Spotify 80S Playlist - Suggestions Required

[sp1814]

I'm putting together a playlist of 80s tracks for a forthcoming holiday, and so far, I've added loads of really obvious music. Now I need inspiration for tracks I may have forgotten.

By 'obvious', I mean I already have:

Duran Duran
Culture Club
Soft Cell
Bananarama
Spandau Ballet
Adam and the Ants
Depeche Mode
ABC
Human League
Tears For Fears
Nik Kershaw
Japan
A-Ha
Gary Numan
The Smiths
Madness
New Order
Boomtown Rats
The Police
Visage

Any suggestions as to what other artists I may have missed.

I'm not looking for any heavy metal or rock...just pop.

Ohhh...just remembered Sade.

[doctordb]

the thompson twins, howard jones.

[B00]

U2, Yazoo, Bros, anything by Stock Aitkin & Waterman, Simple Minds, Nick Kershaw, Erasure, Howard Jones

[jno]

no Dire Straits? Or even late Roxy Music?

[B00]

Can't believe you left out Madonna SP!

;-)

[jno]

oh... maybe they're too rocky?

[B00]

oooo ooooo oooo the God that is (ok, was) Paul Young!

[doctordb]

Wham, level 42.

[B00]

Queen

[B00]

Eurythmics. Cyndi Lauper, Prince, Talking Heads, The Bangles

[factor-fiction]

Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Housemartins, The Jam (their last few years) then Paul Weller, Shalamar, The Christians, Fleetwood Mac (Tango in the Night and Tusk albums), Queen (loads of 80s hits- Radio Gaga etc), early Stone Roses

[society]

Michael Jackson

[yinyang]

Kajagoogoo

Stephen ' tin tin ' Duffy

[Traci66]

Rick Astley.

[daffy654]

Ultravox
Blondie

[WyeDyed]

Propaganda, Terrence Trent Darby, Dream Academy, Suzanne Vega

[Mojo-Jo-Jo]

The Associates, Icicle Works, Echo and the Bunnymen, The Teardrop Explodes.

[sp1814]

Thanks to everyone o far.

Yes to:

Dire Straits
Yazoo
Eurythmics

I am appalled that I forgot Wham!

B00 - I already have a Madonna playlist. Don't worry - she's well catered for. Thank you for Simple Minds. I will grab 'Don't You Forget About Me'.

Already thought of Howard Jones...but thank you for mentioning him doctorb and B00 because by thinking of him, I'm reminded of Thomas Dolby!

Stock Aiken and Waterman are (embarrassingly) accommodated on another playlist.

Thank you factor-fiction for Fleetwood Mac!

Ah...Mojo-Jo-Jo...I would have NEVER remembered Teardrop Explodes!!!!

society - thank you for Michael Jackson, but I have him in another playlist, so he's already accounted for.

And yes jno...there's a few Roxy tracks I can stuff in there.

Please keep 'em coming.

Seriously - how in God's name did I forget Wham????

[sp1814]

Mojo-Jo-jo

Desperately wanted 'Country Club' and 'Party Fears Two' but Spotify doesn't have them (apart from a crappy live version of 'Country Club'.

[Sipowicz]

Kim Wilde......Ahhhhhhhh!

[snags]

Flock of Seagulls (great hair).

Talk Talk.