Top 10 Best Wham! Songs
The big British duo formed by George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley in the early 1980s.
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Last Christmas
My favorite song by George Michael and also one of the best Christmas songs I've heard in my entire life! It's simply a fantastic experience to listen to beautiful and melodic music like this.
This song should be Number 1. It's one of the best Christmas songs of all time. Also the best song delivered by George Michael during his career in Wham!
Despite this song's failure in the worldwide markets, it is still an unbelievably smooth and beautiful song, ahead of its time.
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Everything She Wants
Sinister chords. Absolutely fantastic production.
This song rules, all the way. Wham! is pure life.
One of the biggest radio pop songs of the '80s.
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Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go
I've listened to this song ever since I was seven and played it every time we went to an internet cafe. Yeah, it's pretty okay for me - best song of Wham!
This should be number one. It's their signature song that everyone knows and their most popular (at least during the time they were actually around).
Yeah, it's a pretty decent song. I mean, not that great as the British young fan base told. But it's okay, probably one of the first international hits Wham! ever had!
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Freedom
In an interview with the Christmas 2009 issue of The Big Issue, Michael said of this song that when he wrote it, he knew he had arrived: "When I was 19, I wrote 'Freedom' - the original version - and I thought, 'I can't believe I've just done that!' I was absolutely thrilled. Until then, I had no real understanding of my abilities, but with 'Freedom,' I started to take myself seriously as a writer."
A wonderful song. Why is this beauty not even in the Top 3? I think it is a masterpiece and deserves to be there.
One of their best songs. Beautifully written and expressed! Love the line "Like a prisoner who has his own key."
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Club Tropicana
Why doesn't this song get the credit it deserves? It's one of the most motivating and nicer George Michael songs apart from Careless Whisper. Rank this song at number 2 at least. It is one of the best songs ever.
My personal favorite Wham! song. The album this comes from, Fantastic, is their best work, with this being the best song on the album.
At that time, it was a satire of the boom for cheap package holidays for younger, single people of a hedonistic nature.
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I'm Your Man
I love this song. It isn't a big classic by Wham! but it is one of the best.
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The Edge of Heaven
My favorite Wham!/George Michael song after Careless Whisper. It's fun, greatly instrumental, and the lyrics are surprisingly more serious than other Wham! songs but still contain that bubblegum feeling and never dive into pretension. This was the definitive moment where George was ready for a solo career!
Much darker compared to the rest of their output, and that's why I love it!
I remember me and my friends dancing to this song when we were in the orphanage. Wonderful times!
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Bad Boys
One of the best songs by Wham! Just pure genius lyrics adapted to reality.
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Young Guns (Go for It!)
Michael's biographer, Rob Jovanovic, said the song is about "death by matrimony," which is the last line of the chorus. It was written from experience and described old school friends marrying and settling down while Michael and Ridgeley were still having fun. This was presumptuous, as the two were not yet twenty years old when it was released.
In any case, Michael spent much of the next few years struggling with his sexuality. In April 1998, when he was thirty-five years old, he publicly came out as homosexual, an incident he celebrated in the song "Outside."
Sounds like the introduction to an '80s detective show. But good song in general.
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If You Were There
Planning to play this song at my aunt's wedding...
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Nothing Looks the Same in the Light
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Come On!
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Battlestations
The trumpets are great and so peaceful. Very great song. I highly recommend it.
One of the best Top 10 songs, in my opinion.
Rank this song number 1 (if not Heartbeat).
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Wham Rap! (Enjoy What You Do)
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Where Did Your Heart Go
Since my cousin recommended this song to me, I fell in love with it.
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A Ray of Sunshine
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Blue
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Heartbeat
I will dedicate this song to my peace-world in my mind.
One of their most underrated songs. So romantic!
This song is too smart to be ranked so low.
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A Different Corner
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Credit Card Baby
It's criminal how underappreciated this song is.
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Love Machine
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Careless Whisper
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Like a Baby