1987

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🔙 Backtrack — 1987

The world around the music — what was on screen, and what was on the shelf.

🎬 Set the scene

1987 smelled like screen static, warm sidewalks, a Fudge Stripe cookie, and a can of Hawaiian Punch.

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🎬 At the movies

📺 On TV

📼 Saturday cartoons

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Muppet Babies
Alvin and the Chipmunks

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Billboard Year-End Hot 100

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More from 1987

💬 Remember

Push It

Salt-N-Pepa

1987

💬 Remember

Pour Some Sugar on Me

1987

Wanted Dead or Alive

1987

Talk Dirty to Me

1987

Welcome to the Jungle

1987

Here I Go Again

1987

Just Like Heaven

1987

The One I Love

1987

(I've Had) The Time of My Life

Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes

1987

💬 Remember

With or Without You

1987

Hot Hot Hot

1987

Heart and Soul

1987

Fairytale of New York

1987

Paid in Full

1987

Bring the Noise

1987

Love Bites

1987

Is This Love

1987

Never Gonna Give You Up

1987

Need You Tonight

1987

Funky Cold Medina

1987

🎤 Big in 1987

Madonna The Sisters of Mercy Anthrax Def Leppard Depeche Mode Exposé Fleetwood Mac Huey Lewis & The News Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam Nitzer Ebb Pet Shop Boys The Cult Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes Bon Jovi

🎚️ 1987 genres

Pop Rock R&B/Soul Hard Rock Alternative Hip-Hop/Rap Metal Soundtrack

🎬 Movies of 1987

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The soundtracks that scored 1987 — every song and where it played.

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Dirty Dancing

1987 · 6 tracks

♪ (I've Had) The Time of My Life

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The Lost Boys

1987 · 2 tracks

♪ Cry Little Sister

Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now by Starship — cover art

Mannequin

1987 · 1 track

♪ Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now

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La Bamba

1987 · 3 tracks

♪ La Bamba

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Beverly Hills Cop II

1987 · 1 track

♪ Shakedown

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Who's That Girl

1987 · 2 tracks

♪ Who's That Girl

🎚️ Related vibes

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Themed rooms that lean on the sound of 1987.

Stomp!

'80s Hits

Big hair, bigger choruses.1980–1989

Press play →Stomp! — The Brothers Johnson

If You Leave

Mean Mr. Mustard's

Buckets of beer and a packed dance floor.1978–1996

Press play →If You Leave — Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark

Hungry Like the Wolf

MTV After School

Backpack down, TV on.1983–1990

Press play →Hungry Like the Wolf — Duran Duran

She Works Hard For the Money

Divas & Big Voices

Powerhouse vocals, full volume.1964–1999

Press play →She Works Hard For the Money — Donna Summer

This Is It

Rock Hits

Turn it up to eleven.1960–1999

Press play →This Is It — Kenny Loggins

Here I Go Again

Power Ballads

Lighters up, mullets out.1981–1994

Press play →Here I Go Again — Whitesnake

What does 1987 remind you of?

The drive, the dance, the heartbreak, the summer. Add a memory of 1987.

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🎵 1987 albums on vinyl

🎵 U2 — The Joshua Tree 🎵 Michael Jackson — Bad 🎵 Guns N' Roses — Appetite for Destruction 🎵 Vinyl

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