Boardsies greatest song of the 80s - Live Thread

Necro

Frankie Goes To Hollywood fo sho.

Undecided on the other three matches yet

the heathen

Q/Match 45
Sister Sledge - Frankie
vs
Walk the Dinosaur - Was Not Was


Q/Match 46
Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels
vs
Till Tuesday - Voices Carry


Q/Match 47
The Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town
vs
Beautiful South - Song for Whoever


Q/Match 48
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power of Love
vs
Suzanne Vega - Marlene On The Wall

Necro

Kolido wrote:

Sister Sledge - Frankie vs Walk the Dinosaur - Was Not Was

Ok Walk the Dinosaur cos I didnt like that Sister Sledge song.

Kolido wrote:

Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels vs Till Tuesday - Voices Carry

Tears For Fears.

Kolido wrote:

The Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town vs Beautiful South - Song for Whoever

Beautiful South

Daithi07

2 songs that apitomise the 80s for me have always been
Cutting Crew - I just died in your arms.

Nik kershaw - Wouldn't it be good.

2 absolute bangers that ooze 80s nostalgia for me and should be included in any 80s list. ðŸ‘

quickbeam

Q/Match 45 no opinion
Q/Match 46 Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels
Q/Match 47 The Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town
Q/Match 48 Suzanne Vega - Marlene On The Wall

Collie D

45. Sister Sledge - I loved the other one when I was a kid but that's the problem, I've grown up and the song hasn't aged well.

46.Tears for Fears - Gave the other one a listen and didn't like it.

47. The Dream Academy - Love the chorus to this and Song for Whoever was a song that was stuck in my head and not in a good way

48. Frankie goes to Hollywood - Great song

khalessi

Match 37
Ray Parker Jr - Ghostbusters

Match 38
Neil Young - Rockin' in the Free World

Q/Match 39
Richard Marx - Righ Here Waiting For You

Q/Match 40
Siouxsie & The Banshees - Spellbound

khalessi

Match 41
Van Halen - Jump

Match 42
Texas - I Don’t Want a Lover


Match 43
The Cure - Catch
beautiful song

Match 44
Talking Heads - Burning Down The House

khalessi

Match 45
Walk the Dinosaur - Was Not Was

Q/Match 46
Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels

Q/Match 47
The Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town

Q/Match 48
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power of Love

Daithi07

Daithi07 wrote: »

2 songs that apitomise the 80s for me have always been
Cutting Crew - I just died in your arms.

Nik kershaw - Wouldn't it be good.

2 absolute bangers that ooze 80s nostalgia for me and should be included in any 80s list. ðŸ‘

Still another hundred songs to go through yet so could be in there.

Gonna join in with voting?

#45 - Walk The Dinosaur, as it's a nice bit of silliness and I'm not a fan of Frankie

#46 - Close one but I'll go for Voices Carry to prevent a whitewash

#47 - Life In a Northern Town - Never heard this before, I wonder what.....OMG it's Sunchyme! MIND = BLOWN! :eek:

#48 - Marlene on the Wall - The Power of Love annoys me a bit, though that's mainly the video (IT'S NOT A CHRISTMAS SONG, FFS :mad: - see also its '90's equivalent "Stay Another Day" by East17)

Siobh73

45 Sister Sledge
46 Tears for Fears
47 BEAUTIFUL SOUTH.... PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE VOTE
48. Frankie

[Deleted User]

[Deleted User] wrote: »

#47 - Life In a Northern Town - Never heard this before, I wonder what.....OMG it's Sunchyme! MIND = BLOWN! :eek:

My mind is blown that your mind’s been blown!!!

Kolido

Still to resolve

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Spellbound 1 vs 5 Human League - Love Action
Sister Sledge - Frankie 3 vs 4 Walk the Dinosaur - Was Not Was

Kolido

Q/Match 49

Rick Astley - Never Give You Up
vs
Violent Femmes - Blister in the sun

Q/Match 50

Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
vs
Rick Springfield - Jesses's Girl

Q/Match 51

Irene Cara - Flashdance
vs
John Cougar Mellencamp - Jack and Diane

Q/Match 52

Cher - Turn Back Time
vs
ABBA - The Day Before You Came

sKeith

Head over heels

Necro

Kolido wrote:

Rick Astley - Never Give You Up vs Violent Femmes - Blister in the sun

Go on the Astley! In this battle anyways for me Violent Femmes get Rickrolled.

Kolido wrote:

Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al vs Rick Springfield - Jesses's Girl

Jesse's Girl, nice little jingle that.

Kolido wrote:

Irene Cara - Flashdance vs John Cougar Mellencamp - Jack and Diane

Flashdance here.

Kolido wrote:

Cher - Turn Back Time vs ABBA - The Day Before You Came

Tough one but gonna vote Cher here as I dont really like that ABBA song tbh.

quickbeam

Q/Match 49 Violent Femmes - Blister in the sun
Q/Match 50 Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
Q/Match 51 John Cougar Mellencamp - Jack and Diane
Q/Match 52 Cher - Turn Back Time

Triceratops Ballet

Kolido wrote:

Rick Astley - Never Give You Up vs Violent Femmes - Blister in the sun

Violent Femmes, I love that intro. I actually didn't realise how old that song was

Kolido wrote:

Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al vs Rick Springfield - Jesses's Girl

You can call me Al - I actually like both but this edges it

Kolido wrote:

Irene Cara - Flashdance vs John Cougar Mellencamp - Jack and Diane

Flashdance

Kolido wrote:

Cher - Turn Back Time vs ABBA - The Day Before You Came

I actually LOVE both Cher and ABBA, I bought both heart of stone and super trooper on cassette with my communion money but I'll give this one to Cher cos this isn't ABBA's finest but it might be one of Cher's

Also Starring LeVar Burton

Blister In The Sun

Jessie's Girl

Flashdance

If I Could Turn Back Time

Reasons: some very tough ones here, but just have to go with the songs I prefer slightly more.

#49 - Never Gonna Give You Up
#50 - Jessie's Girl
#51 - Flashdance
#52 - The Day Before You Came (this is my favourite ABBA song, maybe not their most accessible but a proper masterpiece imo)

First three choices are all decent tunes but I'm mainly going for them based on my dislike of the songs they're up against!

khalessi

Match 49
Rick Astley - Never Give You Up

Q/Match 50
Rick Springfield - Jesses's Girl

Q/Match 51
John Cougar Mellencamp - Jack and Diane

Q/Match 52
ABBA - The Day Before You Came

Green&Red

Violent Femmes - Blister in the sun
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al
John Cougar Mellencamp - Jack and Diane
Cher - Turn Back Time

Violent Femmes

Rick Springfield

John Mellencamp

Cher

Rikand

Raging journey went out there. Fantastic video which took the piss out of every other 80s video being made at the time with the walking girl, the dockyard scene, the super slow motions, the guy with the bass guitar with no head on it, completely intentionally over acted to the hilt and the song was pretty awesome too

Rikand

Rick astley
Paul Simon
John cougar
Abba

Rikand

Human league love action

Kolido

Current scores

Siouxsie & The Banshees - Spellbound 1 vs 6 Human League - Love Action
Sister Sledge - Frankie 3 vs 4 Walk the Dinosaur - Was Not Was
Rick Astley - Never Give You Up 4 vs 5 Violent Femmes - Blister in the sun
Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al 4 vs 5 Rick Springfield - Jesses's Girl
Irene Cara - Flashdance 4 vs 5 John Cougar Mellencamp - Jack and Diane
Cher - Turn Back Time 6 vs 2 ABBA - The Day Before You Came

Collie D

49. Violent Femmes
50. Paul Simon
51. John Cougar Mellencamp

Rikand

Walk the dinosaur