Boardsies greatest song of the 80s - Live Thread

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.

Hall & Oates and sting

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

Poison for me

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.

Provisional count

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


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I was right but didnt see kolly doing it too

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

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.

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

Necro wrote: »

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

I was counting the votes. It looks like 24 is the only one left.

24: Blancmange - Living on A Ceiling. This gets my vote because it is a great tune. I'm not mad about Neneh Cherry's Buffalo Stance.

phil collins
a ha
pet shop boys
nina cherry

You Give Love A Bad Name - absolute banger of a tune!
Boys of Summer - a true classic, and a long time favourite of mine.
Call Me - the type of song that would have me on the dancefloor and singing along.
Ace of Spades - we definitely need some proper rock tunes in the competition, and this is one of the obvious rock classics.