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There are better songs that capture the essence of the 80s much much better. But if you're going on the 'best' of the 80s its surely subjective?
If that is the case, the 80s would be the 80s without:
1. A Kind of Magic - Queen
2. A View to a Kill - Duran Duran
3. Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
4. Always on My Mind - Pet Shop Boys
5. I Think We're Alone Now - Tiffany
6. Take On Me - A -Ha
7. Feels Like I'm in Love - Kelly Marie
8. Love in the First Degree - Bananarama
9. I'm

And as if to prove it Tony Hadley is now playing Come On Eileen!

9. was I'm Still Standing - Elton John
10. Doctorin' the Tardis - The Timelords (KLF)

MADNESS - YEH you no how i love them and that song "It Must Be Love" has very happy memories for past and present xx

Some of them I would put in the Top 10, but definitely not all of them

Ulravox - Vienna.... has to be in top 10 somewhere for 80's surely!!

my top 10 of the eighties.
1.house of fun madness
2.ghost town the specials
3.going underground the jam
4.say hello wave goodbye soft cell
5.sound of the crowd human legue
6.come live with me heaven 17
7.eyes without a face billy idol
8.68 guns the alarm
9.hungary like the wolf duran duran
10.embarrassment madness
enjoy.

mark yours is better top ten but id have to have dexys in there so where

there will always be debates but i love 80's music hope all is gr8 with the 80's music!!

80's music has crap too but such is life just the quality tunes are by far the more common practise!!

My top 10, not in any definative order:
1;Enola gay - OMD
2;Planet Earth - Duran Duran
3;Games without Fronteres - P Gabriel (released 1979 I think but still in the charts)
4;All stood still - Ultravox
5;Ghost Town - the Specials
6;E=MC2 - B A D
7;Take on me A ha (stunning video)
8;Ziggy Stardust - Bauhaus
9;Blue Monday - New order
10;Brothers in Arms - Dire Straits
11;......................>>>
However it is very difficult to be diffinative as there was so much good (and quite a

From the 80's I'd have to include Crowded House's Don't Dream It's Over in any definitive collection, but some great choices here....

I don´t know why I love you - House of love
Soon - My bloody
Under the milky way - The Church
In between days - The Cure
First picture of you - Lotus eater
Never say never -Romeo Void
Masters of the universe - Pulp
Veneno en la piel - Radio Futura