A Compilation of 550 songs from the 1980s (and some 1970s) MP3@320

A Compilation of 550 songs from the 1980s (and some 1970s) MP3@320

This collection started out focusing on New Wave & Pop from 1980-1985 but it wound up expanding into rock and punk a bit and extending back into the late '70s as well as forward into the latter half of the 80's. A pretty good collection, in my opinion, here for the listening if anyone is interested.



A Compilation of 550 songs from the 1980s (and some 1970s)

(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction (Devo), (I Just) Died In Your Arms (Cutting Crew)

(Just Like) Starting Over (John Lennon), (Oh) Pretty Woman (Van Halen)

(What´s So Funny´Bout) Peace, Love & Understanding (Elvis Costello)

99 Luftballons (Nena), 99 Red Balloons (Nena)

867-5309 (Jenny) (Tommy Tutone), 1999 (Prince)

Abacab (Genesis), Abracadabra (Steve Miller Band)

Addicted To Love (Robert Palmer), Addicted To Spuds (Weird Al)

Africa (Toto), Ah! Leah! (Donnie Iris)

Alison (Elvis Costello), Alive And Kicking (Simple Minds)

All Night Long (Lionel Richie), All the Things She Said (Simple Minds)

All You Zombies (The Hooters), Always Something There to Remind Me (Naked Eyes)

And She Was (Talking Heads), And We Danced (The Hooters)

Another Nail in My Heart (Squeeze)

Another One Bites the Dust (Queen), Another One Rides The Bus (Weird Al)

Ashes to Ashes (David Bowie), Ask (The Smiths)

Authority Song (John Cougar Mellencamp), Babe (Styx)

Back on the Chain Gang (The Pretenders), Be Good Johnny (Men At Work)

Beat It (Michael Jackson), Beautiful People (Australian Crawl)

Beautiful World (Devo), Beds Are Burning (Midnight Oil)

Begin the Begin (REM), Bette Davis Eyes (Kim Carnes)

Better be good to me (Tina Turner), Big Time (Peter Gabriel)

Billie Jean (Michael Jackson), Black Coffee in Bed (Squeeze)

Blister in the Sun (Violent Femmes), Blitzkrieg Bop (Ramones)

Borderline (Madonna), Born In The U.S.A. (Bruce Springsteen)

Brass In Pocket (I'm Special) (Pretenders), Breakout (Swing Out Sister)

Broken Wings (Mr. Mister), Burnin' For You (Blue Oyster Cult)

Burning Down The House (Talking Heads), California Girls (David Lee Roth)

Canary in a Coalmine (The Police), Can't Fight This Feeling (REO Speedwagon)

Careless Whisper (Wham!), Carnival Of Sorts (Boxcars) (REM)

Cars (Gary Numan), Celebration (Kool & The Gang)

Centerfield (John Fogerty), Centerfold (The J. Geils Band)

Cherish (Madonna), China Girl (David Bowie)

Church of the Poison Mind (Culture Club), Clampdown (The Clash)

Close To Me (The Cure), Come Dancing (The Kinks)

Come On Eileen (Dexys Midnight Runners), Coming Up (Paul McCartney)

Cool for Cats (Squeeze), Couldn't Stand The Weather (Stevie Ray Vaughan)

Cover Me (Bruce Springsteen), Crazy For You (Madonna)

Crazy Little Thing Called Love (Queen), Crimson & Clover (Joan Jett)

Cruel Summer (Bananarama), Cruel To Be Kind (Nick Lowe)

Crumblin' Down (John Cougar Mellencamp), Cum on Feel the Noize (Quiet Riot)

Cuts Like A Knife (Bryan Adams), Dance Hall Days (Wang Chung)

Dance The Night Away (Van Halen), Dancing In The Dark (Bruce Springsteen)

Dancing With Myself (Billy Idol), Danger Games (The Pinkees)

Day By Day (The Hooters), Day Tripper (Live, U.S. Tour, 1979) (Cheap Trick)

De Do Do Do, De Da Da Da (The Police), Dear God (XTC)

Delirious (Prince), Der Kommissar (After the Fire)

Desire (U2), Desperate But Not Serious (Adam Ant)

Destination Unknown (Missing Persons), Destroyer (The Kinks)

Devil Inside (INXS), Devil's Radio (George Harrison)

Dirty Laundry (Don Henley), Disorder (Joy Division)

Distant Early Warning (Rush), Do It Again (The Kinks)

Do You Really Want To Hurt Me (Culture Club)

Do You Remember Rock 'N' Roll Radio (Ramones)

Do You Wanna Touch Me (Oh Yeah) (Joan Jett), Don't Be Cruel (Cheap Trick)

Don't Come Around Here No More (Tom Petty)

Don't Dream It's Over (Crowded House)

Don't Get Me Wrong (The Pretenders), Don't Let Him Go (REO Speedwagon)

Don't Shed a Tear (Paul Carrack), Don't Stand So Close to Me (The Police)

Don't Stop Believin' (Journey), Don't Want To Know If You Are Lonely (Husker du)

Don't Worry Be Happy (Bobby McFerrin)

Don't You (Forget About Me) (Simple Minds)

Don't You Want Me (The Human League), Down Under (Men At Work)

Downhearted (Australian Crawl), Drive (The Cars)

Driven to Tears (The Police), Driver 8 (R.E.M)

Dude (Looks Like a Lady) (Aerosmith), Duel (Propaganda)

Electric Avenue (Eddy Grant), Eminence Front (The Who)

Emotional Rescue (The Rolling Stones), Emotions In Motion (Billy Squier)

End Of The Line (Traveling Wilburys), Errol (Australian Crawl)

Eternal Flame (Bangles), Every Breath You Take (The Police)

Every Day People (Joan Jett)

Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic (The Police)

Every Time You Go Away (Paul Young), Everybody Have Fun Tonight (Wang Chung)

Everybody Wants To Rule The World (Tears For Fears)

Everybody Wants You (Billy Squier)

Everyday I Write the Book (Elvis Costello), Everything Counts (Depeche Mode)

Eye Of The Tiger (Survivor), Eyes Without A Face (Billy Idol)

Face The Day (The Angels), Faith (George Michael)

Faithfully (Journey), Fantasy (Aldo Nova)

Fashion (David Bowie), Fast Car (Tracy Chapman)

Flesh For Fantasy (Billy Idol). Footloose (Kenny Loggins)

Forever Man (Eric Clapton), Freeze Frame (J. Geils Band)

Funky Town (Pseudo Echo), Games Without Frontiers (Peter Gabriel)

Get It On (Power Station), Ghostbusters (Ray Parker Jr.)

Gimme All Your Lovin' (ZZ Top), Girl U Want (Devo)

Girls Just Want to Have Fun (Cyndi Lauper), Girls Just Want To Have Lunch (Weird Al)

Girls On Film (Duran Duran), Girls With Guns (Tommy Shaw)

Give (Missing Persons), Going Underground (The Jam)

Good Girls Don't (The Knack), Good Thing (Fine Young Cannibals)

Good Times Roll (The Cars), Goodbye to You (Scandal)

Goody Two Shoes (Adam Ant), Got My Mind Set On You (George Harrison)

Handle With Care (Traveling Wilburys), Hang Fire (The Rolling Stones)

Harden My Heart (Quarterflash), Heart and Soul (Huey Lewis)

Heart And Soul (Joy Division), Heart Of Glass (Blondie)

Heartbreaker (Pat Benatar), Heat Of The Moment (Asia)

Heaven (Bryan Adams), Heaven Is A Place On Earth (Belinda Carlisle)

Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now (The Smiths)

Here Comes the Rain Again (Eurythmics)

Higher Love (Steve Winwood), Hit Me With Your Best Shot (Pat Benatar)

Hold Me Now (Thompson Twins), Hold on Loosely (.38 Special)

Hold on Tight (ELO), Hold On To The Nights (Richard Marx)

Holding Back The Years (Simply Red), How Soon Is Now (The Smiths)

Hungry Heart (Bruce Springsteen), Hungry Like The Wolf (Duran Duran)

Hurts So Good (John Cougar Mellencamp), I Apologize (Husker Du)

I Didn't Mean To Turn You On (Robert Palmer)

I Don't Like Mondays (Boomtown Rats)

I Fought the Law (The Clash), I Got You (Split Enz)

I Just Want To Have Something To Do (Ramones)

I Know What Boys Like (The Waitresses)

I Love Rock 'n' Roll (Joan Jett), I Melt With You (Modern English)

I Ran (So Far Away) (A Flock Of Seagulls)

I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U2)

I Think I'm A Clone Now (Weird Al), I Think We're Alone Now (Tiffany)

I Touch Myself (Divinyls), I Wanna Be Sedated (Ramones)

I Want a New Drug (Huey Lewis), I Want Candy (Bow Wow Wow)

I Want to Know What Love Is (Foreigner), I Will Follow (U2)

I Would Die 4 U (Prince), If She Knew What She Wants (Bangles)

If You Leave (OMD), If You Want My Love (Cheap Trick)

I'll Fly for You (Spandau Ballet), I'll Tumble 4 Ya (Culture Club)

Illegal Alien (Genesis), I'm Gonna Be (500 Miles) (The Proclaimers)

I'm Not Down (The Clash), I'm On Fire (Bruce Springsteen)

I'm on My Way (The Proclaimers), In A Big Country (Big Country)

In Between Days (The Cure), In The Dark (Billy Squier)

In The Mood (Robert Plant), Industrial Disease (Dire Straits)

Invisible Sun (The Police), Invisible Touch (Genesis)

Is She Really Going Out with Him (Joe Jackson),

Is There Something I Should Know (Duran Duran)

It Must Have Been Love (Roxette), It's a Miracle (Culture Club)

It's My Life (Talk Talk), It's Still Rock And Roll To Me (Billy Joel)

It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine) (REM)

I've Got A Rock and Roll Heart (Eric Clapton)

Jack & Diane (John Cougar Mellencamp)

Jammin' Me (Tom Petty), Jeopardy (Greg Kihn)

Jeopardy (Weird Al), Jessie's Girl (Rick Springfield)

Jump (For My Love) (Pointer Sisters), Jump (Van Halen)

Just A Gigalo (David Lee Roth), Just a Job To Do (Genesis)

Just Can't Get Enough (Depeche Mode), Karma Chameleon (Culture Club)

Keep on Loving You (REO Speedwagon)

Keep Your Hands to Yourself (The Georgia Satellites)

King of Pain (The Police), King Of Suede (Weird Al)

Kiss (Prince), Kiss On My List (Hall & Oates)

Kyrie (Mr Mister), La Bamba (Los Lobos)

Lady In Red (Chris DeBurgh ), Legs (ZZ Top)

Let My Love Open the Door (Pete Townshend)

Let's Dance (David Bowie), Let's Go (The Cars)

Let's Go Crazy (Prince), Let's Go to Bed (The Cure)

Life During Wartime (Talking Heads)

Life in a Northern Town (The Dream Academy)

Life In One Day (Howard Jones), Lightning Strikes (Aerosmith)

Lights Out (Peter Wolf), Like A Prayer (Madonna)

Like A Surgeon (Weird Al), Like A Virgin (Madonna)

Like To Get To Know You Well (Howard Jones)

Little Red Corvette (Prince), Livin' On A Prayer (Bon Jovi)

Locomotion (OMD), London Calling (The Clash)

Lonely Nights (Bryan Adams), Lonely Ol' Night (John Cougar Mellencamp)

Lost in the Supermarket (The Clash)

Love Action (I Believe In Love) (Human League)

Love Is A Battlefield (Pat Benatar), Love Missile F1-11 (Sigue Sigue Sputnik)

Love My Way (The Psychedelic Furs), Love Plus One (Haircut One Hundred)

Love Shack (B-52s), Love Struck Baby (Stevie Ray Vaughan)

Love Will Tear Us Apart (Joy Division), Lucky Star (Madonna)

Luka (Suzanne Vegas), Magic (The Cars)

Major Tom (Coming Home) (Peter Schilling)

Makes No Sense At All (Husker Du), Man In The Mirror (Michael Jackson)

Maneater (Hall & Oates), Manic Monday (Bangles)

Marathon (Rush), Marseilles (The Angels)

Material Girl (Madonna), Message in a Bottle (The Police)

Mexican Radio (Wall Of Voodoo), Mickey (Toni Basil)

Middle Of The Road (The Pretenders), Mirror in the Bathroom (The Beat)

Missing You (John Waite), Missionary Man (Eurythmics)

Misunderstanding (Genesis), Modern Love (David Bowie)

Money (That's What I Want) (Flying Lizards)

Money For Nothing (Dire Straits), More Than This (Roxy Music)

Moving In Stereo (The Cars), Mr. Roboto (Styx)

Mr. Soul (1982 version) (Neil Young), My Best Friend's Girl (The Cars)

My Kinda Lover (Billy Squier), My Sharona (Knack)

Need You Tonight (INXS), Never (Heart)

Never Gonna Give You Up (Rick Astley)

Never Talking To You Again (Husker Du)

New Sensation (INXS), New World Man (Rush)

New Year's Day (U2), Nightshift (Commodores)

No More Lonely Nights (Paul McCartney), No More Words (Berlin)

No One Is To Blame (Howard Jones), No Secrets (The Angels)

Nobody Told Me (John Lennon), Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now (Starship)

Obsession (Animotion), Oh Sheila (Ready For The World)

Oh Yeah (Yello), Once In A Lifetime (Talking Heads)

One Lonely Night (REO Speedwagon), One Thing Leads To Another (The Fixx)

One Way Or Another (Blondie), Only The Lonely (The Motels)

Open Arms (Journey), Orange Crush (REM)

Original Sin (INXS), Our House (Madness)

Our Lips Are Sealed (The Go-Gos), Owner of a Lonely Heart (Yes)

Pac-Man Fever (Buckner and Garcia), Pearl Necklace (ZZ Top)

People Are People (Depeche Mode), Pink Houses (John Cougar Mellencamp)

Pink Turns To Blue (Husker Du), Pop Muzik (M)

Pretty Persuasion (R.E.M), Pride (In the Name of Love) (U2)

Pride And Joy (Stevie Ray Vaughan), Private dancer (Tina Turner)

Private Eyes (Hall & Oates), Private Idaho (The B-52s)

Psycho Killer (Talking Heads), Pump It Up (Elvis Costello)

Puttin' on the Ritz (Taco), R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. (John Cougar Mellencamp)

Radio Free Europe (R.E.M), Rag Doll (Aerosmith)

Raspberry Beret (Prince), Rebel Yell (Billy Idol)

Red Red Wine (UB40), Red Skies (The Fixx)

Relax (Frankie Goes To Hollywood), Remember The Nights (The Motels)

Rhythm of the Night (Debarge), Right Here Waiting (Richard Marx)

Rio (Duran Duran), Roam (The B-52s)

Rock And Roll Girls (John Fogerty), Rock Lobster (The B-52s)

Rock 'N' Roll High School (Ramones), Rock 'N' Roll Is King (ELO)

Rock the Casbah (The Clash), Rock This Town (Stray Cats)

Rock You Like a Hurricane (Scorpions), Rockaway Beach (Ramones)

Rosanna (Toto), Rudie Can't Fail (The Clash)

Run Run Away (Slade), Run To You (Bryan Adams)

Runaway (Bon Jovi), Saved By Zero (The Fixx)

Say Say Say (McCartney Jackson), Say You, Say Me (Lionel Richie)

Scary Monsters (David Bowie), Sea Of Love (Honeydrippers)

Send Her My Love (Journey), Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) (Journey)

September Girls (Bangles), Shadows Of The Night (Pat Benatar)

Shake It Up (The Cars), She Blinded Me With Science (Thomas Dolby)

She Drives Me Crazy (Fine Young Cannibals), She's A Beauty (The Tubes)

She's So Cold (Rolling Stones), She's Tight (Cheap Trick)

Shock The Monkey (Peter Gabriel), Should I Stay or Should I Go (The Clash)

Shout (Tears for Fears), Signals (Rory Gallagher)

Simply Irresistible (Robert Palmer), Sister Christian (Night Ranger)

Sledgehammer (Peter Gabriel), Small Town (John Cougar Mellencamp)

Some Like It Hot (Power Station), Somebody's Watching Me (Rockwell)

Someday, Someway (Marshall Crenshaw)

Space Age Love Song (A Flock Of Seagulls)

Spanish Bombs (The Clash) Spirits in the Material World (The Police)

St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion) (John Parr), Stand (REM)

Stand and Deliver (Adam Ant), Start Me Up (Rolling Stones)

Steppin' Out (Joe Jackson), Stone In Love (Journey)

Stray Cat Strut (Stray Cats), Strip (Adam Ant)

Stuck with You (Huey Lewis), Subdivisions (Rush)

Suddenly Last Summer (The Motels), Summer of '69 (Bryan Adams)

Sunglasses at Night (Corey Hart), Super Freak (Rick James)

Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This) (Eurythmics), Tainted Love (Soft Cell)

Take A Long Line (The Angels), Take It on the Run (REO Speedwagon)

Take Me To The River (Talking Heads), Take Off (Bob and Doug McKenzie)

Take On Me (A-Ha), Take The L (The Motels)

Talk Of The Town (The Pretenders), Talk Talk (Talk Talk)

Talking in Your Sleep (The Romantics), Tall Cool One (Robert Plant)

Tell Her About It (Billy Joel), Tempted (Squeeze)

Tenderness (General Public), That's All (Genesis)

The Boys Of Summer (Don Henley), The Flame (Cheap Trick)

The Girl Is Mine (Jackson McCartney) , The Glamorous Life (Sheila E.)

The Heart of Rock & Roll (Huey Lewis), The Heat Is On (Glenn Frey)

The Kid Is Hot Tonite (Loverboy), The Living Years (Mike + the Mechanics)

The Longest Time (Billy Joel), The Look (Roxette)

The Look of Love (ABC), The Modern World (The Jam)

The Old Man Down The Road (John Fogerty)

The One I Love (REM), The Power of Love (Huey Lewis)

The Safety Dance (Men Without Hats), The Salt in My Tears (Martin Briley)

The Stroke (Billy Squier), The Tide Is High (Blondie)

The Voice (Moody Blues), The Waiting (Tom Petty)

The Warrior (Scandal), The Way You Make Me Feel (Michael Jackson)

There is a light that never goes out (The Smiths), These Dreams (Heart)

They Don't Know (Tracey Ullman), Things Can Only Get Better (Howard Jones)

This Note's For You (Neil Young), Thriller (Michael Jackson)

Time {Clock Of The Heart} (Culture Club), Time After Time (Cyndi Lauper)

Time Stand Still (Rush), Too Shy (Kajagoogoo)

Touch Of Grey (Grateful Dead), Town Called Malice (The Jam)

Train in Vain (The Clash), Treat Me Right (Pat Benatar)

True (Spandau Ballet), True Colors (Cyndi Lauper)

Tuff Enuff (The Fabulous Thunderbirds), Turn Me Loose (Loverboy)

Turning Japanese (The Vapors), Twilight Zone (Golden Earring)

Twisting By The Pool (Dire Straits), Two Hearts Beat as One (U2)

Under Pressure (Queen And David Bowie), Union Of The Snake (Duran Duran)

Up the Junction (Squeeze), Uptown Girl (Billy Joel)

Urgent (Foreigner), Vacation (The Go-Gos)

Valerie (Richard Thompson), Valerie (Steve Winwood)

Valley Girl (Frank Zappa), Venus (Bananarama)

Video Killed The Radio Star (The Buggles), Voices Carry ('Til Tuesday)

Waiting For A Girl Like You (Foreigner), Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go (Wham!)

Walk Like An Egyptian (Bangles), Walk Of Life (Dire Straits)

Walk This Way (Run-D.M.C.), Walking On Sunshine (Katrina & The Waves)

Walking on the Moon (The Police), Wanted Dead Or Alive (Bon Jovi)

Watching The Detectives (Elvis Costello), We Built This City (Starship)

We Got The Beat (The Go-Gos), Weird Science (Oingo Boingo)

We're Not Going To Take It (Twisted Sister), West End Girls (Pet Shop Boys)

What I Am (