great song!
i was about to say i thought “Cutting crew” wrote this song, but now i did a google search and see that chicago and foreigner also did versions??? whose was the original?
Jan Hammer - Miami Vice Theme
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Bananarama - Cruel Summer
Herbie Hancock - Rockit
Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F
Harold Faltermeyer - Fletch Theme
Nik Kershaw - Wouldn’t It Be Good, The Riddle
Robin Beck - First Time (Coca Cola theme song)
Toto - Africa
A-HA - Hunting High and Low
Whitesnake - Sailing Ships
Sade - Smooth Operator
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Suzanne Vega - Luka
Edie Brickell and the New Bohemians - What I Am
Richard Marx - Right Here Waiting For You
Phil Collins - Two Hearts, Another Day In Paradise, ++
Alannah Myles - Black Velvet
Chaka Khan - Through the Fire
Anything by Sabrina, Paula Abdul, Samantha Fox,… They were pure class!
Oh I forgot the most important one.
Peter Cetera - Glory of Love
Shit, I can hardly answer this one. It’s too hard, as I listen to so much stuff coming from the 80’s. Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F / Fletch Theme are some great candidates though, Jan Hammer - Crockets Theme too. Hmm, well, here’s 5 from the top of my head then:
Scotch - Primitive Man
Samantha Fox - Nothing’s Gonna Stop Me Now
Stevie Wonder - Go Home
Taffy - I Love My Radio
Queen - A Kind Of Magic
And I haven’t even mentioned Prince, Jarre, Kraftwerk, Digital Emotion, Depeche Mode, Michael Jackson, Kylie Minogue, Tina Turner, Laban etc…
Purple Rain is still on my car-audio playlist…
I also respect a lot of his later work.
Duran Duran - The Reflex… it was their best in the 80’s (their best of all time still remains Ordinary World but that is already 90’s)
It surprises me nobody mentioned Dire Straits (Money for Nothing) or Love is a Battlefield - Pat Benatar.
how about Cliff Richard and the Young Ones with his revised version of “Living Doll”.
Here’s another very familiar icon from that time:
Pump up the Volume - M/A/R/R/S
The songs that most say the 80s to me would have to be -
Duran Duran - Hungry Like a Wolf
Echo & The Bunnyman - Lips Like Sugar
Pat Benatar - Hell is for Children
The Cars - Tonight She Comes
The Police - Wrapped Around Your Finger
Missing Persons - Words
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Informaton Society - Running
Gucci Crew - Sally
UTFO - Roxanne Roxanne
Whodini - Magics’ Wand - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3_Q3UZN0CWE
Jonzun Crew - Pack Jam - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lodq4wTwYnU