Who else? Prince spent the Eighties as the most maddeningly brilliant and unpredictable genius in the game. ![]() Image Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images were one of the best bands that ever existed - except they got twice as great in the Nineties. (Maybe Stipe does not believe this song goes “sit on top of the big hill,” but I do.) Eighties R.E.M. (“Gardening at Night”? “Green Grow the Rushes”?) Michael Stipe’s voice surges in “Sitting Still” with urgent emotion, without any clue what the lyrics mean. They were audibly Southern, from some town nobody’d heard of, like they had no idea bands were required to move to New York or L.A. had their own high-energy, low-budget DIY sound - loads of guitar, but no solos, no keyboards, no spandex. Central Rain” or “Fall on Me” or “Wolves, Lower” or “Good Advices.” Who else had songs like this? Nobody. (Well, not “We Walk” or “9-9.”) You could pick “So. You could pick any song off their classic debut, Murmur, for this list. changed the rock game in the early Eighties. Put this mix tape in the boombox, pump up the volume, and hit play. But every one is a brilliant tune, and each one is part of the unsolvable Rubik’s Cube that is Hair Decade pop. Many are songs you remember some you desperately try to forget. Others make people run and scream in terror. You hear them at weddings, parties, clubs, the karaoke bar. Some of these Eighties songs remain famous around the world. But just one song per artist, or half the list would be Prince. There’s Chicago house, Detroit techno, Miami freestyle, D.C. There’s new rebel voices that exploded out of nowhere. There’s all-time legends and one-hit wonders. A mix tape of pop classics, rockers, rappers, soul divas, New Wavers, disco jams, country twangers, punk ragers, dance-floor anthems, smooth operators, and karaoke room-clearers. The hits, the deep cuts, the fan favorites. So let’s break it down: the 200 best songs of the Eighties, music’s most insane decade. ![]() Do you know where you are? You’re in the Eighties, baby. Hip-hop takes over as the voice of young America. Not to mention massive stars: Prince, Madonna, Michael, Bruce, Janet, Sade, Cher. It’s got big hair, big drums, big shoulder pads. The Eighties are one of the weirdest eras ever for music.
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