NO CUT (HOW DO YOU LIKE THEM APPLES?)
AS A KIDIn no particular order.
Turtle Power! (Teenage Mutant Ninja Turles Soundtrack 1990)
I don't care if this was made in 1990, this song perfectly encapsulates the 80's. The movie was one of my favorites when I was eight, and I wore the soundtrack out! Turtle Power had it wrong, though--Raphael wasn't the leader, DUH. That was Leonardo. Raphael was the smartass with major attitude. And that's why he was my favorite turtle. Yes, I identified. :P Y'all have to watch the video for the song below, it is epic. And see the movie!
ALSO 0:33 "GIVE ME A QUARTER" ALWAYS REMINDED ME OF ANOTHER EIGHTIES VIDEO LOLOLOL!

Real Life - Send Me An Angel
Oh God, this song did things to me. I lied. This is THE sound of the 80's.
Aerosmith - Janie's Got a Gun
It disturbs me that I understood what this was about in 1989. When I was seven. O_o I liked the angsty songs?
George Michael - Father Figure
OT, but it disturbs me less (because it's kind of funny) that when I was six I could explain to my 80-year-old great aunt that "Monkey" was about heroin addiction. I didn't mention how great I thought GM looked in tight jeans, though.
Paula Abdul - Cold Hearted Snake
Janet Jackson - Black Cat
LaToya Jackson - You Blew
Okay, hush now! I think I said before my mom played this constantly and it grew on me
like fungus. I'm not sure when exactly I understood the part where the guy sings, "Just like your brother used to say: I want you back! Yeah, I'll teach you your ABCs, I'll Be There", whether it was in the late 80's when Mom started playing it or in the very early 90's when I became a MJ stan, but I do remember "getting it" eventually. I actually ... don't remember my first introduction to Michael. It was like he was always there, but I can't remember thinking about him when I was a very young child in the 80's. I know I knew about him, though hahaha.
Prince - Pink Cashmere
Michael Jackson - Who Is It
Diana Ross / Michael Jackson - Muscles
Oh, this song was sexy. And made me think of Thriller Mike, who I luuuurved.
ADULT Michael Jackson - Who Is It (overlap!)
Michael Jackson - 2000 Watts
Michael Jackson - Come Together
Michael Jackson -
Bad Concert version (oops, didn't mean to write that. I actually think it sounds terrible live.) SUPERFLY SISTER
Michael Jackson - Things I Do For You (Bad Concert version)
Michael Jackson - Lovely One (Bad Concert version)
Janet Jackson - State of the World
lostprophets - Sway (this sounds 80's)
Lady Gaga - Love Game
NIN - Me (I'm not) remix