Great/shit 80's bands/music

[throdgrain]

Ooooo Can I play?

The Vapours - Turning Japanese 1979
Soft Cell - Tainted love(where did our love go) 1981 but impossibly gay and nauseating
The Buggles - Video killed the radio star 1979
Dexys Midnight runners - come on Eileen 1981, ill let you off that one
Captain Sensible - Happy talk all the good songs he made with the Damned in the '70s and you pick that one ???
Tears for Fears - Mad world
Adam and the Ants - Various mostly in the '70s too, crap anyway
Madness - Various Most of thier best stuff was 79


In no Particular order.

I win!

 

[JBP|]

Wasn't White Lines by Grandmaster Flash and Melle Mel?

Nope.

But Melle Mel was a member of The Furious Five so i can see where you made your mistake

 

[dysfunction]

I win!

Lies!

Most of that comes from the 70's which you hailed!!

 

[Clown]

Is Michael Jackson a no-no then?

 

[dysfunction]

Is Michael Jackson a no-no then?

Depends are you under 18?

 

[Rubber Bullets]

Nope.

But Melle Mel was a member of The Furious Five so i can see where you made your mistake

But, but... Damn now you've made me go up in the attic.

My copy:

That's why I made the mistake. Actually it seems the only mistake is that there should be no Flash in there.



RB

 

[JBP|]

Hopefully this will help clear up the confusion..

Grandmaster Flash helped invent both an art form, the hip-hop sound, and a type of artist, the turntablist DJ.
When the 16-year-old Flash (Joseph Saddler) got into Bronx street parties in 1973, he discovered he had no skills as a break dancer, but he did have a passion for music and tinkering with electronic equipment in his bedroom.
Adored, party-throwing DJs such as Kool Herc, Pete DJ Jones, and Grandmaster Flowers inspired Flash to combine the sharpest parts of their acts into something better and stronger.
During 1974Ð75, Flash perfected a way to intercut and extend break beats on the beat, so that dancers could just keep rolling on with the funky bits he selected. He could also assemble pieces of records into complete new workouts, something everybody takes for granted today.
This was so innovative back then that it called for a new style of MC, or rapper, to put it across to an audience.
The Furious Five, who were up to the challenge, consisted of exhorter Cowboy (Keith Wiggins), wordslinger Kid Creole (Nathaniel Glover), and Kid's more politically minded brother Melle Mel (Melvin Glover), who brought in Scorpio (Eddie Morris) and love-man Raheim (Guy Williams).
The Five began to finish one another's lines and toss around raps rhythmically in time to Flash's turntable work.
Together they became the mightiest originators in hip-hop history.

But on second thoughts i'm more confused now than i was before.

 

[Athena]

JOURNEY! Steve Perry in those seriously tight-ass jeans and a bulge

70’s/80’s rocked – mind you I was a teenager back then & I still listen to the same old stuff.

 

[anattic]

Loads of good 80's stuff already mentioned - I'll just add my vote for Ian Dury & The Blockheads.

Reasons to be cheerful... ONE! TWO! THREE!

 

[Mobius]

The Jam - Sound Affects was 1989.

 

[Doomy]

Big Black!

 

[Xtro]

Big Black are one of the greatest bands to have graced the planet. I still play them regularly 20+ years on :$

 

[Mobius]

What about Pixies - Doolittle and wasn't there a Specials album released in the 80s as well? Not forgetting Dexys Midnight Runners and Madness too.

Does Ullo John! Got a New Motor? count? Technically a novelty song but still bloody good.

 

[throdgrain]

The Jam - Sound Affects was 1989.

It was 1980 mate. Most of any good music that did come out in the eighties was left-overs from seventies bands, like the Jam.The Specials were certainly a late seventies band too, same for Madness etc etc.

Doolittle came out in the eighties and thank god for that, but was never that popular, unfortunately

 

[Tallen]

Madness!!!

Unfortunately One Step Beyond was 1979, but almost all of their major hits were in the 80's

Other than the kings of SKA, here's a few I remember well

The Police: Message in a Bottle/Roxanne/Every Breat You Take
The Cult: She Sells Sanctuary
Soft Cell: Tainted Love
Human League: Don't You Want Me
Stranglers: Always the Sun
Visage: Fade To Grey
Cutting Crew: Died in your arms tonight
Phil Oakley (and some other dude): Together in Electric Dreams
Duran Duran: (Pick one)
Joy Division: Love will tear us apart
The Jam: Going Underground (amongst others)
Eurythmics: (Pick One)
U2: Anything from Joshua Tree/War/Boy before they went all mainstream
Pat Benatar: All Fired UP
OMD

 

[wraithchild]

Anything from Nine inch nails 'pretty hate machine'
(yes it came out in 1989!)

Geez i feel old..

 

[mank!]

Quality albums released in the 80's.

Bragg, Billy - Brewing Up With Billy Bragg
Bragg, Billy - Talking With The Taxman About Poetry
Cure, The - Faith
Cure, The - Pornography
Cure, The - Disintegration
Dag Nasty - Wig Out At Denko's
Field Mice, The - Snowball
Gang of Four - Solid Gold
Half Man Half Biscuit - Back In The D.H.S.S.
Jam, The - Sound Affects
Jam, The - The Gift
Joy Division - Closer
Pixies - Come On Pilgrim
Pixies - Surfer Rosa
Pixies - Doolittle
R.E.M. - Murmur
R.E.M. - Reckoning
R.E.M. - Document
Smiths, The - Smiths, The
Smiths, The - Meat Is Murder
Smiths, The - The Queen Is Dead
Sonic Youth - Daydream Nation
Springsteen, Bruce - Nebraska
Wedding Present, The - Tommy
Wedding Present, The - George Best
Wedding Present, The - Bizarro

...and the NME C86 tape.

 

[throdgrain]

Hate bloody Billy Bragg

 

[Overdriven]

*Cough* Anything by The Eagles *cough*

 

[mank!]

Hate bloody Billy Bragg

there's a shock!

I say the 90's are better because they had Sonic Youth's best albums, Pavement, Blur, Moz at his peak and much more.

 

[DaGaffer]

Was in a HUGE club in Buenos Aires last night. After spending most of the night in the dance area I wandered into the "rock and roll" area at about 6AM(there are five rooms in the club) and I danced to...Footloose and Walk of Life. I´m so ashamed

 

[Tom]

Have you been to Sau Paulo yet?

You MUST go to La Jardinaire (restaraunt).

 

[Malcolm]

I'll throw in to the great pile:

The Damned - Curtain Call
Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth
Inspiral Carpets - This Is How It Feels
The Wonder Stuff - It's Yer Money I'm After, Baby
The Cure - Close To Me
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary
All About Eve - Martha's Harbour
Siouxsie & the Banshees - Peek-a-Boo
Fun Boy Three - Tunnel Of Love
Billy Bragg - A New England

and an obligatory rocker

Queen - Tear It Up