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songs of 1985

edited March 2012 in Not Sports Related
following on from the songs of 1977 thread, another good year, was bang in the middle of the eighties. Here's a selection from me (apologies if I have the year wrong for any):

Just Like Honey - The Jesus & Mary Chain
She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
Close To Me - The Cure
Bring On The Dancing Horses - Echo & The Bunnymen
Brand New Friend - Lloyd Cole & the Commotions
Ironmasters - The Men They Couldn't Hang
Love Vigilantes - New Order
Dirty Old Town - The Pogues
Appetite - Prefab Sprout
Amphetamine Logic - The Sisters Of Mercy
The Whole Of The Moon - The Waterboys
The Bottom Line / E=MC² - Big Audio Dynamite
Between The Wars - Billy Bragg
Ugly Little Dreams - Everything But The Girl
Time Flies By (when you're the driver of a train) - Half Man Half Biscuit
Flag Day - The Housemartins
Like An Angel - The Mighty Lemon Drops
Take on Me - A-Ha
Black Man Ray - China Crisis
Ask The Lord - Hipsway
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
Duel - Propaganda
Thinking Of You - The Colourfield
Cruisers Creek - The Fall
Love Like Blood - Killing Joke
Last Dance - The Mekons
Come Back - Spear of Destiny
Road To Nowhere - Talking Heads
Shake The Disease - Depeche Mode
Can't Get There From Here - R.E.M.
Dont You Forget About Me - Simple Minds
Sunspots - Julian Cope
Boy With A Thorn In His Side - The Smiths

Hopefully that lot brings back some great memories, looking forward to seeing some others I've overlooked.

Comments

  • St. Elmo's fire - John Parr
    The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
  • I ain't gonna play Sun City - Artists against Apartheid
  • Everybody Wants to Rule the World- Tears for Fears
    Tarzan Boy- Baltimora
    Move Closer-Phyliss Nelson?
  • Crazy for you - Madonna


    Salad would proper shake his head at my list !
  • The Fall - This Nations Saving Grace (surely the best album of the year)
    The Pogues - Sally MacLennane
    Killing Joke - Eightees
    The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary


  • Some great choices there Salad
  • Ditto Stonemuse, some great tracks. Also liked...

    When it all comes down & Understanding Jane - The Icicle Works (just picked up a copy of a gig they did at Town & Country Club (but in 1983) that I was at. Some great nights watching them.
    Psychocandy - Jesus & Mary Chain
    Elegia & Sub-Culture (12") - New Order
    Walls Come Tumbling Down - Style Council
    Aikea Guinea - Cocteau Twins

    And too many guilty pleasures I am not yet ready to admit to!!! ;-)
  • Understanding Jane is a great song (albeit 1986)
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_Aw5ZW-GtI
  • West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys

    whenever i hear this song it takes me back to being a kid, the morning of my 5th birthday when i got my first bike mum and dad had capital radio on whilst i unwarped it.

    the weird things is that loads of the bands that had songs on that list, i never knew about as was to small but some nearly 30 years later they are amongst some of my fav bands ever, ie: the pogues, half man half buiscuit, rem and the smiths.
  • great year 1985............just turned 18 and had my whole life ahead of me.

    great music & great times................Live Aid just about topped it all off !!!!!!!!
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  • The summer tunes of that year :

    Into the Groove - Madonna
    I wonder if I take you home - Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam
    There's No Stoppin Us - Ollie and Jerry
  • a few favourites of mine from 1985 (i think)
    52nd street - tell me how it feels
    BB and Q band - genie
    cool notes - spend the night

  • a few favourites of mine from 1985 (i think)
    52nd street - tell me how it feels
    BB and Q band - genie
    cool notes - spend the night

    Cool Notes, they were at the opening of a record shop in Blackfen
  • cool notes - spend the night

    Tune
  • Kayleigh, Lavender and Heart of Lothian - Marillion
  • West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys

    whenever i hear this song it takes me back to being a kid, the morning of my 5th birthday when i got my first bike mum and dad had capital radio on whilst i unwarped it.
    the weird things is that loads of the bands that had songs on that list, i never knew about as was to small but some nearly 30 years later they are amongst some of my fav bands ever, ie: the pogues, half man half buiscuit, rem and the smiths.
    Could have bought you a new one!!!

  • Excellent list - excellent year! I was 19, like the Paul Hardcastle song.. Others I remember:

    In Shreds / Nostalgia - The Chameleons
    Running Up that Hill - Kate Bush
    How Soon Is Now? – The Smiths
    Life in a Northern Town – The Dream Academy
    Shout – Tears for Fears

  • 'A View To A Kill' - Duran Duran
    'The Power Of Love' - Huey Lewis & The News
    'Alone Without You' - King
    'There Must Be An Angel (Playing With My Heart)' - Eurythmics
    'Take On Me' - A-Ha
    'Party All The Time' - Eddie Murphy :-D
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