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What song immediately comes to mind when you picture 1981?

Retry Correct Incorrect Much like in the decade that followed, it didn’t take long for for the music of the ’80s to set itself apart from the pop culture of the ’70s. While not all ’80s pop acts used synthesizers as heavily as Soft Cell did when they covered “Tainted Love” or The Human League did with hits like “Don’t You Want Me,” those who did changed the course of New Wave and set the tone for the decade.

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What song immediately comes to mind when you picture 1981?

• Soft Cell – “Tainted Love”
• The Human League – “Don’t You Want Me”
• Hall And Oates – “I Can’t Go For That”
• Juice Newton – “Queen Of Hearts”