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20 Guilty Pleasure Songs from the ’80s We Secretly Still Love

From “Africa” to “Jessie’s Girl,” these iconic ‘80s guilty pleasure songs still live rent-free in our heads—and we’re not mad about it. 🎶

We all have our guilty pleasure songs from the ’80s.  Is yours one of the 20 on this list that UltimateClassicRock.com came up with?

1.  “Africa”,  Toto

2.  “We Built This City”,  Starship

3.  “Jessie’s Girl”,  Rick Springfield

4.  “Girls Girls Girls”,  Motley Crue

5.  “Mickey”,  Toni Basil

6.  “Never Gonna Give You Up”,  Rick Astley

7.  “Livin’ on a Prayer”,  Bon Jovi

8.  “Dancing in the Streets”,  Mick Jagger and David Bowie

9.  “Mr. Roboto”,  Styx

10.  “Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go”,  Wham!

11.  “The Final Countdown”,  Europe

12.  “Physical”,  Olivia Newton-John

13.  “Sussudio”,  Phil Collins

14.  “Party All the Time”,  Eddie Murphy

15.  “You Make My Dreams”,  Hall & Oates

16.  “Total Eclipse of the Heart”,  Bonnie Tyler

17.  “Down Under”,  Men at Work

18.  “Get Outta My Dreams, Get Into My Car”,  Billy Ocean

19.  “Kokomo”,  The Beach Boys

20.  “Sunglasses at Night”,  Corey Hart

What’s missing from this list?  Right off the bat, I’d say “Safety Dance”, “Mexican Radio”, and “Turning Japanese”.

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