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In this installment of my favorite pop hits of the 80s, some lesser-known hits by some of the decade’s biggest artists, as well as the biggest American hit of one of the best British bands of the sixties, and lots of English people in general.
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For a variety of reasons–including boredom, the Buffetlibre Rewind thing, and frustration that I don’t have the money to see George Michael this weekend–I’ve decided that now’s as good a time as any to count down my 101 favorite pop hits of the 80′s.
The rules were the same as the ones for the 90′s list I made last winter; in order for a song to qualify–and thus save me much gnashing of teeth and typing fingers about what defines a pop hit–it had to have hit the Top 40 in the US, according to Billboard magazine. This means that, among other songs, I wasn’t allowed to include Inside Outside by the Cover Girls, And She Was by Talking Heads, Games Without Frontiers by Peter Gabriel, and Hole In My Heart (All The Way To China) by Cyndi Lauper; they all narrowly missed the Top 40.
I also disqualified my favorite overwrought ballad of the decade (Whitney Houston’s All At Once) because, oddly, that song was never officially released as a single.
As with the nineties list, I’ll be breaking this up into a kajillion separate posts, so keep checking back. In the meantime, here’s songs 101-91:
