Oh wow, some of those really ring a bell with me, except for the Boston track, which still gets played to death on American radio, the rest of those tunes have been forgotten for decades.
That Aldo Nova tune, man, that really triggers a memory from the 80s, of wandering the streets of a small New Jersey town with my idiot friends and a boombox radio, getting into trouble and running out the clock on a long summer, wondering what would happen to us all in the next few years.
The local rock stations in Philadelphia used to play that on regular rotation back then. I have a soft spot for that kind of hard, non-hair-metal-but-still-80s-cheesy, rock that was a big thing in the late 70s and 80s. Loverboy and Saga fit into that category as well. People remember the awful hair rock but forget about this stuff.
Another one from those days which I still listen to once in a while. This tune became famous for being in the soundtrack of the movie "Vision Quest", but it was already getting regular airplay back then. This is another "endless, pointless summer" song for me:
Since this thread isn't a nostalgia thread but rather a "listening now" thread, well, I'm listening to this as I post it so it qualifies. Same with this next one from Ritchie Blackmore's late 70s band Rainbow featuring the mighty Ronnie James Dio on vocals: