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80's music appreciation thread - and what are your faves?

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Do you remember the 80's? Of course I was still in elementary school those days, but I was heavily following the pop genre during that time (mostly New Wave, but also others). So this is my favorite list (New Wave/Techno Pop):

Gazebo - I Like Chopin

Gazebo - Love In Your Eyes

Robin Gibb - Juliet

Human League - Together in Electric Dreams

Modern Talking - Jet Airliner

Den Harrow - Catch The Fox

Alphaville - Dance With Me

Alphaville - Sounds Like Melody

Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia

Pet Shop Boys - Opportunity

A-Ha - Dark is The Night

A-Ha - You Are The One



As for non New Wave/Synth Pop (basically everything else):

Art Company - Suzanna (do you remember this particular song?)

Van Halen - Dreams

Van Halen - Dreams

Kool & The Gang - Cherish

OST Dreams - Kiss Me Red

OST Dreams - Tears in The Night

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon

Starship - Nothing Gonna' Stop Us Now

Nena - 99 Red Baloons

Madonna - Like A Prayer



And these following aren't technically 80's songs. They're late 80's / early 90's Synth Pop which dominated the era shortly before the likes of Mili Vanili and New Kids on The Block rose to popularity and brought Hip-Hop to take the place of Synth Pop as dominant rhytm in pop genre.

I don't know, while early 90's Synth Pop are pretty generic, I personally find them more enjoyable than today's Boys Band, Hip-Hop ryhtm. Or probably like Stofsk said, I'm getting old? :( Nevertheles, this is my list:

Kylie Minogue - I Would Be So Lucky

Rick Astley - Together Forever

Jason Donovan - Too Many Broken Hearts

Big Fun - Dancing Easy

Tommy Page - African Sunset
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Off the top of my head I'll just say Billy Idol. White Wedding, Rebel Yell, You Spin Me Right Round.

Old school metallica too. Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning.
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Youve got "dreams" by Van Halen on your list twice. You must like it very much.

My fav 80s music is mostly the theme songs from various cartoons. The TF movie soundtrack.

Oh man though, what about the early 90s too though does that count? I must give props to Vanilla Ice.
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Darth Fanboy wrote:Youve got "dreams" by Van Halen on your list twice. You must like it very much.
Yes, I do :) . Actually the reason I love 80's Rock because they mostly had 4/4 ryhtm resembles Synth Pop (but rock has the guitar, of course) so I could play 'em on my Electone Organ.

Other Van Halen titles in the 5150 album which I like is Why Can't This Be Love and Love Walks In. Both have heavy synth sounds (like LWI's intro, or Dreams intro) which IIRC quite popular during 80's.

There's always VH song I like, such as Can't Stop Loving You and that other song resembles Loves Walk In, from the same album with CSLY. Hmm... couldn't recall the title....


Darth Fanboy wrote: My fav 80s music is mostly the theme songs from various cartoons. The TF movie soundtrack.
TF??


Darth Fanboy wrote: Oh man though, what about the early 90s too though does that count? I must give props to Vanilla Ice.
Well, IMHO early 90's is the transition of mainstream pop from the domination of 4/4 rythm, Synth Pop (like those of Jason Donovan or early Kylie Minogue, or Rick Astley) to Hip-Hop, NKOTB-style rythm.

Dunno' but if I have to choice between two generics, I always prefer 4/4 Synth Pop over Hip Hop everytime. Probably I'm getting old?
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Darth Fanboy wrote: My fav 80s music is mostly the theme songs from various cartoons. The TF movie soundtrack.
TF??
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Stofsk wrote:You Spin Me Right Round.
Dead or Alive? Yup, love that one too.... Funny Kyle Minoque's Can't Get You Out Of My Head[/i] kinda resembles that song... sort of. There's even a mix between those two, y'know!



Stofsk wrote:
Old school metallica too. Master of Puppets, Ride the Lightning.


Never big fans of trash metal, so never followed 'em. The most "metal" I listened during the 80's was Motley Crue. Y'know, Shout on the Devil and such.
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Metallica on top. "Master of Puppets" and "...And Justice For All", definitely.
AC/DC with "Who Made Who" and "Blow Up Your Video" next.
I also loved "Permanent Vacation" from Aerosmith. Can't remember why anymore though... :lol:
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Anything by Fear.

Anything by The Dead Kennedys.

Anything by DOA. (The punk rock band, NOT Dead or Alive!)
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Africa, by Toto.

Spandau Ballet! Erm.. that's about all I can think of off the top of my head :p
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Metallica ruled the 80's for me, without a doubt. There was also Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Pantera, and others but I can't think of them right now.
My favorite song, however, would have to be Hit the Lights by Metallica... or Master of Puppets
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Here's something I missed.

Tonight Is What It's Like To be Young, OST Wheels of Fire. Didn't quite remember the singer, though. It seems the ryhtmic patterns is quite similar with Meat Loaf's I'll Do Anything For Love, although IIRC the later was released latter.
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I'd say Marillion - Kayleigh, or Guns n Roses - Paradise City.
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Judas Priest - The Sentinel
Hellhammer - The Third Of The Storms (Evoked Damnation)
Hellhammer - Triumph of Death
Hellhammer - Revelations of Doom
Bathory - The Return Of Darkness and Evil
Bathory - The Golden Walls of Heaven
Venom - At War With Satan
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Europe
The Final Countdown
Carrie
Superstitious

Rick Astley
Never Gonna Give You Up
She Wants to Dance with Me
Together Forever
....and some song I never got to know the name....

Kylie Minogue and some guy
Especially for You

Pet Shop Boys
You are always on my mind.
Domino Dancing

A-HA
Take on Me

Air Supply
Lots of stuff....

And there is always the GI-Joe theme....

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Frank Hipper wrote: Anything by The Dead Kennedys.
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Added to the list are the Buzzcocks, Reagan Youth, Angry Samoans, Circle Jerks, G.B.H..... oh the list goes on and on.

And of course The Spin. But no one else knows who they are :wink:
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Oh why the hell not-everybody else didn't feel embarrased...
-The Bangles
Everything, really, but especially 'Manic Monday' and 'Eternal Flame'
-Melissa Etheridge
-Suzanne Vega
-Kate Bush
-Madonna
-Mortika's 'Toy Soldiers', 'Love-Thy Will Be Done', and 'Mortika's Kitchen'
-America's 'The Last Unicorn'
-Meatloaf
-T'Pau
-Marillion's 'Kaileigh' (sp?)
-Robin Beck's 'First Time'
-Paula Abdul, especially 'Rush Rush'
-several german TV themes, as 'Der Fahnder', 'Patrick Packard', 'Alice im Wunderland', 'Das Rätsel der Sandbank', 'Oliver Maas',
-a shitload of Queen stuff,
-virtually anything Pat Benatar (thanks, Tsyroc)
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Grand Moff Yenchin wrote: Kylie Minogue and some guy
Especially for You
It was Jason Donovan, wasn't it?
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Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:
Grand Moff Yenchin wrote: Kylie Minogue and some guy
Especially for You
It was Jason Donovan, wasn't it?
Ah thanks... 8)
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Grand Moff Yenchin wrote:
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:
Grand Moff Yenchin wrote: Kylie Minogue and some guy
Especially for You
It was Jason Donovan, wasn't it?
Ah thanks... 8)
You're welcome. Anyway, EFY is the among the latest synth pop ballads during early 90's transition era, before everything were "hip-hopped" (like Whigfield's Close To You)
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2000AD wrote:
Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman wrote:
Darth Fanboy wrote: My fav 80s music is mostly the theme songs from various cartoons. The TF movie soundtrack.
TF??
Transformers.

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