I have two "Perfect 80s" discs, which feature my favorite and most positive songs of the 80s. I just went on a music video downloading binge, so here you go. Thanks to Club977! MsBlack knows how great it is to be doing whatever and suddenly hear an awesome 80s song. It brightens your day! I guess Wang Chung gets a lot of coverage in my list, even with one of their moody pieces. If I could replace something right off, it'd be "Walk Like an Egyptian", because Suzanne Somers's blows. It's like a 4 year old's voice, and not in a cutesy way. Honestly, that song's fallen out of my favor.
Disc One has a couple moody ones because I originally assembled it before realizing that late 80s songs suck. Removing them created a few gaps; I filled most, but had to substitute Wang Chung and something else as well.
Disc OneNotice how anything from 1987 on is missing? Yeah, there's a reason for that. George Harrison is talented enough to be an exception.
Late 80s sucked. Music began dying in the late 80s, replaced by vocalists who could swoon idiot audiences. Vocalists who don't write their material, sing most of their concerts, or have two brain cells to rub together, that is. Instrumentalism's last bastion is rock, but with crap like Nickelback coming out, talent's being pushed even farther back to heavy / true metal. Pop music has been forfeited to worthlessness. It's assimilated everything! No longer does R&B carry funk, or rap challenge with basic melody and complicated lyrics (for the former, think of Tone Loc's Wild Thing or Funky Cold Medina). Even Jazz has been supplanted with the different threat of Kenny G. And country? It died before the others as the new, honky tonk urban cowboy awfulness blasted decent songwriters to smithereens and ostracized them forevermore from the country music establishment.
Disc two tomorrow.