New Order – Blue Monday #quotefromthe80s I still find it so hard To say what I need to say But I'm quite sure that you'll tell me Just how I should feel today #BlueMonday #NewOrder It is not easy to say when dance music was born, or when a new trend crept between new wave and pop. Supported by technological progress which made increasingly accessible synthesizers and electronic drums available, this trend made the concept of bpm fundamental, and allowed the birth of a truly new genre. Certainly, in March 1983 a song marked a real boundary, and then clearly indicated that the boundary had bee ..read more

Madonna – Like a prayer #quotefromthe80s When you call my name it's like a little prayer I'm down on my knees, I wanna take you there In the midnight hour I can feel your power Just like a prayer you know I'll take you there #Madonna #LikeAPrayer March 3, 1989 was one of those special days when, from that moment on, nothing is the same as before. In fact, on that day Madonna launched a new single, highly anticipated for various reasons, not least because three years had passed since her last album True Blue and since Papa don’t Preach, Open Your Heart and La Isla Bonita. In recent years, how ..read more

Re-Flex – The Politics of Dancing #quotefromthe80s The politics of dancing The politics of, ooh, feeling good The politics of moving, aha Is this message understood? #ReFlex #ThePoliticsOfDancing Politics was certainly a hot topic in the 80s. Sometimes it was taken very seriously, and songs were composed to recall events that had happened or perhaps hoped for uprisings and changes. It happened both at a local level, especially in the United Kingdom, and think of Sunday Bloody Sunday by U2 or Sowing the Seeds of Love by Tears for Fears, or even at an international level, and think of Russians ..read more

Duran Duran – New Moon On Monday #quotefromthe80s I light my torch and wave it for the New moon on Monday And a fire dance through the night I stayed the cold day With a lonely satellite #NewMoonOnMonday #DuranDuran On January 23, 1984, now forty years ago, one of the strangest and most bizarre songs of the ’80s was released. But if you think that the authors were an equally bizarre group, you are wrong, because we are talking about the absolute symbols of the 80s in Europe: Duran Duran. After the enormous success of their second album with songs like Rio, Hungry Like the Wolf or Save a Pray ..read more

Phil Collins – Sussudio #quotefromthe80s Ah, if she called me I'd be there I'd come running anywhere, she's all I need, all my life I feel so good if I just say the word, Sus-Sussudio #PhilCollins #Sussudio In the 80s, we had plenty of songs about love, be it sensual, desperate or very happy. And of course there was a lot of songs titled after women’s names. Some were all in all normal names, like Toto’s Rosanna, or perhaps normal in Anglo-Saxon languages, like Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean or Europe’s Carrie, or even in other languages like Elton John’s Nikita, but others had names at least ..read more

Phil Collins – Sussudio #quotefromthe80s Ah, if she called me I'd be there I'd come running anywhere, she's all I need, all my life I feel so good if I just say the word, Sus-Sussudio #PhilCollins #Sussudio In the 80s, we had plenty of songs about love, be it sensual, desperate or very happy. And of course there was a lot of songs titled after women’s names. Some were all in all normal names, like Toto’s Rosanna, or perhaps normal in Anglo-Saxon languages, like Michael Jackson’s Billie Jean or Europe’s Carrie, or even in other languages like Elton John’s Nikita, but others had names at least ..read more

Fra Lippo Lippi – Shouldn’t Have To be Like That #quotefromthe80s And even if it takes a lifetime of trust To build something strong, what happens to us With all our faith buried inside, somewhere Shouldn't have to be like that #FraLippoLippi #ShouldntHaveToBeLikeThat In the pop world of the 80s many artists and groups had bizarre names. Aside from completely invented names, many artists took inspiration, for example, from particular or unusual places, such as Picnic at the Whitehouse singing We Need Protection, or Hong Kong Syndikat with their beautiful Too Much. Even very famous groups too ..read more

U2 – New Year’s Day #quotefromthe80s I want to be with you, be with you, night and day Nothing changes on New Year's Day, on New Year's Day I will be with you again I will be with you again #U2 #NewYearsDay When a song has a title like this, it is destined to become the New Year’s song of the 80s, a bit like Last Christmas, but a week later, let’s say. And just as Last Christmas is not the classic Christmas song, New Year’s Day is not a song to wish everyone a happy new year. New Year’s Day was released in mid-January 1983, and was the single that preceded the release of War, U2’s third albu ..read more

Daryl Hall & John Oates – I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) #quotefromthe80s Yeah I, I'll do anything that you want me to Yeah, I'll do almost anything that you want me to Yeah, but I can't go for that No (no), no can do #Hall&Oates #ICantGoForThat Mid December 1981 marked the outcome of one of the most famous songs in the incredibly long career of a duo that was certainly underestimated in Europe, because they always aimed more at the American market than the European one, and we are talking about Daryl Hall and John Oates. In the United States, in fact, Hall&Oates have had an inc ..read more

Valerie Dore – The Night #quotefromthe80s Let's get closer babe 'Cause we're dance and dance All my friends are talking to me What's this love I see? #ValerieDore #TheNight In the final part of 1983 a song was recorded and produced that could be defined as “a disco dream”, or maybe an Italo-disco dream. Actually, the first impression was that there was very little Italian in this song: the title and the lyrics were in English, the singer’s name sounded French, and in the biographies found in the newspapers of music of the time we read that the singer was even born in Monte Carlo or in any ca ..read more