![]() When “Kiss” hit Number One, another Prince song was runner-up: the Bangles’ “Manic Monday.” But all over “Kiss,” he does the twirl with the future. He coos “You can’t be too flirty” in the flirtiest falsetto imaginable, saving his sex-crazed screams for the end. There’s no bass at all, giving him room to peacock all over the avant-purple electro-slither. “Kiss” is deceptively minimal funk, a total surprise when it hit the radio in the spring of 1986, after the triumph of 1999 and Purple Rain, then the candy fluff of Around the World in a Day. Prince has a couple dozen songs that could top this list, but “Kiss” is the sound of Prince showing off, his most playful and perverse hit, proving he’s six or seven of the planet’s best singers. If 1999 isn’t the decade’s best album, that’s just because it’s Sign o’ the Times - still a tough call. He kept the world trying to guess his next move, while everyone was still catching up with what he was doing a few moves ago. ![]() Who else? Prince spent the Eighties as the most maddeningly brilliant and unpredictable genius in the game. Image Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images were one of the best bands that ever existed - except they got twice as great in the Nineties. (Maybe Stipe does not believe this song goes “sit on top of the big hill,” but I do.) Eighties R.E.M. (“Gardening at Night”? “Green Grow the Rushes”?) Michael Stipe’s voice surges in “Sitting Still” with urgent emotion, without any clue what the lyrics mean. you Browse for Ill Always Love You Adele song lyrics by entered search phrase Just the Way You Are Lyrics Don t go changin to try and please me. They were audibly Southern, from some town nobody’d heard of, like they had no idea bands were required to move to New York or L.A. had their own high-energy, low-budget DIY sound - loads of guitar, but no solos, no keyboards, no spandex. Central Rain” or “Fall on Me” or “Wolves, Lower” or “Good Advices.” Who else had songs like this? Nobody. (Well, not “We Walk” or “9-9.”) You could pick “So. You could pick any song off their classic debut, Murmur, for this list. changed the rock game in the early Eighties. Put this mix tape in the boombox, pump up the volume, and hit play. But every one is a brilliant tune, and each one is part of the unsolvable Rubik’s Cube that is Hair Decade pop. Many are songs you remember some you desperately try to forget. Others make people run and scream in terror. You hear them at weddings, parties, clubs, the karaoke bar. Some of these Eighties songs remain famous around the world. But just one song per artist, or half the list would be Prince. There’s Chicago house, Detroit techno, Miami freestyle, D.C. There’s new rebel voices that exploded out of nowhere. There’s all-time legends and one-hit wonders. A mix tape of pop classics, rockers, rappers, soul divas, New Wavers, disco jams, country twangers, punk ragers, dance-floor anthems, smooth operators, and karaoke room-clearers. The hits, the deep cuts, the fan favorites. ![]() So let’s break it down: the 200 best songs of the Eighties, music’s most insane decade. Do you know where you are? You’re in the Eighties, baby. Hip-hop takes over as the voice of young America. Not to mention massive stars: Prince, Madonna, Michael, Bruce, Janet, Sade, Cher. It’s got big hair, big drums, big shoulder pads. An adaptation is a musical work, which uses elements (music or lyrics) from another musical. The Eighties are one of the weirdest eras ever for music. Dusty Springfield originally released I Only Want to Be with You. Writer(s): IVOR RAYMONDE, MIKE HAWKERLyrics powered by to the jungle. I don't know what it is that makes me love you so I only know I never want to let you go 'Cause you've started something Oh, can't you see? That ever since we met You've had a hold on me It happens to be true I only want to be with you It doesn't matter where you go or what you do I want to spend each moment of the day with you Oh, look what has happened with just one kiss I never knew that I could be in love like this It's crazy but it's true I only want to be with you You stopped and smiled at me And asked if I'd care to dance I fell into your open arms And I didn't stand a chance Now listen honey I just want to be beside you everywhere As long as we're together, honey, I don't care 'Cause you've started something Oh, can't you see? That ever since we met You've had a hold on me No matter what you do I only want to be with you Oh, oh, you stopped and you smiled at me And asked if I'd care to dance I fell into your open arms And I didn't stand a chance Now hear me tell you I just want to be beside you everywhere As long as we're together, honey, I don't care 'Cause you've started something Oh, can't you see? That ever since we met You've had a hold on me No matter what you do I only want to be with you I said no matter, no matter what you do I only want to be with you
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