Best Song of 1985

[David_son]

This is always a classic though

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9BNoNFKCBI]USA for Africa - We are the World - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Honorable mentions:


[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cTsw4g-cxgQ"]The Commodores - Nightshift - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

Tears For Fears - Shout + lyrics - YouTube

Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World + lyrics - YouTube

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tYwyjwFg-Zg]Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels + lyrics - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3j2NYZ8FKs]Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls - YouTube[/ame]

 

[LALakersboy24.7]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX-Ru1XkNZc]Double - The Captain Of Her Heart (Official Video) - YouTube[/ame]

 

[Tai Chi≈Surfing]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EBK2YQPKMf4]Huey Lewis And The News - Power Of Love - YouTube[/ame]

 

[David_son]

Huey Lewis And The News - Power Of Love - YouTube

Still think this was still near the top in songs used in a movie. Makes me wanna watch back to the future.

 

[outofyourmind]

Voices Carry and West End Girls.
2 of my favorites.
don't know how I missed those 2.

 

[Smart]

this was the best 1 hit wonder of 1985, hands down

I love how you think one of the best-selling bands in history is a one-hit wonder.

 

[Smart]

Tears For Fears - Shout + lyrics - YouTube

Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World + lyrics - YouTube

Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels + lyrics - YouTube

Yep. There were better active acts in the 1980s, but these guys were the best 80s-style act. And Songs From The Big Chair was their best album, and indeed the best eighties pop album ever made.

 

[RoboticDreams]

Tears For Fears and Duran Duran ruled 1985.

 

[outofyourmind]

I love how you think one of the best-selling bands in history is a one-hit wonder.

never was a big a-ha fan
did they have other hits I missed

 

[Smart]

never was a big a-ha fan
did they have other hits I missed

In the US, no. They did have eight top ten hits in the UK during the 1980s. And they've sold 70+ Million records worldwide. I just love how we dominate culture so much that we can take one of the best-selling bands of the 1980s worldwide and make them a one-hit wonder. It always cracks me up. Same goes with how we label tons of movies "busts" when they make a $100+ Million profit overseas.

 

[TBBishop]

No love for Party All The Time by Eddie Murphy? This is hard for me. Looking at songs from 85 there are quite a few that I love from rock, rap and R&B. But rap is my main love and although I want to go with LL Cool J's I Can't Live Without My Radio or Lodi Dodi by Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew, I have to go with Run-DMC, King of Rock.

 

[RoboticDreams]

No love for Party All The Time by Eddie Murphy? This is hard for me. Looking at songs from 85 there are quite a few that I love from rock, rap and R&B. But rap is my main love and although I want to go with LL Cool J's I Can't Live Without My Radio or Lodi Dodi by Doug E. Fresh and the Get Fresh Crew, I have to go with Run-DMC, King of Rock.

King of Rock was a good song. The rest of those songs, meh.

 

[RoboticDreams]

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls - YouTube

Good song. I wore a trench coat for Halloween that year. Pet Shop Boys were awesome.

 

[futballiscool]

There were a bunch of classic songs in 85, but this one's tough to beat...

 

[futballiscool]

Some other favorites...

 

[RobBase]

Great thread. My choice has not been picked yet.


and imo best song of the entire 80's:

 

[HuskerCradle2Grave]

Great thread. My choice has not been picked yet.


and imo best song of the entire 80's:

I was wondering when this one was going to show up.