Reminds me of my first (and only) trip to Florida as a kid. It was playing on the radio one night driving through Georgia, and many times afterward.

Reminds me of the original "satellite era", when dish's were the size of swimming pools and you had to go out and crank them by hand to point it. This song was popular when we had ours.

One of my favorite songs; I always wished I could listen to it whenever I wanted, but I didn't have the album or anything to play it on. Only a small FM radio.

A very moody, deep song; for me anyway. Also on Miami Vice once I think.

Remember when you could actually pronounce his name?

"Forget about the worries on your mind, you can leave them all behind..."

What can I say?

Very catchy tune

Still one of my favorite songs.

The Breakfast Club! This song is the 80's

Great song!

Great album, "Songs from the High Chair."

A one hit band. This song rocks!

On a lot of people's top ten lists.

It wasn't her biggest hit, but I liked it. She is still big after 20 years, what a career!

Album of the Year 1984.

Classic 80's

This early Eighties hit had a huge impact on music and began the music video revolution.

Just a really good song!

This song is one of the most played songs in radio history.

Okay, so this barely counts, but I recall a time in which this was THE most so-called nasty thing on the radio to those of us who weren't very far in our schooling...

For some reason, when I was little, I never wanted this song to end.

I should really just nominate the entire 'Sports' album.

Another great soundtrack (Top Gun) and more great music. Great song to play also when you're getting into rush hour traffic.

The deep voice part is just too catchy to forget.

Wow.. I vaguely recall seeing the video to this once... But the album, 'Songs from the Big Chair' is the stuff.

The video's one thing, but NOBODY can mistake the music. Turn it on in the car, crank it up, everyone's happy.

Anyone recall watching Discovery Channel's 'Wings'? They used to play this when I watched my favorite fighter jets doing maneuvers and stuff.

Ditto on #1, but no matter what the situation is when I hear the song, I have to pound out the one drum fill.

The whole Miami Vice Soundtrack says it all.

No big comment-just listen to the song!

Conjures up a religious hymn! I WANT ROCK-n-ROLL! YOU BETCHA!!

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!! JUST LEAVE ME ALONE!!!

This song flipped a switch in my brain! I was leaning towards metal-this song cemented it!

KOOOOOOluukuukuukoooluukuukuu! Fell on the floor and ROLLED!!

I wore mine--DID YOU?!

You can FEEL Freddie giving eveything he had left. Thank you Freddie!

"I lost my job-they shook me outta my tree!" What rocker couldn't relate to that in the 80's?!

NEVER get tired of hearing it!! HELLO TREV!!!!!!

Teri Nunn"s voice is pure magic!

The whole album ruled. And it's GNF'nR. No questions.

U2 has never sucked and this is a song for generations, not just the 80's.

One of the great classic rockers comes through again in the 90's.

God is she hot or what?

Did Rocky make this song or did this song make Rocky? Talk amongst yourselves.

Did they even make a song that really sucks? I don't think so.

We all loved it, and no one should say anything to the contrary.

Hey, it's Michael, he owned the 80's.

No doubt. Was a set-up to so many other songs.

No song revolutionized the metal industry as this one. It is the fountain which all other metal came from.

What a band. What a song. Sigh...

You can't get past the 80s without loving at least one of New Order's track. Definitely a killer.

Fantastic band from Down Under. Certainly one of the best 80s tracks of all time.

I mean, just listen to the ending...

A great old track of the early 80s. Such a wonderfully nostalgic song. Thank God for Napster!!!

Help! I'm going weak on my knees!

One of the best romantic songs ever written. How can anyone not fall in love with this...

Another great band of the 80s. The 80s would never be the same without these guys. Listen to the start of this and you'll know why...

I'm such a HUGE fan of Depeche Mode. This is but one of the many many tracks I love from them.

How can one song have such a lasting impact on someone? Makes me glad to be a part of the 80s. Awesome awesome track.

Just put this in to see if anyone was paying attention. Nice beat, but what a strange grouping of performers.

Thank you MTV and thank you Vision Quest. What a great tune.

Is anyone else offended by the cruddy 90's remake? Couldn't they have at least found a guy who could sing the part with as much passion?

I just have to thank Napster for coming along and allowing songs like this to be found again. No longer in print.

I have no idea, but I like it.

Great beat, great sound, great lyri...um, well, they are as obscure as any Duran Duran song, but you sing them anyway.

You must play are drums on this one!

80's pop with a sci-fi feel. MTV only on this gem

Honeymoon Who? Yet another MTV only band. Great song.

An ultimant love song with a twist of 80's pop. Perfect

good album to drum to

yes i know a bit lame

masterbating? thats the first time i heard that

hair today gone tomorrow

um...great in the buzzcocks

complex

great chorus

Short and irresistible as only the best party tunes are, this baby never fails to liven things up. Maybe not one of the great songs of the 80s, but anyone who's heard it won't complain too loudly.

Madonna may be the 80s biggest female power icon, but this song blows the bulk of her stuff away like a rocket going through a jar of M&Ms. Annie Lennox is at her best - fierce, seductive, and in complete control. Liz Phair, PJ Harvey, Ani DiFranco, and countless others have much to thank her for.

Perhaps the saddest, depressing, most misery-filled songs ever released. Sure, it's nearly impossible to figure out what Ian Curtis is mumbling about, but then that hauntingly beautiful keyboard melody comes up again and you're hooked for life. Timeless and universal.

One of the few songs from my mid-to-late-80s metal phase that I can still listen to without feeling like I was a clueless idiot for about four years. Cinderella? Poison? Warrant? Winger? Dear God, what the hell kind of drugs was I on?

A monster of a rock n' blues tune, with one of the most recognizable opening guitar riffs since the Stones' "Satisfaction." Every guy, whether he'd like to admit it or not, would love to be the mean motherfucker described in the lyrics, even for just a day. And I've lost count as to how many movies have used it.

If you don't like this song, you suck.

The only song of the band that a Cure-hating friend of mine could stomach, this one has it all: the dizzy rush of falling in love, the swirling euphoria of being in love, and the bittersweet ache of losing that love. May be one of the most perfect pop songs ever.

One of those songs that you knew would become a classic the first time you heard it. So perfect in its delivery that it fooled everyone (yours truly included) into thinking it was just a pained love ballad. Then stalkers the world over began chanting "I'll be watching you" and you could never listen to it the same way again. An endlessly fascinating jewel.

Now that he seems to have followed Whacko Jacko down the road to the Outer Limits, it's easy to forget that His Royal Purpleness was once a musical innovator of the highest order, a wonderful singer/songwriter, and the horniest sexual badass around. "1999," "When Doves Cry," and "Little Red Corvette," are all favorites, but when this song came out, it literally sounded like nothing else on the radio: sparse, humorous, and oh so funky. Love that scream he does in the last part of the chorus.

Though it's tough to know what being in love is like when you're still in elementary school, this happy tune gave us all a hint that it must be pretty darn fun. Then Mariah Carey came along and fucked it up forever. May she rot in Hell.

The very first music video I saw. Cable had just come to our street in Boston and MTV was still a an extra premium channel that was not available yet!!

I may have been homesick but i still liked to dance

Again, I was in Madrid and wanted to be in Boston.

I was a homesick exchange student in Madrid and got a bootleg cassette of the album. It helped me finish the semester

I don't like him now but but back then he was the MAN

For a guy, I was a romantic

Again, play it, even now, very loud and with a lot of bass

Bass need more bass. And yes Mom I'll turn down the volume (after the song)Still play now the same way.

The song speaks for itself -- it is very passionate and full of sentimental energy. If there were a number 11 on this list, Echo and the Bunnymen's "The Killing Moon" would be listed as the sibling of this great song by OMD

I don't have to say that New Order is masterful and extraordinary when it comes to producing music that touches your heart and emotional nerve. This is a great song, familiar to many, and better than some others (which are overemphasized)

Fun song to listen to and dance to. Virtually forgotten, but I list it here to encourage revisiting.

I love this song. It doesn't need a remix at all. It is perfect for club playing. It is also one of Duran Duran's songs that I feel is in some way underappreciated.

Not as good as Mexican Radio (which I did not nominate as Top 10 because I wish to nominate special songs that are underappreciated), but certainly a passionate song. Lot of angst, in a very classy way.

If you went through the 80s like I did, you would know that this was a well-known song; however, it is easy for great songs to give to other great New Wave songs. This is one that I consider should have been at the forefront continuously; it can never be under-heard. Truly great piece that captures the minimalist style of better New Wave songs.

Virtually unknown -- but it showed up in "Silence of the Lambs" ---- The band has not left a legacy (in fact I think it was a duo and it dissolved), but the song seeps with 80s-ness

I think Thomas Dolby is forever pinned to "She Blinded Me with Science" (which is a great song) - but I encourage attention to his other stuff. He is a true 80s icon

Totally cool song -- not surprisingly, the band is and was always totally cool

Simple beat and tune, message is still relevant, Annie Lennox is cool, a song that can still bring down a house - not too mention our sensitive and emotive 80s souls

Ahhh Joey Tempest gave me the shivers! Love that hair by the way

I fell in love with the bass player when they performed this song live on Solid Gold!

Love this song, cried the first time I heard it

Awesome song from an awesome band

I remember raging to this song at those teen parties!

This song reminds me of my first boyfriend ahhhh

Richie Sambora rocked in this video! cool song too

I can remember almost breaking my neck trying to do this dance! cheesy movie but a way cool song!

A really nice power ballad by some spunks with long hair!

I LOVE THIS SONG!! My all time fav....David Byrne is a genius...gives me the shivers but always gets my head nodding along...Psycho Killer Rox!

I love these guys!

The Cure rocked...

This was my fav by C Club

One of their songs which used to send chills down my spine.

this man has an awesome voice...

Good, but not great.

Rare, but not bad.

Give it a listen. "The Hurting" album has some surprisingly good stuff on it.

Advice: Listen to this song often!

Their best off "The Hurting"

The U.S. remix is simply better...

Amazing.

Shout! Shout is good stuff!

One of the best of '89.

The best of the best!

This song will never leave your mind to wonder ... What if?

Moonwalk and I still don't know who's kid it is?

The video is still doing good to keep the song in play.

Anymore dogs in da house!

Baby, baby, baby where did our love go fits perfectly in this song

I rode the dancefloor, carseat and girlfriend; no particular order.

Everyone heard about them and started spreading the word.

The first 20 seconds makes it a hit.

I will remember this song for it's scattered beats and vocal. I was to young to be there but old enough to understand the song and message!

This song is great for clubbin' because you drop whatever you're doing to go out on the dancefloor.

Screw the Safety Dance. Pop rules!!!

Love dancing to this song. Perhaps it's because I am in heaven while I am doing? Sorry, that was horrible.

Don't we all have a birdhouse in our souls?

Great beat. Gotta love that Reggae.

Greatest Def Leopard song ever written.

Am I the only one who finds it ironic that a band called The Police sings a song with the content of this one? Great song anyway.

Tell me you don't love the video? Everytime MTV has a greatest video-athon, guess who always places in the top 3? No, I'm not talking about Michael Jackson.

Everytime this song comes on, we all stop what we are doing and start dancing around the room like mad. It's really cool when we are in a car then people get to watch us dance around!

Great song. Great beat. Expecially love the extended dance mix.

When I heard this song while at a club, I wanted to grab the first girl I could see and dance with her.