To read and, well, write this special, The best thing is that you have a device nearby that allows you to listen to the musical themes present here in parallel. And it is that, these very right ten Oscar winners corresponding to the best song in the eighties, in addition to the stainless anthems, are perfect roller coasters to enjoy, sweat, sing, cry and dance at the highest level.
Top 10 Songs That Won the Academy Award for Best Song of the 80s, Worst to Best
10 “Arthur’s Theme (The Best You Can Do)” – “Arthur, the Golden Bachelor”
Among the virtues accumulated by the wonderful ‘Arthur, the Golden Bachelor’, one of those eighties romantic comedies that have been able to admirably capture the most classic essence of this film genre, highlights the central theme performed by Christopher Cross. A master of pop who brings out all the sweetness and charm of his voice in this precious song, entertaining and entertaining us with a first-rate melody. A real treat.
9 ‘Under the Sea’ – ‘The Little Mermaid’
Within a sublime soundtrack like that of ‘The Little Mermaid’, one of those in which there isn’t a bad song, the Academy has chosen to reward the most festive and radiant. And the truth is, more than three decades after its premiere, this ‘Under the sea’ continues to be one of the most loved, celebrated, danced to and hummed songs from Disney’s impressive catalog of musical classics. The term irresistible was created for songs like this.
The Little Mermaid by eCartelera
8 ‘Flashdance… What a feeling’ – ‘Flashdance’
The Oscar winner for best song was this spectacular ‘Flashdance…What a Feeling’, an undisputed winner, but Adrian Lyne’s famous film was full of memorable themes. However, I insist, no contrary argument can be used to question the victory of a song which is simply perfect from start to finish and which, moreover, It has condensed into its almost four minutes all the energy and passion of the film it represents.
7 ‘Take My Breath Away’ – ‘Top Gun. idols of the air’
The only ‘but’ that can be put to the great ‘Top Gun: Maverick’, a sequel that surpasses its predecessor in everything, is that it didn’t make us vibrate a little more with some slight reference to ‘Take My Breath Away ‘ , total classic of music and cinema of the eighties. A ballad with a lighter in the air and exacerbated romanticism that continues to work like a charm in its ability to move people as powerfully and spectacularly as it did in 1986. Infallible.
Top Guns. Idols of the air in eCartelera
6 ‘(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life’ – ‘Dirty Dancing’
Don’t lie, you’ve tried this choreography a thousand times. And very few have come out, everything is said. ‘(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life’ was celebrated as the huge success that was, is and will be in every place and situation in which it is played, becoming a great moment of celebration and collective musical and cinematographic encounter memory. Undisputed anthem of eighties cinema, let’s not forget that it represents a great little classic of the decade like ‘Dirty Dancing’, this fabulous song has all the elements needed to continue to conquer us year after year with no possibility of replication.
Dirty Dancing at eCartelera
5 ‘Tell Me, Tell Me’ – ‘Sunny Nights’
In the field of Best Song Oscar winners, “Say you, say me” is one of the greatest of all time, no doubt, but it’s also one of Lionel’s essential songs, rich and one of the essential ballads of the last decades. Not even being in such a mediocre film as ‘Sunny Nights’ was an impediment for the Academy to enthusiastically reward this masterpiece excellently interpreted.
4 ‘Fame’ – ‘Fame’
Right from its opening lines, “Fame” goes all out and doesn’t take “no” for an answer. An elegant song in the forms, pressing in the melody, winning in the refrain and with a memorable interpretation of an overflowing Irene Cara, This very righteous Oscar winner had finished completing an amazing film like ‘Hunger’yet another show of talent from director Alan Parker.
3 “Up Where We Belong” – “An Officer and a Gentleman”
It doesn’t fail, the refrain of this huge ‘Up Where We Belong’ arrives and you are already leaving your throat, heart and tears. It may be that ‘An Officer and a Gentleman’, while a film correct in practically all its elements, is a little overrated, but only for giving us a song as immense as the one we remember here, damn, we should be thankful and thankful for the its existence. In short: one of the best ballads in the history of cinema.
Officer and Gentleman of eCartelera
2 “I Just Called to Say I Love You” – “The Woman in Red”
Two words: Stevie Wonder. Enough to understand and celebrate one of those Oscars happily placed in the field of the indisputable. Melodic peak interpreted with the elegance and grandeur characteristic of one of the great geniuses in the history of music, this ‘I Just Called to Say I Love You’ is, in addition to one of the best winners of the last decades, one of the artistic peaks of Wonder’s career. And this, friends, goes beyond any award.
The Woman in Red by eCartelera
1 ‘Let the River Run’ – ‘Woman’s Guns’
The great cover of the Oscar winners for best song in the eighties is this impressive “Let the River Run”. Overwhelming epic, first-rate melodic sensibility, a breath-taking vocal performance and a production that makes the emotion rise in a formidable way, this theme of the beautiful “Arms of a Woman” is a true work of pop art. And the best song reviewed in this special.
Women’s weapons at eCartelera
To understand the enormous musical level of eighties cinema, here some of the songs nominated in those years and remained without a prize (and in the memory of several generations): Willie Nelson’s “On the Road Again”, Lionel Richie’s “Endless Love”, the famous “Eye of the Tiger” or “Maniac”, “Footlose” or “Ghostbusters”.
In short, a stage of the seventh art full of unforgettable songs, melodies with no expiration date and arrangements which, despite having suffered in many cases the force of the inexorable passage of time, are a precious reflection of how the eighties were in this field artistic. Outside the calendars, we talk a series of legendary tunes that continue to perform with the energy, passion and efficiency of day one.
Source: E Cartelera
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