80's Music!!!

[Blueopticalmouse]

Hey everyone,

I'm am in charge of the sound for homecoming festivities at my high school. Our theme this year is "Livin' in the 80's". I thought that it would be cool to find some classic 80's songs to play in the background while the royalty is processing to the stage. I am trying to find several minutes of slow, relaxed, music. Stuff that you can walk to, slow beat, etc.

I am calling on the good people of Anandtech to help me with my search. I know many of you out there know some great songs that would be possibilities. Thanks in advance for all your help. It is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
KP


Oh and I almost forgot, I have a couple gmail invites for the longest lists after a few hours. So there is an incentive

 

[Dissipate]

Walk Like An Egyptian by the Bangles.

 

[thraxes]

Normal pop/rock:
Rebel Yell - Billy Idol

80s Metal:
Metallica was good back then

 

[KeyserSoze]

Billy Idol-Eyes without a face
When in Rome-The Promise
Christopher Cross-Sailing




KeyserSoze

 

[Iron Woode]

Originally posted by: Blueopticalmouse
Hey everyone,

I'm am in charge of the sound for homecoming festivities at my high school. Our theme this year is "Livin' in the 80's". I thought that it would be cool to find some classic 80's songs to play in the background while the royalty is processing to the stage. I am trying to find several minutes of slow, relaxed, music. Stuff that you can walk to, slow beat, etc.

I am calling on the good people of Anandtech to help me with my search. I know many of you out there know some great songs that would be possibilities. Thanks in advance for all your help. It is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
KP


Oh and I almost forgot, I have a couple gmail invites for the longest lists after a few days. So there is an incentive

You have no idea what you are about to unleash on ATOT.

All of us 80's freaks will fill this post with song after song.

You best bet is to check out album compilations of the 80's, like the Time-Life series.

 

[Blueopticalmouse]

Before we do fill this thread with endless lists of music, keep in mind that I am really only looking for slow, slow beat music that can be marched slowly too.

Thanks,
KP

 

[MartyMcFly3]

Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Paula Abdul - Straight Up
Culture Club - Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?
Huey Lewis - Power of Love
Huey Lewis - Back in Time
Tiffany - I think We're Alone Now
Captain and Tennille - Do that to me one more time

 

[spanky]

self control by laura branigan (i think i butchered her name).

 

[Raincity]

Mexican Radio Wall of Voodoo

 

[DocZaius]

Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn

 

[Ronstang]

Originally posted by: Blueopticalmouse
Before we do fill this thread with endless lists of music, keep in mind that I am really only looking for slow, slow beat music that can be marched slowly too.

Thanks,
KP

Then the 80's is the wrong decade to look for music from....HAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[kindest]

real life - send me an angel

 

[edfcmc]

Taco- Puttin on the Ritz

j/k how about:

Dream Academy (cover of the Smiths) - Please,please,please let me get what I want

spandeu ballet- True

 

[bobbybe01]

Don't you forget about me (if anyone has that song, PM please).

 

[eplebnista]

Time After Time-Cyndi Lauper

 

[BespinReactorShaft]

More mid-tempo, but what the hey...

The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? (album: Meat is Murder)

 

[ApacheXMD]

anything from journey

-patchy

 

[OCNewbie]

I like "Always Something There to Remind Me", not sure of the band's name. First one that comes to mind. Way too many great 80's songs to definitively pick one as my fave I think, I'd rather list like 10 or 20 that rock.

 

[habib89]

anything by erasure... umm.. chicago.. luther vandros.. oh.. beach boys.. madonna's old stuff

 

[Maggotry]

No suggestions, just an observation. Seems strange to me that a high school homecoming in 2004 would have an 80's theme. Most of the kids either weren't born yet or were in diapers.

 

[BRObedoza]

Originally posted by: ApacheXMD
anything from journey

 

[xeno2060]

Brian Ferry, The Album-(Boys and Girls) the whole album

 

[SmoochyTX]

A Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
After The Fire - Der Kommissar
Bad English - When I See You Smile
Billy Squier - Everybody Wants You, Lonely Is The Night, Rock Me Tonite, The Stroke
Blondie - Call Me, Rapture, The Tide Is High
Bon Jovi - I'll Be There For You, Lay Your Hands On Me, Livin' On a Prayer, Wanted Dead or Alive, You Give Love a Bad Name
Bonnie Tyler - Total Eclipse of the Heart
Boys Don't Cry - I Wanna Be a Cowboy
Bryan Adams - Heaven
Corey Hart - Sunglasses at Night
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Def Leppard - Bringin' on the Heartbreak, Foolin', Love Bites, Photograph, Pour Some Sugar On Me, Rock of Ages, Too Late For Love
Deniece Williams - Let's Hear It For The Boy
Devo - Whip It
Dexys Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen
Don Henley - Dirty Laundry, The Boys of Summer
Duran Duran - A View to a Kill, All She Wants Is, Girls on Film, Hungry Like the Wolf, Is There Something I Should Know, Notorious, Rio, Save a Prayer, The Reflex, The Wild Boys, Union of the Snake
Falco - Rock Me Amadeus
Faith No More - Epic
Genesis - Land of Confusion
Glenn Frey - Smuggler's Blues
Gloria Estefan - Conga
Guns N'Roses - It's So Easy, Mr. Brownstone, Nightrain, Paradise City, Sweet Child O'Mine, Welcome to the Jungle
Hall & Oates - Maneater
Huey Lewis & The News - I Want a New Drug, The Heart of Rock & Roll, The Power of Love
J. Geils Band - Centerfold
Jennifer Warnes & Joe Cocker - Up Where We Belong
Jesus Jones - Right Here, Right Now
Joe Walsh - All Night Long
John Waite - Missing You
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Level 42 - Something About You
M/A/R/R/S - Pump Up the Volume
Madonna - Like a Virgin
Men At Work - Who Can It Be Now
Men Without Hats - The Safety Dance
Night Ranger - Sister Christian
Oingo Boingo - Weird Science
Olivia Newton John - Magic, Physical
Paul Young - Everytime You Go Away
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
Prince - U Got the Look, Purple Rain, Little Red Corvette, When Doves Cry
REM - It's the End of the World As We Know It
Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love, Bad Case of Loving You, Simply Irresistible, Some Like it Hot (with the Power Station)
Rod Stewart - Infatuation
Scandal (featuring Patty Smyth) - The Warrior
Sheriff - When I'm With You
Simply Red - Holding Back the Years
Slaughter - Fly to the Angels
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Steve Winwood - Higher Love
The Police - Roxanne, Every Breath You Take
Stray Cats - Rock This Town
T Rex - Get It On (Bang a Gong)
Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
Tesla - Love Song
The Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another, Red Skies
The Gap Band - You Dropped a Bomb on Me
The Knack - My Sharona
The Romantics - Talking In Your Sleep
Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me (With Science)
Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now
Toni Basil - Mickey
Van Halen - Hot For Teacher, Jump, Love Walks In, Poundcake, When It's Love, Why Can't This Be Love
Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
ZZTop - Legs

Those are some for consideration anyway....LOL

 

[Krakerjak]

van halen - panama

 

[Eli]

Metallica - Master of Puppets