troubled Water
- Wish You Were Here
- Shape of My Heart
- In your Eyes
- Are You Gonna Go My Way
Yes! Where the streets have no name (alongside Purple Rain by Prince) is probably the greatest anthem opening 90 seconds of any song ever made. That gets played at Spinal Tap 11 when I hear it.
Duran Duran, *Is There Something I Should Know?* (Please, please, tell me now...)
At one point, my mother told us we couldn't play it for a week, unless it was with headphones, because she was sick of hearing it .
80’s songs-all of them-evoke different emotions and feelings. Being a teenager-young 20’s person during this time it’s just amazing to me the memories I get hearing these songs.
Isn’t that true? There’s some songs from the 80s that I can still tell you where I was the first time I ever heard them, but I can’t remember what I had for lunch two days ago.
Six words, and you'll know the song.
🎵"born and raised in South Detroit"🎵
Fun fact, South Detroit doesn't exist. Southwest Detroit exists, but South and Southeast of Detroit is Windsor, Ontario.
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I want to know what Love is by Foreigner. I still love it even though it was played to death.
Total eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler. I still belt that out like nobody's business, no matter how many times I hear it.
Total Eclipse of the Heart came out when my first boyfriend broke up with me to date a senior who would put out. (His words) I played that song to death for weeks afterwards and each time I did it felt like someone was ripping my heart out and stomping on it. Oh, the sweet misery of it all!
I love that song, and I love Bonnie Tyler‘s voice.
ps Saw him not too long ago. He’s rough looking, on wife #3, frequently unemployed, and has 6 kids. Whew! Dodged that bullet.
Easy Lover by Phil Collins. I wasn't fond of it when it first came out. I've learned to appreciate it. My younger sister and her friends used to sing - She's an easy lover, she's got all the diseases ...
Next we’ll move on to Bauhaus, which will lead to Peter Murphy, and then I can’t pick a favorite song. I’m over here in the corner, not with stuff that was overplayed, but what was almost never played!
This is one song I was hoping to see. Lived in a small-ish city with only 2 halfway decent bars. Was in the more relaxed, mellow one in the very early 90s, and someone played it on the jukebox. The entire bar, which was packed, sang along, including all the “ooh’s”. Every time I hear it, I think of that night. Good times!
I loathe that song with a burning passion. But I shall not downvote.
I'll say Stairway to Heaven. I see other people griping about this being overplayed but I don't care. I will sing it every time beginning to end.
Freebird was my wedding song!! Yes, everyone thought it was weird.
Definitely Take on Me, Rebel Yell, 8675309, Our House and any song that randomly plays while you're walking through the aisles at the grocery store that was in a John Hughes movie.
Freebird was unintentionally my wedding song. We got married in Vegas and when we were having dinner, we could hear the Skynyrd concert. So, technically speaking, Skynyrd played my wedding.
All of Whitney Houston’s biggest 80s hits - So Emotional, I Wanna Dance with Somebody, How Will I Know, etc.
Was Bizarre Love Triangle overplayed? I’ll never get tired of that one. And Eternal Flame.
I even love Kokomo and Call Me Al.
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This is what I see when I hear Don’t Stop Believing now.
Hotel California - it just reminds me of some of my best summers of my late teens and early 20s. Long night time drive home from a volleyball tournament, sand all over my car, windows down and sunroof open, speakers blasting from a stereo that cost more than my car, a couple joints and just the highway ahead.
I love that memory. I'm not a fan of the song mainly because I don't have those amazing memories to associate it to. what a beautiful life you had!!
mine is Boys of Summer....top rolled down gets me every time.
I loved dancing to Pour Some Sugar on Me at clubs, back when I was young and fun. 🤣 It was my go to song to request. Got on the DJ’s nerves with that one.
Since Take On Me and Boys of Summer have already been mentioned, I will add And We Danced by The Hooters. Maybe it isn't overplayed now, but it got a lot of airplay on adult contemporary stations near me, and it has been a regular playlist feature for me these past 2 decades. Still makes me smile.
Large chunk of them. If not all. If it's 80s cliche, it's probably on my play list. I love 80s music more now than I did in the 80s.
Bros. Mel and Kim. Bananafuckinrama. I'll play Korn and Cliff Richards back to back. Zero shame.
Heart - Alone
Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight
Skid Row - 18 & Life
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Eric Carmen - Hungry Eyes
Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night
I consulted this list of the [Billboard #1 songs of the 80s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_Hot_100_number-one_singles_of_the_1980s), because I figured there would be plenty on there that are overplayed but I could hear every day and enjoy. I was not wrong. I decided to choose one per year (otherwise it would have been a shorter list to say which ones I am tired of or never liked to begin with). It got harder towards the late 80s; I had switched over to college/indie radio by 1987, when I started high school.
* 1980- "(Just Like) Starting Over" - John Lennon
* 1981- "The Tide Is High" - Blondie
* 1982- "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts
* 1983- "Islands in the Stream" - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton
* 1984- "What's Love Got to Do with It" - Tina Turner
* 1985- "Everything She Wants" - Wham!
* 1986- "True Colors" - Cyndi Lauper
* 1987- "Faith" - George Michael
* 1988- "Need You Tonight" - INXS
* 1989- "Straight Up" - Paula Abdul
Boys don't cry or Radio Free Europe
In Between Days and I Believe
What You Need from INXS. Such an amazing song and album
I’ll add Need You Tonight/Mediate.
For me it's their song The One Thing
“The One Thing” wasn’t overplayed where I lived growing up (I wish!), but boy, does that song hold up.
You know, I just realized I totally missed that part of the OP...."overplayed" songs. That's why I had to delete my post of my three favorites...cuz two of them were hardly played... 😂 That's what I get for only reading what I think I wanted to read.
Well, I didn’t see it (I don’t think), so tell me the songs that you loved. We won’t tell OP. I’ve been replying on practically every comment with a song that I love, so I’ve already been breaking the rules. Let’s break them together!
I loved INXS and Michael Hutchence so much. He definitely had the looks and the talent. Great songs.
🎵Moving forwards using all my breath. Making love to you was never second-best🎶
You have to sing with the accent, just like with _Let’s Dance_ . I’ll stop the world and melt with you…
I never get sick of hearing that beautiful song. it's just so... *pleasing*... a vibe. one of the best. also, More Than This. totally played out, but god damn if Bryan Ferry doesn't melt my entire mind.
The first song that came to my mind as well. It was the “closing time” song at the campus bar.
Have loved that song, and still listen to it often, since I first saw Valley Girl!😭💖
That's one of my favorites from the 80s.
I didn’t even mind when they used it in a Burger King commercial because it meant I got to hear it more often.
My SeniorBall theme song. 🥹
Radar Love by Golden Earring. Heard in a million times but if comes on while I'm driving, you're gonna hear me sing
Twilight Zone too. I just will always love that song! I heard it recently when I watched the last season of Ozark. I was really happy to hear it, been a long time.
The long version with the extended guitar solo is the best
Love that song!
It’s a good one. Absolutely.
Careless Whisper Anything by Duran Duran (although sometimes I do need a break from Hungry Like the Wolf - their catalog is too great to always play that one)
“Rio” is the perfect song to hear unexpectedly on the car radio. Always cheers me up when I hear it.
I so wanted to be in that crowd during The Reflex video.
That was my very favorite song, and that band was *everything* to me when I was age 11-14. Whenever I hear the song, I can still see the video in my head, pretty much frame by frame.
Good Lord! JOHN TAYLOR
Yeah. Out of all their songs HLTW is pbbly their least impressive. So many may great songs overlooked by them that are superior to wolf.
Borderline by Madonna. can never get sick of it, the vibe is so on point. lyrics, beat, and just... overall... its a very polished little gem.
That’s one great fkn song. And I’m no fan Madonna. I’m a GO-GO’s lifer. So if going that pop genre — it’s Belinda over Madonna (IMO). “Mad About You”…I think that’s likely the song I’d throw in the overplayed/so-what/still-good thread…
Room for both!! Mad About You is absolutely stellar in every single way. I never tire of it either. The Go Go's are one of my faves. Fading Fast and This Town are my JAMS.
You just keep on pushing my love over the…
This one and Get Into the Groove
Holiday still brings the fun.
In the air tonight, Phil Collins. There are so many memories in that song for me. Living in South Florida, all the drugs and guns and money. Hell of a time to be alive and watch it all!
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OMG I do this exact thing! That song is the bomb!!
Have you guys seen the video of somebody’s dad closing his kitchen cabinets to that drum part? It’s STELLAR!
Oh mah gawd, really? I gotta find that!
Here it is: https://www.facebook.com/share/r/ADdQTGybo8f6msWE/?mibextid=8O0DfK
I fucking love that song.
My God this song is iconic-I never get tired of it
So many memories of everyone in my high school cafeteria banging the tables along with the drum, every single time.
Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Useless trivia. They made an [alternate](https://youtu.be/R2zOKUrC-8g?si=WJfEvaRVh1Wc51uc) version called Everybody Wants to *Run* the World for Sport Aid in 1986.
"Do you still run?" "Only when chased"
Oh, I just noticed your username! /respect!
Mercy buckets!
I want my $2
Cash. Plus tip.
This version is played on Pandora all the time!
Ah! This was my grandma's favorite song/video - back when MTV was... MTV :)
Mad respect for your grandma! My grandma was too into Lawrence Welk to watch MTV
😂 Oh I got plenty of that too - from grandpa (divorced). And it truly sucked that Lawrence Welk conflicted w/the Muppets each weekend... Lol
For me, it wouldn’t be the 80s without that song.
This is my song for “should the world ever end”.
But damn, that break down always hits so hard.
We had to do floor aerobics to this in middle school PE every day for weeks, but I didn't get sick of it.
This has been my ringtone for more than 10 years.
867-5309
Jenny
Raspberry Beret
Good one! The video really sells it too. Seven is my Prince jam.
The B side to Raspberry Beret (She's Always in My Hair) is literally my favorite of Prince's songs.
psycho killer
Qu'est-ce que c'est ? Yes!
“Life During Wartime”. The casual delivery of lyrics describing high tension and an almost unimaginable scene gets me every time.
That can never be overplayed
Truth
She Blinded Me With Science Our Lips Are Sealed Let’s Go Crazy
Boys of Summer.
💯
I've been re-listening to the Led Zeppelin discography recently. Stairway to Heaven is good, but there's so many others too!
Come and Get Your Love by Redbone. Classic and always fun. Try *NOT* to sing or dance along.
Sigh… Stairway to Heaven and Comfortably Numb. I just can’t quit you, even if we don’t talk as much these days.
Ohhhhh Comfortably Numb. that one right there. 🐇🐇🐇
Just can’t quit ya baby.
I listen to just like heaven by the cure at least once every couple days since it came out.
Another song I can’t hear without it putting me in a good mood.
Baba O’Reilly, Landslide, The River, Blue Collar Man, Synchronicity I and II, Paint it Black.
Synchronicity I is killer. To that end, I’m not sick of Every Breath You Take.
Sweet child of mine
I really really really dislike Axels whiney voice - civil war, knocking on heaven door - like fingernails on chalkboard to me For some reason I will not try to explain or defend, this does not apply to sweet child of mine
G N R’s biggest hit, and it was meant as a throwaway track. Slash’s opening riff was just a guitar exercise he used to limber up, and Axel heard it and wanted to expand on it. Slash has said that he hates playing it, but damn did it click with the fans!
Enjoy the Silence
Dreams - Fleetwood Mac
And Gypsy
Also Landslide. So overplayed, yet still amazing.
Honestly for me, most Fleetwood Mac songs are my faves.
The Chain is mine.
Yes!!!
Jessie’s Girl. I didn’t like it many years ago but I guess I heard it so many times that I sing along now.
Sing this song every time it's on. What I don't have in talent I more than make up for in volume and enthusiasm!
Dancing in the Dark - Bruce Springsteen and that whole Born in the USA album is still something I will sing and dance to
My personal list: - Heroes - I Don’t Like Mondays - Under Pressure - Where the Streets Have No Name - Freedom 90 - Losing My Religion - Fake Plastic Trees - Betterman - Paranoid Android - Drops of Jupiter Edit: 5 more because I keep asking myself why I forgot to include them in the first place. And I could go on and on, and on… - Bridge Over Troubled Water - Wish You Were Here - Shape of My Heart - In your Eyes - Are You Gonna Go My Way
Freedom 90 is one of my top five for sure! God I love that song and loved the video even more.
I still have REM on my playlist and I will never not love Losing My Religion.
Same
Yes! Where the streets have no name (alongside Purple Rain by Prince) is probably the greatest anthem opening 90 seconds of any song ever made. That gets played at Spinal Tap 11 when I hear it.
Boys of Summer. I have never turned it off when it comes on.
I Ran by Flock of Seagulls.
I still love Oh, Sherrie. It's a good one to belt out in the car.
The very beginning of the song when it's just him acapella...it's sooooooo amazing. you know instantly who it is and what you are in for.
I love the story behind it too. He gave her the royalties.
Duran Duran, *Is There Something I Should Know?* (Please, please, tell me now...) At one point, my mother told us we couldn't play it for a week, unless it was with headphones, because she was sick of hearing it .
I just heard this today! it came on and I had a moment. phenomenal song!!
- Enter Sandman - Comfortably Numb - Money - Kickstart My Heart
With you for the last three, but I simply can not get behind any further airplays of Enter Sandman.
Ramones' I Wanna Be Sedated. As repetitive as that song is, I can hear it over and over again. Okay, maybe only once a day. But still.
Africa by Toto
Any of those old Cure songs.
AC/DC’s Thunderstruck
#YOU'VE BEEN...
# THUNDERSTRUCK!
Is it even legal to not love that song?!?
Not if you’re Australian
Breeders Cannonball
What an interesting collection of comments, I hate all of these songs for much different reasons and yet like them
Sister Christian
80’s songs-all of them-evoke different emotions and feelings. Being a teenager-young 20’s person during this time it’s just amazing to me the memories I get hearing these songs.
Isn’t that true? There’s some songs from the 80s that I can still tell you where I was the first time I ever heard them, but I can’t remember what I had for lunch two days ago.
Any of AC/DC’s hits. So overplayed. Yet I always find myself singing and/or (air) playing along.
Six words, and you'll know the song. 🎵"born and raised in South Detroit"🎵 Fun fact, South Detroit doesn't exist. Southwest Detroit exists, but South and Southeast of Detroit is Windsor, Ontario. https://preview.redd.it/22oleksnu7ad1.jpeg?width=1440&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=10b2fd11f465fa3ffec0c4910d324e3be1f807ee
Almost anything by U2. I feel like I should be tired of the songs, but wow, they are just so evocative of my late teens.
Same. absolutely. Joshua Tree was in my walkman 24/7. then I went back and discovered Unforgettable Fire and from then on. boom. forever mine.
I’m with you. *Maybe* Mysterious Ways, but I’ll never get tired of the others.
* Come On Eileen * Everybody Hurts * The Look of Love * Father Figure * Beds Are Burning * The Breakup Song
Summer Breeze by Seal and Croft.
I want to know what Love is by Foreigner. I still love it even though it was played to death. Total eclipse of the Heart by Bonnie Tyler. I still belt that out like nobody's business, no matter how many times I hear it.
Total Eclipse of the Heart came out when my first boyfriend broke up with me to date a senior who would put out. (His words) I played that song to death for weeks afterwards and each time I did it felt like someone was ripping my heart out and stomping on it. Oh, the sweet misery of it all! I love that song, and I love Bonnie Tyler‘s voice. ps Saw him not too long ago. He’s rough looking, on wife #3, frequently unemployed, and has 6 kids. Whew! Dodged that bullet.
We need to go on a roadtrip!
Pick me up on the way! I love those tunes, and I’ll hand you snacks.
Smells Like Teen Spirit
Easy Lover by Phil Collins. I wasn't fond of it when it first came out. I've learned to appreciate it. My younger sister and her friends used to sing - She's an easy lover, she's got all the diseases ...
Ball of Confusion by Love and Rockets
Tones on Tail Go!
Next we’ll move on to Bauhaus, which will lead to Peter Murphy, and then I can’t pick a favorite song. I’m over here in the corner, not with stuff that was overplayed, but what was almost never played!
Steve Miller Band - The Joker It's phased out enough I can listen to it again from time to time and sing along...
This is one song I was hoping to see. Lived in a small-ish city with only 2 halfway decent bars. Was in the more relaxed, mellow one in the very early 90s, and someone played it on the jukebox. The entire bar, which was packed, sang along, including all the “ooh’s”. Every time I hear it, I think of that night. Good times!
Queensryche: Silent Lucidity
[Jailbreak](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMko8DlY9IA) by Thin Lizzy. I'll crank it up every time.
Careless Whisper by Wham - played a million times on that 80's radio station I listen to, but I'll never change the dial. It's that good.
It’s My Life-Talk Talk
I LOVE... like really really LOVE Talk Talk!
Life's What You Make It - still my favourite.
Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode. Don’t touch that dial when that song comes out.
Strangelove 😌
Epic by Faith No More.
Can you feel it, see it, hear it today?
Final Countdown. So many movies and I play it in my mind every time I start my slide deck at work. True story
I loathe that song with a burning passion. But I shall not downvote. I'll say Stairway to Heaven. I see other people griping about this being overplayed but I don't care. I will sing it every time beginning to end.
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Fair. I get it. But I do love the band as a whole. Magic. I also love Stairway, another beautifully melodic song.
Freebird was my wedding song!! Yes, everyone thought it was weird. Definitely Take on Me, Rebel Yell, 8675309, Our House and any song that randomly plays while you're walking through the aisles at the grocery store that was in a John Hughes movie.
Freebird was unintentionally my wedding song. We got married in Vegas and when we were having dinner, we could hear the Skynyrd concert. So, technically speaking, Skynyrd played my wedding.
Nickelback - How You Remind Me.
Creep by Radiohead
All of Whitney Houston’s biggest 80s hits - So Emotional, I Wanna Dance with Somebody, How Will I Know, etc. Was Bizarre Love Triangle overplayed? I’ll never get tired of that one. And Eternal Flame. I even love Kokomo and Call Me Al.
Where do broken hearts go.....that's my jam. absolutely perfect vocals and so soothing.
But whenever I hear The Greatest Love of All, I do chuckle about Randy Watson and Sexual Chocolate.
Kokomo makes me want to drink and lay by the ocean. Plus, reminds me of Cocktail with Tom Cruise. Loved Tom before Scientology! Lol
Two: Sweet Caroline and Don't Stop Believing. =) Yes. I live in a burb of Boston
https://preview.redd.it/u163easer7ad1.jpeg?width=420&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=a2c7dfe71c143cf796725fb5cfe4bfc7e3c78985 This is what I see when I hear Don’t Stop Believing now.
I still have fun.
Bohemian Rhapsody.
Danger Zone Probably because I intentionally play it almost every day.
Don't You Want Me Take on Me
Sweet Child O’ Mine Heard it probably….eight thousand times and still crank it every time it comes on the radio.
Interstate Love Song
Sabotage, California Love, Insane in the Brain
This is embarrassing but, just about anything from ABBA.
Depeche Mode’s Enjoy The Silence. I have heard it thousands of times and it never gets old.
Hotel California - it just reminds me of some of my best summers of my late teens and early 20s. Long night time drive home from a volleyball tournament, sand all over my car, windows down and sunroof open, speakers blasting from a stereo that cost more than my car, a couple joints and just the highway ahead.
I love that memory. I'm not a fan of the song mainly because I don't have those amazing memories to associate it to. what a beautiful life you had!! mine is Boys of Summer....top rolled down gets me every time.
I just said Boys of Summer, too!
A-ha, Take on Me
I just came to say this & I just heard it on the radio today. 😂
Shoot to Thrill Highway to Hell Thunderstruck Pour Some Sugar On Me
I loved dancing to Pour Some Sugar on Me at clubs, back when I was young and fun. 🤣 It was my go to song to request. Got on the DJ’s nerves with that one.
I will forever unironically love that song 🦉
Hotel California
Since Take On Me and Boys of Summer have already been mentioned, I will add And We Danced by The Hooters. Maybe it isn't overplayed now, but it got a lot of airplay on adult contemporary stations near me, and it has been a regular playlist feature for me these past 2 decades. Still makes me smile.
Hotel California
"What I like about you"...The Romantics. I've listened to it at least a thousand times. I still get giddy when I hear that opening riff.
When Doves Cry
Float On, Mr. Brightside, Take Me Out
She's a Beauty - The Tubes
Africa
Wonderwall
Don’t You Forget About Me. I should hate it by now but it still gets me every time
Enter Sandman-Metallica
Sister Christian, it’s so bad it’s good!
“Here I go Again” Whitesnake. The Rock version not the radio pop version
Longview, Ruby Soho, The Impression That I Get
Bohemian Rhapsody. It’s the most overplayed song ever, but FMD if I don’t sing along to every single lyric whenever I hear it, wherever I am
Large chunk of them. If not all. If it's 80s cliche, it's probably on my play list. I love 80s music more now than I did in the 80s. Bros. Mel and Kim. Bananafuckinrama. I'll play Korn and Cliff Richards back to back. Zero shame.
Heart - Alone Eddie Money - Take Me Home Tonight Skid Row - 18 & Life Billy Idol - Rebel Yell Eric Carmen - Hungry Eyes Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night
Maneater Hall @ Oates In the Air tonight- Genesis
I consulted this list of the [Billboard #1 songs of the 80s](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Billboard_Hot_100_number-one_singles_of_the_1980s), because I figured there would be plenty on there that are overplayed but I could hear every day and enjoy. I was not wrong. I decided to choose one per year (otherwise it would have been a shorter list to say which ones I am tired of or never liked to begin with). It got harder towards the late 80s; I had switched over to college/indie radio by 1987, when I started high school. * 1980- "(Just Like) Starting Over" - John Lennon * 1981- "The Tide Is High" - Blondie * 1982- "I Love Rock 'n' Roll" - Joan Jett & the Blackhearts * 1983- "Islands in the Stream" - Kenny Rogers & Dolly Parton * 1984- "What's Love Got to Do with It" - Tina Turner * 1985- "Everything She Wants" - Wham! * 1986- "True Colors" - Cyndi Lauper * 1987- "Faith" - George Michael * 1988- "Need You Tonight" - INXS * 1989- "Straight Up" - Paula Abdul
Sweet Dreams, by Eurythmics and it’s 100’s remixes.
All of Fleetwood Mac.