Desert Island Songs - 1986

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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• 'Til Tuesday, "No One Is Watching You Now"
• 'Til Tuesday, "Lovers' Day"
• 'Til Tuesday, "Will She Just Fall Down"
• 'Til Tuesday, "What About Love"
• 38 Special, "Heart's on Fire"
• 38 Special, "Somebody Like You"
• 38 Special, "Like No Other Night"
• A Flock of Seagulls, "How Could You Ever Leave Me"
• A Flock of Seagulls, "Love On Your Knees"
• A Flock of Seagulls, "Cry Like A Baby"
• A Flock of Seagulls, "Hot Tonight"
• A Flock of Seagulls, "Heartbeat Like A Drum"
• A Flock of Seagulls, "Say So Much"
• ABC, "Vanity Kills"
• AC-DC, "Who Made Who"
• AC-DC, "D.T."
• AC-DC, "Shake Your Foundations"
• Alarm, "Strength"
• Alexander O'Neal & Cherrelle, "Never Knew Love Like This"
• Animotion, "I Engineer"
• Anita Baker, "Watch Your Step"
• Anita Baker, "Been So Long"
• Anita Baker, "Same Ole Love"
• Anita Baker, "Sweet Love"
• Arcadia, "The Promise"
• Arcadia, "Goodbye Is Forever"
• Aretha Franklin, "Who's Zoomin' Who"
• Art of Noise, "Peter Gunn"
• Art of Noise, "Paranoimia"
• Asia, "Go"
• B-52's, "Juicy Jungle"
• B-52's, "Detour thru Your Mind"
• B-52's, "Ain't It a Shame"
• B-52's, "Planet Claire"
• B-52's, "Summer of Love"
• B-52's, "Rock Lobster"
• Bad Company, "Fame and Fortune"
• Baltimora, "Living In The Background"
• Baltimora, "Tarzan Boy"
• Bananarama, "More Than Physical"
• Bananarama, "Venus"
• Bangles, "If She Knew What She Wants"
• Bangles, "Manic Monday"
• Bangles, "Going Down To Liverpool"
• Beastie Boys, "Slow and Low"
• Beastie Boys, "Paul Revere"
• Beastie Boys, "Rhymin & Stealin"
• Beatles, "Twist and Shout"
• Belouis Some, "Round, Round"
• Belouis Some, "Some People"
• Belouis Some, "Imagination"
• Berlin, "You Don't Know (Single Edit)"
• Berlin, "Will I Ever Understand You"
• Big Audio Dynamite, "E=MC2"
• Big Country, "Look Away"
• Billy Joel, "Modern Woman"
• Billy Joel, "A Matter Of Trust"
• Billy Joel, "She's Always a Woman"
• Billy Ocean, "There'll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry)"
• Billy Ocean, "When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going"
• Billy Squier, "Love Is The Hero"
• Blow Monkeys, "Digging Your Scene"
• Bob Seger, "Like A Rock"
• Bob Seger, "American Storm"
• Boston, "Cool The Engines"
• Boston, "Amanda"
• Bourgeois Tagg, "Mutual Surrender (What a Wonderful World)"
• Boys Don't Cry, "I Wanna Be A Cowboy"
• Bronski Beat, "Hit That Perfect Beat"
• Bruce Hornsby & the Range, "The Red Plains"
• Bruce Hornsby & the Range, "The River Runs Low"
• Bruce Hornsby & the Range, "On The Western Skyline"
• Bruce Hornsby & the Range, "The Way It Is"
• Bruce Hornsby & the Range, "Every Little Kiss"
• Bruce Springsteen, "My Hometown"
• Bryan Adams, "It's Only Love"
• Bryan Adams, "This Time"
• Bryan Adams, "Straight from the Heart"
• Bunburys, "Fight (No Matter How Long)"
• Cars, "I'm Not The One"
• Cars, "Tonight She Comes"
• Chicago, "25 Or 6 To 4"
• China Crisis, "Trading In Gold"
• Cock Robin, "When Your Heart Is Weak"
• Corey Hart, "Eurasian Eyes"
• Crowded House, "Mean To Me"
• Cult, "She Sells Sanctuary"
• Cure, "Inbetween Days"
• Cure, "Boys Don't Cry"
• Cutting Crew, "Life In A Dangerous Time"
• Cyndi Lauper, "True Colors"
• David Bowie, "Underground"
• David Lee Roth, "Goin' Crazy!"
• David Lee Roth, "Loco De Calor"
• David Lee Roth, "Yankee Rose"
• Deborah Harry, "French Kissin' In The USA"
• Del Fuegos, "I Still Want You"
• Device, "Hanging On a Heart Attack"
• Dire Straits, "Walk of Life"
• Dire Straits, "So Far Away"
• Dire Straits, "Ride Across the River"
• Divinyls, "Pleasure And Pain"
• Doobie Brothers, "What a Fool Believes"
• Double, "The Captain of Her Heart"
• Dream Academy, "The Edge of Forever"
• Dream Academy, "Life in a Northern Town"
• Duran Duran, "Hold Me"
• Duran Duran, "So Misled"
• Eddie Murphy, "Party All the Time"
• El DeBarge, "Who's Johnny"
• Electric Light Orchestra, "So Serious"
• Electric Light Orchestra, "Calling America"
• Elton John, "Nikita"
• Elton John, "Wrap Her Up"
• Emerson, Lake & Palmer, "Touch & Go"
• Fabulous Thunderbirds, "Why Get Up"
• Fabulous Thunderbirds, "Wrap It Up"
• Fabulous Thunderbirds, "Tuff Enuff"
• Falco, "Rock Me Amadeus (The Solieri Version)"
• Falco, "Vienna Calling"
• Falco, "Rock Me Amadeus"
• Fine Young Cannibals, "Johnny Come Home"
• Fixx, "Secret Separation"
• Fixx, "Built For The Future"
• Flowerpot Men, "Beat City"
• Force MD's, "Tender Love"
• GTR, "When the Heart Rules the Mind"
• Gene Loves Jezebel, "Desire"
• Genesis, "Home by the Sea"
• Genesis, "Throwing It All Away"
• Genesis, "Invisible Touch"
• Glass Tiger, "Don't Forget Me (When I'm Gone)"
• Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine, "Conga"
• Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine, "Bad Boy"
• Go West, "Don't Look Down"
• Godfathers, "This Damn Nation"
• Gregg Allman, "I'm No Angel"
• Heart, "These Dreams"
• Heart, "If Looks Could Kill"
• Heart, "Nothin' At All"
• Honeymoon Suite, "Bad Attitude"
• Honeymoon Suite, "What Does It Take"
• Honeymoon Suite, "Feel It Again"
• Hooters, "Where Do the Children Go"
• Hooters, "Day By Day"
• Housemartins, "Happy Hour"
• Howard Jones, "No One Is to Blame"
• Howard Jones, "Always Asking Questions"
• Howard Jones, "You Know I Love You, Don't You"
• Huey Lewis & The News, "Stuck With You"
• Huey Lewis & The News, "Do You Believe in Love"
• Human League, "Love Is All That Matters"
• Human League, "Human"
• INXS, "This Time"
• INXS, "Kiss The Dirt (Falling Down The Mountain)"
• INXS, "Listen Like Thieves"
• INXS, "What You Need"
• INXS and Jimmy Barnes, "Good Times"
• Jan Hammer, "Miami Vice Theme"
• Janet Jackson, "When I Think of You"
• Janet Jackson, "Nasty"
• Jean Beauvoir, "Feel The Heat"
• Jellybean, "Sidewalk Talk"
• Jermaine Stewart, "We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off"
• Jets, "Crush on you"
• Joe Jackson, "Right And Wrong"
• John Eddie, "Jungle Boy"
• John Lennon, "Imagine"
• John Mellencamp, "Small Town"
• John Mellencamp, "Justice and Independence '85"
• John Mellencamp, "Rumbleseat"
• John Mellencamp, "Rain On The Scarecrow"
• John Mellencamp, "Minutes To Memories"
• John Mellencamp, "R.O.C.K. In The U.S.A."
• John Parr, "Naughty Naughty"
• John Taylor, "I Do What I Do"
• Journey, "Suzanne"
• Journey, "Girl Can't Help It"
• Journey, "Be Good to Yourself"
• Judas Priest, "Turbo Lover"
• Julian Lennon, "Every Day"
• Julian Lennon, "Always Think Twice"
• Julian Lennon, "Want Your Body"
• Julian Lennon, "You Don't Have To Tell Me"
• Julian Lennon, "This Is My Day"
• Julian Lennon, "I've Seen Your Face"
• Julian Lennon, "Let Me Tell You"
• Julian Lennon, "Coward Till The End"
• Julian Lennon, "You Get What You Want"
• Julian Lennon, "Stick Around"
• KBC Band, "It's Not You, It's Not Me"
• Kenny Loggins, "Danger Zone"
• Klymaxx, "Man Size Love"
• Level 42, "Leaving Me Now"
• Level 42, "Hot Water"
• Level 42, "Something About You"
• Lionel Richie, "Dancing on the Ceiling"
• Lover Speaks, "No More I Love You's"
• Loverboy, "This Could Be The Night"
• Loverboy, "Heaven in Your Eyes"
• Marilyn Martin, "Night Moves"
• Michael McDonald, "Sweet Freedom"
• Mick Jagger, "Ruthless People"
• Midge Ure, "If I Was"
• Mike & The Mechanics, "Taken In"
• Mike & The Mechanics, "Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)"
• Mike & The Mechanics, "All I Need is a Miracle"
• Models, "Out of Mind Out of Sight"
• Monkees, "That Was Then, This Is Now"
• Moody Blues, "The Other Side Of Life"
• Moody Blues, "Your Wildest Dreams"
• Mr. Mister, "Is It Love"
• Mr. Mister, "Kyrie"
• Mr. Mister, "Broken Wings"
• Mummy Calls, "Beauty Has Her Way"
• New Order, "Shellshock"
• New Order, "Angel Dust"
• New Order, "State of the Nation"
• New Order, "Blue Monday '88"
• Night Ranger, "Goodbye"
• Nu Shooz, "Point of No Return"
• Nu Shooz, "I Can't Wait"
• Oingo Boingo, "Just Another Day"
• Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark, "If You Leave"
• Outfield, "All the Love in the World"
• Outfield, "Your Love"
• Ozzy Osbourne, "Shot in the Dark"
• Pat Benatar, "Sex As A Weapon"
• Patti LaBelle & Michael McDonald, "On My Own"
• Paul McCartney, "Spies Like Us"
• Pet Shop Boys, "Two Divided By Zero"
• Pet Shop Boys, "Love Comes Quickly"
• Pet Shop Boys, "West End Girls"
• Pete Shelley, "Blue Eyes"
• Pete Shelley, "Life Without Reason"
• Pete Townshend, "Face The Face"
• Pete Townshend, "Give Blood"
• Peter Cetera, "Glory of Love"
• Peter Cetera & Amy Grant, "The Next Time I Fall"
• Peter Gabriel, "This Is The Picture (Excellent Birds)"
• Peter Gabriel, "Mercy Street"
• Peter Gabriel, "In Your Eyes"
• Peter Gabriel, "That Voice Again"
• Peter Gabriel, "Sledgehammer"
• Phil Collins, "Take Me Home"
• Pretenders, "Don't Get Me Wrong"
• Psychedelic Furs, "Pretty in Pink"
• Public Image Ltd., "Rise"
• R.E.M., "Superman"
• R.E.M., "Fall on Me"
• R.E.M., "Swan Swan H"
• Ratt, "Body Talk"
• Ratt, "Slip of the Lip"
• Ric Ocasek, "Emotion in Motion"
• Robert Cray, "Smoking Gun"
• Robert Palmer, "Discipline Of Love"
• Robert Palmer, "Hyperactive"
• Robert Palmer, "I Didn't Mean to Turn You On"
• Robert Palmer, "Addicted to Love"
• Robert Tepper, "No Easy Way Out"
• Rod Stewart, "Love Touch"
• Rolling Stones, "One Hit (To The Body)"
• Rolling Stones, "Harlem Shuffle"
• Rubber Rodeo, "Souvenir"
• Run-D.M.C., "Walk This Way"
• Rush, "The Big Money"
• Sade, "Never As Good As the First Time"
• Sade, "The Sweetest Taboo"
• Sam Cooke, "Wonderful World"
• Scritti Politti, "Perfect Way"
• Scritti Politti, "Wood Beez (Pray Like Aretha Franklin)"
• Simple Minds, "All The Things She Said"
• Simple Minds, "Sanctify Yourself"
• Simply Red, "Holding Back The Years"
• Siouxsie and the Banshees, "Cities in Dust"
• Sly Fox, "Let's Go All the Way"
• Smithereens, "In A Lonely Place"
• Smithereens, "Blood And Roses"
• Smiths, "Cemetry Gates"
• Smiths, "Bigmouth Strikes Again"
• Smiths, "Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others"
• Smiths, "The Queen Is Dead"
• Stacey Q, "Two of Hearts"
• Stan Ridgway, "Camouflage"
• Stan Ridgway, "Salesman"
• Stan Ridgway, "The Big Heat"
• Stan Ridgway, "Drive She Said"
• Starship, "Tomorrow Doesn't Matter Tonight"
• Steve Miller Band, "I Want To Make The World Turn Around"
• Steve Winwood, "Take It As It Comes"
• Steve Winwood, "Split Decision"
• Steve Winwood, "My Love's Leavin'"
• Steve Winwood, "Higher Love"
• Steve Winwood, "Freedom Overspill"
• Stevie Nicks, "I Can't Wait"
• Stevie Nicks, "Talk to Me"
• Stevie Ray Vaughan, "Willie the Wimp (live)"
• Stevie Wonder, "Go Home"
• Stevie Wonder, "Overjoyed"
• Sting, "Russians"
• Survivor, "Burning Heart"
• Suzanne Vega, "Left Of Center"
• Suzanne Vega, "Marlene on the Wall"
• Talk Talk, "Happiness Is Easy"
• Talk Talk, "Life's What You Make It"
• Talk Talk, "Give It Up"
• Talking Heads, "Wild Wild Life"
• Talking Heads, "Love for Sale"
• Talking Heads, "And She Was"
• Tavares, "It Only Takes a Minute"
• Tears for Fears, "Mothers Talk"
• Ted Nugent, "Little Miss Dangerous"
• The The, "Infected"
• They Might Be Giants, "(She Was A) Hotel Detective"
• They Might Be Giants, "Don't Let's Start"
• They Might Be Giants, "Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head"
• Thompson Twins, "King For A Day"
• Timbuk 3, "Shame On You"
• Timbuk 3, "Just Another Movie"
• Timbuk 3, "Facts About Cats"
• Timex Social Club, "Rumors"
• Tina Turner, "Typical Male"
• Toto, "I'll Be Over You"
• Trans-X, "Living on Video"
• Triumph, "Somebody's Out There"
• Van Halen, "Best of Both Worlds"
• Waterboys, "Whole Of The Moon"
• Wax, "Right Between the Eyes"
• Wham!, "The Edge of Heaven"
• Wham!, "I'm Your Man"
• Whitney Houston, "How Will I Know"
• XTC, "Another Satellite"
• ZZ Top, "Woke Up with Wood"
• ZZ Top, "Stages"
• ZZ Top, "Rough Boy"
• a-ha, "The Sun Always Shines on TV"

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