Ooohhhh just remembered:
Stand and Deliver - AATA
The Riddle - Nik Kershaw
Don't you want me - Human League (school disco fave!!)
Vienna - Ultravox
Town Called Malice - The Jam
A Good Heart, Golden Brown, Imagine, Bille Jean - come on people!!!! What's not to like?????
You got to fight - boum boum
For your right - Boum
To ppaaaaaaaarrrrrr-tttttttaaaaaay!!!
Love!!!
Quite right Rebecca. I'm from 19 years before you so my musical time would be from the mid-sixties to the end of the seventies and although I found much of the eighties music as commercialised garbage a lot of it was very good. Lots of good stuff from the likes of Phil Collins, Bowie & Jacko etc I liked Duran Duran, Madness & Culture Club and their album Colour By Numbers gets played very regularly on my record deck.
To slow things down how about Zoom - Fat Larry's band, Rock me tonight - Freddie Jackson and the last one a bit cheesy but a good 80s slow dance, Please don't go - Kc and the sunshine band. Just one more please! I love the Beastie Boys. Before slowing things down how about You gotta fight for your rights to party. Have a good time.
Ha-ha!! You sound just like my Dad!!! I was born in 1973 and I adored the 80s!!! I have very eclectic tastes (my Mum was a Mod and my Dad, a Hippy) and I married a Northern Soul/Punk lover - so you can imagine the musical genres that our parties span!! The 80s has its place in the world of music - don't be a hater John :) When you say 'I considered', you are talking past tense, so does that mean you have reviewed your ideas and realised that Wham, Duran and Culture Club can secretly be admired from afar???
Like like like!!!
you brought it to the point: that was the last tune of a dyeing recording industry.
but John, 2b honest, it was the recording industry that screwed it up, they just harvested what was great during the 60th, e.g. Eric Clapton was playing with John Mayal and there were thousands of highly talented musicans and huge potential, it just was the beginning of total commercialisation of music which came today with Apples Music adventure to higher level. The recording industry today goes into the space and sometimes their spaceships come back to reality with a hard landing.
Are you going to make it accessible? Somewhere, somehow, 4download? In my early professional work I did a lot of photos at concerts and with a press id it was actually great to visit most live concerts. I never liked recordings, "conserves"... Well time has changed, these days I prefer Mozart, Verdi and this sort of "ear-buddies"...
Parisenne Walkway , even Gary is torturing his guitar bit too strong and unusual strange way that it looks like he is trying to experiment, still its Montreux 2010, so some of his last big concerts. He died a few month later.
The Eagles-Hotel California (Live Melbourne 2005) , because to me it looks like their prediction has become reality when you see what NSA & GCHQ are doing to us. We seem to feel soooo well with our "Convenience food" a la Monsanto, with all our super-security-experts at air ports and far-sighted liars who constantly trying to sell something old for new that we evolve slowly into happy prisoners.
and finally, third, the 89 of this funny rock band from the Bavarian-Frankish Nuernberg, the scropions and their "wind of change". Its not really perfect like Mark Knopfler or "Wish you where here", but its for people (live concert in Rio 2007) I just think it should not be forgotten because exactly this almost unbelievable dream was exactly so beautifully destroyed by this shameless G7 traveling circus at their multi-hundert-million-Euro "farewell party for the old world Order" by this self-proclaimed do-gooders who suddenly discovered climate change as a problem for our furture and sending their troops to the borders of Russia.
Correction......it was 'Baybee, I'm your man.....(if you're gunna do it do it right, yer do t with me)'......
in the days before George Michael was out ......what a waste of all that teenage energy & desire....!
I considered the 80s a musical desert with rubbish being churned out for the masses but then i was in my late 30s
Oh, so many. As a teenager in the 80s I loved loads of songs.
The top three that remind me of the early 80s, played most often in discos and clubs would be:
Soft Cell -Tainted Love
Dexy's Midnight Runners- Come on Eileen
Wham - Wake me Up Before You Go-Go.
I could go on... ;)
Perfect by Fairground Attraction.
Blimey…this old chestnut ! Must be a slow news day !
Whoop! MSM - loved them!!!!
Kool and the gang .Celebration also Get Down on it
David Bowie . Let’s Dance
Hope you all have a great time shame I can’t be there
The most 'iconic' track of the '80s surely has to be "We Are The World" ? Written by Ritchie & Jacko with so many stars doing their bit for charity. Who could ever imagined the likes of the writers plus Dylan, Jarreau, Belafonte, Geldorf, Charles, Jennings, Lauper, The Boss, Houston, Smokey, Stevie, Simon, Warwick et al. all being present for one track ? Awesome and never to be repeated.
I started doing this ages ago, but then discovered Spotify Premium!
I have the same thing, kept it to three with great restraint but I have been digitising everything from pre-WW2 78s toward today slowly and recently started the 1980s stuff. The blasted tapes deteriorate with age, especially own compilations, even when reconfiguring them and I have had to do quite a lot of downloads to replace them.
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
Katrina and the waves - Walking on Sunshine
Pointer Sisters - I'm so excited
If you 're looking for songs, you could have a look at the play list on Google for 'Now that's what I call music 1 through to 12 or so.
Lots of memories and forgotten songs just came flooding back.
Oh and the Blues Brothers film was made in 1980 !! Then there was Van Halen Jump - Paul Hardcastle - Foreigner - The Cure oh I could go on and on.
What happened to all my mixed tapes?