(Finished March 28th, 2026) Part 9 of The Best Songs of 1985-1986

Hello,

The years 1985 and 1986 were some of the most monumental days in my life. I was working my first job at Safeways grocery stores and boy I learned at that job. Some of the stuff was actually good for me. I graduated high school-our 40th graduation anniversary is this year. After that I froze my butt off at Ricks College in Rexburg, Idaho. The only good thing with that is I got over being homesick for what was quickly coming. Ricks College was later renamed BYU-Idaho and much later Benson Boone went there for a semester. So I have that going for me. After coming home and working for the summer I went on a mission to the Mississippi-Jackson Mission for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints.

There are so many good memories associated with many of these songs.

137) INXS and Jimmy Barnes “Good Times”:

138) Philip Bailey and Phil Collins “Easy Lover”:

139) Giuffria “Call To The Heart”:

140) General Public “Tenderness”:

141) Steve Winwood “Higher Love”:

142) Midnight Star “Operator”:

143) “Why Can’t This Night Go On Forever”:

144) Berlin “Sex Me Talk Me”:

145) Restless Heart “That Rock Won’t Roll”:

146) Big Audio Dynamite “Contact”:

147) The Hooters “Blood From A Stone”:

148) RUN-D.M.C. “Proud To Be Black”:

149) The Highwaymen “The Highwaymen”:

150) Frankie Goes To Hollywood “Welcome To The Pleasuredome”:

151) Autograph “Turn Up The Radio”:

152) USA for Africa “We Are The World”:

153) Robin George “Heartline”:

154) Tina Turner and Bryan Adams “It’s Only Love”:

Big Audio Dynamite “E=MC”:

Harold Faltermeyer “Axel F”:

Alison Moyet “Invisible”:

Mary Jane Girls “In My House”:

Katrina and the Waves “Walking On Sunshine”:

‘Til Tuesday “Voices Carry”:

Dead or Alive “You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)”:

“Walk This Way”:

The Hooters “Day By Day”:

Godley & Creme “Cry”:

The Judds “Have Mercy”:

I Know Him So Well”:

Ronnie Milsap “Lost In The Fifties Again”:

Journey “Girl Can’t Help It”:

Jermaine Stewart “We Don’t Have To Take Our Clothes Off”:

“She’s Single Again”:

) The Mission “Stay With Me”:

Mel McDaniel “Baby’s Got Her Blue Jeans On”:

Dead Or Alive “In Too Deep”:

Frankie Goes To Hollywood “The Power of Love”:

) The Commodores “Night Shift”:

Earl Thomas Conley “Nobody Falls Like A Fool”:

) The Beach Boys “Getcha Back”:

) Bob Seger “American Storm”:

The Motels “Shame”:

Saving All My Love For You”:

Falling In Love “Uh Oh”:

Now and Forever (You and Me)”:

) David Lee Roth “Just A Gigolo/ I Ain’t Got Nobody”:

72) Corey Hart “Never Surrender”:

73) Diana Ross “Eaten Alive”:

105) Whitney Houston “Greatest Love Of All”:

74) The Eurythmics “Missionary Man”:

The Nitty Gritty Dirty Band “Stand A Little Rain”:

90) Love and Rockets “Kundalini Express”;

91) RUN-D.M.C. “Is It Live”:

92) The Bellamy Brothers “Old Hippie”:

93) Dramarama “Anything Anything”:

98) Glenn Frey “You Belong To The City”:

99) Dio “Shoot Shoot”:

100) DeBarge “Who’s Holding Donna Now”:

101) Boston “We’re Ready”:

102) The Power Station “Get It On”:

103) Kenny Loggins “Danger Zone”:

104) Europe “Carrie”:

105) The Hooters “All You Zombies”:

106) SImply Red “Money’s Too Tight”:

107) Alabama “Can’t Keep A Good Man Down”:

108) Aretha Franklin “Who’s Zoomin’ Who”:

109) Tina Turner “One of The Living”:

110) Bruce Springsteen “Dancing In The Dark”:

111) Huey Lewis and the News “Hip To Be Square”:

112) Steve Winwood “Back In The High Life Again”:

200) Alabama “There’s No Way”:

201) Tina Turner “Typical Male”:

Hank William Jr. “Ain’t Misbehavin”:

300) Alabama “40 Hour Week (For A Livin’)”:

301) Clarence Clemons and Jackson Browne “You’re A Friend of Mine”:

302) David Lee Roth “California Girls”:

INXS “Shine Like It Does”:

INXS “Kiss The Dirt”:

203) Bob Seger “Like A Rock”:

INXS “Same Direction”:

INXS “What You Need”:

Miami Sound Machine “Bad Boy”:

Miami Sound Machine “Conga”:

The Hooters “South Ferry Road”:

The Oak Ridge Boys “Touch A Hand, Make A Friend”:

Big Audio Dynamite “E=MC”:

Big Audio Dynamite “The Bottom Line”:

Talking Heads “Little Creatures”:

1. 3:36
2.“Give Me Back My Name”Byrne, Chris FrantzJerry HarrisonTina Weymouth3:20
3.“Creatures of Love” 4:12
4.“The Lady Don’t Mind”Byrne, Frantz, Harrison, Weymouth4:03
5.“Perfect World”Byrne, Frantz4:26

Ozzy Osbourne “Never Know Why”:

Ozzy Osbourne “Thank God For The Bomb”:

Ozzy Osbourne “Never”:

No.TitleLength
6.5:16
7.“Killer of Giants”5:41
8.“Fool Like You”5:18
9.Shot in the Dark4:16
Total length:40:51

TitleWriter(s)Producer(s)Length
4:37
2.Thinking About YouKashifLa LaKashif5:24
3.“Someone for Me”Raymond JonesFreddie WashingtonJermaine Jackson4:58
4.Masser3:58
5.Nobody Loves Me Like You Do” (duet with Jermaine Jackson)James P. DunnePamela PhillipsJackson3:48
6.How Will I KnowGeorge MerrillShannon RubicamNarada Michael WaldenWalden4:35
7.All at OnceJeffrey OsborneMasserMasser4:28
8.“Take Good Care of My Heart” (duet with Jermaine Jackson)Peter McCannSteve DorffJackson4:15
9.Greatest Love of AllLinda CreedMasserMasser4:51
10.Hold Me” (duet with Teddy Pendergrass)CreedMasserMasser6:00
Total length:46:54

1.4:12
2.“Shake Me”3:44
3.Nobody’s Fool4:49
4.“Nothin’ for Nothin’”3:33
5.“Once Around the Ride”3:22
No.TitleLength
6.“Hell on Wheels”2:49
7.Somebody Save Me3:16
8.“In from the Outside”4:07
9.“Push, Push”2:52
10.“Back Home Again”3:30
Total length:36:05

Earl Thomas Conley “Love Don’t Care Who’s Heart It Breaks”:

No.TitleLength
1.Cry Tough3:36
2.3:05
3.I Won’t Forget You3:35
4.“Play Dirty”4:08
5.“Look What the Cat Dragged In”3:10
6.3:44
7.“Want Some, Need Some”3:39
8.“Blame It on You”2:32
9.“#1 Bad Boy”3:14
10.“Let Me Go to the Show”2:45
Total length:33:28

) R.E.M. “Can’t Get There From Here”:

The Judds “Rockin’ With The Rhythm of the Rain”:

Mr. Mister “Kyrie”:

Tanya Tucker “Just Another Lover”:

Honky Tonk Man

Mr. Mister “Is It Love”:

1.If You LeaveAndy McCluskeyPaul HumphreysMartin CooperOrchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark4:25
2.Left of CenterSuzanne Vega/Steve AddabboSuzanne Vega with Joe Jackson3:32
3.“Get to Know Ya”JohnsonJesse Johnson3:33
4.“Do Wot You Do”Andrew FarrissMichael HutchenceINXS3:17
5.Pretty in PinkJohn AshtonTim ButlerRichard Butler, Vince Ely, Duncan Kilburn, Roger MorrisThe Psychedelic Furs4:40
6.ShellshockNew Order, John RobieNew Order6:04
7.“Round, Round”Belouis SomeBelouis Some4:06
8.Wouldn’t It Be GoodNik KershawDanny Hutton Hitters3:43
10.Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I WantJohnny MarrMorrisseyThe Smiths1:50
Total length:39:35

OMD “Secret”:

Sex As A Weapon”:

Steve Wariner “You Can Dream Of Me”:

Prince “Kiss”:

“I’ll Be Alright Without You”:

) The Power Station “Communication”:

) Ready For The World “Love You Down”:

Restless Heart “Let The Heartache Ride Tonight”:

25 or 6 to 4″:

Chicago “Will You Still Love Me”:

Depeche Mode “Stripped”:

“You Be Illin”:

A Question Of Lust

Depeche Mode “Black Celebration”:

David Lee Roth “California Girls”:

“Guitars and Cadillacs”:

Duran Duran “Notorious”:

Bryan Adams “69 Love Affair”:

Glass Tiger “Someday”:

Stacey Q “We Connect”:

Robert Palmer “I Didn’t Mean To Turn You On”:

Robert Palmer “Addicted To Love”:

Genesis “Throwing It All Away”:

The Hooters “She Comes In Color”:

Genesis “Tonight, Tonight, Tonight”:

Genesis “In Too Deep”:

Genesis “Land of Confusion”:

No.TitleWriter(s)Length
1.If You Love Somebody Set Them Free 4:16
2.Love Is the Seventh Wave 3:32
3.RussiansSting / Sergei Prokofiev3:58
4.“Children’s Crusade” 5:02
5.“Shadows in the Rain” 4:50
No.TitleLength
6.5:42
7.“Consider Me Gone”4:20
8.“The Dream of the Blue Turtles”1:18
9.Moon Over Bourbon Street4:00
10.Fortress Around Your Heart4:40

The Hooters “Don’t Take My Car Out Tonight”:

“You Belong To The City”:

1.“Worlds Forgotten Boy”Billy IdolSteve Stevens5:40
2.To Be a LoverWilliam BellBooker T. Jones3:51
3.Soul Standing ByIdol4:35
4.Idol4:14
5.“Man for All Seasons”IdolStevens4:38
6.Idol6:15
7.“Beyond Belief”Idol4:00
8.“Fatal Charm”IdolStevensKeith Forsey3:51
9.“All Summer Single”Idol4:33
10.“One Night, One Chance”IdolStevens3:52
No.TitleLength
1.3:46
2.0:56
3.Small Town3:41
4.“Minutes to Memories” (Mellencamp, Green)4:11
5.Lonely Ol’ Night3:45
6.“The Face of the Nation”3:13
No.TitleLength
7.“Justice and Independence ’85”3:32
8.“Between a Laugh and a Tear”4:32
2:58
10.“You’ve Got to Stand for Somethin’”4:32
11.R.O.C.K. in the U.S.A. (A Salute to 60’s Rock)2:54
No.TitleLength
12.“The Kind of Fella I Am” ([B])2:55

John Fogerty “The Old Man Down The Road”:

The Smiths “How Soon Is Now”:

1.The Queen Is Dead” (includes “Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty” (medley))6:24
2.“Frankly, Mr. Shankly”2:17
3.I Know It’s Over5:47
4.“Never Had No One Ever”3:36
5.Cemetry Gates2:38
No.TitleLength
6.Bigmouth Strikes Again3:11
7.The Boy with the Thorn in His Side3:15
8.“Vicar in a Tutu”2:22
9.There Is a Light That Never Goes Out4:02
10.Some Girls Are Bigger Than Others3:16

Nikita

Wrap Her Up”:

The Hooters “Where Do The Children Go”:

RUN-D.M.C. “It’s Tricky”:

“Peter Piper”:

“My Adidas”:

“Positive Touch”:

Suzanne

Be Good To Yourself

Why Does It Have To Be Wrong or Right”:

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