Songs 356-358

Soft Boys - Underwater Moonlight (1980)

Killing Joke - Kings and Queens (1985)

Psychedlic Furs - Pretty in Pink (1981)

Songs 347-349

George Clinton - Atomic Dog (1982)

Spinners - Cupid I've Loved You For a Long Time (1980)

Cameo - Word Up (1986)

Songs 323-325

Patti Austin - Baby, Come to Me (1981)

Georgia Satellites - Keep Your Hands to Yourself (1986)

Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star (1980)

Songs 296-298

Kiss - Heaven's on Fire (1984)

AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long (1980)

Warrant - Heaven (1989)

Songs 293-295

Not all the songs I put up here I like. I have put some New Age on here, which I did and do like. A common theme of New Age artists of that era was album covers that were sort of serene, maybe some nature. I found this album is a discount rack and picked it up because the cover looked New Agey:

Not exactly New Age. Candlemass - Ancient Dreams (1988)

Mike Post - Hill Street Blues (1981)

Joe Walsh - All Night Long (1980)

Songs 290-292

Dolly Parton - 9 to 5 (1980)

LL Cool J - Going Back to Cali (1989)

Ray Lynch - Celestial Soda Pop (1984)

Songs 263-265

Twisted Sister - We're Not Going to Take It (1984)

Ramones - Do You Remember Rock 'n' Roll Radio (1980)

Dinosaur Jr. - Freak Show (1988)

Songs 227-229

Cinderella - Not Your Fool (1986)

Modern English - I Melt With You (1982)

English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom (1980)

Songs 140-142

Today's post has both kinds of music:

My parents were fans of both kinds of music so I got exposed to some of this stuff. The first concert I ever attended was a Loretta Lynn concert that my folks dragged me along to. We'll start with her. I Lie (1982)

The opening act for her, Bandana, I actually enjoyed. Years later I found their album in a dollar bin at a record store. Here's Outside Lookin' In (1983)

Wrap it up with one of me mum's faves, Kenny Rogers' Lady (1980)

Songs 128-130

Three B's or not three B's, that is not the question. I just wanted to have groups beginning with the letter B today. Call Me by Blondie (1980)

The Metro by Berlin (1982)

and In a Big Country by Big Country (1983)

Songs 116-118

Devo - Whip It (1980)

Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (1980)

Olivia Newton John - Physical (1981)

Songs 101-103

Kevin Paige - Anything I want (1989)

Night Ranger - Sister Christian (1983)

I Love a Rainy Night - Eddie Rabbitt (1980)
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Songs 77-79

After putting up some St. Elmo's Fire songs yesterday, I have other eighties movies songs in my head this morning. Were the eighties the peak of movie songs?

We'll begin with Go West doing King of Wishful Thinking from the Pretty Woman soundtrack. No we won't. 1990. I could have sworn I watched that movie in high school. Oh well.

Survivor - Eye of the Tiger (1982) which ended up the theme song for Rocky III

I'm Alright (1980) by Kenny Loggins from the movie Caddyshack (we called it the Go-go Gopher song back in the day). I think I could have found a few Loggins movie songs. Danger Zone from Top Gun. Footloose. I expect there's more

Since I brought up Footloose, let's add Let's Hear It For the Boy by Deniece Williams (1984)


Bonus video clip. Seeing how Deniece Williams spells her name made me think of a Key and Peele bit:

Songs 68-70

Should have saved this post for October but what can you do? Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by The Damned (1981)

I'm cheating a bit with this one. Until December's cover of Bauhaus's Bela Lugosi's Dead (1986 of 1979 original)

I was a Teenage Werewolf by The Cramps (1980)

Songs 11-13

Jazz tunes were in my head this morning. We'll begin with Spyro Gyra's (1987) Cayo Hueso:

I'm going to cheat a bit with this one which was released in the seventies but I heard it in the eighties and it appeared on his Best of album in 1980. Maynard Ferguson's Birdland:

Then George Benson came to mind and while I would love to add On Broadway, Did You Hear Thunder (1986) came to mind first.