what are some of your favorite 80's songs???
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i'm looking for a song you guys might know. It was from the movie "Crank", to help you reference. They only play it on the part where Chev goes into the kitchen with the butcher knife and cuts off verona's brothers' hand. The song that is playing at that time is the one that i want, but i don't know the name.
LL Cool J - "I'm Bad"
LL Cool J - "Radio"
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - "Bad Reputation"
Stan Bush - "The Touch"
The Ramones - "Blitzkreig Bop"
Social Distortion - "Mommy's Little Monster"
Metallica - "Master of Puppets"
Metallica - "Four Horsemen"
Reagan Youth - "Degenerated"
The Misfits - "Die, Die My Darling"
Guns N' Roses - "Welcome To The Jungle"
LL Cool J - "Radio"
Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - "Bad Reputation"
Stan Bush - "The Touch"
The Ramones - "Blitzkreig Bop"
Social Distortion - "Mommy's Little Monster"
Metallica - "Master of Puppets"
Metallica - "Four Horsemen"
Reagan Youth - "Degenerated"
The Misfits - "Die, Die My Darling"
Guns N' Roses - "Welcome To The Jungle"
Originally Posted by tCTaco
Dont forget Suicidal Tendencies and Storm Troopers of Death
"Give me your Money" and "Instituationalized" are two of the best punk rock songs of the 80's.
Originally Posted by TheRealBen
Originally Posted by tCTaco
Dont forget Suicidal Tendencies and Storm Troopers of Death
"Give me your Money" and "Instituationalized" are two of the best punk rock songs of the 80's.
send me your money was 1990. imo, the only good album was lights, camera, revolution, which was also my favorite album of any band when i was 12-14.
Kiss spanned multiple decades...they lost their make-up (briefly) in the 80s...Lick It Up, great song! Okay, so here’s a glimpse at my 80s playlist. I purposely left off Def Leppard, ‘cause I always hated them...these are just my “mainstream” preferences:
Sugar Hill Gang - Apache
Grandmaster Flash/Melle Mel - White Lines
Junior - Mama Used To Say
Carl Carlton - Bad Mama Jama
Dazz Band - Let It Whip
Gap Band - Dropped The Bomb On Me
New Edition - Cool It Now, Candy Girl
Terence Trent D’Arby - Wishing Well
Ray Parker, Jr. - Ghostbusters
Michael Jackson - Billy Jean, Thriller, Rock With You
Buckner & Garcia - Pac-Man Fever
Squeeze - Tempted By The Fruit Of Another
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
Tom Tom Club - Love Genius
New Order - Temptation, Blue Monday, Bizarre Love Triangle
The Cure - Just Like Heaven, Love Cats, Close To Me, In-Between Days, Why Can’t I Be You
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now, Girlfriend In A Coma, Panic, Shoplifters Of The World Unite
Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way, Pretty In Pink
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf, Rio, The Reflex, View To A Kill
Aha - Take On Me, Blue Sky
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor!, Lies, Hold Me Now
Howard Jones - Get To Know You Well, Things Can Only Get Better
Thomas Dolby - Blinded Me With Science
Simple Minds - Don’t You Forget About Me
Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride
Lindsay Buckingham - Trouble, Holiday Road
OMD - If You Leave
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
Big Country - Big Country
Human League - Keep Feeling Fascination, Don’t You Want Me
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Split Endz - I Got You
Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer, Wild Life, And She Was
After The Fire - Don’t Turn Around
Cory Hart - I Wear My Sunglasses At Night
Rick Springfield - Jesse’s Girl
Huey Lewis - Power Of Love, Back In Time
Pat Benetar - Invincible, Love Is A Battlefield
Quarterflash - Harden My Heart
INXS - Need You Tonight, What You Need
Patty Smyth/Scandal - The Warrior
Peter Gabriel - Don’t Give Up, Sledgehammer, Big Time
Journey – Anyway You Want It, Don’t Stop Believing
Mr. Mister - Broken Wings
Paul Young - Everytime You Go Away
Men At Work - Overkill, Land Down Under, Who Can It Be Now?
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule The World, Shout
Depeche Mode - People Are People
Phil Collins/Philip Bailey - Easy Lover
Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone
Nena - 99 Red Balloons (or 99 Luftballoons)
Tina Turner - We Don’t Need Another Hero (Mad Max/ThunderDome)
Cyndi Lauper - Goonies R Good Enough, Time After Time
Kim Carns - Betty Davis Eyes
ToTo - Rains In Africa
The Tubes - She’s a Beauty
Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep
Tommy Two-Tone - Jenny (867-5309)
Madonna - Lucky Star, Holiday, Into The Groove, Material Girl, Like A Prayer, Borderline, Live To Tell
Hall & Oates - Out Of Touch, Man-eater, Private Eyes
The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another
Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart
Styx - Mr Roboto
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell, Dancing With Myself, White Wedding, Hot In The City
The Cars - Tonight She Comes, Shake It Up, Magic, Let’s Go, Good Times Roll, Just What I Needed
REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You, Take It On The Run
Loverboy - Working For The Weekend
Michael Sembello - Maniac
Scorpions – Rock You Like A Hurrican, Winds Of Change, Send Me An Angel
Europe - Final Countdown
G ‘n’ R - Welcome To The Jungle
Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly
Ratt - Round and Round
Cinderella - Nobody's Fool
Bon Jovi – Livin’ On A Prayer, Dead or Alive
Motley Crue – Shout At The Devil, Dr. Feelgood, Home Sweet Home
Dokken - Dream Warriors
I left off my metal and punk tunes...You’re all too young to know them anyway
J/K. But bands like Uniform Choice, DayGlo Aborts, GBH, The Uprise, Minor Threat, Big Black, Pagan Babies, (old) Metallica, Anthrax, and Black Flag weren’t all that popular in the “80s Crowd”.
Sorry for such a long post - this one took me back!!!
Sugar Hill Gang - Apache
Grandmaster Flash/Melle Mel - White Lines
Junior - Mama Used To Say
Carl Carlton - Bad Mama Jama
Dazz Band - Let It Whip
Gap Band - Dropped The Bomb On Me
New Edition - Cool It Now, Candy Girl
Terence Trent D’Arby - Wishing Well
Ray Parker, Jr. - Ghostbusters
Michael Jackson - Billy Jean, Thriller, Rock With You
Buckner & Garcia - Pac-Man Fever
Squeeze - Tempted By The Fruit Of Another
Rockwell - Somebody's Watching Me
Tom Tom Club - Love Genius
New Order - Temptation, Blue Monday, Bizarre Love Triangle
The Cure - Just Like Heaven, Love Cats, Close To Me, In-Between Days, Why Can’t I Be You
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now, Girlfriend In A Coma, Panic, Shoplifters Of The World Unite
Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way, Pretty In Pink
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf, Rio, The Reflex, View To A Kill
Aha - Take On Me, Blue Sky
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor!, Lies, Hold Me Now
Howard Jones - Get To Know You Well, Things Can Only Get Better
Thomas Dolby - Blinded Me With Science
Simple Minds - Don’t You Forget About Me
Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride
Lindsay Buckingham - Trouble, Holiday Road
OMD - If You Leave
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
Big Country - Big Country
Human League - Keep Feeling Fascination, Don’t You Want Me
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Split Endz - I Got You
Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut
Talking Heads - Psycho Killer, Wild Life, And She Was
After The Fire - Don’t Turn Around
Cory Hart - I Wear My Sunglasses At Night
Rick Springfield - Jesse’s Girl
Huey Lewis - Power Of Love, Back In Time
Pat Benetar - Invincible, Love Is A Battlefield
Quarterflash - Harden My Heart
INXS - Need You Tonight, What You Need
Patty Smyth/Scandal - The Warrior
Peter Gabriel - Don’t Give Up, Sledgehammer, Big Time
Journey – Anyway You Want It, Don’t Stop Believing
Mr. Mister - Broken Wings
Paul Young - Everytime You Go Away
Men At Work - Overkill, Land Down Under, Who Can It Be Now?
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants to Rule The World, Shout
Depeche Mode - People Are People
Phil Collins/Philip Bailey - Easy Lover
Kenny Loggins - Danger Zone
Nena - 99 Red Balloons (or 99 Luftballoons)
Tina Turner - We Don’t Need Another Hero (Mad Max/ThunderDome)
Cyndi Lauper - Goonies R Good Enough, Time After Time
Kim Carns - Betty Davis Eyes
ToTo - Rains In Africa
The Tubes - She’s a Beauty
Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep
Tommy Two-Tone - Jenny (867-5309)
Madonna - Lucky Star, Holiday, Into The Groove, Material Girl, Like A Prayer, Borderline, Live To Tell
Hall & Oates - Out Of Touch, Man-eater, Private Eyes
The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another
Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart
Styx - Mr Roboto
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell, Dancing With Myself, White Wedding, Hot In The City
The Cars - Tonight She Comes, Shake It Up, Magic, Let’s Go, Good Times Roll, Just What I Needed
REO Speedwagon - Keep On Loving You, Take It On The Run
Loverboy - Working For The Weekend
Michael Sembello - Maniac
Scorpions – Rock You Like A Hurrican, Winds Of Change, Send Me An Angel
Europe - Final Countdown
G ‘n’ R - Welcome To The Jungle
Lita Ford - Kiss Me Deadly
Ratt - Round and Round
Cinderella - Nobody's Fool
Bon Jovi – Livin’ On A Prayer, Dead or Alive
Motley Crue – Shout At The Devil, Dr. Feelgood, Home Sweet Home
Dokken - Dream Warriors
I left off my metal and punk tunes...You’re all too young to know them anyway
Sorry for such a long post - this one took me back!!!
Originally Posted by seattledave
Dokken - Dream Warriors
what cheese, nice! wasn't that from nightmare on elm street? when i was 5-6th grade, i was a bit of a dokken/lynch mob fan.
what cheese, nice! wasn't that from nightmare on elm street? when i was 5-6th grade, i was a bit of a dokken/lynch mob fan.
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very good. i added a bunch more to my list. I couldn't think of his name, it's phil collins. yes! and i found the song i was looking for, its turn me loose by loverboy. thanks for everyone's help.
Originally Posted by zero__zero
I left off my metal and punk tunes...You’re all too young to know them anyway
J/K. But bands like Uniform Choice, DayGlo Aborts, GBH, The Uprise, Minor Threat, Big Black, Pagan Babies, (old) Metallica, Anthrax, and Black Flag weren’t all that popular in the “80s Crowd”.
As for 80's punk, I'm all about it...unlike much of what is considered punk today(though there are a few really good bands now).



