HELP! 80's night

[willinfluence]

Watch some classic 80's films

[Chilly]

In my experience, yes there is such a thing as a bad experience. IMO though everybody needs to experience those bad experiences to get the experience they need.

Ha...my point exactly.

Yes, the experience (event) might be bad, but the experience you gain from a bad experience isn't bad experience.

LOLz

[apford]

This should help you get through the night:
http://www.7digital.com/artists/vari...ts-of-the-80s/

[PartyMcFly]

Watch some classic 80's films

Wing it for a while with whatever you get your hands on. Get some compilations and keep a keen ear out for anything with a good hook. Write down the lyrics for anything you hear but don't know to look it up later.

Building any decent music collection takes a looooong time. Whenever I break into a new field of music, it always takes me around a year before I feel really comfortable with my collection in that area. Last year I started listening to a lot of 80's boogie and I'm just now getting to a point where I'm feeling anywhere near comfortable with playing it out because it's taken me that long to get familiar with all of the obligatory classics and then find a bunch of obscurities and sleepers on top of that. Watching movies, hearing the radio, and consuming media in general. The search is long.

[Ed Paris]

That list right contains mostly everything you should know about 80s music

http://www.bradboard.com/80s.htm

[soundinmotiondj]

This has over 1000 music videos from the 80's.

http://www.80smusicvids.com/

[IrishBlaggard]

there are many many classics from the 80s to be played, i just recently did an all 80s night and it went great, 80s aint what id normally play either but i was asked to do the gig and it was so much fun, i even got disco mirror balls installed and all

the trick with the 80s is, like any music really, you have got to read the crowd and pase the classics, i find thinks like whitesnake and fleetwood mac go down really well early on in the night and stuff like def leppard good in the middle with well known sing along songs go well later in the night like the proclaimers and things like brian adams summer of 69/wham wake me up/madness baggy trousers goes down with people who want to dance, but it all depends on the crowd, if its mostly males, they'll want ACDC/BON JOVI/BILLY IDOL and even MC HAMMER etc but ladies tend to love ABBA/some ELTON JOHN/DIANNA ROSS/MADONNA/BILLY JOEL etc. and also you can NEVER EVER go wrong with some Michael Jackson especially Billy Jean and the likes.

if your to young to remember the 80s look out for some classic compalations to help you out. heres a few song names to get you started on your searching ENJOY

Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now
Belinda Carlisle - Heaven Is A Place On Earth
Debarge - Rhythm Of The Night
Stephen Duffy - Kiss Me
Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off
Mel & Kim - Showing Out (Get Fresh At The Weekend)
Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
Blondie - Rapture
Culture Club - Church Of The Poison Mind
Madness - My Girl
Yazoo - Nobody's Diary
David Bowie - Let's Dance
Spandau Ballet - Gold
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me)
The Waterboys - The Whole Of The Moon
Danny Wilson - Mary's Prayer
Cutting Crew - (I Just) Died In Your Arms
Alison Moyet - Love Resurrection
The Stranglers - Golden Brown
Bette Davis Eyes - Kim Carnes
Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up
Billy Ocean - When The Going Gets Tough, The Tough Gets Going
Taylor Dayne - Tell It To My Heart
Sly Fox - Let's Go All The Way
Huey Lewis & The News - The Power Of Love
Billy Idol - White Wedding - Part 1
Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
Feargal Sharkey - A Good Heart
Prefab sprout - The King Of Rock 'N' Roll
Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder - Together In Electric Dreams
Go West - Call Me
Duran Duran - The Reflex
The Human League - Don't You Want Me
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax
Talk Talk - it's My Life -
XTC - Senses Working Overtime
The Alarm - 68 Guns
Talking Heads - And She Was
Jane Wiedlin - Rush Hour
Tenpole Tudor - Swords Of 1000 Men
Starship - Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now
Journey - Don't Stop Believin'
Marillion - Kayleigh
Heart - Alone
T'Pau - China In Your Hand
Whitesnake - Is This Love
Tina Turner - The Best
R.E.M. - The One I Love
Hue And Cry - Labour Of Love
Daryl Hall And John Oates - Kiss On My List
Heaven 17 - Temptation
Paul Hardcastle - 19
Erasure - Sometimes
Sydney Youngblood - If Only I Could
Hot Chocolate - No Doubt About It
Rufus & Chaka Khan - Ain't Nobody
Ashford & Simpson - Solid
Terence Trent D'Arby - Sign Your Name
Living In A Box - Room In Your Heart
The Cars - Drive
Adam & The Ants - Prince Charming
Kim Wilde - Chequered Love
Culture Club - Karma Chameleon
Cliff Richard - Wired For Sound
Maria Vidal - Body Rock
Cyndi Lauper - Girls Just Wanna Have Fun
Wham - Freedom
The Pointer Sisters - Jump (For My Love)
The Jacksons - Can You Feel It?
Sheena Easton - Modern Girl
Paula Abdul - Straight Up
Five Star - System Addict
Erasure - The Circus
Limahl - Never Ending Story
The Belle Stars - Sign Of The Times
Hazell Dean - Whatever I Do (Wherever I Go)
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
The Communards - Don't Leave Me This Way
Deborah Harry - I Want That Man
Kenny Loggins - Footloose
Whitesnake - Here I Go Again '87
A-Ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV
Simply Red - Money's Too Tight (To Mention)
China Crisis - King In A Catholic Style (Wake Up)
Duran Duran - Union Of The Snake
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Souvenir
The Specials - Ghost Town
Jona Lewie - You'll Always Find Me In The Kitchen At Parties
Fun Boy Three - The Lunatics (Have Taken Over The Asylum)
UB40 - One In Ten
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno
Morrissey - Everyday Is Like Sunday
Hue And Cry - Looking For Linda
Soul II Soul Featuring Caron Wheeler - Keep On Movin
The Assembly - Never Never
Heaven 17 - Come Live With Me
Belouis Some - Imagination
Martha And The Muffins - Echo Beach
The Proclaimers - Letter From America
Dusty Springfield - Nothing Has Been Proved
Ultravox - Vienna

PS. let us know how the night went