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Pale Blue Dot Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 10:30 PM
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Poll question: Best song from the 80s that I REFUSE to be ashamed of liking
OK, get your flamethrowers ready, but I'm tired of all the 80's bashing! I like these songs, I don't care how cheesy they are! Maybe for some of you, this will bring back memories (wanted or not).
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mitchum Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 10:33 PM
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1. "Just The Two of Us"....
I will defend just about anything Bill Withers worked on. And it's a good song.
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blondeatlast Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 09:17 AM
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10. Why should we be ashamed of theis one? Sexy melody, great lyrics,
where's my husband? I want him NOW!
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chiburb Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 01:34 PM
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26. Amen to that! Withers was one of my...
Alltime favorites. Ain't No Sunshine, Grandma's Hands...
Went a long way from installing (or cleaning?) toilets on airplanes...
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wellstone_democrat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Oct-19-03 11:45 PM
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2. that song by Simply Red
whose name is lost to me at the moment

Oh and "Total Eclipse of the Heart" which I think was an 80s song...
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Red_Storm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 06:44 AM
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5. Holding Back The Years .....or

If You Don't Know Me By Now ........Those were their two big hits.......both songs are hot, even now, ......definitely not 80's cheese......
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Sal316 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 05:19 PM
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20. Total Eclipse of the Heart...
Have you seen "Old School"? That song will NEVER be the same after that!
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otohara Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 12:35 AM
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3. Milli Vanilli
Girl You Know and Blame It On The Rain

too bad the boys were exploited
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Kamika Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 07:13 AM
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6. yes
"Girl im gonna miss you" is a really nice song
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Kenneth ken Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 02:17 AM
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4. dude/dudette
your musical taste is non-existant!

I couldn't vote for any of this crap!
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Kellanved Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 08:30 AM
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7. Nena
"99 Luftballons"
Scorpions "Wind of Change"
Tina Turner "Private Dancer"
Status Quo "In The Army Now"
...
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NicoleM Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 08:33 AM
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8. Those are from the 80s?
Edited on Mon Oct-20-03 08:35 AM by NicoleM
I've never heard of any of them. What about Debbie Gibson and Tiffany and NKOTB? New Kids were huge when I was in the seventh grade, and I'm proud to say that I was the only girl in my class who openly hated them. However, I only recently got over my fondness for "I Think We're Alone Now" by Tiffany.

Edit: Kellanved, I prefer "Rock You Like A Hurricane" to "Winds of Change." Maybe it's because I can't whistle.
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kmla Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 08:49 AM
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9. Safety Dance. Men w/o Hats.
Loved that song.

And A Flock of Seagulls. Saw them in concert. Great show.
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mbartko Donating Member (199 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 09:50 AM
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13. That's good guilty pleasure n/t
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liberalhistorian Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 09:19 AM
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11. Yeah, but let's be honest, after
1985, most 80's music SUCKED! Most of the good songs were from 1980-85.
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Prisoner_Number_Six Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 09:47 AM
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12. Goody Two Shoes
by Adam Ant. (1982)

I LOVE that song!

http://www.vinylsingles.co.uk/goodytwoshoes.htm

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GOODY TWO SHOES
Adam Ant

With the heartbreak open
So much you can't hide
Put on a little makeup makeup
Make sure they get your good side good side

If the words unspoken
Get stuck in your throat
Send a treasure token token
Write it on a pound note pound note

CHORUS:
Don't drink don't smoke - what do you do?
Don't drink don't smoke - what do you do?
Subtle innuendos follow
There must be something he's hiding

We don't follow fashion
That would be a joke
You know we're going to set them set them
So everyone can take note take note

When they saw you kneeling
Crying words that you mean
Opening their eyeballs eyeballs
Pretending that you're Al Green Al Green

No one's gonna tell me
What's wrong or what's right
Or tell me who to eat with sleep with
Or that I've won the big fight big fight

Look out or they'll tell you
You're a "Superstar"
Two weeks and you're an all time legend
I think the games have gone much too far

If the words unspoken
Get stuck in your throat
Send a treasure token token
Write it on a pound note pound note

Don't drink don't smoke - what do you do?
Don't drink don't smoke - what do you do?
(repeat)
Subtle innuendos follow, must be something inside
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mbartko Donating Member (199 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 09:51 AM
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14. No shame in that one at all! n/t
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VelmaD Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 09:51 AM
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15. "Basketball"...
by Curtis Blow and "Too Shy" by Kalagoogoo.

Anything by Dokken. *blushes*
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Red_Storm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 08:15 PM
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22. to the hoop !!!!!!!!!!!
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geniph Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 04:33 PM
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16. I actually have never heard a single one of these
not ever. None are even vaguely familiar.

My pick for the one I refused to be ashamed of is Cyndi Lauper's Time After Time, or Culture Club's Karma Chameleon. I love both of those songs.
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donotpassgo Donating Member (867 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 05:09 PM
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17. Total Eclipse of the Heart and any Rick Astley Song...
n/t
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sistersofmercy Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 05:16 PM
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18. Words by Missing Persons but on your poll "just the two of us."
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mlawson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 05:19 PM
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19. Okay, I voted for one of them...
:-)
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 07:24 PM
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21. "Down Under" by Men at Work
Silly lyrics, but the tune sticks.

:kick:
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NightTrain Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Mon Oct-20-03 08:30 PM
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23. About half the songs you listed are quite good in my book!

n/t
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GalleryGod Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 12:53 PM
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24. Saw Fogelberg sing it in concert on June 2nd
:yourock:
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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 12:58 PM
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25. I love the '80's
some of the best times of my life were in the in the '80's. When I hear any '80's music it takes me back to a time when life was free and easy. "Easy like Sunday morning,"...I know, cheese, cheese, cheese.

But who cares? I don't! The '80's rocked...for me anyway.
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Red_Storm Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 01:47 PM
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27. Not everything in music sucked in the 80's .........

100% Cheese Free

R.E.M.
U2
The Replacements
Metallica
RUN-DMC
Public Enemy
Stevie Ray Vaughan

and what about all the old school artists that made great albums in the 80's ?
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Blue_Roses Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 09:54 PM
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28. I don't think they sucked
at all. I loved Earth, Wind, and Fire, Brick, Gap Band (you dropped a bomb on me...all time favorite), the Cars, and the list goes on...

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HEyHEY Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Oct-21-03 09:56 PM
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29. Proud to say I deeply feel they all suck
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