I can't, but I can remember most of the words to "Love Shack" and "Rock Lobster." 
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Favorite music from the 80's?
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YmirGF
Bodhisattva in Recovery
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Two Bookends here first (I'm not sure if they are still married. Anyone know?)
Waterfront - Simple Minds (This live clip is wonderful and captures Chrissy Hind's hubbies band beautifully.
My City was Gone - The Pretenders (I think I've always loved the Pretenders, lol)
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Touched by the hand of God - New Order
Since you're gone - The Cars
Turn me loose - Loverboy (a great Vancouver band!)
Jukebox Hero - Foreigner
Two Bookends here first (I'm not sure if they are still married. Anyone know?)
Waterfront - Simple Minds (This live clip is wonderful and captures Chrissy Hind's hubbies band beautifully.
My City was Gone - The Pretenders (I think I've always loved the Pretenders, lol)
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Touched by the hand of God - New Order
Since you're gone - The Cars
Turn me loose - Loverboy (a great Vancouver band!)
Jukebox Hero - Foreigner
Wandered Off
Sporadic Driveby Member
1981: My Life in the Bush of Ghosts - Brian Eno & David Byrne. Sampling before the digital sampler was invented. Lots of "found" sounds, including an exorcism. Absolute jewel, despite being little known.
1981: Discipline - King Crimson. Probably my favorite KC album, though it hurts to choose.
1982: Security - Peter Gabriel. Influenced music more than many realize.
1982: Big Science - Laurie Anderson. Wonderfully quirky.
1985: Hounds of Love - Kate Bush. Theatrical, evocative. Makes a school kid fall in love.
1981: Discipline - King Crimson. Probably my favorite KC album, though it hurts to choose.
1982: Security - Peter Gabriel. Influenced music more than many realize.
1982: Big Science - Laurie Anderson. Wonderfully quirky.
1985: Hounds of Love - Kate Bush. Theatrical, evocative. Makes a school kid fall in love.
Buttercup
Veteran Member
YmirGF said:
An excellent list, my friend. I've seen The Pretenders live twice (once not that long ago actually) and they put on a very lively performance. Chrissy still has it going on! Blue Monday by New Order is an amazing tune all these years later and I love Orgy's cover of it. Usually cover tunes are less than refreshing. A great list. If I was stranded on an island with my love, these albumns of 80's tunes would do that decade proud and I would feel satisfied.
sojourner
Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
Problem was, not only were they bad -- they were snotty. We opened for Kansas later that year. We hung out backstage with them, and they were very cool and friendly. Their keyboard guy even came out on stage and jammed with us during sound check.
It's sad, really, when superstars like that go down the tubes and just don't know when to hang it up.
My wife and I saw a TV program last year -- kind of one of those "where are they now?" things. They had the old 80's performers on. You should see the guy from Flock of Seagulls! (And the front man for Loverboy ['nother brain fart] is also fat and disheveled.)
It's sad, really, when superstars like that go down the tubes and just don't know when to hang it up.
My wife and I saw a TV program last year -- kind of one of those "where are they now?" things. They had the old 80's performers on. You should see the guy from Flock of Seagulls! (And the front man for Loverboy ['nother brain fart] is also fat and disheveled.)
sojourner
Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
I didn't really like the hair bands -- I was more into the techno. The trouble all started with Devo and the B-52's in the late '70's, and my introduction to Synergy. I had always like the synth sound (bands like Styx turned me on), so the 80's techno stuff was like a feast to a starving man to me. I loved stuff like the Thompson Twins, Tears for Fears (I got to meet one of them about ten years ago -- he was then with a band called "Mayfair" that played in my town.), Howard Jones, Men Without Hats, etc.
dawny0826
Mother Heathen
sojourner said:
I loved Styx, actually.
That song "Too much time on my hands". I still remember that video.
I'm NOW really into the 80s technical/industrial sound.
I couldn't stand Depeche Mode for example, in the 80s...but they've been a staple in my CD player for years.
sojourner
Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
Styx was (is) one of my favorites. Loved "Too Much Time on My Hands" -- but that whole album was good -- "Paradise Theatre." My band used to play "Suite Madame Blue" -- the bikers loved it!
Did you ever hear the Pet Shop Boys' version of "You Were Always On My Mind?" Great cover!
Did you ever hear the Pet Shop Boys' version of "You Were Always On My Mind?" Great cover!
sojourner
Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
YmirGF said:
I love that album!!! I have that one (my favorite cut is "Murder on 10th Ave.), and the second (what was the second one called? It had a version of "Goin' Home" from Dvorak's New World Symphony on it...) Cords, Games, Audion, and Metroplitan Suite. A friend of mine also has "The Jupiter Menace." Ya just can't find that stuff any more! (Not so far off-topic -- Cords, Games, Audion and Metro. Ste. were all from the 80's...)
Never really got into Tomita. I sort of liked Vangelis, but I liked that other guy better (the one who did the soundtrack to "Cat People") He's very well known -- I think his name starts with an "M"...I'll think of it at 3:00 a.m.
sojourner
Annoyingly Progressive Since 2006
YmirGF said:
SEQUENCER! That was it! Thinking back, you're right! Games and Cords were '79, weren't they! God, it's been too long! Unfortunately, I don't have any of them on anything but vinyl. I've never been able to find any of them on CD.
Do you maybe know of a source I don't know about? I'd love to have his stuff on CD!
