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uDiscover Music (UK) - Best 80s Music: 200+ Songs of Rock, Hip-Hop, and More (2021)

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https://www.udiscovermusic.com/stories/best-80s-hits/

I know a bunch of the decade album lists have been shared, and at least a couple of the song lists, but I'm not sure if this one has been posted yet.

Art Rock/Post-Punk
Bauhaus – Dark Entries
Echo and the Bunnymen – The Killing Moon
Roxy Music – More Than This
Kate Bush – Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)
Japan – Ghosts
Talking Heads – This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)
Suzanne Vega – Tom’s Diner
Talk Talk – The Rainbow

Country Music
The Highwaymen – Highwayman
The Judds – Grandpa (Tell Me ‘Bout the Good Old Days)
Anne Murray – Could I Have This Dance
Don Williams – I Believe In You
George Strait – Amarillo By Morning
Rosanne Cash – Seven Year Ache
Steve Earle – Guitar Town
Tanya Tucker – Love Me Like You Used To
Reba McEntire – Whoever’s in New England
Dolly Parton – 9 to 5
Kenny Rogers – Islands in the Stream

Electronic Music
David Bowie – Let’s Dance
New Order – Blue Monday
Grace Jones – Pull Up to the Bumper
Cybotron – Clear
Farley “Jackmaster” Funk and Jesse Saunders featuring Darryl Pandy – Love Can’t Turn Around
Frankie Knuckles feat. Jamie Principle – Your Love
Inner City – Good Life
Herbie Hancock – Rockit
Jungle Brothers – Girl I’ll House You
Kraftwerk – Computer Love
Manuel Göttsching – E2-E4
Mr. Fingers – Mystery of Love
Phuture – Acid Tracks
Rhythim Is Rhythim – Strings of Life
Shannon – Let The Music Play
Laurie Anderson – O Superman
Lipps Inc. – Funkytown

Hip-Hop / Electro
Afrika Bambaataa – Planet Rock
Big Daddy Kane – Ain’t No Half-Steppin’
Boogie Down Productions – The Bridge Is Over
DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince – Parents Just Don’t Understand
EPMD – You Gots to Chill
Ice-T – 6 ‘N the Mornin
MC Lyte – Paper Thin
Newcleus – Jam on It
NWA – Fuck Tha Police
Queen Latifah – Ladies First
Roxanne Shante – Roxanne’s Revenge
Run-DMC – Walk This Way
Slick Rick – Children’s Story
Ultramagnetic MCs – Ego Trippin
Beastie Boys – Fight For Your Right
Eric B. & Rakim – Paid in Full
Grandmaster Flash & The Furious Five – The Message
Kurtis Blow – The Breaks
LL Cool J – Mama Said Knock You Out [Ironically, for a rapper made famous in the '80s, the album this song was released on came out in 1990 and the song wasn't released as a single until 1991. Weird oversight,]
Public Enemy – Don’t Believe the Hype
Salt-N-Pepa – Push It

Jazz
Jack DeJohnette’s Special Edition – Ahmad The Terrible
George Benson – Give Me The Night
Cecil Taylor – Olim
John Zorn – Spillane
Stanley Jordan – The Lady In My Life
Abdullah Ibrahim – Mandela
Pat Metheny – Goin’ Around
Wynton Marsalis – Black Codes
Joe Henderson – Blues for Liebestraum
Miles Davis – Tutu
Michael Brecker – Nothing Personal
Betty Carter – Look What I Got
Ornette Coleman and Prime Time – 3 Wishes
World Saxophone Quartet – Revue
David Murray Octet – The Fast Life
John Carter – Evening Prayer

Metal/Hard Rock
AC/DC – Back in Black
Bon Jovi – Livin on a Prayer
Def Leppard – Pour Some Sugar On Me
Guns N’ Roses – Sweet Child O’ Mine
Slayer – Angel of Death
Ozzy Osbourne – Crazy Train
Scorpions – Rock You Like a Hurricane
Twister Sister – We’re Not Gonna Take It
Metallica – One
Queensyche – I Don’t Believe In Love
Rush – Tom Sawyer
Poison – Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Megadeth – Peace Sells
Van Halen – Jump

Music from (and inspired by) Jamaica
Bob Marley and the Wailers – Redemption Song
Admiral Bailey – Punanny
Barrington Levy – Here I Come
Black Uhuru – Sinsemilla
Jean Adebambo – Paradise
Junior Reid – One Blood
Musical Youth – Pass the Dutchie
Sister Nancy – Bam Bam
Tenor Saw – Ring the Alarm
UB40 – Red Red Wine
Wayne Smith – Under Me Sleng Teng
Raft – Yaka Danse
Bobby McFerrin – Don’t Worry Be Happy
The English Beat – Mirror in the Bathroom
Gregory Isaacs – Night Nurse

Music from Africa
Ali Farka Toure – Timbarma
Toumani Diabate – Jarabi
Orchestra Baobab – Utrus Horas
Youssou N’Dour – The Lion
Mory Kante – Yeke Yeke
King Sunny Ade – Ja Funmi
Thomas Mapfumo – Ndazwa Ngoma Kurira
Fela Kuti – Coffin for Head of State

Music from Japan
Tatsuro Yamashita – Ride On Time
Akina Nakamori – Desire
Joe Hisaishi – The Path of the Wind
Mariya Takeuchi – Plastic Love
Ryuichi Sakamato – Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
Yellow Magic Orchestra – Kimi ni munekyun (Uwaiki na vacances)
The Timers – Theme From The Timers
SHOW-YA – Genkai Lovers
Anzenchitai – Wine Red No Kokoro
Hideaki Tokunaga – Rainy Blue
BOØWY – MARIONETTE
Akira Terao – Ruby No Yubiwa

New Wave
Psychedelic Furs – Love My Way
The Cure – Just Like Heaven
Falco – Rock Me Amadeus
Heaven 17 – Temptation
Katrina & The Waves – Walking on Sunshine
Kim Wilde – Kids in America
Nik Kershaw – I Won’t Let The Sun Go Down On Me
Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me)
Spandau Ballet – True
The Boomtown Rats – I Don’t Like Mondays
The Style Council – Walls Come Tumbling Down!
Kim Carnes – Bette Davis Eyes
B-52’s – Love Shack
Blondie – Call Me
ABC – All Of My Heart
Dexys Midnight Runners – Come On Eileen

Pop
Cyndi Lauper – Girls Just Want To Have Fun
Belinda Carlisle – Heaven Is A Place on Earth
Bow Wow Wow – I Want Candy
Madonna – Like a Prayer
Michael Jackson – Billie Jean
Olivia Newton-John – Physical
Rick Springfield – Jessie’s Girl
Steve Winwood – Higher Love
Swing Out Sister – Breakout
Tommy Tutone – 867-5309/Jenny
Wham! – Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
Lionel Richie – All Night Long (All Night)
Jennifer Warnes & Bill Medley – (I’ve Had) The Time of My Life
Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the Heart
Culture Club – Karma Chameleon
Huey Lewis & The News – The Power of Love
The Bangles – Eternal Flame
The Go-Gos – We Got The Beat
Paul Simon – You Can Call Me Al

Punk/Hardcore
The Cramps – Goo Goo Muck
Bad Brains – Pay to Cum
Dead Kennedys – Holiday in Cambodia
Minor Threat – Minor Threat
Social Distortion – Mommy’s Little Monster
Misfits – Last Caress
Circle Jerks – Wild in the Streets
The Ruts – Babylon’s Burning
T.S.O.L. – Code Blue
Fear – Let’s Have a War
Dag Nasty – Circles
Operation Ivy – Sound System
Hüsker Dü – Don’t Want To Know If You Are Lonely

R&B/Funk
New Edition – Can You Stand the Rain
Earth, Wind, & Fire – After the Love Has Gone
Guy – Groove Me
Johnny Kemp – Just Got Paid
Keith Sweat – I Want Her
Sade – Smooth Operator
Alexander O’Neal – Criticize
Diana Ross and Lionel Richie – Endless Love
Janet Jackson – Nasty
Luther Vandross – Never Too Much
Marvin Gaye – Sexual Healing
Whitney Houston – I Wanna Dance with Somebody (Who Loves Me)
Hall & Oates – I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do)
Was (Not Was) – Walk The Dinosaur
George Clinton – Atomic Dog
Kool & The Gang – Get Down On It
Prince – When Doves Cry
Rick James – Super Freak
Maze – Joy and Pain
Bobby Brown – Don’t Be Cruel

Rock
The Smiths – There Is A Light That Never Goes Out
Queen – Crazy Little Thing Called Love
T’Pau – China In Your Hand
The Replacements – Swingin Party
Bryan Adams – Summer of ’69
U2 – With Or Without You
John Cougar – Jack & Diane
Pixies – Where Is My Mind?
The Police – Every Breath You Take
R.E.M. – The One I Love
Robert Palmer – Addicted To Love
Survivor – Eye of the Tiger
The Clash – Rock the Casbah

Synth Pop
Go West – We Close Our Eyes
Depeche Mode – Personal Jesus
A Flock of Seagulls – I Ran (So Far Away)
Level 42 – Lessons In Love
Howard Jones – Things Can Only Get Better
Joe Jackson – Steppin’ Out
Visage – Fade To Grey
Nena – 99 Luftballons
Phil Collins – In the Air Tonight
The Human League – Don’t You Want Me
Toto – Africa
a-ha – Take On Me
Bronski Beat – Smalltown Boy
Tears For Fears – Everybody Wants To Rule The World
Eurythmics – Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood – Relax
INXS – Need You Tonight
OMD – Enola Gay
Soft Cell – Tainted Love
Peter Gabriel – Sledgehammer
Ultravox – Vienna
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