What's your favorite song from 1982?

[Coventina]

This is mine, for very personal reasons, but lots of really great songs from this year:

[MichMan]

1. Can't decide between these two

Heat of the Moment by Asia

867-5309 by Tommy Tutone

[virtualobserver]

2. Men At Work Who Can It Be Now?

[FM123]

3. Back in the '80s I wanted to be in The Gogos, lol. My fav song that year was:

"Our Lips Are Sealed"

[Glamrock]

4. Loved this as a kid...

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. Cocteau Twins - Wax and Wane from Garlands

Just looked through top 100 albums of 1982...nothing really stood out for me as far as really popular stuff - so I went for the fringe (and a band that I've loved for years - though Garlands is not at all their best stuff)

this is pretty out there, strange stuff (just like my music tastes - still, at 61!)

[Special Prosciuto]

6. Fleetwood Mac's Hold Me

Right about the time when still-good music was contaminated with video lunacy

[Docreed2003]

7. Always On My Mind...Willie Nelson

My wife and I were recently discussing heartbreaking song lyrics and how the songwriter writing the lyrics must have been channeling legitimate pain when composing the songs...this was one we discussed. How many of us have been in that situation? You take the one you love the most for granted and when they're gone, you long for one last chance to prove your love...knowing that it will never happen....

[DBoon]

8. why this one of course

[shanny]

9. Skateaway by Dire Straits

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[progressoid]

10. Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey

Honorable Mentions:


Stray Cats - Rock this Town
Stevie Wonder - Do I Do
Roxy Music - Avalon
New Order - Temptation
XTC - Senses Working Overtime
English Beat - Save It For Later
The Clash - Should I Stay or Should I Go
Queen & David Bowie - Under Pressure
King Crimson - Waiting Man

[Eugene]

11. 1999 - Prince

[OriginalGeek]

12. I didn't actually hear these guys until their next album

but I immediately went and bought their back catalog too and this was one of my favorites

[hurl]

13. Another great year in music

My favorite:

Philip Glass - Floe

Honorable mentions:

Kate Bush - Suspended in Gaffa

XTC - All of a Sudden

[SethH]

14. Stepping Out

[Rhiannon12866]

15. I Love Rock n Roll - Joan Jett The Blackhearts

[examexpo]

16. Songs did you like...

Oh.. i don't like songs

[red dog 1]

17. Jack and Dianne - John Mellencamp

(John "Cougar" Mellencamp)

[Dulcinea]

18. The Clash-Should I Stay or Should I Go

[catbyte]

19. "Know Your Rights" The Clash

[pat_k]

20. Fun stuff: GoGo's Vacation, or maybe...

Tainted Love, Soft Cell's one hit wonder.

[KatyMan]

21. What a year for music!

The 80s get slagged a lot but the music really was great (as someone that was there--i turned 16 in 82). I think it's hard to overstate the marriage of music and video in that era. Most 80s songs I hear on Sirius (or in grocery stores!) are accompanied in my head by the video of the song that's playing.

[Tikki]

22. "Way of the World".....FLIPPER

Tikki