Fifty Favorite 80s Pop Songs with Saxophone Solos

(This started with ten songs but got away from me. It’s by request, and in order of sax solo preference.)

 

  1. Modern Love by David Bowie

  2. Never Tear Us Apart by INXS

  3. A Night Like This by The Cure

  4. Super Freak by Rick James

  5. Smooth Operator by Sade

  6. Rio by Duran Duran

  7. On the Dark Side by John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band

  8. Favourite Shirts (Boy Meets Girl) by Haircut 100

  9. Urgent by Foreigner

  10. Don’t Answer Me by The Alan Parsons Project

  11. Mirror in the Bathroom by The English Beat

  12. Could Be by Naked Eyes

  13. Heartbeat by The Psychedelic Furs

  14. Who Can It Be Now? by Men at Work

  15. When the Going Gets Tough, the Tough Get Going by Billy Ocean

  16. Thorn In My Side by Eurythmics

  17. I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do) by Daryl Hall and John Oates

  18. The Working Hour by Tears for Fears

  19. I Still Believe by Tim Cappello

  20. Methods of Dance by Japan

  21. Freeway of Love by Aretha Franklin

  22. It’s Still Rock and Roll to Me by Billy Joel

  23. Careless Whisper by George Michael [indelible, but you know it too well already, don’t you?]

  24. Fireplace by R.E.M.

  25. Dominion/Mother Russia by The Sisters of Mercy

  26. Same Old Scene by Roxy Music

  27. It’s Raining Again by Supertramp

  28. T.V. Age by Joe Jackson

  29. Harden My Heart by Quarterflash

  30. Killing Time by The Creatures

  31. Lie Still, Little Bottle by They Might Be Giants

  32. Don’t Walk Away by Rick Springfield

  33. Brass Monkey by Beastie Boys

  34. Torch by Soft Cell

  35. Funkytown by Lipps Inc.

  36. A Girl Called Johnny by The Waterboys

  37. Going Back to Cali by LL Cool J

  38. It Must Be Love by Madness

  39. Cherish by Kool and the Gang

  40. Only the Lonely by The Motels

  41. Love Is Not a Ghost by The Sound

  42. Square Pegs by The Waitresses

  43. True by Spandau Ballet [see George Michael and “Careless Whisper”]

  44. Admit It by Ambitious Lovers

  45. Leisure by XTC

  46. I Want a New Drug by Huey Lewis and the News

  47. She Works Hard for the Money by Donna Summer

  48. A Girl in Trouble (Is a Temporary Thing) by Romeo Void

  49. Hands to Heaven by Breathe

  50. So In Love by Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

— December 10, 2022


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