42 favourite songs from -83

Sometimes wonder if any period can come more far away from my music taste than 1983...? However there's still enough of splendid pieces to fill a whole castle - at least of sand.

(in this list I don't count the many swedish songs I've also heard, just those in english)



1

OLYMPIA
Jon Anderson

2

MOONLIGHT SHADOW
Mike Oldfield feat. Maggie Reilly

3

MAD WORLD
Tears For Fears

4

(KEEP FEELING) FASCINATION
The Human League

5

FLASHDANCE... WHAT A FEELING!
Irene Cara

6

UPTOWN GIRL
Billy Joel

7

SECRET MESSAGES
Electric Light Orchestra

8

LOVE ISN'T LOVE... [STRANGER = FRÄMLING]
Carola

9

SWEET DREAMS (ARE MADE OF THIS)
Eurythmics

10

TOTAL ECLIPSE OF THE HEART
Bonnie Tyler

11

THE HEAT IS ON
Agnetha Fältskog

12

KARMA CHAMELEON
Culture Club

13

ONLY YOU
The Flying Pickets [cover of Yazoo]

14

ROCKIN' GIRLS
Sparks

15

ROCK THIS TOWN
Stray Cats

16

GARDEN PARTY
Marillion

17

THE SPELL
Jon Anderson

18

(AIN'T NOTHING GONNA) BREAK MY STRIDE
Matthew Wilder

19

SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY
U2

20

AVERAGE PERSON
Paul McCartney

21

LOVE OF THE COMMON PEOPLE
Paul Young

22

TO LOVE
Agnetha Fältskog

23

TIME AFTER TIME
Cyndi Lauper

24

COLD AS CHRISTMAS (IN THE MIDDLE OF THE YEAR)
Elton John

25

PILGRIMAGE
R.E.M.

26

TAKING IT ALL TOO HARD
Genesis

27

WHISPERS OF THE NORTH
Gordon Lightfoot

28

IN A BIG COUNTRY
Big Country

29

OKINAWA
Indochine

30

NOBODY'S DIARY
Yazoo [Alison Moyet]

31

YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE
Phil Collins [cover of Supreems]

32

MOTHER
Police

33

SUFFER THE CHILDREN
Tears For Fears

34

MORE THAN A PARTY
Depeche Mode

35

I TAKE THE DICE
Duran Duran

36

SIXTY SHELLS ON A THIRTY-OUGHT-SIX
Tom Waits

37

DANGER AHEAD (the endless summer is dead)
Electric Light Orchestra

38

ROMEO
Donna Summer, from Flashdance

39

RED RED WINE
UB 40 [cover of Neil Diamond]

40

FEELS LIKE HEAVEN
Fiction Factory

41

THE SINKING FEELING
The The

42

CENTRE OF ETERNITY
Ozzy Osbourne




Probably will present 41 more songs soon...

Recalled many memories from around 1983 during last months, a time when I started school and yet knew nothing about the contemporay culture, but began to be conscious about something outside there, the pop phenomenon...




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