Music, Bands, songs etc from the mid 80's

[Border_7]

Oh oh, yeah Take on Me and Heaven is a Place on Earth are tracks in my Winamp's 80's playlist.  I like those.

Also White Wedding by Billy Idol, Boys of Summer by Don Henley, Take My Breath Away by Berlin, The Power of Love by Huey Lewis & the News, Rush Hour by Jane Wiedlin, Eternal Flame by The Bangles, She Sells Sanctuary by The Cult, Going Underground by The Jam, and We Built This City and Nothing's Going to Stop Us Now both by Starship.   And there's likely others too.  These all take me back to a happier place.

Oh and Ghostbusters by Ray Parker, Jr.  Can't believe I forgot that one, with the amount of times I play the games and watch the movies and cartoon.   

Ahhhh, and Dancing in the Dark by Bruce Springsteen, which is significant because I actually performed it in a school assembly when I was about 7 or 8, totally dressed exactly like he is in the video and doing the moves.   Even pulled a girl I fancied onto the stage like he does with the then young and unknown Courteney Cox.  Ah, good times.   That flashback makes me think perhaps I've always been happier on stage being somebody else rather than myself.

Heh, I'm making an 80's-like game in the style of an 80's computer and based on an 80's sci fi movie.  Yeah, it's my fave decade.  Hated the 90's though.  Really truly loathed that time.

Billy Idol, Starship - of course! yes. Ghostbusters too!! and even the Dancing in the Dark / Springsteen Courtney Cox thing... good one. She even appeared in the 1987 "Blockbuster" Masters of the Universe!!!! 

Good times...

[villain]

Did anybody already mention Alphaville? Just heard them on the radio and have to add them here. :-)

[CraigsBar]

Did anybody already mention Alphaville? Just heard them on the radio and have to add them here. :-)

Well only if it were 'big in Japan' a great song though

[AMSDOS]

I knew he did a few solos (Last Christmas?), then I remembered he was in Wham!

Last Christmas was credited as Wham!


The weird thing about Careless Whisper is it was credited to George Michael outside of the US, Canada & Japan, which is why I was under the impression it was a George Michael, which is somewhat correct, but it's on Wham! album "Make it Big".


Wham! as a group were active until 1986.

Wake me up before you...?

Yes.

What happened to the other Wham dude?

Andrew Ridgeley - seems to be under the radar these days. Had a solo album back in 1990