Home | About | Contact | Lyrics | Tabs | Forum
08-19-2007, 08:37 PM | #1 |
Draper's Girl Friday
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 1,910
|
'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.
__________________
"We de-whimsified ourselves. Yep, we're normal now." |
08-19-2007, 08:45 PM | #2 |
King of Pain
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Germany
Posts: 3,833
|
well i think it was a much better decade than the 90s.
bands like depeche mode and the cure proves this
__________________
...if i could change one thing about myself, i would not take it all so seriously... |
08-19-2007, 08:57 PM | #3 |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: A Kerryman in Cork
Posts: 5,202
|
^ are you mad??? 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've been waiting my whole life waiting for you |
08-19-2007, 09:02 PM | #4 |
King of Pain
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Germany
Posts: 3,833
|
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
__________________
...if i could change one thing about myself, i would not take it all so seriously... |
08-19-2007, 09:18 PM | #5 |
Draper's Girl Friday
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 1,910
|
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...
__________________
"We de-whimsified ourselves. Yep, we're normal now." |
08-19-2007, 09:31 PM | #6 |
Eskimontologist
Join Date: Jan 2007
Location: The Robo-Hungarian Empire
Posts: 2,345
|
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??)
__________________
"There's, another example. See, here I'm now sitting by myself, uh, er, talking to myself. That's, that's chaos." "If you find you've got a dragon charging at you at thirty miles per hour snapping its teeth you can always drive it defensively through the covers" |
08-19-2007, 09:49 PM | #7 | |
Draper's Girl Friday
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 1,910
|
Quote:
Joking aside, I think it's just pop-rock.
__________________
"We de-whimsified ourselves. Yep, we're normal now." |
|
08-19-2007, 10:57 PM | #8 |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: Dublin
Posts: 5,809
|
bands like foreigner and journey. feel good music all the way
__________________
"Tomorrow we will run faster, stretch out our arms further…And on fine morning - So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past." https://www.twitch.tv/simonjmusic |
08-19-2007, 11:42 PM | #9 |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 141
|
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?
|
08-20-2007, 02:01 AM | #10 | |
care bear stare!
Join Date: Jan 2004
Posts: 1,087
|
Quote:
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)
__________________
"I can hope, see? Even if I don't believe." |
|
08-20-2007, 10:16 AM | #11 |
creepycute
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Copenhagen
Posts: 15,333
|
Peter Gabriel of the 80ies didn't suck
still love some of those music videos
__________________
Yeah |
08-20-2007, 10:36 AM | #12 |
Draper's Girl Friday
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 1,910
|
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.
__________________
"We de-whimsified ourselves. Yep, we're normal now." |
08-20-2007, 10:54 AM | #13 | |
Teddy Daniels
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Berlin
Posts: 9,693
|
Quote:
I like Breakfast at Tiffany's, too. |
|
08-20-2007, 11:00 AM | #14 |
creepycute
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Copenhagen
Posts: 15,333
|
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.
__________________
Yeah |
08-20-2007, 05:51 PM | #15 |
King of Pain
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Germany
Posts: 3,833
|
and don't forget about the new kids on the block
__________________
...if i could change one thing about myself, i would not take it all so seriously... |
08-20-2007, 07:03 PM | #16 | |
creepycute
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Copenhagen
Posts: 15,333
|
Quote:
__________________
Yeah |
|
08-20-2007, 07:28 PM | #17 |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 1,838
|
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 )
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. |
08-20-2007, 09:04 PM | #18 | |
King of Pain
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Germany
Posts: 3,833
|
Quote:
__________________
...if i could change one thing about myself, i would not take it all so seriously... |
|
08-20-2007, 09:21 PM | #19 | |
creepycute
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Copenhagen
Posts: 15,333
|
^they COULD be from both decades though!
Quote:
"If you let me staaaaaaaaayyyy"
__________________
Yeah |
|
08-20-2007, 09:29 PM | #20 |
Vegetable Eskimo
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: A room of musical tunes
Posts: 5,158
|
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
__________________
Scrubs Ted and Kate Micucci Screw You (full song) __________________________________ note: my name is NOT short for California Last edited by Cali; 08-20-2007 at 09:33 PM. |
08-21-2007, 01:46 AM | #21 |
Draper's Girl Friday
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 1,910
|
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.
I miss the glorious heydays of MTV, when the M actually stood for Music.
__________________
"We de-whimsified ourselves. Yep, we're normal now." |
08-21-2007, 08:07 AM | #22 | |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Mar 2003
Location: A Kerryman in Cork
Posts: 5,202
|
Quote:
__________________
I've been waiting my whole life waiting for you |
|
08-21-2007, 08:27 AM | #23 |
Draper's Girl Friday
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 1,910
|
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. 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.
__________________
"We de-whimsified ourselves. Yep, we're normal now." |
08-21-2007, 09:00 AM | #24 |
Draper's Girl Friday
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 1,910
|
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): Now, children who were born in the late 80s/early 90s, please pay attention: this is called a cassette tape. Oh man, I am dying here.
__________________
"We de-whimsified ourselves. Yep, we're normal now." |
08-21-2007, 09:16 AM | #25 | |
creepycute
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Copenhagen
Posts: 15,333
|
Quote:
Those cassettes are luverly, I will try to dust up some of my old casettes and post them
__________________
Yeah |
|
08-21-2007, 10:34 AM | #26 |
Eskimo Regular
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 1,838
|
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. |
08-21-2007, 01:55 PM | #27 |
Draper's Girl Friday
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Netherlands
Posts: 1,910
|
^ 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? 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. Yes, I have serious issues letting go of the past.
__________________
"We de-whimsified ourselves. Yep, we're normal now." |
08-21-2007, 02:14 PM | #28 |
Eskimo Friend
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Finland
Posts: 44
|
__________________
Trouble, trouble, trouble.. |
08-21-2007, 02:28 PM | #29 | |
creepycute
Join Date: Feb 2004
Location: Copenhagen
Posts: 15,333
|
Quote:
__________________
Yeah |
|
08-21-2007, 04:26 PM | #30 |
Vegetable Eskimo
Join Date: Sep 2003
Location: A room of musical tunes
Posts: 5,158
|
the new kids on the block ha ha, i was so into them
__________________
Scrubs Ted and Kate Micucci Screw You (full song) __________________________________ note: my name is NOT short for California |
Thread Tools | |
Display Modes | |
|
|