Favourite "Lesser Known" 80s Song?

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:06pm

I don't mean "Cruel Summer" or "Like a Virgin" or "Walk Like an Egyptian."

What are some of your favourite, less known (or less popular) 80s pop songs?

Mine:

The Telephone Song (Long-Distance Love Affair) - Sheena Easton

Forever Young - Alphaville

I Promised Myself - Nick Kamen

She's a Beauty - The Tubes

[katygrace84]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:15pm

OMG! I LOVE 80's music!! Can't get enough of it! I think my favorite lesser known song would have to be OMD "If You Leave" Although I don't know if that counts as lesser known. I also spent a whole lot of time singing along to "The Search Is Over" by Survivor.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:17pm

LOL Survivor!

[Calvin]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:20pm

Nu Shooz -- I Can't Wait.

I actually had that one -- like, three different mixes of it -- on a record album when I was a kid.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:21pm

Loved Nu Shooz!

Also Stacey Q.

Oh, and Dancing in Heaven by Q-Feel.

[lildogs]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:21pm

two novelties:

The Curley Shuffle

DL Roth's Just A Gigolo

[katygrace84]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:22pm

OH! And "Do Anything For Your Love" by Natural Selection! I'm looking all over for this one. So naughty! So decadent! So 80's!

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:23pm

I just laughed out loud at David Lee Roth's "Just a Gigolo"

Thanks lildogs!

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:23pm

everything by the Bay City Rollers.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:24pm

This was before she was famous-

LOVE "Sidewalk Talk" by Jellybean feat. Madonna

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:24pm

I Want A New Drug. Huey Lewis.

[katygrace84]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:25pm

AAHH! Dancing In Heaven (Orbital Be-Bop)!!!! From the classic flick "Girls Just Want To Have Fun!" I own that soundtrack., Love the whole thing!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:26pm

Human League - Don't You Want Me...

[Calvin]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:26pm

Oh yeah. And Roxette. She's got the look.

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:27pm

katy! GJWTHF is one of my all-time fave movies!

I think Rainey needs to launch a comeback!

"Technique it's in your fingers, there's magic in your touch..."

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:28pm

Go-Go's - Our Lips Are Sealed

(how lesser known do we need to be?)

[katygrace84]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:29pm

H*ll yes they do! Rainey was fabulous!

"You've got technique you make love easy. Don't ever let it end. Technique- the way you please me. Love me again...." And that hot mullet boy tossing SJP around?! HOT! And Helen Hunt stripping on the bus! One of the greatest movies of all time!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:30pm

The Weather Girls - It's Raining Men!

[SonofMammaMiaSam]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:31pm

no offense Addy, but that's only lesser known if you are straight!
Updated On: 11/1/05 at 01:31 PM

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:32pm

(Well, SOME people are... )

Tears For Fears - Shout

Updated On: 11/1/05 at 01:32 PM

[lildogs]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:33pm

Who remembers watching "Chartbusters" on TBS on Friday nights?

[Love4Cheno]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:33pm

LMAO katy-

I love the initial Dance TV auditions-

Helen Hunt swinging her head/hair around and then posing sexily...

The final dance-off-

Janie to Jeff: Let's DO it!

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:34pm

Tracy Chapman - Fast Car.


I remember that, lildogs...

[BlueWizard]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:34pm

I know the Pet Shop Boys were bigger in UK/Canada than in the States, so I'll say: their entire 80s discography! "Rent," "It's A Sin" and "Being Boring" are especially wonderful.

[NYadgal]

Posted: 11/1/05 at 1:36pm

Tone-Loc - Funky Cold Medina

(what can I say...I liked it)