'80s Music Nostalgia Thread
 

Inspired by the discussion that sprung from the collective loathing of Jefferson Airplane's "We Built This City" in the other thread, I thought I'd give this a go in a separate topic. Anything you might want to share with the Igloo regarding music from the 1980s, this would be a place to do it. No idea how long and if this will hold up, but we'll never know unless we try.

So, discuss.

well i think it was a much better decade than the 90s.
bands like depeche mode and the cure proves this

^ are you mad???:icon_scra all that synthiser stuff, cheesy tunes and bad hair...thats the 80's. Personally, I guess I didnt really get into music and such until my mid-teens, ie; 90's, so hearing 80's music reminds me of growing up.
On a side note, 2.9% of music in/on my iTunes is 80's (again most of it REM & Tears FF)

i'm mad yes...
every decade had great bands and musicians...
but when you just count the charts, i think the 80s was a better decade...just think of cindy lauper

The bad hair and synthesisers are just one side of the '80s music. Remember, there was still stuff like Sade and Lionel Richie (although nobody can accout for his Commodores era hairdo). Personally, I have more affinity with the early-mid '90s as well, because that was the time I really started listening to music, and liked most of what was "hip" at the time. And a lot of the stuff I liked carried over from the mid-late '80s: U2, The Cure, Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, R.E.M., Bon Jovi (I am very very sorry, but there was a time when I was into them), Guns N' Roses...

The 80's probably weren't worse then any other age, its just too close. The 70's weren't any better, especially the second half, but its more distant. Personally, I thank the 80's for what it gave birth: The early-mid 90's, whcih had some amazing music (I even include stuff like The Joshua Tree here, from '87, which is more into the 90's then many later albums). Its offtopic, but there was a certain, post-80's, pre-indie electro-acoustic music which I just adore, with songs like Breakfast at Tiffany's by Deep Blue Something or the Friends title track. (is there a name for this genre, by the way??)

Yes, one hit wonder genre.

Joking aside, I think it's just pop-rock.

bands like foreigner and journey. feel good music all the way :)

I'm growing to hate it. It's all anyone wants to listen to anymore. There's so much great new stuff being put out, do we really need to keep watching the same movie over and over?

yes! i was hoping that someone else would mention journey! journey provides an instant high for me - even if i think steve perry's is probably one of the hardest ranges to sing along with. which is a pity because it's almost impossible not to want to sing along when journey comes on.

i guess i just really love the energy and intensity of 80s music - it seems like a lot of music from the 90s turned a lot of that energy inward instead of sharing it. and in a lot of ways, the music was light hearted and fun in a way that i don't think it has been since.

some personal 80s favorites:

when in rome - the promise


icicle works - birds fly (whisper to a scream)

Peter Gabriel of the 80ies didn't suck
still love some of those music videos

Sledgehammer! Remember that one?

I also dig Suzanne Vega, the original girrrl power singer songwriter lady. Man, the DNA revamp of "Tom's Diner" was the shiznit back in the day...sort of like the "Wonderwall" of yore: everytime you'd turn on MTV or the radio, there it was.

No specific genre, but I'd put it into "Pop rock".
I like Breakfast at Tiffany's, too. :smiley14:

Yes, Sledgehammer and Big time were both great videos.

Suzanne Vega was a light in the dark too. And Tracy Chapman.

As much as I hate most of mainstream 80ies music I guess I can't run from the fact that my own music is probably somewhat influenced by it, since I grew up in the 80ies.

and don't forget about the new kids on the block

put they were also 90'ies - i remember mocking them among friends around 91-92

I have lots of embarrasing 80's music - but it's nostalgic. It's the music that I listened to on the radio growing up, they're the video's you saw on MTV (when MTV still played videos :smiley36: )

We were in the car driving back from a festival today, all very tired, but when a Terence Trent D'Arby song came on the radio, we couldn't help but sing along. I used to sneak into my brother's room and steal his tape. :smiley36:

ah sorry, you are right....

^they COULD be from both decades though!

Ohhh yeah I listened to him too..
"If you let me staaaaaaaaayyyy"

EVERYTHING pretty in pink related, but particularly this one song



also the B-52s, remember them, so colorful and naughty with their love shack. i must've listened to that album a million times

New Kids On The Block rose to fame in the '80s (when Joey McIntyre was just a wee puppy), it's just that Europe needed a couple of more years to acknowledge the talent and embrace it. And yes, I was a fan.


http://img2.timeinc.net/ew/dynamic/i...new_kids_l.jpg


I miss the glorious heydays of MTV, when the M actually stood for Music. :(

never thought I'd see those words in the same sentance :smiley36:

Quite the wordsmith, aren't I? They were pretty atrocious, for sure. But what did I know then.

I also had a Jason Donovan cassette tape. :smiley36: :smiley36: :smiley36: My dad bought it for me when I was 9 years old. Christ... seems like a lifetime ago...a world without iPod, cell phones and bittorrent.

Sweet jesus, I found it among my garbage! This is too funny.

My music collection, anno 1990 (look, it's all cracked and broken too):

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v429/hazey/tapes.jpg


Now, children who were born in the late 80s/early 90s, please pay attention: this is called a cassette tape.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v429/hazey/tape1.jpg


Oh man, I am dying here. :smiley36:

OMFG they look like a parody!!

Those cassettes are luverly, I will try to dust up some of my old casettes and post them :D

I threw away all my old cassettes 2 years ago when I was moving, I already regretted doing that 2 days after.

I had tons of cassetted with music taped from the radio. I would sit hour after hour listening to the radio, waiting for a certain song to come on so I could tape it. I had tons of these tapes.
remember that feeling of excitement when you would hear a song on the radio that you absolutely loved, but it would rarely get played. And then when you heard it again, it was such a treat.
But now, with things like LimeWire and torrents, everything is so readily available, I sometimes miss those old days when you had to make more of an effort.
Now there is also so much out there, you don't have time to check everything out properly so you dismiss a lot of things quite easily after listening to it only superficially. And 9 out 10 times it's crap anyway, but sometimes it happens that you hear it again maybe 2 years later and then discover it was pretty special after all.

^ Exactly. I used to do that same thing: listen to the radio for hours on end and record songs. We either didn't know any better but I remember a time when radio stations played great stuff. I don't even dare to think what it must be like today: I haven't listened to any radio since the turn of the century, it was starting to veer into sheer garbage by the end of the '90s, and I just gave up indefinitely.

And now for something slightly different, non-music 80s-90s memorabilia...

Remember these rainbow coloured rubber bracelets?


http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v4...ey/rainbow.jpg

Mine aren't that old unfortunately. I bought these a few years ago when they were suddenly in again. Never wear them, just wanted to have them for nostalgia sake.


VHS tapes...I bought the TP set from my very first part-time summer job salary. Spent it to the very last penny on Lynch. :D

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v429/hazey/vhs.jpg


Yes, I have serious issues letting go of the past.

The golden dancemoves of the 80's:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOU8GIRUd_g

Yeah - I also had black ones, and then they were supposed to be mixed with thin metal/silvery ones too

the new kids on the block ha ha, i was so into them http://img52.exs.cx/img52/271/l9iblush.gif