Desert Island Songs - 1984

This page is a list of performers and songs with tracks I love broken down by the year the song was released (or first peaked on a pop chart). For more information check out the intro page.

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• 38 Special, "If I'd Been the One"
• 38 Special, "Back Where You Belong"
• 38 Special, "Teacher, Teacher"
• A Flock of Seagulls, "The End"
• A Flock of Seagulls, "Heart Of Steel"
• A Flock of Seagulls, "The More You Live, The More You Love"
• A Flock of Seagulls, "Never Again (The Dancer)"
• A Flock of Seagulls, "The Story Of A Young Heart"
• A Flock of Seagulls, "Remember David"
• A Flock of Seagulls, "Over My Head"
• ABC, "That Was Then But This Is Now"
• Accept, "Balls to the Wall"
• Adam Ant, "Strip"
• Alan Parsons Project, "Prime Time"
• Alan Parsons Project, "Don't Answer Me"
• Alarm, "Sixty Eight Guns (single version)"
• Alphaville, "Sounds Like a Melody"
• April Wine, "This Could Be the Right One"
• Art of Noise, "Beat Box"
• Assembly, "Never Never"
• Bananarama, "Robert Deniro's Waiting"
• Bangles, "Hero Takes A Fall"
• Bar-Kays, "Freakshow On The Dance Floor"
• Berlin, "Now It's My Turn"
• Berlin, "No More Words"
• Big Country, "Wonderland"
• Big Country, "Fields Of Fire"
• Big Country, "In A Big Country"
• Billy Idol, "Rebel Yell"
• Billy Idol, "Flesh for Fantasy"
• Billy Idol, "Eyes Without a Face"
• Billy Joel, "Tell Her About It"
• Billy Joel, "Goodnight Saigon"
• Billy Joel, "The Longest Time"
• Billy Joel, "Leave a Tender Moment Alone"
• Billy Joel, "An Innocent Man"
• Billy Ocean, "Caribbean Queen (No More Love on the Run)"
• Billy Squier, "Rock Me Tonite"
• Billy Squier, "All Night Long"
• Blancmange, "Don't Tell Me"
• Blue oyster Cult, "Shooting Shark"
• Bronski Beat, "Why"
• Bruce Cockburn, "Lovers In A Dangerous Time"
• Cars, "Stranger Eyes"
• Cars, "Looking for Love"
• Cars, "I Refuse"
• Cars, "It's Not the Night"
• Cars, "Drive"
• Cars, "Heartbeat City"
• Cars, "Magic"
• Cars, "You Might Think"
• Chicago, "Hard Habit To Break"
• Chicago, "We Can Stop the Hurtin'"
• Chicago, "Stay The Night"
• Chris de Burgh, "High on Emotion"
• Christine McVie, "Got a Hold on Me"
• Christopher Cross, "Think of Laura"
• Corey Hart, "Sunglasses At Night"
• Cult, "Go West"
• Cult, "Resurrection Joe"
• Cult, "Spiritwalker"
• Culture Club, "The Dream"
• Culture Club, "Miss Me Blind"
• Culture Club, "It's a Miracle"
• Culture Club, "Karma Chameleon"
• Cure, "The Caterpillar"
• Cure, "The Love Cats"
• Cyndi Lauper, "She Bop"
• Cyndi Lauper, "Girls Just Want to Have Fun"
• Cyndi Lauper, "All Through the Night"
• Cyndi Lauper, "Time After Time"
• David Bowie, "Blue Jean"
• Def Leppard, "Bringin' on the Heartbreak"
• Del Fuegos, "Backseat Nothing"
• Deniece Williams, "Let's Hear It for the Boy"
• Dennis DeYoung, "Desert Moon"
• Don Henley, "Building The Perfect Beast"
• Duran Duran, "Wild Boys"
• Duran Duran, "The Reflex"
• Duran Duran, "New Moon On Monday"
• Duran Duran, "Union of the Snake"
• Dwight Twilley, "Little Bit of Love"
• Dwight Twilley, "Girls"
• Echo & the Bunnymen, "Seven Seas"
• Echo & the Bunnymen, "Silver"
• Echo & the Bunnymen, "The Killing Moon"
• Eddy Grant, "Romancing The Stone"
• Elton John, "Kiss The Bride"
• Elton John, "Sad Songs (Say So Much)"
• Elton John, "I Guess That's Why They Call It the Blues"
• Elton John, "Who Wears These Shoes"
• Elvis Costello, "I Wanna Be Loved"
• Eurogliders, "Heaven (Must Be There)"
• Eurythmics, "Who's That Girl"
• Eurythmics, "Here Comes The Rain Again"
• Face to Face, "10-9-8"
• Fiction Factory, "Feels Like Heaven"
• Fixx, "The Sign Of Fire"
• Fixx, "Sunshine In The Shade"
• Fixx, "Are We Ourselves"
• Foreigner, "A Love In Vain"
• Foreigner, "Stranger in My Own House"
• Foreigner, "Growing Up the Hard Way"
• Foreigner, "Two Different Worlds"
• Frankie Goes to Hollywood, "Two Tribes"
• General Public, "General Public"
• Genesis, "That's All"
• Genesis, "Illegal Alien"
• Genesis, "Taking It All Too Hard"
• George Kranz, "Din Daa Daa (original US mix)"
• Go-Go's, "Mercenary"
• Go-Go's, "I'm the Only One"
• Go-Go's, "You Thought"
• Go-Go's, "Turn to You"
• Go-Go's, "Head Over Heels"
• Grandmaster Flash, "White Lines"
• Greg Kihn, "Reunited"
• Hall & Oates, "Adult Education"
• Hall & Oates, "Out of Touch"
• Helix, "Rock You"
• Honeymoon Suite, "New Girl Now"
• Howard Jones, "What Is Love"
• Howard Jones, "Pearl in the Shell"
• Howard Jones, "New Song"
• Huey Lewis & The News, "If This Is It"
• Huey Lewis & The News, "Walking on a Thin Line"
• Huey Lewis & The News, "I Want a New Drug"
• Huey Lewis & The News, "The Heart of Rock & Roll"
• Human League, "Life On Your Own"
• Human League, "Louise"
• Human League, "The Lebanon"
• INXS, "Original Sin"
• Icicle Works, "Whisper To A Scream (Birds Fly)"
• Information Society, "Running"
• Irene Cara, "Breakdance"
• Irene Cara, "Why Me"
• J. Geils Band, "Concealed Weapons"
• James Ingram & Michael McDonald, "Yah Mo B There"
• Jefferson Starship, "Sorry Me, Sorry You"
• Jefferson Starship, "No Way Out"
• Jefferson Starship, "Layin' It on the Line"
• Jeffrey Osborne, "Stay With Me Tonight"
• Jermaine Jackson & Pia Zadora, "When the Rain Begins to Fall"
• Joe Jackson, "You Can't Get What You Want (Till You Know What You Want)"
• John Cafferty, "On the Dark Side"
• John Lennon, "Every Man Has a Woman Who Loves Him"
• John Lennon, "Borrowed Time"
• John Lennon, "I Don't Wanna Face It"
• John Lennon, "Nobody Told Me"
• John Lennon, "I'm Stepping Out"
• John Mellencamp, "Pink Houses"
• John Mellencamp, "Authority Song"
• John Waite, "Missing You"
• Journey, "Ask the Lonely"
• Julian Lennon, "Let Me Be"
• Julian Lennon, "Lonely"
• Julian Lennon, "Well I Don't Know"
• Julian Lennon, "Space"
• Julian Lennon, "On The Phone"
• Julian Lennon, "O.K. For You"
• Jump 'N the Saddle Band, "The Curly Shuffle"
• Kansas, "Perfect Lover"
• Kenny Loggins, "I'm Free (Heaven Helps the Man)"
• Kenny Loggins, "Footloose"
• Killing Joke, "Eighties"
• Kiss, "Heaven's On Fire"
• Laid Back, "White Horse"
• Laura Branigan, "Self Control"
• Lindsey Buckingham, "Go Insane"
• Lionel Richie, "Running With the Night"
• Madness, "The Sun And The Rain"
• Madness, "Michael Caine"
• Manfred Mann's Earth Band, "Runner"
• Marilyn, "Calling Your Name"
• Martha and the Muffins, "Black Stations - White Stations"
• Matthew Wilder, "Break My Stride"
• Mike Reno & Ann Wilson, "Almost Paradise"
• Missing Persons, "I Like Boys"
• Motels, "Remember the Nights"
• Motley Crue, "Looks That Kill"
• Mr. Mister, "Hunters of the Night"
• Nails, "88 Lines About 44 Women"
• Naked Eyes, "(What) In The Name Of Love"
• Naked Eyes, "Flag Of Convenience"
• Naked Eyes, "Me I See In You"
• Naked Eyes, "No Flowers Please"
• Naked Eyes, "Sacrifice"
• Nena, "99 Red Balloons"
• Nena, "99 Luftballons"
• New Order, "Thieves Like Us"
• Newcleus, "Jam On It"
• Nick Heyward, "Whistle Down The Wind"
• Night Ranger, "(You Can Still) Rock In America"
• Night Ranger, "When You Close Your Eyes"
• Night Ranger, "Sister Christian"
• Nik Kershaw, "I Won't Let The Sun Go Down On Me"
• Nik Kershaw, "Wouldn't It Be Good"
• Oingo Boingo, "Gratitude"
• Olivia Newton-John, "Livin' In Desperate Times"
• Olivia Newton-John, "Twist Of Fate"
• Ollie & Jerry, "Breakin'... There's No Stopping Us"
• Opus, "Live Is Life (live)"
• Ozzy Osbourne, "Bark at the Moon"
• Pat Benatar, "Love Is a Battlefield"
• Paul McCartney, "No More Lonely Nights"
• Paul Young, "Come Back and Stay"
• Peabo Bryson, "If Ever You're In My Arms Again"
• Peter Schilling, "Major Tom (Coming Home)"
• Peter Wolf, "Lights Out"
• Phil Collins, "In the Air Tonight"
• Phil Collins, "Against All Odds"
• Philip Bailey & Phil Collins, "Easy Lover"
• Philip Oakey & Giorgio Moroder, "Electric Dreams"
• Pointer Sisters, "I'm so Excited"
• Pointer Sisters, "Automatic"
• Pointer Sisters, "Jump (For My Love)"
• Police, "King of Pain"
• Police, "Wrapped Around Your Finger"
• Pretenders, "Time the Avenger"
• Pretenders, "Middle of the Road"
• Pretenders, "Show Me"
• Prince, "When Doves Cry"
• Prince, "Let's Go Crazy"
• Psychedelic Furs, "Alice's House"
• Psychedelic Furs, "The Ghost In You"
• Psychedelic Furs, "Heartbeat"
• Psychedelic Furs, "Heaven"
• Qed, "Everywhere I Go"
• Quiet Riot, "Sign Of The Times"
• Quiet Riot, "Bang Your Head (Metal Health)"
• Quiet Riot, "Condition Critical"
• Quiet Riot, "Mama Weer All Crazee Now"
• Quiet Riot, "Cum on Feel the Noize"
• R.E.M., "S. Central Rain (I'm Sorry)"
• R.E.M., "(Don't Go Back to) Rockville"
• Raf, "Self Control"
• Ratt, "Back for More"
• Ratt, "Wanted Man"
• Ratt, "Round and Round"
• Ray Parker Jr., "Ghostbusters"
• Re-Flex, "The Politics of Dancing"
• Real Life, "Send Me an Angel"
• Real Life, "Catch Me I'm Falling"
• Red Hot Chili Peppers, "Get Up and Jump"
• Red Hot Chili Peppers, "True Men Don't Kill Coyotes"
• Replacements, "I Will Dare"
• Rick James, "17"
• Rick Springfield, "Souls"
• Rick Springfield, "Human Touch"
• Rick Springfield, "Love Somebody"
• Rick Springfield, "Jessie's Girl"
• Robert Plant, "In the Mood"
• Rockwell, "Somebody's Watching Me"
• Rod Stewart, "Infatuation"
• Rod Stewart, "Some Guys Have All The Luck"
• Rolling Stones, "Undercover Of The Night"
• Romantics, "Talking in Your Sleep"
• Romeo Void, "A Girl In Trouble (Is A Temporary Thing)"
• Rubber Rodeo, "Anywhere With You"
• Rush, "Distant Early Warning"
• S.O.S. Band, "Just Be Good to Me"
• Sammy Hagar, "I Can't Drive 55"
• Scandal, "The Warrior"
• Scorpions, "Rock You Like a Hurricane"
• Shalamar, "Dancing In The Sheets"
• Shannon, "Give Me Tonight"
• Shannon, "Let The Music Play"
• Sheena Easton, "Devil in a Fast Car"
• Sheena Easton, "Strut"
• Sheila E., "The Glamorous Life"
• Simple Minds, "Up On the Catwalk"
• Slade, "My Oh My"
• Slade, "Run Runaway"
• Smiths, "Still Ill"
• Smiths, "This Charming Man"
• Smiths, "Pretty Girls Make Graves"
• Smiths, "Reel Around the Fountain"
• Smiths, "Miserable Lie"
• Smiths, "What Difference Does It Make"
• Smiths, "Hand in Glove"
• Smiths, "You've Got Everything Now"
• Spandau Ballet, "Only When You Leave"
• Spandau Ballet, "Communication"
• Spandau Ballet, "Gold"
• Specials, "Free Nelson Mandela"
• Spinal Tap, "Stonehenge"
• Spinal Tap, "Big Bottom"
• Steve Perry, "Oh Sherrie"
• Stevie Ray Vaughan, "Look at Little Sister"
• Stevie Ray Vaughan, "Couldn't Stand The Weather"
• Stevie Ray Vaughan, "Cold Shot"
• Style Council, "Shout To The Top"
• Style Council, "You're The Best Thing"
• Suburbs, "Love Is The Law"
• Survivor, "I Can't Hold Back"
• Talk Talk, "Why Is It So Hard"
• Talk Talk, "Dum Dum Girl"
• Talk Talk, "It's My Life"
• Talk Talk, "Such a Shame"
• Talking Heads, "Once in a Lifetime"
• Thomas Dolby, "Dissidents"
• Thomas Dolby, "Screen Kiss"
• Thomas Dolby, "Hyperactive!"
• Thompson Twins, "Passion Planet"
• Thompson Twins, "You Take Me Up"
• Thompson Twins, "Doctor! Doctor!"
• Thompson Twins, "Hold Me Now"
• Tim Finn, "Fraction Too Much Friction"
• Tina Turner, "What's Love Got to Do With It"
• Tony Carey, "The First Day of Summer"
• Tony Carey, "A Fine Fine Day"
• Tracey Ullman, "They Don't Know"
• Twisted Sister, "I Wanna Rock"
• U2, "Pride (in the Name of Love)"
• Van Halen, "Girl Gone Bad"
• Van Halen, "I'll Wait"
• Van Halen, "Drop Dead Legs"
• Van Halen, "Hot For Teacher"
• Van Halen, "1984"
• Van Halen, "Jump"
• Van Halen, "Panama"
• Van Stephenson, "Modern Day Delilah"
• Vandals, "Ladykiller"
• Wang Chung, "Wait"
• Wang Chung, "Don't Let Go"
• Wang Chung, "Dance Hall Days"
• Was (Not Was), "Knocked Down, Made Small (Treated Like a Rubber Ball)"
• Weather Girls, "It's Raining Men"
• Wham!, "Wake Me up Before You Go-Go"
• Yes, "It Can Happen"
• Yes, "Changes"
• Yes, "Hold On"
• Yes, "Leave It"
• Yes, "Owner of a Lonely Heart"

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