Even though I wasn't around in the '80s, I still love '80s music.
My personal favorite '80s songs are:
"Another One Bites the Dust" by Queen
"Too Shy" by Kajagoogoo
"Cars" by Gary Numan
"Sussudio" by Phil Collins
"Mr. Roboto" by Styx
"Rock me Amadeus" by Falco
"Crazy Little Thing Called Love" by Queen
"Abracadabra" by the Steve Miller Band
And there is more, but that's all I want to put there for now...
Your parents are my parents bro.
Though I was around in the 80's, I was too young to remember it.
My favorite 80's songs
Bust A Move by Young MC
Stop Draggin' My Heart Around by Stevie Nicks
Wanna be startin' something (I know... 1978... but the record came out in the 80's :p)
Sample:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pHCdS7O248g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg9aQvjMS60
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xg6iQxpdgLI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NrOemQaEJGU
Definitely ...
"Another One Bites The Dust" by Queen
"Private Eyes" by Hall & Oates
"Into The Groove" by Madonna
"Mr Roboto" by Styx
"Lawyers In Love" by Jackson Browne
"School's Out" By Alice Cooper
"Beat It" by Michael Jackson
"Take On Me" by A-ha
"I Wanna Dance With Somebody" by Whitney Houston
"Don't Stop Believin'" by Journey
"Modern Love" by David Bowie
"Dancing In The Dark" by Bruce Springsteen
"Time After Time" by Cyndi Lauper
"Don't Worry Be Happy" by Bobby McFarrin
"99 Red Balloons" by Nena
"Everybody Wants To Rule The World" by Tears For Fears
"Livin' On A Prayer" by Bon Jovi
Easily my favorite decade. When I was a young adult on the make of course. Fun songs.
Too many. But I find that I like the forgotten, lame ones the best. Do you remember those songs, never made to top of any list between these known hits? (I mean Queen? It's not what you call 80s only.)They are usually something between them melody wise, but it feels like they don't get completed, didn't have anything original? I don't even know their names or who peformed them. You can coincide them in big 80s list videos.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=AjPau5QYtYs
Quote from: drunkenshoe on September 28, 2019, 02:20:15 AM
Too many. But I find that I like the forgotten, lame ones the best. Do you remember those songs, never made to top of any list between these known hits? (I mean Queen? It's not what you call 80s only.)They are usually something between them melody wise, but it feels like they don't get completed, didn't have anything original? I don't even know their names or who peformed them. You can coincide them in big 80s list videos.
I remember by association ... by replaying the songs. Either I remember it or I don't. If I remember it after 30 years, it must have been good enough. Even silly songs like Don't Worry Be Happy.
"Sweet Child of Mine", Guns 'n Roses.
"Down Under'--Men At Work
Quote from: Baruch on September 28, 2019, 03:48:13 AM
I remember by association ... by replaying the songs. Either I remember it or I don't. If I remember it after 30 years, it must have been good enough. Even silly songs like Don't Worry Be Happy.
Lol, no, you wouldn't remember it until you hear it. And then again, they sound like they are done with what was left after the hit songs were cut out from certain shablons. They are like background sound of 80s zeitgeist.
Quote from: drunkenshoe on September 28, 2019, 12:15:38 PM
Lol, no, you wouldn't remember it until you hear it. And then again, they sound like they are done with what was left after the hit songs were cut out from certain shablons. They are like background sound of 80s zeitgeist.
Zeitgeist? In the Victorian period, you would have been stuck in a corset your whole life. Long Live The Queen! Contemporary culture has a way of demanding attention and participation. Elites at the Paris Opera are the same, just a higher class philistine.
Oh yeah, and here's another favorite '80s song of mine:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ur8ftRFb2Ac
I spent most of the Eighties listening to the Dead, but I occasionally turned the radio on (mainly to our college station (https://woo91.spaces.wooster.edu), which had a strong tendency towards New Wave and other weirdness), and occasionally I enjoyed what I heard. :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aLiT3wXko0
(the German version
is better than the English version, period)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mzvk0fWtCs0
(arguably the most unexpected hit of the decade... and the video was shot between (https://archive.org/details/gd87-05-09.sbd.cole.5059.sbeok.shnf) shows (https://archive.org/details/gd87-05-10.sbd.schneiderman.2256.sbeok.shnf) during a two-night run at Laguna Seca, wrapping up around 5am according to one attendee)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q84psZX6MbA
(I like the extended version better)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bA9FiL7mz_0
(because DEVO, dammit!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhjSzjoU7OQ
(because TMBG, dammit!)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZ3w3TIYo7I
(Brian Eno's true instrument is the studio)
I'm sure I'm forgetting some.
Quote from: twozerozeroonefive on September 27, 2019, 04:26:01 PM
Even though I wasn't around in the '80s...
Whippersnapper. XD
Regardless of what you thought about the song, it was an absolutely groundbreaking video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914
Quote from: trdsf on October 01, 2019, 01:25:44 AM
Regardless of what you thought about the song, it was an absolutely groundbreaking video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914
Wow! That brought back memories! I really like that song--and I remember seeing that video when MTV was worth watching.
The 80's had a lot of great music. This one was a hit when I was born at the end of 1989. Makes me miss the days when the music was about the melodies, and not just the lyrics (which mostly aren't even good).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qt2mbGP6vFI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSXKyHM133c
Quote from: trdsf on October 01, 2019, 01:25:44 AM
Regardless of what you thought about the song, it was an absolutely groundbreaking video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914
I've completely forgot about that. WOW.
One of my favorite 80'ies band
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L397TWLwrUU
I loved that song. And The Pain killer.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKibLPORq2s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRDgihVDEko
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjYaw0RAbvc
Quote from: Baruch on September 27, 2019, 05:35:03 PM
"School's Out" By Alice Cooper
That was 19
72...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCxgbOBVSfM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=etAIpkdhU9Q
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGr4NHj92rY
Close enough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v2AC41dglnM
If the 70's count then this thread needs more Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Eagles, Bad Company, John Lennon, Neil Young, Derek and the Dominos, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rolling Stones, Elton John, Aerosmith, Bob Marley,
Clash, Sex Pistols, Kinks, B-52's, Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd.
One of my favourite Beatles songs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wsRatIMUSu8
I loved this one very much when I was a litttle kid. LOL, and the rest...Beatles is the first music I've listened as a kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m8LbJfC0SYM
Quote from: PopeyesPappy on October 17, 2019, 01:01:07 PM
If the 70's count then this thread needs more Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Eagles, Bad Company, John Lennon, Neil Young, Derek and the Dominos, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rolling Stones, Elton John, Aerosmith, Bob Marley,
Clash, Sex Pistols, Kinks, B-52's, Black Sabbath and Pink Floyd.
Do you have a good pic from bad boy days? :P
OK, he just called from upstairs.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYYRH4apXDo
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YoDh_gHDvkk
The messages is only lightly hidden in that one.
Quote from: drunkenshoe on October 17, 2019, 01:12:18 PM
Do you have a good pic from bad boy days? :P
lol. Probably a couple. Long hair and all. I'd have to climb up in the attic and go though a big box of old photographs to find one to scan though, and that isn't happening any time soon.
My dad has pics from his rock band days, but they are all in neat suits with neat hair cuts. They all look the same. LOL I get that it was like that in those days, because they played for an audience and got paid in the end, but always looked weird to me. Playing rock and looking like that. Always seemed the costumes are the opposite of the spirit of the music. We used to call that 'when dad was beatles' as a little kid with my sis. Ahahah
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 17, 2019, 04:13:20 PM
The messages is only lightly hidden in that one.
I don't get the joke, what is hidden? I have always loved that song because it is so clear and direct.
Quote from: drunkenshoe on October 18, 2019, 05:44:06 AM
I don't get the joke, what is hidden? I have always loved that song because it is so clear and direct.
As it was explained to me: "Under pressure" meant that a guy was being hit on by another guy. For what it's worth.
Quote from: Gawdzilla Sama on October 18, 2019, 11:31:07 AM
As it was explained to me: "Under pressure" meant that a guy was being hit on by another guy. For what it's worth.
I doubt that. Lyrics are about people, daily life, life...
Quote from: drunkenshoe on October 18, 2019, 01:37:28 PM
I doubt that. Lyrics are about people, daily life, life...
Do feel free to doubt.
Quote from: PopeyesPappy on October 17, 2019, 05:41:25 PM
lol. Probably a couple. Long hair and all. I'd have to climb up in the attic and go though a big box of old photographs to find one to scan though, and that isn't happening any time soon.
Me, I was never a long haired rock and roll bad boy.
Long-haired
ad hoc jam band bassist? Mmmmmmaybe (http://xuth.net/pics/ovff2003/LRG_5228.JPG).
Quote from: trdsf on October 31, 2019, 02:48:39 AM
Me, I was never a long haired rock and roll bad boy.
Long-haired ad hoc jam band bassist? Mmmmmmaybe (http://xuth.net/pics/ovff2003/LRG_5228.JPG).
One of my great regrets in life is never learning to play a musical instrument. So much so that a few years ago I decided I was going to learn and bought a guitar. Shortly after that is when I figured out I was getting old and had a case of mild arthritis in my hands. :sad:
Quote from: PopeyesPappy on October 31, 2019, 07:08:28 AM
One of my great regrets in life is never learning to play a musical instrument. So much so that a few years ago I decided I was going to learn and bought a guitar. Shortly after that is when I figured out I was getting old and had a case of mild arthritis in my hands. :sad:
Take up the flute. Then you can "flaut" the law ;-)
I have three instruments I don't play. Hope to correct that soon. Psaltry, ukulele, recorder. Mostly I had a singing career in Church/Synagogue (Baratone). Had piano lessons in my childhood, so I can basically read music.
Quote from: PopeyesPappy on October 31, 2019, 07:08:28 AM
One of my great regrets in life is never learning to play a musical instrument. So much so that a few years ago I decided I was going to learn and bought a guitar. Shortly after that is when I figured out I was getting old and had a case of mild arthritis in my hands. :sad:
I still hope to learn another one. Preferably saxophone. I always wanted to play sax; unfortunately when the school system went around looking for children interested in music, their response to me was "The band has too many sax players already. You learn trumpet." Needless to say, I never did. I ended up teaching myself guitar, bass, piano, and theremin. I took organ lessons for a couple years, but my teacher had no use for anything written after about 1850, so jazz and rock keys were out of the question.