Best of the 80s

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By Rob Sheffield. Lighters up for the late, great Biz Markie, one of the most beloved music heroes of the Eighties or any other decade. The Diabolical One. The Human Beatbox. The class clown of old-school hip-hop. You got what I neeeed! Then I knew it was gonna be a good record.

Best of the 80s

The s may have been the decade of questionable fashion choices, but we'll probably say the same about the s in a few years It was also the decade of great movies, the rise of video games and downright fantastic music. We've attempted the ridiculously hard but not in any way a chore task of picking the very best s songs ever. Here are our picks - are your favourites in there? You might not have realised it, but Neil Diamond first recorded this song back in But it's UB40's cover that became the most well-known in The song truly brought the band to the mainstream, and reached number one in the UK. It ended up topping the US charts too in , after being performed at Nelson Mandela's birthday tribute concert. This ballad saw Phil Collins sing the tune from a third-person perspective, looking at a man crossing the street to ignore a homeless woman, imploring listeners not to turn a blind eye to those in need. It became Phil's seventh and final number one single in America, while David Crosby of Crosby, Stills and Nash appears on backing vocals. This was the song that made Boy George an even bigger star around the world. It was the UK's biggest selling single of and topped the US chart. Boy George later explained the song: "It is about the terrible fear of alienation that people have, the fear of standing up for one thing. It's about trying to suck up to everybody.

Speaking about his writing process, he later said he usually puts off writing words until the last minute. Georgia Evans.

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The 80s were an interesting time in music, with the heyday of 70s rock, soul, and jazz giving way to exciting new iterations and subgenres. Disco was on the way out, but it helped lead to house music, electronic, and hip-hop. Tentpole genres like rock and pop produced a number of offshoots such as art-rock, post-punk, synth-pop, and more, while music from Africa boasted a wonderful blend of jazz ideas, local sounds, and funk rhythms. In Japan, city pop music was the influential style of the era, which has seen a resurgence in the 21st century. Listen to our Best 80s Hits playlist here. Music in the 80s was moving in a number of loosely defined directions, thanks to the emergence of subgenres like new wave, punk, and the end of disco. The art rock and post-punk artists spun out of this confusion of styles, creating an expansive vocabulary built around propulsive drum grooves, arch, snotty lyrics, and a revolutionary interplay between guitars and synths. Velvet Underground laid the groundwork in the 70s, and artists like Talking Heads, Bauhaus, Roxy Music , and Talk Talk built a foundation still prevalent today. Townes Van Zandt. Guy Clark.

Best of the 80s

By Rob Sheffield. Lighters up for the late, great Biz Markie, one of the most beloved music heroes of the Eighties or any other decade. The Diabolical One. The Human Beatbox. The class clown of old-school hip-hop. You got what I neeeed!

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See more More Song Lists. That the surviving members of the band almost immediately formed the pioneering New Order is nothing short of remarkable. Were they crying already when Toto got there? New sounds and beats explode everywhere. This song was co-written with lyricist John Lang, who was inspired by a book called Broken Wings , written by Kahlil Gibran. The Vatican condemned the video, while family and religious groups also protested its broadcast. He later said: "The whole idea of 'Careless Whisper' was the first girl finding out about the second — which she never did. Recommended [image]. The lyrics relate to life on the streets and gang activity, something Jackson was very detached from. Shy boys without Bananarama?

The s may have been the decade of questionable fashion choices, but we'll probably say the same about the s in a few years It was also the decade of great movies, the rise of video games and downright fantastic music. We've attempted the ridiculously hard but not in any way a chore task of picking the very best s songs ever.

Its iconic famous music video was directed by Stephen R Johnson, and featured Aardman Animation providing groundbreaking claymation. The song is about heartbreak and the loneliness that comes with it, and documents the breakdown of singer David Coverdale's first marriage. Vince Clarke wrote 'Only You' as a sentimental ballad, and wanted to find a singer who could perform it with emotion, after his former band Depeche Mode turned it down. Bonus points for their Go Feet record-label graphics, which invited girls to the ska party in a pointed statement of anti-misogyny. The hits, the deep cuts, the fan favorites. It's miles away from the struggles the singer would face later in her career. Released when he still in the boyband with Andrew Ridgeley , the song topped the charts around the world. Ella Doyle Guides Editor. The song was famously used in a Dairy Milk advert in , in which a gorilla drummed along to it, because why not? It's about greed, avarice, and spoiled riches. This gorgeous ballad sees Phil implore an ex-lover to "take a look at me now", knowing that reconciliation is "against all odds" while considering it worth a shot. Falco rapped in German about Mozart, in a noble effort to make powdered wigs an Eighties fashion trend.