The famously cantankerous Lou Reed loved it, as did Tom Cruise’s go-get-’em titular character in Jerry Maguire (who, no disrespect, doesn’t seem like the most scrutinizing music listener). This list is really in no particular order until the very end. What that was is hard to put into words. “Running Up That Hill” was so huge because it was her most digestible—though still weird, with its galloping drums and a Fairlight synthesizer hook that sounds like pan pipes from deep space. Second because I couldn’t bear to trim the list down – it was originally at 50, but I couldn’t cut it anymore. Better elegies have rarely found their way into popular music, and the track still hits like an emotional head-on collision when heard three decades later. You’re having a party, you say? But along with "Emotions" (a fantastic break-up song), "How Deep is Your Love" is evidence of the Bee Gees' ability to cut to the heart of a soulful connection between two people. There is Always Something There to Remind Me Naked Eyes. Too many people mock the ‘80s as an age of excess, yet loads of classic singles from the era are studies in cool restraint (see: Phil Collins—no, honestly). In it’s place, the lyrics. Biz Markie was both emblematic of the genre’s giddy charms and the man responsible for its ultimate downfall. Yet within those self-imposed limitations lies something truly dreamy, with the song rising and falling like the sea, propelled and subdued by the trio’s delicate chemistry. Not sure what to cue up on your iPhone? The Boss pinched the title of an old crooners’ standard to write his own classic, the finest single from his massive Born in the USA album in 1984. Singer Becky Hill has recorded a cover version of the classic '80s song 'Forever Young' for the 2020 McDonald's Christmas advert. When I was 18, I had this great girlfriend, all dark hair and beautiful brown eyes, and this was a shared favorite. So though Stewart Copeland could be a florid, flashy drummer, and though Sting was known to dash a few extra flicks on his grooves, “Every Breath” measures each note microscopically, as if arranged with OCD, which makes the stalking vibe that much subtly creepier. The Jesus and Mary Chain's "Just Like Honey" captures a certain proto-shoegazey, bittersweet longing that pristinely characterizes the hazy milieu of the ‘80s—not to mention gave Sophia Coppola's Lost In Translation a killer outro a few seconds before the credits roll. But it's a sweet thought. Listen to the lyric. Music with lots of synth and drum machines, jangly guitars and House beats. 0. And to this day, we’re betting the fanbase for the breezy sing-along fave (co-written by Jeff Lynne) still runs the gamut—from get-me-out-of-here teens to the dads they think are lame, and from snobs who wouldn’t be caught dead doing karaoke to people who live for it. And this was the best song on it. Hyperballed- Bjork; Wicked Game- Chris Isaak I DO think my last 4 picks ARE truly the most beautiful songs from the 80s… the others you can take as you like. The Emotions sing 1 of their best songs, Flowers. The lines below showcase a diverse list of emotional songs that give you goosebumps. © 2020 Time Out America LLC and affiliated companies owned by Time Out Group Plc. We recommend you to check other playlists or our favorite music charts. Insanely popular in its home country, the song also made waves internationally, shifting millions of copies and becoming an instant karaoke classic. So there's that. Listening to it now—and, we assume, then—that’s a tough pill to swallow. The first and biggest hit by the Norwegian electropop trio A-ha, “Take On Me,” rose to international popularity in 1985 on the strength of its groundbreaking video, a mix of live-action and pencil-drawn animation that starred dreamy lead singer Morten Harket as the hero of an escapist romance between a lonely woman and a comic-book adventurer. Oddly, it's become the unofficial theme of the New England Revolution MLS soccer club. 1. Both the decade and the music are near to my heart, since I was there as an adult to appreciate it. One-hit wonderful, “I Can’t Wait” is Nu Shooz’s only real smash, topping the charts around the world in 1986. 12. Having finally split from her abusive husband and artistic Svengali, Ike, she’d spent years in a limbo of cameos, Vegas shows and dud solo albums. Eliot’s The Wasteland). I loved Split Enz when I was in college and was happy, at the time, to know that the Finns had carried on. Everyone knows the 80s as the decade of greed and silly fashions, of Reaganites and Thatcherites… and above all, of the decade of New Wave and Post-Punk music. Smith’s poignant songwriting was like a baptism inviting the lovelorn to let the layers of reverb-laden guitar spill over their heads and wash their pain away. Her approach to this song—which, when you break it down, is more about loneliness than love—says a lot about her ability to radiate warmth and positivity through her singular sound. Listen out for "drifter" in the chorus, which replaced an earlier recording using the word "hobo," after lead singer David Coverdale worried that it sounded too much like "homo." But her aching sensuality allowed her strangeness to connect with a mass audience. Rapture. Great song, great video. This 1985 hit by Tears for Fears is one such song, an existential meditation of sorts, opening with the line, “Welcome to your life—there’s no turning back.” It’s a serious pop song, as bassist-singer Curt Smith remarked: “It's about everybody wanting power, about warfare and the misery it causes.”. 45. If you enjoyed listening to this one, maybe you will like: 1. The trio, a splinter from the English Beat, had its roots in ska, but over two albums chiseled a new pop sound that would echo onward from Massive Attack to TV on the Radio. Strangely enough I’d totally forgotten this song, and then years later, in the late 90s, I was dating a woman from the UK, and she gave me a homemade tape with a lot of love songs on it, and this one was one of them… so it’s also here as a tip to my personal memories. I also associate this song with snow—as I recall it charted big in the winter of 83. While emotional rock songs or sad rock songs may not be appreciated by all, the truth is these songs are the closest life experiences dealing with emotion. A Yamaha GS1 synthesizer is made to sound like a mbira; there’s a gong in there somewhere, for some reason. But the decade delivered some of music’s most emotional, teary moments, the more affecting for the fact that the vehicle is pop. “Keep a place for me,” he sings over classic bare guitar strums. I was 15 in 1980 and so had lived through my childhood and first half of adolescence in the 70s, a decade of malaise and atrocious fashions and godawful music (but not all bad, since the 70s had Bubblegum, Punk, and early New Wave) and so my generation was ready for a big change, OUR chance to overturn the flabby hippie aesthetic that had run for too long and was worn out, old, and charmless. Picture: Getty The song will be released to raise money for FareShare, which will see McDonald’s donating five million meals for charity. It would be easy to be consumed by envy if we weren't all being lulled into a dopey, two-stepping, love-drunk stupor. Party music, dance music. However, this is one of the best pop songs to come in the 80s, and is still one of the best songs today. Grab your Walkman, turn up the treble and get ready to celebrate pop’s golden era with the best ’80s songs. We’d request it from club DJs, and then head out to spin around on the dance floor together, and no matter how crowded the place was, it was just us. “That’s great, it starts with an earthquake,” begins Michael Stipe—and the rumbling and rambling get crazier from there in R.E.M.’s ironic beat poem. I was in tears, because my mum and dad were in the studio too, and it was emotional." Beautiful little tune. We'll still pass on that Vegemite sandwich, though, thanks. It was part the smooth, vaguely jazzy R&B thing, part the look, part the production. But for the '80s crowd, it’s a classic slow dance that stands up as one of the strongest songs of the decade. No ’80s list would be complete without British synth-popsters the Pet Shop Boys. Fun music. But for me this is their best. Jedes Jahr hat seine eigene Top 10. Some are balladic, some are nothing of the sort. It's impossible to feel bad when this tune's Caribbean-inflected rhythms start pumping from a nearby speaker. Time Out is a registered trademark of Time Out America LLC. Even when falling in love is mutual, it can often remain a solo experience — the fear, the trepidation, the unknowing of it all. "Love Story" by Taylor Swift (2008) Taylor Swift performing in 2007. And a hell of a song to dance to, with all its kinetic energy and drama. We’ve assembled a list of the best karaoke songs ever, from raucous party songs you can sing while tipsy to tender love songs for serenading your boo. Download So Emotional song on Gaana.com and listen Biggest Loser Workout Mix - 80s Hits So Emotional song offline. Now we’re getting serious. Love how she breaks free at the end. Those unforgettable snare snaps comes courtesy of producer Steve Albini, and it’s one of the many touches the band’s most popular song (one that wasn’t even released as a single in ’88) has going for it: Among the many others, there’s Kim Deal’s haunting, reverb drenched backing vocals that so many indie-rock groups would go on to ape, a cracked-voiced Black Francis spitting out cryptic-cool lyrics, and deceptively simple lead guitar and bass combo that still gives us goosebumps. There’s hair metal, sure, and more than a smidge of synth-pop, but there are also some killer rockers, diva jams, new-wave classics, hip-hop standouts, lovelorn ballads and even a bit of indie rock. We already have this email. When it came to hair and emotion, bigger was always better. Life in a Northern Town Dream Academy, As I recall, the only hit they had in the US, but a great one. Auf eigene Gefahr hin haben wir uns deshalb dazu entschlossen, die Spreu vom Weizen zu trennen und die zehn Cover-Songs herauszupicken, die unserer Ansicht nach besser sind als das Original. “Nineteen eighty-nine…” The first five syllables of Public Enemy’s most zeitgeisty hit, made at the request of Spike Lee for his groundbreaking film Do the Right Thing, pack a ton of punch. If ever there was a time for an enormous chorus, it was the ’80s—and this 1984 smash from Foreigner offers an example of this that's at once gleaming, gorgeous and gut-wrenching. The Stones' first '80s album showed them ready for the new decade. Even the Stones went disco and dabbled with rap. Everything in a New Order song is a percussion instrument, from the metronomic drumming to Peter Hook’s bass lines to the synth fills to Bernard Sumner’s rhythmic sigh-singing. The song’s masterfully infectious synth riff, sampled back to glory by Pitbull and Christina Aguilera in 2013’s “Feel This Moment,” would be enough to secure it a spot on any list of ’80s classics. Like Bowie, she was trained in mime, giving her singles a sense of performance and movement, even if you couldn’t see the nifty videos. Known for their big college radio hit “74/75.” But this song… whoa. Here are some songs, both well-known and obscure, that demonstrate the decade's greatness. A catchy tune that is SO 80s style with amazing voice skills by Morten Harket. But all of them, in my opinion, are “beautiful” in one way or another—whether it’s the melody or simply the overall feel of the song. The greatest singles of the '80s—as in any era—possess the power to change the world in three minutes. Ditching the original's energy for Marc Almond's cut-glass tones and unashamedly machine-driven melodies, Soft Cell's version soon became huge, paving the way for the ’80s synth-pop explosion that followed. Any why is it so long? 17. Check out our guide to the best ’80s movies. All of the songs on this list are worthy to be on it - and as a pop song it is in a unwinnable contest against the King of Pop, Michael Jackson. A New Order single is like if architecture was flush with hormones. But no, the song, shot through with the Genesis-drummer–turned–solo-hit-maker's post-divorce bitterness, still unfolds with a dramatic tension worthy of Stanley Kubrick, layering haunting guitar wisps, pillowy synth chords and Collins's ghostly vocodered lead turn over a rudimentary Roland CR-78 beat. Toto was a collection of studio ringers with credits on Steely Dan and Boz Scaggs records. Thankfully, the lotion-slick groove reeks more of coconuts than crisp money. Emotional 80s. More than three decades on, it never fails to make us sing our fool hearts out on the dance floor. Cyndi’s mad orange hair might be dated like lukewarm milk, but “Time After Time” still smells fresh to us. “Andy is much better at offering his heart to the world and expressing how he feels, he’s a king at that,” he said. 17 Emotional Rockpop Hits for Love (CD, Various) Richard Sanderson - Reality / The Hollies - He Ain't Heavy, He's My Brother / Phil Collins - If Leaving Me Is Easy / Elvis Presley - In The Ghetto / Sade - Love Is Stronger Than Pride / Suzanne Vega - Luka u.a. Well first because I’m a long-winded jerk. Weeks at no. Hip-hop hit its golden era in the ’80s. Her erudite songs referenced literature by Emily Brontë and James Joyce, resulting in knotty and outlandish pop music. If you're in an '80s cover band and you're not playing this song on a nightly basis—well, there's just absolutely no way you're not. 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