The 10 Most Terrifyingly Inspirational '80s Songs

[Crown Royal]

Great thread, but I take exception to Juke Box Hero being ahead of Don't Stop Believin.

 

[Bonecrusher#31]

Every last one of these songs SUCK !!!!!!!!


JMO

 

[peplaw06]

Love is a Battlefield and You're the Best are completely out of place. They shouldn't even be considered as inspirational.

You're the Bets reminds me of some after school special song. It should NEVER be ahead of Journey, Bon Jovi, Foreigner, or Queen.

 

[Tusan_Homichi]

"If hearing "just one guitar" while standing outside a venue in the pouring rain can cause an innocent farm boy to mutate into a vulgar, screeching, musical demi-god, imagine hearing 17 guitars on top of a mountain in a thunderstorm! You could instantaneously transform altar boys all across the heartland into 80-foot tall rock ogres, shredding on nuclear guitars and ejaculating fiery magma into the horrified faces of America’s enemies."

Hahahaha. That is greatness.

 

[Nors]

You can Still Rock in America - Night Ranger

Crazy Train - Ozzy Osborne

I can't drive 55 - Hagar

Dreams - Van Hagar

Livin after Midnight - Priest

No sleep till Brooklyn - Beastie Boys

In The Living Years - Mike & Mechanics

Everybody is working for the weeked - Loverboy

Hold on - Triumph

 

[cowboys19]

The 80's was the best decade ever!!!!

 

[big dog cowboy]

The 80's was the best decade ever!!!!

Hair bands rule.

Long live metal.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

You can Still Rock in America - Night Ranger

Crazy Train - Ozzy Osborne

I can't drive 55 - Hagar

Dreams - Van Hagar

Livin after Midnight - Priest

No sleep till Brooklyn - Beastie Boys

In The Living Years - Mike & Mechanics

Everybody is working for the weeked - Loverboy

Hold on - Triumph

Nice list.

 

[BrAinPaiNt]

Wanted Dead or Alive is the song that inspired me to learn to play the guitar. I love slippery and most of jovi's albums, the last two however are horrendous.

Holding out for a hero and everything else on the footloose soundtrack makes me ill. My sister would not stop playing that and the grease soundtrack. UGG how I hate both of those.

I love the 80s. The music, the movies, the guitar gods, the video games, the arcarde, karate or in my case tae kwon do.....etc.....80s were fantastic....great time to be a kid. I mean do kids today get to see such classics as RAD?

That is the one of only two Bon Jovi song I liked. The other being his earlier work...Runaway.

 

[jem88]

Off the top of my head, best '80s tunes:

U2- Running To Stand Still, Bad, The Unforgettable Fire
XTC- Dear God, Senses Working Overtime
Talking Heads- Burning Down The House
The Clash- London Calling, Rudy Can't Fail, Guns of Brixton
Guns 'n' Roses- Sweet Child O' Mine, Welcome To The Jungle, One in A Million
Talk Talk- Life's What You Make It
Prince- Purple Rain
Tears For Fears- Mad World
Jane's Addiction- Mountain Song, Summertime Rolls
Rush- Tom Sawyer, YYZ
Peter Gabriel- Biko, San Jacinto
The Cars- Magic
Neil Young- Keep on Rockin' in The Free World
AC/DC- Back in Black
Metallica- One
Van Halen- Panama, Drop Dead Legs

I'm sure there are many more I've forgotten, but those spring to mind.

 

[jem88]

Dances with Wolves was released in late 1990.

Airplane!
Porky's
Beverly Hills Cop
Platoon
Fatal Attraction
Good Morning, Vietnam
Who Framed Roger Rabbit?
The Karate Kid
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
16 Candles

The list really does go on and on...

Don't forget Weird Science.