It’s always a retro dive bar favorite for when the keyboard notes comes in and folks immediately cheer, instinctually knowing how to hit that high note for “LONEly world!!” following “Just a small town girl!!”
Duran Duran
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+1, they were the musical embodiment of the 80s.
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Duran Duran is the only band suggested here that comes close to summing up the 80s.
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Some other sweet 80s embodiment trax, just cause:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkADj0TPrJA
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcyCQLewj10
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Eighties? I think this is the only right answer:
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I might change my mind, but to me, this song does a good job of summing up the decade.
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Now that I think about it. Too many songs! A good problem to have for a decade.
Finally, who can hear:
I wanna dance with somebody
and NOT continue in their heads:
I wanna feel the the ʰᵉᵃᵗ with somebody 
?
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that hair, the sheety synthesizers…
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Thanks for the ear worm. 
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I’ve just opened up a Pandora’s box of worst tracks of the 80s, and that’s up against some serious competition.
Not what I was looking for at all. Oh well.
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I will say if we’re judging objectively and just look at the stats, it’s probably ACDC. That’s off the top of my head though, but they’d be a close second if not first.
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I think you’re right. On a recent visit back home, I was surprised (shocked, really) to see how young kids knew all the 80s music. I mean, all the lyrics to all the tunes. So weird to be singing along to a song from that era with a ten-year-old.
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I like it. Has a bit of a Lou Reed feel.