Songs 353-355

Ahmad Jamal - Pittsburgh (1989)

Chick Corea Elektric Band - Elektric City (1986)

Grover Washington, Jr. - Strawberry Moon (1987)

Songs 347-349

George Clinton - Atomic Dog (1982)

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

Cameo - Word Up (1986)

Songs 332-334

Joe Cocker - Up Where We Belong (1982)

Chris DeBurgh - Lady In Red (1986)

Biz Markie - Just a Friend (1989)

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 278-280

Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al (1986)

Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy (1988)

UB40 - Red Red Wine (1983)

Songs 275-277

Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night (1984)

Glass Tiger - Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone (1986))

Shannon - Let the Music PLay (1983)

Songs 269-271

Neil Diamond - Heartlight (1982)

Human League - Human (1986)

Miami Sound Machine - Conga (1985)

Songs 266-268

Robbie Nevil - C'est la Vie (1986)

Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off (1986)

Supertramp - I'm Beggin' You (1987)

Songs 254-256

Seduction - Two to Make It Right (1989)

Rob Base and D.J. E-Z Rock - It Takes Two (1988)

Art of Noise - Peter Gunn (1986)

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 239-241

Animotion - Obsession (1984)

Kylie Minogue - Locomotion (1987)

Ric Ocasek - Emotion in Motion (1986)

Songs 227-229

Cinderella - Not Your Fool (1986)

Modern English - I Melt With You (1982)

English Beat - Mirror in the Bathroom (1980)

Songs 206-208

One of my faves, Leave It (1983) by Yes

Then two I don't care for.
Poison - Every Rose Has It's Thorn (1988)

Bon Jovi - Livin' on a Prayer (1986)

Songs 203-205

Taking a break from the popular tunes today and shifting to some classical music. I had hesitated to do so because much of classical music recordings are performances of older songs. Can we really call them tunes of the (19) eighties if they were written in the 19th century? I'm doing so because these particular recordings were notable for the era, at least for me. Beginning with the Marsalis brothers. As a sax player, listening to Branford was very important to my growth as a player. He demonstrated that the sax could be played in any setting. This is Arabesque No. 1 by Claude DeBussy off of Branford's Romances for the Saxophone album (1986)

I also enjoyed listening to Wynton because of how awesome he was. There is no shame in working hard and aspiring to have technical and musical chops like Wynton demonstrated on Carnival of Venice (also 1986)

Finish up with someone who was a very straightforward traditional classical performer in the eighties but has since done anything and everything. Yo-Yo Ma first broke out of the normal classical recordings with an album of Cole Porter jazz tunes in 1989. Here's Anything Goes (1989)

Songs 197-199

The Call - I Still Believe (Great Design (1986))

Spandau Ballet - True (1983)

Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax (1983)

Songs 191-193

Husker Du - Something I Learned Today (1984)

Stacey Q - Two of Hearts (1986)

Sonic Youth - Teenage Riot (1988)

Songs 164-166

Me, me, me. Today all songs are by artists with the letters "Me" in their names because why not?
Menudo - Hold Me (1985)

Megadeth - Peace Sells (1986)

Mike and the Mechanics - All I Need is a Miracle (1985)

Songs 161-163

Whitesnake - Here I go Again (1982)

XTC - Dear God (1986)

Yaz - Sweet Thing (1983)

Songs 155-157

Journey - Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)(1983)

Pat Benatar - We Belong (1984)

Beastie Boys - Fight for Your Right (1986)

Songs 137-139

Boston - Amanda (1986)

Next, one of my least favorite songs from the eighties, Against All Odds by Phil Collins (1984)

Keith Richards - Take It So Hard (1988)