It's been a while since we've had a SongPop Community Challenge! Back in January, we solicited your selections for the "Best Basslines" playlist, and our players came through with flying colors! So let's start up another round and get this party going again!
This month, we're asking for your personal favorites from the 1980's, with a caveat... we want you to give us your Desert Island 80's cuts! The rules are simple:
1) Suggest up to ten songs to add to the playlist, fitting the criteria that if you were stranded on a desert island, you couldn't live without them.
2) We are only accepting songs that were released during the 1980's -- in other words, if it was released on an album or single from January 1st, 1980 through December 31st, 1989, it's eligible for inclusion here.
3) To prevent the playlist from being taken over by any one artist, songs by the same singer or group will be limited to the five most popular choices.
Submissions to this community curated playlist will be accepted through March 13th, 2015. After this date, the SongPop content curators will sift through the submissions and prep the playlist for release! We look forward to seeing what you come up with -- don't be scared, give us those songs that YOU love! Ready to get started? Simply post your favorites below!
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The song is Street Player (Mechanix) by a band called Fashion. If I knew how to post the You tube video I would!! Year was 1982!
The The-This Is The Day: http://youtu.be/-32AAp418V4
"Jump" -- Van Halen via their album entitled "1984" which was released Jan. 9, 1984. http://youtu.be/SwYN7mTi6HM
Air Supply - Even The Nights Are Better (1982)
Asia - Don't Cry (1983)
The Cure - A Forest (1980)
Fleetwood Mac - Can't Go Back (1983)
Foreigner - Jukebox Hero (1981)
John Lennon - Watching the Wheels
Men At Work - Who Can it be Now (1981)
R.E.M. - The One I Love (1987)
Spandau Ballet - Gold (1983)
Van Halen - Jump (1984)
The Who - You Better You Bet (1981)
Oops, that's 11. Scratch the Fleetwood Mac song.
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina and the Waves
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Like a Prayer - Madonna
Take on Me - A-ha
99 Luftballons - Nena
Purple Rain - Prince
One - Metallica
Living on a Prayer - Bon Jovi
Don't Stop Believing - Journey
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
That's when I think of you by
I walk the earth by voice of the beehive
Don't call me baby by voice of the beehive
The promise that you made by cock robin
An everlasting love by Howard Jones
Mockingbird by cutting Crew
Love is all that matters by human league
How do I know that it's Love by Eddie Van Halen
Tracie.by level 42
Mental as anything live it up
Quick before I think of more!
Johnny and Mary - Robert Palmer
It's Gonna Rain - violent Femmes
Don't Bang the Drum - Waterboys
Burn Out - Sipho Mabuse
Hillbrow - Johannes Kerkorrel en die Gereformeerde Blues Band
Gunning for the Buddha - Shriekback
Peekaboo - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Highway Patrolman - Bruce Springsteen
Romeo and Juliet - Dire Straits
There She Goes - The La's (original recording - not the 1990 remake, for obvious reasons)
Two Tribes by Frankie Goes To Hollywood
David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes
Deep Purple - Perfect Strangers
Helloween - Keeper Of The Seven Keys
Hanoi Rocks - Tragedy
Alan Parsons Project - Silence And I
Black Sabbath - Heaven And Hell
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
Whitesnake - Still Of The Night
The Smiths - Bigmouth Strikes Again
Scorpions - The Zoo
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
Love and Rockets - Kundalini Express
Chameleons - Up The Down Escalator
The Cure - A Strange Day
Depeche Mode - But Not Tonight
The Church - Unguarded Moment
Sinead O'Connor - Troy
Spear of Destiny - So In Love With You
Lords of the New Church - Russian Roulette
thomas dolby - i scare myself
duran duran - like an angel
joe jackson - be my no 2
siouxsie and the banshees - christine
the teardrop explodes - reward
depeche mode - love in itself
the cure - how beautiful you are
the cure - lets go to bed
a flock of seagulls - space age love song
the beat - mirror in the bathroom
the church - reptile
the damned - grimly fiendish
department s - is vic there
the stranglers - strange little girl
david sylvian - taking the veil
david sylvian - red guitar
lene lovich - lucky number
lene lovich - angels
madness - grey day
madness - one better day
madness - cardiac arrest
meat puppets - i am a machine
meat puppets - leaves
gary numab - metal
gary numan - films
the smiths - headmaster ritual
the sound - winning
tears for fears - i believe
tears for fears - pale shelter
the undertones - forever paradise
the undertones - wednesday week
the undertones - the love parade
visage - the damned dont cry
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Only When You Leave - Spandau Ballet
Please Don't Touch - Motorhead/Girlschool
Club Country - Associates
Shoot To Thrill - AC/DC
Waiting For A Girl Like You - Foreigner
Two Tribes - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Delirious - ZZ Top
Mama - Genesis
Heaven In My Hands -Level 42
Joys Of Christmas -Chris Rea
Uncertain Smile - The The
Hate the Police - Mudhoney
Out of my mind on dope and speed - Julian Cope & Teardrop Explodes
On Earth as it is in Heaven - Ennio Morricone
I can't forget - Leonard Cohen
Let's go out tonight - Blue Nile
Are you going with me - Pat Metheny Group
Tell Me - Galaxie 500
Little Musgrave - Planxty
Rainy Night in Soho - Pogues
1) Like a Virgin - Madonna
2) Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
3) Rio - Duran Duran
4) Girls on Film - Duran Duran
5) Do They Know it's Christmas - Band Aid
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Take On Me - a- ha
Faithfully - Journey
Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
The Best of Times - Styx
When I See You Smile - Bad English
Making Love Out of Nothing At All - Air Supply
Look Away - Chicago
Goodbye - Night Ranger
I Won't Forget You - Poison
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Take On Me - a- ha
Faithfully - Journey
Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
The Best of Times - Styx
When I See You Smile - Bad English
Making Love Out of Nothing At All - Air Supply
Look Away - Chicago
Goodbye - Night Ranger
I Won't Forget You - Poison
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Take On Me - a- ha
Faithfully - Journey
Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
The Best of Times - Styx
When I See You Smile - Bad English
Making Love Out of Nothing At All - Air Supply
Look Away - Chicago
Goodbye - Night Ranger
I Won't Forget You - Poison
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLn_oMd1DQU&list=PLg6K3TWkY3QY0wgtXghp1DS_-aSGpe5uM&index=1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vq7JSic1DtM&list=PLg6K3TWkY3QY0wgtXghp1DS_-aSGpe5uM&index=2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkfzXq0tA3c&list=PLg6K3TWkY3QY0wgtXghp1DS_-aSGpe5uM&index=3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEuxBbybuj4&list=PLg6K3TWkY3QY0wgtXghp1DS_-aSGpe5uM&index=5
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gCGB6GzGTjo&list=PLg6K3TWkY3QY0wgtXghp1DS_-aSGpe5uM&index=6
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i9xf9MgSCB4&list=PLg6K3TWkY3QY0wgtXghp1DS_-aSGpe5uM&index=8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-5Xgw6d3h0&list=PLg6K3TWkY3QY0wgtXghp1DS_-aSGpe5uM&index=11
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6XH2jt4NmOw&list=PLg6K3TWkY3QY0wgtXghp1DS_-aSGpe5uM&index=12
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrMQzpXiJZc&list=PLg6K3TWkY3QY0wgtXghp1DS_-aSGpe5uM&index=13
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahJ6Kh8klM4&list=PLg6K3TWkY3QY0wgtXghp1DS_-aSGpe5uM&index=15
Sorry - those were:
The Passions - I'm in Love with a German Film Star
Public Image Limited - Rise
CABARET VOLTAIRE - SENSORIA
The Beat - I Confess
Heaven 17 - "Let Me Go"
SIMPLE MINDS 70 Cities As Love Brings The Fall
Cocteau Twins - Pearly Dewdrops' Drops
The Cramps - New Kind Of Kick
Poison Girls - Persons Unknown
R.E.M. - Nightswimming
Shriekback - Lined up
Shriekback - My Spine (Is The Baseline)
Vicious Pink - Cccan't You See
Way Of The West - Don't Say That's Just For White Boys
Tic Toc - anything from "Where The Picnic Was"
Q-Feel - Dancing In Heaven
Modern Romance - Nothing Ever Goes The Way You Plan / Queen Of The Rapping Scene
Sherry Kean - People Talk
Chas Jankel - Questionnaire
Robert Hazard - Escalator Of Liife
Righty ho! As Christopher just pointed out to me, correctly, that NIGHTSWIMMING is a 90s track, i'll suggest as number 10, the majestic:
Killing Joke- Requiem
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7WPI4TJImo
Mental as Anything - Live it up
Cliff Richard - Some people
Ryan Paris - Dolce vita
Cock Robin - The promise you made
The Jeremy Days - Brand new toy
Holly Johnson - Love train
Chris de Burgh - This waiting heart
Camouflage - The great commandment
Bonnie Bianco - Miss you so
Inker & Hamilton - Fancing into danger
Shoot High Aim Low-Yes-1987. On The Turning Away-Pink Floyd-1987. Red Rain-Peter Gabriel-1986. Synchronicity-The Police-1983. I Will Follow-U2-1981. Red Barchetta-Rush-1981. Scary Monsters-David Bowie-1980. The Ghost In You-Psychedelic Furs-1982. No One Is To Blame-Howard Jones-1985. Twilight Zone-Golding Earing-1982.
1) Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome
2) Propaganda - P-Machinery
3) Art Of Noise - Moments In Love
4) Phillip Boa - Container Love
5) Die Form - Savage Logic
6) Depeche Mode - Everything Counts
7) Spider Murphy Gang - Skandal im Sperrbezirk
8) The Timelords - Doctorin The Tardis
9) Savage Progress - My Soul Unwraps Tonight
10) Icehouse - Hey Little Girl
1 - Toyah - Echo Beach
2 - Madness - The Sun And The Rain
3 - Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Warriors Of The Wasteland
4 - Ultravox - Astradyne
5 - The Cure - Why Can't I Be You
6 - Pop Will Eat Itself - There's No Love Between Us
7 - Killing Joke - Love Like Blood
8 - U2 - Sunday Bloody Sunday
9 - Whitesnake - Still Of The Night
10 - Fury In The Slaughterhouse - Time To Wonder
Sex Crimes 1984 - The Eurythmics
Everything Counts - Depeche Mode
View to a Kill - Duran Duran
Cry Wolf - A-Ha
Never Trust A Stranger - Kim Wilde
Just An Illusion - Imagination
La Isla Bonita - Madonna
Set Me Free - Jaki Graham
Temptation - Heaven 17
Videotheque - Dollar
Hayley Long
1- Amazulu - The Things The Lonely Do.
2- Princess- Say I'm Your No1
3- The Stone Roses- I Wanna Be Adored
4- ABC- The Night You Murdered Love.
5- The Stone Roses- Made Of Stone
6- Bananarama- Love, Truth and Honesty
7- Dee C Lee- Come Hell Or Waters High
8- Icehouse- Hey Little Girl
9- Kim Wilde- Never Trust A Stranger
10- The Smiths- I Started Something I Couldn't Finish.
"Safety Dance" by Men Without Hats
"Land Down Under" by Men at Work
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