What is the Quintessential 80's Song?
 

Everybody has one song which = 80's. We aren't talking about your favorite 80's songs at all. Just which songs are the best barometers of the 80's music scene

I have 2.

-the first one is Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears---screams 80's everytime I hear it

-second is Take on Me by Aha---you have not only the song but the video which goes along with it


Honorable mention- Jesse's Girl, and Livin on a prayer

come on Eileen--dexy's midnight runners

used to have jesse's girl as the ringtone on my phone...love that song.

I know Im not the only guy in here that used to love it when the Whitesnake video from "Here I Go Again" would come on MTV....I swear that chick dancing on the car was staring at me the whole time through that video....:o :o

prolly the enduring 80's song would be one of the MANY annoying tunes by Madonna... material girl or like a virgin...

or cyndi lauper before she stopped letting the record company tell her what to record....

Wake me up before you go go???

You know Cyndi Lauper was a hotwalker at Belmont before her career tookoff?

Tawny Kitaen, got arrested for beating up MLB pitcher Chuck Finley. You know the sound guy for the White Sox actually got fired because he played that Whitesnake song when Chuck Finley went to take the mound for the Indians in Chicago shortly after the arrest? Talk about the management not having a sense of humor.

yup...you know she can't swim?

no ****...wow.

I think the 1980's might also be the last time I listened to an entire rap album. That is when it was good and you could understand them....

now where is that Heavy D and The Boys tape when I need it????:D

"Who can it be now"

Men at Work

or the other one....what was it called? I come from the land down under?

I think it was called "Down Under"

you could choose a great many from Def Leopard as well...

let's not forget a personal favorite of mine...and included on almost any best list regardless of topic...'with or without you'

You best not be intending that sarcastically. GR loves me some Leppard.

My dad can't swim either. That's just scary when you think of it. But there was a backstory where his sister basically threw him into the water at the beach when he was a baby and so he never learned to swim.

Favorite Def Leopard Song

Photograph/Animal

see....I knew I loved you for a reason....

sorry Todd....:o

Any of the Monster Ballads like Skid Row's "I Remember You"