Your favourite 80's music of all time?

Well?

I love the music style of that time.

I could go on for hours about my favorite music styles from that decade... but I'll keep it short

Good toons.

Too many to list. I love 80’s rock, 80’s metal, and 80’s hits.

Lot's of great 80s music. Waiting to see someone post some TBH.

There is alot of good 80s music

@DEVILinIRON: There's some good music in that list.👍

Right on.

Dude. Too much.

But Michael Jackson, The Cure, Queen, Blondie are some faves. Not to talk about all those awesome one hit wonders.

Lots of good metal in the 80's. Sepultura, Metallica, Pantera...saw the rise of a lot of Scandinavian black and death metal, too.

Or were you asking for more cliche 80's bands and artists? Big fan of the Talking Heads!

Favourite English-language songs by year:

1980 – Queen – "Another One Bites the Dust"

1981 – Depeche Mode – "Just Can't Get Enough"

1982 – Michael Jackson – "Thriller"

1983 – The Police – "Every Breath You Take"

1984 – Wham! – "Last Christmas"

1985 – Prince – "Raspberry Beret"

1986 – Bruce Hornsby – "The Way It Is"

1987 – U2 – "Where the Streets Have No Name"

1988 – Billy Ocean – "Get Outta My Dreams, Get into My Car"

1989 – Madonna – "Like a Prayer"

@indy_2024: Jackson was a paedo, does this change your view?

Nah, felt upset hearing he was a pedo (may his soul r.i.p). As a artist he was great, too many good memories of his songs.

@poarstman: Never heard of 1,2,4 & 5.

There's a lot of my favourites from the 80's. Mainly stuff from Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Dio, Judas Priest, and Megadeth.

No chance. 80s has some absolutely iconic music, so narrowing that down would take too much effort on my part. At the end of the day, mostly any 80s rock/pop/metal/motown.

Favourite foreign-language songs by language:

Arabic / Okinawan / Wolof – Ryuichi Sakamoto (feat. Youssou N'Dour and Nēnēs) – "Calling From Tokyo" (1989)

Bengali / Hindi – Rupa Biswas (feat. Aashish Khan) – "Aaj Shanibar" (1982)

Cantonese – Samantha Lam – "Shang Xin Xi Yuan" (1988)

French – Kraftwerk – "Tour De France" (1983)

German – Nena – "99 Luftballons" (1983)

Japanese – Psy-S – "Earth" (1988)

Mandinka – Mory Kanté – "Tama" (1987)

Portuguese – Kaoma – "Lambada" (1989)

Russian – Russya – "Rusalonka" (1989)

Spanish – Hombres G – "Si no te tengo a ti" (1988)

Urdu – Nazia Hassan – "Telephone Pyar" (1987)

Some really great 80's songs posted by all of you :)

@indy_2024: I agree. I love 80’s music. :)

Favourite instrumental music by year:

1980 – Ryuichi Sakamoto – "Riot in Lagos"

1981 – Yellow Magic Orchestra – "1000 Knives"

1982 – Charanjit Singh – "Raga Bhairav"

1983 – Ryuichi Sakamoto – "Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence"

1984 – Harold Faltermeyer – "Axel F"

1985 – Model 500 – "No UFO's"

1986 – Joe Hisaishi – "The Girl Who Fell from the Sky"

1987 – Rhythim is Rhythim – "Strings of Life"

1988 – Charles Fox – "Short Circuit"

1989 – Mike Post – "Quantum Leap Theme"

High Five!

@indy_2024: High Five! ✋🏻

Favourite music by genre:

Acid – Yazz – "The Only Way is Up" (1988)

Ambient – Apogee & Perigee – "Hope" (1984)

City pop – Mariya Takeuchi – "Plastic Love" (1984)

Classical – Patti LuPone – "I Dreamed a Dream" (1985)

Dance-pop / Freestyle – Ollie & Jerry - "Breakin'... There's No Stopping Us" (1984)

Disco / Jazz – Tatsuro Tamashita – "Ride On Time" (1980)

Electro – Hashim – "Al-Naafiysh" (1983)

Electro-pop / Synth-pop – Haruomi Hosono – "Sports Men" (1982)

Funk – Hideki Saijo – "Madness" (1986)

Heavy metal – Loudness – "Soldier of Fortune" (1989)

Hip hop – Ice T (feat. The Glove & Dave Storrs) – "Reckless" (1984)

House / Techno – Inner City – "Good Life" (1988)

New jack swing – Guy – "Teddy's Jam" (1988)

Punk / Reggae – The Clash – "Straight to Hell" (1982)

R&B / Soul – Marvin Gaye – "Sexual Healing" (1982)

Rock – Survivor – "Eye of the Tiger" (1982)

Ah yes, the 80s. Back when people actually sang naturally unlike today where too many use auto tune and other annoying effects to make their music more interesting, because it isn't very interesting to start with, because it lacks a decent tune.

Roger Meno