Was in my teens in the late 80s and was a lot of music I enjoyed and still do from that era. Recently been listening to the soundtrack from the film called 'The Lost Boys'. Some great songs on there like Good Times by INXS - Don't let the sun go down on me by Roger Daltry and many other feel-good tunes! 

If you're into 80s rock, do yourself a favor and listen to Nada Personal and Signos, both albums from Soda Stereo too. Masterpieces.

There are way too many good songs from the 80s but one of my favorites is:

Girls Just Want To Have Fun - Cindi Lauper

*even had my ringtone set to it a few years ago* 

Night Train - Guns n Roses

Orion / Damage Inc. - Metallica

Add it Up - Violent Femmes

Hey - Pixies

Vamos- Pixies

Negative Creep - Nirvana

Revelations - Iron Maiden

I'll stop ...this list would be very lengthy...

The 80’s weren’t so bad they had Michael Jackson’s Beat it and Billie Jean.  Prince – When Doves fly.

Whitney Houston was on the charts.  There were some good artists out there around that time.

Funnily enough, me and the mrs were listening to some 80s stuff last night.  Our taste in music is very different, though...I remember listening to a lot of Queen, INXS, Duran Duran, Whitesnake and Bon Jovi in the 80s.  I guess if I had to pick a couple of stand out tunes that still sound great, they'd be:

Blue Monday 1988 - New Order

Don't Change - INXS.

nice choice Grisella but the Stone Roses elephant stone came out in 1989 and i still listen to it at least once a week.

special mention should go to strangeways here we come by the Smiths, Killing an Arab by the cure and Purple Rain by Prince.

Struggled to get into music in the 80s but I agree with Elephant Stone. If I’m being particularly picky, the extended version rather than the single version.

Bomb the Bass though, my absolute fav. Megablast was the best of their stuff.

My first ever favourite song was Wake Me Up Before you Go Go by Wham and also just love Cyndi Lauper, Girls Just want to have fun

Alot of the music I liked then depended on the movies.  So sound tracks for St Elmos Fire, Can't buy me Love, The Breakfast Club, Weird Science, Pretty in Pink, Varsity Blues, Footloose, Less than zero, Karate Kid...

This list is endless!  It was the birth of MTV lol

An excellent shout there ratsokar!

Yes, I forget that the stone roses just snuck into that decade. An all time favourite band of mine.

Good enough to have taken over the world!

Having grown up in the 80's it's a tough call what would be my favorite. That was the music I grew up on and played all through my college years. Some favorite artists though would be Queen, Aerosmith and of course Fleetwood Mac. My kids still laugh at me for listening to the oldies stations  but I can't get enough of it!

well i personally think the 80's was not the best for music but it's all a matter of taste ofc .. was a few good songs however not sure i could rate too many as being among my favorites but perhaps

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