I have very disparate taste in music - I like and detest so many of those mentioned in equal measure - but, for me, the definitive song of the 80s is Relax by Frankie Goes to Hollywood. It's the perfect pop song (from the Trevor Horn stable) and evokes many happy, carefree memories but also the spectre of HIV and Aids. Holly Johnson has a wonderfully powerful voice - long may he do so.
I am very much a child of the eighties but am more likely to listen to music from the sixties or early seventies. The one in that list that I still listen to regularly is Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus. Although released as a single later, so probably nineties, and from the same album I also regularly listen to Enjoy The Silence. But that might be down to the fact Baby Tink plays both on geetar and sings the latter.
I am very much a child of the eighties but am more likely to listen to music from the sixties or early seventies. The one in that list that I still listen to regularly is Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus. Although released as a single later, so probably nineties, and from the same album I also regularly listen to Enjoy The Silence. But that might be down to the fact Baby Tink plays both on geetar and sings the latter.
I like Depeche Mode a bit and bought a few albums at the time. My guess is those songs are from Violator, I remember having that in the early nineties. They're still going too, having made a comeback a few years ago.
No Nellie. I've never heard that before. Johnny Cash has such a distinctive voice.
One of my favourite songs is from a collection of covers by Glen Campbell where he sings the Foo Fighters, Green Day, Travis etc. His version of Jackson Browne's These Days is just wonderful. Not least because of the lyrics and his battle with Alzheimer's.