![]() When “Kiss” hit Number One, another Prince song was runner-up: the Bangles’ “Manic Monday.” But all over “Kiss,” he does the twirl with the future. He coos “You can’t be too flirty” in the flirtiest falsetto imaginable, saving his sex-crazed screams for the end. There’s no bass at all, giving him room to peacock all over the avant-purple electro-slither. “Kiss” is deceptively minimal funk, a total surprise when it hit the radio in the spring of 1986, after the triumph of 1999 and Purple Rain, then the candy fluff of Around the World in a Day. I Only Want to be With You verse 1 A Fm I dont know what it is that makes me love you so A Fm I only know I never want to let you go D E Cos you started something (oh) cant you see A Fm That ever since we met youve had a hold on me D E It happens to be true D E A I only want to be. Prince has a couple dozen songs that could top this list, but “Kiss” is the sound of Prince showing off, his most playful and perverse hit, proving he’s six or seven of the planet’s best singers. ![]() If 1999 isn’t the decade’s best album, that’s just because it’s Sign o’ the Times - still a tough call. He kept the world trying to guess his next move, while everyone was still catching up with what he was doing a few moves ago. Who else? Prince spent the Eighties as the most maddeningly brilliant and unpredictable genius in the game. Image Credit: Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Images were one of the best bands that ever existed - except they got twice as great in the Nineties. (Maybe Stipe does not believe this song goes “sit on top of the big hill,” but I do.) Eighties R.E.M. (“Gardening at Night”? “Green Grow the Rushes”?) Michael Stipe’s voice surges in “Sitting Still” with urgent emotion, without any clue what the lyrics mean. They were audibly Southern, from some town nobody’d heard of, like they had no idea bands were required to move to New York or L.A. had their own high-energy, low-budget DIY sound - loads of guitar, but no solos, no keyboards, no spandex. Central Rain” or “Fall on Me” or “Wolves, Lower” or “Good Advices.” Who else had songs like this? Nobody. (Well, not “We Walk” or “9-9.”) You could pick “So. You could pick any song off their classic debut, Murmur, for this list. changed the rock game in the early Eighties. Put this mix tape in the boombox, pump up the volume, and hit play. But every one is a brilliant tune, and each one is part of the unsolvable Rubik’s Cube that is Hair Decade pop. Many are songs you remember some you desperately try to forget. Others make people run and scream in terror. You hear them at weddings, parties, clubs, the karaoke bar. Some of these Eighties songs remain famous around the world. ![]() But just one song per artist, or half the list would be Prince. I dont know what it is that makes me love you so I only know I never want to let you go Cause you started something, cant you see That ever since we met youve had a hold on me I happens to be true, I only want to be with you It doesnt matter where you go or what you do I want to spend each moment of the day with you Look what has happened. There’s Chicago house, Detroit techno, Miami freestyle, D.C. There’s new rebel voices that exploded out of nowhere. ![]() There’s all-time legends and one-hit wonders. A mix tape of pop classics, rockers, rappers, soul divas, New Wavers, disco jams, country twangers, punk ragers, dance-floor anthems, smooth operators, and karaoke room-clearers. The hits, the deep cuts, the fan favorites. So let’s break it down: the 200 best songs of the Eighties, music’s most insane decade. Do you know where you are? You’re in the Eighties, baby. Hip-hop takes over as the voice of young America. Not to mention massive stars: Prince, Madonna, Michael, Bruce, Janet, Sade, Cher. It’s got big hair, big drums, big shoulder pads. The Eighties are one of the weirdest eras ever for music. "I Only Want to Be with You" has also been recorded by a wide range of artists, several of whom sing the song with lyrics translated from the original English.Welcome to the jungle. In the US on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, "I Only Want to Be with You" has been a Top 40 hit three times, with both the Dusty Springfield original and the Bay City Rollers' remake peaking at number 12 while the Samantha Fox remake peaked at number 31. Three remakes of the song have been UK chart hits, the first two by the Bay City Rollers (1976) and the Tourists (1979) matching the number 4 peak of the Dusty Springfield original, while the 1989 remake by Samantha Fox peaked at number 16. The debut solo single released by British singer Dusty Springfield under her long-time producer Johnny Franz, "I Only Want to Be with You" peaked at number 4 on the UK Singles chart in January 1964. "I Only Want to Be with You" is a song written by Mike Hawker and Ivor Raymonde. Originally Performed by Dusty Springfield
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