Songs 362-364

Firm - Radioactive (1985)

Modern Talking - You're My Heart, You're My Soul (1985)

Jackson Browne - Lawyers in Love (1983)

Songs 356-358

Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight (1980)

Killing Joke - Kings and Queens (1985)

Psychedlic Furs - Pretty in Pink (1981)

Songs 344-346

James Brown - Living in America (1985)

Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine (1985)

Quiet Riot - Cum on Feel the Noize (1983)

Songs 341-343

Earth, Wind and Fire - System of Survival (1987)

Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes (1982)

Jack Wagner - All I Need (1984)

Songs 338-340

Jenny Burton - Bad Habits (1985)

Milli Vanilli - Blame It on the Rain (1989)

Martika - Toy Soldiers (1988)

Songs 320-322

Paul Young - Everytime You Go Away (1985)

Jimmy Buffett - Brown Eyed Girl (1983)

Autograph - Turn Up the Radio (1984)

Songs 311-313

Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now (1987)

Billy Ocean - Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run (1984))

Tina Turner - We Don't Need Another Hero (1985)

Songs 308-310

Aretha Franklin - Freeway of Love (1985)

Patti LaBelle - New Attitude (1984)

Pointer Sisters - Neutron Dance (1983)

Songs 281-283

Living Colour - Cult of Personality (1988)

Don Henley - Dirty Laundry (1982)

Jan Hammer - Miami Vice Theme (1985)

Songs 269-271

Neil Diamond - Heartlight (1982)

Human League - Human (1986)

Miami Sound Machine - Conga (1985)

Songs 248-250

With this post, we're a quarter of the way through the thousand songs. Seems like a long way to go.
Commodores - Night Shift (1985)

Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (1982)

Buddy Miles doing Marvin Gaye's I Heard It Through the Grapevine with the California Raisins (1986)

Songs 245-247

Taking today's songs from groups mentioned in this clip of the great film High Fidelity:

Jesus and Mary Chain - Just Like Honey (1985). I don't care what Jack Black says. There is not picking up from Echo and the Bunnymen.

Stiff Little Fingers - Bits of Kids (1982)

Clash - Rock the Casbah (1982)

Songs 236-238

No, I will not be joining the rest of the country in playing Prince songs today. Instead, in memory of Prince, we will have three artists connected with him.
Appolonia 6 - Sex Shooter (1984)

Shelia E - The Glamorous Life (1985)

Sheena Easton - Strut (1984)

Songs 224-226

Yello - Oh Yeah (1985)

Herbie Hancock - Rockit (1983)

Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F (1984)

Songs 221-223

It's that time of year...baseball season! So some baseball tunes from the eighties.
Steve Goodman - A Dying Cubs Fan's Last Request (1983)

Terry Cashman - Talkin' Baseball (Willie, Mickey and the Duke)(1981)

The Naturals with Mel Allen - Baseball Dreams (1985)

Songs 188-190

The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary (1985)

Luther Vandross - Here and Now (1989)

Kool and the Gang - Tonight (1983)

Songs 185-187

Falco - Rock Me Amadeus (1985)

Taco - Puttin' on the Ritz (1982)

Bad Company (or, for the purposes of today's "theme" Bad Co.) - No Smoke without a Fire (1988)

Songs 182-184

Pseudo Echo - Funky Town (1985)

Bell Biv DeVoe - Poison (1989 (by three days!))

DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince - Parents Just Don't Understand (1988)

Songs 176-178

ZZ Top - Legs (1983)

Eddie Murphy - Party All the Time (1985)

Beach Boys - Kokomo (1989)

Songs 173-175

Some of my many thousands of loyal followers may be asking things like, "Really, Jon? You thought of Strawberry Switchblade before you thought of Prince?". And the answer to that is, of course not. I think of Prince almost every day. Prince is awesome. But because the idiot who structured this blog decided each artist could only be included once, well, do I really want to go the rest of the year with no potential of having Prince show up? Of course not. The possibility of Prince, in my mind, is better than having Prince included in this blog at this stage. Likewise with my all-time favorite eighties tune. It will show up eventually. Just not now. It's tough doing a blog like this and trying to keep a nice blend of songs and artists without going through the big names and tunes early. That's why you get some of the more obscure bands or genres that didn't get popular play (I feel like I've done a decent job of punk representation early on, for instance). Just thought I'd let you know what goes on in my head.
Speaking of which, let's add some more punk and get the Misfits going on here with Mommy, Can I Go Out and Kill Tonight (1982)

We'll go from one Jersey artist to another. Bruce Springsteen and Glory Days (1985)

Keep the baseball theme going with John Fogerty's Centerfield (1985)