In my effort to become the Disney/Apple/Microsoft of lost classics threads, I've decided to resurrect this thread after over a year and a half of inactivity and post to it on a weekly basis. I went through the previous posts and came up with a list of all the songs spotlighted here before (even ones that were technically not 80s songs, and ones that actually hit the Top 40 in Billboard). The asterisks next to a song's title are for songs that are either personal favorites or ones that I'm somewhat familiar with. I plan to post just one song a week for now, but may increase it to two a week like I do for the 1990s and 2000s threads. My first post will be this coming Sunday, and unlike some of the previous posts in this thread, my choices will not come from the same year(s) chosen for each week's AT40 replays.
Abba - "One of Us"
Paula Abdul - "Knocked Out"*
The Alarm - "Rain in the Summertime"*
Alisha - "Baby Talk"*
Gregg Allman Band - "I'm No Angel"*
Herb Alpert - "Keep Your Eye on Me"
Alphaville - "Big in Japan"*
Ambrosia - "Outside"
The Animals - "The Night"
Animotion - "Calling It Love"
April Wine - "Enough Is Enough"
April Wine - "Sign of the Gypsy Queen"*
The Art of Noise - "Beat Box"
The Art of Noise - "Close (to the Edit)"*
The Art of Noise featuring Duane Eddy - "Peter Gunn"*
Asia - "Go"
Jon Astley - "Jane's Getting Serious"*
Axe - "Now or Never"
The Babys - "Midnight Rendezvous"
The Babys - "Turn and Walk Away"
Badfinger - "Hold On"
Russ Ballard - "On the Rebound"
Bananarama - "Love in the First Degree"*
Bar-Kays - "Freak Show on the Dance Floor"
Beastie Boys - "Brass Monkey"*
Jeff Beck and Rod Stewart - "People Get Ready"
Bee Gees - "Living Eyes"
Bee Gees - "You Win Again"*
Pat Benatar - "You Better Run"*
The B-52's - "Legal Tender"
The B-52's - "Rock Lobster"*
Big Country - "Fields of Fire"
Big Pig - "Breakaway"
Billy Satellite - "I Wanna Go Back"
Stephen Bishop - "Animal House"*
Blackfoot - "Fly Away"
Bon Jovi - "In and Out of Love"*
Bon Jovi - "She Don't Know Me"
David Bowie - "Absolute Beginners"
David Bowie - "Cat People (Putting Out Fire)"*
David Bowie - "Tonight"
David Bowie - "Without You"
Bow Wow Wow - "I Want Candy"*
Boy Meets Girl - "Bring Down the Moon"
Laura Branigan - "I Found Someone"*
Breakfast Club - "Kiss and Tell"
Bronski Beat - "Smalltown Boy"*
Bobby Brown - "Girlfriend"
Jackson Browne - "For a Rocker"
Jackson Browne - "In the Shape of a Heart"
Linsdey Buckingham - "Holiday Road"*
Buckingham Nicks - "Frozen Love"
George Burns - "I Wish I Was Eighteen Again"*
Glen Burtnick - "Follow You"
Jim Capaldi - "Living on the Edge"
Kim Carnes - "Cry Like a Baby"
Paul Carrack - "When You Walk in the Room"
Peter Cetera - "Livin' in the Limelight"
Cheap Trick - "If You Want My Love"*
Cheap Trick - "She's Tight"
Cheap Trick - "Stop This Game"
Cheap Trick - "Tonight It's You"*
Cherrelle - "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On"*
The Clash - "Should I Stay or Should I Go?"*
Merry Clayton - "Yes"
Club House - "Do It Again/Billie Jean"
Bruce Cockburn - "If I Had a Rocket Launcher"*
Commodores - "Only You"
Communards - "Never Can Say Goodbye"
Julian Cope - "World Shut Your Mouth"*
Elvis Costello and the Attractions - "The Only Flame in Town"
Josie Cotton - "Jimmy Loves Maryann"
Crazy Joe and the Variable Speed Band - "Eugene"
Crowded House - "Better Be Home Soon"
Billy Crystal - "You Look Marvelous"*
The Cure - "Hot Hot Hot!!!"*
The Cure - "Why Can't I Be You?"*
E.G. Daily - "Say It, Say It"*
Roger Daltrey - "After the Fire"
Michael Damian - "She Did It"
Martha Davis - "Don't Tell Me the Time"
Dayton - "Hot Fun in the Summertime"
Dazz Band - "Joystick"
DeBarge - "Love Me in a Special Way"
El DeBarge with DeBarge - "You Wear It Well"*
Depeche Mode - "Strangelove"*
Devo - "Working in the Coal Mine"*
Dino - "24/7"
Dire Straits - "Skateaway"
The Dirt Band - "Fire in the Sky"
Diving for Pearls - "Gimme Your Good Lovin'"
Doctor and the Medics - "Spirit in the Sky"*
Dr. Hook - "Loveline"
Dokken - "In My Dreams"*
Placido Domingo and John Denver - "Perhaps Love"
The Doobie Brothers - "Keep This Train A-Rollin'"
The Doors - "Gloria"
Earth, Wind and Fire - "System of Survival"
Sheena Easton - "Jimmy Mack"
Dave Edmunds - "Almost Saturday Night"
Dave Edmunds - "High School Nights"
Walter Egan - "Fool Moon Fire"
Electric Light Orchestra - "Calling America"
Electric Light Orchestra - "Rock 'n' Roll Is King"*
Electric Light Orchestra - "Stranger"
Emerson, Lake and Powell - "Touch and Go"
Eurythmics - "Sexcrime (Nineteen Eighty-Four)"*
Eurythmics - "You Have Placed a Chill in My Heart"
The Everly Brothers - "On the Wings of a Nightingale"
Exposé - "Point of No Return" (1984 version)
The Fabulous Thunderbirds - "Stand Back"
The Fabulous Thunderbirds - "Wrap It Up"*
Agnetha Fältskog and Peter Cetera - "I Wasn't the One (Who Said Goodbye)"
Don Felder - "Heavy Metal (Takin' a Ride)"*
Felony - "The Fanatic"
Fine Young Cannibals - "Johnny Come Home"
Firefall - "Always"
The Firm - "All the Kings Horses"
The Fixx - "Driven Out"
The Fixx - "Stand or Fall"*
Fleetwood Mac - "As Long as You Follow"
Dan Fogelberg - "Believe in Me"
Dan Fogelberg - "Go Down Easy"
Dan Fogelberg - "She Don't Look Back"
John Fogerty - "Eye of the Zombie"
Foreigner - "Heart Turns to Stone"
Peter Frampton - "Lying"
Aretha Franklin and George Benson - "Love All the Hurt Away"
Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston - "It Isn't, It Wasn't, It Ain't Never Gonna Be"*
Peter Gabriel - "Games Without Frontiers"*
Peter Gabriel/Kate Bush - "Don't Give Up"*
The Gap Band - "Outstanding"*
Gary O' - "Pay You Back with Interest"
J. Geils Band - "Land of a Thousand Dances"
Genesis - "Illegal Alien"*
Genesis - "Mama"*
Mickey Gilley - "You Don't Know Me"
Glass Moon - "On a Carousel"
Go-Go's - "Get Up and Go"
Golden Earring - "The Devil Made Me Do It"
Robert Gordon - "Someday, Someway"
Go West - "Call Me"*
Go West - "We Close Our Eyes"*
GQ - "Sitting in the Park"
Grateful Dead - "Alabama Getaway"*
Great White - "Rock Me"*
Great White - "Save Your Love"
Gwen Guthrie - "Ain't Nothin' Goin' On But the Rent"
Sammy Hagar - "Eagles Fly"
Sammy Hagar - "I'll Fall in Love Again"
Sammy Hagar - "Never Give Up"
Sammy Hagar - "Piece of My Heart"
Haircut One Hundred - "Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl)"*
Daryl Hall - "Someone Like You"
The John Hall Band - "Crazy (Keep on Falling)"
Herbie Hancock - "Rockit"*
Paul Hardcastle - "Rain Forest"
Debbie Harry - "French Kissin"
Dan Hartman - "It Hurts to Be in Love"
Hawks - "Right Away"
Robert Hazard - "Escalator of Life"*
Heart - "I Want You So Bad"
Don Henley - "Johnny Can't Read"
Dan Hill - "Never Thought (That I Could Love)"
Roger Hodgson - "Had a Dream (Sleeping with the Enemy)"
Rupert Holmes - "I Don't Need You"
Honeymoon Suite - "Love Changes Everything"
Honeymoon Suite - "What Does It Take"
House of Lords - "I Wanna Be Loved"
Humble Pie - "Fool for a Pretty Face (Hurt By Love)"
Icehouse - "We Can Get Together"
Billy Idol - "Catch My Fall"
Billy Idol - "Rebel Yell"*
The Inmates - "Dirty Water"
Inner City - "Good Life"
The Invisible Man's Band - "All Night Thing"
INXS - "Don't Change"*
INXS - "I Send a Message"
INXS - "Original Sin"*
INXS and Jimmy Barnes - "Good Times"*
Mick Jagger - "Throwaway"
Rick James featuring Smokey Robinson - "Ebony Eyes"
Al Jarreau - "After All"
Jefferson Starship - "Stranger"
Garland Jeffreys - "96 Tears"
Billy Joel - "Goodnight Saigon"*
Billy Joel - "Say Goodbye to Hollywood" (live)*
Elton John - "Heartache All Over the World"
Journey - "Too Late"
Judas Priest - "You've Got Another Thing Comin'"*
Kenny G (with Smokey Robinson) - "We've Saved the Best for Last"
Nik Kershaw - "Wouldn't It Be Good"*
Chaka Khan - "Got to Be There"
Greg Kihn Band - "Happy Man"
Tom Kimmel - "That's Freedom"
King - "Love and Pride"
Carole King - "One to One"
The Kings - "This Beat Goes On/Switchin' to Glide"*
The Kinks - "Destroyer"*
The Kinks - "Do It Again"
Kiss - "Crazy Crazy Nights"
Kiss - "Let's Put the X in Sex"*
Kiss - "Lick It Up"*
Jean Knight - "My Toot Toot"
Krokus - "School's Out"
Greg Lake - "Let Me Love You Once"
John Lennon - "I'm Stepping Out"
Level 42 - "Hot Water"
Huey Lewis and the News - "Give Me the Keys (And I'll Drive You Crazy)"
Huey Lewis and the News - "Workin' for a Livin'"*
Lisa Lisa and Cult Jam with Full Force - "Can You Feel the Beat"*
Little Richard - "Great Gosh A'Mighty! (It's a Matter of Time)"
Little River Band - "Playing to Win"
Kenny Loggins - "Playing with the Boys"*
Los Lobos - "Will the Wolf Survive?"
Nick Lowe and His Cowboy Outfit - "I Knew the Bride (When She Use to Rock and Roll)"
Jeff Lynne - "Video!"
Ralph MacDonald (with Bill Withers) - "In the Name of Love"
Melissa Manchester and Peabo Bryson - "Lovers After All"
Teena Marie - "Square Biz"
Mary Jane Girls - "All Night Long"*
Maze featuring Frankie Beverly - "Back in Stride"
Paul McCartney - "Stranglehold"
Bill Medley - "Don't Know Much"
John Cougar Mellencamp - "Rooty Toot Toot"
Men at Work - "Be Good Johnny"
Freddie Mercury - "I Was Born to Love You"
Freddie Mercury - "Love Kills"
Bette Midler - "All I Need to Know"
Midnight Oil - "The Dead Heart"
Midnight Star - "Midas Touch"
Midnight Star - "No Parking (On the Dance Floor)"
Steve Miller Band - "I Want to Make the World Turn Around"
Ronnie Milsap - "Don't You Know How Much I Love You"
Kylie Minogue - "It's No Secret"*
Missing Persons - "Words"*
Molly Hatchet - "Flirtin' with Disaster"*
Eddie Money - "Running Back"
Eddie Money - "Shakin'"*
The Monkees - "Heart and Soul"
The Moody Blues - "Blue World"
The Moody Blues - "The Other Side of Life"
Meli'sa Morgan - "Do Me Baby"
The Motels - "Take the L."*
Mötley Crüe - "Home Sweet Home"*
Musical Youth - "She's Trouble"
Graham Nash - "Innocent Eyes"
New Edition - "Candy Girl"*
New Edition - "Can You Stand the Rain"
Randy Newman - "It's Money That Matters"*
Randy Newman and Paul Simon - "The Blues"
New Order - "Blue Monday"*
New Order - "Blue Monday 1988"*
Olivia Newton-John - "Landslide"
Night Ranger - "The Secret of My Success"*
Night Ranger - "Sing Me Away"
Night Ranger - "(You Can Still) Rock in America"*
The Nylons - "Happy Together"
Off Broadway USA - "Stay in Time"
Oingo Boingo - "Weird Science"*
One Way - "Cutie Pie"
Yoko Ono - "Walking on Thin Ice"*
Roy Orbison and Emmylou Harris - "That Lovin' You Feelin' Again"
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - "Secret"*
Orleans - "Forever"
Marie Osmond with Paul Davis - "You're Still New to Me"
David Pack - "Prove Me Wrong"
Alan Parsons Project - "Psychobabble"
Dolly Parton - "But You Know I Love You"
Dolly Parton - "I Will Always Love You"*
Henry Paul Band - "Keeping Our Love Alive"
Teddy Pendergrass - "Love T.K.O."*
Teddy Pendergrass and Whitney Houston - "Hold Me"
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "Make It Better (Forget About Me)"
Pink Floyd - "Learning to Fly"*
Poco - "Midnight Rain"
The Police - "Secret Journey"*
Gary Portnoy - "Where Everybody Knows Your Name"*
The Pretenders - "Stop Your Sobbing"*
The Pretenders - "Thin Line Between Love and Hate"*
Prince - "Hot Thing"
The Psychedelic Furs - "The Ghost in You"*
Quarterflash - "Night Shift"
Queen - "Calling All Girls"
Queen - "I Want to Break Free"*
Queen - "A Kind of Magic"
Quiet Riot - "Mama Weer All Crazee Now"*
Rainbow - "Street of Dreams"
Bonnie Raitt - "Me and the Boys"
Ratt - "Dance"
Chris Rea - "Let's Dance"
The Reddings - "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay"
Red Rider - "White Hot"
R.E.M. - "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)"*
R.E.M. - "Radio Free Europe"*
The Replacements - "Alex Chilton"*
Lionel Richie with Alabama - "Deep River Woman"
Robey - "One Night in Bangkok"*
Smokey Robinson - "What's Too Much"
Rockpile - "Teacher Teacher"*
The Rolling Stones - "She Was Hot"*
Diana Ross - "Chain Reaction"
Diana Ross - "Work That Body"
Rossington Collins Band - "Don't Misunderstand Me"
Roxanne - "Play That Funky Music"
Rush - "The Big Money"
Rush - "The Spirit of Radio"*
Rush - "Tom Sawyer"*
Sade - "Your Love Is King"*
Santana - "The Sensitive Kind"
Scandal - "Love's Got a Line on You"*
Scandal featuring Patty Smyth - "Beat of a Heart"
Scorpions - "No One Like You"*
Scorpions - "Rhythm of Love"*
Scritti Politti - "Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)"*
Scritti Politti featuring Roger - "Boom! There She Was"
Bob Seger - "The Horizontal Bop"
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - "Feel Like a Number" (live)
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - "It's You"
Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band - "Miami"
707 - "I Could Be Good for You"
707 - "Mega Force"
Feargal Sharkey - "A Good Heart"
Tommy Shaw - "Lonely School"
Shooting Star - "Hollywood"
Carly Simon - "All I Want Is You"
Carly Simon - "Why"
Paul Simon - "Graceland"*
The S.O.S. Band - "Just Be Good to Me"*
Southside Johnny and the Jukes - "Walk Away Renee"
Split Enz - "Dirty Creature"
Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band - "Fire" (live)
Squeeze - "Cool for Cats"*
Squeeze - "Tempted"*
Billy Squier - "My Kinda Lover"*
Stabilizers - "One Simple Thing"*
Michael Stanley Band - "Falling in Love Again"
Starship - "Beat Patrol"
Starship - "Wild Again"
Amii Stewart and Johnny Bristol - "My Guy/My Girl"
Dave Stewart and Barbara Gaskin - "It's My Party"
Rod Stewart - "All Right Now"
Rod Stewart - "How Long"
Rod Stewart - "I Don't Want to Talk About It"*
Rod Stewart - "Twistin' the Night Away"
Barbra Streisand - "Somewhere"*
The Style Council - "You're the Best Thing"
Styx - "Borrowed Time"
Henry Lee Summer - "Darlin' Danielle Don't"
Survivor - "Caught in the Game"
Survivor - "First Night"
Survivor - "The Moment of Truth"
Survivor - "Rebel Girl"
Survivor - "Somewhere in America"
Survivor - "Summer Nights"
Talking Heads - "And She Was"*
The Tarney/Spencer Band - "No Time to Lose"
James Taylor - "Everyday"
James Taylor - "Hard Times"
James Taylor - "Never Die Young"
Tears for Fears - "Change"*
The Temptations - "Treat Her Like a Lady"
10,000 Maniacs - "Like the Weather"*
38 Special - "Back to Paradise"*
38 Special - "Fantasy Girl"
38 Special - "Rockin' into the Night"*
Timmy Thomas - "Gotta Give a Little Love (Ten Years After)"
Robbin Thompson Band - "Brite Eyes"
George Thorogood and the Destroyers - "Willie and the Hand Jive"
Tierra - "La La Means I Love You"
'Til Tuesday - "(Believed You Were) Lucky"
'Til Tuesday - "Coming Up Close"
'Til Tuesday - "Rip in Heaven"
The Time - "Cool"
The Timelords - "Doctorin' the Tardis"
Times Two - "Cecilia"
Peter Tosh - "Johnny B. Goode"
Total Coelo - "I Eat Cannibals"*
Toto - "Waiting for Your Love"
Pete Townshend - "Rough Boys"*
Traveling Wilburys - "End of the Line"*
Triumph - "Magic Power"*
Triumph - "Say Goodbye"
Twisted Sister - "I Wanna Rock"*
Twisted Sister - "Leader of the Pack"*
Judie Tzuke - "Stay with Me till Dawn"
Underworld - "Underneath the Radar"
Uptown - "(I Know) I'm Losing You"*
Utopia - "The Very Last Time"
U2 - "In God's Country"
U2 - "New Year's Day"*
Van Halen - "Hot for Teacher"*
Voices for America - "Hands Across America"*
John Waite - "Change"*
Joe Walsh - "I Can Play That Rock and Roll"
Joe Walsh - "Space Age Whiz Kids"
Wang Chung - "To Live and Die in L.A."*
War - "You Got the Power"
Steve Wariner - "All Roads Lead to You"
Jody Watley - "Still a Thrill"
Wax - "Right Between the Eyes"
West Street Mob - "Sing a Simple Song"
What Is This - "I'll Be Around"
Whitesnake - "Give Me All Your Love"*
The Who - "Eminence Front"*
Will to Power - "Say It's Gonna Rain"
Ann Wilson - "The Best Man in the World"
Carl Wilson - "Heaven"
Carl Wilson - "What You Do to Me"
Steve Winwood - "Arc of a Diver"*
Steve Winwood - "Talking Back to the Night"
Stevie Wonder - "Lately"
Stevie Wonder - "Outside My Window"
Yaz - "Only You"*
Yellow Magic Orchestra - "Computer Game 'Theme from The Circus'"
Yes - "It Can Happen"*
ZZ Top - "Leila"
ZZ Top - "Sharp Dressed Man"*