Any Oldie 80's Music Fans Left here in the Lounge?

[KoKo]

I don't come here often...but I'm longing for 80's Music....

What's the Best of the 80's.

Don't trash me..but Culture Club and Annnie Lennox, and Elton John plus
"The Boss" and so many others made this the best decade for me...but I know there are Beatles Era and Oldies of the 50's/Early 60's who might disagree with me on this.

Still...What's the best of the 80's and I'm going with POP 80's....because I wasn't into the other stuff..so for this post I'm sticking with Pop...if there's any one here who liked it...and I know we are few...:eyes:

[Crazy Guggenheim]

1. YOU BET!!

The Fixx.
New Order.

[LSdemocrat]

2. My favorites from the 1980's: Madonna, Hall & Oates, Duran Duran

amongst others.

[Groggy]

3. I liked Simple Minds

and Tears for Fears. Both lead singers were hot.

[KoKo]

9. Yeah..."Tears for Fears"...they were good with many songs...........

[salin]

10. Also referenced Tears for Fears

:D

[Floogeldy]

4. You should download my old band's EP

It's free! Recorded in 1984.



1. video games

2. don't call me

3. hold out

4. she won't dance

5. dangerous life

6. i wanna be like you

Available on SoulSeek (www.slsknet.org), username Floogeldy.

College pop dance new wave pogo bubble gum rock!

[Crazy Guggenheim]

5. Do it! It's cool!

[Floogeldy]

19. Thanks Buddy

:)

[lildreamer316]

6. Are you kidding?

hubby and I are always trying to one-up each other with the obscure pop 80s trivia.

Nik Kershaw--Wouldn't it be good
Paul Carrack--Don't Shed a Tear
Johnny Hates Jazz--Shatterd Dreams

Paul Wolf--Lights Out

I'll have to go open my 80s folder on the desktop for more. We especially like the cheesy movie music.

[salin]

7. Song from the Big Chair,

(Tears for Fears)
Shout
Everybody Wants to Rule the World
- and other guilty pleasures; the latter song includes the line I always refer to when asked "what is your favorite line from a song"... and the line is... 'welcome to your life... there's no turning back...' :D

Also of note - anything Talking Heads or Peter Gabrielle.

And who, who listened to anything alternative, can forget Squeeze.

[KoKo]

11. I loved them...then they disappeared....n/t

[salin]

12. tons of cool Elvis Costello and some clever Joe Jackson

Joe Jackon's Big World (I don't think is yet available on CD) is a kick of an album.

XTC had a rather short, but interesting run in the late eighties.

Love and Rockets was pretty cool.

And how can we talk about 80s music without referencing the impact REM had upon sheperding in a new era of progressive music (that gave way to grunge, imo)

[Pale Blue Dot]

8. Don't Dream It's Over

My avatar is my girlfriend wearing a Crowded House shirt. The 80's station is one of my XM radio presets. I was once, in a Lounge persona a long, long time ago, the 80's Music Trivia God.

Believe!

[WCGreen]

38. Dupe of Earllll

[In_The_Wind]

54. Darlin' of Earl

As I walk through this world
Nothing can stop the Duke of Earl

[WCGreen]

39. We saw Crowded House With Los Lobos

In a small hall....

Bought a Teeshirt that said...

My Possessions are cause me suspicion but there's no proof.....

[driver8]

46. OMG -- two of my favorite bands!! Together!! Small Hall!! T-Shirt!

Wow...that is a show I would have liked to have seen.

[WCGreen]

49. It was great...

I stil have the TShirt around someplace...

It was suppose to be Bruce Hornsby and Crowded House...

Someone in Crowded HOuse was delays for visa reasons, so they added them to the Los Lobos Concert...

[Giant Robot]

13. Pet Shop Boys

There. I said it. Don't judge me man!

[Texasgal]

14. The art of noise...

Bahaus... black flag... new order...netzer ebb... the alarm... Beastie boys...etc...

[stanwyck]

15. My twins were born in the '80's

and spent their early years listening to Blondie, 10,000 Maniacs, and Talking Heads..plus many of the others named.
Guess that explains some of their current behavior.

[KoKo]

16. ooooh....Kook Kids? or Disappointment?

:shrug:

[stanwyck]

27. Just a crazy blend

of 80's self-indulgence and giddy high spirits. My son is a Marine -- one of those liberal Marines who voted for Kerry -- with two tours in Iraq. His joining the Marines shocked everyone. He's back in the states for a while. We'll have him here for Christmas. And my daughter is a 100-lb. firebrand of liberal causes. She graduated from college this year and is now out saving the world. With quite a bit of heavy partying on the side.
Must have been the music I soaked them in during their formative years.

[Arugula Latte]

17. When in Rome -- The Promise

"I'm sorry but I'm just thinking up the right words to say ..."

I liked REM, The Pretenders, so many more.

Check out this site: http://www.80smusiclyrics.com/song.shtml

[KoKo]

18. When the "Fundies" took hold ...Culture Club's "Church of Poisoned Mind"

became my favorite to hit when I really needed to understand what music was about under Thatcher and Reagan.

[KitchenWitch]

20. I loved Depeche Mode

The Cure
The Human League
The Eurhythmics
Billy Idol

And many others!

[Dangerously Amused]

21. Excuse me very much!

But you better be talking about 1880s music there if you're going to be calling 'em "oldies," ya whippersnapper!













:)

[vajraroshana]

22. Eurythmics, Tears for Fears

If you weren't limiting it to POP 80's, there'd be a much longer list, but I can't think of anymore "pop".

[KoKo]

23. And Annie Lennox has gone on and lasted with great new updates

of her oldies and much new stuff.

I loved all the 80's Pop Music...but then it wasn't Pop...it's only now.

I wasn't so much into the alternative stuff, though. What was being done mainstream was good enough for me. :shrug:

[vajraroshana]

24. I love Annie Lennox

I even love her soundtrack on that version of the "1984" movie that apparently nobody saw.

She's great. There's lots of "solo" (D. Stewart usually plays too) stuff that's she's done that is just wonderful.

[NMMNG]

25. Go ahead, stab me in the heart by calling my 80's music "oldies"

You make me feel so old. :cry:

[LSK]

26. OMD - If you leave

Featured in Pretty in Pink.

[RockaFowler]

29. They opened for Power Station

I saw them in 1985 when I was in love with John Taylor. I loved Power Station with Robert Palmer, but Michael DesBarres was the lead singer when they toured. That was the first concert I ever went to and still to this day was one of my favorites.


No-one mentioned Hall and Oates. They were the 80's in my opinion

[tjdee]

28. Tears for Fears- "Shout" is one of the greatest songs of all times!

How could people talk about the eighties without TFF.

Nuts.

[ThatsMyBarack]

30. You bet I am!

I have too many favorites to list! :yourock:

[datasuspect]

31. thanks a lot pal!

80s music is "oldies" now???!?!?!?

now i feel old.

[djeseru]

32. Once upon a time, I was a Duranie.

And I still have my hugh vinyl collection and a record player...

I'm still listening to David Sylvian these days as well!

[Call Me Wesley]

33. German New Wave!

Like:

- Ideal.
- Spliff.
- DAF.

Others:
- Frankie goes to Hollywood. (I just loaded 'The Power Of Love' to my player).
- Kim Wilde (flame me!)

[Sanity Claws]

34. Blondie

I liked the ones everyone else listed but somehow you overlooked Blondie. I thought they were great.

[u4ic]

35. Oh! Me, me, me!!

:bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

Eurythmics, TFF, Pet Shop Boys, INXS, Howard Jones, Chalk Circle, The Parachute Club...and all those one hit wonders...

Come on Eileen! ;)

[seemunkee]

36. Holy Crap, when did the 80s become oldies?

Oh well, Frankie said relax it's no big deal.

MINOR THREAT
Gang of 4
X
Devo
Ian Dury
The Feelies
The Cure
Siouxsie And The Banshees
Pretenders
Sonic Youth
Joy Division

[Left Is Write]

40. Since the 80s were twenty years ago.

:D

Hey, if 50s music was considered "oldies" in the 70s (and it was), it's following the same pattern.

[Broken_Hero]

37. if you are talking retro 80s....

than the best song, ever that I like is Take on Me, by A-ha. But as far as bands go, Whitelion, Whitesnake, Journey, Chicago...to name a few, plus my band metallica is an 80s band, but not retro, and Slayer also, is in that mix, with AC/DC....

[Blue_Tires]

41. i'm off to play vice city

and hear that great soundtrack once again

[pintobean]

42. Try this

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00005V6N8/104-7648645-2773552?v=glance&s=music&vi=samples#disc_3

[ScreamingMeemie]

43. Wham!, Simple Minds, OMD, Aha....I loved them all.

My daughter's a big 80's fan so now we share the love. :hi:

[CatholicEdHead]

44. GnR, Poison, Scorpions, Slaughter, Warrent, Motly Crue, Megadeth, Metallic

are some of the favorites in my CD collection

[hfojvt]

48. I wondered if the OP considered that to be "pop"

or if that is some of the "other stuff". I still think of the M & M's (Megadeth & Metallica) as 90s groups. They were at least late 1980s, they were not played on the Minneapolis metal stations I listened to in college (class of 1985). There is would be more in the order of Def Leppard, Black Sabbath, Supertramp, Asia, Rainbow, and Van Halen.

[kick-ass-bob]

55. Megadeth and Metallica - 90's???? NO. WAY.

They were both in their prime in the 80's. Any 90's stuff they put out was subpar.

[benny05]

45. Blondie is not totally 80's to me

Heart of Glass came out before the 80's, I think

But among them:

Duran Duran
Tears for Fears
Men at Work
Tommy Tutone (Jenny, 867-5309)
Wall of Voodo (I'm Just a Mexican Radio)
Billy Idol
The Fixx (especially "One thing leads to another")

[AntiCoup2K4]

47. Van Halen

Their first two albums came out in the 70's, but they had 4 more in the first half of the 80's.

Not a POP band, but "Jump" was certainly a POP song.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

50. I love 80s music

Some of my favorites in pop include
"I was only 19" by Redgum (Redgum was an Australian band that existed in the 1980s and "I was only 19" is a very haunting and sad song depicting the experiences of an Australian soldier in Vietnam)
http://sniff.numachi.com/~rickheit/dtrad/pages/tiLTGREEN.html
"Hungry Eyes"
"Always Something There To Remind Me" by Naked Eyes
"Hungry Like The Wolf" by Duran Duran
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler (sp)
"I Just Called To Say I Love You" by Stevie Wonder
"Under Pressure" Queen
"Thriller", "Billie Jean" and "Beat It" by Michael Jackson
"Africa" by Toto
"Eternal Flame" by the Bangles
"Time of my Life" from Dirting Dancing
"She's Like The Wind" by Patrick Swayze (from Dirty Dancing)
And those are just the ones I can remember

[Coventina]

51. I can't believe I didn't see the B-52's on this thread!

Are they considered 70s music since their first album was released in the 70s?

[momophile]

52. dance w/ your hands above your head!

I'll never forget going dancing at my first gay club, and I'm not even gay!

Depeche Mode
New Order
Erasure
The Cure
Yaz
Berlin
Bronski Beat
Soft Cell
Pet Shop Boys
Communards

[jus_the_facts]

53. If this link will work..here's some 'Til Tuesday videos I stumbled upon...

....Voices Carry and Looking Over My Shoulder and a couple more...I enjoyed 'em a lot! :hi:

http://mp.aol.com/video.index.adp?pls=music.archive.5659.Video.sort&start=3&startid=1369524&referer=http%3A//music.aol.com/archive/main/iframe%3Fbase_url%3Dhttp%3A//music.aol.com/archive/main.adp%26browser_client%3Dundefined%26category%3Dvideo%26icid%3Dvideos%3Aarcvid%26ck%3D1133364528302&mode=1

[redqueen]

56. Oh yes...

SO much good stuff mentioned in this thread... I'll just add a couple of my favorites that I didn't see:

Paul Young - Every Time You Go Away
Ian Dury And The Blockheads - Hit Me With Your Rythym Stick
Madness - One Step Beyond
Devo
...

(I'm sure someone else said Devo, I must've missed it.)

[Hugin]

57. *gasp*

You... you... said "Oldie" and "80's" in the same headline!

:cry:

[Arugula Latte]

58. Hey, "90s" music will be oldies in about ten minutes.

"80s" will be about as modern as Gregorian chants to these kids these days with their crazy droopy pants and all that technology. :cry:

[asthmaticeog]

61. Actually ten years, but who's counting?

;)

[Crazy Guggenheim]

59. Enjoy the Silence.

Words like violence
Break the silence
Come crashing in
Into my little world
Painful to me
Pierce right through me
Can’t you understand
Oh my little girl

All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm

Vows are spoken
To be broken
Feelings are intense
Words are trivial
Pleasures remain
So does the pain
Words are meaningless
And forgettable

All I ever wanted
All I ever needed
Is here in my arms
Words are very unnecessary
They can only do harm

[dannofoot]

60. Haysi Fantayzee!

"Battle Hymns for Children Singing"

Then again, it may have just been Kate Garner's outfits that I found so appealing....