80's on the 8th....that one 80's song

I'm going to take a page out of one of the ESPN folks I listen to on the radio and follow on Twitter for this installment of 80's on the 8th. He had thrown out a comment that grew a life of it's own and spilled over onto his radio show. His exact tweet was OK.... "That's the Way it is " by Celine Dion...I love it. There, I said it. You have a cheesy song you love too - share it , it's freeing. And the responses were all over the board but I must say most of them were 80's or early 90's songs that pretty much all had a home in my iTunes library. But then came the debate is it a cheesy or a good song.

So I started looking through my music and wiki to make sure it falls into the 80's category and began to narrow it down. Most of you probably have Ice Ice Baby or Informer in your head which I always do but they're from the 90's so they're eliminated. Also any Poison song gets removed too because they're still actually cool with all the VH1 love Brett Michaels has gotten over the last few years. I never had any NKOTB at the time though I found 1 song in my iTunes so they're out. It was on some compilation CD so don't judge me. Let's see....Bon Jovi....see Poison minus the VH1 stuff. I could Rick Roll (Google it if you don't know what I'm talking about) you with the classic Never Gonna Give You Up but I'll save that for April Fools. I would go with Milli Vanilli but you know why I can't plus I don't want to open up those wounds again for my friend Chris who I think after many many years of therapy is finally over his denial of their lies.

So I'm going to settle for one of those one hit wonders that every everyone remembers. Wild Wild West by Escape Club is one of those songs that does it for me. I still know all the words even that funky reggae part in there. The freaky video kinda overrides the great guitar rifts and cool bass line but I know you'll sing along so go ahead and crank it up.




Here's a little free trivia too....they're the only UK band to ever have a #1 hit here in the States but not even make it on the charts of their home country.

So what's your favorite 80's tune that you aren't ashamed to admit you still love to listen to?