+ It’s the lead single from the third album, Ready for Romance (1986) - their fourth consecutive single to top the Singles Chart, after *You're My Heart, You're My Soul*, *You Can Win If You Want* and *Cheri, Cheri Lady*.
(2025/06/20) After restoring the music video for "The Great Commandment" using the original film material and premiering it digitally for the first time in May as the official version, we’re now taking things one step further with a song that means so much to Camouflage. Starting now, both the original 1987 single and the remix single are officially available on all major streaming platforms. We're super excited about the digital release — especially since it got us to the top of the US Billboard Dance Charts not just once, but twice. Big shoutout to the remix versions that helped make it happen. We warmly invite you to rediscover "The Great Commandment" in its many different versions — some of which were previously very hard to find. Enjoy exploring all the versions of The Great Commandment!
The thing about 80's music is, there were SO many bands and we all have different taste and different reasons for liking certain bands. There are several 80s band I'm a big fan of, but most of my friends don't even know any of them Who here, for example, knows any music by these bands:
Lauri Anderson Blake Babies The Bongos Chris Cacavas and Junk Yard Love Danny and Dusty The dBs Dead Moon The Dream Syndicate Dumptruck Eater The Feelies Green on Red Japan Love Tractor Mission of Burma The Neats Opal Psychedelic Furs Rain Parade Rank and File The Salvation Army (aka The Three O'Clock) Sister Double Happiness Spacemen 3 Suicide The Sugar Cubes SVT Teenage Fan CLub The Tourists True West
I remember Teenage Fan Club from the 90s - the only name in the list. I will check out Japan. I was attracted by the band name at first and landed here: *Post-Punk- and Synth-Pop-Band* !
I remember Teenage Fan Club from the 90s - the only name in the list. I will check out Japan. I was attracted by the band name at first and landed here: *Post-Punk- and Synth-Pop-Band* !
I'm not quite as drawn to the melodramatic New Romance bands like Japan as I used to be, but the will always be times when some soft spot in me is in the mood for that music. Here's one of my favorites from Japan's Tin Drum LP (I totally love Mick Karn's bass sound on this!):
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https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp2qcCrdBLA&pp=ygUVQnJvdGhlciBsb3VpZSBtb2Rlcm4g teaser and/or mega spoiler…
3in1 80’s time travel stuff…
edit: I‘m going to start another trip 🤣😎
edit2:
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=A5C8AC6V2KQ
Jet Airliner
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=XdQ2OG4RmFc&pp=ygUNSmV0IGFpcmxpbmVyIA%3D%3D
edit4:
pimped Brother Louie’s link w/ Hollywood
Falco
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=y-H895vrIU8&pp=ygUQUm9jayBtZSBhbWFkZXVzIA%3D%3D
Art
I keep Geronimo’s Cadillac just for fun and do not choose any of the other songs from the band.
I try to compile a personal top TEN (plus 15)
plus
The Bangles https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SsmVgoXDq2w&pp=0gcJCcEJAYcqIYzv - this one is just for the topic
Dangerous https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=VFNRh26TPmM&list=RDVFNRh26TPmM&index=2&pp=8AUB
Crockett’s Theme + Danger Zone are already mentioned and in for sure.
Burning Heart https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Kc71KZG87X4 not sure whether this will survive all cuts
Falco - Jeanny
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Urw-iutHw5E&pp=ygUMZmFsY28gamVhbm55
1988 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6z8o7qAIlIU&list=RD6z8o7qAIlIU&start_radio=1
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are in for sure
Phil Collins - In the Air Tonight
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MN3x-kAbgFU&pp=ygUTSW4gdGhlIGFpciB0b25pZ2h0IA%3D%3D tricky
homepage incl.
https://www.camouflage-music.com/en/Archiv/Most_popular_videos
+ latest news:
(2025/06/20) After restoring the music video for "The Great Commandment" using the original film material and premiering it digitally for the first time in May as the official version, we’re now taking things one step further with a song that means so much to Camouflage.
Starting now, both the original 1987 single and the remix single are officially available on all major streaming platforms. We're super excited about the digital release — especially since it got us to the top of the US Billboard Dance Charts not just once, but twice. Big shoutout to the remix versions that helped make it happen.
We warmly invite you to rediscover "The Great Commandment" in its many different versions — some of which were previously very hard to find.
Enjoy exploring all the versions of The Great Commandment!
Original Single 1987:
https://camouflage.lnk.to/TheGreatCommandment
US Remixes 1988:
https://camouflage.lnk.to/TheGreatCommandmentRemixes
LOVE IS A SHIELD is a candidate for my personal top 25 80’s playlist.
Blake Babies
The Bongos
Chris Cacavas and Junk Yard Love
Danny and Dusty
The dBs
Dead Moon
The Dream Syndicate
Dumptruck
Eater
The Feelies
Green on Red
Japan
Love Tractor
Mission of Burma
The Neats
Opal
Psychedelic Furs
Rain Parade
Rank and File
The Salvation Army (aka The Three O'Clock)
Sister Double Happiness
Spacemen 3
Suicide
The Sugar Cubes
SVT
Teenage Fan CLub
The Tourists
True West
1987
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=6rD7ytG7Y9Y
*Walk Like an Egyptian* fun cover & chaos video
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=-VrwHWEUC7A expanded (audio only/4:38)
https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLEXox2R2RxZKyTTlt3kxvtJbI_Cw1K1IX
The song list of Miami Vice (1984-1989) isn’t pure but one place with a lot of 80’s music.
incl. 4x INXS
Watching the official music videos via yt looks like the alternative choice.
Miss You
The Rolling Stones
Body Talk
The Deele
Somebody's Watching Me
Rockwell
Girls Just Want to Have Fun
Cyndi Lauper
Salsa Caliente
Cuco Valoy
Only in Miami
Bette Midler
The Wanderer
Donna Summer
All Night Long (All Night) - Single Version
Lionel Richie
In The Air Tonight
Phil Collins
She's A Beauty
The Tubes
Missing You
John Waite
Going Under - 2010 Remaster
DEVO
This Masquerade
George Benson
Sharp Dressed Man - 2008 Remaster
ZZ Top
Reality - Dub
Linton Kwesi Johnson
Jamming
Bob Marley & The Wailers
Borderline Dub
King Tubby
Well Of Souls
Sly & Robbie
In The Night
Russ Ballard
I'm So Excited
The Pointer Sisters
Tush - 2012 Collection Remaster
ZZ Top
Voices
Russ Ballard
What's Love Got to Do with It
Tina Turner
Wonderful Tonight
Eric Clapton
New Girl Now
Honeymoon Suite
Jump (For My Love) - Single Remix
The Pointer Sisters
I Don't Care Anymore
Phil Collins
Stay with Me - Remastered
Teddy Pendergrass, BILL SCHNEE
Some Guys Have All the Luck
Rod Stewart
Go Insane
Lindsey Buckingham
Self Control
Laura Branigan
Born To Be Wild
Steppenwolf
I Send A Message
INXS
We've Gotta Get out of This Place
The Animals
Girls With Guns
Tommy Shaw
Better Be Good to Me
Tina Turner
Relax
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Turn Up The Radio
Autograph
Tiny Demons
Todd Rundgren
Hit Me With Your Best Shot - 1999 Digital Remaster
Pat Benatar
Legs - 2008 Remaster
ZZ Top
Great Balls Of Fire
Dolly Parton
Catch The Wind
The Blues Project
Mr Lee
The Bobettes
Poison Ivy - 2007 Remaster; Remastered
The Coasters
Lunatic Fringe
Red Rider
Smuggler's Blues
Glenn Frey
Come To Poppa
Bob Seger
Waiting For You
The Reds
Beat Away
The Reds
I Want to Know What Love Is - 2008 Remaster
Foreigner
Change Your Ways
Rockwell
Renegades Of Funk - 12" Vocal Version
Afrika Bambaataa, Afrika Bambaataa & The Soulsonic Force
Tea In The Sahara
The Police
Money (That's What I Want) - Single Version / Mono
Barrett Strong
Treat Me Nice
Elvis Presley
Rubberneckin'
Elvis Presley
The Glamorous Life
Sheila E.
Green Onions
Booker T. & the M.G.'s
Bad To The Bone
George Thorogood & The Destroyers
New Love
Glenn Frey
Heartbeat
Red 7
Biko - 2002 Remastered Version
Peter Gabriel
The Rhythm Of The Heat - 2002 Remastered Version
Peter Gabriel
My Boy Lollipop
Millie Small
Wire - Remastered 2009
U2
Tell It Like It Is
Aaron Neville
Caribbean Queen (No More Love On the Run)
Billy Ocean
Windswept
Bryan Ferry
You Belong To The City
Glenn Frey
Goodbye Girl
Go West
Do You Believe In Love
Huey Lewis & The News
Many Rivers To Cross
Joe Cocker
Goodnight Ladies
Lou Reed
Take Me Home - 2016 Remaster
Phil Collins
The Pleasure Seekers
The System
Glad - Remastered 2010
Traffic
Pride (In The Name Of Love)
U2
Dark Night
The Blasters
Get It On (Bang a Gong) - 2005 Remaster
The Power Station
Sharp Dressed Man - 2008 Remaster
ZZ Top
Baba O'Riley - Original Album Version
The Who
Brothers In Arms
Dire Straits
Who To Listen To
Amy Grant
Women - 2008 Remaster
Foreigner
Diamond Field
Pat Benatar
Sweet Soul Music
Arthur Conley
Go For Soda
Kim Mitchell
No Guarantees
The Nobodys
Slave To Love
Bryan Ferry
Little by Little - 2006 Remaster
Robert Plant
True Love
Wang Chung
Transformation
Nona Hendryx
Can't Turn Back
Red Rider
Phantom Living
The Fixx
Flesh
Todd Rundgren
Boys And Girls
Bryan Ferry
Hello Earth
Kate Bush
You Wear It Well
DeBarge
Rhythm Of The Night
El DeBarge
I'm so Afraid - 2002 Remaster
Fleetwood Mac
Break on Through (To the Other Side)
The Doors
Five to One
The Doors
I Can't See Your Face in My Mind
The Doors
My Eyes Have Seen You
The Doors
Roadhouse Blues
The Doors
Strange Days - New Stereo Mix
The Doors
The Crystal Ship
The Doors
The Spy
The Doors
The Man with the Horn
Phil Collins
Knock On Wood - 1999 Remaster
Eric Clapton
Nausea
Executive Slacks
Pick It Up (And Put It In Your Pocket)
Stan Ridgway
Angry Young Man
Ted Nugent
Europa (Earth's Cry, Heaven's Smile)
Gato Barbieri
Cry
Godley & Creme
The Harder They Come - From "The Harder They Come" Soundtrack
Jimmy Cliff
Par Avion
Mike + The Mechanics
Your Time Is Gonna Come
Russ Ballard
Kyrie - Single Version
Mr. Mister
Face The Face
Pete Townshend
Mustang Sally
Wilson Pickett
Assault and Battery - Live
Howard Jones
The Order Of Death
Public Image Ltd.
Little Miss Dangerous
Ted Nugent
Here Comes My Girl
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Mercury Blues
David Lindley
Up From The Skies
Jimi Hendrix
Naughty Naughty
John Parr
Cruise Missile
Steve Morse Band
Who's Zoomin' Who?
Aretha Franklin
Gambler
American Pie
P.Machinery
Propaganda
Dancin'
Chris Isaak
Three Sisters
INXS
Soul Kitchen
X
Maybe The Poet
Bruce Cockburn
Feel It Again
Honeymoon Suite
Institutionalized
Suicidal Tendencies
What You Need
INXS
That Smell
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Miami
Randy Newman
Heaven - 2008 Remaster
Simply Red
Still In The Game
Steve Winwood
Space Invader
Pretenders
Long Long Way To Go
Phil Collins
After The Fire
Roger Daltrey
Imagine - Remastered 2010
John Lennon
Wild Cats of Kilkenny
The Pogues
Lives in the Balance
Jackson Browne
Red Rain - 2012 Remastered Version
Peter Gabriel
Everybody's Crying Mercy
Chris Jones, Steve Baker
Real Wild Child (Wild One)
Iggy Pop
Mercy Street - 2002 Remastered Version
Peter Gabriel
You're Gonna Change
The Screaming Blue Messiahs
You're Gonna Change
The Screaming Blue Messiahs
Eminence Front
The Who
Do You Wanna Get Away
Shannon
Desire
Yello
Gear Jammer - Remastered 2004
George Thorogood & The Destroyers
Listen Like Thieves
INXS
Walk This Way (feat. Aerosmith)
Run–D.M.C., Aerosmith
In Dulce Decorum
The Damned
Picture Book - 2008 Remaster
Simply Red
How Much Did You Get for Your Soul? - 2007 Remaster
Pretenders
Inland Sea - Remastered 2005
Brian Eno
Tierra Dura (Eutopia)
Rubén Blades
Wanted Dead Or Alive
Bon Jovi
State Of Emergency
Cactus World News
Fly On the Windscreen (Final)
Depeche Mode
Born To Be Wild
Steppenwolf
Sledgehammer
Peter Gabriel
Tequila (Original)
The Champs
Standing On the Outside
Meat Loaf
We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37) - 2012 Remastered Version
Peter Gabriel
Dance - 2007 Remaster
Ratt
There's A River
Steve Winwood
Don't Need A Gun - Remastered
Billy Idol
Blind Faith
Corey Hart
All Along The Watchtower
Jimi Hendrix
I Want To Make The World Turn Around
Steve Miller Band
Miami
Bob Seger
Gun Law
The Kane Gang
White Rabbit
Jefferson Airplane
Anything
The Damned
Blood And Roses
The Smithereens
Wasteland
The Mission UK
Duel
Propaganda
Lament
Ultravox
Two Rapid Formations - Remastered 2005
Brian Eno
Tierra Dura (Eutopia)
Rubén Blades
Respect Yourself
Bruce Willis
Climb
Peter Himmelman
Be My Enemy
The Waterboys
Cat People (Putting Out The Fire)
David Bowie
Closer to Heaven
The Alan Parsons Project
Money Talks
The Alan Parsons Project
Best Adventures
Thinkman
The Formula
Thinkman
Raffles In Rio
Mark Isham
Holding Back the Years
Simply Red
Split Decision
Steve Winwood
La Vecina
Belkis Concepción
Heat Of The Night
Bryan Adams
Ride Across The River
Dire Straits
The Fashion Show
Grace Jones
Underwaterboys
Shreikback
Who Do You Love
George Thorogood & The Destroyers
Your Time Is Gonna Come
Russ Ballard
Heaven - 2008 Remaster
Simply Red
Tightrope Walk
The Damned
The Leader
Chris de Burgh
The Vision
Chris de Burgh
What About Me?
Chris de Burgh
Stormy Weather
Ella Fitzgerald & Louis Armstrong
Someone To Watch Over Me
Ella Fitzgerald
Call It Love
Yello
Satellite
The Hooters
Pleasure, Little Treasure - Glitter Mix
Depeche Mode
Never Let Me Down Again
Depeche Mode
Vet For The Insane
Fields Of The Nephilim
Edge Of Town
The Truth
What Is Life
Black Uhuru
Wake Up And Live
Bob Marley & The Wailers
The Dream
Albert Collins, Robert Cray and Johnny Copeland, Robert Cray, Bruce Bromberg
Race Against Time - Remastered 2007
U2
Modigliani - Lost In Your Eyes
Book Of Love
Mambo Terrifico
Cal Tjader
Nine Million Rainy Days
The Jesus and Mary Chain
Yin and Yang (The Flowerpot Man)
Love and Rockets
I Got You (I Feel Good)
James Brown
Domination
MC's of Rap
Conferring With The Moon
Will Ackerman
When He Shines
Sheena Easton
Flesh For Fantasy - Remastered 1999
Billy Idol
Last Night I Dreamt That Somebody Loved Me - 2008 Remaster
The Smiths
Flesh
Todd Rundgren
Moon On Ice
Yello
Si Senor The Hairy Grill
Yello
Ball Of Confusion (USA Mix)
Love and Rockets
I'm Lookin' For Someone To Love
Buddy Holly & The Crickets
Don't Dream It's Over
Crowded House
Dirty Laundry
Don Henley
Devil with a Blue Dress On / Good Golly Miss Molly (Medley)
Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels
Red River - Prelude and Wagon Train
Dimitri Tiomkin, Laurie Johnson, The London Studio Symphony Orchestra, The John McCarthy Singers
The Magnificent Seven - Suite
Elmer Bernstein
The Good, The Bad And The Ugly - 2004 Remaster
Ennio Morricone
Stand And Deliver
Mr. Mister
Breakaway
Big Pig
Twenty Killer Hurts
Gene Loves Jezebel
Pump Up The Volume (UK 12" Remix)
M/A/R/R/S
God's Gift
The Silencers
Hawaiian Chance
Yello
Capricho arabe
Francisco Tárrega, Pablo Garibay
Rag Doll
Aerosmith
Sweet Sixteen - Remastered 2001
Billy Idol
Eyes Of A Stranger
The Payolas
Glory! Glory!
Underworld
Sweetest Smile
Black
Winners & Losers - Live
Iggy Pop
Dangerous Game
Tommy Shaw
Don't Dream It's Over
Crowded House
Smuggler's Blues
Glenn Frey
Diamond Field
Pat Benatar
In The Air Tonight
Phil Collins
There's A River
Steve Winwood
Be My Enemy
The Waterboys
Lazy Bones
Hoagy Carmichael
We Do What We're Told (Milgram's 37) - 2012 Remastered Version
Peter Gabriel
Don't Turn Your Back
Sheena Easton
Follow My Rainbow
Sheena Easton
Alpha Centauri
Tangerine Dream
Bedbugs and Ballyhoo
Echo & the Bunnymen
Money God
Big Pig
Walk And Talk Like Angels
Toni Childs
Underneath the Radar
Underworld
You Never Listen to Me
Peter Cetera
Don't Give Up - 2002 Remastered Version
Peter Gabriel
Dark Truths
Joan Armatrading
Blood Money - 2005 Digital Remaster
The Church
I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry - Single Version
Hank Williams
Cold Metal
Iggy Pop
Power and Freedom (Live)
Iggy Pop
Hit Me With Your Best Shot - 1999 Digital Remaster
Pat Benatar
The Dogs Of War - 2011 Remastered Version
Pink Floyd
I Want Your (Hands On Me)
Sinéad O'Connor
Layla
Derek & The Dominos, Eric Clapton
Only the Good Die Young - 1998 Remaster
Iron Maiden
Stigmata - Update Mix
Ministry
Here It Is Take It
That Petrol Emotion
Under The Milky Way
The Church
Nobody's Perfect
Mike + The Mechanics
Big League
Tom Cochrane
Walking Towards Paradise - 2006 Remaster
Robert Plant
Desire
U2
Bête Noire
Bryan Ferry
Carry Me (Like A Fire In Your Heart)
Chris de Burgh
Working on It
Chris Rea
Hard Left
Tackhead
Keys To Imagination
Yanni
She's Waiting - 1999 Remaster
Eric Clapton
Twist in My Sobriety
Tanita Tikaram
Misguided Angel
Cowboy Junkies
Severance (Remastered)
Dead Can Dance
Miami Beach Rhumba
Klezmer Conservatory Band
Inspiration
Gipsy Kings
Paseo de Gracia
The Alan Parsons Project
What I Am
Edie Brickell & New Bohemians
Paradise City
Guns N' Roses
Bugle Call Rag
Glenn Miller
Mixed Up, Shook Up Girl
Mink DeVille
You're Gonna Get Yours
Public Enemy
Bad Attitude
Honeymoon Suite
Lives in the Balance
Jackson Browne
Year Zero
King Swamp
Cryin' Shame
Lyle Lovett
Land Of Confusion - Remastered 2007
Genesis
Ship of Fools
Robert Plant