02-12-2004, 12:01 AM | #41 (permalink) |
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Oh, man- thanks, you're giving me a headache here, trying to remember them all.
all Eurythmics all Depeche Mode The Cure- especially Pictures of You The Police Run DMC (oh, yeah!) Nirvana New Order Michael Jackson (I used to be in love with him.....) Men At Work Oh, and who could forget Vanilla Ice- Ice, Ice, Baby! (Hey, that was a good song back in the day........) |
02-12-2004, 04:09 AM | #42 (permalink) | |
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Location: Northeast Jesusland
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02-12-2004, 10:30 AM | #43 (permalink) | |
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02-12-2004, 04:58 PM | #44 (permalink) |
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Here's a song which is so 80's that even when I was in the 80's it would remind me of the neon shirt that I was wearing.
http://www.arbabha.com/Simple%20Mind...About%20Me.mp3 |
02-12-2004, 06:17 PM | #45 (permalink) |
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Location: Grants Pass OR
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my favorite source for 80s muci is this internet radio station www.club977.com I love 80s music, always have always will (I was a teenager in the 80s so i think that has somethin to do with it.)
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02-13-2004, 03:02 PM | #47 (permalink) | |
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I am stating it on a "then" point of view- not like I enjoy it now. Also on a general popularity view, as well. That song sold really well. |
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02-14-2004, 03:42 PM | #48 (permalink) | |
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Location: Orange County, California
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Wow, this song completely owns, I cant believe I forgot about it! Totally reminds me of the breakfast club. |
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02-14-2004, 07:19 PM | #49 (permalink) |
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Thanks cj2112 for the cool link. Bookmarked. They're actually playing the theme song to the "Neverending Story" now!
All great responses. I would like to add anything from the Police, Corey Hart (He was the 'I wear my sunglasses at night' guy), Til Tuesday- Voices Carry. Remember Samantha Fox?
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02-15-2004, 11:55 AM | #50 (permalink) | |
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Pardon my curmugeonry. It's just that Ice Ice Baby was the song that focussed attention on sampling for me (Grandmaster Flash slid completely under my radar for a long time.) and sampling is a pet peeve of mine. No one has yet been able to convince me that facility with a tape deck is a musical talent, so I give my props to the song sampled, not the sampler. And Under Pressure is a really, really good song. Nevertheless, you have one thing right, for people of a certain age, that song is freighted with positive association.
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02-18-2004, 12:56 AM | #52 (permalink) |
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A-Ha
Madness The Go- Gos Hall & Oats
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02-18-2004, 07:02 AM | #53 (permalink) |
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gotta go with any of the "hair band"---I really HATE that term many bands had members with hair over the years, but I digress-- especially Motley, Poison, Faster Pussycat, Tesla, Metallica...all ruled then and still do now!!
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02-18-2004, 02:20 PM | #54 (permalink) |
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My list of favorites would take several pages so I'll just jot down a few::
Bette Midler - The Rose B-52's - Rock Lobster Christopher Cross - Sailing Clash - Rock The Casbah Devo - Whip It Gary Numan - Cars Kool & The Gang - Celebration Queen - Another One Bites The Dust Steve Miller Band - Abracadabra The Motels - Only The Lonely other artists with several good songs were Journey, The Police, Phil Collins/Genesis, Eddie Money, Culture Club.. and on and on... I'm such a sucker for 80's music. I think it was one of the best era's of hit music that we ever knew and may ever know.
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02-18-2004, 02:35 PM | #55 (permalink) | |
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Great band! ( not to mention Tophat's favorite BOC)
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02-19-2004, 08:03 AM | #56 (permalink) |
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Location: Elysium
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Eric Clapton - Cocaine
Annie Lennox - Walking On Broken Glass Bananarama - I'm Your Venus Bangles - Walk like an egyptian David Bowie - China Girl David Bowie - Let's Dance Earth, Wind, and Fire - September Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams Extreme - More Than Words Pointer Sisters - I'm So Excited Wax - Building A Bridge To Your Heart Steve Miller Band - Abra abra cadabra Hewey Lewis and the News - Hip To Be Square Mike Oldfield - Five Miles Out Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al Peter Gabriel - Sledge Hammer and ANYTHING and EVERYTHING by Phil Collins
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02-19-2004, 01:17 PM | #58 (permalink) |
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well i just made a mixed genre mix cd from the 80's
Slayer - Raining Blood(Metal) X - Los Angeles(Punk) Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf(New Wave) Sexual Harrassment - I Need a Freak(Rap) Metallica - Battery (Metal) Journey - Open Arms(Cock Rock) Social Distortion - Moral Threat(Punk) The Cure - Letter Elise(New Wave) Morrisey - Thrashed(new Wave) Drama Rama - Anything Anything(New Wave)
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02-19-2004, 07:43 PM | #59 (permalink) |
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If I had to name just one 80s song that is my favorite, I'd have to go with the one that - 20 years after first hearing it - I still enjoy as if it's brand new.
Peter Shelley - Homosapien
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02-20-2004, 12:51 AM | #60 (permalink) |
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ALTERNATIVE 80'S
The Cure Depeche Mode The Smiths New Order Joy Division Bauhaus Pet Shop Boys Duran Duran Erasure Love and Rockets OMD(Orchestral Manuevers in the Dark) Social Distortion Oingo Boingo The Clash The Ramones REM Bad Religion Violent Femmes B-52's Siouxsie and the Banshees Billy Idol The Police The Go-Go's Dramarama The Cult Echo & the Bunnymen Tears For Fears Devo INXS Soft Cell Sparks Human League |
02-21-2004, 02:13 AM | #61 (permalink) |
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I absolutely love the eighties and it's almost all that I listen to. I especially love songs that were once famous but everyone has now forgotten. I guess it doesn't bode well that I remember all the "forgettable" songs but they're wonderful. I don't know why we keep forgetting them...
Here are a few (slightly) more famous ones...
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02-21-2004, 01:10 PM | #62 (permalink) |
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I was just watching "Gigantic" and I smacked my self in the forehead when I realized that They Might Be Giants began in the 80s. At the very least, their first two albums, perhaps the first three. Took my first acid trip to their first album (and was that every whack). Songs? Ana Ng, Lie Still Little Bottle, Don't Let's Start, Puppethead, She's An Angel, Youth Culture Killed my Dog....
F*ckit! There are maybe 3 bad songs (maybe as few as one) on their first three albums, all the rest are incredible.
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02-23-2004, 05:48 PM | #67 (permalink) | |
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What has seven arms and sucks? (Kidding! I actually enjoy Def Leppard)
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Take On Me ruled - especially the video. First time I'd ever seen rotoscoping in action. Quote:
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03-24-2004, 12:54 AM | #71 (permalink) | |
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mmmm, power ballads..."Love Bites" is one of my favorite songs ever.
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03-24-2004, 06:40 AM | #73 (permalink) |
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Favourite song is Ghost Town by the Specials.
Some other random 80's popstars that come to mind: Human League Herbie Hancock Lisa Lisa & Cult Jam Tom Browne Kurtis Blow Blondie ABC Aztec Camera Salt N Pepper The Primitives Cameo Earth, Wind & Fire The Beastie Boys Eric B & Rakim Haircut 100 The Pointer Sisters Eddy Grant Smoky Robinson The Police Heaven 17 The Pretenders |
04-08-2004, 02:58 AM | #77 (permalink) | |
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so many come to mind I wholeheartedly agree with this:
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- 'One Night in Bangkok' - Men at Work - Wham! (at least the one well known song). I saw the whole album on iTunes and had no desire to even go near the rest of it. - quite a few of the songs listed already - J. Geils Band: Centerfold
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04-08-2004, 07:29 PM | #78 (permalink) |
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Location: The Tip of the Boot
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Tears for Fears - The Working Hour
The Police - Every Little Thing She Does is Magic - Still my favorite song. Missing Persons - Spring Session M Depeche Mode - Black Celebration David Bowie - Let's Dance and - even though they don't really count as 80's - Sex Pistols - the Never Mind the Bollocks album.
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04-09-2004, 07:00 AM | #79 (permalink) |
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Wow, I'm coming late to this thread, but here's my list (I confess I stopped listening to pop music around '86 when I went into a serious classic rock phase)
Bands: The Police - Just about everything they did, but the "Zenyatta Mondatta" album was my favorite Thompson Twins - their first album was great Dire Straits - especially pre-"Brothers in Arms" Depeche Mode - everything Duran Duran - Their early days ("Rio" "Please Please Tell Me Now" etc), and their mid-80s days ("Reflex") Phil Collins - "No Jacket Required" and "Face Value" albums. (To a lesser extent, also "Hello, I Must Be Going"_ Genesis - the Phil Collins years, especially the "Invisible Touch" and "Genesis" albums Talking Heads - the "Stop Making Sense" album Tears for Fears - "Shout," Prince!!!! - the "Purple Rain" and "1999" albums Men At Work - the "Business as Usual" album The Clash Yaz - Upstairs at Eric's REM - everything they did in the 80s Def Leppard - the "Pyromania" and "Hysteria" albums Songs: Men Without Hats - Safety Dance, Pop Goes the World Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't it Be Good George Harrison - Got My Mind Set on You The Traveling Wilburys - Margarita Go-Gos - We Got the Beat Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round Dream Academy -Life in a Northern Town Fixx - One Thing Leads to Another Frankie Goes to Hollywood -Relax J Geils Band - Freeze Frame Kajagoogoo - Too Shy Til Tuesday - Voices Cary New Order - Bizarre Love Triangle Adam Ant - Goody Two Shoes Dexy's Midnight Runners - Come on Eileen Gary Neuman - Cars Howard Jones - Assault and Battery, No One Is to Blame, New Song Katrina and the Waves - Walking on Sunshine Lipps, INc - Funkytown Madness - Our House, One Step Beyond, House of Fun, Michael Caine, The SUn and the Rain Mr. Mister - Kyrie Soft Cell - Tainted Love Toto - Africa John Cougar - Jack and Diane .... this could just keep going and going..... and I keep thinking of new stuff to add Last edited by balderdash111; 04-09-2004 at 07:16 AM.. |
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