Umm... OK... I've got several Soft Cell albums and 12" singles, but I've never actually seen this video before. I have to say it's one of the creepiest things ever, and not in a good way.
Apparently the "plot" of the video is supposed to be that the girl is the mixed-race love-child of the black servant and the "emperor's" wife. The video is so superficially creepy that it's easy to miss the layers of creepiness beneath it.
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I wasn't really a big fan of this band, but this particular song was one of the very best of the decade IMO.
Grandmaster Flash - The Message
Herbie Hancock, Rockit
Stevie Nicks with Tom Petty - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
Dolly Parton, 9 to 5
Devo - Working in a Coal Mine
Another underrated/overlooked a-ha song:
YOU WA SHOCK
Classic The Doors track covered by Echo & the Bunnymen for The Lost Boys movie '87
Erasure - The Circus
Lone Justice
Yuria Eien Ni, the ending song of Hokuto no Ken.
The quintessential catchy 80s tune:
Warlock - All We Are
AFOS' follow up to "I Ran":
This song was never a hit, but it has always been one of my favorites of the decade:
I've always had an unhealthy obsession with this song:
No discussion of 80s music would be complete without this epic masterpiece:
From the Smiths to the Smithereens:
My favorite song by the Romantics:
Ultravox - Vienna
Ultravox - Dancing With Tears In My Eyes
The Alan Parsons Project - Lucifer (I'm cheating a bit here, it's from 1979)