Time for more Pat Benatar. Here's "Treat Me Right":

https://tinyurl.com/y82m2hdx

Quite awhile back I posted Talk Talk's song "It's My Life". I now return to Talk Talk for, well, "Talk Talk":

https://tinyurl.com/yb6z9jlc

When I did David Bowie's "(Cat People) Putting Out Fire", I mentioned Giorgio Moroder. Time to complete that thought. I could spend quite a bit of time on the "Scarface" soundtrack. But I'll just devote this one post to it. "Scarface" was a movie about excess, and even the most superficial treatment of it cannot avoid that fact. Excess permeates every detail in that movie. I could just mention that "Push It To The Limit" was a song by Paul Engemann which appears in "Scarface". But that would fail to give the "atmosphere" I want this particular post to have. Although *sung* by Paul Engemann, it was *written* by Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte and is featured in the middle of "Scarface" when Tony Montana was at the apex of his empire. Here are two versions, the first from the movie itself:

https://tinyurl.com/y8qgm26g

Interesting the way that clip ends with the camera slowly zooming in on Michelle Pfeiffer, foreshadowing what will happen in the second phase of the movie. Now for the more traditional YouTube version, not much of a video, I'll admit:

https://tinyurl.com/y8e35xek

Like several of the songs in Moroder's score for "Scarface", "Push It To The Limit" is also featured on the fake radio station Flashback FM in Grand Theft Auto III. It was a great song to street race to in my blue Infernus in that game. (Why blue and not red? The shade of red used in that game is a bit brownish, and blue is my favorite color, anyway.)

Before I leave the subject of Moroder and "Scarface" permanently, I will give a bonus. My *favorite* song from that score is *not* in GTA III, unfortunately. It is the end credits theme. Not much of a video, but the song is haunting. Here it is:

https://tinyurl.com/yc8ffmow

OK, OK! I've really beat this one into the ground. I'm leaving the whole depressing subject of "Scarface" for good now.

Say goodbye to the bad guy.

I return to Kim Wilde for "You Keep Me Hangin' On":

https://tinyurl.com/y8lq2xjk

Time for some more of Hall and Oates. Here's "Private Eyes":

https://tinyurl.com/yalytdg6

Last week, I got the whole music-related-Scarface thing out of my system. Today, I'm going to get the music-related-Sopranos thing out of my system. The Sopranos, you ask? That was an early 2000s show. What does it have to do with the 80s? Well, as it happens, my favorite episode of The Sopranos was called "University" and it was the sixth episode of the third season:

https://tinyurl.com/yad9zufy

In the episode, today's featured song appeared (in part) three times: the beginning, the middle, and the end. It really caught my attention. The song is by The Kinks and is called "Living on a Thin Line" and is from 1984, so it is a legitimate 80s song. It is played in the Bada Bing!

https://tinyurl.com/y88rju8s

The episode, which is extremely dark and violent, strongly contrasts what happens to "Princess" Meadow Soprano (who thinks she has problems) with Tracee (who really does have problems). Usually when I post a link to my featured song, I do it through Bing. Today, I am doing through Google's direct link to YouTube, so that the comments about the song will be readily visible should you choose to read them. A dark song for a dark episode. Here is "Living on a Thin Line" by the Kinks:

https://tinyurl.com/ybd42y8p

Poor Tracee.

Oh, I forgot. I also meant to link *this* version of The Kinks' "Living on a Thin Line":

(The first video listed ODDWORLD2525)

https://tinyurl.com/yalpeydc

Time for a song from another singer I have not featured here before. This is Irene Cara with "Flashdance...What a Feeling":

https://tinyurl.com/y9zoeym8

Here's a second helping of Duran Duran with "Rio":

https://tinyurl.com/ycnanshf

I can't believe I've gotten this far into a thread on 80s music and haven't done any Men At Work yet. I must remedy that oversight forthwith. Here's Men at Work with "Down Under":

https://tinyurl.com/y8tmjf7s

Here's a new one: Katrina and The Waves with "Walking On Sunshine":

https://tinyurl.com/y8d6mn7h

Back to more Phil Collins with "You Can't Hurry Love":

https://tinyurl.com/y9ubjl5y

Another attack of darkness I would like to get out of my system for today. Frequently, my music from the 80s is from 80s movies, and one really dark 80s movie that made an impression on me was Stephen King's "Christine". Featured in that movie, particularly in the opening sequence, is George Thorogood's " Bad to the Bone". This one is worth spending a little extra time on. First the official music video version of "Bad to the Bone" by George Thorogood and The Destroyers:

https://tinyurl.com/ycv6o7uz

In "Christine", the main character Arnie is a nerdy guy who is "transformed" by the malignant presence of Christine, the Plymouth Fury (appropriately named). Early evidence of that transformation is when Arnie repeats the line "There is nothing finer than being behind the wheel of your own car. 'Cept maybe ...."

https://tinyurl.com/y7hkztgl

Now let's go back to "Bad to the Bone" again, this time in a "Christine" montage. You'll get the idea:

https://tinyurl.com/y8lbmh7a

Ah, the good ol days of the 80s

Her name's Christine.

Here's a new singer (for my list, anyway): Bonnie Tyler with "Total Eclipse of the Heart":

https://tinyurl.com/y7k7mllu

Another helping of Tears for Fears, this time with "Everybody Wants To Rule The World":

https://tinyurl.com/y7os8mlz

It is way past time that I finally get around to introducing "The Boss", Bruce Springsteen, with "Dancing in the Dark":

https://tinyurl.com/y8xspesp

My favorite part of this video is near the end when a young (and then unknown) Courteney Cox, jumps up on the stage to dance with Springsteen.

I do my best to try to post songs I haven't posted before, and I reread this thread periodically because one of the reasons I created it in the first place was to have a place I could go to while I'm on FT and find my favorite songs. But anyway, I am human and I do make mistakes. I just noticed that I posted Tears For Fears' song "Everybody Wants To Rule The World" twice, on March 9 and again on June 1. This sort of thing will probably happen again. My memory is excellent, but not perfect, and as this list of 80s songs keeps getting longer, it is more likely that sort of thing will happen from time to time. Anyway, I want to make up for it with a bonus post: Here's Kenny Loggins with "Danger Zone" as featured in "Top Gun":

https://tinyurl.com/y9u3r2n2

A thoracic surgeon I once knew years ago told me (and I have every reason to believe it was the truth), that when it came time to do the closing of a chest operation in the OR, he would start playing "Danger Zone". Apparently it was motivational music.

Still can never get too much Madonna. Here's "Lucky Star":

https://tinyurl.com/y8lty8n6

Let's return to R.E.M. for "The One I Love":

https://tinyurl.com/ybyus3e9

Time for another group I haven't featured here before. But first, another line from "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" (because I can't resist):

"Got any Blue Oyster Cult?"

As a matter of fact, I do. Here's Blue Oyster Cult (sorry I can't do the umlaut over the O) with "Burnin' For You":

https://tinyurl.com/ybuszxy8

More Roxette. Here's "It Must Have Been Love":

https://tinyurl.com/y9ga2kjk

Time for a second round of Men at Work. Here's "Who Can It Be Now?":

https://tinyurl.com/yd9ewple

Here's something different: Jermaine Stewart with "We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off":

https://tinyurl.com/y8ocvlbl

I haven't done anything from Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine since near the beginning of this thread with "Bad Boy". Time to fix that. Here they are with "Rhythm is Gonna Get You":

https://tinyurl.com/yajsuhqu

As I had mentioned when I posted Foreigner's "Urgent" some time back, as much as I love Foreigner, it is tough to post videos from them here because much of their work was in the 70s and also even their 80s stuff didn't have particularly good videos to go with their amazing songs. I'm not much of a fan of "the band playing the song" as is, but I especially dislike videos of groups in live performances because the audio quality from a live performance is quite inferior to that of a studio-produced song. All that said, I am returning to Foreigner for their 1981 song "Waiting For A Girl Like You" even though I dislike their official video for the song (a live performance) by picking some alternate videos I found. Here's the first one:

https://tinyurl.com/y9q8fvfo

For the second one, I turn back to my days of playing Grand Theft Auto. In Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, "Waiting For A Girl Like You" was featured on the soundtrack of the fake radio station Emotion 98.3. Ah, the memories of Vice City with that song:

https://tinyurl.com/yaqfhv7m

I think that the fact the song was played during the Vice City night in that video adds to its impact. All the glowing Art Deco buildings in the background really creates the ambience.