8 of the Best Songs Straight From 1983 We’re Still Listening To

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00:008 of the best songs straight from 1983 we're still listening to

00:04Number 8. Down Under

00:06Men at Work converted Australian identity into pop capital

00:11Irresistible Flute Hook carried cultural commentary and expanded global soft power

00:16Number 7. Let's Dance

00:19Bowie and Niall Rogers engineered avant-garde commercialism

00:23Stevie Ray Vaughan's blues cut through

00:26while videos critiqued colonialism within MTV's spectacle

00:29Number 6. Maniac

00:32Michael Cembello's track transformed from slasher inspiration to empowerment

00:37fusing synth arpeggios with fitness culture via flashdance's defining montage

00:42Number 5. Every Breath You Take

00:45The police disguised surveillance as devotion

00:48pristine minimalism masked menace enabling decades of romantic misreadings at weddings

00:54Number 4. Sweet Dreams Are Made of This

00:57Eurythmics Humanized Synths

01:00Annie Lennox Weaponized Androgyny

01:02challenging gender norms through hypnotic pulses and subversive surreal video imagery

01:07Number 3. Do You Really Want to Hurt Me?

01:10Culture Club smuggled vulnerability and queer visibility into homes

01:15marrying reggae-infused pop with Boy George's transformative gender-fluid presentation

01:20Number 2. Come On Eileen

01:23Dexus-fused Celtic folk and working-class aesthetics rebelling against synth dominance with exhilarating builds and thrift store defiance

01:31Number 1. Flashdance

01:34What a Feeling

01:36Irene Cara's anthem packaged aspirational struggle into glossy synth euphoria, selling individual triumph while obscuring systemic barriers

01:44number 2. Powerdance

01:45Number 2.

01:46Like this tool you need to somehow rotate

01:47Number 2.

01:49Good Truth

01:50You're the Best

01:51You're the Best

01:53I'm Tony

01:54Angry Birds

01:55Mr.

01:57You're the Best

02:00I want to

02:01You're the Best

02:02And

02:04A

02:04I want to