note that Penn and Teller are in this video... pretty funny

I'll play along, even though I may have only listened to a combined 3 hours of music created in the 80's throughout my lifetime, I'm game.


Just listened to this three minutes ago:

Talking Heads - Burning Down the House (tidbit of history)



best part is it was inspired and infused by sounds of "Parliament-Funkadelic".

This thread and its many embedded YouTube videos own my PC.

My contribution, for now:


I remember hearing the song in a Listerine commercial when I was a kid and having no idea what it was. I've since found out and it's one of my favorite songs from the 80's.

cyn punk post made my god damned day.

an 80's music thread without the safety dance? what the hell!?

I just posted this on what you're listening to now, but it's relevant for this one. I love this lazy song.

This is such a great thread.


I remember laying in bed and listening to this one on my pink Walkman :)



Also, I really wanted to post "He Could Be the One" (Josie Cotton), but I can't find a video...grrr...

I think I'm about to blow this thread out of the water



Song: Fade to Grey
Artist: Visage
Album: Visage

Song: Into The Night
Artist: Benny Mardones
Album: Never Run, Never Hide (I think... this is the first time I've heard the full song)

The second single (hell, the entire second album is my persoanl favorite) is my choice.

I've been waiting a long time to post this one: thank goodness the 'tyke' rule was laxed in the mean.


HD version here: Eric B & Rakim - Microphone Fiend - Original Video - 1988

Song: Microphone Fiend
Artist: Eric B. & Rakim
Album: Follow The Leader
Year: 1988

Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer



Klaus Nomi - Lightning Strikes (whatever you do, you MUST watch this one)



Stevie Ray Vaughan - Texas Flood (every time I watch this, I want to throw down my guitar and say, "What's the point? Stevie Ray already played every note there is to play.")



Billy Squier - Rock Me Tonight (the video that completely killed his career. Billy Squier was really a very good hard rocker who was talked into doing this horrible video)



Lipps, Inc - Funkytown (this woman is just scary)

since this song was not a single, it doesn't have a music video to accompany it; but, I did happen to find, and decide to post, the live session instead.


Song: Surrender
Artist: U2
Album: War
Year: 1983

Only in the 80s can a page 3 girl have a hit single:

Peter Gabriel - Shock the Monkey


Falco - Rock Me Amadeus


Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime


Golden Earring - Twilight Zone


Wall of Voodoo - Mexican Radio


The Vapors - Turning Japanese

Oh, Cynthetiq, I'm so glad you posted this one. I still play McLaren's versions of Madame Butterfly and Carmen to my music appreciation classes each semester.

It's a personal favorite of mine. I even remember the first time I heard it and thought it was one of the most incredible pieces of music I had ever heard. He made the original mashup... I don't think I ever heard Carmen, I'll have to play that later today.

This is great and the reason why I bought the Fans album. Thanks for digging this one up. Malc is dead now isn't he?


Oh by the way, this is good in all the ways that Peter Gabriel's Shock the Monkey & Sledgehammer sucked. How can Jeux sans Frontiers and those tunes come from the same person?

Wow, what a great thread:

Warrreagle: Sledgehammer…Shock the Monkey :love:, Rock me Amadeus, sigh

Cynthetiq: Buffalo Stance, Life in a Northern Town :love:, Jessie’s Girl, oh my GOSH….

Nydawg – WOW, It’s like we grew up together “musically’ LEG’S…. Bankok, All Night Long, et. al. Ahhhh, youth.

Freman: COME ON EILEEN :love:, I still love this one. Total Eclipse of the Heart, all the memories….

Jetee: Burning Down the House

SSJTWIZTA: SAFETY DANCE!!! Awesome.

Thanks for the trip ya’ll, and all the others too, I was so a lover of the original MTV as it seems were all of you. I will definitely be back to this thread again. :)

A few more I loved:

Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science


Survivor – Eye of The Tiger (Our Marching Bands Theme Song)


The Police - Roxanne


Don't Stand So Close To Me - The Police


Hell, anything by The Police,

and Tom Petty….

Don’t Come Around Here No More


I could go on and on and on…… I sure miss the good moments of my past, but I sure am glad the bad ones are just that, past.

and I know it's the '70's but really the '80's in spirit:

It happened one summer, it happened one time
It happened forever, for a short time
A place for a moment, an end to dream
Forever I loved you, forever it seemed

One summer never ends, one summer never began
It keeps me standing still, IT takes all my Will
And then suddenly last summer
Sometimes I never leave, but sometimes I would
Sometimes I stay too long, sometimes I would
Sometimes it frightens me, sometimes it would
Sometimes I'm all alone and wish that I could

One summer never ends, one summer never began
It keeps me standing still, it takes all my will
And then suddenly last summer
Sometimes I never leave, but sometimes I would
Sometimes I stay too long, sometimes I would
Sometimes it frightens me, sometimes it would
Sometimes I'm all alone and wish that I could

And then suddenly last summer

One summer never ends, one summer never began
It keeps me standing still, it takes all my will
And then suddenly last summer
Sometimes I never leave, but sometimes I would
Sometimes I stay too long, sometimes I would
Sometimes it frightens me, sometimes it would
Sometimes I'm all alone and wish that I could

And then suddenly last summer

Until suddenly last summer
And then suddenly last summer
Until suddenly last summer...

This thread is not complete without Dan Hartman


And some Aussie Uncanny X-Men


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Lastly for today. A live recording of Johnson's Aeroplane by INXS. This is probably my favourite INXS track and it is a shame I couldn't find the studio recording on youtube:

and Don't Tear it Down by Spy VS Spy (Aussie 3 piece). I saw these guys live in the early nineties and they were fantastic, though this song is mid-80s:

this thread is excellent for digging up those tunes that made such a great impact on pop culture with the advent of video. Great thread idea.

Everybody likes Tom Robinson eh? the albums TRB & TRB2 were great. And songs like War Baby & Atmospherics...

Well, the following is a cover of Atmospherics, which really directed me back to the Tom Robinson Band to catch the original. It's done by a local Queen St W (Toronto) New Wave band back when the scene was running red hot. They had other tunes like Might As Well be on Mars, and Cherry Beach Express:

1987

can go past this aussie classic

Gotta love Men at Work. One of the very first videos that I ever saw, but y ou can't think of Men at Work without mentioning

Men Without Hats:

Song: Fallen Angel
Artist: Poison
Album: Open Up and Say... Ahh!
Year: 1988


[dailymotion.]

for you Rushians...

How about Midnight Oil (I'm fairly sure I was at this concert):

Also, this might be more recognisable to non-Aussies:

This song gives me chills. My dad is a vietnam vet and I'm just glad he came home in one piece:

moe berg et als:

Can't write song about girls anymore. Gotta write song about WOMEN. No more boy meets girl, boy loses girl. More like Man tries to understand what the hell went wrong