British Couple Reacts to Most Popular Song Each Month in the 80s

[@dwaynegenx72]

Born 1972. Grew up in the 80s. Hands down the best decade of music ever!

[@jaybreezy1669]

1973 here, and I agree with you.

[@samyheath8103]

I was born in April 1993 and I think 80's music is the best music. Probably the best movies as well

[@teslacumba]

71 here. I believe we were children & teens in the best times in the history of the world. If you know, you know. 💕

[@ulgn1964]

1964, 80s was the best, my youth.

[@snakebite1974]

Me 71 gotta agree amazing decade xx

[@mcm0324]

It was great to be a teenager in the 80's! I was 10 in 1980 and 19 (in college) in 1989. So much fun in the 80's!!!

[@Uatu-the-Watcher]

Ditto

[@Cassxowary]

So basically like the kids in stranger things! It sure looked like fun!!! The 60s and 80s and 90s were the funnest decades to be a kid!

[@melissabeattie1107]

Same, same!!

[@CowboynLilbits]

I was 9 in 80. Great decade! Such nostalgia.

[@MrGratefulNC]

Same born Jan 1970

[@brandyforsythe1882]

I was a kid in the 80s, teen in the 90s.....80s music ROCKS!!!!

[@lauralackner6856]

80s kid here! I still remember getting the Thriller album by Micheal Jackson, the video for Thriller itself was a huge deal on t.v. and nobody wanted to miss the premiere. One of my all time favorite albums to this day 😊

[@darenallisonyoung8568]

Yes! One of the first albums I ever bought with my own money!

[@blackblake3658]

Graduated '83. We had the best music. This list didn't include the late 82 stuff from Rick James. Every high school reunion we have the best music, just playing things from when we were seniors.

[@Zodia195]

Born in 81 and a funny thing about MJ's music, in the 80s I became familiar with the songs, but never matched up artists with songs at first (that came in the late 80s). Well, I don't know if you remember this but Disney Channel used to have something called DTV where they play any Disney cartoon footage with popular music. The did a Valentine's Day special once and did Weird Al's Eat It with Disney footage. I didn't know as a kid that was a parody of MJ's Beat It until my mom had to tell me that lol.

[@mellycook]

Loved the music of the 80’s it brings back so many memories. MJ never made a bad song. Watching these makes me miss George/MJ/Prince

[@jj-one2048]

Yes he did, the song Bad😆

[@mortimerbrewster3671]

Never a fan of MJ but the Thriller album was a good one. Otherwise, I didn't think much of his music was anything special.

[@samuelosler1994]

MJ had plenty of bad songs, his forgotten albums her released in the 70s prior to Off the Wall were filled with them, Quincy Jones came along and saved his career with OFW in 1979

[@mellycook]

@@samuelosler1994 haven’t heard anything I guess before Thriller. I’ve heard Off the Wall but I wasn’t listening 2 him before the 80’s. Not every song is my cup of tea but I still think he made great music.

[@abdull1574]

@@samuelosler1994Michael hadn’t made a song himself much prior to off the wall it was all written for him and produced mostly for him (personal albums not j5) they were excellent. His solo work wasn’t his work. Don’t stop till u get enough was his first solo work he had full control

[@chrisswinerton9603]

We all told you that you would recognize alot of these songs. These are classics, thats why you know them. ❤❤

[@DeAnne1233]

It’s also a good reminder for which direction to send them to next on requests … IE: I forgot all about the Bat Dance and our reactions at the time he did that song.

[@wendywhite4537]

I was a teenager in the 80s and the classics are some of the best music. Thank you for listening to some of them

[@devinchandula4245]

Born in 99 and I feel good that I have most of them in my playlists.

[@tovemagnussen4423]

After hearing ALL of these... there is just 2... repeat it... just TWO songs I have never heard before.... Still... I am now 62 yrs.... not old... just ❤❤❤❤❤❤ music...

[@brianb8060]

"Always On My Mind" has been recorded over 300 time. It hit 20th on the charts for Elvis, in 1972. The artist who had the best results with it was, Willie Nelson. Released in 1982, he got 3 Grammys for it in 1983.

[@martyklestadt6766]

Wow. I thought Willie's version was the original. I had no idea that Elvis did it earlier.

[@mortimerbrewster3671]

Elvis was music favorite. It's hard to listen to Willie Nelson do it with his gravelly voice after hearing the smooth voice of Elvis.

[@DayTripperrr]

never heard of the cover in my life.Listen to Elvis's version its so good@@martyklestadt6766

[@ronluk76]

You should react to the same video about the 1970s! Some absolute classics that have stood the test of time and will be still be relevant for years to come! You can't say that about most current music!

[@Maria-go5fd]

Absolutely !!!👍

[@cptchaotic]

I love that the music gets you chair dancing.

[@KNETTWERX]

The song for April 1984 (We are the World) has an amazing story behind it that you should really look up sometime. It had a lot of big name singers at the time in it. Some songs like “Smooth Criminal” by Michael Jackson was remade other artists. (In this case Alien Ant Farm redid “Smooth Criminal”.) Some of the songs that you were unsure on were ones like “Take my Breath Away” were used in Movies like the original Top Gun. Videos became more common in the ‘80’s thanks to MTV actually playing music videos at that time. (Part of why some of the videos were more silly and zany back then.)

[@Laura-mi3nv]

@@jerzeyguy71 - nope, its in the movie. Right after Tom Cruise and Kelly McGillis have their fight they go on to the make out scene. The song plays over that.

[@KNETTWERX]

@@jerzeyguy71 it was used in the movie. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z5ndf6imZ6-Wj7c

[@Laura-mi3nv]

@@jerzeyguy71 - you're actually wrong again, sorry! This song has a wikipedia page that explains how it was written and then given to Berlin.

[@Jml416]

The 80's are my wheelhouse! I can tell you almost on everyone one where I was when I first heard each song. There were 3 that I NEVER heard before in my life. 1980-1982 middle school, 1982-1986 high school, 1986-1990 military (USAF). Some of the ones in 88-89 came to me late because I was stationed in S. Korea then, so I didn't hear them until I got back to the states. Great reaction!

[@BowieRulez]

Belinda Carlysle was the lead singer of the Go-Gos from the early 80s.

[@randysake5031]

Growing up in the 80's...we rocked.

[@dksix1905]

X'er here, many of these bring back specific memories. I was surprized that there wasn't more glam-rock on the list.

[@KSGomez88]

1988 represent!!! Pet Shop Boys, Belinda Carlisle, Rick, Phil Collins, ENYA!! I'm definitely a metalhead though, but these songs slapped! 😅

[@mcm0324]

I graduated in 1988!!!

[@26algiz]

They're bopping even to some obscure stuff. Prince comes on. Blank stares. DAAAAAAAAAAAAMN

[@GT-mq1dx]

It’s what I always say to people who don’t know or understand the 80’s, basically, the late 70’s and early 80’s were pure awesomeness. The culture, the movies and the music, especially the music. I’m sure that there are tons of us that look back on that time and would pay just about anything to go back and re-live our youth. I could go on and on, but I’ll leave it at this, 1977 to 84 was absolutely killer! This was a lot of fun you two. Millie putting the phone up to her ear to Stevie Wonder totally cracked me up. Have a great weekend and congrats on your little one coming soon.

[@margaretspignardo5588]

I'm sure you'd recognize more if they played a little more of the song. I noticed on both videos that some songs ended before the well known part.

[@runrafarunthebestintheworld]

I missed out on the 80's but one of my history teachers told the entire class how great the 80's was. Haha 😅

[@n.d.m.515]

I didn't like my school experiences in the 80s, but the music, television, and movies were the best.

[@jacobpickering3057]

The song called Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go is in the Disney Plus Marvel Comics show called Moon Knight.

[@mamastarshine]

The original Always On My Mind was sung by Willie Nelson

[@FEARNoMore]

Ignore the Millie Vanilli one. They were exposed for lip syncing. That wasn't really them singing. They won a grammy for that song but had to return it after they were outed as frauds.

[@RyanWitalison]

Back in 87 when I was 7 years old I had a big Crush on Tiffany. The funny thing about a lot of these songs is I didn't discover them until I was older, I spent most of the 80s listening to my favorite film soundtracks and music from the late 50s and 60s

[@johnsoran3874]

Now I feel old thanks. Watching you from the Southern Tier of the Catskill Mountains in Upstate New York USA

[@savsmiles3042]

50’s and 60’s were just as great.

[@swanse1971]

I grew up in the 80,s and I didnt know some of those songs.

[@kelliefish6259]

That is my Era! Brings back such awesome memories. 😊

[@somedayDefect]

I'm so glad I was a teen in the 80's! I'm with you two. The early 80's hits were much more hopping than the latter. It was fun energy not the lovey dovey garbage that got popular. I mostly was a head banger anyway! Good reaction!

[@ericdraven7857]

I miss the ‘80s and ‘90s. Thanks to my parents, I love a lot of music from the ‘70s as well. Great decades

[@NOLAgenX]

I did high school and college completely in the 80’s (1981-1989). It was a great era to enjoy music!

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

Well, having lived through the second half of the 60's, all of the following decades - I've heard so much different music and I'm realizing that it's so easy to miss what someone else might have heard over-and-over. Back into the 1940's, there weren't many genres of music. Starting in the 1950's, music seemed to fork into various new categories. This has continued in each new decade that it's astonishing.

[@GT-mq1dx]

From an 80’s kid, I’ll have to say I’m pretty sure it’s the reason so much of the music that we were listening to during those times was because the generation writing it listened to a lot of the music that had come from the first part of the 20th century. Mainly the 1920’s going forward. I heard all of that music either from movies or from my grandmother. Mainly from movies though, and that’s because my grandmother watched all of those older pictures. My sister and I learned so much about the 20’s and 30’s because it was just before and during the depression, which is when many of our parents or grandparents lived through. Jazz and Blues and everything in between. 😎

[@Lfg117]

So grateful I grew up hearing cutting-edge, AM radio, s.e. Michigan, 1967-1974 - 🔥 playlist. For me, as I aged, I love 1950s music more & more bc all great curr. artists were more influenced by 1950s blues- or doo-wop singers the most. Rap & hip hop descended from funk music which was inspired by both R & B-, doo-wop- & church (gospel) music.

[@ghosthunter1083]

Born on October 31 1983 Love the 80s,70s 90s even some 60s

[@xJamesLaughx]

Born in 1973 and I grew up in the 80's. Best damn era of music ever hands down. The fashion, the music, the hairstyles were all just banging. I would give anything to bring that era back again.

[@alexandramiles-lasseter8263]

Born in '74 here, but I had a cousin 5 years older and 2 aunts 10 years older so I was immersed in 80's music from very early on.

[@savsmiles3042]

Not so much the hairstyles, too much Aqua Net😬. I kept a few clothes from my teenage years and my daughter wants almost all of them lol. I wish I would’ve kept more like my tie dye jacket and flower power and Guess jeans

[@toastnjam7384]

The 80's was the last fun decade.

[@jaybreezy1669]

BEST! DECADE! EVER!

[@dwaynegenx72]

Agreed. No lies detected.

[@GMDII]

I was born in 1980.. wow what a treat. so many flashbacks and memories. I guess i did grow up in an awesome era. Thanks for doing this guys.

[@paulperez-moparman67]

Ahhh...... the 80s, i graduated from HS Class of 85. I was a DJ back then & OMGawd did i party my life away!!! Long Story Short, I'm definitely paying the price NOW, for all that crazziness back then...!!!

[@ronluk76]

Jim and Millie, this video was such a blast! I was born in 1976 so I'm an 80s baby. 80s and 90s music was my era! I don't like most of the music that has come out since 2000. There are some songs and artists I like that are recent but for the most part I don't like much current music. You should listen sometime to "Lights" by Journey and "Hotel California" by The Eagles. Journey and The Eagles to me Ara the best classic rock bands of the 70s and 80s!

[@paulojrneto]

There's a "Second Most Popular Song Each Month In The 80's", if you want more 80's tunes: kzbin.info/www/bejne/m2Xap6WiaJuZodE

[@rockblonde]

16 in 1980 and 26 in 1990. Lived and breathed my best years in the 80's! Great music, great movies and the joy of freedom. We loved everyone, no matter religion, colour or background. Best decade ever!

[@chantellecline6945]

The 80's was such a good year for music, so many great hits!

[@jacobpickering3057]

Growing up in the early 2000s, I have heard of a lot of these songs, also a radio station from my hometown of Chattanooga, Tennessee called Sunny 92.3 (The radio station is on fm setting on the radio.) plays a mixture of old and new music. I have also heard a lot of these songs from movies, t.v. shows, KZbin, bowling alleys, and etc.

[@actionau]

Wow so many timeless tunes in the 80s, whether you just heard them fleetingly on the radio/ in movies/ commercials.

[@brianb8060]

That song, Shaddap You Face, makes me think about the Christmas Song, Dominick the Italian Christmas Donkey.

[@caretaker158]

I remember a lot of these... some of them I just sat there and said....oooookkkk where'd that come from LOL. I also remember the premier of a new network called Mtv... back when that really did stand for MUSIC television... and the very first video was "Video killed the radio star" by the Buggles. Mom let me stay up late that night.... just after midnight, August 1, 1981. To quote The 4 Seasons, "Oh what a night".... had to add... I am having more fun watching you two react to music than any other videos... and I've been a fan of yours for a while now. The looks on your faces when you realize that you know these songs.... the awesome chair dancing.... absolutely loving it!!

[@kellyhinson4221]

70's, 80's and 90's music are probably the top 3 best decades for music.

[@kenkurogue101]

Ah, yes. The "This is what my life sounded like video". Much nostalgia. ❤

[@DebraAnnYadda]

Love this! you brought great memories from back in my middle school and high school days❤😊🎉congrats on your soon-to-be new addition too❤

[@jesses5463]

If you are not familiar with "We are the World" then that's pretty much a must-do reaction (USA for Africa version). It's the most star studded ensemble ever assembled for a song. The fact that you know so many songs on this list tells me you will recognize many of the singers.

[@kierstenreynoso2195]

It's so funny; I watched this exact video yesterday! When this video of yours popped up in my recommended, I got excited. Also, it was interesting to me when I watched the video because I was born in the early 2000s but I couldn't resist singing a lot of these 80's songs. Awesome video, guys!

[@gregstickler1311]

Proof that on the whole, music was much better then compared to now. Much of my favourite music is from the 80's.

[@wendyhodges7172]

80's were the best!! I graduated high school in 1987. The best music ever!

[@rickmcqueen5378]

Millie and James get on down with your bad selves!!!!! This was great fun, remember all of these fondly. Thanks for the great memories.

[@shaelynluketich4401]

Graduated in 85. Stroll down memory lane

[@paulshropshire5833]

I graduated in 1985 i remember all the songs. The 80's rocked

[@vorbis4860]

If you guys ever come to Minneapolis, Minnesota, we have a weekly dance night (called Transmission) where 80s and 90s are most of what gets played. I just went to their 22nd anniversary event on Saturday (the weekly thing is Wednesday though).

[@DylRicho]

A few of these songs were covered by artists in the 2000s, so you might be surprised when you hear them. Westlife covered Billy Joel's 'Uptown Girl', and Atomic Kitten covered The Bangles' 'Eternal Flame'.

[@paulsmith8510]

87 baby here in a house with the radio always on. Its was so good.

[@gymeni]

The 80’s were the decade of my 20s. What a ride!

[@chucklee4446]

I think this list is a British list of #1 songs. Most of the artists on the list are from there. The artists from the US and Australia were huge worldwide during that period

[@samuelosler1994]

Or in Madonna's case huge everywhere, I believe she has more #1 songs on more official cheers in more countries than any artist in history, even more than The Beatles, I know she has the most #1 singles for a female artist in thee UK and Australia and Canada

[@peterbradfield2805]

Los Lobos’ “La Bamba” is a remake of a late 1950’s tune from Ritchie Valens that was featured in the 1987 biopic film about Valens. Tiffany’s “I Think We’re Alone Now” is a remake of Tommy James & The Shondells’ 1967 tune. Pet Shop Boys’ “Always on My Mind” was a remake of a late 1950’s tune made famous by Elvis Presley. And Phil Collins! “A Groovy Kind of Love” is a remake of a 1967 song from the British band, The Mindbenders.

[@wsburnett]

I was ten-years old in 1980, nineteen in 1989. You can imagine the 1980s was a very formative decade for me. Thank you for taking me back through memory lane.

[@stingersplash]

Born in 81 and I'm pretty happy with Celebration for my month. Music has never been the same since the 80s.

[@dansaint2249]

Awesome reaction. There is a "part 2" of this...but it's the #2 songs each month of the 80s. Also, the 60s one is also very cool. Especially when you see how much music changed from the early part of the 60's until around 1964 when a certain band from Liverpool, England started dominating the charts

[@tonyyero7231]

I am so glad I was a teen in the 80's! There was always a new song to look forward to month to month!

[@chrismaggs]

7:35 I was born in 1975 and grew up with this music and still love it thanks to my late mother. Take a listen to Ultravox, they were my first ever gig at around 8 to 10 years old. Fingers instead of fancy earplugs at the loud parts!!

[@erikawilliams9558]

I was born in 81, so i grew up w most of these songs

[@dblomqu1]

Good times. I was 10 years old in 1980... so i am 100% 80's kid. Thanks

[@kristinehamilton214]

I am loving these music videos. Try the 60’s and 70’s. We’ll before your time but see what you know

[@jimreeves9510]

Love to see y'all vibing!🥰

[@matijamaksan4344]

Yes critics describe year 1983 as best year in pop music ever. And by your reaction to those songs its obvious they are still played and remembered today. Absolute classics! Few years ago i decided that my favourite year in music is 1984.

[@andreim.5324]

My favorite 80's year is definitely 1984. And I have a lot of reasons for that. If I think about it, the absolute best that the decade had in music, was right in the middle of the decade, 1984, 1985, 1986. I'm just obsessed with 80's music and movies. Being born in the middle of that decade and growing up with all the music and movies from it, kind of defined my life.

[@beckymotley1343]

Wow! The 80s were awesome! Great time to be a teenager! Brought back a lot of great memories with these songs! I am now finding myself pulling up some of the old video’s to these and watching them!

[@xavierh765]

We didn't start the fire... introduced me to a history lesson when I was younger.

[@-EchoesIntoEternity-]

has anyone suggest you guys get a 3.5mm splitter jack for like $5 so you dont have to share a set of headphones?

[@mrdsjenzie]

EVERY SINGLE ONE and 1986 is my most fav year ever ... october particularly nothing beats 80's songs oh and it's the UK charts imma talking aboot

[@peterbradfield2805]

Also just remembered that Dionne (Warwick) & Friends’ “That’s What Friends Are For” is a remake of a 1982 song recorded and released by Rod Stewart, and Whitney Houston’s “The Greatest Love of All” is a remake of 1976 song recorded and released by George Benson.

[@dmurphy1578]

I can still sing almost all these song word for word.

[@topherwhite370]

This was my core high school / college years. I know all of these. A lot of them come from movie soundtracks and as soon as I hear one I can name the movie.

[@twinkstar7738]

I was born in ‘77, so knew a lot of these. Especially when you got to the late 80’s. Some of these were my favorite songs. Eternal Flame is still one of my favorite songs. I also loved Tiffany back then.

[@wandacarrigan3960]

I was born in 1956 and was 13 in 1969 and grew up in the 70's when there was so much good Motown music

[@darenallisonyoung8568]

Jan '88 - "Always On My Mind" was written in '71 and first popularized by Elvis Presley, though it was Willie Nelson's 1982 version I first heard and enjoyed. I kept a tally, and there were only ten songs in this video I didn't know well enough to sing along to. Mind you, I graduated high school in '85, so these songs ARE my teen and young adult years.

[@jamesigorreilly979]

I’m glad I wasn’t born in the 80’s Either - but in reality I was born in 1956 … had already lived half my life by the 80’s lol as- married 3 times and had 11 step kids !! None of my own , was a group deal at the time ❤

[@GenericUsername1388]

I love the 80s! But I agree with you guys the early 80s were definitely better than the latter part of the decade

[@reginahernandez7810]

AWW the 80's was a teenager, best times! Tears for Fears...British too!

[@BillO964]

Love Millies pretty smile when she recognizes a tune.

[@RobertBreedon-c3b]

The 80s the best decade of my life came into it as 12 year old turning 13 and exited as 22 year old

[@DJFreeway-DJExit-DJClaritin]

Love that you guys can dance a little

[@DeAnne1233]

You’re missing out if you don’t watch the video. They show you how to dance to it and the story they are trying to tell in picture form so that you can understand the message in their music, in case you’re unsure what they meant by the lyrics. The video brings the song to life, so that there is another texture or artistic layer to it. The videos turned them into good actors that you want to watch while listening to the song. That’s why so many musicians end up being actors. They started off acting in their music videos, continued the character into their live performances and then got called to read for a script in a movie or tv show. It was up to them which side of the acting scale they went to. For example, I don’t think MJ or Prince ever acted or produced anything other than their music, music videos and their live performances (I consider Purple Rain, Princes way to bring his whole album to life with a live performance) but Madonna does both as well as acting in movies so did Whitney. Apologies for rambling on but breathing in all of this nostalgia is to blame. 😉

[@TheNewRevolution]

I grew up in the 80s so maybe I'm biased but there's a lot of songs on this list that I will still listen to if they come on the radio. I haven't seen the 90s video. This one's gonna be tough to beat.

[@butler754]

The Lady in Red is top of my list

[@mjpink8408]

Please do it for the 60s, 70s, 2000s, and 2010s onto now. I’d love that! It’d be cool!

[@Ford679]

I was born in 83 and now I feel old still jamming to this stuff almost every day 🤘

[@jayd2517]

I was born in late 81 and grew up listening to these tunes and late 70's classics thanks to my parents. Seriously, check out the Dancing In The Street video! It is so painfully 80's!!

[@cypher515]

Honestly, to me, the Pet Shop Boys are mostly the band who gave an actor originally named David McDonald his stage name, because there was already a David McDonald acting in the guild, so he picked the last name of their lead singer, Neil Tennant. And then became the TENth Doctor.

[@jsstars1]

Before this time I was mainly listening to classical music through school then got into listening to other music after graduation in 80. Know most until late 80’s as I spent most of end of decade time at sea in Navy and didn’t hear many of those songs.

[@joyannwesson]

Yes. When I was born. 80s baby. 1981

[@russellfisher2853]

Girl you've got a really nice voice. 👍😊

[@curlyprincess1]

I was born in the 80s but don't remember it at all! Classic song for my month!

[@peterbradfield2805]

Soft Cell’s “Tainted Love” was also a remake of a 1964 song recorded and released by American soul singer Gloria Jones.

[@JenniferBarrier1]

I was born in 83. Yall def making me feel old, but I still love watching y'all

[@ciscokid0110]

My kids were born in the 80’s but I love these songs!