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80s Love Songs - Romance With Cheese.
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Like any good musical period, the 80s had its fair share of love songs. Some were hopelessly cheesy and others can still make people cry. Almost every successful artist of the 80s had penned at least one love song or ballard. With some bands it was hard to tell if the song was about love, sex or drugs.
So, if you are trying to seduce someone in their 30s or 40s who loves their 80s music, here is a list of love songs to get you started. Beware, some are very very soppy. This romantic 80s music list is ideal for Valentines day, a special anniversary or other romantic occasion.
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80s Love Songs
- Careless Whisper, George Michael (best line: because guilt feet have no rythym)
- Endless Love, Diana Ross & Lionel Richie
- Woman in Love, Barbra Streisand
- Up Where We Belong, Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes
- Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now), Phil Collins
- Atomic, Blondie (time this one for a more upbeat moment: 'Uh-huh make me tonight/
Oh, uh-huh make it magnificent/Tonight/Right.' Seduction at it's best)
- Do That To Me One More Time, Captain & Tennille (for the woman who can't get enough)
- Just Can't Get Enough - Depeche Mode (the mood of this song isn't exactly romantic, but maybe play it if you want a second round)
- Lost In Love, Air Supply
- Lady, Kenny Rogers
- Madness - It Must Be Love (a slightly upbeat song with a few too many appearances in advertising, but still valuable for it's romantic appeal)
- Slow Hand, Pointer Sisters (favourite lyric: slow hand/easy touch)
- Waiting For A Girl Like You, Foreigner (for when your hooker is running late)
- Sexual Healing, Marvin Gaye
- Greatest Love Of All, Whitney Houston (arrrrgh)
- Wind Beneath My Wings - Bette Midler (we advise against this one, in a cliche list even this is too cliched)
- Take My Breath Away, Berlin
- Lady In Red, Chris De Burgh (a song that makes men barf and women swoon)
- (I Just) Died In Your Arms, Cutting Crew
- I Just Called To Say I Love You, Stevie Wonder
- Total Eclipse of the Heart, Bonnie Tyler (again, a bit upbeat for a romantic encounter but a great way to pick up the pace)
- Art Of Noise - Moments In Love (moody soundscape, with various remixes up to 12 minutes in length)
- Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Power Of Love (great in-the-moment song)
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When is an 80s love song not a song about love?
While these songs are from the 80s, and sound like they are about love, but a closer listen will show they are not:
- Why Can't We Live Together, Sade (Racism)
- Dancing With Tears in my Eyes, Ultravox (Nuclear War)
- Golden Brown, The Strangers (Heroin)
- Comfortably Numb, Pink Floyd (This turns up on various love-making song lists, but you have to wonder if anyone is listening to the lyrics.)
- Tainted Love, Soft Cell (To those people who emailed us. No, no, no! This is not an 80s love song. Lyrics 'From the pain that you drive into the heart of me/The love we share /Seems to go nowhere.' Just look at the title of the song. Would you drink tainted milk?)
- She Works Hard For The Money, Donna Summer (Any guy who plays this on a romantic evening will be having a very lonely night)
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