Just occurred to me....Huey Lewis & The News. They had lots of hits in the 80's, including "The Power of Love" from the Back To the Future soundtrack.
Oh, yeah, speaking of Prince, he closed out the 80's with songs from the soundtrack from Batman.
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The Huey Lewis song is titled "The Power Of Love"... not to be confused with either the Frankie Goes To Hollywood song by the same name, or the Jennifer Rush song, both of which were released in the previous year 1984.
Another fun trivia tidbit: Huey Lewis & The News' song dropped out of the Dutch Top 40 in the same week that Jennifer Rush' song entered the chart (2 November 1985).
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Take my dreams, childish and weak at the seams
Please don't analyze, please just be there for me
Gary Numan was who I thought of instantly. I feel like he played a key role in the early New Wave hits of the 80s and later experimented with different genres of music.
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Now that's a separate discussion.
So, if we were to put the top 20 1-hit wonders of the 80's, into a battle arena, drop down a single Klingon-ish type weapon in the middle and the strongest song at the end would get to represent the 80's in a first contact, montage sizzle reel of human civilization sent out to alien life... Well I wold definitely be in the battle dome with a poster board sign pulling for St. Elmo's Fire.
Beefing up the old home security, huh?You bet yer ass.
I also like "I Want a New Drug", "Heart and Soul", and "Heart of Rock and Roll"
I think they had a a retro sound, almost from the 1950s or 60s esp when they would be backed up with the Tower of Power horns group. I guess that was some of the appeal of the 1980's ....there was a lot of variety out there.
Yes, unfortunately both of them turned out to be abhorrent human beings but they are 80's trash.80s was one of the best era's for music and movies. MJ and Madonna were two of the biggest singers in the 80s like them or not! You don't think of the 80s without those two singers.
Had a soft spot for this movie theme also!
The song turned out to be the only saving grace from MM: BeyondThunderdome.
Oh yeah, those too. I still have the "Sports" CD somewhere in my car. I also liked the one that was dedicated to Viet Nam veterans called "Walking on a Thin Line"
Gotta be Cameo. They actually celebrated the death of real drum sets on their first electronic only beats album in the liner notes!
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Hillary was right!
FOUR F**KING PAGES IN, and absolutely NO mention (until right now) of Eurythmics!? I thought cocaine raised you all better than this!
.......And no, I wont post Sweet Dreams as that would be too predictable. That being said.....
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