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Topic: 80's Music
Posted By: thellama73
Subject: 80's Music
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 11:38
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I have noticed the 80's are by and large despised by many members of
this forum. As a child of the 80's and having been weaned on MTV, I
love a lot of the stuff tha came out of that period, particularly New
Wave. Does anyone else like the 80's, or will I have to rock out to
Tainted Love all by myself? ------------- 
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Posted By: chopper
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 11:50
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I think the 80s are known as the decade that taste forgot (or was that the 70s?)
I will admit that I bought 2 Spandau Ballet albums in the 80s, so obviously something happened to my taste. There were some good records made (Cocteau Twins, U2, XTC and Simple Minds all spring to mind) then again there was A Flock of Seagulls.
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Posted By: Güdron
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 12:25
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I don’t know what they were drinking in the 70’s, but they definitely lost the recipe in around 1979. ------------- resistance is futile |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 12:38
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Having spent the 70s as a musical participant and the 80s as an observer my objectivity is definitely skewed but I still have to consider the 80s as a decade of confusion for music. While the 70s saw music running freely down every conceivable path and trail seemingly without restriction, MTV seemed to channel all creativity back into a pigeonhole of marketing and visual appeal. Perhaps that was inevitable because the end of the 70s saw the rise of punk and new wave that flew in the face of what music had evolved into. For progressive rock, however, the 80s seemed to strangle the genre by forcing it to adapt to the 3 minute video that overwhelmed the industry. I'm not sure it ever fully recovered but I'm pleased that the prog spirit carries on due to websites like this one. ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: wolf0621
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 12:40
If you can "rock out" to Tainted Love then go for it!
 Someone else denigrated A Flock Of Seagulls...Them's fightin' words! Best haircuts in showbiz! BTW: Didn't Bill Nelson have some involvement with the band initially? |
thellama73 wrote:Posted By: thellama73
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 12:40
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Oh yes, I don't deny that the 80's was devastating to prog, but I still
think there was plenty of worthwile Non-Prog music that came out of it.
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Posted By: Zac M
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 12:42
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I'm a big fan of 80s music, post-punk in particular.
------------- "Art is not imitation, nor is it something manufactured according to the wishes of instinct or good taste. It is a process of expression." -Merleau-Ponty |
Posted By: tdreamer
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 12:43
| Although there was a helluva lot of dire music around in the 80's. There were a good few gems IMO. I loved A Flock of Seagulls. I would even go so far to describe them as progressive pop if there is such a thing. Back then I was mainly in to heavier music but most of it hailed back to the 70's. I think bands like Rush & Yes produced great albums in that decade but they seemed to go with the flow of music of that time.. My wife has tons of 80's pop compilations which drive me nuts. |
Posted By: salmacis
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 15:59
| There was still some damn good heavy rock/metal/AOR in the 80s- although there were only two styles that would prove to be THAT influential in the long run; NWOBHM and thrash- I like most of the 80s rock acts. Hate all the synth pop/New Romantics that polluted the airwaves but there was still a fair bit of good music about. |
Posted By: Chicapah
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 16:04
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Don't get me wrong. Compared to the rap-infested swill that's being passed off as music these days the tunes of the 80s sound like the golden age of melody! ------------- "Literature is well enough, as a time-passer, and for the improvement and general elevation and purification of mankind, but it has no practical value" - Mark Twain |
Posted By: glass house
Date Posted: June 05 2006 at 17:34
Comsat Angels - Fiction - 1982 
The Sound - From the Lion's Mouth - 1981
Echo and the Bunnymen - Heaven up Here 1981
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 08:47
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There was some great and frankly revolutionaty Metal in the 1980s - everyone seems to forget that.
What's wrong with Spandau Ballet?  ------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 09:13
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I love the 80's!!!!!!!!!!!!
Spent the ages 14 - 24 in that decade and had a blast.
Some of the best metal ever recorded came out of the 80's. -------------  |
Posted By: Logos
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 09:45
The best music in the 80s was the metal, although 95% of that is crap too.  - MERCYFUL FATE : Great band, King Diamond is just brilliant. "Melissa" and "Don't Break the Oath" are early occult masterpieces, groundbreaking both musically and lyrically. - VENOM : Also groundbreaking. Black Metal. - BATHORY : Quorthon was a true pioneer, I can't emphasize his importance and influence as a musician enough. "Under the Sign of the Black Mark" and "Blood Fire Death" are masterpieces. - MANOWAR : These guys don't need introducing. The Kings of Metal! - JUDAS PRIEST : Breaking the Law, anyone?  Although they probably were better in the 70s.- CANDLEMASS : Great Doom metal. "Epicus Doomicus Metallicus" is a fantastic album. |
Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 10:13
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I was very into the NWOBHM and Thrash in the 80's.They left a huge impression on me and my musical tastes that lasts to this day. ------------- |
Posted By: Teaflax
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 10:39
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Good lord, there was masses of great music in the 80's. Just a quick look through my Album Player sorted by year (and not all my music is properly tagged with year, so there's a lot missing, to be sure - but it gives an indication of the fact that it was hardly a musically infertile decade): 1980: Adam and the Ants: Kings of the Wild Frontier Bruford: Gradually Going Tornado The Cure: Seventeen Seconds Japan: Quiet Life Joy Division: Closer Yes: Drama Zamla Mammaz Manna: Familjesprickor 1981: Echo & The Bunnymen: Heaven Up Here Japan: Tin Drum Killing Joke: What's This For? King Crimson: Discipline Simple Minds: Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call 1982: ABC: The Look of Love The Birthday Party: Junk Yard The Buggles: Adventures in Modern Recording Kate Bush: The Dreaming The Cure: Pornography Peter Gabriel: 4 Simple Minds: New Gold Dream Theatre of Hate: Westworld Von Zamla: Zamlaranamma 1983: Jon Anderson: Animation Aztec Camera: High Land, Hard Rain Echo & The Bunnymen: Porcupine Eddie Jobson: Zinc Metallica: Kill 'Em All Pink Floyd: The Final Cut XTC: Mummer 1984: Laurie Anderson: Mister Heartbreak The Cardiacs: The Seaside Lloyd Cole & The Cmmotions: Rattlesnakes The Cure: The Top Thomas Dolby: This Flat Earth Echo & The Bunnymen: Ocean Rain The Icicle Works: The Icicle Works IQ: Tales from the Lush Attic Metallica: Ride the Lightning Prefab Sprout: Swoon The Smiths: The Smiths David Sylvian: Brilliant Trees XTC: The Big Express 1985: Alcatrazz: Disturbing the Peace Kate Bush: The Hounds of Love The Dukes of Stratosphear: 25 O'Clock Robert Plant: Shaken N' Stirred Prefab Sprout: Steve McQueen Prince: Around the World in a Day Stan Ridgway: The Big Heat Rush: Power Windows Scritti Politti: Cupid & Psyche '85 Sting: The Dream of the Blue Turtles 1986: The Colourfield: Virgins and Philistines Miles Davis: Tutu Peter Gabriel: So Peter Hammill: Skin It Bites: The Big Lad in the Windmill It's Immaterial: Life's Hard and Then You Die Metallica: Master of Puppets Momus: Circus Maximus The Smiths: The Queen is Dead David Sylvian: Gone to Earth Talk Talk: The Colour of Spring The The: Infected XTC: Skylarking 1987: Aztec Camera: Love Lloyd Cole & The Commotions: Mainstream The Dolphin Brothers: Cath the Fall Echo & The Bunnymen: Echo & The Bunnymen Momus: The Poison Boyfriend Prince: Sign o' the Times David Sylvian: Secrets of the Beehive Yello: One Second 1988: The Cardiacs: A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window Giraffe: The View from Here It Bites: Once Around the World Metallica: ...and Justice for All Momus: Tender Pervert Morrissey: Viva Hate Prefab Sprout: From Langley Park to Memphis Sylvian/Czukay: Plight & Premonition Talk Talk: Spirit of Eden 1989: Barry Adamson: Moss Side Story Kate Bush: The Sensual World The Lilac Time: Paradise Circus Prefab Sprout: Jordan: The comeback Stan Ridgway: Mosquitos Sylvian/Czukay: Flux & Mutability XTC: Oranges and Lemons There's a lot missing, but these are the ones I consider five-star releases. -------------  
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Posted By: Raff
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 12:18
Absolutely nothing at all - in another thread I admitted to having a fondness for some of their songs back then... BTW, you're perfectly right about the great Metal bands of the '80s. Let's not forget that Iron Maiden, Metallica, Megadeth and Queensryche produced their best records in that decade, not to mention the masterpieces by Black Sabbath, Dio and Judas Priest. Some so-called "new wave" bands were quite good too - just to name a few that I particularly like, The Police, The Pretenders and Talking Heads. Dire Straits were also excellent, at least their first two albums. |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 13:28
There's a lot of guilty pleasures on that list...
BTW, ABC's album was called "The Lexicon of Love"
A few more 5 starrers (off the top of my head) include: Killing Joke: Killing Joke Soft Cell: Non-Stop Erotic Cabaret The Power Station: The Power Station Slayer: Reign In Blood King Crimson: Discipline Marillion: Script For a Jester's Tear Marillion: Fugazi AC/DC: Back In Black Black Sabbath: Heaven and Hell Iron Maiden: Number of the Beast Motorhead: Ace Of Spades Motorhead: Iron Fist Motorhead: Orgasmatron Scorpions: Blackout Hawkwind: Sonic Attack Camel: Stationary Traveller Paul Simon: Graceland David Lee Roth: Skyscraper Frank Zappa: Ship Arriving Too Late to Save a Drowning Witch Ozric Tentacles: Erpsongs ...and so many more... ------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: Teaflax
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 13:40
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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 15:44
I can - I never heard anything I actually liked by them, and didn't really hear anything of great note in the compositions either - if you'll pardon the pun. Trevor Horn was also involved with the Buggles and Frankie Goes to Hollywood, let's not forget... 
I can't believe no-one's mentioned the Police and either Ghosts in the Machine or Synchronicity.
Posit what you like - I don't know the Arcadia album, although I've read glowing reviews of it, and the sound bites I've heard sound good. While it's true that Power Station has got many moments of blandness, it also has exquisite power and energy thanks to the Duran Duran boys - who really weren't as bad as many seem to think. I couldn't quite bring myself to award a 5 star rating to a Duran Duran album though.
Yes - but it's so good it deserves a second mention 
OK, I 'fess up - I missed it.
EEAS is a good album in many places too, but Skyscraper is more "devil-may-care", and one of the best party albums ever, which is why it gets my vote. Sometimes an album is good even though the music isn't exactly adventurous. It just has to press the right buttons.
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Posted By: VanderGraafKommandöh
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 15:57
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I do happen to like The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star as well as Talking Heads - Psycho Killer. I've never really dipped into the '80s yet. I've got to try and avoid all the mainstream rubbish and try and find some decent stuff. I am sure Peter Hammill's '80s output is faultless. -------------   
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Posted By: Teaflax
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 16:15
The Buggles were fantastic, except for Video... and Clean Clean. Have you heard their albums at all? Their second one, Adventures in Modern Recording, is pretty much flawless in my ears. And Frankie made some truly great singles, just not a great album. Two Tribes was one of the things that grudgingly made my little Prog snob self realise that maybe there was some good Pop after all. And on their debut album, the side-long opening track - featuring guitar from one Mr Steve Howe - is excellent Prog Pop. -------------
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Posted By: darren
Date Posted: June 06 2006 at 23:36
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The early 80's was a bit of an explosion of music. There was all kinds of music and many smaller labels florished. Many artists from the 70's really came into their own in the 80's. There was little as far as actual classic prog but music was quite exciting. There was a lot of experimental music like The Art Of Noise, Philip Glass, This Mortal Coil, Cocteau Twins, Kronos Quartet, Danielle Dax and Laurie Anderson. There were many bands that put out quite exciting music. U2 put out some great music. Many might not remember or have been around but their sound was groundbreaking at the time. There was a kind of simplicity, yet it had passion. It seems to me many of those who criticize 80's music as being boring were either listening to mainstream radio or oldies (50's, 60's and 70's).Either that, or they are too young to realize that many of these bands were unique and their influences can be heard in today's music, so it sounds mainstream by today's standards.
Late 80's mainstream music was terrible and also tainted people's opinions about this decade. This was the beginning of the age of the music producer, like Stock, Aiken and Waterman. Many of their songs differ only in the singer. Because of advances in music production technology, things became formulaic and the producer had the power. Radio stations became more and more dependent on music programmers, rather than letting the d.j. have a say in what is being played.
There was just as much crap music in the 70's as in the 80's. Most of the music of the 80's was immortalized on video, so it's easier to forget the 70's mainstream pop music, the goofy fashions and silly hairstyles (although I admit hair got much more extreme in the 80's). After all, when you say 70's music, do you think Shaun Cassidy, The Carpenters, Abba and Barry Manilow? or do you think of Genesis, King Crimson and Jethro Tull or (insert band here) ?
Needless to say, there is a lot of great 80's music, only the closed minded would say otherwise.
------------- "they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world. the fools they locked up the wrong man." - Leonard Cohen |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: June 07 2006 at 04:50
I've got the first Buggles album, and all of it is unlistenable slush - apart from "Video...", which is a great and fresh pop song - if a trifle overplayed. Once bitten twice shy, I didn't get the 2nd, as I assumed it would be worse. I love the Frankie singles - but it's Trevor Horn's production that makes them great. FGTH were less than mediochre songwriters, as much of the "Pleasuredome" album shows clearly. Horn's production and arrangements were utterly masterful though, on this occasion. ------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 07 2006 at 08:17
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I am one of the 80's haters, and I blame most of the bad music on the MTV phenomenon. I hit the 80's when I was 17 and I was no social recluse, but I refused the pop music happening. I actually had enjoyed some punk in the late 70's. but when post punk, new wave and other musical currents happened, I was really disgusted
The best "mainstream or radio friendly" 80's bands were actually 70's bands (Police, U2 etc..) and most of my disliking of that decade comes from new wave (mainly) , but the Funk Scene as well AND the Hair (Glam) Metal
 from those years >> BTW NWOBHMB did not do much for me either (outside laiden, I enjoyed NONE)Naturally, the (relative) poorness (as opposed to other prog genre) of Neo-prog has not helped matters either.
But as classic prog had died, Jazz-rock was definitely running out of steam (and was often heading towaeds later ECM jazz and closer to elevator music), New Age etc..., not much was there for me to like
So I went on to discover the 60's in jazz and rock, but it did not stop me fgrom listening to weird bands like Bahaus or Killing Joke I would not say I liked these bands, but they did offer something other than crappy commercial stuff. Not enough for me to have a good opinion of that decade, though!
However had I known of Univers Zero and Present (their core works happened in the 80's) back then, I would've appreciated that decade better. But there was no acces to that music either. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Teaflax
Date Posted: June 07 2006 at 08:43
Well, if you hate pretty much all of The Plastic Age, I guess 'twouldn't be yer cup o' tea. But I find The Plastic Age, Astroboy (and the Proles on Parade), Johnny on the Monorail and especially I Love You (Miss Robot) to be better Pop songs than Video... Either way, I'm pretty certain you too would find Adventures... a better album, question is if it's better enough to you to make it worth the effort and outlay.
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Posted By: Teaflax
Date Posted: June 07 2006 at 08:44
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Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 07 2006 at 09:47
 Fully agreed
but since radio followed suit to MTV, the better 80's stuff never got exposure until internet exploded and the re-issues on Cd happened >> the 80's probably have lotsa "hidden treasures" still buried somewhere by completely unknown but worthy artistes
However since I hate the way they played drums in that decade, I am always a little wary of records from that decade >> old tricks from old dogs
 Hence my discovery of some good 80's prog (but in RIO), but in the last ten years. ------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Teaflax
Date Posted: June 07 2006 at 10:11
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Radio has always been mostly crap, though. I never really understood
people who used that as a way of discovering and following music. For
me it was always having a few friends who were music nuts and lots of
mix-tape trading. I can't recall ever having found a new artist via radio, and precious few via some music shows on TV (in fact, European MTV used to have slightly more adventurous bent during the first few years and would occasionally show something that wasn't blanded down). -------------
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Posted By: el böthy
Date Posted: June 07 2006 at 13:50
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Theres nothing worst than an electronic ´80 drum...oh...its just so anoying... I mean... Duran Duran...how can you tolarate that?...and the worst thing is that now in Argentina there is a certain retro ´80 thing going on...well, everywhere...I mean this new bands like the Killers sound so crapy...so ´80... But there were some good stuff...Iron Maiden and Metallica specially ------------- "You want me to play what, Robert?" 
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Posted By: darren
Date Posted: June 07 2006 at 22:21
Just wondering, you say they were "actually 70's bands". Their music that was released in the 80's, doesn't that qualify as 80's music?
Also, exactly how is U2 a 70's band. Seriously, I'd like to know. ------------- "they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world. the fools they locked up the wrong man." - Leonard Cohen |
Posted By: stonebeard
Date Posted: June 07 2006 at 23:33
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The Police rule! ------------- http://soundcloud.com/drewagler" rel="nofollow - My soundcloud. Please give feedback if you want! |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 02:56
the group's first releases were in the 70's (not that sure for U2, though, but ) is what I meant
Dire Straits >> 70's band
Police >> 70's band
The Jam >> 70's band
etc...
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 05:43
I agree that the 80's drum sound is spectacularly naff - but Duran Duran and a very few others built a great sound around that naffness, IMO. If you listen to the music instead of being distracted by the drum sounds, Duran Duran were talented musicians - as their side projects also verify. I defy you to listen to "Wild Boys", "Planet Earth" or "Girls on Film" and not admit that there's something really imaginative about the music and composition - whether you like it or not. If you still don't like it, watch the full-length video for "Girls on Film". Then you'll like it
Such a pity that Metallica turned crap in the 1990s - as you say, they were outstanding in the 1980s. Anyone who was not into metal at the time missed out on the really good stuff, IMO. ------------- The important thing is not to stop questioning. |
Posted By: Teaflax
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 05:50
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FWIW, I think the best Duran Duran album is Notorious. Even better is
the album made by the 3/4 of Duran Duran at the time; Arcadia's So Red
the Rose.
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Posted By: WaywardSon
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 05:54
| I remember Tears for Fears. I saw a solo album by the guy Orzabel (or something like that ) on sale. Has anyone heard it? I heard it was quite experimental. |
Posted By: kenmeyerjr
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 20:11
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My wife hates the 80's as a decade for music, but that logic is so wrong, I don't know where to start the argument. I mean, the bands that either started or came really to the fore in that decade include Prince, U2, REM, Costello and many others of integrity and talent. It is too easy to dismiss a whole decade because of a few Kajagoogoos in the mix. The 70's were thought of in that way for awhile. I think, the more distance you get from the decade, the more the actual good music stays with you and reminds you of what was good at that time. The bad stuff just becomes fun because of it's innate crappiness. ------------- If you like art of musicians, check my site (the music section) and tell me what you think! http://www.kenmeyerjr.com |
Posted By: kenmeyerjr
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 20:12
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And, I DO consider bands like U2 80's bands, even though their start may have been in the late 70's..I think it depends on which decade they are really identified with, and that is usually the decade in which they were the most popular or really seemed new...Police also fall in that area for me. ------------- If you like art of musicians, check my site (the music section) and tell me what you think! http://www.kenmeyerjr.com |
Posted By: kenmeyerjr
Date Posted: June 08 2006 at 20:16
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Should have looked over the thread before I answered myself twice! Teaflex, great list and should be enough to show anyone what great music, amidst the crap, that filled the 80's. And, great post as well, Daren. ------------- If you like art of musicians, check my site (the music section) and tell me what you think! http://www.kenmeyerjr.com |
Posted By: darren
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 01:09
yes but Zenyatta Mondatta, Ghost In The Machine, Synchronicity >> 80's music. I'd even make the arguement that Regatta de Blanc would qualify, since it was released late in '79 and didn't catch on in many areas outside of the UK until the next year.
This is what I was meant. The music itself is 80's music, as it was realeased in the 80's. ------------- "they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world. the fools they locked up the wrong man." - Leonard Cohen |
Posted By: darren
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 01:11
U2's first album was released in 1980. ------------- "they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world. the fools they locked up the wrong man." - Leonard Cohen |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 03:51
see your point, but the type of group and the inside the group mentality from the three examples showed here above is defintely more 70's.
According to dates, then Genesis is also an 80's band
 . Late 70's groups (punk wave and pub rock derived >> Dire Straits) are definitely more 70's than 80's even if they have a good part of their disographies releazsed in the 80's
there is a tremendous difference in aesthetics of music between Police, Clash and Jam than there is between Duran , Gruppo Sportivo etc... >> in that regard Devo is more of the 80's band while Talking Heads is more of a 70's band even if again both groups existed in both decades
Anyway, just a few thoughts and nothing to startr an argument
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: darren
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 22:40
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^^ No, I'm not suggesting Genesis is an 80's band but the music they have released in the 80's is 80's music.
By the way, wouldn't your reasoning make Pink Floyd, Frank Zappa, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Moody Blues, Yes and King Crimson all 60's bands? ------------- "they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world. the fools they locked up the wrong man." - Leonard Cohen |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: June 10 2006 at 05:15
Apart from Yes, I would say that the ones I highlighted in bold characters here above are 60's bands IMHO certainly ( also 70's groups because the early 70's were a direct consequence of the sixties), mostly because they released albums before 68 or in 68.
Genesis, Yes and KC released albums as a prog group first, where Tull and Moodies started out as a 60's blues group that evolved into a prog group >> ditto for Floyd and psychadelia >> comes down to the group roots and inside-mentality. I would even say that Yes lyrics are about the hippy-drippyest gibberish of all prog groups >> making this group almost as much a sixties group as a 70's one
One thing we must look to is that from the happy golden 60's, the 70's was not a happy decade in humankind (I am not talking of our careless teenage point of view where music , drugs and girls were our only pre-occupations >> I was 14 in 77 in Toronto, BTW) and it was a grim decade (see below)
 What it comes down is that musically and philosophically , the 60's ended not with altamont, but in 74 , when the spirit of summer Of Love finally died its slow death.
And the grim unhappy 70's started from 73 and the first oil crisis , 72 and the first terrorist attacks (Munich Olympics etc..)
Back to late 70's , the art pop scene coming from US Glam scene (call it NY scene where Talking Heads and Television evolved from the NY Dolls , Reed, Ramones etc...) this is definitely belonging to the 70's (according to the criterias I gave you above) In UK, the pub rock scene (Dr Feelgood , Eddie Hot Rod was slowly transformed from Dire Straits, Sniff And The Tears and ZZebra) is also 70's music.
and Punk is definitely the 70's scene (Police and Jam, but also Clash) with 80's ramifications >>> post punk and the b*****d son of both punk and Glam >>> new wave
and its subgenres as NuRo (new Romantics etc...)See where I am getting at?
------------- let's just stay above the moral melee prefer the sink to the gutter keep our sand-castle virtues content to be a doer as well as a thinker, prefer lifting our pen rather than un-sheath our sword |
Posted By: kenmeyerjr
Date Posted: June 10 2006 at 20:28
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Nah, I have to disagree with a few of you...Genesis, Yes, and virtually all prog bands will be '70's bands' to me, because that is when those groups produced either their best work or their most recognized.
And I consider Dire Straits and 80's band as well, since their most known releases, I think, were in the 80's, their largest output as well, as far as I know (just going on memory here). I think it is possibly a subjective thing too. Some may think Pink Floyd would be an 80's band or even a 60's band, as one member said, but following my statement above, they will always be a 70's band to me. ------------- If you like art of musicians, check my site (the music section) and tell me what you think! http://www.kenmeyerjr.com |
Posted By: coffeeintheface
Date Posted: July 10 2006 at 03:36
I love it too. I'm with you, my friend. ------------- OBQM: www.soundcloud.com/onebigquestionmark (solo project) nQuixote: www.soundcloud.com/n-quixote (ambient + various musical ideas) |
Posted By: JayDee
Date Posted: July 11 2006 at 09:08
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I'm a big The Cure fan! (probably the biggest in my country
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Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: July 11 2006 at 10:00
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The 80s were my twenties, and yes, I like a lot of 80s music.
I believe those who roundly condemn all 80s music, as if it was all the same, tend to know only what they heard on commercial radio. Yes, there was some terrible stuff, & some more that was indifferent, but there was also plenty of very good music, in a wide variety of styles (same with 60s, 70s & 90s).
The 80s were a decade, not a genre! ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: Peter
Date Posted: July 11 2006 at 10:09
Yes, though they were founded in 1976.
I think when people think of "80s music" as some sort of trend, they are really thinking more of the period from around 77 to 86 or so. Lots of the so-called major "8os" bands started releasing albums around 77-78(Talking Heads, Cars, Dire Straits, XTC, Police, Boomtown Rats, Echo & the Bunnymen, Stranglers, etc.), and grunge/Seattle sound came along (to push them off the airwaves) somewhere in the latter half of the 80s, did it not? ------------- "And, has thou slain the Jabberwock? Come to my arms, my beamish boy! O frabjous day! Callooh! Callay!' He chortled in his joy. |
Posted By: darren
Date Posted: July 12 2006 at 06:31
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Ok, let's just say a lot of great music was RELEASED in the 80's is 80's music. This will clear up who was really a 70's band or whatever. I seems some people will say 80's music sucked and when you mention a great song released in the 80's, it doesn't count because the band is really a 70's band. I don't agree and not sure I totally understand this reasoning. ------------- "they locked up a man who wanted to rule the world. the fools they locked up the wrong man." - Leonard Cohen |
Posted By: Sean Trane
Date Posted: July 12 2006 at 07:10
Ride on Peter, my brother in aspiration
I mean:
Right on
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Posted By: Jim Garten
Date Posted: July 12 2006 at 07:48
There's an album I've not listened to for a while... however, I always preferred "Beauty Stab"; great production & big guitar sound. I've no real problem with 1980s music (well, no more than I have with the music from any decade - each has its high and low points), the problem I have with the 1980s is the clothes we wore... +++confession time+++ My name is Jim Garten, and in the 1980s I wore skin tight jeans with red piping down the sides... +++deep breath+++ ...and I had a mullett! No - there are no photos available! ------------- 
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