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My 80's Memories - Long Post
Excuse me while I geek out on 80's.
(I decided to see if I can remember all my favorite music in 80's - sorry for the long post)
Art of Noise's album In Visible Silence started me on my path toward EDM. The song, "Instruments of Darkness" was my favorite.
The stuff I loved in the 80's was mostly crap, but remember I was very young. 
Pat Benatar - Love is a Battlefield, We Belong
Bananarama - Venus (a cheap cover, but awesome)
Beastie Boys - Licensed to Ill album
Berlin - Take My Breath Away [remember Top Gun]
Blondie - Call Me, the Tide is High
Cutting Crew - Died in Your Arms
Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town (amazing song)
Elvis Costello - Veronica
Irene Cara - Flashdance...What a Feeling
Cure - (Practically everything) esp. Like Cockatoos
Cyndy Lauper - Drive
Def Leppard - Pyromania album
Duran Duran - (so many) - Union of the Snake, Rio, Girls on Film
Eurhythmics - Here Comes the Rain Again
Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey, Biko, Red Rain, Big Time
Fixx - Red Skies at Night
J Geils Band - Centerfold, Freeze Frame
Genesis - Mama, Home by Sea, Land of Confusion
Golden Earring - Twilight Zone (I was obsessed with this song)
Don Henley - Boys of Summer
Whitney Houston - How Will I Know (great song, other stuff too overblown)
Human League - Fascination
Living Color - Cult of Personality
Madness - Our House
MARRS - Pump up the Volume
Men at Work - Down Under
Janet Jackson - Nasty, What Have You Done for Me Lately
Michael Jackson - Thriller album
Bangles - Eternal Flame, Manic Monday
Billy Joel - Pressure
Madonna - so many songs. My fave is the haunting Live to Tell
John Cougar Mellencamp - Pink Houses, Small Town
New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle
Pet Shop Boys - everything - Actually album
Police - Synchronicity album
Prince - Nikki
REM - The One I Love, Orange Crush, Stand & much more
REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight this Feeling
Roxette - The Look
Run DMC vs. Aerosmith - Walk this Way
Salt N Pepa - Push It (oh oh oh yea)
Smiths - Louder than Bombs album (actually everything)
Squeeze - all of it (I saw them in concert...so good)
Talking Heads - (loved them so much) Once in a Lifetime
Tears for Fears - Shout
They Might Be Giants - all of their stuff
Thompson Twins - Hold me Now
Kim Wilde - Keep Me Hanging On (bad cover of Supremes song)
U2 - War album
World Party - Ship of Fools
Van Halen - Panama, Hot for Teacher, Jump
ZZ Top (oh yeah) - Legs
I must give a special mention to artists local to Philadelphia area that I loved in 80's.
Hall & Oates - <3
Hooters - They played my school before they got famous & I met them.
Fresh Prince & DJ Jazzy Jeff - Hometown heroes.
Bon Jovi - (Actually New Jersey, but near Philly)
Artists that were big in 80's, but I think their earlier stuff was better.
The Clash
Marvin Gaye (Sexual Healing was an awesome 80's song)
Bruce Springsteen
Heart
Chicago
Rolling Stones
David Bowie
Eric Clapton
Tina Turner
Diana Ross
James Brown
Rush
Chaka Khan
Fleetwood Mac
Yes
Tom Petty
Jefferson Airplane [Starship]
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