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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Sunday, November 20, 2016

THE 60 LATEST ADDS AS OF 11/20

Here are the 60 latest adds on Awfully Awesome 80's! The next batch will be very intensive on hard rock/metal, blues-based rock, top 40 hits, and new wave. And the debuts of our first two spinoff shows, "Spandexing The Globe" and "One Step Beyond," are not very far away!

Top 40:

1. Arcadia - Election Day - '85 Single Version
2. Stevie Nicks - Talk To Me - '85
3. Giant - I'll See You In My Dreams - '89 Became A Hit In '90
4. Lou Gramm - Just Between You And Me - '89
5. Starship - It's Not Enough - '89
6. Bryan Adams - It's Only Love - '85 Duet With Tina Turner
7. Stevie Wonder - Overjoyed - '86
8. Roxette - Listen To Your Heart - '89
9. Toto - I Won't Hold You Back - '83
10. Shalamar - Dead Giveaway - '83
11. DeBarge - All This Love - '83
12. Stevie Nicks - Nightbird - '83 With Sandy Stewart
13. Real Life - Send Me An Angel - '83
14. Little River Band - The Night Owls - '81
15. Ray Parker Jr. And Raydio - Two Places At The Same Time - '80
16. Cyndi Lauper - The Goonies R Good Enough - '85
17. Glenn Frey - The One You Love - '82
18. Alabama - Love In The First Degree - '81
19. Quarterflash - Find Another Fool - '82
20. Evelyn King - Love Come Down - '82
21. Animotion - Room To Move - '89
22. Robert Plant - Big Log - '83
23. Ronnie Milsap - Any Day Now - '82
24. Eurythmics - Don't Ask Me Why - '89
25. Journey - Girl Can't Help It - '86

Bottom 45's:

1. Teddy Pendergrass - Hold Me - '84 Duet With Whitney Houston
2. The Breaks - She Wants You - '83
3. Talking Heads - Stay Up Late - '85
4. Great White - Wasted Rock Ranger - '89
5. Russ Ballard - Voices - '84
6. Prince - The Future - '89 Album Version
7. Paul Dean - Sword And Stone - '89
8. Icehouse - My Obsession - '88
9. Julian Lennon - Now You're In Heaven - '89
10. John Waite - If Anybody Had A Heart - '86
11. Night Ranger - Interstate Love Affair - '84
12. Stone Fury - Break Down The Wall - '84
13. Don Felder - Heavy Metal(Takin' A Ride) - '81
14. Martha And The Muffins - Echo Beach - '80
15. Drama - Paralyze - '85
16. Rubber Rodeo - Anywhere With You - '84
17. Dionne Warwick - After You - '80
18. Dionne Warwick - Easy Love - '80
19. Liquid Gold - What's She Got - '83
20. Glenn Shorrock - Don't Girls Get Lonely - '83
21. Bang - Summertime - '86 Pre Spread Eagle Group From Boston
22. Robbie Robertson - Showdown At Big Sky - '87
23. Robbie Robertson - Somewhere Down The Crazy River - '87
24. The Fools - It's A Night For Beautiful Girls - '80
25. Rita Coolidge - Something Said Love - '84
26. Petula Clark - Natural Love - '82
27. Eight Seconds - Kiss You(When It's Dangerous) - '87
28. Debby Boone - Free To Be Lonely Again - '80
29. Billie Jo Spears - Natural Attraction - '80
30. Crystal Gayle - Straight To The Heart - '86
31. Dottie West - You're Not Easy To Forget - '81
32. Carpenters - Those Good Old Dreams - '81
33. Linda Ronstadt - What's New - '83
34. Rufus And Chaka Khan - One Million Kisses - '84
35. The Statler Brothers - Charlotte's Web - '80

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Sunday, November 6, 2016

THE 50 LATEST ADDS AS OF 11/6

Top 40:

1. Dan Hill - Can't We Try - '87 - Duet With Vonda Shepard
2. Jennifer Rush - Flames Of Paradise - '87 - Duet With Elton John
3. Expose - Let Me Be The One - '87
4. Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have To Take Our Clothes Off - '86 - Single Version
5. Brenda Russell - Piano In The Dark - '88
6. Simple Minds - Sanctify Yourself - '86
7. Peter Cetera - The Next Time I Fall - '86 - Duet With Amy Grant
8. Stevie Nicks - If Anyone Falls - '83
9. J. Geils Band - Angel In Blue - '82
10. Daryl Hall - Dreamtime - '86
11. Daryl Hall - Foolish Pride - '86
12. Jane Child - Don't Wanna Fall In Love - '89
13. Eddie Murphy - Party All The Time - '85
14. Ta Mara & The Seen - Everybody Dance - '85 Single Version
15. Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill - '85
16. The Tubes - Don't Want To Wait Anymore - '81
17. The Tubes - She's A Beauty - '83
18. Limahl - Never Ending Story - '85
19. Regina - Baby Love - '86
20. Henry Lee Summer - Hey Baby - '89


Bottom 45's:

1. Honeymoon Suite - Cold Look - '88
2. I Ten - Lonely In Each Other's Arms - '83
3. Toronto - Start Tellin' The Truth - '82
4. Hoodoo Gurus - Bittersweet - '85
5. Huey Lewis And The News - Trouble In Paradise - '85 - Live Version
6. Bruce Springsteen And The E Street Band - Trapped - '85
7. The Heats - In Your Town - '83 - Demo Version
8. Hyts - Backstabber - '83
9. Cutting Crew - Any Colour - '87 - US Mix Version
10. Chris De Burgh - High On Emotion - '84
11. Fairground Attraction - Perfect - '88
12. Verity - Rescue Me - '83
13. Dare - Abandon - '88
14. Jimmy The Hoover - Tantalise(Wo Wo Ee Yeh Yeh) - '83
15. Benjamin Orr - Too Hot To Stop - '86
16. Diamond Head - Call Me - '82
17. Simple Minds - Speed Your Love To Me - '84
18. Traveling Wilburys - Handle With Care - '88
19. Traveling Wilburys - End Of The Line - '89
20. The Look - You Can't Sit Down - '82
21. Tim Scott - Swear - Single Edit - '83
22. Ideola - Is It Any Wonder - '87
23. The Call - The Walls Came Down - '83
24. Los Microwaves - Is There Life After Breakfast? - '81
25. Lady Pank - Minus Zero - '85
26. Huxton Creepers - I Will Persuade You - '86
27. Bronz - Send Down An Angel - '84 With Pre GTR Max Bacon
28. China Crisis - Arizona Sky - '86
29. Fiona - Love Makes You Blind - '84 No Small Affair Version
30. Brian Setzer - The Knife Feels Like Justice - '86

Thursday, November 3, 2016

AWFULLY AWESOME 80'S NEEDS YOUR SUPPORT AND SONG RECOMMENDATIONS!

The below was a post I made earlier today in my Obscure MTV Facebook group at http://facebook.com/groups/obscuremtv:

As some of you already know, "Not only am I the president, but I am also a member..." Oh sorry, had a TV flashback there. Seriously, as some of you know, I also run a lil' ol' internet radio station called Awfully Awesome 80's that is striving to bring back what you heard during all of those glory days of MTV, no matter how overplayed, lightly played, mainstream, underground, ear-bleeding, sappy/sweet, loved, or hated the song may have been!

Here is your opportunity to submit a list of 50 recommendations of 80's songs that you feel that AA80's should be playing! They can be hits, misses or even ditties that your local spandex-wearing bar band managed to get played on your highly influential local rock station(being an AOR collector, I can tell you that some of those local bands should have hit the big time!)!

Awfully Awesome 80's is a listener-supported station that's on 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The reason why I'm doing this is because, quite frankly, I haven't been seeing much listener support lately and I'm starting to wonder if the material is too varied or "out there." Please submit your list via the contact form at http://awfullyawesomeeighties.com(it's just above the Streamlicensing gold seal) and while you're there, take a listen either through the "Listen Live" button or download one of the three free mobile apps through my partnership with Nobex Radio. We are also on Tunein.com.