For those of us in our late forties/early fifties our adolescence was spent in the 1980s listening to all that lovely 80s pop music. I liked much of it at the time, but only some of it remains listened to in my collection today. However, every now and then I get to hear a song that I had sort of dismissed in my head only to realise it's still a very good pop record to coin a phrase from the time.
For instance take Tears for Fears, I never liked Songs from the Big Chair that much preferring their follow up and had sort of expunged anything prior to that from them from my mind, but yesterday I listened to The Hurting for the first time in many years and Mad World still stands up as a beautifully crafted pop song even now.
Anyone else have any pop songs from the decade that they still listen to and think are nailed on classics (outside of the Into the Groove/Blue Monday etc. accepted 80s pop trailblazers)?
For instance take Tears for Fears, I never liked Songs from the Big Chair that much preferring their follow up and had sort of expunged anything prior to that from them from my mind, but yesterday I listened to The Hurting for the first time in many years and Mad World still stands up as a beautifully crafted pop song even now.
Anyone else have any pop songs from the decade that they still listen to and think are nailed on classics (outside of the Into the Groove/Blue Monday etc. accepted 80s pop trailblazers)?
