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• The Tipping Point, by Tears for Fears: New TfF in 2022, it really is 1984 forever.
• Ha! Ha! Ha!, by Ultravox
• New Wave Deep Cuts

• Welcome Oblivion, by How to Destroy Angels
• Automatic, by VNV Nation
• Intoxica, by Nitrogen
• Lain: The Wired World, by Serial Experiments
• Night Time, by Killing Joke

• Reach the Beach, by The Fixx
• React, by The Fixx
• 99 Luftballons, by Nena
• Dreamtime, by The Stranglers
• Feline, by The Stranglers
• Grace Under Pressure, by Rush
• Never for Ever, by Kate Bush

See also 2 Minutes to Midnight Saturday Music. So many musical options, I barely had any overlap.

• Blood and Fire, by Brides of the Black Room
• Deathcult, by Siva Six
• Out of My Way, by C-Lekktor
• Destrudo, by Alien Vampires
• World in Denial, by Alien Vampires
• Witch Hunt, by SPF1000
• The Devil's Bris, by Aurelio Voltaire
• Spooky Songs for Creepy Kids, by Aurelio Voltaire

• Operation: Mindcrime, by Queensrÿche
• Sad Wings of Destiny, by Judas Priest
• Resist, by Within Temptation
• Blind, by Corrosion of Conformity

• Pretty Hate Machine, by Nine Inch Nails
• Concentration, by Machines of Loving Grace
• Metropolis, by Sister Machine Gun
• 21st Century Boys, by Sigue Sigue Sputnik
• This is the Day… This is the Hour… This is This!, by Pop Will Eat Itself
• Live Code, by Front 242
• Geography, by Front 242

Inspired by a fediverse conversation about how '80s the '80s were (more '80s than you can believe):

• Maybe It's Live, by Robert Palmer: Lot of great rock/dance/almost bluesy songs.
• Notorious, by Duran Duran: Rio was good pop, but Notorious is the one that actually impressed me. They could rock out when they had to.
• Miami Vice, by Jan Hammer: The sound of the '80s.
• The Power Station: 1985, Robert Palmer, the rock half of Duran Duran, and a Chic ("le freak") made an awesome video and a whole album of rock/synth.
• Riptide, by Robert Palmer: His breakout, with of course the video.
• Airwolf: The greatest TV show of all time. There is apparently an entire album of Airwolf Themes but I can't find it anywhere convenient.
• Harold F, by Harold Faltermeyer: Axel F, the Beverly Hills Cop song. But he scored everything else, too, like Fletch Lives.
• Living in Fear, by The Power Station: A decade later, they reunited. I barely know this album at all, '90s I was too much into metal & industrial to still like my '80s pop.

And then looking this up, I discovered Robert Palmer died in 2003, age 54. Nobody told me! guardian obituary