1984 …regarded by many as a golden year for pop, there were many brilliant songs from left of the dial too. Vinyl was on borrowed time as Phillips & Sony release the first CD players…My abiding memory is the trauma of seeing ‘ The NeverEnding Story’ in the cinema .Took me a month to get over the demise of Artax in the swamp! Whether your memories of the year are hazy, fresh or n/a please give us your ten favourite songs of ..1984!! * song qualifies if released as album track or single in calendar year 1. Take On Me - A -ha 2. Jump - Van Halen 3. When Doves Cry - Prince 4. How Soon Is Now - The Smiths 5. I Will Dare - The Replacements 6. The Boys Of Summer - Don Henley 7. I’m On Fire - Bruce Springsteen 8. Pearly Dewdrops’ Drops - Cocteau Twins 9. The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen 10. Bad - U2 45 mins
The Style Council Shout to the Top XTC Wake Up David Bowie Neighborhood Threat Pallas Cut and Run Marillion Fugazi Rush The Body Electric King Crimson Larks' Tongues in Aspic Part III Camel Fingertips Los Jaivas Arauco Tiene una Pena Solaris Marsbéli krónikák IV.-VI.
List no.2; Female singers Sade (feat. Sade Adu) Smooth Operator Sade (feat. Sade Adu) Hang On to Your Love Sade (feat. Sade Adu) Cherry Pie Mike Oldfield (feat. Maggie Reilly) To France Mike Oldfield (feat. Maggie Reilly) Talk About Your Life Thinking Plague (feat. Sharon Bradford) How To Clean Squid Yog Sothoth (feat. Cathy Camilleri) Fou: L' Art Noir After Dinner (feat. Haco) An Accelerating Etude After Dinner (feat. Haco) Glass Tube Paraf (feat. Pavica Mijatović) Divlja misao
8 Miles High - Husker Du Slave Girl - Lime Spiders Rock Box - Run DMC Set It Off - Strafe Upside Down - JAMC Pink Frost - Chills Eighties - Killing Joke World Destruction - Time Zone Boogie Down Bronx - Man Parish Friends - Whodini
Jump: Van Halen Magic: The Cars Dancing In The Dark: Bruce Pride: U2 Let's Go Crazy: Prince Smooth Operator: Sade Into The Groove: Madonna Nelson Mandela: The Special AKA How Soon Is Now: Smiths
A brilliant year for pop for sure perhaps the best- although for me 1982 is tops The Boys Of Summer - Don Henley Eighties - Killing Joke Never Ending Story - Limahl Don't Answer Me - Alan Parsons Project Wild Boys - Duran Duran (Feels Like) Heaven - Fiction Factory Up On The Catwalk - Simple Minds The Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen Forever Young - Alphaville Going Down To Liverpool - The Bangles
1. Borderline - Madonna 2. Missing You - John Waite 3. Jokerman - Bob Dylan 4. In My Dreams - Emmylou Harris 5. Pride (In The Name Of Love) - U2 6. Rock Box - Run DMC 7. Absolutely Sweet Marie - Jason and the Scorchers 8. Will The Wolf Survive - Los Lobos 9. Obsession - Animotion 10. Radio Ga Ga - Queen
Add assorted singles from Prince, Madonna, Springsteen, Cyndi Lauper and Tina Turner. Mix. EDIT: Almost forgot Van Halen.
When Doves Cry – Prince Will the Wolf Survive – Los Lobos My City Was Gone – Pretenders Beneath the Blue Sky – Go.Go’s Letter to Laredo – Joe Ely Los Desaparecidos – Little Steven I Might Have Been Queen – Tina Turner Androgynous – Replacements Harborcoat – R.E.M. You Can’t Get What You Want (Til You Know What You Want) – Joe Jackson
It Ain't Necessarily So - Bronski Beat Killing Moon - Echo & The Bunnymen War Song - Culture Club Invisible - Alison Moyet Down In The Subway - Soft Cell Two Tribes - Frankie Goes To Hollywood Church Not Made With Hands - Waterboys Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now - Smiths Upside Down - Jesus & Mary Chain Free Nelson Mandela - Special AKA
10. Van Halen - Jump 9. Run-D.M.C. - Rock Box 8. Hüsker Dü - Turn On the News 7. U2 - Pride (In the Name of Love) 6. The Replacements - I Will Dare 5. George Michael - Careless Whisper 4. The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? 3. Metallica - Fade to Black 2. Bruce Springsteen - My Hometown 1. Prince & The Revolution - Purple Rain
Extreme metal version: Anthrax - Metal Thrashing Mad Armored Saint - March of the Saint Bathory - War Celtic Frost - Into the Crypt of Rays Corrosion of Conformity - Tell Me Metallica - Creeping Death Mercyful Fate - A Dangerous Meeting Slayer - Chemical Warfare Venom - Rip Ride Voivod - War and Pain
Johnson's Aeroplane - INXS Jimmy Sharman's Boxers - Midnight Oil Flame Trees - Cold Chisel No Second Prize - Jimmy Barnes Rime Of The Ancient Mariner- Iron Maiden Bad - U2 Purple Rain - Prince Distant Early Warning - Rush Private Investigations (live) - Dire Straits Burning Down The House (live) - Talking Heads
I like your choices. A fine mix of obvious hits and more quirky songs. All in all , they are great songs.
best year easily for my interests, could have easily doubled the list... Echo & The Bunnymen, “The Killing Moon” R.E.M., “So. Central Rain (I’m Sorry)” - still in his mumbling phase, my favourite, they were just on the cusp of selling out The Smiths, “How Soon Is Now” The Psychedelic Furs, “The Ghost in You” Bruce Cockburn - If I Had a Rocket Launcher - my CanCon mention Killing Joke, “Eighties” Siouxsie and the Banshees, “Dazzle” Bronski Beat, “Smalltown Boy” - the local top 40 station somehow sponsored a concert for the band, it was cancelled due to a morals situation back home, the station said the lead singer had a cold.... indeed... Depeche Mode, “Master and Servant” The Style Council, “My Ever Changing Moods” - either speed
Trapped Under Ice - Metallica A Fine Fine Day - Tony Carey Mystery - Dio Self-Control - Laura Branigan Perfect Strangers - Deep Purple All We Are - Kim Mitchell Big City Nights - Scorpions Red Sector A - Rush I'll Wait - Van Halen Pride (In The Name of Love) - U2
I started to prepare this list after doing the one for 1983. 27 was as far as I was able to trim this 1984 list down. I really need to add another 150 or so entries. It was not easy leaving track offs from "Love At First Sting". Once we get to 1986 it will be easy for me to get close to "in ten songs" range. Big City Nights - Scorpions - SCORPS RULE! As Soon As The Good Times Roll - Scorpions - SCORPS RULE! Crossfire - Scorpions - SCORPS RULE! Coming Home - Scorpions - SCORPS RULE! Rock You Like A Hurricane - Scorpions - SCORPS RULE! No Surrender - Bruce Springsteen I'm Going Down - Bruce Springsteen Downbound Train - Bruce Springsteen Distant Early Warning - Rush The Warrior - Scandal Going West - Tangerine Dream Mad Cap Story - Tangerine Dream Lost In The Dunes - Tangerine Dream One Night Love Affair - Don't want this site getting served a C&D like All-Music, so will not mention the Artists name. Run To You - Don't want this site getting served a C&D like All-Music, so will not mention the Artists name. Heaven - Don't want this site getting served a C&D like All-Music, so will not mention the Artists name. Parade - Andy Summers & Robert Fripp Panama - Van Halen Holding Out For A Hero - Bonnie Tyler Nowhere Fast - Fire Inc Tonight Is What It Means To Be Young - Fire Inc Don't Answer Me - Alan Parsons Project Cruel Summer - Bananarama I'm Free (Heaven Helps The Man) - Kenny Loggins Three Of A Perfect Pair - King Crimson Rye or the Kaiser - Weird Al Yankovic King of Suede - Weird Al Yankovic - My Mom was big fan of this parody song. I recall as child way back in those pre-internet days asking her what gaberdine was, I still recall her saying then writing down for me "a smooth twilled fabric normally used to make pants" I do miss her so...
Sonic Youth - Death Valley '69 Sade - Smooth Operator The Go-Betweens - Bachelor Kisses This Mortal Coil - Song to the Siren Hüsker Dü - Celebrated Summer Alphaville - Forever Young R.E.M. - (Don't Go Back To) Rockville Mike Oldfield - To France Swans - Cop Hoodoo Gurus - I Want You Back The Style Council - The Paris Match
1984 was an odd year - lot of traditional music and instrumentation started to creep back in, which was about to be ruined by Aceeed a few years later. No More Lonely Nights - P Macca Radio GaGa - Queen I, I, I, I, I, I, Should Have Known Better - Jim Diamond (my little joke there) Bird of Paradise - Snowy White Break My Stride - Matthew Wilder The Killing Moon - Echo and his Bunnymen (another litle joke) Against All Odds - Phil Collins Blue Jean - Bowie Here Comes the Rain Again - Eurythmics Jump - Van and his Halens
My Ever Changing Moods - Style Council Shout To The Top - Style Council Indian summer Sky - U2 Pride (In The Name Of Love) - U2 The Heat Is On - Glenn Frey Miss Me Blind - Culture Club Don't Answer Me - Alan Parsons Project Smooth Operator - Sade Take On Me - Aha What's Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner
1. The Pretenders - "My City Was Gone" (first album appearance) 2. John Lennon - "Nobody Told Me" (posthumous release) 3. Rockwell - "Somebody's Watching Me" (with Michael Jackson) 4. Talk Talk - "It's My Life" (either the single or extended remix) 5. Prince - "Let's Go Crazy" (prefer its 12" version from the film) 6. Alphaville - "Forever Young" (could maybe add this to that list of 80's synth-pop albums per another thread) 7. Depeche Mode - "People Are People" (pretty much anything from Some Great Reward works too) 8. Iron Maiden - "Rime of the Ancient Mariner" (an epic, particularly around the climactic finish) 9. Scorpions - "Still Loving You" (conversely, those opening chords and vocals here consistently draw me in) 10. Band Aid - "Do They Know It's Christmas?" (some dodgy lyrics, but I still enjoy this during the holiday season)
Roger Daltrey - Parting Should Be Painless Camel - Long Goodbyes Pallas - Cut and Run Marillion - Cinderella Search (bonus track) Mike Oldfield - To France Kinks - Do it Again King Crimson - Sleepless (long version) Poco - This Old Flame Steppenwolf - Give Me News I Can Use John Lennon - Woman Keats - Turn Your Heart Around Deep Purple - Wasted Sunsets Jade Warrior - Caribbean Wave Siouxsie and the Banshees - Swimming Horses Francis Monkman – Tokyo Traffic Frank Zappa - Whipping Post Pendragon - Fly High Fall Far Pentangle - Street Song Aha - Take Me On Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
