TOP 10 LIST OF THE DAY...

MY 10 FAVORITE...

SONGS OF 1985

I identify this as the year I truly discovered music - I became obsessed with the radio, buying blank tapes like crazy to record every great song. And here are some of the biggest songs for me that year - songs that I would sit in front of the radio and wait for, ready to press record+play...

#10

Voices Carry

'Til Tuesday

#9

Every Time You Go Away

Paul Young

#8

Take On Me

A-Ha

#7

Material Girl

Madonna

#6

LoverBoy

Billy Ocean

#5

Cool It Now

New Edition

#4

St Elmo's Fire

John Parr

#3

Strut

Sheena Easton

#2

Everybody Wants to Rule the World

Tears for Fears

#1

Out of Touch

Hall & Oates

Some honorable mentions...

All She Wants to Do Is Dance/Don Henley

Glory Days/Bruce Springsteen

A View to a Kill/Duran Duran

Don't Lose My Number/Phil Collins

We Belong/Pat Benatar

Solid/Ashford and Simpson