Simon Cowell baffles us all with passionate plea as he despairs over. There’s only one way to sing along to a Peter Cetera track, and that’s to sing it the same way Peter Cetera does. You can say what you like about them, but you’ve been singing this song on and off for the past thirty years.
NOSTALGIC SONGS ABOUT GROWING UP HOW TO
They’ve been blamed for the general decline of the music industry and the rise of Simon Cowell, but they knew how to make a hit record. Stock, Aitken & Waterman were the kings of manufactured studio pop and their stuff was everywhere. This is pop genius – catchy, accessible and brilliantly produced. Ignore the cheesy video and the fact that Kylie (who sounds dreadfully off key) has yet to find her voice. Kylie Minogue – I Should Be So Lucky (1987) Originally a hit for Otis Clay, the version most of us remember was a massive number one for Yazz, and the track of choice for teenage girls doing dance routines in school assemblies and talent competitions.Īnd even if you weren’t listening to club music back in the 80s, if you’re a TOWIE fan chances are you’ll have heard this quite a lot… 12. Yazz And The Plastic Population – The Only Way Is Up (1988) Or perhaps that was just me.Īnd it recalls those early magical days of the first Highlander movie, before we realised it was actually rubbish. It had a generation of us doing awkward Freddie Mercury impressions with brooms. There are certain songs that you automatically associate with Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody, We Will Rock You – and this is one of them. They were loud, they were talented and in 1986 everyone was doing the sand dance. The Bangles – Walk Like An Egyptian (1986) Impossible to say, let alone sing, but somehow it flows off the tongue.ĩ. The lyrics are barmy, of course: ‘I know that I must do what’s right / Sure as Kilimanjaro rises like Olympus above the Serengeti’. Toto – Africa (1982)Įnjoying a sudden revival in 2002 thanks to its use in Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Toto’s stirring tale of love in a foreign country is all drums and searing harmonies and perfect if you’re a romantic fool who wants to shout it from the rooftops (he says, not speaking at all from experience). Also one of the most instantly recognisable intros ever, thanks to that iconic kick drum.
School disco favourite and the song that inspired a generation of musicians to go and make their own dance music. Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe turned pretentious lunacy into an art form, but they never again scaled the dizzy heights they reached here. Monks, candles and medieval torture devices – and that’s before we even get to the song, which is equally bonkers.Īnd that’s fine: this was a high point for the Pet Shop Boys. I’m not saying that was my experience of clubbing, but…well, that was my experience of clubbing. ‘You could meet somebody who really loves you / So you go and you stand on your own / And you leave on your own / And you go home, and you cry and you want to die’. ‘There’s a club if you’d like to go’, he sings.
No one gets you, your life has no meaning, and you’re destined to spend the rest of it alone. Let’s be honest: being a teenager is miserable. The song that spawned its own meme collection, Bon Jovi’s tale of poverty-stricken (and most likely doomed) lovers Tommy and Gina is perfect hairbrush-in-the-bedroom singalong rock, even though Jon Bon Jovi’s about the only person who can sing it without permanently damaging his throat. It keeps telling you to turn around, and every now and then it falls apart. You can even get a Bonnie Tyler-themed sat nav, although it doesn’t work too well. If you can find someone else to sing the counter-melody with you, you’ve got yourself a fun night in.
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Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse Of The Heart (1983)Ĭhief Meat Loaf writer Jim Steinman is never one for writing short songs, and the full length version of this masterpiece runs to seven minutes.īut it’s a karaoke favourite, even if it’s not exactly cheery. It was tough to choose between this and Purple Rain itself – all blistering guitar solos and wailing – but thanks to its swirling organ intro, Let’s Go Crazy wins. He was a fashion icon and a creative thinker, but perhaps the most striking thing about Prince was how many of us were inspired to pick up an instrument – guitar or keyboard or something else entirely – thanks to one of his songs. Prince was a musical chameleon with a long and mostly glittering career, but he did much of his best stuff in the 80s – and Purple Rain was arguably la crème de la crème. Now make like a tree, and get outta here. Back To The Future was our whole lives, dammit. It’s impossible to hear this without picturing Michael J Fox on a skateboard. Huey Lewis And The News – The Power Of Love (1985)
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