The Best Music of 1985

A friend let me know about this website, musicoutfitters.com. Enter a year into the search box to pull up the top 100 songs from that year. 1985 was the year that I graduated from high school. Reading through this list brought backs lots of memories, most of them relating to the videos back when M-TV and VH-1 actually showed music videos. I have added comments where appropriate. What do YOU remember when you think of these songs?

1. Careless Whisper, Wham! (How could this possibly be #1?)
2. Like A Virgin, Madonna (This was SUCH a forbidden song in my house)
3. Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go, Wham! (My vote for #1 - Tracy, a HS friend. A-boom-boom-boom-boom...)
4. I Want To Know What Love Is, Foreigner
5. I Feel For You, Chaka Khan (David, a HS friend)
6. Out Of Touch, Daryl Hall and John Oates
7. Everybody Wants To Rule The World, Tears For Fears
8. Money For Nothing, Dire Straits (Me playing air guitar in the intro when Tracy and Holly - now my wife - came to visit me in college)
9. Crazy For You, Madonna (Slow dancing with Holly at prom, although we were not together)
10. Take On Me, A-Ha
11. Everytime You Go Away, Paul Young
12. Easy Lover, Phil Collins and Philip Bailey
13. Can't Fight This Feeling, REO Speedwagon
14. We Built This City, Starship (The CHS Volleyball team)
15. The Power Of Love, Huey Lewis and The News
16. Don't You (Forget About Me), Simple Minds (The Breakfast Club)
17. Cherish, Kool and The Gang (Rebecca, a summer fling that all my HS friends thought was anorexic)
18. St. Elmo's Fire (Man In Motion), John Parr (watching St. Elmo's Fire like a thousand times)
19. The Heat Is On, Glenn Frey
20. We Are The World, U.S.A. For Africa (Michael Jackson and lots of people holding hands. Hmmm...)
21. Shout, Tears For Fears
22. Part-Time Lover, Stevie Wonder
23. Saving All My Love For You, Whitney Houston
24. Heaven, Bryan Adams
25. Everything She Wants, Wham!
26. Cool It Now, New Edition
27. Miami Vice Theme, Jan Hammer
28. Lover Boy, Billy Ocean
29. Lover Girl, Teena Marie
30. You Belong To The City, Glenn Frey
31. Oh Sheila, Ready For The World
32. Rhythm Of The Night, Debarge
33. One More Night, Phil Collins
34. Sea Of Love, Honeydrippers
35. A View To A Kill, Duran Duran (Anything by Duran Duran was great)
36. The Wild Boys, Duran Duran
37. You're The Inspiration, Chicago
38. Neutron Dance, Pointer Sisters
39. We Belong, Pat Benatar
40. Nightshift, Commodores
41. Things Can Only Get Better, Howard Jones
42. All I Need, Jack Wagner
43. Freeway Of Love, Aretha Franklin (The pink Cadillac)
44. Never Surrender, Corey Hart
45. Sussudio, Phil Collins (Thinking, "What the h@** is Su-su-ssudio?"
46. Strut, Sheena Easton (Our cheerleaders doing a routine to this telling the sponsor it said "what you want from winnin'" when it really said "...from women." She knew better, and thought they really didn't know.)
47. You Give Good Love, Whitney Houston
48. The Search Is Over, Survivor (Holly - my wife, this was really OUR song. When she told me that, I knew that I would end up with her one day.)
49. Missing You, Diana Ross
50. Separate Lives, Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin
51. Raspberry Beret, Prince and The Revolution (Brett - a HS friend)
52. Suddenly, Billy Ocean
53. The Boys Of Summer, Don Henley
54. One Night In Bangkok, Murray Head
55. If You Love Somebody Set Them Free, Sting
56. Obsession, Animotion (This is the best style of music for dancing)
57. We Don't Need Another Hero, Tina Turner
58. Material Girl, Madonna (The beginning of the Marilyn Monroe wannabe, and I loved it)
59. Better Be Good To Me, Tina Turner (Tina, bobbing her head, demanding that I be good to her)
60. Head Over Heels, Tears For Fears
61. Axel F, Harold Faltermeyer (Todd B. - friend from college who could play this on his keyboard)
62. Smooth Operator, Sade (Thinking, "Where does she get "Sharday" out of "Sade?")
63. In My House, Mary Jane Girls
64. Don't Lose My Number, Phil Collins
65. All Through The Night, Cyndi Lauper
66. Run To You, Bryan Adams
67. Glory Days, Bruce Springsteen
68. Voices Carry, 'Til Tuesday
69. Misled, Kool and The Gang
70. Would I Lie To You?, Eurythmics (Short hair, wondering if she was a lesbian.)
71. Be Near Me, ABC (See #56)
72. No More Lonely Nights, Paul McCartney
73. I Can't Hold Back, Survivor
74. Summer Of '69, Bryan Adams
75. Walking On Sunshine, Katrina and The Waves
76. Freedom, Wham!
77. Too Late For Goodbyes, Julian Lennon
78. Valotte, Julian Lennon
79. Some Like It Hot, Power Station
80. Solid, Ashford and Simpson
81. Angel, Madonna
82. I'm On Fire, Bruce Springsteen
83. Method Of Modern Love, Daryl Hall and John Oates
84. Lay Your Hands On Me, Thompson Twins
85. Who's Holding Donna Now, Debarge
86. Lonely Ol' Night, John Cougar Mellencamp
87. What About Love, Heart
88. California Girls, David Lee Roth (The KVIL version, "Dallas Fort Worth Girls.")
89. Fresh, Kool and The Gang
90. Do What You Do, Jermaine Jackson
91. Jungle Of Love, The Time
92. Born In The USA, Bruce Springsteen
93. Private Dancer, Tina Turner (Tina dancing just for me, just prior to demanding that I be good to her)
94. Who's Zoomin' Who, Aretha Franklin (What does this mean???)
95. Fortress Around Your Heart, Sting
96. Penny Lover, Lionel Richie
97. All She Wants To Do Is Dance, Don Henley
98. Dress You Up, Madonna
99. Sentimental Street, Night Ranger
100. Sugar Walls, Sheena Easton (Tracy, a HS friend, who educated me about this song)