80s and Motown

[DJWilson]

I'm currently going through my motown and 80s for tomorrow night's 40th birthday which got me thinking, what 80s and motown seem to be a hit for the evening when your out gigging?

Cheers.

[Digital Jack]

Almost anything in the Motown bracket , I particularly have fond memories for Steve Walsh's talky version of I Found Lovin'.
I'm so glad I grew up with 80's music , my chart favourites however are of a particular taste.
Adam & the Ants , Pet Shop Boys , Queen , U2 , Phil Collins , I could go on and on.
If you need particular advice give this post a bump as I'm sure there's lots of advice to be had from others on here.

Oh , do you live anywhere near Scrapsgate Road ?

[Digital Jack]

Here are a few to choose from.
Some are classics , some are great tracks but they've been forgotten about.


Video Killed the Radio Star - The Buggles
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Celebration - Kool & the Gang
Breaks, Pt. 1 - Kurtis Blow
Call Me - Blondie
Keep on Loving You - REO Speedwagon
Turning Japanese - The Vapors
Lost in Love - Air Supply
9 to 5 - Dolly Parton
Sailing - Christopher Cross
Just the Two of Us - Grover Washington, Jr.
Cars - Gary Numan
Dancing With Myself - Billy Idol
Working for the Weekend - Loverboy
Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club
Centerfold - Centerfold
Super Freak, Pt. 1 - Rick James
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Time - The Alan Parsons Project
Gloria - Laura Branigan
Maneater - Daryl Hall
Da Da Da (I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha) - Trio
You Dropped a Bomb on Me - The Gap Band
Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran
Look of Love, Pt. 1 - ABC
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Rock This Town - Stray Cats
Lies - Thompson Twins
Words - Missing Persons
Don't You Want Me - Human League
Love Plus One - Haircut 100
Down Under - Men at Work
Steppin' Out - Joe Jackson
I Want Candy - Bow Wow Wow
Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Mickey - Toni Basil
Twilight Zone - Golden Earring
Key Largo - Bertie Higgins
Pac-Man Fever - Buckner & Garcia
Total Eclipse of the Heart - Bonnie Tyler
Africa - Toto
Goodbye to You - Scandal
Puttin' on the Ritz - Taco
Jeopardy - Greg Kihn Band
She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby
Electric Avenue - Eddy Grant
Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) - Eurythmics
Our House - Madness
Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
Talking in Your Sleep - The Romantics
Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling
Always Something There to Remind Me - Naked Eyes
In a Big Country - Big Country
One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx
Der Kommisar - After the Fire
Suddenly Last Summer - The Motels
Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
Let's Go to Bed - The Cure
Too Shy - Kajagoogoo
Maniac - Michael Sembello
Sister Christian - Night Ranger
Cum on Feel the Noize - Quiet Riot
Owner of a Lonely Heart - Yes
Mr. Roboto - Styx
I'm So Excited - The Pointer Sisters
Back on the Chain Gang - The Pretenders
I Want to Know What Love Is - Foreigner
Sunglasses at Night - Corey Hart
Missing You - John Waite
99 Luftballons - Nena
Tenderness - General Public
They Don't Know - Tracey Ullman
Heaven - Bryan Adams
White Horse - Laid Back
Let the Music Play - Shannon
Let's Hear It for the Boy - Deniece Williams
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker, Jr.
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
We're Not Gonna Take It - Twisted Sister
Rock You Like a Hurricane - Scorpions
Glamorous Life - Sheila E.
Obsession - Animotion
Shout - Tears for Fears
Take on Me - a-ha
Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds
Walking on Sunshine - Katrina & the Waves
Voices Carry - Til Tuesday
You Spin Me Round (Like a Record) - Dead or Alive
Life in a Northern Town - The Dream Academy
Kyrie - Mr. Mister
Every Time You Go Away - Paul Young
We Built This City - Starship
St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion) - John Parr
Addicted to Love - Robert Palmer
Axel F - Harold Faltermeyer
Rhythm of the Night - DeBarge
You Look Marvelous - Billy Crystal
Heartbeat - Don Johnson
Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung
Venus - Bananarama
Walk Like an Egyptian - The Bangles
Paranoimia - The Art of Noise
If You Leave - Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark
Keep Your Hands to Yourself - The Georgia Satellites
What You Need - INXS
Walk This Way - Run-D.M.C.
Rumors - Timex Social Club
Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House
Holding Back the Years - Simply Red
I'll Be Loving You (Forever) - New Kids on the Block
Tuff Enuff - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Since You've Been Gone - The Outfield
Only in My Dreams - Debbie Gibson
Never Gonna Give You Up - Rick Astley
Bamba - Los Lobos
Wild, Wild West - Escape Club
Don't Worry, Be Happy - Bobby McFerrin
Right Here Waiting - Richard Marx
Roam - The B-52's

[Corabar Entertainment]

Some help from the top 10 threads:-

http://www.forum.mobilediscodirectory.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4344&highlight=motown
http://www.forum.mobilediscodirectory.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5828
http://www.forum.mobilediscodirectory.co.uk/showthread.php?t=20266

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

Here are a few to choose from.
Some are classics , some are great tracks but they've been forgotten about.



Lost in Love - Air Supply
Working for the Weekend - Loverboy
Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club
Time - The Alan Parsons Project
You Dropped a Bomb on Me - The Gap Band
Words - Missing Persons
Twilight Zone - Golden Earring
Key Largo - Bertie Higgins
Pac-Man Fever - Buckner & Garcia
Goodbye to You - Scandal
Puttin' on the Ritz - Taco
Talking in Your Sleep - The Romantics
Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling
Always Something There to Remind Me - Naked Eyes
One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx
Der Kommisar - After the Fire
Suddenly Last Summer - The Motels
Sister Christian - Night Ranger
Sunglasses at Night - Corey Hart
Tenderness - General Public
White Horse - Laid Back
Rock You Like a Hurricane - Scorpions
Voices Carry - Til Tuesday
You Look Marvelous - Billy Crystal
Keep Your Hands to Yourself - The Georgia Satellites
Tuff Enuff - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Since You've Been Gone - The Outfield
Wild, Wild West - Escape Club


Classics?

I've never heard these songs and I have a very good knowledge of the 1980s!

Copied and pasted you mean? ;)

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

Copied and pasted you mean? ;)

From here...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_Omigod!_The_80s_Pop_Culture_Box_(Totally)

[Silver]

Classics?

I've never heard these songs and I have a very good knowledge of the 1980s!

Copied and pasted you mean? ;)

I have to say, if I was doing an 80's night, from that list I would play ................................Not one of them, not a single solitary one!

FAO Digital Jack, can I ask when do you play them?

[DJWilson]

Oh , do you live anywhere near Scrapsgate Road ?

About 5 mins away.

Also, thanks for the replies people :)

[Excalibur]

Here are a few to choose from.
Some are classics , some are great tracks but they've been forgotten about.








Classics?

I've never heard these songs and I have a very good knowledge of the 1980s!
Working for the Weekend - Loverboy
Genius of Love - Tom Tom Club
Words - Missing Persons
Twilight Zone - Golden Earring
Goodbye to You - Scandal
Talking in Your Sleep - The Romantics
Always Something There to Remind Me - Naked Eyes
One Thing Leads to Another - The Fixx
Suddenly Last Summer - The Motels
Sister Christian - Night Ranger
Tenderness - General Public
White Horse - Laid Back
Rock You Like a Hurricane - Scorpions
Voices Carry - Til Tuesday
You Look Marvelous - Billy Crystal
Keep Your Hands to Yourself - The Georgia Satellites
Tuff Enuff - The Fabulous Thunderbirds
Since You've Been Gone - The Outfield
Wild, Wild West - Escape Club



Copied and pasted you mean? ;)




I can do a handful more,


Lost in Love - Air Supply
Time - The Alan Parsons Project
You Dropped a Bomb on Me - The Gap Band
Key Largo - Bertie Higgins
Pac-Man Fever - Buckner & Garcia
Puttin' on the Ritz - Taco
Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling
Der Kommisar - After the Fire
Sunglasses at Night - Corey Hart


but there are very very few in the entire list I would play regularly. Very few.

[funkymook]

FAO Digital Jack, can I ask when do you play them?

In the van I would guess!

[Silver]

In the van I would guess!

And without a roadie I would wager!

[ian8limelight]

Almost anything in the Motown bracket , I particularly have fond memories for Steve Walsh's talky version of I Found Lovin'.I'm so glad I grew up with 80's music , my chart favourites however are of a particular taste.
Adam & the Ants , Pet Shop Boys , Queen , U2 , Phil Collins , I could go on and on.
If you need particular advice give this post a bump as I'm sure there's lots of advice to be had from others on here.

Oh , do you live anywhere near Scrapsgate Road ?

Classic track :cool: :cool:

[Digital Jack]

Classics?

I've never heard these songs and I have a very good knowledge of the 1980s!

Copied and pasted you mean? ;)

Here we go again , another exercise in slating someone for their opinion..

Do you lot have a rigid play list that you stick to ?

I wont go into the reasons I play certain tracks as that will not meet with the approval of some of you anyway.

Most of those track are from a compilation that are available on an import , which is nice as it keeps a large chunk of music in one place .It comes in handy if you run from CD.




Not copied and pasted at all , well yes , but from a folder (on my desktop) that I'm currently working on.
What ones have you not heard then , do you need your ears syringed :confused:
I never said they were all classics did I , some are really good but have been forgotten about due to more popular stuff that stands out more effectively.

Obviously your knowledge of the 80's differs from mine , we can't all be the same as each other , no ??? yes ??? maybe ???


From here...http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Like_Omigod!_The_80s_Pop_Culture_Box_(Totally)

I never even considered wikipedia when the original request for advice came up.

The list I have is for a collection I own , this is the same collection Amazon.com: Like, Omigod! The '80s Pop Culture Box (Totally): Various Artists: Music (http://www.amazon.com/Like-Omigod-80s-Culture-Totally/dp/B000068ZVP) .

Some of the tracks on this are naff , most of them are good though.
If you want to listen to certain songs in a van then do it , do you not think the stuff you listen to privately can not be played in a party atmosphere ?

Some folk have no imagination at all.


In the van I would guess!


So what do you play on an 80's night when the time isn't right for Stock, Aitken & Waterman ?
I didn't say 'this is my playlist' , I was responding to a request for information which is more than anyone else on here has bothered to do.

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

Here we go again , another exercise in slating someone for their opinion..



I am not slating. That list is obviously copied and pasted and is useless as a lot of the songs on there are unknown and unplayable.




Some folk have no imagination at all.

Especially people who just copy and paste random tracks without any real thought.

There are thousands of tracks that are fairly well known and not played very often.



What ones have you not heard then , do you need your ears syringed :confused:


Ooh, carry on being rude my friend.

[Shakermaker Promotions]

To be honest, I know most of them but going over the whole list, I'd probably play about 60% of them.

[funkymook]

I'm currently going through my motown and 80s for tomorrow night's 40th birthday which got me thinking, what 80s and motown seem to be a hit for the evening when your out gigging?

Cheers.

Jack - did you read the OP?

Are you honestly saying that is a hit playlist from a recent 80's gig you've done?

To be honest it's so far off the mark to be 'off topic' and only going to confuse someone asking for 80's hits suitable for a regular party.

By all means open your own thread about 80's tunes with that list - I'm sure the various 80's experts on here would be more than happy to contribute with their own obscure and less well known but good tunes - but it really has no place on this thread,

[Solitaire Events Ltd]

I can do a handful more,


Lost in Love - Air Supply
Time - The Alan Parsons Project
You Dropped a Bomb on Me - The Gap Band
Key Largo - Bertie Higgins
Pac-Man Fever - Buckner & Garcia
Puttin' on the Ritz - Taco
Major Tom (Coming Home) - Peter Schilling
Der Kommisar - After the Fire
Sunglasses at Night - Corey Hart




I thought maybe my knowledge was lacking so I checked the Guinness Hit singles and only two of those songs charted. one in 1983 at number 47 and one at number 42 in 1984. ;)

[Mark Wild]

I thought maybe my knowledge was lacking so I checked the Guinness Hit singles and only two of those songs charted. one in 1983 at number 47 and one at number 42 in 1984. ;)

Surely the one in 83 was this floor filler?

YouTube - ‪Taco - Puttin on the Ritz (1983)‬‏

[Shippers]

Its probably been discussed on here before, but the latest Mastermix motown Grandmaster mix is an absolute crowd pleaser!

[funkymook]

Surely the one in 83 was this floor filler?


I watched that all the way through, all 4 minutes 20 seconds of it, just to see where it could possibly go after the first 2 minutes! Amazing!