A tribute to good 80's music

[Procrustes Stretched]

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Yep, even as the troops and trollops rally, some things need repeating.

The sales, repetition and propagation of the garbage is what overwhelmed the good stuff, for the average, non-musical, indiscriminate, casual, top-40 listener in the 80s.

That equals, the masses.

Sucks for those years to be your formative ones...as if one could have been informed and formed during and by the 80s.

yep, three months later and what has mani built? yet another small pond.

kid: "Oh mommy, look at the big fish!"

Kid's mom: "That's no big fish dear. That's a Minnow. A Minnow is a small fish, especially one used as bait fish or for fishing bait. More specifically, it refers to small freshwater fish of the carp family. He only looks big because he's swimming around in a small puddle of piss."


carp: To find fault in a disagreeable way; complain fretfully.

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[boedicca]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yZUAK61hhJo]Echo & The Bunnymen[/ame]

 

[PixieStix]

Pat Benatar was so cool

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=drSCtseoNxQ"]YouTube - Pat Benatar - Invincible[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KJLsdbVllWU"]YouTube - Pat Benatar - Fire and Ice (Stereo)[/ame]

 

[PixieStix]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJ-bhM-xuec]YouTube - Tom Petty - 'Refugee'[/ame]

 

[boedicca]

Pat Benatar was so cool

Indeed!

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FsatlyzUeA]Best Shot[/ame]

 

[LuckyDan]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kW0MY_KhL7Q]YouTube - Billy Squier - Don't Say You Love Me[/ame]

 

[manu1959]

there was an english band called XTC....if you have never heard their album skylarking or english settlements you should.....

 

[LuckyDan]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqTuN-35580]YouTube - Guns N Roses Paradise City[/ame]

 

[Modbert]

"Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercial and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humour."

"In '87, Huey released this, Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself."

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB5YkmjalDg]YouTube - Huey Lewis & The News - Hip To Be Square[/ame]

 

[manifold]

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[LuckyDan]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQnZhNxrW20]YouTube - " Had A Dream " version longue, par Roger Hodgson, dans un clip vidéo.[/ame][ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4XwfXVUL7mg"][/ame]

 

[actsnoblemartin]

one of the best bands if not best artist of the 80's was....

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RQja4M3Y1sY&feature=related]YouTube - Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done To Deserve This? (2003...[/ame]

 

[LuckyDan]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BgmjLHy7gmQ]YouTube - Deep Purple - Bad Attitude[/ame]

 

[LuckyDan]

I remember liking this one on the radio in the car, but I didn't really know what he was singing about then. And I didn't have MTV.

I love the bass line, the squealing, squawking guitar, and the sound of Bowie's vocals, but I ain't down with the theme.

Still, this one is worthy of consideration for 80s tunes.


[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dSeoGs3DMOs&feature=related]YouTube - Tin Machine One Shot[/ame]

If I'd been have the producer, I would have ordered different lyrics.

 

[LuckyDan]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pu7Fg7ot18w]YouTube - David Bowie - This Is Not America[/ame]

 

[LuckyDan]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IWEfmCvu8R8]YouTube - B-52´s Roam[/ame]

 

[Toro]

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But there WAS a lot of bad music in the 80s. Too many synthesizers.

 

[SFC Ollie]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bmxyj6iInMc]YouTube - R.E.M. - It's The End Of The World As We Know It (And I...[/ame]

 

[LuckyDan]

Toro said, But there WAS a lot of bad music in the 80s. Too many synthesizers.

I like a lot of the music, what I can recall of it anyway. It's the crappy vids that go with the songs that I'm having trouble with.

 

[LuckyDan]

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sbwYVY3_d_0]YouTube - HEART - THERE'S THE GIRL (1987) RARE[/ame]