80s music lyrics

Here’s some music lyrics from a couple of my favorite 80s songs. I’ll post more 80s Music Lyrics as they come to me.

“Everybody Wants to Rule the World” is a song originally written by Roland Orzabal, Ian Stanley and Chris Hughes of the British band Tears for Fears

Welcome to your life
Theres no turning back
Even while we sleep
We will find you
Acting on your best behaviour
Turn your back on mother nature
Everybody wants to rule the world

Its my own design
Its my own remorse
Help me to decide
Help me make the most
Of freedom and of pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

Theres a room where the light wont find you
Holding hands while the walls come tumbling down
When they do Ill be right behind you

So glad weve almost made it
So sad they had to fade it
Everybody wants to rule the world

I cant stand this indecision
Married with a lack of vision
Everybody wants to rule the world
Say that youll never never never never need it
One headline why believe it ?
Everybody wants to rule the world

All for freedom and for pleasure
Nothing ever lasts forever
Everybody wants to rule the world

“Rock the Casbah” is a song by The Clash, released on their 1982 album Combat Rock.

Now the king told the boogie men
You have to let that raga drop
The oil down the desert way
Has been shakin to the top
The sheik he drove his cadillac
He went a cruisnin down the ville
The muezzin was a standing
On the radiator grille

Chorus
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah
The shareef dont like it
Rockin the casbah
Rock the casbah

By order of the prophet
We ban that boogie sound
Degenerate the faithful
With that crazy casbah sound
But the bedouin they brought out
The electric camel drum
The local guitar picker
Got his guitar picking thumb
As soon as the shareef
Had cleared the square
They began to wail

Chorus

Now over at the temple
Oh! they really pack em in
The in crowd say its cool
To dig this chanting thing
But as the wind changed direction
The temple band took five
The crowd caught a wiff
Of that crazy casbah jive

Chorus

The king called up his jet fighters
He said you better earn your pay
Drop your bombs between the minarets
Down the casbah way

As soon as the shareef was
Chauffeured outta there
The jet pilots tuned to
The cockpit radio blare

As soon as the shareef was
Outta their hair
The jet pilots wailed

Chorus

He thinks its not kosher
Fundamentally he cant take it.
You know he really hates it.

Popularity: 28% [?]

Top That!: The decapitation of Hip Hop

When the beat cues up I was like “don’t rap, don’t rap, don’t rap, don’t rap”

Top That!
This scene from 1989s Teen Witch might be the exact moment which hip hop died.

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Popularity: 40% [?]

Michael Jackson – “Thriller” (1982) Part II

We were on our usual 2.5 hour drive to San Quentin in Marin County North of San Francisco to see my mom’s boyfriend in prison. I was 7 or 8 at the time so I didn’t appreciate the full impact of how screwed up our family situation was. I didn’t have a care in the world.

In fact, I loved the trip. I sat back in the plush leather of our Yellow 70’s caddy and listened to the entire Thriller album on cassette tape. We would play the whole thing at least twice there and twice back. Mom would always fast forward through the actual song Thriller because my sister, DeAmber, thought it was too scary… what a wussy… she would later join the deck swabbin’, squid lovin’ Navy… so that should tell you everything you need to know about the Navy.

The songs grew on me.. even “the girl is mine” but only because I would switch some of the words with curses such as the chorus: “because the g*d damn girl is mine”. That makes the song more fun and full of filthy flavor.

When I finally got to see the actually Thriller video, I was blown away. It was genius. I started trying to copy the dances. When I went back to school, we all talked about Thriller and attempted to Moonwalk in shitty Converse sneakers on the asphalt. I’m not sure you can really appreciate Mike unless you were an 80s kid effected by the “Thriller phenomenon”. Back then he was like a god.

Needless to say things are different now. In fact, my buddy told his daughter that Michael was black and she did not believe him. I think the old man still has it - but Thriller was a once in a generation thing that can never be repeated. I have no doubt the someone will eventually beat his record breaking sales but… it won’t be Thriller.

Popularity: 44% [?]

Michael Jackson – “Thriller” (1982)

I was 9 years old when Thriller hit the shelves at the end of 1982 and knocked the collective world on its ear. But really it started with the infamous “moonwalk” Mike performed during his March 1983 performance of Billie Jean during the television special Motown 25: Yesterday, Today, Forever. That night would truly begin the legend of The King of Pop.

What can you say? Thriller was sonically amazing. The accompanying videos changed the way any and all videos where conceived, written, produced, directed, and presented thereafter. His costumes, the glove, the socks, the pant cuffs, the jackets, everything was mimicked and copied by the kids. Everyone would sport the one glove style whether it was a dingy winter mitten or a former cotton garden glove now adorned with glued on sequence or rhinestones. I knew more than one kid that rocked the famed multi-zippered “Beat It” style jacket (in red or black, it didn’t matter) and even a few “Thriller” editions. And of course many kids yearned to dance like him. A few gifted and dedicated souls like my good friend Ron genuinely perfected the art. Another friend, David, went on to professionally perform as a Michael Jackson impersonator in Vegas. Michael Jackson was just bigger than life. But it definitely wasn’t all circus hype. Thriller the album was insane. It’s not the greatest selling album of all time for nothing. Seven of the nine original tracks went on to become Top Ten singles.

But enough of what I remember, what do I think now? It’s a banger dude. The damn thing still rocks. Now I still loathe, The Girl Is Mine, (sorry, I just do) but the rest of the album is as solid as it was to me in the fourth grade. Billie Jean will always be my favorite track, but Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’ and P.Y.T. still make me want to get up and dance. Thriller? C’mon now, I started doin’ the dance routine as soon as the chorus came on. LOL! The bottom line is if you don’t have this historic album in some shape or form (physical or digital), go out and get it. I promise you’ll be singing along, dancing, and grabbing your crotch like its 1983.

Popularity: 44% [?]

80s Music

80s Music

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Music of the 80’s marked the beginning of the major marketable, cross-pollination of new and old genres of music. 80’s artists took risks and went against the grain with collaborations such as Run DMC and Aerosmythe’s groundbreaking classics “Walk this Way”. Michael Jackson, the undisputed pop king of the 80’s, featured rock god Eddie Van Halen on the Thriller album to lay down the infamous “Beat it” guitar solo. Funk legend Lionelle Richie collaborated with the country group Alabama on “Deep River
Woman”. Richie also collaborated with Kenny Roger’s on the song “Lady” which became #1 in 1980. And there are many more examples of this genre mingling.

The fact that so many artists from different genres collaborated is not unique to the 80’s, but the fact that it was able to capture the interest of so many and go pop cross-culturally around the world is truly phenomenal in retrospect. 80’s music speaks volumes of the pluralism and globalization that was just beginning to explode in the 80’s. This is now common place, but in the 80’s the magnitude of success for such a mixture was new.

There was a lot of experimentation and freedom for many artists to try new things. The 90’s and early 2000’s music have an unmistakable steady tightening of genre’s toward very specific markets each with its own plastic commercialized formula that makes much of the music sound artificial. The 80’s had a lot of new genres of music that (at the time) almost defied categorization and ended up defining what are now multi-billion dollar markets and world-wide cultural phenomenons.

Disco/Funk begat rap songs begat Hip-Hop culture. Electronic music group Depeche Mode were almost their own genre of music that spawned an entire subculture, goth which is now called “emo”. Hip-hop music is another 80’s upstart that never went away. Even though the first artist officially called “rappers” (Sugar Hill Gang) started in ’70’s Disco clubs, the urban phenomenon known as hip-hop that includes so many other urban categories didn’t take hold until the 80’s.

If your from Generation Y, born late 80s and 90’s (born during or after the commercialized rise of cable, the Internet and cell phones) then the following 80’s stars will seem like totally different people to you as they do for a Gen X, like my self:

Gen X: Michael Jackson Undisputed King of Pop, musical/dancing genius, creator of thriller, strange man - Gen Y: strange looking white guy possible Child molester

Gen X: Cindy Loper - “Girls just want to have fun” “True Color” Crazy hair -
Gen Y: Who?

Gen X: Wham - Awesome gay duo of the 80s - Gen Y: George Micheals is gay?

Gen X: Duran Duran - The Reflex | Gen Y: who?

Gen X: Madonna - 80’s Pop Diva | Gen Y: Damn, Madonna is old

Gen X: Prince - Musical Genius | Gen Y: who?.. oh, he played in the super bowl

Gen X: Whitney Houston - Incredible 80s R&B singer who had a terrible fall from grace | Gen Y: Crackhead married to Bobby Brown

Popularity: 43% [?]

Ultimate 80’s Songs (created in 1995)

Ultimate 80’s Songs Page is a corny looking site with lots for great 80’s content.

Originally inspired on a long car trip during which we named the songs that would be on the ideal compilation CD, this list now consists of songs that we feel best capture the spirit of the 1980s (and a few from outside the 80s). This means it’s subjective - what was popular in the eighties for us may not have been for you.

There a couple of songs that I’m surprised didn’t make the list: Depheche Mode “Own Personal Jesus”, “Baby Be Mine” Micheal Jackson (that is a personal fave), Prince “Purple Rain”. And there is zero rap on there, which must have been done because they just don’t like rap. But overall the list is amazing. Somebody spent a lot of time on it. I’ll have to submit it to digg.

Here it is –> 80’s Songs

Popularity: 42% [?]

John Lennon Resurrected in the 80’s via Julian Lennon

Popularity: 41% [?]

madonna in the 80’s

Madonna in the 80’s was a pop teeny bopper turned bad girl. You can see this trend of development in artist like Christina Aguilera and Britney Spears in the late 90’s.

In the early to mid-80’s, Madonna’s style had a more subtle sexy appeal compared to her very controversial, sexual, taboo pushing image she portrayed in the late 80’s and 90’s.

You can see her style in full force in a movie called “Desperately Seeking Susan”. You’ll see her chewing gum with a worldly, crass New York swagger. She wore her trademark lace gloves, girly bandanna partially hidden in her teased, puddle hair.

more of Madonna in the 80’s

Popularity: 47% [?]

8 Tracks R Us @ 8 Track Heaven

8 Track Heaven features 80s hits.

courtesy of highhopesgarden.com - tapestry of goodness from IOWA

Popularity: 47% [?]

Prince, half time ‘07, and VMAs 06

According to Sports by Brooks, Prince will play during the Half Time show:

http://sportsbybrooks.com/princesuperbowlhalftimeshow.html

I watch the VMA’s tonight. I was cool. One of my favorite entertainers, Jack Black, hosted. The performances by Beyonce, Justine and Dance Panic! at the Disco were among my personal favorites. But there was something missing.

Prince! Where the hell was Black Sweat!

Prince is one Sexy Motha F***a! His whole image is… I don’t know.. Prince. It was ultra sexy to the point of bi-sexual. He always had the most beautiful woman I’d ever seen on his arm. And you could never tell whether they were married or engaged. The only thing you knew for sure was that Prince had sex with her. So why is it we can’t see Prince even sitting in the audience.
Mtv is so damn pop there were only like two people on stage older than 45! Montell Williams and Lou Reed (take a walk on the wild side).
One year they had Stevie Wonder perform with Alicia Keys and Lenny Kravitz and then there was Run DMC, Kid Rock and Aerosmythe and Modonna and Mrs. Federline. Those are the kind of things they should do more of. I guess that is why I don’t watch much MTV any more. Its all POP divas, and lame reality shows now. In the 80s, MTV was MUSIC Television. Now its a big ass media comany that out shines the music. Remember the debut of Thriller on MTV, YO! MTV Raps, even Head Banger’s Ball (I think they brought that back, though satan now owns it as the rock is completely demonic - MTV2).

I don’t even mess with MTV anymore it is way too “McDonald’s” for me. It used to be about rebellion and pushing the limits of what is exeptable, but now it is the status quo of pop commercialism. It caters to a crowd I feel that I am growing out of.
IMF - International Music Feed is pretty awesome. Not alot of retro 80s stuff but still great if your a music lover and like to hear new things. I guess to hear PRINCE and Purple Rain I’m gonna have to pop in the tape.  VH1 keeps it real.  MTV sucks.

Popularity: 74% [?]

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