80's Music

ohnonot · 2015-12-11 19:00:36

Anaconda wrote:

Ok, sink your teeth into this one.

hmm, that reminded me of alex harvey's faith healer - which is not 80's - but we also used to dance to this version a lot:
Bollock Brothers - Faith Healer (the first 2min are really boring)
strangely, i can relate to all the comments, i think i even visited some of the discos/parties mentioned. it seems they were a german band...

honestly, alex harvey's version is better, but i started reminiscing those dark disco days again:

Sisters of Mercy - Marian (they named their drum computer dr avalanche)
Spacemen 3 - Revolution (the words are really silly, but believe me, very satisfying to hear it through large speaker and - dance - or rather, totally lose it)

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nereet · 2015-12-11 19:35:42

Tommy Tutone- 867-5309 / Jenny

nereet · 2015-12-11 20:03:28

Appetite for destruction Guns N´ Roses Full Album
My favourite rock band and I forgot them!

glittersloth · 2015-12-13 13:28:02

Ashamed that I somehow missed this thread till now.

Johannes Faber's Consortium - Bacchus

Head_on_a_Stick · 2015-12-13 14:15:36

Paul Simon - You Can Call Me Al

Fleetwood Mac - Big Love

(I prefer Peter Green [1] Fleetwood Mac, obviously, but that album was the soundtrack to some memorable summer holidays as a child)

[1] The Green God! \m/ \m/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Green_(musician)

nereet · 2015-12-13 21:34:50

Paradise
Paul Young - Love of the Common People
Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy

hhh · 2015-12-13 23:42:44

Oh man, that Paul Simon album was one of my least favorite albums by any artist ever when it came out and it's still right up there. Blech. Great post!

Speaking of which... Simon's temporary wife, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tDl3bdE3YQA

glittersloth · 2015-12-14 01:45:44

Withe regards to how my current tastes were shaped and developed, these are some of the more seminal 80s albums in my music collection. Admittedly, being born in 1980, I was much too young when they got released and only discovered them the following decade.

Monoton - Monotonprodukt 07 (1982)

Zazou/Bikaye/Cy1 - Noir et Blanc (1983)

Gareth Williams & Mary Currie - Flaming Tunes (1985)

Fingers Inc. - Another Side (1988)

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hhh · 2015-12-15 01:20:32

Split Enz - I Got You (1980)

Jon Astley - Jane's getting serious (1987)

Blue Oyster Cult - Burnin' for You (1981)

ohnonot · 2015-12-15 17:28:15

Blancmange - Don't tell me
Eurythmics - 1984: Doubleplusgood

pvsage · 2015-12-15 17:41:57

ohnonot wrote:

Eurythmics - 1984: Doubleplusgood

How did I miss this?? Newspeak is one of my favorite tropes!

hhh · 2015-12-16 03:53:45

Awful, Elton John "coming back" from an even worse 80's album...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K_QJRIJ … ai6sggMbRv

Tears for Fears third album, not nearly as good as their fourth...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=avaQs6dL-nQ

ohnonot · 2015-12-16 05:45:13

forgot to say:
glittersloth, nice music!
only the lost one (fingers) appalled me.

glittersloth · 2015-12-16 08:12:23

^ As corny as it sounds, with all the crap pitched vocal techno I heard in the early 90s, digging back to find that Fingers Inc album was a revelatory experience.

Pat Metheny - Are You Going With Me (from 1982's Offramp album)
Album released on ECM Records, one of my favourite labels of all time. If there's the perfect song to make out in a shrub somewhere at a music festival, it's this one, without question.

Allan Holdsworth - Metal Fatigue (1985ish)
Along with the Chick Corea Elecktric Band link below, this was probably one of my first exposures to the whole fusion thing, though I probably didn't realize it back then. Quite possibly my favourite guitarist of all time. I swear this geezer can crush whole cinderblocks with his left palm.

Marvin Gaye - In Our Lifetime (1981)
Most of my favourite Marvin Gaye albums were released in the 70s. This one, his last for Motown Records, is probably his best work from the 80's, imho. Youtube seems to have taken most of the related vids down, so a Discogs link is all I put up.

Erasure - Ship of Fools (from 1988's The Innocents)
Love em or hate em, you probably couldn't get through the 80s without having heard Erasure somewhere.

Chick Corea Elektric Band - Starlight (from 1987's Light Years)
Not an album I go back to all that much, but it was definitely significant in shaping my tastes. Also completely changed my opinion of Frank Gambale (this was before I discovered his work with Allan Holdsworth), whom I had just considered a fretboard wanking spandex-fetishist prior to this. Sorry Frank.

Edit:
I apologize if any of these have already been posted. I know hasselhoff (hhh) and I have similar likes, so the possiblity is definitely there. Speaking of the great H man, Knight Rider Theme Song.

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hhh · 2015-12-18 04:46:16

There is still so much to cover... The Cars, Dire Straits, INXS, Elvis Costello. The hair bands, we haven't touched Bon Jovi or anything yet. But, to me, nothing epitomizes the 80's more than this video...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifhcWeX … 62LpAe0R0U

ohnonot · 2015-12-18 05:29:50

there's always still so much to cover... esp. in pop music, any era.
for me, there's a distinct difference between the early (197x-) 80s and the late 80s (-199x).
like, e.g., Kraftwerk on one end and Sonic Youth on the other.
and then there's been those bands at home in the 80s, and imo will always be '80s bands', even if their career continued, like e.g. The Cure... (and also McGyver, although that's not music)...

(btw, why did you choose that particular grace jones video? live version from 2010? i was always fond of pull up to the bumper)

hhh · 2015-12-18 13:50:27

ohnonot wrote:

live version from 2010?

That is definitely not 2010 Grace in the video. It is, indeed, 1981 Grace...
https://www.google.com/search?q=grace+j … 80&bih=708

Depeche Mode - People are People (1984)
Over thirty years later it still sounds fresh. Look at them. They're children!

pvsage · 2015-12-18 14:30:28

"Shout" by Tears for Fears
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZEWwZNUafKo

Irulan · 2015-12-18 14:32:36

"Destination Unknown" - Missing Persons

pvsage · 2015-12-18 14:34:20

"Twilight Zone" by Golden Earring
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eP05iSzpz94

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