Fun 80s singles from classic rock band singers

too hard, can't choose, etc.

plus, not sure if Crazy Train is a "fun" song

"i got my mind set on you" deserves a mention

"you got it" too, maybe

i thought dave lee roth would be in this

ozzy btw

Yeah, this poll could've really been expanded

George Harrison - All Those Years Ago
Stevie Nicks - Edge of Seventeen
Lindsay Buckingham - Holiday Road
Paul McCartney - Take It Away
Paul McCartney - No More Lonely Nights
Paul McCartney - Spies Like Us
Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
Michale McDonald - Sweet Freedom
Lionel Richie!

xp

Yeah, Diamond Dave!

Paul Simon - You can call me Al

yeah, I guess the poll is a little short of choices...it was really top-of-my-head. I thought about "got my mind set on you" but I hate that song so much I just couldn't include it.

"Yankee Rose" is biggest, glaring omission.

I was gonna suggest that george harrison song.
You could start another longer poll after taking nominations on this thread.

"One on One" or (maybe) "She's Tight" - Cheap Trick
"Burning for You" - BOC
"Freeze Frame" or "Centerfold" - J. Geils Band

All very early 80s

"Spies Like Us"

No Oh Sherrie, no cred.

Also...

"One on One" or (maybe) "She's Tight" - Cheap Trick
"Burning for You" - BOC
"Freeze Frame" or "Centerfold" - J. Geils Band

I was just looking for breakout singles from singers, not the bands. So I guess that Peter Wolf song would work. What was it, "lights out"?

^^^ oops. Yeah, Lights Out (uh-huh, blast blast blast). Too bad it sucked

"Dirty Laundry", "Boys of Summer"

"The Old Man Down the Road" - John Fogerty

"Boys of Summer" = not fun, though. :(

"Rainbow In the Dark" - Dio

Also, Paul Simon not really in a "band."

"I.G.Y. (International Geophysical Year)"

I don't think DLR is an omission here (though agreed "Yankee Rose" is an amazing single" - these are all singers from bands that formed in the 60s, i.e. first-wave "classic rock"

ozzy btw

voted stevie

Iggy Pop "Wild One"

Come Dancing--The Kinks (not the original lineup, right?)
We Built This City--Starship
Sledgehammer--Peter Gabriel
Fallen Angel--Robbie Robertson
The Michael Nesmith song about Lucy and Ramona and Sunset Sam

Let My Love Open The Door is still the best song though.

Where is the love for Mr. Richards's "Take it So Hard"?

Also wasn't Stevie N. a solo and/or duo performer before being in der Mac?

"Stand Back" gets my vote, obviously, but "Tall Cool One" (and "Little By Little," "Big Log," "Heaven Knows," among others) is underrated.

Tall Cool One is underrated but as currently constructed this is a two-horse race between Ozzy and Pete.

yeah, my original intention was to only include "classic" classic rock bands that were huge, which would eliminate ELO and Van Halen. Also, "Dirty Laundry" is a huge drag and isn't fun.

"Midnight Blue" also sux dog balls.

Let My Love Open The Door is still the best song though.

― kornrulez6969, Tuesday, December 16, 2008 2:22 PM (54 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

except for crazy train you mean

fun is controvershul

"Midnight Blue" also sux dog balls.

^^^^^

fuckin' crazy train opinion

except for crazy train you mean

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"Let My Love Open the Door" is a genuinely great song that's a bit different than what Townshend was doing with The Who. Though I'm not sure it's THAT much better than "Slit Skirts."

"Crazy Train" sounded like nothing else you had ever heard on the radio, changed the direction of both pop and metal, made Ozzy relevant when the jury was very much out, and made an unknown young guitar player a legend. It's also a really powerful composition, a statement about what can be done with electric guitar, and happens to rock balls. Not bad for what amounts to a I-IV-V in A.

Randy Rhoads is not a classic rock band singer

"Midnight Blue" also sux dog balls.

Oh yeah? Well YOU suck dog balls and I know because Michael Stipe told me:

Randy Rhoads is not a classic rock band singer

Relevance? It's a fun 80s single from the singer of Black Sabbath.

I love "Midnight Blue", what is this craziness

How's about one of those S. Winwood singles? Maybe not fun enough?

Or love touch by rod? That was kinda fun...

nobody's repping for the mccartney song, I'm verily surprised

I have no idea if I am voting Ozzy or Stevie.

I'd be more apt to vote for a McCartney single if it was "Press."

These are all not fun at all. I mean, I guess "Coming Up" may be the best here, but at the same time it is one of McCartney's most overrated singles. He is a lot better when he does his typical ballads.

And I would probably have been more likely to go for "Press" too, even though the classic gem on that album is "Only Love Remains".

rawesome

Paul Simon - You can call me Al

― Billy Dods, Tuesday, 16 December 2008 17:44 (3 hours ago)

There I was in blissful forgetfulness of the existence of that song and you had to...

Craxy Train = most fun, but Let My Love is my favorite. Voted for that.

rod stewart- young turks!

Word. Much better than love touch.

Radioactive!

Radioactive!

Come Dancing--The Kinks (not the original lineup, right?)

3/4 of the original line-up.

Not that I would recommend it, but David Gilmour's "Blue Light" would fit here:

Here's another one that fits: Brian Wilson "Love and Mercy"

rod stewart- young turks!

+1!!

Would rather have gone for "Tonight I'm Yours" though.

was anything offa Dion's Yo Frankie fun?

(and do the Belmonts count as classic rock? and does Dion's subsequent chart success in the 60's without the Belmonts disqualify him?)

Ringo Starr - Wrack My Brain for sure.

Funny, the first one I thought of was "Shake your head" Ozzy, with Was (not was)

The Traveling Wilburys kinda own this thread.

Tommy Shaw - Girls With Guns.

I was thinking Radioactive by the Firm, but Eazy mentioned it already (I think).

I voted Let My Love, because I love that song, and Crazy Train doesn't sound very fun.

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crazy train ftw

John Lennon - "Nobody Told Me"

George Harrison: When We Was Fab

Not at all a typical 80s song though.

I cannot abide most post-Beatles McCartney, but I have a soft spot for "Take it Away."

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"Just Another Night" is lost to history, I suppose.

I liked that at the time