1985
🔙 Backtrack — 1985
The world around the music — what was on screen, and what was on the shelf.
🎬 Set the scene
1985. A mixtape-making night. You had a Fruit Roll-Up, a can of Slice, and just enough of the day left to snap a Trapper Keeper shut between classes.
📼 Saturday cartoons
- He-Man and the Masters of the Universe👕 tee →
- ThunderCats👕 tee →
- G.I. Joe👕 tee →
- The Smurfs👕 tee →
- Inspector Gadget
- Voltron👕 tee →
- Muppet Babies
- Alvin and the Chipmunks
- Jem👕 tee →
Billboard Year-End Hot 100
📊 Full chart →- 1
Careless WhisperGeorge Michael - 2
Like a VirginMadonna - 3
Wake Me Up Before You Go-GoWham! - 4
I Want to Know What Love IsForeigner - 5
I Feel for YouChaka Khan - 6
Out of TouchDaryl Hall & John Oates - 7
Everybody Wants to Rule the WorldTears for Fears - 8
Money for NothingDire Straits - 9
Crazy for YouMadonna - 10
Take On Mea-ha - 11
Every Time You Go AwayPaul Young - 12
Easy LoverPhilip Bailey & Phil Collins - 13
Can't Fight This FeelingREO Speedwagon - 14
We Built This CityStarship - 15
The Power of LoveHuey Lewis & The News - 16
Don't You (Forget About Me)Simple Minds - 17
CherishKool & The Gang - 19
The Heat Is OnGlenn Frey - 20
We Are the WorldU.S.A. for Africa - 21ShoutTears for Fears
- 22
Part-Time LoverStevie Wonder - 23
Saving All My Love for YouWhitney Houston - 24
HeavenBryan Adams - 25Everything She WantsWham!
- 26
Cool It NowNew Edition
More from 1985
🎤 Big in 1985
🎚️ 1985 genres
🎬 Movies of 1985
All soundtracks →The soundtracks that scored 1985 — every song and where it played.
▶Back to the Future
1985 · 3 tracks
♪ The Power of Love
▶The Breakfast Club
1985 · 1 track
♪ Don't You (Forget About Me)
▶Rocky IV
1985 · 2 tracks
♪ Burning Heart
▶St. Elmo's Fire
1985 · 1 track
♪ St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)
Vision Quest
1985 · 2 tracks
♪ Crazy for You
▶Weird Science
1985 · 1 track
♪ Weird Science
White Nights
1985 · 2 tracks
♪ Say You, Say Me (feat. Jason Aldean)
🎚️ Related vibes
All themes →Themed rooms that lean on the sound of 1985.
What does 1985 remind you of?
The drive, the dance, the heartbreak, the summer. Add a memory of 1985.
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🎵 1985 albums on vinyl
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📻 80s gear
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