Technical Difficulties from on Top of the Mountain
2005-07-17
  From wayback when
Our highschool reunion is coming up, and while I can't go, they asked for song suggestions. The 80's were pretty good for music (at least I think so), and this was a partial list of songs that were running through my head at the time.
A ha - Take on Me
Art of Noise - Paranoimia ( Max Headroom )
Asia - Don't Cry
Corey Heart - Sunglasses at Night
Cyndi Lauper - girsl just want to have fun
DeBarge - Rhythm Of The Night
Dennis DeYoung - Desert Moon
Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
Don Henley - All She Wants To Do Is Dance
Dream Academy - Life in A Northern Town
Eddy Grant - Romancing The Stone
Elton John - I'm Still Standing
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Foreigner - I Wanna Know What Love Is
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
Grover Washington Jr & Bill Withers - Just the Two of Us
Huey Lewis & the News - The Power Of Love (from the Back to the Future soundtrack)
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Jack Wagner - All I Need
Jefferson Starship - We Built This City
John Parr - St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion)
Journey - Faithfully / Separate Ways / Open Arms
Katrina and the waves - Walking on sunshine
Laura Branigan - Gloria
Madonna - Material Girl
Men At Work - Down Under
Mr. Mister - Broken Wings
Michael Jackson - Beat it
Murray Head - One Night In Bangkok
Naked Eyes - Always Something There To Remind Me
Nena - 99 Red Balloons
Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson - Say Say Say
Peter Schilling - Major Tom
Phil Collins - Against All Odds
Pointer Sisters - Jump
Ray Parker, Jr. - Ghostbusters
REO Speedwagon - Can't Fight This Feeling Anymore
Robert Palmer - Addicted To Love
Soft Cell - Tainted Love
Styx - Mr Roboto / Don't Let It End
Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
Taco - Putting on the Ritz
Tears for Fears - Shout
Timbuk 3 - The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades
Toto - Africa
USA for Africa - We Are the World
Van Halen - Jump
Wang Chung - Everytbody Have Fun Tonight
Willie Nelson And Julio Iglesias - To All The Girls I've Loved Before
ZZ Top - Legs
Brings back lots of memories. Some happy, some bittersweet. Being a geek and sixteen is a difficult combination. But I survived.
 
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