80's stuff

hotwheelman
hotwheelman Posts: 1,300
edited February 2003 in Music & Movies
Anyone like music along the lines of say new order, depeche mode,pet shop boys or any other 80's music of this kind?
"Its worked so far but we're not out yet."
"Hey big man let me hold a dollar"
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  • phuz
    phuz Posts: 2,372
    edited January 2003
    Hell yeah. I still listen to depeche mode, the cure, front 242, ministry, and tons of other 80's stuff. The synth revolution lives on.
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  • RuSsMaN
    RuSsMaN Posts: 17,987
    edited January 2003
    Yes yes and yes.
    Check your lips at the door woman. Shake your hips like battleships. Yeah, all the white girls trip when I sing at Sunday service.
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  • ntculenuff
    ntculenuff Posts: 1,146
    edited January 2003
    count me in i will still break out the hair band butt rock every once in a while
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  • polkatese
    polkatese Posts: 6,767
    edited January 2003
    of course, the duran duran and frankie goes...
    I am sorry, I have no opinion on the matter. I am sure you do. So, don't mind me, I just want to talk audio and pie.
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  • George Grand
    George Grand Posts: 12,258
    edited January 2003
    Only thing from the 80's that caught my ear was Los Lobos. Other than that, I'm still HAPPILY mired in the distant past.

    George Grand (of the Jersey Grand's)
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  • nellis8166
    nellis8166 Posts: 292
    edited January 2003
    Huge Depeche Mode fan, wrote a thread about this, but have you checked out the Live in Paris DVD. Excellent Stuff!

    Regards,
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  • avelanchefan
    avelanchefan Posts: 2,401
    edited January 2003
    Love Depeche Mode too.

    Also have to break out some Ratt every now and then too. One of my favorite 80's hair bands. (Dokken is the other one)

    Anyone know that guitarist Robin Crosby of Ratt died over the summer from a long battle with AIDS? I just heard this last week.
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  • Strong Bad
    Strong Bad Posts: 4,278
    edited January 2003
    Can't forget Def Leppard. Of course Pyromania and Hysteria are the big albums from them, but I really like their first one, "High N Dry."

    The Big Hair Bands were so much fun! Poison, Motley Crue, Warrant, etc...

    John
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  • scottvamp
    scottvamp Posts: 3,277
    edited January 2003
    Huge 80's fan. Just my Cure and DM collection comes to about 20 cd's alone. I grew up on 80's pop.
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  • phuz
    phuz Posts: 2,372
    edited January 2003
    Dah hemmmhmmm hmmmhmmmm hmmmmmm

    ROCK THA CASBAH
    ROCK THA CASBAH
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  • phuz
    phuz Posts: 2,372
    edited January 2003
    Hey now he said "Of this kind" he didn't say "of that 80's hairband buttrock type" heheheh

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  • scottvamp
    scottvamp Posts: 3,277
    edited January 2003
    WOW nice speakers phuz - ever though of getting a "bigger" tv.
    That sucker is TINY. "It looks like'a little baby." Fat **** Voice. LOL
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  • phuz
    phuz Posts: 2,372
    edited January 2003
    Yeah yeah yeah. Can you tell what my main priority is? Audio! The TV can wait. It's not like I have an 18x20 room or anything. I sit like 5 or 6 feet away from that sucker. It's plenty big, for now....
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  • scottvamp
    scottvamp Posts: 3,277
    edited January 2003
    Ya know the cheapest way to get a bigger TV............

















    MOVE CLOSER TO THE SCREEN!!!!!!!!!
    Try it out for the super bowl:D
    As for me it will be about 6 friends and the 8 footer:eek:
    LOL
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  • gidrah
    gidrah Posts: 3,049
    edited January 2003
    Oh yeah!
    Make it Funky! :)
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  • hotwheelman
    hotwheelman Posts: 1,300
    edited January 2003
    Originally posted by nellis8166
    Huge Depeche Mode fan, wrote a thread about this, but have you checked out the Live in Paris DVD. Excellent Stuff!

    Regards,
    Nat

    Nat, I have not seen that one so I will be looking for one to purchase, gotta have my d.m.:D I have been pulling out alot of my 80's music that I have on album and 12" remix to listen to for the first time again. It's been quite a few years since I listened to any of it, I think I am going to start collecting again. I bought the latest from new order and was'nt all that impressed with it, anybody else have that one with an opinion on it?

    Cheers,
    MIke
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    "Hey big man let me hold a dollar"
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  • Tour2ma
    Tour2ma Posts: 10,177
    edited January 2003
    80's are alive, if a tad under-represented in the on-going RnR Reminiscing threads.
    All decades are welcome...
    More later,
    Tour...
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  • Ron-P
    Ron-P Posts: 8,519
    edited January 2003
    Grew up on the 80's. Oingo Boingo, Depeche Mode, Heart, Bon Jovi, A-ha, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Duran Duran...man all great stuff, 'bout all I still listen to today.


    Peace Out~:D
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  • hotwheelman
    hotwheelman Posts: 1,300
    edited January 2003
    Originally posted by Ron-P
    Grew up on the 80's. Oingo Boingo, Depeche Mode, Heart, Bon Jovi, A-ha, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Duran Duran...man all great stuff, 'bout all I still listen to today.


    Peace Out~:D

    Same goes for here as well, maybe it's just me..........but I feel like the artists today are just lacking something. 80's music just has more in it and put into it than todays standard, or so it seems.
    "Its worked so far but we're not out yet."
    "Hey big man let me hold a dollar"
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  • woodyjacobs
    woodyjacobs Posts: 706
    edited January 2003
    Oh yeah, I still listen to this stuff too. New Order, The Smiths, The Cure, The Police, 80's (but not 90's) REM and U2 (what happened to them when 1990 rolled around...sheesh), The The, Joy Division, Siouxsie and the Banshees. The list goes on and on.
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  • Systems
    Systems Posts: 14,873
    edited January 2003
    Ecstasy is after my time, but I must admit I enjoyed a DVD I saw this weekend, "24 Hour Party People". It's about the Manchester scene, the Hacienda, Factory Records, Joy Division, Happy Mondays, New Order, the beginning of the rave scene. Told in a mock-documentary style, it has lots of British wit & the usual rock 'n roll insanity. The worst thing about it is, oddly enuff, the sound. I wound up going to 2-ch to get a little more punch from the music. I never listened to the Factory Records bands that are featured, but that didn't matter, because the film itself was so enjoyable. Several of the people in the film are apparently well-known in England, but I don't think there's anyone who's well-known over here.
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  • burdette
    burdette Posts: 1,194
    edited January 2003
    I've been reading articles lately on CD sales, artists, etc. The opinion guy at FoxNews seems to buy into the myth that downloading MP3s is what has gutted record sales, yet at the same time he condemns the music industry repeatedly for failing to find and properly market REAL artists, and instead is giving the public all this superficial ****.. teenie boppers with no real roots in or passion for music.. i.e. Britney Spears not knowing who Yoko Ono was, and Ashanti pronouncing (at the Grammies, no less) David Bowie as "BOWie".. as in rhymes with cow.

    I think Sound&Vision got it right.. yes, the music industry is giving us ****.... OK sometimes to listen to on the radio or even download an MP3, but not anything that you just HAVE to go out and buy... but more than that, DVD sales are what have sunk CD sales. I know we used to buy maybe 8-10 CDs a year.. until we got a DVD player a year ago.. we bought something like 50 DVDs last year, and maybe 2 CDs.

    As for 80s music.. I essentially grew up in the 80s.. high school and college. We still listen to older Billy Joel, Def Leppard, The Police, old Prince (when he still had a name), Benatar...
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited January 2003
    best 80's song.

    I Ran

    A Flock of Seagulls :p
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  • schumach
    schumach Posts: 199
    edited January 2003
    70's music is still the best:
    Eagles
    ZZ Top
    Clapton
    Foreigner
    Van Halen (Later stuff is not as good)
    Elton John
    David Bowie
    and the list goes on.

    The 80's only had on great song, as stated above and I cannot stand that song. The 70's on the other hand have too many to mention. One of the top song's would be Hotel California (1976).
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited January 2003
    schumach,
    70's is indeed good music.. it wasn't fun like 80s synth pop hair bands thou... 70's music stands on it's own as one of the best decades in music history. but then again... the same could be said for the 60's. Each decade certainly has it's own place in history.

    I like music from all decades... but 80's music is just fun, non serious, pure pop. Not to be taken seriously. that's what makes the 80's such a fun time.

    Schumach, I'd also add Peter Frampton, Heart, Yes, and Fleetwood Mac, Supertramp, to the list of greats from the 70's.
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  • schumach
    schumach Posts: 199
    edited January 2003
    I remember the 80's being pop music with different color hair on the punk rockers.

    I would agree that the list of 70's music goes on and the fact that every decade has made its mark.

    The music today, if you can call it music, has got to go.
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  • danger boy
    danger boy Posts: 15,722
    edited January 2003
    hotwheelman,

    I don't have much to offer that hasn't already been mentioned. But for the record.. I really like DM, New Order, Erasure, The Smiths, early U2, The Fixx, Naked Eyes, Thompson Twins, The Cure, Berlin, Pet Shop Boys, of course who could forget Soft Cell (Tainted Love).
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  • hotwheelman
    hotwheelman Posts: 1,300
    edited January 2003
    Ah yes, soft cell. I have got a kick ars promo only remix of that one.
    "Its worked so far but we're not out yet."
    "Hey big man let me hold a dollar"
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  • brettw22
    brettw22 Posts: 7,624
    edited January 2003
    I want to get a DVD concert of Erasure.

    It's kind of funny to watch some of the DVD music concerts or videos of the 80's era. True I could virtually sing along with a LOT of different groups and their songs, it's kinda weird/comical to put a face to that and in concert. Video concerts today are a norm, but when it's a group/band that's been around for 15+ years, there's a nostalgic feeling that you can't always get from the bands that put EVERYTHING they do on disk.

    I have a Pet Shop Boys concert that's fun to put in every once in a while. Just bizarre to see them still going.........
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  • hotwheelman
    hotwheelman Posts: 1,300
    edited February 2003
    Finally found a copy of new orders substance 1987 for cheap at a local used music store. I have been after this set for years, don't know why I put if off this long, guess I didn't want to pay the price for a double disc set. I used to visit a friend of mine at daytona beach and use his set for music to cruise the beach scene.:D
    "Its worked so far but we're not out yet."
    "Hey big man let me hold a dollar"
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