10 '80s Songs You Totally Forgot Were Great

Perhaps only Freddie Mercury had an '80s moustache as iconic as John Oates'. But, even Queen didn't have as many timeless synth pop classics as the Philadelphia born duo, Hall & Oates. Although the pair had a successful run during the '70s, it was the era of shoulder pads, leg warmers and bad hair cuts, that saw them come into their own. Maneater, You Make My Dreams, and I Can't Go For That, are still regarded as some of the greatest pop singles of all time, but if there's one track that should never be forgotten, it's Out Of Touch.

The track was written by pure happenstance, when John Oates was fooling around with a synthesiser he didn't have all that much familiarity with. The synth was loved by pop musicians but held in destain by rock purists. All you needed to do was twist a few dials, and play a few keys in sequence, and all the clever programming did the rest. It was regarded as a cop out by many, but a game changer by others. Pretty soon into his fiddling, Oates had 'written' the melody to Out Of Touch, and the rest is '80s history...

For those of us born during the '90s, Out Of Touch will forever be associated with cruising around the streets of Vice City. It's one of sweetest slices of '80s, rock-pop, and soul, to be featured in a game about inner city crime.