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Hey! Remember the 80's?

What do you think the best 80's band or song was?

(On the "I must be getting old" front it is scary to think that 1985 was 20 years ago now)

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  • but based on the album released today I'm afraid they've slipped some
    • "Depeche Mode is French for 'We're Wussies'"

      ... although before MTV censored them, it was

      "Depeche Mode is French for 'We're Pussies'"

      • I missed that one. That would have hurt my pride.

        My favorite was when they were watching an old Sabbath video and Butthead goes: "Ozzy is cool and everything, but this sucks"

        • They ripped Ozzy again when they did "Close My Eyes Forever" (Ozzy's duet with Lita Ford) and they were like "Hmmm.. Ozzy just doesn't have the monster face anymore."

          I was just glad they never got around to seeing the video for "So Tired" by Ozzy... he looks like a total wuss in that video. (Worst song on the Bark at the Moon album...)

          My favorite video they did: It was some song by Love and Rockets, and this really gay looking dude is standing in a bathtub pouting at the camera.

          Butt-Head: "DRAIN THE T

  • its either "all hell breaks loose" by the misfits
    anything off the "no control" lp by bad religion
    or maybe "true till death" by chain of strength
    or hmmm... possibly either "out of step" or "straight edge" by minor threat

    that's where my votes go :)

  • Best 80's Band: Stryper (who I have tickets to see again in concert... woohoo!)
    Best 80's Song: To Hell With the Devil

    • For those of who liked bands that had no spandex and real musicians, there were Frank Zappa's various bands in the 80s. From 1981-84 there was King Crimson. In the early-mid 80s Fred Frith had a power trio with Bill Laswell called Massacre that he still reconvenes from time to time and that could shred sparks twice over. If you liked to dance without feeling like a complete moron, there was Talking Heads and their various spinoffs. Peter Gabriel put together some excellent units in the 80s as well.

      I l

      • For those of who liked bands that had no spandex and real musicians,

        Yeah, Crue isn't that great, and Mick Mars isn't much of a guitarist, but listen to the guitar work of people like Randy Rhoads (Ozzy), George Lynch (Dokken), Oz Fox and Michael Sweet (Stryper), Eddie Van Halen, Vivian Campbell (dio), Steve Vai (Whitesnake), Dave Murray and Adrian Smith (Iron Maiden), KK Downing and Glenn Tipton (Judas Priest), and Yngwie Malmsteen, and tell me that these guys weren't musicians and talented guitarists.

        E

        • There are lots of conceited, boring, overrated white boys with more hair than talent. The vast majority of rock players are a mile wide and and an inch deep. There are scores of obscure jazz players whose strings they are not worthy to change. In jazz, you START with advanced technique and go from there into what really matters. Some rock players (e.g. Vai,which is why Zappa hired him) have real chops, but you can see to the bottom of their playing without a flashlight. Give me a grizzled old man playi

      • Talking Heads are still among my all time favorites as is Gabriel.

        The Red Hot Chili Peppers are still around and haven't been a 'local' band for some time now (unless you mean a different RHCP).

        Glad to see I'm not the only one who thinks Motley Crue sucked.

        The really scary thing is as much as 80's bands were critizied for having no talent, particularly the New Wave/synthpop or hair metal acts, you only have to listen to a few hits from back then to realize how low the bar has fallen since then.
  • Johnny?
      Well like who's Johnny?
      Answer me, Debbie, who's Johnny?
      Does anybody here know Johnny?
    Are you Johnny?
      There was one guy named Johnny but he was a total geek, he always had food in his braces.
      Answer me, Debbie, who's Johnny?
    Oh God this is like that movie Citizen Kane you know where you later find out Rosebud was a sled?
    But we'll never know who Johnny was because like she's dead.
  • D.A.D. - I'm Sleeping My Day Away
    Modern English(?) - Melt With You
    Terrence Trent D'Arby - Wishing Well
    And all Maiden up to Seventh Son Of A Seventh Son
    • you were like a total burn out in the 80's, right?

      i was too busy being haahhdcoooaahh!

    • 7th Son of a 7th Son wasn't that bad... It's not the greatest Maiden album ever, because that's "Piece of Mind", but it's not "Somewhere in Time", either. At least 7th has "Can I Play With Madness" on it. Somewhere in Time.. meh.

      And now to purge my brain of Somewhere in Time I must go listen to Piece of Mind, and if there's enough time in the day, Number of the Beast and Powerslave.

      Although it's more recent: Brave New World is a pretty good album.

      It's been 5 minutes since you last successfully posted

      • Loaded to the gills with Maiden... duh.

        Seventh Son is a really good album it just suffered from them trying to shoehorn a "concept" into it. After Somewhere In Time (Allllexanduh thuh greaaaaat) I thought, "It's over." First chords of Seventh I thought, "Oh fuck; it really is." Then - I am he - The bornless one! - ripped straight out of Dickenson's throat and I knew it was all OK.

        Powerslave is a tremendous album.
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      • "Turning Japanese" by The Vapors. Name a song that's more 80's than that. Other than "Safety Dance".

        I don't know, after video killed the radio star, a ton of songs came out that could only have fit in that era:
        - "I Want To Know (What You're Thinking)" by Information Society, which was the epitome of 80s synth-pop, a genre only Erasure has managed to survive in;
        - "West End Girls" by Pet Shop Boys;
        - almost the whole "Pretty In Pink" soundtrack, from Echo & the Bunnymen to Shriekback :)

        Now as for best s

  • I would have to say Foetus- Nail the whole album is a concept album so I couldn't really pick a song .. but at a push I would chose Anything(Viva) from that album.
    • Leather Nun "Prime Mover"
      Sonic Youth "Star Power"
      Neneh Cherry "Buffalo Stance"

      I suppose if I thought really hard I could think of lots that by some standard was "better", but those were my "80s" faves. Hard to exclude runners up by Schoolly D, Motorhead, Shonen Knife, Flipper, Richard Thompson, buncha others.

      Much enjoyed "Wash It Off" by Foetus cos it sounds like James Chance & the Contortions on a pogo stick. Much of Foetus's heavier material works for me, but as he turned his aggro outward I fou

  • I still like Asia, but mostly the stuff they did with John Wetton. They went downhill after he split from the band. "Heat of the Moment" was probably my very favorite song for a long time.

    • Asia was my gateway drug to Yes. I didn't much care for their work after Steve Howe left, but what a first album, eh?
  • Sublime
    Aint Nobody by Rufus & Chaka Khan

    Pure
    Pride in the Name of Love by U2

    Inane and Wonderful
    Avalon by Roxy Music

    Now the party's over
    I'm so tired
    then I see you coming
    out of nowhere
    much communication in a motion
    without conversation or a notion

    Avalon

    when the samba takes you
    out of nowhere
    and the background's fading
    out of focus
    yes the picture's changing
    every moment
    and your destination
    you don't know it

    Avalon

    when you bossanova
    there's no holding
    would you have me dancing
    out of nowhere

  • "Don't Worry, Be Happy".

    Haw! Now you have it in your head! There is no escape!

    Where's the beef?

    Cheers,

    Ethelred

    PS: Well, personally I'd say Rush's Moving Pictures, but I'm a bit biased in favor of good music.

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