80's Music

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  • Libby81
    Libby81 Posts: 734 Member
    I listen to Absolute 80's either via the internet or via an app on my phone. Always loads of good tunes being played on there.

    I've so just dowloaded that app. Thanks :drinker:
  • jg627
    jg627 Posts: 1,221 Member
    Gary Numan and the tubeway army.

    I love Gary Numan "Cars"

    http://youtu.be/Ldyx3KHOFXw
    It's a little more mainstream, but still follows the sci-fi theme he was doing there. Still a good song, definitely. Now I'm starting to sound like a hipster lol
  • Yogeros
    Yogeros Posts: 19
    WHAM! and George Michael!!!!
    Janet Jackson
    Depeche Mode
    Madonna
    Erasure

    Nothing better than the 80's!!
  • WinnerVictorious
    WinnerVictorious Posts: 4,733 Member
    remember when we were teenagers( in the 80's) and we thought that the music we listened to was what made us seem cool to other people? it's funny to think back on that now, but in those days, we were always trying to be the first to find some great new wave band that hadn't yet broken big in the US, as if that would make us cool because we were fans first. so silly. the stuff that we as teenagers thought was so important and really wasn't... :laugh:
  • SandyJordan012
    SandyJordan012 Posts: 3
    I have not listen a single song of 80's. But my grandfather love 80's songs.
  • WinnerVictorious
    WinnerVictorious Posts: 4,733 Member
    I have not listen a single song of 80's. But my grandfather love 80's songs.

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  • snarky
    snarky Posts: 262 Member
    I have not listen a single song of 80's. But my grandfather love 80's songs.

    D'oh! LOL!!
  • snarky
    snarky Posts: 262 Member
    Psych Furs, Echo & the Bunnymen, Love & Rockets, New Order, U2, The Cure, the English Beat, Duran Duran, Flock of Seagulls, Simple Minds, XTC, Modern English, Icicleworks, Soft Cell, Berlin, Talk Talk, the Smiths, OMD, PiL, Wall of Voodoo, Oingo Boingo, Big Country, Pere Ubu, Big Audio Dynamite... these are the bands i think of when i think of great 80's music.

    Nice list, but seriously lose the U2 and the Duran Duran... too commercial and kinda uncool :tongue: :wink:
  • snarky
    snarky Posts: 262 Member
    Niiiice bands everyone. How about Freestyle? Debbie Debb, Trinere, Expose, Cover Girls, Stevie B??

    A favorite summertime song... video is so blurry, but the sentiment is still there.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KJte4O-zD4
  • stomachflu
    stomachflu Posts: 134 Member
    I listen to Absolute 80's either via the internet or via an app on my phone. Always loads of good tunes being played on there.

    I've so just dowloaded that app. Thanks :drinker:

    Enjoy it! Just watch out for the two commercials they play occasionally that has a smoke alarm going off in it! Freaked me out the first time i heard it *laff*
  • nphect
    nphect Posts: 474
    cruel summer!
  • WinnerVictorious
    WinnerVictorious Posts: 4,733 Member
    Psych Furs, Echo & the Bunnymen, Love & Rockets, New Order, U2, The Cure, the English Beat, Duran Duran, Flock of Seagulls, Simple Minds, XTC, Modern English, Icicleworks, Soft Cell, Berlin, Talk Talk, the Smiths, OMD, PiL, Wall of Voodoo, Oingo Boingo, Big Country, Pere Ubu, Big Audio Dynamite... these are the bands i think of when i think of great 80's music.

    Nice list, but seriously lose the U2 and the Duran Duran... too commercial and kinda uncool :tongue: :wink:

    U2 now is commercial. U2 in the 80's was not. Boy. War. October. Unforgettable Fire. Under a Blood Red Sky. those albums helped define the early-to-mid 80's. with Joshua Tree, U2 became a different band. still good music, but they got too popular for me. all versions of U2 in the 90's, 00's, and 10's are a completely different band than they were earlier in their careers.

    Duran Duran also helped define the 80's. Rio was a good album. i wasn't a huge fan, but when i think of the 80's, they had a big impact.

    of course, i also listed to some ska and punk back then, but i didn't list them because the 80's are mostly about new wave in my memory.

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