Heartbreak Beat-The Psychedelic Furs Where The Streets Have No Name-U2 Masquerade-Berlin Things Can Only Get Better-Howard Jones Everything Counts-Depeche Mode Oh L'Amour-Erasure Higher Love-Steve Winwood Forever Young-Alphaville Don't You Forget About Me-Simple Minds Just Like Heaven-The Cure My Life-Billy Joel
The 80s were the decade of my favorite non-theatre composer (although he COULD be considered a theatre composer, I shall remain that he is a pop composer), and all my favorite non-theatre songs are from this composer and this decade:
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" "Making Love (Out Of Nothing At All)" "Holding Out For A Hero" "Left In The Dark" "Read 'Em and Weep"
And pretty much everything from Bonnie Tyler's FASTER THAN THE SPEED OF NIGHT and SECRET DREAMS AND FORBIDDEN FIRE. The composer/lyricist/producer discussed is none other than Jim Steinman (yes, the same Jim Steinman responsible for the brilliance (and some of the dreck) in the score of DANCE OF THE VAMPIRES). Technically, all these songs were written for various musicals Steinman has in development (he has claimed that most of his songs are written for points in the storyline of his epic rock opera NEVERLAND).
That's so funny. I thought of Heaven Is a Place on Earth by Belinda Carlisle when I saw this thread title. I also Half the World, Gotta Get to You, Summer Rain and Do You Feel Like I Feel? by her.
