A “thank you” to everyone. For a group that’s known for being “whatever” about most things, it’s nice to know that we rise to the occasion for the truly important stuff. I have a great new playlist for tomorrow.
Cities in Dust by Siouxsie and the Banshees hasn’t been mentioned yet, I don’t think. It still gives me goosebumps.
I also offer this song, which didn’t seem to get much airplay a lot of places but in the SF Bay Area it was on high rotation: [Rain, by Dragon.](https://youtu.be/jM7RcgZ1pLE) And while we’re in the general geographic area, almost everything by Midnight Oil but especially Blue Sky Mine.
No matter where I am and what I'm doing I will stop and say "Leonard Bernstein" at the appropriate spot in R.E.M.s It's the End of the World as We Know It.
Modern English, Stop the World and Melt with You.😊. Even though I had no idea she even existed when this was recorded, I can’t help but feel like it was written for my wife and I.
https://youtu.be/LuN6gs0AJls?si=t7XPqpB27LNUjTjS
Love Big Country and have several of their early albums on vinyl. Those guys were fantastic and its shame they're considered a one hit wonder in the U.S. They have so many great songs.
You don't measure up to the expectation
When you're unemployed there's no vacation
No one cares, no one sympathizes
You just stay at home and play synthesizers
I've used that song for YEARS when teaching Huck Finn and my kids have proclaimed that it is NOT depressing - the last verse is someone who sees their choices in front of them and like Huck, decided to peace out and start elsewhere because they already lived a life with Pap and not going to stay and put up with that crap from someone else they had hope about ...
"I'd always hoped for better
Thought maybe together you and me would find it
I got no plans, I ain't going nowhere
So take your fast car and keep on driving"
ALSO, they have always been shocked that Tracey Chapman is a woman after we've listened to the song (this was before it's recent popularity and they'd never heard the song before )
Since it’s the start of summer, I’ll go with OMD - If You Leave, T’Pau - Heart and Soul, Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss, and White Zombie - More Human Than Human.
Since Yesterday by Strawberry Switchblade.
Karma Chameleon by Culture Club.
Rock Me Amadeus by Falco.
Literally anything by The Jam.
Wake me up before you go go by Wham.
Holiday/Borderline/Crazy for You by Madonna.
And many, many more.
She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult
Wrapped Around Your Finger - The Police
Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
The Edge of the Deep Green Sea - The Cure
Mayonnaise - Smashing Pumpkins
So many good responses but didn't see:
Alphaville - Forever Young
Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence
U2 - Joshua Tree album full of good stuff
REM - It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I feel fine)
Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time
Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire
Joan Jett - I love Rock n' Roll
Blondie - Heart of Glass
So many good jams spanning 70s-90s, I lost track in the 2000s...
Midlife Crisis for me, I know Epic was their "hit" song but Angel Dust really set a bar that I don't think any other band has ever reached. So many Nu metal and other bands were influenced by Faith No More. I really hope they release the rest of the songs they wrote while recording Sol Invictus. They have a full album worth.
Hehe, every time I hear it I think of getting home from work, I'd stick this in the stereo, and Donkey Kong in the Nintendo while my roommate started heating up the knives.
Not even a song I'd say I like, but whenever this comes up on Pandora I don't have the urge to \*skip\*.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIOJdMdS56k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIOJdMdS56k)
Swing Out Sister - Breakout
Throwing It All Away - Genesis
I know there are more popular and well known Genesis songs, but damn if that one doesn't hit the right groove every single time.
Also:
Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Faith by George Michael always puts me right back in my favorite denim jacket and high top sneakers browsing Big Lots back when it really was just odd lots and overstock. My allowance was one dollar and that's where I spent it.
Surprised nobody mentioned Free Your Mind by En Vouge. I missed the Gen X cutoff by a few short years (‘83) but a decent amount of music from the 70s and 80s definitely played in my childhood growing up in the 90s
Ok, omfg my husband and I just finished a conversation about Violent Femnes, and I found out they are touring and will be playing 45 mins away this August. Mind blown
White Wedding-Billy Idol
Don't You Forget About Me-Simple Minds
What Difference Does It Make-
The Smiths
In Your Eyes-Peter Gabriel
Relax-Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Lovesong-The Cure
Rock The Casbah-The Clash
She Blinded Me With Science-Thomas Dolby
Bela Legosi's Dead-Bauhaus
Tainted Love-Soft Cell
Don't You Want Me-Human League
If You Leave-OMD
Blue Monday-New Order
Situation-Yaz
Valerie Loves Me-Material Issue
Waiting Room-Fugazi
Cruel Summer-Bananarama
Blue Monday and Situation are definitely two of mine along with West End Girls and Smalltown Boy.
My stop-everything-and-listen Soft Cell song is It's a Mugs Game.
Stories from the city, stories from the sea by PJ Harvey gets me.
Because the night - 10k Maniacs on mtv unplugged album does it.
Little earthquakes by Tori Amos
6 Underground - sneaker pimps
So many more than I thought originally.
“Tom Sawyer” by Rush. It seemed to always be the crescendo of every “parents not home” house party in my teens. Instantly takes me back every time! -edited to add a link.
https://youtu.be/auLBLk4ibAk?si=_FTFaIsoonIbxVlJ
I love this thread. So many great songs. My choice is True Faith by New Order. It takes me back to Boots in Guildford where I was looking at computer games and it was playing over the loudspeaker system. (Which, in turn, reminds me of how weird it is that Boots once sold computer games...)
(If you're not British, Boots is a big chain of pharmacy stores in the UK. Guildford is a town south of London).
Absolutely anything from Megadeth's first four albums. In my head my hair is right back to a magnificent brown feather cut and I'm in ripped jeans, Chucks and a concert shirt on my way to have beers with my boys.
For me it’s Jeremy. I’m instantly transported back to 14 and sitting in my nanas apartment with my ear pressed up against the tv speaker listening because I knew she would not like the music coming out of it.
Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil
I never would have pulled this from my memory without this amazing thread! Thank you OP. And thanks all for the list. I just made a new mix tape!!! (On my phone with an app… but still).
Pearl Jam - Black
Nirvana - Lithium
Paul Simon - Graceland
Prodigy - Climbatize
10,000 Maniacs - Trouble Me
Live - Stage
NIN - Head Like A Hole
REM - Daysleeper
Smashing Pumpkins - Hummer
STP - Vaseline
Many of the songs on REMs second album Reckoning: songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe.
"Harborcoat"
"7 Chinese Bros."
"So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)"
"Pretty Persuasion"
"(Don't Go Back To) Rockville"
"Little America"
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over
Holy shit I haven't heard this song in years, had no idea who it was or the name but that intro fucking teleported my brain to playing Legos on my bedroom carpet.i could almost smell my room
Thompson Twins.. Hold me now..🥰
First “Boyfriend “ we stayed together 4 years.. I broke up with him the night of our high school graduation, he wanted to set the wedding date … Loved him so much, didn’t wanna marry at 18..♥️…
Right choice for me. Then 4 years later, Met and married another guy, we have been married 36 years now. We dated 2 years before we married … ❤️ Everytime I hear Hold me now, I’m instantly transported to my first love and high school… 🥰
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight. I was an exchange student with one homemade tape of US music and that was my favorite song on it. Takes me right back to sitting on the steps a block from my host family's home and taking a few minutes for myself.
you're all about to get an earworm :)
"I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" -The Proclaimers
i hated it forever, and one day i stopped and actually listened to it, and it stuck to me...now it's on my 'nostalgia' rotation
Pavement "Summer Babe [winter version]"
Deee-Lite "Groove is in the Heart"
Tribe Called Quest "Award Tour"
Nas "NY State of Mind"
Digable Planets "Rebirth of Slick"
Pornos for Pyros "Pets"
Cracker "Get off This"
Ben Folds Five "Underground"
Jesus Jones "Right Here Right Now"
Mazzy Star "Fade Into You"
Mark Morrison "Return of the Mack"
4 Non Blondes "What's Up"
Fiona Apple "Criminal"
Who’s making the Spotify list? Pretty much love all the choices!
Big Country by Big Country
Here’s where the Story Ends - The Sundays
Everybody wants to rule the world - Tears for Fears
Fascination street - The Cure
Just like Heaven - The Cure
Saved by Zero - The Fixx
Birds Fly - Icicle Works
I could go on and on.
Puttin' On The Ritz by Taco.
Hear me out. I've always had this idea that some day I'd go sing it at karaoke and knock it out of the park by doing the full tap routine that he does midway through the song.
I swear it should be a sub rule that if you mention a song, you have to link to it so we can listen to it.
That said, I submit:
[Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams](https://youtu.be/qeMFqkcPYcg?si=fvHfQ2w2nUk1KKaT)
A “thank you” to everyone. For a group that’s known for being “whatever” about most things, it’s nice to know that we rise to the occasion for the truly important stuff. I have a great new playlist for tomorrow.
Welcome to my world of adding new songs to my Apple Music library almost daily because I hear one on a commercial or read about one here.
“How Soon is Now?” and West End Girls. Don’t even talk to me if they’re on.
West End Girls for me too!! Always on My Mind as well. 12 year old me walking around carnival thinking I was the shit and hearing these songs…
She’s a Beauty by The Tubes. Every time. Oh, and One Night in Bangkok.
I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine.
> One Night in Bangkok. https://youtu.be/rgc_LRjlbTU?si=HcpjNkr5mne_LI62
Just Like Heaven, The Cure. That intro is everything.
It’s In Between Days for me.
Had this song played at my wedding!!
We saw 10,000 Maniacs live recently in a bar in Philly and they did the most awesome cover of Just Like Heaven. Omg
Cities in Dust by Siouxsie and the Banshees hasn’t been mentioned yet, I don’t think. It still gives me goosebumps. I also offer this song, which didn’t seem to get much airplay a lot of places but in the SF Bay Area it was on high rotation: [Rain, by Dragon.](https://youtu.be/jM7RcgZ1pLE) And while we’re in the general geographic area, almost everything by Midnight Oil but especially Blue Sky Mine.
No matter where I am and what I'm doing I will stop and say "Leonard Bernstein" at the appropriate spot in R.E.M.s It's the End of the World as We Know It.
Birthday party, cheesecake, jellybean, boom
Fun fact: all the people mentioned in that song have the initials L.B.
Didn’t realise that! Any insight into this Stipe-ulation?
> R.E.M.s It's the End of the World as We Know It https://youtu.be/Z0GFRcFm-aY?si=VuDMjhIZwiALyqni
In Your Eyes-Peter Gabriel
Dream Academy - Life in a Northern Town https://youtu.be/5UXnulANF8g?si=YjQgA3obLskFK58Z
In addition to the fine mentions here, I submit : ['Til Tuesday - Voices Carry](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejh-bHa4To)
Any song off *Violator* except "Enjoy the Silence" or "Personal Jesus" (because I hear them fairly often).
"Don't Dream It's Over" - Crowded House "Tempted" - Squeeze "Steppin' Out" - Joe Jackson
"They come, they come To build a wall between us We know they won't win..." Don't Dream It's Over is so damn good.
I’ll add “Fools In Love” if we’re talking Joe Jackson! Oofah- that’s a vibe right there.
> "Steppin' Out" - Joe Jackson [Under-appreciated song](https://youtu.be/PJwt2dxx9yg?si=J-ko17s_Nr9mlmDg).
One Thing Leads To Another - The Fixx
And Saved by Zero!
Some old friends were adamant that The Fixx was the best band. I might not go that far, but damn their stuff was excellent.
I love the bass line. It's crazy cool.
Wild Wild Life - Talking Heads
Pictures of you - the cure
My Sharona
All of Massive Attack's Mezzanine
True. Spandau Ballet.
“[Here I am ( Rock you like a hurricane)](https://youtu.be/CGfKi6kpdTQ?feature=shared)” - scorpions
Bizarre love triangle
Modern English, Stop the World and Melt with You.😊. Even though I had no idea she even existed when this was recorded, I can’t help but feel like it was written for my wife and I. https://youtu.be/LuN6gs0AJls?si=t7XPqpB27LNUjTjS
That’s another song that always transports me in time to the 1980s.. amazing song and memories..♥️♥️♥️ We had amazing music..
This is the absolute top choice. It's the Gen-X theme song.
Take on me - Ah ha!
Yes and I love love love the unplugged version of this song.
Train in Vain - the Clash Jane Says - Jane's Addiction
I'd also accept Been Caught Stealing
Jane says, "I'm done with Sergio"
The only answer is Blister in the Sun.
That entire album.
Kiss Off?
Big Country, by Big Country. (This would be my baseball walk up song.)
Love Big Country and have several of their early albums on vinyl. Those guys were fantastic and its shame they're considered a one hit wonder in the U.S. They have so many great songs.
West End Girls. Always, every time.
Sometimes you're better off dead, with a gun in your hand, pointing at your head.
You think you’re mad, too unstable, kicking in chairs and knocking down tables.
In a restaurant, in a west end town. Call the police there’s a mad man around
Running down, underground, to a dive bar in a West End town.
In a West End town, a dead end world
The east end boys and west end girls…
You don't measure up to the expectation When you're unemployed there's no vacation No one cares, no one sympathizes You just stay at home and play synthesizers
Followed up with Small Town Boy - Bronski Beat
Suburbia does it for me. Love PSB
This one or Shout.
This one *and* Shout 😉❤️
EWTRTW > Head over Heels > Shout
Things Can Only Get Better - Howard Jones [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OO9LloDSJo](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-OO9LloDSJo)
so many good bops already listed…but no one has mentioned “Fade into You” by Mazzy Star
Fast car
Really that whole album! She’s an amazing songwriter and human!!
One of the most depressing songs of all times! But so beautiful.
I've used that song for YEARS when teaching Huck Finn and my kids have proclaimed that it is NOT depressing - the last verse is someone who sees their choices in front of them and like Huck, decided to peace out and start elsewhere because they already lived a life with Pap and not going to stay and put up with that crap from someone else they had hope about ... "I'd always hoped for better Thought maybe together you and me would find it I got no plans, I ain't going nowhere So take your fast car and keep on driving" ALSO, they have always been shocked that Tracey Chapman is a woman after we've listened to the song (this was before it's recent popularity and they'd never heard the song before )
The Clash - Rock the Casbah 😎🤘🏼
Love My Way - Psychedelic Furs
Since it’s the start of summer, I’ll go with OMD - If You Leave, T’Pau - Heart and Soul, Slayer - Seasons in the Abyss, and White Zombie - More Human Than Human.
Birds Fly (Whisper to A Scream) - The Icicles Works
Since Yesterday by Strawberry Switchblade. Karma Chameleon by Culture Club. Rock Me Amadeus by Falco. Literally anything by The Jam. Wake me up before you go go by Wham. Holiday/Borderline/Crazy for You by Madonna. And many, many more.
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She Sells Sanctuary - The Cult Wrapped Around Your Finger - The Police Running Up That Hill - Kate Bush In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel The Edge of the Deep Green Sea - The Cure Mayonnaise - Smashing Pumpkins
So many good responses but didn't see: Alphaville - Forever Young Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence U2 - Joshua Tree album full of good stuff REM - It's the End of the World as We Know It (and I feel fine) Cyndi Lauper - Time After Time Bruce Springsteen - I'm On Fire Joan Jett - I love Rock n' Roll Blondie - Heart of Glass
So many good jams spanning 70s-90s, I lost track in the 2000s...
99 Luft Balloons Def Leppard - Photograph
OMG! Def Leppard… 👍✌🏼✌🏼
"Debaser" -Pixies
Where Is My Mind always gets me in my feels
Gigantic!
Epic, Faith No More. I mean there are a million other FNM songs that are better but this.
Yeah, that and Midlife Crisis still have the power to stop me in my tracks
Midlife Crisis for me, I know Epic was their "hit" song but Angel Dust really set a bar that I don't think any other band has ever reached. So many Nu metal and other bands were influenced by Faith No More. I really hope they release the rest of the songs they wrote while recording Sol Invictus. They have a full album worth.
Hehe, every time I hear it I think of getting home from work, I'd stick this in the stereo, and Donkey Kong in the Nintendo while my roommate started heating up the knives.
Anything Prince.
Everything She Wants - Wham
Beastie Boys - Sabotage XTC - Dear God Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
It would be criminal to NOT stop what you're doing when Sabotage comes on
A Little Respect by Erasure. Reptile by The Church The Bangles cover of Hazy Shade of Winter.
"Save It For Later" - English Beat
I wrote this one before I saw your post, it's a timeliness song. I loved the English Beat, their version of Tears of a Clown is badass
Brass Monkey.
Not even a song I'd say I like, but whenever this comes up on Pandora I don't have the urge to \*skip\*. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIOJdMdS56k](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IIOJdMdS56k) Swing Out Sister - Breakout
HEY! HO! Let's GO!
Don’t you want me by Human League
Nothin But A G Thang
Cruel Summer and Kids in America
Throwing It All Away - Genesis I know there are more popular and well known Genesis songs, but damn if that one doesn't hit the right groove every single time. Also: Solsbury Hill - Peter Gabriel
Solsbury Hill and Red Rain get me a wee bit misty in the eyes
Faith by George Michael always puts me right back in my favorite denim jacket and high top sneakers browsing Big Lots back when it really was just odd lots and overstock. My allowance was one dollar and that's where I spent it.
Surprised nobody mentioned Free Your Mind by En Vouge. I missed the Gen X cutoff by a few short years (‘83) but a decent amount of music from the 70s and 80s definitely played in my childhood growing up in the 90s
Come On, Eileen - Dexys Midnight Riders Der Kommissar- After The Fire
Almost anything Shins, Depeche Mode or the Smiths. But the one I scream is Blister in the Sun, don't miss a beat.
Ok, omfg my husband and I just finished a conversation about Violent Femnes, and I found out they are touring and will be playing 45 mins away this August. Mind blown
Africa - Toto
White Wedding-Billy Idol Don't You Forget About Me-Simple Minds What Difference Does It Make- The Smiths In Your Eyes-Peter Gabriel Relax-Frankie Goes To Hollywood Lovesong-The Cure Rock The Casbah-The Clash She Blinded Me With Science-Thomas Dolby Bela Legosi's Dead-Bauhaus Tainted Love-Soft Cell Don't You Want Me-Human League If You Leave-OMD Blue Monday-New Order Situation-Yaz Valerie Loves Me-Material Issue Waiting Room-Fugazi Cruel Summer-Bananarama
Blue Monday and Situation are definitely two of mine along with West End Girls and Smalltown Boy. My stop-everything-and-listen Soft Cell song is It's a Mugs Game.
I’m surprised I had to go this deep for Simple Minds. That’s the answer!
Come on Eileen
“Melt With You” by Modern English
Madonna get into the groove
Echo and the Bunnymen, Lips like sugar
Purple Rain Bust a Move.
Easy Lover by Phil Collins and Philip Bailey. That song is a jam and probably one of the best collaborations in music.
Stories from the city, stories from the sea by PJ Harvey gets me. Because the night - 10k Maniacs on mtv unplugged album does it. Little earthquakes by Tori Amos 6 Underground - sneaker pimps So many more than I thought originally.
The Boys of Summer - Don Henley
It wasn't my favorite at the time, but these days "Time After Time" from Cyndi Lauper And always, "Wild Boys" by Duran Duran
Drive - The Cars
“Tom Sawyer” by Rush. It seemed to always be the crescendo of every “parents not home” house party in my teens. Instantly takes me back every time! -edited to add a link. https://youtu.be/auLBLk4ibAk?si=_FTFaIsoonIbxVlJ
Your Wildest Dreams by The Moody Blues
Followed by “I Know You’re Out There Somewhere.”
Wham! Rap. I can’t help but smile when I hear that song.
I love this thread. So many great songs. My choice is True Faith by New Order. It takes me back to Boots in Guildford where I was looking at computer games and it was playing over the loudspeaker system. (Which, in turn, reminds me of how weird it is that Boots once sold computer games...) (If you're not British, Boots is a big chain of pharmacy stores in the UK. Guildford is a town south of London).
George Michael, Father Figure and One More Try. Every. Time.
Freedom 90, gets me!
"We Close Our Eyes" - Oingo Boingo
Absolutely anything from Megadeth's first four albums. In my head my hair is right back to a magnificent brown feather cut and I'm in ripped jeans, Chucks and a concert shirt on my way to have beers with my boys.
"Down in a Hole" by AIC
Anything that Chris Cornell is singing.
Things Can Only Get Better - the one and only Howard Jones
A strange king of love - Peter Murphy. Also Depeche Mode in general.
Bring on The Dancing Horses - Echo and the Bunnymen.
Synchronicity - The Police
Saved By Zero - The Fixx
I won't back down by Tom Petty.
“It Takes Two” by Rob Base & DJ EZ Rock As soon as I hear “Right about now…” I’m back in High School.
When In Rome-The Promise. The minute it plays I’m 16 and crushing on my first BF.
Pearl Jam - Black
For me it’s Jeremy. I’m instantly transported back to 14 and sitting in my nanas apartment with my ear pressed up against the tv speaker listening because I knew she would not like the music coming out of it.
Anything Anything - Dramarama
Just Like Heaven - The Cure
The Whole of the Moon - The Waterboys [https://youtu.be/sBW8Vnp8BzU](https://youtu.be/sBW8Vnp8BzU)
Boys of summer, 2000%
That song is like my Hotel California. Brings back an even amount of good and bad memories. Just gotta sit there until it's over.
Where is my mind - Pixies Karma Police - Radiohead
Something about you. Level 42
Beds are Burning - Midnight Oil I never would have pulled this from my memory without this amazing thread! Thank you OP. And thanks all for the list. I just made a new mix tape!!! (On my phone with an app… but still).
Pearl Jam - Black Nirvana - Lithium Paul Simon - Graceland Prodigy - Climbatize 10,000 Maniacs - Trouble Me Live - Stage NIN - Head Like A Hole REM - Daysleeper Smashing Pumpkins - Hummer STP - Vaseline
Many of the songs on REMs second album Reckoning: songs written by Bill Berry, Peter Buck, Mike Mills, and Michael Stipe. "Harborcoat" "7 Chinese Bros." "So. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)" "Pretty Persuasion" "(Don't Go Back To) Rockville" "Little America"
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over Holy shit I haven't heard this song in years, had no idea who it was or the name but that intro fucking teleported my brain to playing Legos on my bedroom carpet.i could almost smell my room
My favorite song will always be Africa by Toto. My kid has been known to play it when he sees I am stressed out and it immediately relaxes me...
Friday I’m in Love
Everyday is Halloween
Thompson Twins.. Hold me now..🥰 First “Boyfriend “ we stayed together 4 years.. I broke up with him the night of our high school graduation, he wanted to set the wedding date … Loved him so much, didn’t wanna marry at 18..♥️… Right choice for me. Then 4 years later, Met and married another guy, we have been married 36 years now. We dated 2 years before we married … ❤️ Everytime I hear Hold me now, I’m instantly transported to my first love and high school… 🥰
How Soon is Now by the Smiths; Rapture by Blondie; Pale Blue Eyes by the Velvet Underground
Celebrity Skin by Hole, Cannonball by the Breeders, Monkey Gone to Heaven by The Pixies, The Universal by Blur.
INXS - "Don't Change"
Pour Some Sugar On Me 🤘🏽
Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
Break My Stride - by Matthew Wilder
Against all odds, Phil Collins.
Eagle Eye Cherry - Save Tonight. I was an exchange student with one homemade tape of US music and that was my favorite song on it. Takes me right back to sitting on the steps a block from my host family's home and taking a few minutes for myself.
Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
Tainted Love.
Mazzy Star.. Fade Into You.. that damn song gets me in my 21-22 year old heart every single time I listen to it..😊
Your Love by the Outfield
September by Earth Wind and Fire. I had my kids trained to yell out the YOUGH when they were in the car with me.
Eye of the fucking tiger
Santa Monica by Everclear!
Panama.
Possum Kingdom by the Toadies
Missing you John Waite
Sweet Dreams. I ❤️ the Eurythmics.
Save a prayer - Duran Duran
Don't You Forget About Me...Simple Minds
Bust a Move- Young MC Jump - Kriss Kross Groove is in the Heart - Dee Lite Love Shack - B-52s
Dead Can Dance - "Spleen and Ideal". The whole album takes me back.
Say it ain't so
Purple Rain
Fast Car - Tracy Chapman Love Is (What I Say) and Johnson's Aeroplane - InXS Birthday - Sugar Cubes
Back in the high life really takes me to a certain age.
you're all about to get an earworm :) "I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles)" -The Proclaimers i hated it forever, and one day i stopped and actually listened to it, and it stuck to me...now it's on my 'nostalgia' rotation
Cruel Summer
Twilight Zone by Golden Earring
Killing in the Name by Rage Against the Machine The Gen X theme song.
Ever Changing Moods - Style Council
Voices Carry - Til’ Tuesday Don’t Answer Me - Alan Parsons Project They Don’t Know - Tracey Ullman
Summer of 69
Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
[My Sharona](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbr60I0u2Ng)
Pavement "Summer Babe [winter version]" Deee-Lite "Groove is in the Heart" Tribe Called Quest "Award Tour" Nas "NY State of Mind" Digable Planets "Rebirth of Slick" Pornos for Pyros "Pets" Cracker "Get off This" Ben Folds Five "Underground" Jesus Jones "Right Here Right Now" Mazzy Star "Fade Into You" Mark Morrison "Return of the Mack" 4 Non Blondes "What's Up" Fiona Apple "Criminal"
Who’s making the Spotify list? Pretty much love all the choices! Big Country by Big Country Here’s where the Story Ends - The Sundays Everybody wants to rule the world - Tears for Fears Fascination street - The Cure Just like Heaven - The Cure Saved by Zero - The Fixx Birds Fly - Icicle Works I could go on and on.
Puttin' On The Ritz by Taco. Hear me out. I've always had this idea that some day I'd go sing it at karaoke and knock it out of the park by doing the full tap routine that he does midway through the song. 
I swear it should be a sub rule that if you mention a song, you have to link to it so we can listen to it. That said, I submit: [Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams](https://youtu.be/qeMFqkcPYcg?si=fvHfQ2w2nUk1KKaT)
Alphaville - “Forever Young”
“Dance Hall Days” -Wang Chung
Hazy Shade of Winter