View Full Version : Your Favorite 80s Songs?
Richie Rich
02-22-2005, 05:51 PM
Was skimming through the OOT Forum last night, and read how someone was re-playing the 80s hit "Africa" over and over again while completing a paper. It's an good song, don't get me wrong, but I could easily think of 10 songs from the fabulous 80s that were better than that...
Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House
Danger Zone - Kevin Loggins
Enjoy the Silence - Depeche Mode
Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
In Your Eyes - Peter Gabriel
Our House - Madness
Paradise City - Guns 'N Roses
Relax - Frankie Goes To Hollywood
So Alive - Love and Rockets
Under the Milky Way - The Church
You?
istewart
02-22-2005, 05:52 PM
TAKE...
ON.....
ME....
BiffMan
02-22-2005, 05:54 PM
Sad to say, but pretty much all of them... That's what happens when you're 12 years old when MTV comes out and you spend the next 3-4 summers watching nothing but...
Rather than start listing a bunch since I'll not be able to stop, I'm just going to go with:
No One is to Blame - Howard Jones
private joker
02-22-2005, 06:17 PM
R.E.M. -- "It's the End of the World As We Know It"
Modern English -- "I Melt With You"
Prince -- "When Doves Cry"
Murray Head -- "One Night In Bangkok"
swede123
02-22-2005, 06:23 PM
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Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
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Every song from that album is better than Africa. Not to take anything from Toto though, by far the best band ever named after a character from Wizard of Oz.
Swede
deacsoft
02-22-2005, 06:25 PM
There are a few exceptions, but as a whole the 80's was far and away the worst decade in music.
swede123
02-22-2005, 06:26 PM
I don't know, the 1910s didn't do much for me musically.
Swede
Soul Daddy
02-22-2005, 06:30 PM
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There are a few exceptions, but as a whole the 80's was far and away the worst decade in music.
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What other decade has a genre named after it?
MEbenhoe
02-22-2005, 06:33 PM
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Money For Nothing - Dire Straits
You?
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Every song from that album is better than Africa.
Swede
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/images/graemlins/shocked.gif blasphemy sir
deacsoft
02-22-2005, 06:33 PM
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There are a few exceptions, but as a whole the 80's was far and away the worst decade in music.
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What other decade has a genre named after it?
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That's only because they didn't think "Crap" was appropriate for the kids.
dr. klopek
02-22-2005, 06:57 PM
When you say "80s," do you mean the eighties that we think of when you say "80s," or the entire decade? Some of the best stuff from the 80s was when it was still sorta the 70s. And there's some [censored] from the early 90s that's pretty "eighties."
"please do not go"-Violent Femmes
"don't let's start"-They Might Be Giants
"time to chill"-D.J. Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
I don't remember the names but something from "freaky styley" too.
And also, "Steppin Out" by Steel Pulse.
Richie Rich
02-22-2005, 06:58 PM
I am very confident that you prefer funk & disco over any other kind of music. And that's just not right.
judgesmails
02-22-2005, 07:04 PM
Freeze Frame - J. Giles Band
Stuck in the Middle - Stealers Wheel
Your Love - The Outfield
Asia - Heat of the Moment
wayabvpar
02-22-2005, 07:10 PM
Life in a Northern Town- The Dream Academy.
iTunes finally added this to their archives, so I can hear it whenever I want. Yay!
TylerD
02-22-2005, 07:26 PM
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Don't Dream It's Over - Crowded House
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noooooooooooooooooooooooo.
Love will tear us apart - Joy Division
And She Said or is it And She Was?
Since you ask for my favorite, as opposed to the best ...
Do They Know It's Christmas
Kayleigh (Marillion)
Power of Love (FGTH)
My Ever Changing Moods (Style Council)
Something About You (Level 42)
Look of Love (ABC)
Go Insane (Lindsey Buckingham)
I Scare Myself (Thomas Dolby)
Tenderness (Gen'l Public)
Wouldn't It Be Good (Nik Kershaw)
Dear God (XTC)
To name a few ...
Shillx
02-23-2005, 01:14 AM
The Sasha and Digweed trance mix of Depeche Mode - Enjoy The Silence is an all time tweaker favorite.
Brad
The-Matador
02-23-2005, 01:31 AM
Here's my top 5 in no particular order:
One Night In Bangkok - Murrayhead
Second Chance - 38 Special
Tokyo Rose - Men At Work
Begin The Begin - REM (actually almost anything by them un the 80s and early 90s, frankly)
Billy Jean - MJ
TimTimSalabim
02-23-2005, 01:35 AM
Always Something There To Remind Me
private joker
02-23-2005, 01:42 AM
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Begin The Begin - REM (actually almost anything by them...)
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Yes. The reason I picked "End of the World" is because it was a single. But when you talk about songs like:
Gardening At Night
Driver 8
Harborcoat
I Believe
These Days
Superman
Wendell Gee
Wolves, Lower
Live and How to Live It
Camera
King of Birds
Exhuming McCarthy
World Leader Pretend
Orange Crush
I mean Jesus...
Best. Band. Ever.
The-Matador
02-23-2005, 01:45 AM
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Begin The Begin - REM (actually almost anything by them...)
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Yes. The reason I picked "End of the World" is because it was a single. But when you talk about songs like:
Gardening At Night
Driver 8
Harborcoat
I Believe
These Days
Superman
Wendell Gee
Wolves, Lower
Live and How to Live It
Camera
King of Birds
Exhuming McCarthy
World Leader Pretend
Orange Crush
I mean Jesus...
Best. Band. Ever.
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I could not agree more, and it's not even close. Let's see U2 or the newest dipshit top 40 band can write a song like "Maps and Legends". Never happen.
I saw a live version of King of Birds once that brought me to tears. Un-effing-real.
private joker
02-23-2005, 01:51 AM
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I saw a live version of King of Birds once that brought me to tears. Un-effing-real.
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In 1995 I saw them in Miami with Radiohead opening, and they did a version of Country Feedback with Buck going about 11 minutes on a solo at the end as Stipe wailed "Crazy what you could have had, I need this... I need this" and everyone's hairs stood on end. Greatest performance ever.
I highly recommend purchasing the DVD concert film Perfect Square. ( Here's a link (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001ENXYA/qid%3D1109137762/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/103-3052225-7551014) ). It proves they've still got it. Great set list, terrific coverage. Amazing crowd. Perfect editing. God-like sound. Aside from "A Clockwork Orange," it's the best DVD I own.
Rutis
02-23-2005, 02:39 AM
Steve Winwood - Higher Love
Freakin
02-23-2005, 02:49 AM
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Prince -- "When Doves Cry"
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Good call... downloading now.
Freakin
The-Matador
02-23-2005, 02:50 AM
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I saw a live version of King of Birds once that brought me to tears. Un-effing-real.
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In 1995 I saw them in Miami with Radiohead opening, and they did a version of Country Feedback with Buck going about 11 minutes on a solo at the end as Stipe wailed "Crazy what you could have had, I need this... I need this" and everyone's hairs stood on end. Greatest performance ever.
I highly recommend purchasing the DVD concert film Perfect Square. ( Here's a link (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0001ENXYA/qid%3D1109137762/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/103-3052225-7551014) ). It proves they've still got it. Great set list, terrific coverage. Amazing crowd. Perfect editing. God-like sound. Aside from "A Clockwork Orange," it's the best DVD I own.
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I'm going to do that, thanks.
Their concert last year in TO was the best I've ever been to, and it wasn't even close.
I'm rather fold of Pilgrimage myself.
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