-deep breath-
Let's talk classic for a moment, shall we?
Fly High Michelle by Enuff Z'Nuff
Sister Christian by Night Ranger
Strawberry Letter 23 by The Brothers Johnson
Old Days and Just You N Me by Chicago
More Than A Feeling Boston
Walking On Broken Glass Annie Lennox (also check out Top of the World by the Carpenters, if you like her!)
Southern Cross and Love The One You're With, Crosby, Stills, and Nash
and if you feel a little instrumental, Love is Blue by Paul Mauriat. There's also one with a woman singing, but IMHO, it's not quite as good. :)
Shout and Laid So Low by Tears for Fears are both good, but if you want something epic by them, definitely Everybody Wants To Rule The World.
Attie IS an 80's fan. Check out I Ran by Flock of Seagulls and Send Me An Angel by Real Life, and if you like we'll talk more. Got a ton of those...
Switching it up on you again, check out I Don't Want To Get Over You and Strange Powers by The Magnetic Fields. Different, but decent.
Running on Empty and Somebody's Baby, Jackson Browne
East Bound and Down Jerry Reed
ABC123 the Jackson 5
Oh, oh! Don't Leave Me This Way by Thelma Houston and Right Back Where We Started From, Maxine Nightengale
Tarzan Boy, Baltimora. :D
quickly followed by Once Bitten, 3 Speed (and that's a great movie, too. YOUNG Jim Carrey)
Get Away Jordan by Take 6 - no instruments, some crazy vocals though!
If a capella is your thing, Straight no Chaser does many, many covers and originals to choose from! (check out Africa. It's a cover from Toto, and I DO recommend the original too, but it's excellently done!)
Ah! Ok, Aimee Mann does several songs to mention - Going Through The Motions, and Pavlov's Bell being among the best.
Too Close by Alex Clare is more rock-style than most of what I've mentioned yet, but cool.
Ok, hold on, looking again... ._.