Turning jaunty Motown influences into icy synth pop may sound like sacrilege, but that's exactly what English duo Soft Cell did when it covered Gloria Jones's 1965 funky stomper in 1981. Toto - 992. No guitar act better assimilated hip-hop than the Clash, probably because they had so much practice sponging up dub. Her approach to this song—which, when you break it down, is more about loneliness than love—says a lot about her ability to radiate warmth and positivity through her singular sound. It would be the pinnacle of his career. The best pop songs of all time are as varied and attention-grabbing as the artists who sing them. Are you the "music guy" on your trivia team? It’s just that they spent a butt-ton of money on everything. Considering the titanic forces at work in this tune, it's relatively understated, but it does ultimately climb to the sparkling heights that both Bowie and Mercury inhabited with such ease. Learn about the best hit songs of the 80s, year by year, plus read interviews from legendary 80s … In this opening cut, big sloppy washes of distorted guitar crashes over a rigid drum machine, as Roland Gift lifts it to the sky with his helium falsetto. If your favorite song with tonight in the title isn't listed, feel free to add it to the list so others can also vote it up. A New Order single is like if architecture was flush with hormones. Songs with tonight in the lyrics are fair game too. Submitted by: Janise. One-hit wonderful, “I Can’t Wait” is Nu Shooz’s only real smash, topping the charts around the world in 1986. But before all that, he managed to lay down some of the decade’s best tracks, including this nihilistic, Nile Rodgers–assisted soul boogie from 1983. And I just can't get enough! Don’t let Puff Daddy ruin this for you. So there's that. While the duo achieved its greatest success on home turf, this 1985 ode to London street life was written and recorded in New York, as the pair recalls in our interview, and bristles with urban seediness (note: It’s partly inspired by T.S. That’s “Everywhere” in a nutshell. The famously cantankerous Lou Reed loved it, as did Tom Cruise’s go-get-’em titular character in Jerry Maguire (who, no disrespect, doesn’t seem like the most scrutinizing music listener). "Tonight I'm Yours (Don't Hurt Me)" ... You already know I love '80s music and appreciate many of its cultural contributions, but I have to admit that one of the most distressing trends of the era was the unnecessary supplement of outside songwriters for even the most established veteran artists. There’s hair metal, sure, and more than a smidge of synth-pop, but there are also some killer rockers, diva jams, new-wave classics, hip-hop standouts, lovelorn ballads and even a bit of indie rock. Play it somewhere you can howl along, loudly. The first single ever recorded by the indie-rock outfit, “Tugboat” consists of only two chords, some scant lyrics about not wanting to do much of anything, save being a tugboat captain (a reference to the Velvet Underground's Sterling Morrison, a clear hero), and...that’s about it. "Don t Stop Believing" is in many ways the ultimate Journey song, packed to the gills with the staples of '80s rock. As critics continued to peg rap as a passing novelty, this big, lisping teddy bear from Long Island thumbed his nose at such stuck-up stupidity. “Total Eclipse of the Heart” was originally conceived as a song for a vampire—it even showed up later in Steinman’s 2002 Broadway fiasco, Dance of the Vampires—and its gothic underpinnings are front and center in the song’s lurid video. The verse is contemplative and blue, an account of how bruised and confused the heart can feel, then the chorus sweeps you up with a heartfelt plea to understand what the hell's going on—it's blustery, sure, but also uplifting, featuring the New Jersey Mass Choir, the Thompson Twins and Dreamgirls star Jennifer Holliday. But the greater loss is Biz’s sense of self-deprecation. "I know the judges wanted to see a different side, so '80s Kaitlyn is out to play," Bristowe teased before she and her pro partner, Artem Chigvintsev, danced to Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now." Oh, it’s so easy to mock U2: the bombast, the shades, the pomp… But the band’s 1987 opus, The Joshua Tree, contains three of its mightiest songs in a row, of which “With or Without You” is its most affecting. It wasn't just a souped-up DeLorean that safely spirited Back to the Future's Marty McFly home to the '80s: He was also aided by this ditty from harmonica-blowing everydad Huey Lewis, who penned the song for the 1985 blockbuster's soundtrack. And there aren’t many songs from the era that come with an important warning about fire safety in the chorus. Here's my playlist of the best '80s tunes with "night" in the title. Serving up a heady—occasionally otherworldly—mixture of Afrobeat, funk, pop, rock, disco and psychedelia, the chorus of this existential anthem is huge enough to have stuck around for more than three decades. 476 DEBARGE RHYTHM OF THE NIGHT. This is longing on a supernatural scale, and Tyler holds her own against the thundering arrangement as she roars out some of the least quiet desperation ever known to pop music. https://www.thoughtco.com/top-phil-collins-solo-songs-of-the-80s-10699 But the decade delivered some of music’s most emotional, teary moments, the more affecting for the fact that the vehicle is pop. In 1984, Tina Turner was 44 years old and on the comeback trail. 477 EXPOSE POINT OF NO RETURN. The song’s bittersweet sentiment is perfectly matched by the music—at turns delicate and yearning, then surging and desperate. It's a touch irritating that - in a fashion similar to a sizable percentage of the successful singles for female-fronted acts like Pat Benatar and Heart during the '80s - a song featuring outside songwriting stands as Scandal's biggest hit and only Top 10 single. “Fight the Power” by Public Enemy. Oddly, it's become the unofficial theme of the New England Revolution MLS soccer club. The ’80s were not a time of subtlety. Cyndi’s mad orange hair might be dated like lukewarm milk, but “Time After Time” still smells fresh to us. All rights reserved. This ranked list includes songs like "Tonight, Tonight" by The Smashing Pumpkins, and "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton. But the hit album Private Dancer and its chart-topping single, “What’s Love Got to Do with It”—her first top-10 song in more than a decade—made the tough soul icon a solo superstar. Listen out for "drifter" in the chorus, which replaced an earlier recording using the word "hobo," after lead singer David Coverdale worried that it sounded too much like "homo." Before Vanilla Ice famously ripped off, er, was inspired by the work of Queen bassist John Deacon, that subtle, infectious plucking heralded the meeting of two wildly influential rock icons. Whatever your take, you're about to get flattened by an emotional steamroller: four minutes of undiluted underdog yearning and a portrait of anonymous lost souls praying for luck and love on the streets of nonexistent South Detroit, starring Steve Perry's scarily, swoopingly elastic voice. ), but in reality the chorus was penned while singer Joe Elliott and his producer were sharing a cup of tea…with sugar. 474 ROCKWELL SOMEBODY'S WATCHING ME. Our sonic roundup of the era that brought us Miami Vice, mall culture and more awesomely cheesy entertainment than any sane person can handle is wonderfully diverse. Who can resist? This collection features profiles of artists and bands, reviews, and forgotten gems of the 1980s. And it only gets more intense from there, building a manifesto of what to take swigs at, including this gem: “Elvis was a hero to most / But he never meant shit to me / You see, straight-up racist that sucker was / Simple and plain / Mother fuck him and John Wayne / 'Cause I'm black and I'm proud.” And that’s the truth, Ruth. But “Take On Me” is also distinguished by Harket’s improbably octave-spanning vocals, whose seeming effortlessness has inspired countless screeching karaoke wipeouts. Those synthesized strings, that thumping boots-and-pants beat, Astley's weirdly robust croon and his romantic-wooing-as-used-car-salesman-pitch come-on ("You wouldn't get this from any other guy")… It all adds up to three and a half of the most effervescent minutes in the ’80s canon. Insanely popular in its home country, the song also made waves internationally, shifting millions of copies and becoming an instant karaoke classic. Not sure what to cue up on your iPhone? Top Soft Rock Songs of the 1980s. 472 GREGORY ABBOTT SHAKE YOU DOWN. Her erudite songs referenced literature by Emily Brontë and James Joyce, resulting in knotty and outlandish pop music. Nine years later, though, he came awfully close to outdoing himself with "Sexual Healing," his first non-Motown single (released just two years before he was fatally shot by his father). Oh, and there's also the little matter of the greatest drum fill in pop history at the 3:40 mark. Grab your Walkman, turn up the treble and get ready to celebrate pop’s golden era with the best ’80s songs. If you're in an '80s cover band and you're not playing this song on a nightly basis—well, there's just absolutely no way you're not. Sung by Christine McVie, this delectable swoon of a song appears on the band’s 1987 album Tango in the Night, and it’s the kind of track that needs to be played at least three times in a row, preferably on a roadtrip involving lots of singing along, to reach satisfaction saturation. Many of the tracks listed are songs about tonight, but just because that word is in the title doesn't mean that the song's subject is exclusively about that. Roxy Music’s most played song on Spotify by a country mile (the runner up, “Avalon,” draws about half the audience) didn’t even crack, Has a drum introduction ever sounded this. Find album reviews, stream songs, credits and award information for 100 Hits: 80s Classics - Various Artists on AllMusic - 2011 - This five-disc, 100-track set is like bottling… “Just A Friend” is the opposite of braggadocio. Those unforgettable snare snaps comes courtesy of producer Steve Albini, and it’s one of the many touches the band’s most popular song (one that wasn’t even released as a single in ’88) has going for it: Among the many others, there’s Kim Deal’s haunting, reverb drenched backing vocals that so many indie-rock groups would go on to ape, a cracked-voiced Black Francis spitting out cryptic-cool lyrics, and deceptively simple lead guitar and bass combo that still gives us goosebumps. Few songs from the era are so rich and perfect. 2 winner in the U.S. in 1986 – and the song that truly introduced the British group to the masses – strangely wasn't a hit in its native land. The Top 100 Best Party Songs of All Time. Those unforgettable snare snaps comes courtesy of producer Steve Albini, and it’s one of the many touches the band’s most popular song (one that wasn’t even released as a single in ’88) has going for it: Among the many others, there’s Kim Deal’s haunting, reverb drenched backing vocals that so many indie-rock groups would go on to ape, a cracked-voiced Black Francis spitting out cryptic-cool lyrics, and deceptively simple lead guitar and bass combo that still gives us goosebumps. Is there anyone who doesn’t like this song? Eventually, he had the shit sued out of him, and hip-hop was forever changed. Each and every element in the song is dancing. Roxy Music’s most played song on Spotify by a country mile (the runner up, “Avalon,” draws about half the audience) didn’t even crack Billboard's Top 100 in the States upon its release. Prince whipped up two tunes overnight, the winner being “When Doves Cry.” With such little time, he didn’t bother with a bassline. Christopher Cross - All Right4. The perma-coifed Commodores frontman's 1983 single smashes any attempts to resist its groove. There’s also an album version of this without the trumpets, but why would you even want that? By this point, you know where you stand on this one: You hear Jonathan Cain's piano intro, and you either swell up with joy or wince in pain. Bowie was all over the place during the ’80s: duetting with Jagger, clambering into spandex for Labyrinth, getting buried alive for Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence and ultimately embarking on a midlife crisis that resulted in a worrying beard and Tin Machine. Top Steve Miller Band Songs of the '80s. Has a drum introduction ever sounded this big? This 1982 track and its video offer everything an ’80s hit should: a synth intro, tight pants, big hair, overt pelvic thrusting, a scantily clad babe atop a muscle car and, of course, a banging chorus that you just can't help but belt out—even as you cringe at its cheese factor. Time Out is a registered trademark of Time Out America LLC. Even the Stones went disco and dabbled with rap. Having finally split from her abusive husband and artistic Svengali, Ike, she’d spent years in a limbo of cameos, Vegas shows and dud solo albums. The song’s masterfully infectious synth riff, sampled back to glory by Pitbull and Christina Aguilera in 2013’s “Feel This Moment,” would be enough to secure it a spot on any list of ’80s classics. Debussy once noted, “Music is the space between notes.” Prince decked the emptiness with eyeliner and silk. 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The chorus starts, oh. We already have this email. Everything in a New Order song is a percussion instrument, from the metronomic drumming to Peter Hook’s bass lines to the synth fills to Bernard Sumner’s rhythmic sigh-singing. By the middle of the decade, the band was mining house music heavily enough to join a union in Chicago though always balancing disco ecstasy with melancholy in true Mancunian fashion. “Running Up That Hill” was so huge because it was her most digestible—though still weird, with its galloping drums and a Fairlight synthesizer hook that sounds like pan pipes from deep space. But no, the song, shot through with the Genesis-drummer–turned–solo-hit-maker's post-divorce bitterness, still unfolds with a dramatic tension worthy of Stanley Kubrick, layering haunting guitar wisps, pillowy synth chords and Collins's ghostly vocodered lead turn over a rudimentary Roland CR-78 beat. Toto was a collection of studio ringers with credits on Steely Dan and Boz Scaggs records. Biz Markie was both emblematic of the genre’s giddy charms and the man responsible for its ultimate downfall. 1. Read up for some fun facts and little-known info that will score you maj points. And it's not just Eddie Van Halen's famous finger-busting solo; it's that perfectly formed sneer of a guitar riff—conceived by Jackson and played by session ace Steve Lukather—those exaggered downbeats that feel like medicine balls being slammed down on a concrete floor and the raw desperation in MJ's voice as he chronicles the harsh truths of the street-fighting life. Now that “I’ll Be Missing You” is nearly two decades old (gulp), that steady, ceramic, arpeggiated riff is again property of the Police. But only one band had transformed that groundbreaking phrase into a musical piece that defined an era (almost) as deeply as the Ronettes. 475 TIME JUNGLE LOVE. “Nineteen eighty-nine…” The first five syllables of Public Enemy’s most zeitgeisty hit, made at the request of Spike Lee for his groundbreaking film. About Take Me Home Tonight "Take Me Home Tonight" is a song by American rock singer Eddie Money. The third single from Guns N' Roses' shining debut, 1987's Appetite for Destruction, it was the band's first and only number one single. We may dismiss the '80s as an era of musical cheese, light on substance and heavy on excess. Bursting with ambition, frustration and sex, “Dancing in the Dark” is also Springsteen’s dance-floor peak, with a typically stunning sax solo by the late Clarence Clemons to top it all off. Wrapped in chest hair, sunglasses and terry cloth, these feathery dudes were too anonymous to be deserving of the term supergroup. If your favorite song with tonight in the title isn't listed, feel free to add it to the list so others can also vote it up. Ditching the original's energy for Marc Almond's cut-glass tones and unashamedly machine-driven melodies, Soft Cell's version soon became huge, paving the way for the ’80s synth-pop explosion that followed. You're too shy, shy, hush, hush. Check out our guide to the best ’80s movies. The first and biggest hit by the Norwegian electropop trio A-ha, “Take On Me,” rose to international popularity in 1985 on the strength of its groundbreaking video, a mix of live-action and pencil-drawn animation that starred dreamy lead singer Morten Harket as the hero of an escapist romance between a lonely woman and a comic-book adventurer. I should've walked away, I should've walked away. “Africa” was their contribution to the wave of telethon pop that clogged the Reagan era, another patronizing plea for charity like “We Are the World” and Band Aid. Eliot’s The Wasteland). “Nineteen eighty-nine…” The first five syllables of Public Enemy’s … The Jesus and Mary Chain's "Just Like Honey" captures a certain proto-shoegazey, bittersweet longing that pristinely characterizes the hazy milieu of the ‘80s—not to mention gave Sophia Coppola's Lost In Translation a killer outro a few seconds before the credits roll. But for the '80s crowd, it’s a classic slow dance that stands up as one of the strongest songs of the decade. Whether you take this 1986 hit as a cheesy relic or the apex of steroidal FM rawk, Bon Jovi's tale of guitarist turned dock worker Tommy and his diner-waitress main squeeze, Gina, is essentially flawless, right down to guitarist Richie Sambora's iconic talk-box–assisted opening hook and that vertigo-inducing key change after the bridge. Déjà vu! More than three decades on, it never fails to make us sing our fool hearts out on the dance floor. The 80s were a great time for catchy songs and over-the-top sounds. ? In 1984, husband and wife duo John Smith and Valerie Day recorded the tune, which was remixed in the Netherlands a couple years later—and it’s this clean, clipped, super funky version of the song that landed the Shooz their record deal and influenced a generation of “chillwave” aspirants some 25 years later. A global hit in 1981, the star's signature song finds him joined by the mighty Temptations on backing vocals—including James's uncle, Melvin Franklin. The video found her strutting around New York City in a jean jacket, leather miniskirt and feather-duster hair—a bruised but defiantly happy paragon of independence. For a good decade there, it seemed as though "Born to Run" was the absolute final word in blue-collar rock & roll mythmaking—but then along came the Boss's fellow Jerseyans Bon Jovi, who slathered the old story of two hard-luck dreamers longing for escape with a thick coat of glam-era bombast. "There are days when you're thinking, 'I … This ranked list includes songs like "Tonight, Tonight" by The Smashing Pumpkins, and "Wonderful Tonight" by Eric Clapton. , pack a ton of punch. The Best Keanu Reeves 'Always Be My Maybe' Entrance Memes, The Best Classic Rock Songs For A First Dance, The Greatest Songs by '60s One-Hit Wonders, The Worst Karaoke Songs in the History of Music, Every Song in The Bodyguard, Ranked by Singability, The Greatest Songs by '90s One-Hit Wonders, The Greatest Pop Songs by One-Hit Wonders, The Best Father/Daughter First Dance Wedding Songs. It includes vague references to singing in bars, drinking, cheap perfume, taking your chances, livin' in the city, romance at midnight, a jaded city boy, a lonely small-town girl, and a mysterious train whose destination, one assumes, is rock 'n' roll. As much of a dance-floor killer as it is, "Beat It" is a genuinely heavy song, psychologically as much as sonically. But it's a sweet thought. 473 KARYN WHITE THE WAY YOU LOVE ME. oh oh oh, tonight. The Nigerian-born, U.K.-raised singer-songwriter is in top form on this hit single from her multi-platinum-selling second album, Promise. The Best 100 Songs From the 1990s. The original 1982 version of the video for "Red Skies" by The Fixx from their first CD "Shuttered Room". The trio, a splinter from the English Beat, had its roots in ska, but over two albums chiseled a new pop sound that would echo onward from Massive Attack to TV on the Radio. Commented Mick Jones, of the recording process: "We did a few takes, and it was good, but it was still a bit tentative. A sleeper hit for the English heavy-metal band in 1987 (it didn't get much play until the band recorded a promo clip for its North American release), “Pour Some Sugar on Me” is among the group’s finest efforts. Complexity, be damned! 28 '80s Songs That Will ALWAYS Make You Happy. The steamy track is decidedly more ’80s, with a drum-machine propulsion, busy guitars and a pleasing base of synths. Too many people mock the ‘80s as an age of excess, yet loads of classic singles from the era are studies in cool restraint (see: Phil Collins—no, honestly). A Yamaha GS1 synthesizer is made to sound like a mbira; there’s a gong in there somewhere, for some reason. Richie attempted to find some suitable foreign phrases but got impatient and invented his own international party language. Getty Images. Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! Thankfully, the lotion-slick groove reeks more of coconuts than crisp money. Naturally, there was a certain amount of leakage between the two—which is why 1985’s “Close to Me” is a strong contender for the band’s best song, with its yearning lyrics matched by ultra perky brass riffs (inspired by a New Orleans funeral march, obvs). 100 Best Pop Songs of the 2000s. Smith’s poignant songwriting was like a baptism inviting the lovelorn to let the layers of reverb-laden guitar spill over their heads and wash their pain away. Overview "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" was one of two Michael Masser/ Gerry Goffin co-writes produced by Masser for the Born to Love album. You'd think that Mike Tyson air-drumming to Phil Collins's 1981 signature hit in The Hangover would've somehow sapped "In the Air Tonight" of its eerie potency. Who sang the 80s song: Tonight? 11 of 20. Two of the great party songs of the 80s are here with Wang Chung’s four minutes of total madness, Everybody Have Fun Tonight and Relax by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, whose original video pushed the envelope a little too far and was never aired. And that bit that sounds like made-up gibberish? Robert Smith’s un-merry men spent roughly half of the ’80s making desperately sad goth rock, and the other half writing some of the best pop songs of all time. No ’80s list would be complete without British synth-popsters the Pet Shop Boys. The song's chorus interpolates the Ronettes' 1963 hit "Be My Baby", with original vocalist Ronnie Spector reprising her role. (who, no disrespect, doesn’t seem like the most scrutinizing music listener). 84. It also boasts perhaps the most fitting last line in a sex song to date: “Please don't procrastinate / It's not good to masturbate.”. If ever there was a time for an enormous chorus, it was the ’80s—and this 1984 smash from Foreigner offers an example of this that's at once gleaming, gorgeous and gut-wrenching. We’ve assembled a list of the best karaoke songs ever, from raucous party songs you can sing while tipsy to tender love songs for serenading your boo. Songs with tonight in the lyrics are fair game too. I wanna dance with girls who just want to have fun because we are living in a material world. That’s thanks in no small part to Neil Tennant’s coolly annunciated delivery, a hypnotic take on the hip-hop flows of the era. Bush was discovered when barely into her teens, knocking out genius tunes on a piano in her cozy Kent, England, home. On "Push It," all-gal Queens hip-hop trio Salt-N-Pepa made pop magic via a seemingly simple combination of Casio beats; a few big, dumb keyboard stabs; and a lot of impassioned, steamy cries of "Ooh, baby baby.". And to this day, we’re betting the fanbase for the breezy sing-along fave (co-written by Jeff Lynne) still runs the gamut—from get-me-out-of-here teens to the dads they think are lame, and from snobs who wouldn’t be caught dead doing karaoke to people who live for it. Is there anyone who doesn’t like this song? So grab the mic, knock back a drink and prepare to belt out one of these surefire hits.
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