Thanks for stopping by! Awfully Awesome 80's is your 24/7 listener-supported internet radio guide to the 80's through the early 90's. We play lost and classic top 40 hits, but we also place a heavy emphasis on the minor charters and non-charters...or as we call them, bottom 45's. If you are a vintage MTV expert, then you have come to the right place! Special Mixcloud shows will be announced as time permits. If you have a general suggestion, then please use our chat widget in the lower right corner or the below contact form. If you have a song request, then please use the below Song Request Form; your request will be automatically queued for play in 90 minutes if it is already in the station's inventory or else I will receive an e-mail copy of your request. Please read the "New Request Policy" post in the below blog for more information on requests as I have new rules for those who are willing to be sponsors and for those who are non-contributors.

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Thursday, March 31, 2016

NEW ADDS FOR 3/31

We may never have MTV looking the way it did back in the 80's, but we can at least have it sounding the way it did...thanks to my sister station, Awfully Awesome 80's! Here are some of the latest adds:

1. Dwight Twilley - Girls - '84
2. ZZ Top - Stages - '86
3. Wham! Featuring George Michael - Careless Whisper - '84
4. Wham! - The Edge Of Heaven - '86
5. Boy Meets Girl - Oh Girl - '85
6. The Honeydrippers - Rockin' At Midnight - '85
7. Spider - New Romance(It's A Mystery) - '80
8. Kim Carnes - Crazy In The Night(Barking At Airplanes) - '85
9. Rick Astley - Giving Up On Love - '89

And some bottom 45's/miscellaneous rockers:

10. PM - Piece Of Paradise - '88(featuring 3 members of Jimmy Buffett's Coral Reefer Band, this track is highly revered among westcoast AOR collectors)
11. Zebra - Tell Me What You Want - '83
12. Blotto - I Wanna Be A Lifeguard - '80(heavily played during MTV's first year, whether you liked it or not!)
13. Haysi Fantayzee - Shiny Shiny - '83
14. Fastway - Say What You Will - '83
15. XTC - Senses Working Overtime - '82
16. Jennifer Warnes And Chris Thompson - All The Right Moves - '83

Tune into the station at http://awfullyawesomeeighties.com and join in our chat room(our Facebook group link can be found there)! You will also find image links for our 3 free downloadable apps through our partnership with Nobex Radio!

There is plenty more to come! Whether you heard or saw it 10 times a day or only once at 5 in the morning during the 80's, no 80's song is safe from our playlists!

Monday, March 28, 2016

NEW ADDS FOR 3/28 - THIS WEEK'S REQUEST THEME(80's MOVIE SOUNDTRACK FAVORITES)

Here are the latest adds on Awfully Awesome 80's:

Top 40:

1. Patrice Rushen - Forget Me Nots - '82
2. ABBA - The Winner Takes It All - '80
3. Eddie Rabbitt With Crystal Gayle - You And I - '82
4. Juice Newton - Tell Her No - '83
5. A-ha - The Sun Always Shines On T.V. - '85
6. Squeeze - 853-5937 - '87
7. Nicolette Larson - Let Me Go, Love - '80
8. Dire Straits - So Far Away - '86
9. Delbert McClinton - Giving It Up For Your Love - '80

American Bottom 45's/Foreign Hits:

1. Gazebo - I Like Chopin - '83
2. Farrenheit - Fool In Love - '87 - one of the best AOR songs ever
3. Wrabit - Anyway Anytime - '81
4. The Human League - I Need Your Loving - '86
5. Easterhouse - Come Out Fighting - '89
6. INXS And Jimmy Barnes - Good Times - '87
7. Let's Active - In Little Ways - '86

Join our Facebook group at http://facebook.com/groups/awfullyawesome80s and get in on this week's request theme: favorite songs from 80's movie soundtracks(the more challenging, the better!). Coming up will be adds from Dolby's Cube, Red Rider, John Cafferty, John Waite, Sheena Easton, Wang Chung, Night Ranger, etc.! Don't get me on my pulpit about how everyone missed the boat on Night Ranger in '87!

If you don't want to join our group, then you can tune into the station at http://awfullyawesomeeighties.com. Join us for a chat while you're there! We are also on Tunein.com, Nobex Radio, Reciva Radio, ITunes Radio, etc.

Monday, March 21, 2016

NEW ADDS FOR 3/21

My sister station, Awfully Awesome 80's, is adding the following hits and bottom 45's today:

Hits:

1. OMD - So In Love - '85
2. Matthew Wilder - The Kid's American - '84
3. John Fogerty - Rock And Roll Girls - '85
4. Debbie Gibson - Staying Together - '88
5. Slade - Run Runaway - '84
6. Leslie Pearl - If The Love Fits Wear It - '82
7. Def Leppard - Love Bites - '88
8. Kool & The Gang - Take My Heart - '81
9. Dan Reed Network - Ritual - '88

Bottom 45's:

1. Great Buildings - Hold On To Something - '81
2. House Of Lords - I Wanna Be Loved - '89
3. Classix Nouveaux - Guilty - '81
4. Janey Street - Under The Clock - '84
5. Roger Daltrey - Hearts Of Fire - '87

Tune in at http://awfullyawesomeeighties.com and join our chat room while you're at it; Members Only jackets are not required to participate!

Thursday, March 17, 2016

NEW ADDS FOR 3/17

It's time for some more hits, misses and should-have-been-hits on Awfully Awesome 80's:

1. El DeBarge - Who's Johnny - '86
2. Katrina And The Waves - That's The Way - '89(They did have 3 hits!)
3. April Wine - Just Between You And Me - '81
4. Peter Wolf - Come As You Are - '87
5. Sheila E. - The Belle Of St. Mark - '84
6. The Manhattans - Shining Star - '80
7. Honeymoon Suite - Feel It Again - '86
8. The Kane Gang - Motortown - '87
9. Melissa Manchester - You Should Hear How She Talks About You - '82
10. Shannon - Let The Music Play - '83

And those U.S. misses:

11. Asia - Go - '85
12. Sheila - Little Darlin' - '81
13. Foghat - Slipped, Tripped, Fell In Love - '82
14. April Wine - Enough Is Enough - '82
15. Pseudo Echo - Listening - '84
16. Anne Murray - That's Not The Way(It's S'posed To Be) - '84
17. Tesla - Heaven's Trail(No Way Out) - '89

If you have been looking for an 80's station that leans more toward the lesser-played top 40 hits and the truly obscure, then please consider joining our Facebook group at http://facebook.com/groups/awfullyawesome80s. You can tune into the station at http://awfullyawesomeeighties.com. Requests are always accepted through the FB group, our webpage's chat room, or our webpage's song request form.

Please help keep internet radio alive by supporting us and the many other fine stations that refuse to give up!

Monday, March 14, 2016

NEW ADDS FOR 3/14

Start off your work week with some new AA80's adds!

1. Eurythmics - Right By Your Side - '84
2. JoBoxers - Just Got Lucky - '83
3. Donnie Iris - My Girl - '82
4. Journey - Still They Ride - '82
5. Dan Hartman - We Are The Young - '84
6. Jeffrey Osborne - Stay With Me Tonight - '83
7. Billy Joel - Sometimes A Fantasy - '80 - single version
8. Warrant - Heaven - '89 - single version
9. Joe Jackson - Breaking Us In Two - '83
10. Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky - '88

And a couple of bottom 45's(minor or non-charters):

11. 3 - Talkin' Bout - '88
12. Scandal Featuring Patty Smyth - Beat Of A Heart - '85

Tune in and chat at http://awfullyawesomeeighties.com. You can also find us on Tunein.com, Itunes Radio, Nobex Radio, Reciva Radio, etc. We do our best to bring back the classic days of MTV and we are especially interested in your obscure 80's requests!

Thursday, March 3, 2016

TONIGHT'S NEW TOP 40 ADDS

Tonight's new top 40 adds on Awfully Awesome 80's:

1. Ziggy Marley And The Melody Makers - Tomorrow People - '88
2. Tommy Tutone - Angel Say No - '80
3. Paul Carrack - I Need You - '82
4. Stray Cats - I Won't Stand In Your Way - '83
5. Alice Cooper - Clones(We're All) - '80
6. Santana - Hold On - '82
7. Great White - The Angel Song - '89
8. Taco - Puttin' On The Ritz - '83
9. Alison Moyet - Invisible - '85
10. Elvis Costello - Veronica - '89

Tune in at http://awfullyawesomeeighties.com and make a request! We are also on Tunein.com, Itunes Radio, Radio Tuna, and Nobex Radio.