Top 20 80s Songs You Forgot Were Awesome

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The 80's: "The future will be awesome, we can't wait!" The 2020's: "We want to go back to the 1980's."

No love for Talk Talk? "It's My Life" is just brilliant, no two ways about it.

I don't know about anyone else, but Crowded House, Split Enz, and INXS have never been forgotten. No playlist is complete with Never Tear Us Apart.

These songs were all huge. I don’t know how anyone who lived through the ‘80s could forget any of them.

No one ever mentions Level 42. "Lessons in Love" and "Something About You". A very underrated group....

Boys - Sabrina St. Elmo's Fire - John Parr Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung Domino Dancing - Pet Shop Boys In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel Somebody's Watching Me - Rockwell Who's Crying Now? - Journey Woman - John Lennon

HERE WE GO.... 20. Vienna (Ultravox) 19. Don't Dream It's Over (Crowded House) 18. Send Me An Angel (Real Life) 17. If This Is It (Huey Lewis & The News) 16. Voices Carry (Til Tuesday) 15. Waiting For A Star To Fall (Boy Meets Girl) 14. The Killing Moon (Echo & The Bunnymen) 13. Self Control (Laura Brannigan) 12. Out of Touch (Hall & Oates) 11. All Through The Night (Cyndi Lauper) 10. Dead Man's Party (Oingo Boingo) 09. In A Big Country (Big Country) 08. The Perfect Kiss (New Order) 07. I Got You (Split Enz) 06. The Promise (When In Rome) 05. Running Up That Hill (Kate Bush) 04. Head Over Heels (Tears for Fears) 03. The Stroke (Billy Squier) 02. Urgent (Foreigner) 01. Never Tear Us Apart (INXS) WHEW!

As a Gen Xer, I approve of this list. It’s high school and university. All wrapped up. When in Rome. Split Enz. Big Country. And of course INXS. ❤️❤️❤️

"Never Tear Us Apart" always gives me the chills, especially with Michael Hutchence's powerful, raw vocals. It even played at his funeral in 1997, which was very fitting.

80's music STILL dominates my playlists. I love when WatchMojo does lists about 80's music.

I swear the 70s and 80s were brilliant for music 🔣

Voices Carry has always been my favorite song by 'Til Tuesday!!!

I'd put Life in a Northern Town by The Dream Academy on this list. Timeless hit

I was a tween/teenager during the 80's and that was definitely the time to be alive when it came to music. I can honestly say that 95% of my music collection is all 80's. Duran Duran, Missing Persons, Berlin, Tears For Fears, Terence Trent D'arby, Information Society, Shannon, Thomas Dolby, Erasure, Pet Shop Boys, Gene Loves Jezebel, Love and Rockets...I could go on FOR DAYS!!

In Australia Never Tear Us Apart by INXS has always been huge

Steppin' Out , 99 red Balloons, Safety Dance, Relax, Come on Eileen, Cloud Burst, West End Girls, Tainted love, Eyes without a face. This is the soundtrack of my childhood.

I'm an 80s born kid so yes the music is better. RIP Michael Hutchence.

As a Gen X, let me tell you, many of these are in regular play in the 80s soundtrack in my head

Fun fact about INXS's Never Tear Us Apart: The Australians' video was shot behind the Iron Curtain in Prague at a time when the Soviets still ruled Eastern Europe and Czechoslovakia wasn't yet free. Those soldiers in the back, and the grayness everywhere - that's not staged, that was the actual real-life backdrop of the time. This video is a historical artifact in more ways than one, testament to how the political climate of the Cold War had changed by then. It might be a love song, but the video makes it about a Europe that shouldn't and couldn't be torn apart.