20 Best Songs of the 80s – #20
Over the next four weeks I’ll count down my twenty favorite songs of my most formative decade, the 1980s. I’ll do five per week, breaking on the weekends for the usual Motown classics.
First, allow me to lay out some ground rules. These songs are not necessarily my favorite songs released in the 80s… they are my favorite 80s songs. Yes, there is a difference. Plenty of my favorite artists released music in the 80s, so this list could easily consist of tunes by Elvis Costello, R.E.M., Lyle Lovett, Talking Heads and so on. That’s not what I’m after here. I’m looking for songs that typify the musical style of the 80s and, more important, trigger my memories of that era.
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