Top Greatest Rock Hits of the 80s (Part 3)

We continue to remember the best rock hits of the 80s... These songs have been under the sign of "out of time" for many decades, in fact, like their performers! The brightest hits that are strongly associated with youth, youth, a time when everything seemed different ... Alice Cooper and his explosive "Poison", adored by rock fans from around the world Deep Purple and their "Perfect Strangers", The Smiths is one of the most important alternative bands in the history of rock! Below are collected only genuine legends and their incredible creations of an irrevocably past, but such a beautiful era ...

Alice Cooper - "Poison"

"Poison" is one of the most famous rock hits of the 80s, co-written by Cooper and hitmaker Desmond Child! The single from Trash was a big hit on both sides of the Atlantic (in the United States, peaking at number 7 on Billboard). The video for the track was the first for Alice Cooper to get into rotation on MTV ...

As for the album, Trash is still considered the artist's greatest achievement to this day: by the beginning of the new decade, its circulation in the United States exceeded 1 million copies!

Rainbow - "Can't Let You Go"

The song was included on Rainbow's seventh studio album in 1983. The name of the record - Bent out of Shape - can be translated as "lost your temper", but the cover illustrates the literal meaning ... An interesting video was shot for the song, the plot of which was inspired by the 1920 film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari":

Another masterpiece from Rainbow was the hit track "I Surrender", released a few years earlier. The original version included backing vocals from Gramp Bonnet, but when Bonnet left the band his parts were sung by Joe Lynn Turner.

Deep Purple - "Perfect Strangers"

It is noteworthy, but the musical theme, which formed the basis of the song, was composed by Blackmore back in the days of Rainbow! "Perfect Strangers" is a monologue of the spirit that speaks to contemporaries:

"Can you remember, remember my name,
As long as I flow through your life?
Thousands of oceans and
cold spirits of the north I flew,
All ones life
I am an echo of your past...

Despite the fact that this song does not have a guitar solo (which is very rare for Purple), Ritchie Blackmore called it his favorite song ... Another well-known composition from that period is "Knocking at Your Back Door":

Nazareth - Animals

Speaking of the rock hits of the 1980s, it is simply unforgivable to ignore the work of Nazareth ... The composition "Animals" adequately decorated the band's 17th album - the last one, on which Manny Charlton took part ... Later, Dan McCafferty, the leader of Nazareth, will say:

“This is far from the most rosy album of the group, and all because of the departure of Manny ...”

Slade - "Rock & Roll Preacher"

Slade released this hit in 1982 as a single (in Germany) from their album Till Deaf Do Us Part. Later, the song will enter the top 50 of the German charts, and will also become an integral part of the band's live performances ...

Dio - "Holy Diver"

A pretty impressive video was filmed for this song! According to the plot, Ronnie appears as a barbarian wandering around an abandoned city ... He has a sword with which he turns the villain ... into a rat!

Status Quo - "In the Army Now"

For more than a decade, fans have attributed "In the Army now" to the main merits of Status Quo ... And this is partly true: we will not deny that the performance of the composition is really on top! But few people know that it was first recorded by the Dutch duo Bolland & Bolland back in the early 1980s! However, the public liked the 1986 version of Status Quo so much that few people remember the original performers of the hit!

AC/DC - "Hells Bells"

"Hells Bells" is the first track from the legendary album Back in Black released by the hard rock monsters AC/DC as a tribute to their fallen comrade Bon Scott... The noteworthy moment in this song is its beginning: we can hear the slow chime of a 2000-pound bronze bell more like a funeral...

Accept - "Metal Heart"

This track is notable for its arrangements of classical pieces played and inserted into the song at the initiative of Wolf Hoffmann. So, for example, the introduction to “Metal Heart” was ... “Slavic March” by P.I. Tchaikovsky!

Lyrically, "Metal Heart" is about the late 1990s: machines are taking over the world and humanity is facing this nightmare...

Queen and David Bowie - "Under Pressure"

Well, this famous composition in the glam hard rock genre hardly needs an introduction. It also includes the legendary bass part...

https://youtu.be/YoDh_gHDvkk

Bonfire - "You Make Me Feel"

An amazing composition from the band Bonfire, which causes incredible nostalgia…

"Deep in the night, when I'm alone,
My heart is on fire because I feel you.
I've been away from love for so long
I left her with you so that you understand ... "

The Cure - "Just Like Heaven"

The song "Just Like Heaven" gained great commercial success and glorified The Cure far beyond the borders of their homeland ... Later it was called "one of the strongest songs of The Cure"!

Peter Murphy - "Cuts You Up"

And this composition is considered to this day the most successful release of Peter Murphy, formerly known as the vocalist of Bauhaus. In the first 3 weeks alone, the single sold 250,000 copies! Today "Cuts You Up" is one of the "Top 10 Most Successful, Memorable and Most Played Radio Songs of the Last 25 Years" (in the alternative music genre)!

U2 - "Pride (In the Name of Love)"

U2 dedicated this creation to Martin Luther King, an American preacher and activist who was assassinated in March 1968... Despite the mixed reviews from critics, "Pride (In the Name of Love)" became one of the band's biggest hits! Today, it is included in Rolling Stone magazine's "500 Greatest Songs of All Time" list.

Paul McCartney - "Coming Up"

One of the most famous songs of Paul McCartney's solo work… It adequately adorned the 1980 album McCartney II: we can enjoy Paul's great playing on all instruments, as well as the vocals that McCartney shared with his wife Linda…

The Smiths - "This Charming Man"

One of the softest tunes on today's list, "This Charming Man" by alternative band The Smiths had modest success at first (#25 on the UK charts). However, it later became a big hit! Today, "This Charming Man" is listed as one of the "50 Greatest British Indie Records of All Time" by Mojo magazine...