Best of the 80s

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By Rob Sheffield. Lighters up for the late, great Biz Markie, one of the most beloved music heroes of the Eighties or any other decade. The Diabolical One. The Human Beatbox. The class clown of old-school hip-hop. You got what I neeeed!

Best of the 80s

The s may have been the decade of questionable fashion choices, but we'll probably say the same about the s in a few years It was also the decade of great movies, the rise of video games and downright fantastic music. We've attempted the ridiculously hard but not in any way a chore task of picking the very best s songs ever. Here are our picks - are your favourites in there? You might not have realised it, but Neil Diamond first recorded this song back in But it's UB40's cover that became the most well-known in The song truly brought the band to the mainstream, and reached number one in the UK. It ended up topping the US charts too in , after being performed at Nelson Mandela's birthday tribute concert. This ballad saw Phil Collins sing the tune from a third-person perspective, looking at a man crossing the street to ignore a homeless woman, imploring listeners not to turn a blind eye to those in need. It became Phil's seventh and final number one single in America, while David Crosby of Crosby, Stills and Nash appears on backing vocals. This was the song that made Boy George an even bigger star around the world. It was the UK's biggest selling single of and topped the US chart. Boy George later explained the song: "It is about the terrible fear of alienation that people have, the fear of standing up for one thing. It's about trying to suck up to everybody.

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The 80s were an interesting time in music, with the heyday of 70s rock, soul, and jazz giving way to exciting new iterations and subgenres. Disco was on the way out, but it helped lead to house music, electronic, and hip-hop. Tentpole genres like rock and pop produced a number of offshoots such as art-rock, post-punk, synth-pop, and more, while music from Africa boasted a wonderful blend of jazz ideas, local sounds, and funk rhythms. In Japan, city pop music was the influential style of the era, which has seen a resurgence in the 21st century. Listen to our Best 80s Hits playlist here. Music in the 80s was moving in a number of loosely defined directions, thanks to the emergence of subgenres like new wave, punk, and the end of disco.

Best of the 80s

By Rob Sheffield. Lighters up for the late, great Biz Markie, one of the most beloved music heroes of the Eighties or any other decade. The Diabolical One. The Human Beatbox. The class clown of old-school hip-hop.

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Sometimes all you really need for a truly memorable hit is economy, as proved by this stone-cold classic from Roger Taylor later said: "That's part of what the song's about, really. Slick DJs! View all posts by Rob Sheffield. This track was a commentary on TV overtaking radio's popularity and how one would listen to radio in the past. The Fizz even recorded a version but it was shelved as Tina got hers out first. Falco rapped in German about Mozart, in a noble effort to make powdered wigs an Eighties fashion trend. The lyrics relate to life on the streets and gang activity, something Jackson was very detached from. An urban legend has claimed that it's about a drowning incident in which someone who was close enough to save the victim did not, while Collins, who was too far away to help, looked on. This song ended up becoming Tina Turner 's most successful song ever, and was taken from her album Private Dancer. Complexity, be damned! The class clown of old-school hip-hop. She later said it was her favourite ABBA song to perform.

The s may have been the decade of questionable fashion choices, but we'll probably say the same about the s in a few years

This song's lyrics deal with teenage pregnancy and abortion, and was based on teen gossip songwriter Brian Elliot heard outside his recording studio. The song was planned to allow them to return to the stage, press play on a synthesiser and leave the stage again, but while writing the song it evolved into a project that the band quite liked. Originally titled 'Best Days of My Life', this song was amazingly not a hit in the UK only reaching number 42 , despite it being arguably Bryan Adams ' best known and most loved song! The song is about a passionate girl in love with God, who becomes the only male figure in her life. It was the UK's biggest selling single of and topped the US chart. However, most people agreed that the lyrics alluded to heroin use. All the fuss did was make Madonna an even bigger star. Susan Ann Sulley was asked to take on the role. The Jamaican-born English dub poet Linton Kwesi Johnson made a string of politically charged reggae albums, reciting his protest verse in patois. It's something that people can understand A staple of the synthpop genre, this song took its inspiration from the film The Third Man , which is based around the Austrian capital Vienna. This song gave Wham! It was also the decade of great movies, the rise of video games and downright fantastic music.