Top of the Pop Culture 80s - Top 20 Singles of the 80s - Numbers 10 to 1

 

1 When Doves Cry – Prince

2 Fame -Irene Cara

3 You Are - Lionel Richie

4 Love is a Battlefield - Pat Benatar

5 Broken Land -The Adventures

6 Running Up that Hill - Kate Bush

7 Martha’s Harbour - All About Eve

8 Caught Up in a Rapture - Anita Baker

 9 So Emotional - Whitney Houston

10 Hide and Seek - Howard Jones 

Pat Benatar Record Mirror 1985

 

Top of the Pop Culture 80s - Top 20 Albums of the 80s - Numbers 10 to 1

 

Our Top 20 all time 80s favourite albums. Numbers 10 to 1. The criteria is albums we still play today and never tire of, where we never skip any songs or think I've heard that track too many times. Yes, we are aware that Pat Benatar's "In the Heat of the Night" was released in August 1979 in America but it never charted in the U.K. until 1985. 

Listen to some of our favourites:

Play the Number One album

Pat Benatar Record Mirror 1983

 

Album Reviews July 1988 Record Mirror

 

Single Reviews Record Mirror November 1980

 

MTV Awards 1985

 

Eddie Murphy present the 1985 MTV Video Awards

Pat Benatar - Heartbreaker - 1980

Pat Benatar - "We Live For Love" 

The 3rd Single from Pat Benatar was released in March 1980 (in the U.K.) but failed to chart on the U.K singles chart.  Written by Geoff Gill and Cliff Wade it was released on Chrysalis Records Records on  7 inch single. It reached number 23 on the U.S. billboard Chart. 

                                                                   Record Mirror Review 

 

                                                                      Music Week Review

 

First Two Hours of MTV

 

First Two Hours of MTV broadcast in 1981

Single reviews Smash Hits January 1980

 

Pat Benatar Record Mirror 1980

Pat Benatar - We Live For Love - 1980

Pat Benatar - "We Live For Love" 

The 4th Single from Pat Benatar was released in February 1980.K but failed to chart on the U.K singles chart.  Written by Neil Giraldo it was released on Chrysis Records Records on  7 inch & 12 inch single. It reached number 27 on the U.S. billboard Chart. 

 

 

Record Mirror Review

Smash Hits Review

 

 

Pat Benatar - Get Nervous - 1982

Get Nervous  is the 4th album from Pat Benatar, released in November 1982 on Chrysalis Records. It was produced by Neil Giraldo and Peter Coleman. The album reached No. 73 on the British charts and peaked at No. 4 in the US charts.

 

Listen To the Full album:

Track Listing:

01- Shadows Of The Night
02-Looking For A Stranger
03-Anxiety (Get Nervous)
04-Fight It Out
05-The Victim

06-Little Too Late
07-I´II Do It
08-I Want Out
09-Tell It To Her
10-Silent Partner

Smash Hits Review

Billboard Magazine Review

 

 

Pat Benatar MTV Interview 1983

 
Pat Benatar MTV Interview 1983

Pat Benatar in concert 1982

Pat Benatar Live in concert 1982

 Track listing:
01 Treat Me Right [03:03]
02 You Better Run [06:38]
03 I Need a Lover [09:54]
04 The Victim [14:21]
05 Precious Time [19:03]
06 Anxiety (Get Nervous) [25:02]
07 In the Heat of the Night [29:53]
08 Little Too Late [36:12]
09 Fire and Ice [40:31]
10 Promises in the Dark [44:34]
11 Hit Me with Your Best Shot [50:42]
12 Heartbreaker [53:53]
13 Hell Is for Children [59:57]
14 No You Don't [65:15]
15 Just Like Me [70:34]

Pat Benatar Live Performance The Tube 1983

Pat Benatar Live Performance on The Tube 1983 performing

"Anxiety (Get Nervous)"
"Shadows of the Night"
"Heartbreaker"

Pat Benatar Star Hits Interview 1985

Star Hits - 1985 Readers Pol

Pat Benatar - Tropico

"Tropico"  is the 6th album from Pat Benatar.  Released in  November 1984 on Chrysalis Records. It was produced by Produced by Neil Giraldo and Peter Coleman. The album reached No. 31 on the British charts, and peaked at No. 14 in the US charts.

Listen to the Full album:

Track Listing

01. Diamond Field
02. We Belong
03. Painted Desert
04. Temporary Heroes
05. Love In The Ice Age
06. Ooh Ooh Song
07. The Outlaw Blues
08. Suburban King
09. A Crazy World Like This
10. Takin' It Back

UK Version also included "Love Is A Battlefield"

                                                            Star Hits Review

                               

Cashbox Review

  

Pat Benatar Spin Magazine 1985