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!

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.

The fact that they [music videos] seem to be taking over almost from the aural side, the visual side seems to be almost more important.

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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.

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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Jane found out about her and got rid of me. He asked the driver to wait a couple of minutes while he grabbed something from his motel room. James Manning. Clarke had heard Moyet perform with other bands on the pub circuit, and felt she was a perfect fit for the song. This is longing on a supernatural scale, and Tyler holds her own against the thundering arrangement as she roars out some of the least quiet desperation ever known to pop music. Bonus points for their Go Feet record-label graphics, which invited girls to the ska party in a pointed statement of anti-misogyny. The Story of The lyrics relate to life on the streets and gang activity, something Jackson was very detached from. There will always be an easy like Sunday morning. He said: "'True' became a song about writing a love song. Fantastic video, starring old-school comedy legend Milton Berle in drag, and a fancy-dinner-party guest who hears Ratt jamming in the attic and naturally sheds her clothes.

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.

Susan Ann Sulley was asked to take on the role. Famously, NYC had record stores that opened early Sunday morning, right after closing time at the Garage, so rival DJs could snap up whatever Levan just played. This funky song was written, arranged and produced by George Michael himself. They went right to one-hit-wonder heaven in the U. But the fact that anyone even knows who he is nowadays now is entirely a testament to how extraordinary The Smiths were. Simon Le Bon wrote the lyrics to the song, and chose not to write about the city but actually about a girl named Rio. Thankfully, the lotion-slick groove reeks more of coconuts than crisp money. Bobby Brown dishes the dirt on celebrity gossip, as the young Harlem prodigy Teddy Riley soups up a beat that would rule the radio for the next few years. He said: "'True' became a song about writing a love song. They loved it and it was recorded for the soundtrack. On December 5th of that same year, Mozart dies. It's a perfectly fantastic finale moment, and is always a karaoke favourite.