Best 80s Country Songs

One commenter ranked this #1 outright in a numbered list, and another commenter referenced it independently elsewhere in the same discussion as the genre’s definitive heartbreak song.

This was the single highest-scored individual answer in a discussion about the top 80s songs, posted with no elaboration needed.

This placed at #4 on the discussion’s most detailed numbered list, one of only two songs from the decade’s tail end to make that list.

This was the top comment in a separate discussion about underrated 80s songs, with repliers calling it a forgotten but genuinely huge hit, one of several number-one hits from an artist commenters said “we don’t hear much about anymore.”

Named with no further explanation needed, this was the second-highest-scored single answer in the top-80s-songs discussion.

Commenters cited this as proof that Oslin is “overlooked sometimes” despite major hits, in one of the underrated-songs discussion’s most-upvoted replies.

A commenter named this alongside “basically everything” Steve Earle released that decade, grouping him with Keith Whitley, Dwight Yoakam, and Garth Brooks as the era’s standouts.

This was named twice independently across the discussions reviewed: once for the Haggard/Nelson duet version, and again in a solo Haggard discography breakdown that called his 80s output “massively underrated.”

Fans named this directly in the top-80s-songs discussion as a standout single from Strait’s run of decade-defining hits.

One commenter called this a song “youngsters seem to have forgotten” despite uniting Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Johnny Cash, and Kris Kristofferson on one track.