Top 80 Movie Songs of the 80’s

Since there’s no good way to link to this, beacuse of their website, here’s the whole list. You gotta give it up for One Vision by Queen in Iron Eagle, SONG ROCKED! And I can’t forget Everybody Wants to Rule the World by Tears for Fears which will always remind me of waking up at C’s on Sunday morning after a LAN party.

80. America – Neil Diamond (The Jazz Singer)
79. I la-la-la Love You – Pat Travers (Valley Girl)
78. Glory Of Love – Peter Cetera (Karate Kid II)
77. Positively Lost Me – The Rave-Ups (Pretty In Pink)
76. Wild Sex – Oingo Boingo (Sixteen Candles)
75. Bela Lugosi’s Dead – Bauhaus (The Hunger)
74. 9 to 5 – Dolly Parton (9 to 5)
73. No More Lonely Nights – Paul McCartney (Give My Regards to Broadstreet)
72. Back In Time – Huey Lewis & The News (Back To The Future)
71. Is Your Love Strong Enough – Bryan Ferry (Legend)
70. If Anybody Had A Heart – John Waite (About Last Night)
69. Best Man In The World – Ann Wilson (Golden Child)
68. The Heat Is On – Glenn Frey (Beverly Hills Cop)
67. Lunatic Fringe – Red Rider (Vision Quest)
66. Crying – Roy Orbison and k.d. lang (Hiding Out)
65. It Might Be You – Stephen Bishop (Tootsie)
64. Meet Me Halfway – Kenny Loggins (Over the Top)
63. Holiday Road – Lindsey Buckingham (National Lampoon’s Vacation)
62. Are You Ready For The Sex Girls? – Gleaming Spires (Revenge of the Nerds)
61. The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough – Cyndi Lauper (The Goonies)
60. Maniac – Michael Sembello (Flashdance)
59. Looking for Love – Johnny Lee (Urban Cowboy)
58. Everybody Wants to Rule the World – Tears for Fears (Real Genius)
57. Ghostbusters – Ray Parker Jr. (Ghostbusters)
56. Weird Science – Oingo Boingo (Weird Science)
55. Nobody’s Fool – Kenny Loggins (Caddyshack 2)
54. Pretty in Pink – The Psychedelic Furs (Pretty In Pink)
53. Everybody Wants Some – Van Halen (Better Off Dead)
52. Crazy For You – Madonna (Vision Quest)
51. We Don’t Need Another Hero – Tina Turner (Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome)
50. Biko – Peter Gabriel (Cry Freedom)
49. The Neverending Story – Limahl (The Neverending Story)
48. Arthur’s Theme (Best That You Can Do) – Christopher Cross (Arthur)
47. Absolute Beginners – David Bowie (Absolute Beginners)
46. The Boys Are Back In Town – The Bus Boys (48 Hours)
45. Just Once – James Ingram (Last American Virgin)
44. One Vision – Queen (Iron Eagle)
43. The Time of My Life – Bill Medley, Jennifer Warnes (Dirty Dancing)
42. On the Dark Side – John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band (Eddie and the Cruisers)
41. Who Wants to Live Forever – Queen (Highlander)
40. Up Where We Belong – Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes (An Officer and a Gentleman)

The rest after the jump

39. Good Times – INXS and Jimmy Barnes (The Lost Boys)
38. Separate Lives – Phil Collins and Marilyn Martin (White Nights)
37. As the World Falls Down – David Bowie (Labyrinth)
36. For Your Eyes Only – Sheena Easton (For Your Eyes Only)
35. This Is Not America – David Bowie and Pat Metheny (The Falcon and the Snowman)
34. Mighty Wings – Cheap Trick (Top Gun)
33. I’m Free – Kenny Loggins (Footloose)
32. Oh Yeah – Yello (Ferris Bueller’s Day Off)
31. What a Feeling – Irene Cara (Flashdance)
30. Let’s Go Crazy – Prince (Purple Rain)
29. Xanadu – Olivia Newton-John (Xanadu)
28. Almost Paradise – Mike Reno and Ann Wilson (Footloose)
27. A View to a Kill – Duran Duran (A View to a Kill)
26. Only the Young – Journey (Vision Quest)
25. Against All Odds – Phil Collins (Against All Odds)
24. I Can Dream About You – Dan Hartman (Streets Of Fire)
23. Sweet Freedom – Michael McDonald (Running Scared)
22. Let’s Hear It for the Boy — Deniece Williams (Footloose)
21. Take My Breath Away – Berlin (Top Gun)
20. To Live And Die In L.A. – Wang Chung (To Live and Die in L.A.)
19. Slave To Love – Bryan Ferry (9 1/2 Weeks)
18. Jungle Love – Morris Day & the Time (Purple Rain)
17. Together In Electric Dreams – Philip Oakey & Georgio Moroder (Electric Dreams)
16. Love Somebody – Rick Springfield (Hard to Hold)
15. Million Miles Away – The Plimsouls (Valley Girl)
14. Somebody’s Baby – Jackson Browne (Fast Times at Ridgemont High)
13. Fame – Irene Cara (Fame)
12. Hazy Shade of Winter – The Bangles (Less Than Zero)
11. Man in Motion – John Parr (St. Elmo’s Fire)
10. Melt With You – Modern English (Valley Girl)
9. Highway to the Danger Zone – Kenny Loggins (Top Gun)
8. Purple Rain – Prince & the Revolution (Purple Rain)
7. Footloose – Kenny Loggins (Footloose)
6. If You Leave – OMD (Pretty in Pink)
5. I’m Alright – Kenny Loggins (Caddyshack)
4. Power of Love – Huey Lewis & The News (Back to the Future)
3. Eye of the Tiger – Survivor (Rocky III)
2. In Your Eyes – Peter Gabriel (Say Anything)
1. Don’t You Forget About Me – Simple Minds (The Breakfast Club)


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