80's Music
- Fox the Fox - Precious Little Diamond
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Dutch funk band Fox the Fox made an international hit with this track, you might recognize this as the Weekend sampled it for his track Wanderlust from his debut album.
- Billy Joel - We Didn't Start the Fire (1989)
Lyrics:
Harry Truman, Doris Day, Red China, Johnnie Ray South Pacific, Walter Winchell, Joe DiMaggio Joe McCarthy, Richard Nixon, Studebaker, television North Korea, South Korea, Marilyn Monroe
Rosenbergs, H-bomb, Sugar Ray, Panmunjom Brando, The King and I and The Catcher in the Rye Eisenhower, vaccine, England′s got a new queen Marciano, Liberace, Santayana goodbye
We didn't start the fire It was always burning since the world′s been turning We didn't start the fire No we didn't light it but we tried to fight it
Joseph Stalin, Malenkov, Nasser and Prokofiev Rockefeller, Campanella, Communist Bloc Roy Cohn, Juan Peron, Toscanini, dacron Dien Bien Phu falls, Rock Around the Clock
Einstein, James Dean, Brooklyn′s got a winning team Davy Crockett, Peter Pan, Elvis Presley, Disneyland Bardot, Budapest, Alabama, Krushchev Princess Grace, Peyton Place, trouble in the Suez
We didn′t start the fire It was always burning since the world's been turning We didn′t start the fire No we didn't light it but we tried to fight it
Little Rock, Pasternak, Mickey Mantle, Kerouac Sputnik, Chou En-Lai, Bridge on the River Kwai Lebanon, Charles de Gaulle, California baseball Starkweather, homicide, children of thalidomide
Uh, a-ho
Buddy Holly, Ben Hur, space monkey, Mafia Hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no-go U-2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy Chubby Checker, Psycho, Belgians in the Congo
We didn′t start the fire It was always burning since the world's been turning We didn′t start the fire No we didn't light it but we tried to fight it
Hemingway, Eichmann, Stranger in a Strange Land Dylan, Berlin, Bay of Pigs invasion Lawrence of Arabia, British Beatlemania Ole Miss, John Glenn, Liston beats Patterson Pope Paul, Malcolm X, British politician sex JFK, blown away, what else do I have to say
We didn't start the fire It was always burning since the world′s been turning We didn′t start the fire No we didn't light it but we tried to fight it
Birth control, Ho Chi Minh, Richard Nixon back again Moonshot, Woodstock, Watergate, punk rock Begin, Reagan, Palestine, terror on the airline Ayatollah′s in Iran, Russians in Afghanistan
Wheel of Fortune, Sally Ride, heavy metal, suicide Foreign debts, homeless vets, AIDS, crack, Bernie Goetz Hypodermics on the shores, China's under martial law Rock and roller cola wars, I can′t take it anymore
We didn't start the fire It was always burning since the world′s been turning We didn't start the fire But when we are gone Will it still burn on, and on, and on And on, and on, and on, and on, and on?
We didn't start the fire It was always burning since the world′s been turning We didn′t start the fire No we didn't light it but we tried to fight it
We didn′t start the fire It was always burning since the world's been turning We didn′t start the fire No we didn't light it but we tried to fight it
We didn′t start the fire It was always burning since the world's been turning We didn't start the fire
- Deniece Williams - Let's Hear It for the Boy
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This video has it all, too. Breakdancing, firespinning, karate, dancing on a piano, inappropriate sexual suggestions.
- Technotronic - Move This [1989]
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The other unrelated Belgian techno anthem.
- Stevie Wonder, "I Just Called to Say I Love You" (studio)rumble.com ***Stevie Wonder I Just Called To Say I Love You***
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© 1984 Motown
- Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now (Official Music Video)
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uh... this video is very 80s, perhaps the most ever, and it's a spectacle of utter horror.
- Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F (1984) Beverly Hills Cop - Soundtrack
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- YES - Owner of a Lonely Heart
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Definitely not a typical music video.
- Dire Straits - Money For Nothing (1985)
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*radio edit
Edit: Official lyric video here
- Art of Noise - Close (To The Edit) Version 1 (ZTPS 01) 1984
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- Los Lobos - La Bamba [1987]
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There's no 50's music community to post the original Ritchie Valens version, so here's a 1987 cover.
- Peter Gabriel - Games Without Frontiers
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That's Kate Bush singing background vocals.
- The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
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I am the son, and the heir, of nothing in particular...
- Wally Badarou - Mambo
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Wally occasionally being the 5th member of Level 42, this track sampled by Massive Attack...Daydreaming