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The 100 greatest songs of the 1980s, ranked
https://www.smoothradio.com/features/top-songs/1980s-songs-best-ranked/ ^ | 10/26/23 | Tom Eames

Posted on 11/30/2023 2:02:36 PM PST by DallasBiff

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To: Dave911

“There weren’t 100 great songs done in the 80’S.”

Nope. There weren’t.


41 posted on 11/30/2023 2:47:25 PM PST by stanne
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To: DallasBiff

Marillion - Slainte Mhath

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m35DdsuM5Oo


42 posted on 11/30/2023 2:47:29 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: DallasBiff

Sharp Dressed Man: ZZ Top: 1983.


43 posted on 11/30/2023 2:47:46 PM PST by Texas resident (Biden=Obama=Jarrett=Soros)
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To: DallasBiff

Sadly i had no idea Eddie Van Halen played on Beat It. I saw this interview just a few days ago- OMG!!! Start at the 2 minute mark

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOb9iQrglg0


44 posted on 11/30/2023 2:52:08 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: God luvs America

Who was the other guitarist on Beat It?


45 posted on 11/30/2023 2:53:05 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: dfwgator

Hate his politics but he can still belt out that song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lzcwd1vQSWI


46 posted on 11/30/2023 2:55:49 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: DallasBiff

Best Instrumental of the 1980s

September Fifteenth - Pat Metheny/Lyle Mays
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OB7bkhslIXw


47 posted on 11/30/2023 2:56:06 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: MD Expat in PA

Written for Meatloaf


48 posted on 11/30/2023 2:57:27 PM PST by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna! 1 gone, 1 almost dead. )
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To: dfwgator

no effing clue


49 posted on 11/30/2023 2:58:06 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5 million pay no income tax and vote for DemoKrats...)
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To: stylin19a

His best stuff was 70s


50 posted on 11/30/2023 2:59:48 PM PST by Fledermaus (It's time to get rid of the Three McStooges; Mitch, Kevin and Ronna! 1 gone, 1 almost dead. )
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To: God luvs America

Steve Lukather. But then again, he pretty much played on everything in the 80s, LOL.


51 posted on 11/30/2023 3:00:09 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Fledermaus

Hard to top this.

Prelude/Angry Young Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUp9RuUSdvM

Liberty was the boss!


52 posted on 11/30/2023 3:02:25 PM PST by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: Bon of Babble

My daughter, who has long been interested in the music I like, told a friend of hers about “Mongoloid”. He listened to it, liked it, and it is now his cell phone ring tone. He has Downs Syndrome, but is highly functioning. He gets the irony, and he wears a hat and has a job and “brings home the bacon”.


53 posted on 11/30/2023 3:02:41 PM PST by CletusVanDamme (Lord, I'm so tired. How long can this go on?)
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To: fso301

Meaning the author is likely a fag, and the choices made seem to validate that.


54 posted on 11/30/2023 3:10:14 PM PST by Pox (Eff You China. Buy American!)
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To: DallasBiff

Need another list “The Top 100 Songs of the 80’s That Aren’t On the List of the 100 Top Songs of the 80’s”.
Not a bad list as far as popular music goes. Pretty much captures the vibe of that decade. Bit disappointing “Legs” by ZZ Top isn’t on it


55 posted on 11/30/2023 3:15:35 PM PST by Long Jon No Silver (Rrily)
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To: Fledermaus

late 70’s maybe - The Stranger & 52nd St were great...but for me, boom time was in the 80’s.


56 posted on 11/30/2023 3:16:00 PM PST by stylin19a (Back when men cursed & beat the ground with sticks, it was named witchcraft. Today it's named golf.)
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To: DallasBiff

Probably already been mentioned, but Life In Wartime / Talking Heads, and Jenny Jenny / Tommy TuTone.

(Not that one would know anything about that kinda stuff.)


57 posted on 11/30/2023 3:20:16 PM PST by OKSooner ("You're not gonna like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: dfwgator

Thanks for the link. I only remember Devo’s SNL appearance.
I remember being a little confused as to what I was witnessing. I bought the album the next week and have been a fan ever since. “Come in, Booji Boy! Do you have the plans that the chinaman gave you?”


58 posted on 11/30/2023 3:21:13 PM PST by CletusVanDamme (Lord, I'm so tired. How long can this go on?)
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To: DallasBiff

Also Anarchy in the UK / Sex Pistols.


59 posted on 11/30/2023 3:21:24 PM PST by OKSooner ("You're not gonna like what comes after America." - Leonard Cohen.)
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To: dfwgator

Yep...no Dire Straits...no ZZ Top....One Prince song?


60 posted on 11/30/2023 3:22:11 PM PST by HombreSecreto (The life of a repo man is always intense)
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