Great Music - Nomination & Discussion Thread #8 (1980-1984)

[mae]

It's time! This thread will serve to nominate and discuss the tracks for the tournament that were released between January 1, 1980 and December 31, 1984. Keep in mind that your nomination must have been initially released within this time-frame. Singles can often be released earlier or later than the album, so double check things like Wikipedia. When nominating and seconding, please follow these guidelines:

• You can nominate one track per post, and you can nominate another track after two other members have made their nominations (per thread).
• You can second one track per post, and you can second another track after two other tracks have been seconded (per thread).
• Each nomination should be supported by a video, illustrating the song being nominated.
• The video must be the version of the track being nominated (so no live versions, covers, re-recordings, or remixes).

To reiterate from the announcement post, to make a nomination, please use the following format: ARTIST - TITLE (YEAR). A nomination should also be supported by a video, illustrating the song being nominated (though not necessarily the song's official video, especially if it contains a lengthy pre-song scene). Most tracks can be found on YouTube, and that's preferred, but other video hosting services can be used, which can be embedded with your nomination. If you can't find your pick, send me a PM and I will try to locate it for you. However, please do not simply post a link or embed the video so it appears on the page. Since there will be lots of nominations per page and lots of videos, this will be too much to handle for most computers, slowing down the page tremendously. So to make your nomination, please hide the embedded video using the SPOIL tags (using this spoiler option: ) Don't forget to remove the s in https when embedding YouTube links. Also, the youtu.be sharing shortcut will not work. We need the full address (just without the s in https).

All you need to do is first click the "Insert Video" icon: . Paste your YouTube link, remove the s in https and click OK. The link should stay selected, so click the black SPOIL button, enter your ARTIST - TITLE (YEAR) into the field which appears, click OK, and you're done.

To illustrate, a sample nomination should look like this (and this track is not eligible, since it's from 2015):

Teminite - Are You Ready (2015)

Or, simply use the below template (fill in the red placeholders):

[SPOIL="ARTIST - TITLE (YEAR)"]
[video]YOUTUBELINK[/video][/SPOIL]

List of seconded tracks:

1. Queen - Radio Ga Ga (1984)
2. Kix - Poison (1981)
3. The Feelies - Loveless Love (1980)
4. Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (1983)
5. Blondie - Call Me (1980)
6. Prince - Purple Rain (1984)
7. Taco - Puttin' on the Ritz (1983)
8. Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - I Love Rock 'n' Roll (1981)
9. U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love) (1984)
10. George Michael - Careless Whisper (1984)
11. Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters (1984)
12. Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime (1980)
13. Blondie - Rapture (1980)
14. Lipps, Inc. - Funkytown (1980)
15. Prince - When Doves Cry (1984)
16. ZZ Top - Gimme All Your Lovin' (1983)
17. The Vapors - Turning Japanese (1980)
18. Rush - Tom Sawyer (1981)
19. Queen - I Want to Break Free (1984)
20. Metallica - Seek & Destroy (1983)
21. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax (1983)
22. Billy Joel - Uptown Girl (1983)
23. Blondie - The Tide Is High (1980)
24. Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls (1984)
25. Spandau Ballet - True (1983)
26. George Thorogood and The Destroyers - Bad to the Bone (1982)
27. Metallica - Fade to Black (1984)
28. Phil Collins - Against All Odds (1984)
29. Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (1984)
30. The Who - Eminence Front (1982)
31. Golden Earring - Twilight Zone (1982)
32. ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man (1983)
33. Marvin Gaye - Sexual Healing (1982)
34. Lionel Richie - Hello (1983)
35. Madonna - Material Girl (1984)
36. Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight (1981)
37. Rick James - Super Freak (1981)
38. Michael Jackson - Billie Jean (1982)
39. Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (1980)
40. The Police - Every Breath You Take (1983)
41. Nena - 99 Luftballons (1983)
42. Eurythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again (1984)
43. Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F (1984)
44. Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue (1983)
45. Soft Cell - Tainted Love (1981)
46. Devo - Whip It (1981)
47. Iron Maiden - 2 Minutes to Midnight (1984)
48. Leonard Cohen - Hallelujah (1984)
49. Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train (1980)
50. Survivor - Eye of the Tiger (1982)
51. Billy Idol - White Wedding (1982)
52. Ozzy Osbourne - Mr. Crowley (1980)
53. Pat Benatar - Love Is a Battlefield (1983)
54. Madonna - Like a Virgin (1984)
55. Talking Heads - Burning Down the House (1983)
56. Billy Joel - For the Longest Time (1983)
57. Grace Jones - I've Seen That Face Before (Libertango) (1981)
58. Elton John - I'm Still Standing (1983)
59. Don Henley - Dirty Laundry (1982)
60. Journey - Open Arms (1981)
61. Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen (1982)
62. AC/DC - Back in Black (1980)
63. Journey - Don't Stop Believin' (1981)
64. Tears for Fears - Mad World (1983)
65. REO Speedwagon - Keep on Loving You (1980)
66. Michael Jackson - Thriller (1982)
67. John Anderson - Swingin' (1983)
68. Squeeze - Tempted (1981)
69. Violent Femmes - Blister in the Sun (1983)
70. Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now (1984)
71. Leonard Cohen - Dance Me to the End of Love (1984)
72. The J. Geils Band - Centerfold (1981)
73. Dexys Midnight Runners - Come On Eileen (1982)
74. Queen - Under Pressure (1982)
75. Yngwie J. Malmsteen - Far Beyond the Sun (1984)
76. David Bowie - Modern Love (1983)
77. The Cars - Drive (1984)
78. The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? (1984)
79. Bon Jovi - Runaway (1984)
80. Bananarama - Cruel Summer (1983)
81. Queen - Another One Bites the Dust (1980)
82. Styx - Mr. Roboto (1983)
83. Pat Benatar - Hit Me With Your Best Shot (1980)
84. UB40 - Red Red Wine (1983)
85. Bryan Adams - Summer of '69 (1984)
86. REO Speedwagon - Take It on the Run (1981)
87. Tina Turner - What's Love Got to Do With It (1984)
88. Foreigner - Juke Box Hero (1982)
89. Men at Work - Down Under (1981)
90. Murray Head - One Night in Bangkok (1984)
91. Foreigner - I Want to Know What Love Is (1984)
92. David Bowie - Let's Dance (1983)
93. Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Want to Have Fun (1983)
94. Grandmaster Flash - The Message (1982)
95. The Stray Cats - Rock This Town (1981)
96. Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf (1982)
97. Toto - Africa (1983)
98. A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away) (1982)
99. New Order - Blue Monday (1983)
100. Phil Collins - You Can't Hurry Love (1982)
101. Michael Jackson - Beat It (1982)
102. Yes - Owner of a Lonely Heart (1983)
103. Prince - 1999 (1982)
104. The Stray Cats - Stray Cat Strut (1981)
105. Molly Hatchet - Flirtin' with Disaster (1980)
106. Modern English - I Melt With You (1982)
107. Iron Maiden - Run to the Hills (1982)
108. Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around (1981)
109. AC/DC - Hell's Bells (1980)
110. Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time (1984)
111. Billy Squier - The Stroke (1981)
112. Motörhead - Ace of Spades (1980)

List of tracks not seconded:

1. Colin Newman - Alone (1980)
2. Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - As Falls Whichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (1981)
3. Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Two Tribes (1984)
4. Sonic Youth - Protect Me You (1983)
5. Talking Heads - The Great Curve (1980)
6. Thompson Twins - Doctor! Doctor! (1984)
7. The Pretenders - Back on the Chain Gang (1982)
8. Tangerine Dream - Love on a Real Train (1983)
9. Jean Michel Jarre - Ethnicolor (1984)
10. This Heat - Sleep (1981)
11. Yello - Lost Again (1983)
12. Daryl Hall & John Oates - I Can't Go For That (No Can Do)(1981)
13. The Oak Ridge Boys - Elvira (1981)
14. The J. Geils Band - Freeze-Frame (1981)
15. UB40 - Many Rivers to Cross (1983)
16. "Weird Al" Yankovic - Another One Rides the Bus (1981)
17. Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel - White Lines (Don't Don't Do It) (1983)
18. The Go-Go's - We Got the Beat (1982)
19. Jennifer Rush - The Power of Love (1984)
20. Jean Michel Jarre - Les Chants Magnétiques 2 (1981)
21. Roxy Music - More Than This (1982)
22. Kix - For Shame (1983)
23. Pink Floyd - Not Now John (1983)
24. Eddy Grant - I Don't Wanna Dance (1982)
25. Iron Maiden - The Number of the Beast (1982)
26. Mötley Crüe - Too Young to Fall in Love (1983)
27. "Weird Al" Yankovic - I Love Rocky Road (1983)
28. Grace Jones - Pull Up to the Bumper (1981)
29. Shannon - Let the Music Play (1984)
30. Herbie Hancock - Rockit (1983)
31. Air Supply - The One That You Love (1981)
32. Mötley Crüe - Shout at the Devil (1983)
33. Dan Fogelberg - Same Old Lang Syne (1980)
34. John Cougar Mellencamp - Authority Song (1983)
35. The Smiths - This Charming Man (1983)
36. Culture Club - Karma Chameleon (1983)
37. Imagination - Just an Illusion (1982)
38. Ceramic Hello - Theatre Matrix (1981)
39. Juice Newton - Love's Been a Little Bit Hard on Me (1982)
40. Manuel Göttsching - Quiet Nervousness (1984)
41. Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night (1983)
42. Night Ranger - Sister Christian (1984)
43. Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon (1984)
44. Tom Tom Club - Genius of Love (1981)
45. Afrika Bambaataa and The Soulsonic Force - Planet Rock (1982)
46. Bow Wow Wow - I Want Candy (1982)
47. Severed Heads - Gashing the Old Mae West (1983)
48. Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance (1983)
49. Wang Chung - Dance Hall Days (1983)
50. Def Leppard - Rock of Ages (1983)
51. Jump ‘N the Saddle Band - The Curly Shuffle (1983)
52. Patti LaBelle - Stir It Up (1984)
53. Ronnie Milsap - Stranger in My House (1983)
54. Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane (1984)
55. Adam Ant - Puss in Boots (1983)
56. Toni Basil - Mickey (1982)
57. Naked Eyes - Always Something There to Remind Me (1983)
58. Van Halen - Jump (1983)
59. The Stray Cats - (She's) Sexy + 17 (1983)
60. Brian Eno & David Byrne - Mea Culpa (1981)
61. Depeche Mode - Nodisco (1981)
62. Depeche Mode - Just Can't Get Enough (1981)
63. Band Aid - Do They Know It's Christmas (1984)
64. The Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (1981)
65. Duran Duran - Girls on Film (1981)
66. The Pretenders - My City Was Gone (1982)
67. Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart (1983)
68. Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes (1981)
69. Billy Idol - Dancing With Myself (1980)
70. Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers (1980)
71. Billy Idol - Rebel Yell (1983)
72. The Isley Brothers - Between the Sheets (1983)
73. Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl (1981)
74. John Mellencamp - Jack & Diane (1982)
75. Morris Day and The Time - Jungle Love (1984)
76. John Cougar - Hurts So Good (1982)
77. U2 - New Year's Day (1983)

List of other tracks:

1. Kool and The Gang - Celebration (1980)
2. Dolly Parton - 9 to 5 (1980)
3. Irene Cara - Fame (1980)
4. Tears for Fears - Shout (1984)
5. Vangelis - Chariots of Fire (Theme) (1981)
6. Vangelis - Blade Runner (1982)
7. Elton John - I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues (1984)
8. Sheena Easton - 9 to 5 (Morning Train) (1980)
9. Sheena Easton - For Your Eyes Only (1981)
10. Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton - We've Got Tonight (1983)
11. Metallica - Creeping Death (1984)
12. Vangelis - Suffocation (1980)
13. David Bowie - Putting Out Fire (1982)
14. Billy Idol - Mony Mony (1981)
15. Billy Joel - It's Still Rock and Roll to Me (1980)
16. Frankie Smith - Double Dutch Bus (1981)
17. John Cougar Mellencamp - Pink Houses (1983)
18. Scorpions - Still Loving You (1984)
19. Diana Ross - Upside Down (1980)
20. Duran Duran - Union of the Snake (1983)
21. REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling (1984)
22. Loverboy - Working for the Weekend (1981)
23. Real Life - Send Me an Angel (1983)
24. Iron Maiden - The Trooper (1983)
25. Peter Schilling - Major Tom (Coming Home) (1983)
26. Bryan Adams - Heaven (1984)
27. Linear Movement - Way Out of Living (1983)
28. The Hooters - All You Zombies (1982)
29. Glenn Frey - Smuggler's Blues (1984)
30. Tommy Tutone - 867-5309/Jenny (1981)
31. Stevie Ray Vaughan - Pride and Joy (1983)

[mae]

Here we go with the second half of our nominations threads, as we get into the big-hair '80s! I'll kick things off with this gem from a criminally underrated band:

Kix - Poison (1981)

[Tommy]

Colin Newman - Alone (1980)

[T-Dogz_AK47]

Queen - Radio Ga Ga (1984)

[mae]

Queen - Radio Ga Ga (1984)

Seconded.

[mae]

One of my all-time favorite songs, I could listen to it on repeat for hours:

The Feelies - Loveless Love (1980)

[divemaster]

Blondie -- Call Me (1980)

[T-Dogz_AK47]

All of Prince's songs have been either muted or deleted from YouTube and Dailymotion. The only video link I can find is this one....

Prince - Purple Rain (1984)

http://www.mojvideo.com/video-prince...f9a076974a3585

For some reason, I cannot get the video link to embed properly, but clicking on the link will take you to the video....

[mae]

Yeah, Prince will be tough, but most of his stuff appears to be on that service. It won't embed because only certain video services can be embedded with the forum software.

[mae]

Pat Metheny & Lyle Mays - As Falls Whichita, So Falls Wichita Falls (1981)

[divemaster]

The Stray Cats -- Rock this Town (1981)

[T-Dogz_AK47]

Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Two Tribes (1984)

[mae]

One of the creepiest songs I know:

Sonic Youth - Protect Me You (1983)

[divemaster]

Taco -- Puttin' on the Ritz (1983)

[divemaster]

Kix - Poison (1981)

Seconded.

[T-Dogz_AK47]

Who you gonna call?

Ray Parker Jr. - Ghostbusters (1984)

[mae]

Kix - Poison (1981)

Seconded.

Wow, I did not expect it to get seconded, much less so quickly. Kix really is a hidden treasure. I'll be nominating lots more from them.

[divemaster]

Honestly, I had never heard of ANY of the songs in this thread still waiting to be seconded, including this one. (I'm not familiar with the band either). I listened to a few others and they seemed a bit, oh, from grunge or "alternative" or something. In any event, not within my (admittedly) narrow range of interest. But this one was rockin' out pretty good without sounding too much like a metal hair band. So there you go.

[mae]

Grunge and alternative comes later in the '90s. Kix are a good ol' fashioned rock 'n roll band.

[divemaster]

Grunge and alternative comes later in the '90s. Kix are a good ol' fashioned rock 'n roll band.

Well, I'm not sure what those others sounded like, only what they didn't sound like. LOL

I'm all about the "good old fashioned rock and roll."

[Lurker]

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts - I Love Rock and Roll (1981)

[T-Dogz_AK47]

Honestly, I had never heard of ANY of the songs in this thread still waiting to be seconded, including this one.

You've never heard of Ghostbusters????

[divemaster]

Honestly, I had never heard of ANY of the songs in this thread still waiting to be seconded, including this one.

You've never heard of Ghostbusters????

That one came in AFTER I was listening/posting the others (check the time stamps). Didn't see it until after I had seconded.

[Tommy]

Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams (Are Made Of This) (1983)

[Tommy]

One of my all-time favorite songs, I could listen to it on repeat for hours:

The Feelies - Loveless Love (1980)

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