Love Will Tear Us Apart 78. Baby, I Love Your Way/Freebird Medley 79. Faithfully- Journey I Want To Know What Love Is- Foreigner Is This Love- Whitesnake More Than Words- Extreme Still Loving You- Scorpions I Remember You- Skid Row Sweet Child O’ Mine- Guns N’ RosesTop 80 Songs of the 80s with the word Love in the Title 80. Have fun Keep Rocking 100 Greatest Rock Love Songs from the 80s and 90s. This is not a bad thing – in fact the marriage of clean, concise arrangements and Rush’s innate, shrill, histrionic edge often punches above its weight.The list below is an epic showcase of rock love songs from the 80s and 90s.
A better Rush album than most Rush fans realise.47) Bruce Springsteen - Born In The USA (1984)Springsteen’s seventh studio album generated as many singles, Dancing In The Dark, Cover Me and I’m On Fire among them. Hard-rocking opener Show Don't Tell is a highlight and features a stellar vocal performance from Geddy Lee. War Paint, with its rousing, anthemic refrain of ‘ boys and girls together/paint the mirror black’ is like a trashy gothic Sweet – a tighter, tougher sound that sacrifices none of the group’s trademark technical wizardry.
Scandal was especially noteworthy, being written by May as an attack of the UK media, who’d hounded him over his developing relationship with Anita Dobson, and also for the way they treated Freddie Mercury as he battled AIDS.Although swathed in synth sounds, the album is triumphant thanks to Mercury’s stunning vocals and May’s agitated guitar work. It was originally going to be called The Invisible Men, which would have hardly been appropriate for one of the biggest bands in the world.The mix of styles ranged from the progressive title track to the pomp pop flow of I Want It All and the electro funk of The Invisible Man (which namechecked all four members in the lyrics). Filtered through the returning E Street Band, Born In The USA was instead rousing, uplifting, as slick and sleek-sounding as a sports car, and balm to tend the battered psyches of millions of Americans.Despite the grim subject matter of some of its songs, Born In The USA made Springsteen arguably the biggest musical star of 1984.The Miracle was the first Queen album to be made in the shadow of Freddie Mercury’s secret fight against AIDS, and came after a three-year hiatus the group took following the band’s legendary 1986 tour. He articulated as much on his next record, 1982’s Nebraska, a stark, solemn collection of songs that sounded like whispered moans in the dead of night.The ordinary Joe characters with which Springsteen populated Born In The USA were often as not fighting the same internal and external battles as on its predecessor, but musically this was an altogether different and more welcoming beast. Springsteen, who was susceptible to his own depressions, had for his part sunk into an existential crisis following the tour to promote his fifth album, The River.
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