OK people. Dermot has thrown down the gauntlet. Due to a regrettable Mandarin Orange event, only one song from the 1980s will be saved. All others will be cast into the void of memory where Vanilla Ice B-sides shiver. Choose now. What 1980s song do you keep when all others are lost? - ThreadSky

tupped.bsky.social • 72 days ago

OK people.

Dermot has thrown down the gauntlet.

Due to a regrettable Mandarin Orange event, only one song from the 1980s will be saved.

All others will be cast into the void of memory where Vanilla Ice B-sides shiver.

Choose now.

What 1980s song do you keep when all others are lost?

Reposted from Dermot Casey

If we could save only one song from the 1980s that would be my one

Comments

docdok.bsky.social•72 days ago

Hey Manhattan! Prefab sprout

https://youtu.be/VDDJPbWq22E?si=MO_wYiCCy6beBTvv

tupped.bsky.social•72 days ago

I like that he is a ManInAHatIn Manhatten

docdok.bsky.social•72 days ago

Pete Townsend plays the rhythm guitar chops on that … not a lot of people know that !

daraghobrien.bsky.social•72 days ago

Hmm Alberquerque by Prefab Sprout would probably be one of mine.

But I have many. The 1980s was boom time for some of my more eccentric musical preferences. Like, could I include Escape by Jeff Beck on the grounds it is just an instrumental?

ccrgmac.bsky.social•72 days ago

Those strings.

spudsnbutter.bsky.social•72 days ago

Oooh... tough one...

- A Rainy Night in Soho - The Pogues

Genius song...

spudsnbutter.bsky.social•72 days ago

https://youtu.be/PSyL-TrD_2g?feature=shared

eslsys.bsky.social•72 days ago

Great choice

akellyucc.bsky.social•72 days ago

I’d pick this - the perfect pop song with the most perfect intro that feels like a masterclass in what each instrument should do (especially those drums)

https://youtu.be/scif2vfg1ug?si=KiVw_RevJO70qhDG

lilianedwards.bsky.social•72 days ago

Yehhh. I named a *zine" after that. But also reminds me of Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now which certainly described much of *my* early 80s..

eslsys.bsky.social•72 days ago

The Cure, still making great tunes
https://www.nme.com/reviews/album/the-cure-songs-of-a-lost-world-review-lyrics-3801637

akellyucc.bsky.social•72 days ago

They really are - I love the new album

playingwithdust.bsky.social•72 days ago

Surely Grace Jones' song about poor driving practices..

https://youtu.be/Tc1IphRx1pk?feature=shared

tupped.bsky.social•72 days ago

Should the world lose Eternal Flame by the Bangles? What about Bowie’s Ashes to Ashes?

You may never hear the epic chords of Purple Rain again.

The consequences are seismic.

shanewriter.bsky.social•72 days ago

There can only be one:
https://youtu.be/UMPC8QJF6sI?si=sk7C-qpy1R-n8PcG

shanewriter.bsky.social•72 days ago

And if it must be Bowie, it must be
https://youtu.be/YsqlXkkEKxI?si=Zco0KVjXtzLP_ZC8

diagionals.bsky.social•72 days ago

Agreed 👍 live version is incredible
https://youtu.be/Tihj-HbRx-Y?feature=shared

diagionals.bsky.social•72 days ago

https://youtu.be/Tihj-HbRx-Y?feature=shared

simonb84.bsky.social•72 days ago

This entire thread means nothing to me.
https://youtu.be/xJeWySiuq1I?si=iQEALXMlVBlT1uB-

teflondub.bsky.social•72 days ago

While Sade’s soothing ‘Smooth Operator’ should survive, if we’re keeping only one song from the 80s, shouldn’t it be a piece of art that challenges the status quo? Lots of lovely songs have been mentioned, but I’ll makes a case for the other end of the dial: N.W.A.’s ‘Straight Outta Compton’.

gerrymcbride.bsky.social•72 days ago

Gonna put in a good word for Whole Of The Moon

jimmycire.bsky.social•72 days ago

https://youtu.be/5UXnulANF8g?si=P61CYl7R1T090RuX

trishbrussels.bsky.social•72 days ago

An impossible task, but Sinead O’Connor has to be among the star choices - anything from her perfect the Lion and the Cobra, with Mandinka shading it for me https://open.spotify.com/track/6TYckNar2KHob86P5JNETu?si=Xxcup-f0Ssi2sr2QGGF3ew

ickletayto.bsky.social•72 days ago

It's hard because I love the decade but I think for me it's The Cure and Just Like Heaven.

marcasocathluain.bsky.social•72 days ago

https://youtu.be/4kjeWGQ175g?si=6fDf8c9A2AOozmlC

tupped.bsky.social•72 days ago

Yess!

mahoganygaspipes.bsky.social•72 days ago

Heard that in the 70s

marcasocathluain.bsky.social•72 days ago

1982 buddy. You just think you heard it in the 70s

mahoganygaspipes.bsky.social•72 days ago

You got me.

In my defence, I was smoking a lot back then

marcasocathluain.bsky.social•72 days ago

Haha, no bother man. Hazy days

mahoganygaspipes.bsky.social•72 days ago

Dave fanning played The Message. Obviously I assumed it was pirate radio Fanning rather than 2FM Fanning

I DO remember hearing The revolution will not be televised on Radio Luxembourg 208 AM.
Took me years to understand what Gil Scott-Heron was actually saying.

markdowling.bsky.social•72 days ago

Telegraph Road by Dire Straits (1982) is 14 minutes long. Quality song, but also not having to repeat as often. https://open.spotify.com/track/0Bg100ruK1ZD7H96rNo6fR?si=OfQ4svl6T8GRvrIvLAAbqQ&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A4hJqOIahWodpSJU6uDgjvN

lilianedwards.bsky.social•72 days ago

Teenage Kicks by the Undertones

riainceol.bsky.social•72 days ago

Ask me again and it’ll be different but right now it’s Plastic Love by Takeuchi Mariya.

ultachnolairgeach.bsky.social•72 days ago

Absolutely slaps. Every time.

https://youtu.be/qmOLtTGvsbM?si=usz19V_xtxpDq-mf

sabrinadent.bsky.social•72 days ago

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HyIVQEZqkVk

I'm reserving the right to choose two. Here's my choice for songs that were eligible for Billboard/Hot 100:

tupped.bsky.social•72 days ago

You can pick two- but I’ll only let one survive.

sabrinadent.bsky.social•72 days ago

Well okay Oz, GET TO IT.

tupped.bsky.social•72 days ago

Straight outta Compton, no hesitation.

tupped.bsky.social•72 days ago

I can Decide.

sabrinadent.bsky.social•72 days ago

OK now I'm back to being conflicted.

Straight Out of Compton

or

Fuck Tha Police

Decide.

sabrinadent.bsky.social•72 days ago

Fuck tha police ❤️

sabrinadent.bsky.social•72 days ago

But the 80s were the golden age of hip hop, which meant barely making it out of marginalia so fuck that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TMZi25Pq3T8

navi226.bsky.social•72 days ago

Right now I think it's this.

https://youtu.be/cYQTL-ws6p4?si=_2Qlt3hVTRhy5V-J

It's a lovely tune and the sound (those drums), the video (the key-tar) are just the icing on the cake.

Come back in five minutes it'll be something by the Housemartins, mind. Or Pet Shop Boys. Or that Microdisney one...

lilianedwards.bsky.social•72 days ago

Oh yeh that's good. Another unlikely one noone remembers is English Rose by the Jam

gollyzilla.bsky.social•72 days ago

I just bought them on sale Parker and can’t stop thinking about The Jam

sullubrious.bsky.social•71 days ago

Incredibly tough choice but it’s got to be this. So many happy memories, this song as a thread through life. It transports me to another era, another timeline, certainly a better mood regardless of the context. Cannot help but move and be moved. Transformative. Walked up the aisle to it.

thejoegriffin.bsky.social•72 days ago

Walk This Way by Run DMC and Aerosmith

tupped.bsky.social•72 days ago

Sneaking two genres in at once.

thejoegriffin.bsky.social•72 days ago

That's partly why i picked it. There is a lot of ground to cover with one song!

dezlink.bsky.social•72 days ago

RES by Cardiacs
https://alphabet-business-concern.bandcamp.com/track/res-2

treasaigh.bsky.social•72 days ago

In the true spirit of punk: burn it all

homebrewandhacking.bsky.social•72 days ago

Sending out the message across the nation/
You've tuned into our radio station/ sending out a signal to cure isolation/
It's called P w e i zation

johnmaguire.bsky.social•72 days ago

A Guy Called Gerald's Voodoo Ray: a blueprint we can rebuild from

tupped.bsky.social•72 days ago

Oh, I like this one.

colmori.bsky.social•72 days ago

Great tune, had to check the date, scrapes in at ‘89. Great lyrics too.. 😉

kevnmur.bsky.social•72 days ago

Smalltown Boy

siliconbally.com•72 days ago

Donna Summer’s I Feel Love. This was one of the most influential 80s songs in club scene in 90s/00s/10s. We could lose everything else and this would still be the seed for the future.

joshea.bsky.social•72 days ago

Jane Says

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i7Q_8q3XXrQ

domquixote974.bsky.social•72 days ago

Pixies - Cactus

https://youtu.be/8w8NgvDf4aM

domquixote974.bsky.social•72 days ago

Or Freak Scene by Dinosaur Jr
Or Kool Thing by Sonic Youth
Or
Or
Or

mrpadz.bsky.social•72 days ago

1989 is still the 80s, yeah?
https://youtu.be/NSD11dnphg0?si=dfFaYFP7ELipFYlj

bleary.off-the-records.com•72 days ago

Ulysses 31 theme song

troublebob.bsky.social•72 days ago

In search of Earth, flying into the night?

tupped.bsky.social•72 days ago

Until you find the Kingdom of Hades, their bodies will stay as lifeless as stone.

troublebob.bsky.social•72 days ago

I'm disappointed Simon. I thought you'd be more about "bringing peace and justice for all"

annstapleton.bsky.social•72 days ago

tupped.bsky.social•72 days ago

You have come with a very strong 80s portmanteau.

navi226.bsky.social•72 days ago

Excellent choice.

But that's from the nineties.

Love John's story about the miners etc

tupped.bsky.social•72 days ago

I have final say on this, due to an accident of alternative history, and I say it is an 80s track.

annstapleton.bsky.social•72 days ago

Yeah, but the miners were from the 80s - they protested Section 28 then so 🤷

annstapleton.bsky.social•72 days ago

Scarlet for me - the video was missing

tommahalla.bsky.social•72 days ago

Me too.

elaineedwards.bsky.social•72 days ago

It’s magnificent.

annstapleton.bsky.social•72 days ago

Yes, it's a fabulous moment of solidarity

blueskybabs.bsky.social•72 days ago

Love the Pet Shop Boys. This is amazing.

annstapleton.bsky.social•72 days ago

And yes, I get this wasn't strictly 80's

bankphysics.bsky.social•71 days ago

this one.....
https://youtu.be/sZVKGwrTIv4?feature=shared

saoirseryan.bsky.social•72 days ago

Respectable by Mel and Kim. You know it is the only choice.

https://youtu.be/ykDsmAqExH8?si=mKsbdwLuJI4Td7c0

jenniferomeara5.bsky.social•72 days ago

You're showing out now.

saoirseryan.bsky.social•72 days ago

I'm just getting fresh at the weekend

davecarroll01.bsky.social•72 days ago

Was gonna say 1985 Take on Me, but their 2017 Acoustic version (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UB11caUeHQY) but then I remembered Dexys Midnight Runners and Come On Eileen :-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BODDyZRF6A

eamonn-red.bsky.social•72 days ago

Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) - 1985 😉

(the distilled essence of the 80's)

bioniclaura.bsky.social•72 days ago

Now that’s a good one.

eamonn-red.bsky.social•72 days ago

And if that's not available then maybe a good counterpoint is Hazel O'Connor - Will You? - 1980 😊😬

lilianedwards.bsky.social•72 days ago

Oh god I had that as a 45 and played it approx 7 billion times. But you have also reminded me of Shakespeare's Sister

eamonn-red.bsky.social•71 days ago

Loved Shakespeare's Sister 😊

faduda.bsky.social•72 days ago

I don't know which song it will be, but she sang it.

badatstuff.bsky.social•72 days ago

Pump Up the Volume by MARRS never stops giving.

As does Stop by Sam Brown.

jonkskearns.bsky.social•72 days ago

Ah impossible ask but this just came on my playlist and it's up there https://youtu.be/I8ZIErShjw0?feature=shared

jsweetabix.bsky.social•72 days ago

I have 'waiting for a star to fall' stuck in my head and no doubt it will be there for the next three days.

jsweetabix.bsky.social•72 days ago

Anyway, real answer? 'once in a lifetime' has to be up there.

lilianedwards.bsky.social•72 days ago

Oh. God. Yes.

aubreyr.bsky.social•72 days ago

Side B of Hounds of Love is one song right?

tupped.bsky.social•72 days ago

No, the Mandarin Orange event is a true catastrophe.

darylfeehely.com•72 days ago

https://youtu.be/9jK-NcRmVcw?si=2qrSBQOldKptFswd

tupped.bsky.social•72 days ago

There is no judgment here, except for this.

darylfeehely.com•72 days ago

Ha! I stand by my decision🤘

mmch.bsky.social•72 days ago

It 🎄 has to be this. I’m not going to justify it or explain it, I’m just right😎

n0tabot.bsky.social•72 days ago

Impossible!

https://open.spotify.com/playlist/051ehZgDl3xYDr4FIS0ZxC?si=9Wzebco4R1iRP8fArOE16A&pi=e-gX7wmP1mTT-9

n0tabot.bsky.social•72 days ago

But also today the choice would be @bunnymen.com Ocean Rain

https://youtu.be/p_AsT8Ney4A?si=YvJm3qlaezcs-MUh

tjmcintyre.com•72 days ago

iamreddave.bsky.social•72 days ago

If you like Graceland this mixtape of some of the influences is great https://www.kleptones.com/blog/2012/06/28/hectic-city-15-paths-to-graceland/

tjmcintyre.com•72 days ago

Queued up to play, thanks!

johnpeavoy.bsky.social•72 days ago

Ok, now I’m very unimpressed. Had the winner, except for the small matter of a couple of months. 😱😁 https://youtu.be/1snv-0jCiWY?si=F7YpFXXj1qhB-gae Tubeway Army - “Are Friends Electric?” …. Back to ze board of drawing …

joecusack.bsky.social•72 days ago

Has to be this one:
https://youtu.be/X2LTL8KgKv8?si=2t4PnG51n_cpwXH3

limerickblog.bsky.social•72 days ago

Mick Lally - The Byroad to Glenroe

alienitems.bsky.social•72 days ago

https://youtu.be/0o7xojyeX2s?si=Yk1b8OHGK_iNGVnN

sarmcs.bsky.social•72 days ago

Loved this at the time and had forgotten it for about 30 years

alienitems.bsky.social•72 days ago

It's a hidden gem 🙂

sarmcs.bsky.social•72 days ago

I have an Alternative 80s playlist on Spotify and sorry I can’t narrow it down to 10 never mind 1. And scrolling through the comments I’m adding rather than taking away - definitely a few I’d forgotten

sftoboston.bsky.social•72 days ago

Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence

navi226.bsky.social•72 days ago

I have had that stuck in my head for the best part of a week and, really, I'm in no rush to lose is.

fififinx.bsky.social•72 days ago

If it were what I'd rather keep: When Doves Cry, I Want to Break Free, Time After Time, Call Me, Rent, Crackity Jones...

But I think *the* emblematic song of the 80s was Beat It, unfortunately (hated it then, loathe it now)

atticuspeirgorm.bsky.social•72 days ago

We all know now that Enya was a profit, an Irish Nostradamus if you will. So with all the Christmas presents being held hostage in holyhead the only song we should console ourselves with is this one. 😢
https://youtu.be/LTrk4X9ACtw?si=_39SsJVyNUUrGknI

fionnagain.bsky.social•72 days ago

God, this is tough, but this song never fails to bring me to a different place https://youtu.be/wp43OdtAAkM

fionnagain.bsky.social•72 days ago

But v close seconds would be Small Town Boy , Let's Dance, Love Will Tear Us Apart and There is a light that never goes out

eslsys.bsky.social•72 days ago

Iconic 80s song beautifully reimagined
https://youtu.be/7-pWSHTQOFs?feature=shared

rathbaner.bsky.social•72 days ago

https://open.spotify.com/track/6jBCehpNMkwFVF3dz4nLIW?si=-gJCg4RgQjWhJRW_CccfoA

pruemagoo.bsky.social•72 days ago

https://youtu.be/LEMJQxDIIQE

annakkowalkowski.bsky.social•72 days ago

If it's ok i d Love to enter another, i love listening to 80s music 😃 Living on Video, Trans X
https://youtu.be/b9xBAtCsCTQ?si=WLqxGOnb669tmy9c

annakkowalkowski.bsky.social•72 days ago

Mexican Radio, Wall of Voodoo.

regcoppinger.bsky.social•72 days ago

Oh, we have to keep George and Aretha.
https://youtu.be/h-99VpKPsUk?si=KpAA1zPQwWl7PoWi

tupped.bsky.social•72 days ago

I feel that’s a good choice. But will you see The Whole of the Moon destroyed to do it?

regcoppinger.bsky.social•72 days ago

Oohh, let me think about it! 🤔Actually yes, I will.

tupped.bsky.social•72 days ago

Decisive decisioning

lilianedwards.bsky.social•72 days ago

I'd keep Jesus to a Child from him. Saddest love song ever

brianconnell.bsky.social•72 days ago

I really can't believe you didn't go for Teardrops... 🫀💔
https://youtu.be/R8AOAap6_k4

regcoppinger.bsky.social•72 days ago

A close second....

siobhanmcelduff.bsky.social•72 days ago

Going by a friend who gigs in pubs and who is asked to play it over and over, 70% of Irish pub goers would save 'Grace'. Much to his despair.

mmch.bsky.social•72 days ago

His despair and mine.

elaineedwards.bsky.social•72 days ago

Just in: not quintessentially “80s” but the world would be so much the poorer without this song. https://youtu.be/PSyL-TrD_2g?si=UwkQZUN-8X8idsCm

wendylyon.bsky.social•72 days ago

Forget it. I don’t want to live in this world

lferrie.bsky.social•72 days ago

My first instinct was also The Waterboys but, on reflection, I think it would have to be this, which is both the perfect pop sing and also something much deeper. https://youtu.be/3XDmasbARtE?si=U3cRbiXLpkNRQ_Ym

corkseashell.bsky.social•72 days ago

Spandau Ballet Through the Barricades... come at me, I don't mind 😂

orlam90.bsky.social•72 days ago

https://youtu.be/FTQbiNvZqaY?feature=shared

coreilly.bsky.social•72 days ago

Only if I had to..

https://youtu.be/0c4v7fp5GC8?si=o9dng38Z1R1xuct8

sopranovox.bsky.social•72 days ago

Another vote for Troy

https://youtu.be/0c4v7fp5GC8?si=7-XhphSsTjvl_09T

stancarey.bsky.social•72 days ago

After a bout of applied agony, I've narrowed it down to two:
—New Order, Blue Monday
—Kate Bush, Running Up That Hill

tupped.bsky.social•72 days ago

Every one of these suggestions represents Massive Choices.

We are consigning Purple Rain to oblivion, for example.

dermotcasey.bsky.social•72 days ago

also "Sometimes it snows in April", Kate Bush and not forgetting Lady in Red

tupped.bsky.social•72 days ago

Not all losses are sad.

sabrinadent.bsky.social•72 days ago

Wuthering Heights is peak Kate Bush and Lady in Red can die in a fire.

tupped.bsky.social•72 days ago

Went to college with the muse for Blond Hair Blue Jeans and, to be fair, the title did not mislead.

stancarey.bsky.social•72 days ago

Wuthering Heights was 1970s, but I have the matches ready for Lady in Red

dermotcasey.bsky.social•72 days ago

lots of 80's Kate Bush including one of my first albums 'The Whole Story" on tape. The deBurgh is tongue in cheek. Though the friend who introduced me to Thin Lizzy via The Adventures of Thin Lizzy also introduced me to CdeB via Spanish Train & Other Stories the same afternoon.

stancarey.bsky.social•72 days ago

Massive, painful choices. And already I need to replace once of my picks with Troy by Sinéad O'Connor. Or Mandinka. Dammit.

elaineedwards.bsky.social•72 days ago

Good choices. I think Joy Division’s Love Will Tear Us Apart Again is also up there.

annapr.bsky.social•72 days ago

This thread makes a great playlist, but where’s Bruce?? has to be The River for me.

mhantain.bsky.social•72 days ago

Not quite their usual style, which makes it all the sweeter. They played it for their encore in the Point, twenty odd years ago now.

https://youtu.be/6fXCjSgItgw?si=3L-845LYOw2sn1k6

mmch.bsky.social•72 days ago

I’d find it hard to be without it, though it wasn’t my choice today.