36. Cyndi’s mad orange hair might be dated like lukewarm milk, but “Time After Time” still smells fresh to us. It’s not particularly great, but it was the first time we’d heard him sing something new in more than half a decade, so we were all over it. Best moment: The post-chorus guitar break at 2:00, where Slash tears off the nastiest riff this side of “Simple Man.”. This particular tune starts off with an underrated element of GnR’s arsenal — the rock-boogie swing — and you could almost, almost mistake Rose for a Janis Joplin knockoff here. It’s not that this is an objectively bad performance; it’s just the equivalent of a layup line. My baby thrills me all the time. Few songs from the era are so rich and perfect. Wrapped in chest hair, sunglasses and terry cloth, these feathery dudes were too anonymous to be deserving of the term supergroup. -- S.J.H. 38. “Human Being” (The Spaghetti Incident? It wasn't just a souped-up DeLorean that safely spirited Back to the Future's Marty McFly home to the '80s: He was also aided by this ditty from harmonica-blowing everydad Huey Lewis, who penned the song for the 1985 blockbuster's soundtrack. Now that ’80s nostalgia is into its fourth decade (and shows no signs of slowing down anytime soon), it’s high time we cooked up the definitive list of the best ’80s songs ever. Lyrics to 'Mickey' by Toni Basil. And indeed, it’s tough for anyone who either A) is a woman B) has a mother, sister, or daughter or C) has ever talked to a woman to listen to this song and several others in the GnR repertoire without a twinge or cringe. 32. That, as we’ve seen, is not always easy for Guns to do. RECOMMENDED: The best ’90s songs The best party songs ever made The best classic rock songs The best karaoke songs The best pop songs of all time. Bush was discovered when barely into her teens, knocking out genius tunes on a piano in her cozy Kent, England, home. It’s moody, it’s a little affected with the ambulance workers’ voices trying to save our narrator, and it somehow pulls together for a raging, shrieking climax. Considering the titanic forces at work in this tune, it's relatively understated, but it does ultimately climb to the sparkling heights that both Bowie and Mercury inhabited with such ease. For many they are confined to the back of closets like so many embarrassing high school photos that can’t be parted with. “Running Up That Hill” was so huge because it was her most digestible—though still weird, with its galloping drums and a Fairlight synthesizer hook that sounds like pan pipes from deep space. Best moment: “Is she really goin’ out with him?” Yeah, man, she is. Lyrics. It’s built on a rock-solid foundation (can’t go wrong with the chords from “Hey Jude”, after all) and a nice, simplistic lyrical theme. All of that changed with "What Have You Done for Me Lately," the lead single from her third effort, Control. So, with that caveat: yes, “Back Off Bitch”’s message is as garbage as it is obvious. While the duo achieved its greatest success on home turf, this 1985 ode to London street life was written and recorded in New York, as the pair recalls in our interview, and bristles with urban seediness (note: It’s partly inspired by T.S. Best moment: The one right before you get subjected to this mess. Serving up a heady—occasionally otherworldly—mixture of Afrobeat, funk, pop, rock, disco and psychedelia, the chorus of this existential anthem is huge enough to have stuck around for more than three decades. Unlike “Welcome to the Jungle” or “Mr. Thing is, the “that’s right!” he drops right afterward indicates he knows exactly what he’s doing by trying to shock you. 80. The verse is straightforward jackhammer rock, but it’s in the chorus, with its delicate (!) This song represents the apex of scream-along arena-scale pop-rock. The song’s bittersweet sentiment is perfectly matched by the music—at turns delicate and yearning, then surging and desperate. The music is garden-variety Guns: propulsive, relentless, and — given this is from Illusion — overproduced to a glistening sheen. 51. But the chorus, which finally shows up more than three minutes into this six-minute beast, is one of those soaring orchestral jobs that almost verges on greatness. “So Fine” (Use Your Illusion II)When you’ve got a double album, you’re going to have a decent swath of filler, and that’s “So Fine.” A nice little heartfelt duet between Rose and McKagan, it’s right there on the edge of Chinese Democracy-style overproduction, but way too close to “Knockin’ On Heaven’s Door” to be essential to the overall Guns catalog. There’s a yowling “Jumping Jack Flash” cover out there on the Internet from the band’s early days. “Reckless Life” (G N’ R Lies)“Hey fuckers! You are old. One of the best parts of GnR’s most frantic songs is listening to everyone try to keep up with whoever’s setting the pace. We’ll go with the “take it for what it is” line, though. Has a drum introduction ever sounded this big? Medleys are underrated. Don’t. But “Take On Me” is also distinguished by Harket’s improbably octave-spanning vocals, whose seeming effortlessness has inspired countless screeching karaoke wipeouts. It's impossible to feel bad when this tune's Caribbean-inflected rhythms start pumping from a nearby speaker. Would’ve loved to see this band hammer another 15 songs together into a 20-minute medley. Best moment: The police whistle at 1:19 that cuts the whole damn thing loose. Levitating (feat. “Buick Mackane/Big Dumb Sex” (The Spaghetti Incident? Years later, he would infamously scrawl “slave” on his cheek, and emancipate himself from his given name, referring to himself by a proto-emoji. In this opening cut, big sloppy washes of distorted guitar crashes over a rigid drum machine, as Roland Gift lifts it to the sky with his helium falsetto. Now that “I’ll Be Missing You” is nearly two decades old (gulp), that steady, ceramic, arpeggiated riff is again property of the Police. Tal Bachman, "She's So High" (1999) So peaceful. “Live & Let Die” (Use Your Illusion I)It has now been more time between right now and Use Your Illusion than between Use Your Illusion and the original Wings version of “Live and Let Die.” Damn. For music credits, visit www.RockBand.com. 19 "It Must Have Been Love" - Roxette Hot 100 Peak: No. 2. Like Bowie, she was trained in mime, giving her singles a sense of performance and movement, even if you couldn’t see the nifty videos. The Nigerian-born, U.K.-raised singer-songwriter is in top form on this hit single from her multi-platinum-selling second album, Promise. Oh, but there’s that one more song buried deep within (see No. No ’80s list would be complete without British synth-popsters the Pet Shop Boys. 75. Best moment: Seven seconds in, when the guitar, bass, drums and piano all come down on the beat. Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy Rick Astley - She Wants To Dance With Me Surface - Shower Me With Your Love Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal Love & Rockets - So Alive Donny Osmond - Soldier of Love Tears For Fears - Sowing the Seeds of Love Rem - Stand Paula Abdul - Straight Up Ann Wilson & Robin Zander - Surrender To Me Maybe even right now. Chip Bell from Amargosa Valley, Oh Remember this song from the 80… 11. Maybe not surprising, coming from a band named after an amphetamine, but the U.K. group propels the juddering rhythms of its classic 1982 single like a dynamo, chugging through tempo changes while picking up steam for the big finish. But GnR manages to keep the swing in place (what up, Steven Adler) while still cranking through the classic blues grind. Her erudite songs referenced literature by Emily Brontë and James Joyce, resulting in knotty and outlandish pop music. Best moment: Yeah, uh … nothing here, either. As the 1970s turned in the 1980s, punks and rockers (and there was a difference then) both became enamored with the sounds coming out of New York City. )Part of the problem with covering punk tunes is that the originals are so intertwined with the persona and identity of the creators that anyone trying to play them comes off about as convincing as a kid wearing a Batman Halloween costume. Another one that’s nobody’s favorite, but always effective in that Eternal High School Parking Lot that we all cruise through, windows down. That was at the Hampton Coliseum in 1991, I was about three rows away, and Axl had a “I’ve made a terrible mistake” look on his face when security hauled him out of the mire.). “Anything Goes” (Appetite for Destruction)And here we start getting into the meat of the Appetite lineup. Time to dig into actual songs. After 11 songs that absolutely vaporized any band that had recorded anything since Never Mind the Bollocks, Guns closed their debut with this beast of a song, a hard inversion of “Bohemian Rhapsody” that, instead of a choral interlude, apparently features Axl having sex with Stephen Adler’s girlfriend on-mic. They’re not a knife in the ribs, they’re an 18-wheeler through the front door. “This I Love” (Chinese Democracy)Chinese Democracy is the Batman vs. Superman of albums: overwrought, unnecessarily drab, full of forced gravitas, but with the seeds of a decent core buried deep within. Commented Mick Jones, of the recording process: "We did a few takes, and it was good, but it was still a bit tentative. Directed by Andrew Bergman. This is the kind of song that was giving parents and other bands nightmares, but for very different reasons. Sometimes all you really need for a truly memorable hit is economy, as proved by this stone-cold classic from 1988. It’s a very good thing Axl didn’t come of age in the Internet era, or he’d put out an entire album of rants at commenters. The Jesus and Mary Chain's "Just Like Honey" captures a certain proto-shoegazey, bittersweet longing that pristinely characterizes the hazy milieu of the ‘80s—not to mention gave Sophia Coppola's Lost In Translation a killer outro a few seconds before the credits roll. 18. But before all that, he managed to lay down some of the decade’s best tracks, including this nihilistic, Nile Rodgers–assisted soul boogie from 1983. 5. By this point, you know where you stand on this one: You hear Jonathan Cain's piano intro, and you either swell up with joy or wince in pain. It’s still somehow a hopeful song, or at least has the appearance of hope … and that’s about the best you could get in late-80s Los Angeles. Then they [the choir] got round in a circle, held hands and said the Lord's Prayer. Even that sampling by MC Hammer can't diminish its greatness. The rest of the song is classic Guns kick … you hear this, and you want to run around the room lip-syncing like you’re running around a 100-foot stage, Axl-style. The verse is contemplative and blue, an account of how bruised and confused the heart can feel, then the chorus sweeps you up with a heartfelt plea to understand what the hell's going on—it's blustery, sure, but also uplifting, featuring the New Jersey Mass Choir, the Thompson Twins and Dreamgirls star Jennifer Holliday. Wasted On You Morgan Wallen. 78. 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