(Finished December 21st, 2025) Part 9 of Best Songs From 80s Movies, Soundtracks & Broadway Plays

Hello,

This is the next of many of the greatest songs from 80s movies or Broadway plays. Coincidentally these are also many of the greatest songs of the 80s.

I’m going to mostly focus on the songs that were current with the movies, but I will include a few of the classics that came many years before the movies that they are in. In other words like the classic songs from “The BIg Chill” and “Dirty Dancing”.

From “Stop Making Sense” 137) The Talking Heads “Psycho Killer”:

This is from Mr. 80’s soundtrack himself. And this is one of his best songs- if not his best song. From “Top Gun” 138) Kenny Loggins “Danger Zone”:

From “Footloose” 139) Sammy Hagar “The Girl Gets Around”:

From “The Jazz Dancer” 140) “Amazed and Confused”:

From “Pretty In Pink” 141) OMD “If You Leave”:

From “Batman” 142) “Vicki Waiting”:

From “Phantom of the Opera” 143) Andrew Lloyd Webber “Prologue/ Overture”:

From “The Breakfast Club” 144) Karla Devito “We Are Not Alone”:

From “The Blues Brothers” 145) Aretha Franklin “Think”:

From “Footloose” 146) “Almost Paradise”:

From “Dirty Dancing” 147) Bruce Channel “Hey Baby”:

From “Ferris Bueller’s Day Off” 148) Yello “Oh Yeah”:

149) From “Out of Bounds” Belinda Carlisle “Shot In The Dark”:

150) From “Urban Cowboy” Linda Ronstadt and J.D. Souther “Hearts Against The Wind”:

From “The Big Chill” 151) Procol Harum “Whiter Shade of Pale”:

From “The Big Chill” 152) Aretha Franklin “You Make Me Feel Like A Natural Woman”:

From “Batman” 153) Prince “Partyman”:

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