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Old 17-01-2008, 00:14
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I've been playing this song - Somewhere in my heart - over and over - don't you just think this song is one of the best? It's from a fantastic decade (for music anyway).

Can you lot fill up this thread with any other links to classic 80s hits that may have become iconic or a little forgotten?
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Old 17-01-2008, 00:18
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There's loads of obscure stuff here:

Forgotten music acts of the 80's thread.
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Old 17-01-2008, 00:21
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Never seen that thread before.
Touche!

Edit: had to laugh that the song I've linked here is in the third post down in that thread!
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Old 17-01-2008, 00:24
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I think there's no harm in having a more general thread as well with more well known as well as forgotten hits.

Could we say that people should post the name of the artist for each track so the thread is mnore easily searchable though? The other thread got pretty difficult to navigate in the end..

This is one of my favourites:

Captain Sensible

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=7bobUGEliic
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Old 17-01-2008, 00:32
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If you like the 80's you gotta play Grand Theft Auto - They played tunes i'd forgotten that i had forgotten such as:

Dance Hall Days

I was singing this for weeks and yet i can't remember liking it in the 80's
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Old 17-01-2008, 00:37
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A few pretty obscure singles from Amy Grant that came out in the mid 80's well before she was well known over here.

Find a way

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=VLEJ_W...eature=related

Stay for a while

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=Om_6q_diHw0
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Old 17-01-2008, 00:54
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The Outfield Lose Your Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uZ9jP...eature=related


Acoustic Version.......soz about the video it plays over.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-9GWy...eature=related

Get ROCKING!!!! WOOOOOO lmao
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Old 17-01-2008, 01:07
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Cheesy but I have to admit I like it:

Dollar

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=fqkI2VBiLgg
Funny - but this bloke in Dollar has now reformed 'Buck's Fizz'

Funny because he was never in Buck's Fizz in the 1st place - and none of the guys that were in Bucks Fizz are in the reformation

just had to include this titbit of rubbish
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Old 17-01-2008, 01:20
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Funny - but this bloke in Dollar has now reformed 'Buck's Fizz'

Funny because he was never in Buck's Fizz in the 1st place - and none of the guys that were in Bucks Fizz are in the reformation

just had to include this titbit of rubbish
Aye, that would be David 'Burger' Van Day, so called as he recently had a fast food business in Brighton.
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Old 17-01-2008, 14:37
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somewhere in my heart by aztec camera is one of my favourite songs ever!!
There is a song called mary's prayer which is absolutely awesome too, dont know who its by though...
And a song that goes "open the door, get on the floor, everybody get that dinosaur" That is a tune, no idea who sang it
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Old 17-01-2008, 14:44
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somewhere in my heart by aztec camera is one of my favourite songs ever!!
There is a song called mary's prayer which is absolutely awesome too, dont know who its by though...
And a song that goes "open the door, get on the floor, everybody get that dinosaur" That is a tune, no idea who sang it
Walk The Dinosaur by Was (Not Was)
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Old 17-01-2008, 14:47
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Danny Wilson - always get confused with Williams, but it was Danny Wilson.

A friend of mine was very fond of that record along with "Black Man Ray" by China Crisis

the early 80s was my singles-buying period.

Cindy Lauper "Time After Time" was one of my favourites.
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Old 17-01-2008, 14:48
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Did you have to google that?! or are you just an 80's awesome tunes expert?!
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Old 17-01-2008, 14:49
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Life In A Northern Town by The Dream Academy and Since Yesterday by Strawberry Switchblade were two of the best singles I bought in the 80s. Still love 'em.
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Old 17-01-2008, 14:51
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Did you have to google that?! or are you just an 80's awesome tunes expert?!
Well I don't like to boast

Even I don't know why I remember it. Haven't heard it in years even though i've got it somewhere.
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Old 17-01-2008, 16:16
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who can forget Then Jerico

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yfu7SH3YA4c

Icehouse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xYQBTwP3t0

Pseudo Echo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8ae0gdXf5E
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Old 17-01-2008, 17:04
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Old 17-01-2008, 17:14
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Did you have to google that?! or are you just an 80's awesome tunes expert?!
I had to check if it was Williams or Wilson - I knew that I ought to check as I had got the name wrong in a pub quiz once.

That "Strawberry Switchblade" one was good - from there the next place ought to be Everything But the Girl or All About Eve's "Martha's Harbour".
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Old 17-01-2008, 18:10
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I can forget Then Jerico!
Terrible!
they were a great band
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Old 17-01-2008, 18:44
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So many hundreds of great songs during the 1980s ... I was born just too late to appreciate them at the time. I'm making up for it now though!

Just a few of my random recommendations...
[LIST][*]Seven Wonders (Fleetwood Mac)[*]Only You (Yazoo)[*]Money For Nothing (Dire Straits)[*]Total Eclipse of the Heart (Bonnie Tyler)[*]You Ain't So Tough (Heart)[*]I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me (Nik Kershaw)[*]Live It Up (Mental As Anything) ~ I spotted that one earlier in the thread[*]Drop the Pilot (Joan Armatrading)[*]Money Changes Everything (Cyndi Lauper)[*]Smalltown Boy (Bronski Beat)[*]Just Can't Get Enough (Depeche Mode)[/LIST]
That'll do for starters... Hope some of those bring back some good memories!
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Old 17-01-2008, 19:43
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I would buy that CD
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Old 17-01-2008, 20:11
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Communards - Don't leave me this way
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Old 17-01-2008, 20:16
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Terence Trent D'Arby - If you let me stay
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Slp_bm58Q4

Beautiful man *sighs*
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Old 17-01-2008, 20:19
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Dead or alive - You spin me
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