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These are a few that I think might have slipped under the nostalgia tier of 80's songs. Some are very good, and some are less good, but interesting as time capsule things. I'm leaving 1980 out of it, since most of the songs from that year much more closely resembled the 1970's (disco, soft country crossover, different synthetic sound, more stoned than ambitious).
867-5309/Jenny Tommy Tutone. When I was an intern, we used to play cruel games on each other by paging other interns to this number as soon as we suspected they either got home or got to sleep after a bad night. One poor fellow never got it. One day he went completely ape in rounds. The attending, after holding in his smile, suggested that it might have come from a different area code. Had the guy call six different 8675309 numbers in like five states. Since it had already been about 6 months, we finally decided to let him in on it. We paged him from a conference like five times, then when he came back in, we popped in a homemade vhs tape of the video spliced into some training flick.
-Who Can It Be Now? -Der Kommisar. yeah, it was in The Wedding Singer, but go for it. -Mr. Roboto. The undead rock opera to end all rock operas, and I think it succeeded. -Delirious. This is the one Prince hit that never gets play. -Break My Stride. Proved that acid trip songs only worked in the acid age. -Somebody's Watching Me. -Nightshift/ Commodores. Might be the best of the decade. -Valotte. What happened to Julian Lennon after that? -Hazy Shade of Winter, The Bangles. Probably one of the best 80's covers. -Don't You Want Me/Human League. Here's relatively unmined 80's cliche. -I'm On Fire/Springsteen. I didn't like him until I heard this one. -Mickey. Truly the worst. Worse than Wham. -Electric Avenue. One of the best. -Our House/Madness, or One Step Beyond. Brits can be odd, too. -Breaking Us in Two or Stepping Out. Joe Jackson. -Girls with Guns. Earworm purgatory. -One Night in Bangkok- earworm hell. -Axel F. If I were the guy who wrote the music to "Moon Patrol", I'd sue. -Come Dancing. The Kinks had a number of good and not-at-the-time-anachronistic songs in the 80's.
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