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So I am working on putting together a jukebox for my gameroom (a project I will detail soon enough) and was looking for suggestions for the music to put on it. I can picture the proper music for it but I'm bad at actually remembering what everything is to actually get the music. So far I have the following albums for my Jukebox:
All AC/DC
-Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced 'leh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)
-Young Hearts - Complete Greatest Hits (Steve Miller Band)
-20th Century Masters The Best Of The Who (The Millennium Collection)

I know I need to add Journey if nothing else, but what other suggestions can you give?
 
are you going for songs that reflect the hey day of arcades or simply music you enjoy and are there certain genres you want or do not want? For example you want 80's rock but not 80s rap or whatever? Personally I always just put whatever i like no matter what era. I do like to have play lists though that reflect certain eras in case I'm going for a specific feel. Of course on top of that I get on kicks like only songs from movies. At any rate knowing some general parameters of what you might be looking for will help in giving good suggestions.
 
Looking for songs that fit the era of the arcades, mostly classic rock, but I would throw some modern in too, like new Ozzie and such. After I get it filled up I will probably go back and weed out some of the junk, but trying to add some more 80s arcade feel to my arcade.
 
I don't where you grew up, but in arcades round here, they didn't even have music going till at least '85. Now the roller rink was different, as the arcade was not the focus of the place. So, '79-85 : mostly top40 hits - rock/hard rock/hip-hop/new wave/urban and newer country (like Alabama). Stones and Aerosmith, and even Kiss were out of fasion by then.
 
Going to have to add Pac-Man Fever Album lol that is a requirement.

@autumn green: I'm too young to have grown up in the arcades, but I wish I was an 80's kid.
 
So I am working on putting together a jukebox for my gameroom (a project I will detail soon enough) and was looking for suggestions for the music to put on it. I can picture the proper music for it but I'm bad at actually remembering what everything is to actually get the music. So far I have the following albums for my Jukebox:
All AC/DC
-Lynyrd Skynyrd (pronounced 'leh-'nérd 'skin-'nérd)
-Young Hearts - Complete Greatest Hits (Steve Miller Band)
-20th Century Masters The Best Of The Who (The Millennium Collection)

I know I need to add Journey if nothing else, but what other suggestions can you give?

I would probably drop everything on your list.
Skynyrd only works if you're trying to reproduce the environment of a 70's truck stop complete with preteen incest.
 
So I am working on putting together a jukebox for my gameroom (a project I will detail soon enough) and was looking for suggestions for the music to put on it.

I know I need to add Journey if nothing else, but what other suggestions can you give?

Here's a paste from a mostly-80s Rock/Pop gameroom playlist I gathered from several sources:

Kyrie - Mr. Mister
Take the Long Way Home - Supertramp
Union of the Snake - Duran Duran
St. Elmo's Fire - John Parr
Everybody Wants to Rule the World - Tears for Fears
I Will Follow - U2
Sunday Bloody Sunday - U2
Should I Stay or Should I Go - The Clash
Lunatic Fringe - Red Rider
Life of Illusion - Joe Walsh
Billie Jean - Michael Jackson
Wanna Be Startin' Somethin' - Michael Jackson
Maniac - Michael Sembello
I Need a Hero - Bonnie Tyler
Gloria - Laura Branigan
Let It Whip - Dazz Band
Danger Zone - Kenny Loggins
Footloose - Kenny Loggins
Red Red Wine - UB40
Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham!
Drive - The Cars
I Feel For You - Chaka Khan
People Are People - Depeche Mode
Dance Hall Days - Wang Chung
What's Love Got To Do With It - Tina Turner
We Built This City - Starship
West End Girls - Pet Shop Boys
Raspberry Beret - Prince
Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel
And She Was - Talking Heads
Don't Stop Believin' - Journey
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic - The Police
99 Luftballons - Nena
Private Eyes - Hall & Oates
Only the Young - Journey
Any Way You Want It - Journey
Seperate Ways - Journey
Still Rock & Roll to Me - Billy Joel
867-5309 - Tommy Tutone
Shake It Up - The Cars
We Got The Beat - The Go-Go's
Pac-man Fever - Buckner & Garcia
Our Lips Are Sealed - The Go-Go's
Working for the Weekend - Loverboy
Do You Believe In Love - Huey Lewis & The News
Jukebox Hero - Foreigner
Jessie's Girl - Rick Springfield
Vacation - The Go-Gos
Tempted - Squeeze
Back in Time - Huey Lewis & the News
Dancin' With Myself - Generation X / Billy IdoL
Shout - Tears for Fears
Don't You - Simple Minds
Sweet Dreams - Eurythmics
Jack and Diane - John Cougar Mellencamp
Down Under - Men at Work
Overkill - Men at Work
Eye of the Tiger - Survivor
I Love Rock N' Roll - Joan Jett & The Blackhearts
Rosanna - Toto
Who Can It Be Now? - Men At Work
Hold Me - Fleetwood Mac
Heat of the Moment - Asia
I Ran - Flock of Seagulls
Kids in America - Kim Wilde
Freeze-Frame - J. Geils Band
Edge of Seventeen - Stevie Nicks
You Can Do Magic - America
Let's Dance - David Bowie
Tom Sawyer - Rush
Mickey - Toni Basil
Abracadabra - Steve Miller Band
Rock the Casbah - The Clash
Rio - Duran Duran
The Waiting - Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers
Talk Talk - Talk Talk
Space Age Love Song - Flock of Seagulls
If This Is It - Huey Lewis & The News
Hip to Be Square - Huey Lewis & The News
Doing it All for My Baby - Huey Lewis & The News
Power of Love - Huey Lewis & the News
I Melt With You - Modern English
Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
Take on Me - a-Ha
Jump - Van Halen
Panama - Van Halen
Hot for Teacher - Van Halen
Karma Chameleon - Culture Club
Let's Hear it for the Boy - Deniece Williams
Like a Virgin - Madonna
Material Girl - Madonna
Owner of a Loney Heart - Yes
Ghostbusters - Ray Parker Jr.
The Reflex - Duran Duran
Hungry Like the Wolf - Duran Duran
Girls Just Want to Have Fun - Cyndi Lauper
Legs - ZZ Top
You Might Think - The Cars
Jump - Pointer Sisters
Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Twilight Zone - Golden Earring
She Blinded Me with Science - Thomas Dolby
Africa - Toto
Little Red Corvette - Prince
1999 - Prince
After the Fire - Der Kommissar
Always Something There to Remind Me - Naked Eyes
Our House - Madness
Centerfold - J. Geils Band
Don't You Want Me - Human League
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Hit Me With Your Best Shot - Pat Benatar
Call Me - Blonde
Another One Bites the Dust - Queen
Crazy Little Thing Called Love - Queen
Rock Me Amadeus - Falco
You Give Love a Bad Name - Bon Jovi
Everybody Have Fun Tonight - Wang Chung
Land of Confusion - Genesis
Tonight, Tonight, Tonight - Genesis
Turning Japanese - The Vapors
Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
Burning Down the House - Talking Heads
Love My Way - Psychedelic Furs
Pinball Wizard - The Who
 
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