80's Music

[gdgrlgnbd]

OK, guys ad gals I am new to this, so don't hate me if my thread sucks. lol

But with soooo many great bands and music of the 80's. I was wondering who was your favorite and which song did you like?

I will help out a bit. There were Big Hair bands ie. Poison, Twisted Sister (We're Not Gonna Take It). There was light rock: Eagles (Hotel California great song) John Cougar, Billy Joel.
New Wave: Adam Ant, Billy Idol (White Wedding)
Rock: AC/DC (Shook Me All Night Long), Pat Benetar
R&B/Rap: Kool and the Gang, KC and the Sunshine Band (That's the Way, Uh Huh, I Like It) S.O.S Band, Sugar Hill Gand (White Lines), Beastie Boys, they are still a fav of mine.

There you go. Have fun.

[gdgrlgnbd]

I guess this thread sucks........:( No worries I will try again

[Postman]

Jelly Roll - Blue Murder

[Barkiss]

Def Leopard, Styx, Genesis, Police, Motley Crew

[gdgrlgnbd]

Thank you guys, I feel better now:sng

[Postman]

My pleasure babe.
I will forever live in the 80's. Well atleast in my mind.
Thank you guys, I feel better now:sng

[trucker200719]

journey, billy squire, van halen, kiss. asia

[Checkmate]

The cure- Fascination street

[Tiglet]

There are sooo many, great thread.

1. Love Is A Battlefield - Pat Benatar

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9J9rTZJBmw

We are young, heartache to heartache we stand
No promises, no demands
Love is a battlefield
We are strong, no one can tell us were wrong
Searchin our hearts for so long, both of us knowing
Love is a battlefield

Youre beggin me to go, youre makin me stay
Why do you hurt me so bad?
It would help me to know
Do I stand in your way, or am I the best thing youve had?
Believe me, believe me, I cant tell you why
But Im trapped by your love, and Im chained to your side

We are young, heartache to heartache we stand
No promises, no demands
Love is a battlefield

We are strong, no one can tell us were wrong
Searchin our hearts for so long, both of us knowing
Love is a battlefield

Were losing control
Will you turn me away or touch me deep inside?
And before this gets old, will it still feel the same?
Theres no way this will die
But if we get much closer, I could lose control
And if your heart surrenders, youll need me to hold

We are young, heartache to heartache we stand
No promises, no demands
Love is a battlefield

We are strong, no one can tell us were wrong
Searchin our hearts for so long, both of us knowing
Love is a battlefield

We are young, heartache to heartache we stand
No promises, no demands
Love is a battlefield

We are strong, no one can tell us were wrong
Searchin our hearts for so long, both of us knowing
Love is a battlefield

[Tiglet]

Friends of mine band used to play this even better, IMHO

2. Sultans of Swing - Dire Straits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LB3b1W6rEDw

You get a shiver in the dark
Its been raining in the park but meantime
South of the river you stop and you hold everything
A band is blowing dixie double four time
You feel all right when you hear that music ring

You step inside but you dont see too many faces
Coming in out of the rain to hear the jazz go down
Too much competition too many other places
But not too many horns can make that sound
Way on downsouth way on downsouth london town

You check out guitar george he knows all the chords
Mind hes strictly rhythm he doesnt want to make it cry or sing
And an old guitar is all he can afford
When he gets up under the lights to play his thing

And harry doesnt mind if he doesnt make the scene
Hes got a daytime job hes doing alright
He can play honky tonk just like anything
Saving it up for friday night
With the sultans with the sultans of swing

And a crowd of young boys theyre fooling around in the corner
Drunk and dressed in their best brown baggies and their platform soles
They dont give a damn about any trumpet playing band
It aint what they call rock and roll
And the sultans played creole

And then the man he steps right up to the microphone
And says at last just as the time bell rings
thank you goodnight now its time to go home
And he makes it fast with one more thing
we are the sultans of swing

[Torin]

Prince!!! :)

[sweet]

Most of the music I like is from the 80's.
Here's a short list...
*Bon Jovi
*Aerosmith (Well, they came out before the 80's but they were still popular then)
*Billy Idol
*The Escape Club
*Motley Crue
*Prince
*Pat Benatar
*Lita Ford
*The Bangles
*Cheap Trick
*Cinderella
*Tesla
*Skid Row
*Madonna
*Van Halen
*The Police
*U2
*Billy Joel
So many more...

[Fargo...really]

My favorite was (and is) The Replacements.

They provided the primary soundtrack for the entire 80's for me (Which probably makes sense, as they also were Minnesota kids my age, going through the same things at the same time that I was).

From the angry, adolescent punk songs like "F@#k School" and "Tommy Gets His Tonsils Out" of the early 80's, the confused teen songs like "Sixteen Blue" and "Androgynous", the college-aged disillusioned songs "Bastards of Young" and "Here Comes Another Regular", to the real-world experiences described in "Sadly Beautiful" and "Darlin' One" at the close of the 80's.

Although the Replacements broke up in 1989, their lead singer Paul Westerberg has seemingly continued to write and sing about "grown-up" (?) Fargo's life, experiences, hopes and dreams in the 90's and 00's.

[MrHyde]

Prince!!! :)

He was still Prince back then right....and I'm so with you on this one...he was da bomb!

[gdgrlgnbd]

He was still Prince back then right....and I'm so with you on this one...he was da bomb!


Yes, Prince is and will always be one of the greats.

[cicero]

Ozzy, Motley Crue, Billy Idol, The Cure, Flock of Seagulls, Slayer, Iron Maiden and the list goes on. :sc

[MrHyde]

New Edition

[ausangel]

Bon Jovi - everysong (still love them)
for us Aussies: AC/DC

[vixsin]

Joan Jett and the Blackhearts

[UltimateNaneki]

Well I liked Air Supply and still do.

[Postman]

Oh my god I love em all.
I would have lived in the 80's forever if I could have.
Still do once a month when me and the boy's still get togeather.

[jmsmith12345]

Depeche Mode was my favorite 80s band. It is still the loudest concert I have ever seen, and I have a special place for the girl I met at that show.

[scoobertina]

I love everything about the 80's.....

Cindy Lauper
Madonna
Bon Jovi
Culture Club... hehehe
lol... Prince of course.. Plus he is from MN.. gotta have my MN men...
Dep Leopard
ohhhhh the list goes on.. anything you could dance too... cuz in the 80's that is all I wanted to do...

[sloss]

Soooooooooo many good bands from the eighties, even some good Aussie bands 2, sure youve heard some of them!!

Too many to list!!!!!:sng

[likesbuttons]

ok, just found this thread....and i think it rocks! i'm still stuck in 80's music land myself. there is a radio station here that is mostly 80' stuff and i always tune in there....first. i was into the big hair bands ....still have some albums in a box with tons of that stuff...

[sassynsweet]

i loved the 80's! more alternative i guess.. cure, depeche mode, b52's, duran duran, erasure, loved it all!!

[MyFavMistake^f]

Van Halen!

[catmom]

The Police, R.E.M....

[Constance-41]

Van Halen!

I loved that group. I went to one of their concerts and it was great.

[sandycrotch]

80's Geez, did any truly great bands actually originate in the 80's?
Let's see.... Van Halen kind of ruled the 80's although actually a 70's band, they were to the 80's what Elvis was to the 50's, The Beatles were to the 60's and Led Zeppelin was to the 70's, and what Milli Vanilli was to the 90's. OK that last part was a joke. Most of the bands that ruled the 80's were actually rooted in the 70's, any of the good ones anyway.

[NotTooGirly]

for us Aussies: AC/DC

Not just for Aussies...every good memory at a school dance I owe to an AC/DC song (usually "Shook Me All Night Long" or "Back in Black")

Anyone who's spent 15 minutes in the chatroom when I'm there knows of my abiding fondness for 80s music. ;) Like, totally awesome thread, gdgrl, y'know? Omigod!!! :lmao

[deceptively_shy_m]

The Sisters of Mercy.

PROPER Gothic Rock, none of this eyeliner-ridden whining emo-crap.

We serve a man in the dry season,
A lighthouse keeper in the desert sun.
Dreamers of secrets and white treason,
We dream of rain and the history of the gun.

There's a lighthouse in the middle of Prussia,
A White House in Red Square.
And we're living in films for the sake of Russia,
A kino-runner for the DDR.

And the fifty-two daughters of the Revolution
turn the gold to chrome.
Gift.
Nothing to lose.
Stuck inside of Memphis where the mobile homes sing:

Mother Russia!
Mother Russia!
Mother Russia
rain down, down
down!



And the Devil in a black dress watches over.
My guardian angel walks away.
Live is short and love is always over in the morning.
Black wind come, carry me far away...

[Dragon_lady]

Depeche Mode (most of them, from People are People to Master and servants and Route 66... well, i could list them all i think)
U2 (First album was awesom up to Joshua Tree mostly)
Michael Jackson yeah yeah, but i truly loved Thriller
Air Supply (not sure if they are an 80's band, but they were big in the 80's here, especially when you had to cry a good cry)
Bon Jovi (They still rock!!!)

That's all i can think of now, but i pretty much love all that music.

[MarriedQt]

Ac/DC
Warrant- Uncle Tom's Cabin (although I think this song is 1990)
Poison
Cheap Trick

[SkillfulMeans]

I love 80’s punk and Hardcore like Bad Brains , Dead Kennedy’s etcetera and some of the New Wave stuff like the Smiths , New Order and The Cure.. I was a huge Elvis Costello fan too.. Also dig The Specials and Two Tone Ska ..

[Soffie]

The 80's were the best! So much good music-How about the Commodores, Huey Lewis, Bon Jovi (of course) and...OMG there are so many I can't remember them all!

[bluegrass_74]

favorite song "twilight Zone" by golden earring

[SkillfulMeans]

And who could forget the psychedelic punk genius of the one and only Butthole Surfers … ?...

[evolve]

Hmmm, so many....let me try to make a list.

Eurythmics
The Police
Lionel Richie
Soft Cell - "Tainted Love"
AC/DC
Pat Benatar
Michael Jackson
Janet Jackson
a-ha - "Take On Me"
Madonna
Cyndi Lauper
Whitney Houston
Daryl Hall & John Oates
Bon Jovi
Def Leppard
George Michael (had his poster on my wall)
INXS
New Edition (another poster)

#1 80's musician - Prince

[msupsu]

If I listed my favorite 80s tunes, I would post until late October. :)

Just a few thoughts----Genesis, ZZ Top, The Moody Blues, The Police, Missing Persons, Duran Duran, Pat Benatar.....and that scratches the surface!

[celtichazel]

depeche mode , psuedo echo and psychedelic furs

[No Wife Tonight]

Duran Duran .... The Reflex flex flex flex

[sloss]

I still luv DUran Duran.......soooooooo many good bands...

THE EIGHTIES ROCK!!!!!!! whooooo hoooooo

[SkillfulMeans]

I’m going to confess to having attended three Grateful Dead shows in the 80’s…

[msupsu]

Video Killed The Radio Star, you know....:)

[Hellbilly]

Oh yeah... the 80’s…

The first band I really went nuts over was Twisted Sister. I bought Stay Hungry the summer when I was 12 and kept it hidden under my bed cause that stuff was devil music.

I think I wore that tape out by the time school started. By that time Iron Maiden had become the new greatest band ever.

In junior high, Motley Crue was mandatory--everybody loved that band. Ratt, Poison and Bon Jovi were also really popular. I tried really hard to like Van Halen since they, along w/ the Grateful Dead, were cool bands that cool people listened to.



But I’m not cool. I never could get into either one of 'em.

My freshman year in highschool, I went through several favorite bands: Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Metallaca, Jethro Tull, Guns N’ Roses, Dokken (anyone remember them?). Ozzy and Motorhead all briefly held the title of BEST BAND EVER. Then that summer I found the Ramones 1st album in a Wal-Mart bargain bin, bought it because the cover looked cool, and had a musical religious experience. I totally got into the punk rock thing.

For the rest of the 80’s the bands I was into were: the Ramones, Black Flag, Social Distortion, the Replacements, the Circle Jerks, Operation Ivy, the Misfits…and a lot of others. It’s pretty much the same stuff I listen to now, along with some of the newer punk bands.

One thing I’ve noticed is that as I get older, it gets harder and harder to find new bands that don’t suck.

[stellabelle]

Ahhh, the 80's...high school days, keg parties at the blinking light...we were a strange bunch and listened more to older stuff...60's and 70's, but for us, they were our 80's bands...The Doors, Santana, Yes....throw in several concerts to see Journey, the Police, Genesis...they were my 80's bands.

[jjjwoody]

The Pogues, Men At Work, The Police, Billy Joel (before he blew up)

[SkillfulMeans]

The Talking Heads ..

[john30]

pretty much anything in the 80's is awesome

[gdgrlgnbd]

here are some of mine
B52's
The Romantics
REM
The Clash
The Cure
Billy Idol
Depeche Mode
John Cougar
Talking Heads
The Fixx
Rick James
Beastie Boys
and I can go on and on
anyone remember hands across America
We Are The World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmxT21uFRwM

[Big O]

I wasn't too crazy with the way Rock was going back and by chance I found a radio station that was playing alternitive music.
THe Cure, Clash, Call, The Smiths, Depeche Mode, the list goes on and on. In fact Sirius has a channel dedicated to it called First Wave. Channel 22. I still listen to it. Great stuff!

[Big O]

here are some of mine
B52's
The Romantics
REM
The Clash
The Cure
Billy Idol
Depeche Mode
John Cougar
Talking Heads
The Fixx
Rick James
Beastie Boys
and I can go on and on
anyone remember hands across America
We Are The World
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WmxT21uFRwM

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you have great tasate!!

[SkillfulMeans]

Oh yeah... the 80’s…

The first band I really went nuts over was Twisted Sister. I bought Stay Hungry the summer when I was 12 and kept it hidden under my bed cause that stuff was devil music.

I think I wore that tape out by the time school started. By that time Iron Maiden had become the new greatest band ever.

In junior high, Motley Crue was mandatory--everybody loved that band. Ratt, Poison and Bon Jovi were also really popular. I tried really hard to like Van Halen since they, along w/ the Grateful Dead, were cool bands that cool people listened to.



But I’m not cool. I never could get into either one of 'em.

My freshman year in highschool, I went through several favorite bands: Led Zeppelin, AC/DC, Metallaca, Jethro Tull, Guns N’ Roses, Dokken (anyone remember them?). Ozzy and Motorhead all briefly held the title of BEST BAND EVER. Then that summer I found the Ramones 1st album in a Wal-Mart bargain bin, bought it because the cover looked cool, and had a musical religious experience. I totally got into the punk rock thing.

For the rest of the 80’s the bands I was into were: the Ramones, Black Flag, Social Distortion, the Replacements, the Circle Jerks, Operation Ivy, the Misfits…and a lot of others. It’s pretty much the same stuff I listen to now, along with some of the newer punk bands.

One thing I’ve noticed is that as I get older, it gets harder and harder to find new bands that don’t suck.
And I thought I was the only old punk on M&F ..I agree these new so called punk bands suck..

[mer]

oh oh i have a good one!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CgfSzuFD8rw

[SkillfulMeans]

I also love that 80’s Two Tone Ska ..something perhaps the U.K. Birds will find note worthy .. Any U.K. Ska lovin’ Birds on M&F please give me a shout.

[Will81NJ]

I'll start with the Metal category. In future posts I'll expand into other categories.

Iron Maiden
Judas Priest
Queensryche
Black Sabbath
Ozzy
Dio
Metallica
Megadeth
Mercyful fate
King Diamond

Let it be noted that I got into most of these bands in the 90s as when the 80s closed, I was 8.

[vicarious]

Nice metal bands, Will.

My favorite 80's band/album is: Jane's Addiction "Nothing's Shocking"

[kay1965]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HpuLnMUpMdU

Billy Joel - It's Still Rock And Roll To Me

[kay1965]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxNOCl7S7lU



You May Be Right, Billy Joel

I Love this song .

[kay1965]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9Jr38j9sTk


All Night Long, Joe Walsh

[kay1965]

Stand By Me, Mickey Gilley

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcMAMCTR74k