Songs That Sound Like They Were Made <i>For</i> 80's Films

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What qualities are it that make a song sound like it was in an 80's film? Like when you hear it you know it was in one. For example, the greatest song ever "St Elmo's Fire" by John Parr.

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Stretching it, Scorpions' "Wind of Change". Do you just have to come from the 80's? No that's not it, because lot's of other songs from 80's don't have 'the feel'.

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:16 (twenty-three years ago)

Wilson Phillips "Hold On" - on point!

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:18 (twenty-three years ago)

Boy Meets Girl - "Waiting For A Star to Fall" - amazing!

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:19 (twenty-three years ago)

(Heart - "Alone"). I'm probably just remembering them from 80's films. But they all have a unifying sound.

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:20 (twenty-three years ago)

OMG, skimming my gf's flatmates playlist and I have found the J!O!Y that is R, E, O Speedwagon! Add them straight to the list. These guys are a!m!a!z!i!n!g - "Keep on Loving You" - he's running across the city's square and awakes a herd of pidgeons, skims past a suicide of goths on the corner of the street, past the bastard of nings who stare him down... Fade... and he's at her bedside, *squall guitar*, he's leaning over and he's cusped her behind the neck and thinking about kissing her *cloudburst chorus*: the kiss!

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

Can you believe they're ending this film on the beach to "Can't Fight This Feeling", pirouetting in the sand, as a man passes by with his dog, cocks them a snook and proceeds on his way as the happy couple enthralled in each other's eyes? I can, it's the 80's!

― Cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:26 (twenty-three years ago)

Psychedelic Furs' "Pretty In Pink" and "If You Leave" by OMD. Oh and "Good Enough" by Cyndi Lauper. (It's all about The Goonies, folks.)

― Jeanne Fury (Jeanne Fury), Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:31 (twenty-three years ago)

You forgot Simple Minds : Don't You Forget About Me to complete the John Hughes theme.

― Carey (Carey), Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:36 (twenty-three years ago)

blah blah berlin "take my breath away" blah blah

― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:38 (twenty-three years ago)

Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now = ownz this thread. All songs that sound like they were recorded for '80's films are good songs. I will deny the existence of exceptions to this rule, so don't even go there.

― jel -- (jel), Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:43 (twenty-three years ago)

everything by My Favorite sounds like it should have been in a cult 80s film... or perhaps Buffy

― electric sound of jim (electricsound), Sunday, 23 March 2003 22:51 (twenty-three years ago)

Pavement - Passat Dream
Blur - Trouble In The Message Centre.

― dog latin (dog latin), Sunday, 23 March 2003 23:07 (twenty-three years ago)

Tom Petty - The Waiting

― Famous Athlete, Sunday, 23 March 2003 23:15 (twenty-three years ago)

Daft Punk - "Digital Love"

― Jay Vee (Manon_70), Monday, 24 March 2003 02:34 (twenty-three years ago)

"I Just Died in Your Arms Tonight"

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Monday, 24 March 2003 02:40 (twenty-three years ago)

Cheap Trick: "The Flame"

― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 24 March 2003 10:45 (twenty-three years ago)

Nothing is going to stop us now WAS in an 80s film. Mannequinn.

― Samson, Monday, 24 March 2003 10:47 (twenty-three years ago)

Come on people!

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 24 March 2003 12:04 (twenty-three years ago)

Kate Bush - Cloudbusting.

― g--ff c-nn-n (gcannon), Monday, 24 March 2003 14:19 (twenty-three years ago)

That one O-Town power ballad -- complete with crap guitar ending!

Duran Duran's "Ordinary World"

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 March 2003 15:03 (twenty-three years ago)

"i go crazy" by flesh for lulu, used to swoony effect in some kind of wonderful. and how perfect does "i melt with you" sound welling up triumphantly at the end of valley girl as nicholas cage and deborah foreman zoom off in to the sheraton in their hijacked limo?

― lauren (laurenp), Monday, 24 March 2003 15:24 (twenty-three years ago)

"evening news" by french frith kaiser thompson sounds like some shitty incidental stewart copeland offa that rubbish film w/ james belushi from before when he hit the equaliser musical goldmine

― bob snoom, Monday, 24 March 2003 15:29 (twenty-three years ago)

Everything I've ever heard by the Goo Goo Dolls.
Marvelous 3

― j.lu (j.lu), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 04:32 (twenty-three years ago)

Trans Am when they get all Harold Faltermeyer.

― Mark (MarkR), Tuesday, 25 March 2003 04:36 (twenty-three years ago)

Icehouse - Crazy

― willem (willem), Thursday, 27 March 2003 11:49 (twenty-three years ago)

three months pass...

More more!

― Cozen (Cozen), Friday, 27 June 2003 20:10 (twenty-three years ago)

this is a total long-shot, but andrew dick (not the howard stern fellow), who used to be in a philly band called ralphus, made the most amazing songs on a sequencer; they sounded exactly like incidental music from sixteen candles.

― tony bleach, Friday, 27 June 2003 20:20 (twenty-three years ago)

Daft Punk - "Short Circuit" belongs in a film like Wild Style

― Evan (Evan), Friday, 27 June 2003 20:40 (twenty-three years ago)

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Songs That Sound Like They Were Made For 80's Films