Van Basten II Posted August 8, 2007 Report Share Posted August 8, 2007 That Mary Jane Girls tune IS wicked catchy...ya know I'm sure but Rick James I think produced (and I think wrote) that one, it has that classic 80's dance club "Rick James beat" going for sure... Yep, i think he did more than just produced it, the same way Be my baby belongs more to Spector that to the Ronnettes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(BB) Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 I graduated high school in 86' and bought a lot of music, I could limit to 3 favorites for a couple of types of music. Ska: The Selector - Too Much Pressure Bad Manners - Night Boat to Cairo English Beat - Ranking Full Stop Dance: New Order - True Faith Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2 Grandmaster Flash - White Lines Book of Love - Modigliani General: Elvis Costello - Almost Blue The Three O'Clock - Jet Fighter Young Fresh Fellows - YFF Theme (greatest band to come out of Seattle. F**k Nirvana) In retrospect - Joan Jett's I Love Rock and Roll kicks ass. I never would have admitted it at the time. Bands I did not mention: Kate Bush, Sade, Nick Lowe, Joe Jackson, Madness, Bodysnatchers, Bowie, B-52's, Laurie Anderson, Prefab Sprout, Per Ubu, Soul II Soul, Sonic Youth, B-52's, Devo, The Housemartins, Squezze, X, XTC, Talking Heads, Prince, Bronski Beat... Was that more than three? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnJ Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Three from the UK that spring to mind. Bryan Ferry - Slave To Love Style Council - My Ever Changing Moods Sade - Your Love Is King Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Magnificent Goldberg Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Gil Scott-Heron - B movie Public Enemy - Fight the power Etoile 2000 - Boubou n'gary MG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Neal Pomea Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Kim Carnes - Bette Davis Eyes Devo - Whip It Springsteen - I'm on Fire (jess being silly) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matthew Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go - Wham! Chalkhills and Children -- XTC White Lines (Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel I love 80s music. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
catesta Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 heh heh I was mainly a metal/hard rock fan in the 80s but there was some pop music I was digging as well. Three I remember really liking and have fond memories associated with... Chaka Khan - I Feel For You Kids in America - Kim Wilde Something About You - Level 42 In retrospect I find myself enjoying the pop and new wave stuff of the 80s more today than I did at the time. Way back I would have never been caught dead listening to groups like Split Enz and ABC. It's great to have satellite radio and be reminded of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewHill Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 (edited) Fight for Your Right to Party-Beastie Boys She Drives Me Crazy-FYC Message in a Bottle-The Police Edit: She Drive Me Crazy came out in 1990, so replace it with Stand-REM Edited August 9, 2007 by Holy Ghost Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Off the top of my head: "I Will Follow" - U2 "Driver 8" - R.E.M. "Runner" - Manfred Mann's Earth Band but I suspect I should really have something by Big Country on that list, just can't decide which one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noj Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Fat Larry's Band - Act Like You Know They lifted that whole bass line from The Whatnauts "Help Is On The Way." White Lines (Don't Do It) - Grandmaster Flash & Melle Mel The original bass line for this one is Liquid Liquid "Cavern." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
B. Clugston Posted August 9, 2007 Report Share Posted August 9, 2007 Not my favourite decade. "This Corrosion" by The Sisters of Mercy, or maybe "Dominion/Mother Russia." "Siege of Power" by Napalm Death "Comp. 105 A" by Anthony Braxton Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sundog Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 I'm pretty sure these were all hits...Rock The Casbah (The Clash)Cars (Gary Numan)Overkill (Men At Work)Cult Of Personality (Living Colour) Sorry- Had to go with four. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewHill Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 I'm pretty sure these were all hits... [*]Rock The Casbah (The Clash) [*]Cars (Gary Numan) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 "This Corrosion" by The Sisters of Mercy, or maybe "Dominion/Mother Russia." Somebody's on the right track... Maybe add "Death Valley '69" by SY and we're more than "halfway to a threeway." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clifford_thornton Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 I'm too lazy to look up when "Disorder" by Joy Division was recorded, but that's another one I've always enjoyed. You know, I work in the art library at UT, and some of my coworkers - students - were born in the late 1980s. Not their fault, but some of them totally get wrapped up in nostalgia for something they never experienced. "I love the 80s!!!!" is kinda hard to do when you didn't live through it. Hell, I lived through all of it then, as a kid, and didn't give much of a shit about any of it. I was too busy with budding peach fuzz and playing in the woods by the time Bush Sr. was elected. It's like me being "nostalgic" for early Aerosmith or, better yet, punk, which would've "broke" when I was barely walking... Rant over. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalo Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Three that come to mind: George Clinton: "Atomic Dog" Marvin Gaye: "Sexual Healing" Kid Creole and the Coconuts: "Underachiever" And how about: They Might Be Giants: "Don't Let's Start" Marshall Crenshaw: "You're My Favorite Waste of Time" Aztec Camera: "Oblivious" And three more: Chic: "Rebels Are We" Warren Zevon: "Let Nothing Come Between Us" XTC: "No Language in Our Lungs" Last three (for now): Talking Heads: "This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)" Grandmaster Flash: "The Message" Prince: "Starfish and Coffee" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kalo Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 OK, not all of the above were actually 'popular" in the most obvious sense (though some were, to varying degrees, and all of them aimed to be). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest donald petersen Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 peech boys-don't make me wait madonna-like a prayer soundgarden-hands all over or maybe iron maiden-rhyme of the ancient mariner right now at least.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest donald petersen Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 well no i guess...jeez... ednah holt-serious, sirius space party bad brains-with the quickness madonna-like a prayer g_d it is difficult. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Niko Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 and how about: Aztec Camera: "Oblivious" i like it a lot, nice video, too Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
felser Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 Not my favourite decade. "This Corrosion" by The Sisters of Mercy, or maybe "Dominion/Mother Russia." "Siege of Power" by Napalm Death "Comp. 105 A" by Anthony Braxton Don't remember the Braxton being in heavy rotation on MTV. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Noj Posted August 10, 2007 Report Share Posted August 10, 2007 You don't, felser? C'mon, Braxton wore this crazy little hat: ...and a radiation suit and he was whipping the clothes off this lil' vixen. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BruceH Posted August 11, 2007 Report Share Posted August 11, 2007 Three that come to mind: George Clinton: "Atomic Dog" Marvin Gaye: "Sexual Healing" Kid Creole and the Coconuts: "Underachiever" And how about: They Might Be Giants: "Don't Let's Start" Marshall Crenshaw: "You're My Favorite Waste of Time" Aztec Camera: "Oblivious" And three more: Chic: "Rebels Are We" Warren Zevon: "Let Nothing Come Between Us" XTC: "No Language in Our Lungs" Last three (for now): Talking Heads: "This Must Be The Place (Naive Melody)" Grandmaster Flash: "The Message" Prince: "Starfish and Coffee" Nice list, Kalo! For some reason, "No Language in Our Lungs" now makes me think of gym class... I would add "When You Were Mine," from the Prince album Dirty Mind. I believe that came out in 1980. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AndrewHill Posted August 11, 2007 Report Share Posted August 11, 2007 Aw man, I was just talking to my wife about this and she came up with another good one that I overlooked: The Metro-Berlin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GA Russell Posted August 13, 2007 Report Share Posted August 13, 2007 Donald Fagen - The New Frontier Joe Jackson - Stepping Out Michael Franks - Your Secret's Safe With Me In 1983 or '84 MTV often showed a video by a proto-neo-swing band called Roman Holliday. It spurred me to buy the album Cooking on the Roof. The album was great, but I don't remember which track was the one shown on MTV. Speaking of the 80s, remember I'm on a Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo? Two weeks ago their singer Stan Ridgeway was in town performing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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