Pure 80's....totally!

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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited March 2006
    Hall and Oates............H20 from 1982 and moreso Big Bam Boom from 1984 are some of the best recorded LPs I have from the '80s
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited March 2006
    Common George, there wasn't alot of time for Metal from the '80s when we were still trying to figure out what all of Zappa's stuff meant from the decade earlier.:D
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited March 2006
    If you were listening to the words you were missing all the magic in the music.

    By 1976 it was clear that Frank was going to cater to a special audience from that point on (Titties and Beer) in order to earn enough cash to pay guys like the London Symphony to play the REAL stuff. I have nothing of his after 1975 or 76 except for the big orchestral works. But I found it mandatory to have every note of music he wrote up till 1975 or 76. Hot Rats, Waka Jawaka, and The Grand Wazoo being the high points from 65-75.
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  • jcaut
    jcaut Posts: 1,849
    edited March 2006
    Digging through some LP's to see if I might have that Bruce Hornsby we were talking about-- I didn't -- but,....I happened upon a few other "gems". Oh, there's more, but I figured this variety should open me up to a little ridicule here.

    If Hooters can wipe out the birds, I might be able to eradicate the cockroaches.

    Jason
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited March 2006
    George Grand wrote:
    If you were listening to the words you were missing all the magic in the music.

    My '80s seemed to be me catchin' up on all that I missed in the '70s.;)
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  • Dennis Gardner
    Dennis Gardner Posts: 4,861
    edited March 2006
    That aha "take on me" video was a classic.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited March 2006
    Also an awesome recording job on that song Take On Me. I actually like it. Which reminds me of the other 80's song I like "Turning Japanese".
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited March 2006
    but,....I happened upon a few other "gems".
    Are We Not Men? We Are Devo! (actually from the 70s)
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  • jcaut
    jcaut Posts: 1,849
    edited March 2006
    New Traditionalists was actually about '81 wasn't it? Through Being Cool, Beautiful World, etc..

    Beautiful World was a cool song at the skating rink....I'm going to hook the TT up and play this.

    I think this is the "limited edition tour release", too, BTW.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited March 2006
    jcaut wrote:
    New Traditionalists was actually about '81 wasn't it? Through Being Cool, Beautiful World, etc..
    Yes.

    I was referring to their first album which was released in 1978...

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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited March 2006
    I can't believe no one mentioned Rick Springfield :mad: :D

    I love 80s music simply because I grew up listening to that stuff....Journey, Cyndi Lauper, Tears For Fears, Duran Duran, Sade, Van Halen, Hall & Oates, etc.... Heck, I even like "Mickey".
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  • TroyD
    TroyD Posts: 13,083
    edited March 2006
    Man, what about Sheena Easton? Her music sucked but she was oh so hot.

    BDT
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited March 2006
    George Grand wrote:
    Also an awesome recording job on that song Take On Me. I actually like it. Which reminds me of the other 80's song I like "Turning Japanese".


    ok suckers. get this.. I actually saw A-Ha in concerts back in like 1985 or 86. :eek: OMG. that's been 20 yrs!!!
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited March 2006
    how about Huey Lewis and the News,
    John Cougar Mellencamp
    Haircut 100
    Eurythmics
    Thomas Dolby
    Adam Ant
    The Fixx
    Timbuk3
    Kajagoogoo ??
    The Art of Noise
    The Psychedelic Furs
    Yello
    til Tuesday/Aimee Mann
    Howard Jones
    Tears for Fears
    Level 42
    ABC
    Animotion
    Men Without Hats
    Erasure
    Pseudo Echo
    Wang Chung
    Soft Cell
    Naked Eyes
    Berlin
    Thompson Twins
    Gary Numan
    Romeo Void


    that's all i can think of right now.. now my head hurts.. oweee!
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited March 2006
    How about Wham! and George Michael?

    Big Country
    Spandau Ballet - need to do reunion
    Simple Minds - still alive and kicking
    Human League
    Beastie Boys
    Whitesnake - still around
    Culture Club - Boy George's drug charge dropped
    REO Speedwagon
    Laura Branigan - RIP
    Janet Jackson
    Tina Turner
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited March 2006
    I grew up in the 80's, loved most all the music. I've got Journey filling the air space in my office right now.


    Some of my fav bands...

    Duran Duran
    Bon Jovi
    Human League
    A-ha
    Berlin
    The Physc Furs
    Oingo Boingo
    REO
    The Smiths
    The Cars
    ...and that's just a start. Ask me to name 10 bands from the 90's, I couldn't.

    Animotion, this band played my grad night at Disneyland in 1985.
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited March 2006
    Danger Boy and Danny's lists:

    Huey Lewis and the News
    John Cougar Mellencamp
    Haircut 100
    Eurythmics
    Thomas Dolby
    Adam Ant
    The Fixx
    Timbuk3
    Kajagoogoo
    The Art of Noise
    The Psychedelic Furs
    Yello
    til Tuesday/Aimee Mann
    Howard Jones
    Tears for Fears
    Level 42
    ABC
    Animotion
    Men Without Hats
    Erasure
    Pseudo Echo
    Wang Chung
    Soft Cell
    Naked Eyes
    Berlin
    Thompson Twins
    Gary Numan
    Romeo Void
    Wham! and George Michael
    Big Country
    Spandau Ballet
    Simple Minds
    Human League
    Beastie Boys
    Whitesnake
    Culture Club
    REO Speedwagon
    Laura Branigan
    Janet Jackson
    Tina Turner

    I may not be a "normal" rock music fan but I have been buying music for over 35 years. I still buy music from new recording artists and try to stay current on stuff, so I think I know quite a bit about music. (I sometimes even amaze my kids that are 18 and 21 how much I know about "their" music). Of the list above I recognize most of the artists, but there are 7 (out of 41) I've never heard of. I only own a CD/LP from 4 of them. Maybe they just aren't groups I liked. :confused:
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited March 2006
    Since based on my prior post it appeared that I knew of very little music of the 80s, I started thinking about just how much music from the 80's I actually owned. So I did a quick check and the following is a list of artist that I own albums of music that was recorded in the 80s:

    .38 Special
    Abba
    AC/DC
    Bryan Adams
    Alan Parsons Project
    Pat Benatar
    George Benson
    David Bowie
    Jacksone Browne
    Jimmy Buffett
    Kate Bush
    Kim Carnes
    The Cars
    Eric Clapton
    Phil Collins
    Crosby , Stills, and Nash
    David Crosby
    Def Leppard
    Dire Straits
    Duran Duran
    Dan Fogelberg
    Glenn Frey
    Peter Gabriel
    Marvin Gaye
    Genesis
    J. Geils Band
    Daryl Hall & John Oates
    Heart
    Don Henley
    The Hooters
    Bruce Hornsby
    Billy Idol
    Billy Joel
    Elton John
    Howard Jones
    Fleetwood Mac
    Huey Lewis & the News
    Randy Meisner
    John (Cougar) Mellencamp
    Men at Work
    Steve Miller
    Pink Floyd
    Police
    Queen
    Bonnie Raitt
    REO Speedwagon
    Linda Ronstadt
    Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band
    Patty Smyth/Scandal
    Rick Springfield
    Sting
    Talk Talk
    Joe Walsh
    The Traveling Wilburys
    Toto
    U2
    Van Halen
    Stevie Ray Vaughan
    John Waite
    Steve Winwood
    Yes
    Neil Young
    Warren Zevon

    There may be more.

    Maybe "The 80s" wasn't such a music wasteland after all.
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  • Danny Tse
    Danny Tse Posts: 5,206
    edited March 2006
    Many of the listed artists are still around.

    Toto just released a new studio album last month. And even Phil Collins is not out-of-the-question for a Genesis reunion.
    Ron-P wrote:
    Animotion, this band played my grad night at Disneyland in 1985.

    Was that version of the band w/ Cynthia Rhodes (aka Mrs. Richard Marx)?
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,520
    edited March 2006
    I don't know, that was too many years ago.
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  • *Seby*-Polk-
    *Seby*-Polk- Posts: 375
    edited March 2006
    My 80's list .... ( I like various types of music)

    * BON JOVI
    * MOTLEY CRUE
    * SKID ROW
    * POISON
    * DEF LEPPARD
    * AEROSMITH
    * GUNS N' ROSES
    * AIR SUPPLY
    * BRYAN ADAMS
    * A-HA
    * MODERN TALKING
    * PET SHOP BOYS
    * DIRE STRAITS
    * EUROPE
    * ALICE COOPER
    * OZZY
    * MR. BIG
    * STEVE VAI
    * WHITESNAKE


    Enjoy THAT music ;):D
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited March 2006
    I hate to tell you this Shack, but the majority of those singers started in the late 60's & the 70's and are still doing quite well today!

    That simply tells you that real musical talent can & has gone on for decades!
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited March 2006
    Cathy - I know that and have many of the albums they recorded prior to the 80s and subsequent to the 80s. It is simply a list of stuff I have that was actually recorded and/or released in the 80s. It is more than I would have thought. One of the things that struck me was that few of the artists on my list actually STARTED recording in the 80s.
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited March 2006
    Yup!!! That's the truth!:D
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited March 2006
    The Pretenders
    Quarterflash
    Talking Heads
    Missing Persons
    Roxy Music (disbanded 1983)
    New Order
    Bronski Beat
    Modern English
    A Flock of Seagulls (how can we forget that hair?)
    Split Enz
    OMD
    ELO
    The Go Go's
    Squeeze
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  • Early B.
    Early B. Posts: 7,900
    edited March 2006
    shack wrote:
    One of the things that struck me was that few of the artists on my list actually STARTED recording in the 80s.

    Interesting observation. Prince is a mega 80's superstar that comes to mind. Never really liked his music, but he was extremely talented and inventive.

    MJ would probably like another shot at the 80's, 'cuz the 21st century hasn't been very kind to him.
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  • jcaut
    jcaut Posts: 1,849
    edited March 2006
    A lot of those listed- like them or not - did some fairly innovative stuff, IMO. Just looking at those db listed above:

    Pretenders, Talking Heads, Split Enz (Crowded House..I like the Finn bros.) ELO, Squeeze.. All pretty talented as musicians and songwriters, IMO.

    However, all of those were 70's acts that continued to produce hits into the '80's (some changing their styles accordingly).

    I'm a closet ELO fan, too. I enjoy all their stuff, from the early Beatlesques, transition-from-the Move stuff, through the '80's electronica.

    Prince was responsible for Sheena Easton's transition from hotness to just nasty.
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  • cfrizz
    cfrizz Posts: 13,415
    edited March 2006
    ELO is great. I just downloaded their song Fire On High. It starts out wierd & ends up real cool! I like thier mix of classical/rock sound.
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited March 2006
    Early B. wrote:
    Interesting observation. Prince is a mega 80's superstar that comes to mind. Never really liked his music, but he was extremely talented and inventive.

    Alot of his stuff has grown on me. I'm going to give "Purple Rain" on DVD a whirl sometime soon. Movie did quite well actually. Very solid song!

    I remember reading somewhere that he wrote and recorded his portion of the score to "Batman" (Tim Burton) in a few weeks. Please correct me if i'm wrong.
    No excuses!
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  • seo
    seo Posts: 305
    edited March 2006
    Bands from the 80's that I still like:

    REM
    The Replacements
    Husker Du/ Bob Mould
    B-52's
    Smiths
    The Cure
    U2
    Violent Femmes
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