Please post the fabulous songs/sounds from the decade that are NOT cliche-numbers yet (may have been) under-rated or forgotten.

Here is my first one.

The artist did not score nearly half a dozen wives for nothing. Here is Rod Stewart singing '...Young Hearts will be free tonite..'. This one should suit since it's a long weekend.

Alannah Myles - Black velvet

Are you lonesome tonight- Elvis Presly

Down Under by Men At Work .. It was a huge hit in 1983

One of my all time favorites from the decade ... Moody Blues and "Your Wildest Dreams"

A '79 song but was a huge disco hit in the early eighties during the last days of disco ...

1986 .. a band called "Pseudo Echo" had a hit with their version of "Funky Town" ... ... Many in Nepal misheard "Got a Move on" as "Pyaro Nepal", esp in the original version by Lipps Inc.

Another late '70s hit that was still big during early eighties. Who can forget Village People's Y.M.C.A. It's been said that the YMCA people were at first apprehensive about the song using their trademark name and a legal battle was due but when the song became a hit, the officials thought the song was a free commercial for them .. and they were in fact happy with it.

I am in a "disco" mood today .. so here is one more ... Weather Girls with "It's Raining Men". RuPaul had a hit with her version of this song in 1997 when she released this song as a duet with original Weather Girl Martha Wash. Then more recently Spice Girl Geri Halliwell also had some success with her version. This song has been a gay anthem too.

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For your viewing pleasure too, the video features a gorgeous girl. No wonder the girl is a Czech.

Here are the Cars quite appropritely with Drive:

Today I want to share some of the eighties' headbangers ... starting with Motley Crue and their anthemic "Girls! Girls! Girls!"

RATT with their 1984 smash hit "Round and Round"

Eighties shock rockers W.A.S.P. with Sunset And Babylon. The band is still around and their next album is slated for release this year.

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The video that unseated Michael Jackson's "Beat It" from MTV's #1 spot. British metal band Def Leppard's "Photograph" from their classic album "Pyromania"

One of the most popular heavy metal songs of the '80s ... Quiet Riot with "Cum On Feel The Noize"

Another classic metal band from the era .. Dokken with their most popular song "Heaven Sent"

Scorpions was one of the bands that were immensely popular among us highschool kids in Nepal in the eighties. This is their anthem "Rock You Like A Hurricane"

Ozzy Osbourne's The Ultimate Sin .. this video spoofs the TV show "Dallas"

'70s hard rock band Judas Priest continued to be popular in the eighties ...

by mid-80s, heavy metal had become more like pop music .. like this one by Bon Jovi ..