Boardsies greatest song of the 80s - Live Thread

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Maneater - iconic 80s song. One of the first that always springs to mind for me.
Dumb Things - one of my choices. One of my favourite songs of all-time. Shame it's against such a popular hit. People should listen to it if they're unfamiliar all the same.
Baby Jane - it's the better of the two.
Englishman In New York - really tough choice, as both are great, but going with Sting over Bono.

Collie D

17: The Cure - Love this song
18: Run DMC & Aerosmith - Grandfathers of rap with grandfathers of rock - it probably shouldn't work but it does
19. Rod Stewart - Good song but it would have to be a bad one for me to lose to that other tuneless, cheesy dirge
20. U2 - Not even close. Nothing against Sting's song but it came up against a heavyweight

Hall & Oates

Run DMC & Aerosmith

Rod Stewart

U2

cute geoge

hall and oats
run dmc
poison
u2

In work so can't type reasons!

But voting for:

A Forest (although the acoustic version of this song is better imo)
Walk This Way
Every Rose Has Its Thorn
Sunday Bloody Sunday

loyatemu

13. The Cure
14. Soft Cell
15. Madness
16. Bowie
17. The Cure
18. Run DMC
19. Rod!
20. Sting

Rikand

Hall & Oates and sting

Cant believe faith was beaten by that piece of cheese. Faith a genuine belter!

Rikand

Collie D wrote: »

Match 4: The Cult - No great love for it but I'll be voting Collins out all the way - bland, generic ****e that your mother likes - a bald version of Coldplayo

Didnt see the result posted for this one, but that was the 6th vote. Bye bye phil

Siobh73

Catching up

9 Tiffany... love it!
10. Heaven 17 if pushed
11Duran Duran
12. They Might Be Giants...LOVE
13. Starship...real hairbrush song
14. Soft Cell .. forgot that one in my own list
15. Madness
16. Bryan Adams...every wedding
17. Hall & Oates
18. Run DMC, Floor filler
19. Can't read my writing. Is there a choice beginning with P??
20. U2

No19, Siobh

Q/Match 19

Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn
vs
Rod Stewart - Baby Jane

Rikand

Poison for me

Triceratops Ballet

I'll vote Aerosmith and Run DMC and U2 in this round. I've no feelings on the others

Declan A Walsh

Collie D wrote: »

Match 4: The Cult - No great love for it but I'll be voting Collins out all the way - bland, generic ****e that your mother likes - a bald version of Coldplay

Match 5: Beastie Boys - Who hasn;t belted this out while drunk?

Match 6: Cyndi Lauper

Match 8: Fleetwood Mac - Great song

Match 9: Tiffany - A proper 80s one hit wonder

Match 10: Heaven 17

Match 11: Duran Duran - Came up on my random play less than an hour ago

She had a few hits after that.

Kolido

The Cure - A Forest 5 vs 6 Hall & Oates - Maneater
Run DMC & Aerosmith - Walk this way 6 vs 1 Paul Kelly - Dumb Things
Poison - Every Rose Has Its Thorn 5 vs 6 Rod Stewart - Baby Jane
Sting - Englishman In New York 2 vs 6 U2 - Sunday, Bloody Sunday

Rikand

Provisional count

Hall & Oates won 6-5
Run DMC won 6-1
Rod Stewart won 6-5
U2 won 6-3


-edit-

I was right but didnt see kolly doing it too

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Some great songs being knocked out, some really tough decisions already, and we're still only in qualifiers. This is gonna be a great comp.

Rikand

Woah oh woah oh woah oh oh ohbuilding a bridge to your heart.

Woah oh woah oh woah oh oh oh let's make a brand new start, build a bridge to your heart.

Camt believe Wax didnt get a single vote against white wedding. Just a fantastic 80s tune

Zaph

Rikand wrote: »

Woah oh woah oh woah oh oh ohbuilding a bridge to your heart.

Woah oh woah oh woah oh oh oh let's make a brand new start, build a bridge to your heart.

Camt believe Wax didnt get a single vote against white wedding. Just a fantastic 80s tune

Even after playing the link to it, I have to say that I don't recall ever hearing that song before. That said, Billy Idol would definitely have gotten another vote from me.

Kolido

Q/Match 21


Kim Wilde - Kids In America       

vs       

Phil Collins- Two Hearts

Q/Match 22


The Stone Roses - Fools gold       

vs       

A Ha - Take on Me

Q/Match 23


Queen - A Kind Of Magic       

vs       

Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin

Q/Match 24


Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling       

vs       

Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance

Ted_YNWA

Only getting here now, looking at songs so far, going to be very tough in later rounds.

Necro

Kolido wrote:

Kim Wilde - Kids In America

I think someone mentioned a dislike for Collins previously. I would like to join them on this crusade.

(Also I really like this song )

Kolido wrote:

A Ha - Take on Me

Who doesnt like a bit of cheese

Kolido wrote:

Queen - A Kind Of Magic

You could probably take the worst Queen song and it would be better than a lot of other stuff.

This isn't one of their worst imo, it's pretty damn good and gets my vote.


No opinion on the other match.

Ted_YNWA

Gotta be these for me here

Q/Match 21 Kim Wilde - Kids In America
Q/Match 22 A Ha - Take on Me
Q/Match 23 Queen - A Kind Of Magic
Q/Match 24 Blancmange - Living on the Ceiling

Kim Wilde

Stone Roses

Queen

Neneh Cherry

quickbeam

Q/Match 21 Phil Collins- Two Hearts
Q/Match 22 A Ha - Take on Me
Q/Match 23 Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin
Q/Match 24 no opinion

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Two Hearts - once again, here are two songs I really like, but think its gotta be Phil Collins in this particular instance.
Take On Me - there's another a-ha song I hope will go through more, but no denying this is a classic too.
It's a Sin - as much as I love Queen, It's a Kind of Magic is one song of theirs that always grated on me, and Pet Shop Boys deserve to advance here anyway.
Living On The Ceiling - don't particularly care for either of these two, easily the weakest two songs in these 4 matches, but Living On The Ceiling is the better of the two if I had to choose.

Triceratops Ballet

Kolido wrote:

Kim Wilde - Kids In America

Love this song for a bop around!

Kolido wrote:

A Ha - Take on Me

I'm not a massive fan of this but deserves a vote

Kolido wrote:

Queen - A Kind Of Magic

This was one of mine so obvs have to pick it

Kolido wrote:

Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance

I actually really disliked this in my youf but it's grown on me

Tauriel

Q/Match 21
Kim Wilde- Kids In America
Girl with attitude

Q/Match 22
A-ha - Take On Me
Ultimate 80's tune and that video

Q/Match 23
Queen - A Kind of Magic
All hail Freddie Mercury! There will never be another like him

Q/Match 24
Abstaining

khalessi

Match 21

Kim Wilde kids in America
Great boppy song

Match 22
The Stone Roses - Fools Gold

Match 23
Queen - A Kind Of Magic       

Great song to cycle to

Match 24

Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance

Love this song great to dance to

Collie D

Necro wrote: »

I think someone mentioned a dislike for Collins previously. I would like to join them on this crusade.
.

21. That was me. Welcome aboard, Brother. Although I do really like the song that Phil has been drawn against so a resounding yes for Kim Wilde from me.

22. What a bastard of a draw. I’m a big Roses fan and seeing them live in Manchester was a real bucket list moment I thought I’d never see but Take on Me is 80s pop perfection so my vote goes to A-ha

23. Pet Shop Boys - I like Queen but IMO they have much better songs.

24. I didn’t know either of these so gave both a listen. Not a fan of either but the Neneh Cherry one was just a badly produced bunch of noise to my ears and I turned it off halfway through. The Blancmange one was a bit of a Talking Heads sounding nonsense and I could see why someone would choose it, even if not to my tastes so it gets my vote.

Zaph

Kim Wilde
Stone Roses
Queen
Blancmange