
"I feel a far too '80s song with very, very, very dated production coming on"
Albums:
1 | Justin Hayward | Moving Mountains
2 | Suzanne Vega | Suzanne Vega
3 | Thompson Twins | Here's to Future Days
4 | Oingo Boingo | Dead Man's Party
5 | Kate Bush | Hounds of Love
6 | The Velvet Underground | VU
7 | Meat Puppets | Up on the Sun
8 | Rites of Spring | Rites of Spring
9 | Sting | The Dream of the Blue Turtles
10 | Robyn Hitchcock | Gotta Let This Hen Out!
11 | Les Misérables - Original London Cast | Original Cast Recording
My least correlation with the main site's top 10, for the '80s. Rites of Spring was a good surprise (post-hardcore punk, with vocalist Guy Picciotto later joining Fugazi, though I'm not sure that Fugazi was an improvement).
Songs:
1 | Simple Minds | Don't You (Forget About Me)
2 | The Force MDs | Tender Love
3 | Heart | These Dreams
4 | Kate Bush | Cloudbusting
5 | Tears for Fears | Everybody Wants to Rule the World
6 | Whitney Houston | The Greatest Love of All
7 | Kate Bush | And Dream of Sheep
8 | Justin Hayward | Who Knows
9 | Cyndi Lauper | The Goonies 'R' Good Enough
10 | Tears for Fears | Head Over Heels
11 | Dionne Warwick and Friends | That's What Friends Are For
12 | The Jets | You Got It All
13 | Kate Bush | Running Up That Hill
14 | Phil Collins | Take Me Home
15 | Heart | Never
16 | Robert Palmer | Addicted to Love
17 | Til Tuesday | Voices Carry
18 | Sting | Fortress Around Your Heart
19 | Justin Hayward | The Best Is Yet to Come
20 | Justin Hayward | One Again
21 | Madonna | Into the Groove
22 | Justin Hayward | Moving Mountains
23 | Thompson Twins | Lay Your Hands on Me
24 | Dire Straits | Money for Nothing
25 | Rosanne Cash | I Don't Know Why You Don't Want Me
26 | Oingo Boingo | Weird Science
27 | R.E.M. | Crazy
28 | Sting | Children's Crusade
29 | Siouxsie and the Banshees | Cities in Dust
30 | Madonna | Crazy for You
31 | Simply Red | Holding Back the Years
32 | Koji Kondo | Super Mario Bros. Ground Theme
33 | R.E.M. | Feeling Gravitys Pull
34 | Thompson Twins | Emperor's Clothes (Part 1)
35 | Dire Straits | Walk of Life
36 | Sting | Gabriel's Message
37 | Huey Lewis and the News | The Power of Love
38 | USA for Africa | We Are the World
39 | James Brown | Living in America
40 | Eurythmics | It's Alright (Baby's Coming Back)
41 | Rites of Spring | For Want Of
42 | Dire Straits | So Far Away
43 | The Cure | In Between Days
44 | Rick Derringer | Real American
45 | Level 42 | Something About You
46 | Huey Lewis and the News | Back in Time
47 | Thompson Twins | Roll Over
48 | Suzanne Vega | Marlene on the Wall
49 | Justin Hayward | Silverbird
50 | The Velvet Underground | I Can't Stand It
51 | Suzanne Vega | Some Journey
52 | Howard Jones | Things Can Only Get Better
53 | INXS | What You Need
54 | Journey | Only the Young
55 | Les Misérables - Original London Cast | Do You Hear The People Sing?
56 | Meat Puppets | Swimming Ground
57 | Oingo Boingo | Stay
58 | Tom Petty | Don't Come Around Here No More
59 | R.E.M. | Driver 8
60 | R.E.M. | Wendell Gee
61 | Les Misérables - Original London Cast | Castle on a Cloud
62 | Duran Duran | A View to a Kill
63 | Run-DMC | King of Rock
64 | Eurythmics | There Must Be an Angel (Playing with My Heart)
65 | Whitney Houston | How Will I Know
66 | Whitney Houston | Saving All My Love for You
67 | Mr. Mister | Broken Wings
68 | The Smiths | The Boy with the Thorn in His Side
69 | Stevie Wonder | Part-Time Lover
70 | Oingo Boingo | Dead Man's Party
71 | Prince and the Revolution | Raspberry Beret
72 | Survivor | Burning Heart
73 | Franco and Rochereau | Lisanga Ya Ba Nganga
74 | Sade | The Sweetest Taboo
75 | Robyn Hitchcock | Listening To The Higsons (live)
76 | Sonic Youth | Halloween
77 | Suzanne Vega | Freeze Tag
78 | Talking Heads | And She Was
79 | Miami Sound Machine | Conga
80 | Chris Isaak | Dancin'
81 | The Velvet Underground | Ocean
82 | Bob Dylan | Clean Cut Kid
83 | Prefab Sprout | Faron Young
84 | The Pogues | And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda
85 | Talking Heads| Road to Nowhere
Note to self: John Mellencamp - Lonely ol' Night
Totally '80s: Bruce Springsteen and Bob Dylan have each written a U.S. #1 hit, but it's with "We Are the World" that either of them have a solo vocal on a #1 song. (Al Jarreau, Willie Nelson, and Steve Perry also got their one #1 hit appearance, of the 21 soloists.)