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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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New Order/Joy Division
Bauhaus
B52s
Billy Idol
Violent Femmes
Simple Minds
English Beat/General Public
Talking Heads
The Stranglers
The Ramones
Thomas Dolby
Duran Duran
REM
The Go Gos
The Clash/Big Audio Dynamite
Blancmange
Bob Seger
The Cure
Depeche Mode
Elvis Costello
Elvis Hitler
Eurythmics
Blondie
Grapes of Wrath
House Martins
King Missile
OMD
Payolas
Prince
Roxy Music
Sex Pistols
Shriekback
The Spoons
The Style Council
Tears for Fears
Supertramp
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Yaya
Joined: 25 Feb 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:33 am Post subject: |
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Unposter
Joined: 04 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 6:56 am Post subject: |
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What? No one liked Men At Work?
Glad to see someone mention Billy Idol and Big Audio Dynamite! Fun Stuff!
I don't think anyone has mentioned John Mellencamp yet either.
No MJ fans either, I guess that should not be a surprise.
The Police? or are they too 70s?
Hall and Oates?
Its gotta be Maddona, right?
There was a lot of fun music in the early 80s but great music, that is much harder to say. |
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mindmetoo
Joined: 02 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:19 am Post subject: |
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I don't think anyone has mentioned John Mellencamp yet either.
No MJ fans either, I guess that should not be a surprise.
The Police? or are they too 70s?
Hall and Oates?
Its gotta be Maddona, right?
There was a lot of fun music in the early 80s but great music, that is much harder to say. |
Yeah, John Cougar should be on my list as well as The Police. I left U2 off on purpose, however. I just never enjoyed anything they did after Under a Blood Red Sky. Most of my bands are new wavey but I could be compelled to add some hard rock. Def Leppard for example. I actually convinced a reader of my blog that the first dance at her wedding, as man and wife, should be to Def Leppard's Pour Some Sugar On Me. |
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Unposter
Joined: 04 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:45 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, there was already that thread about U2 and REM so I left them out as well.
I was thinking Def Leppard too.
I was just listening to some internet radio and they mentioned that Pat Benatar was the biggest selling female artist of the 80s, hard to believe she sold more than Maddona though, the DJ must have gotten that wrong.
The funny part about the 80s is that it seems many of the biggest selling albums of that era were all by 70s artists: MJ, Billy Joel, David Bowie, Heart, the Police, Dire Straights, YES, Pink Floyd, the Rolling Stones, Lionel Ritchie; I'm sure I'm forgetting someone....
It seemed like they all came back for atleast one big album and cash out. |
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Unposter
Joined: 04 Jun 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:59 am Post subject: |
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Oh yeah...
Bruce Springstien, Phil Collins, Genesis, Peter Gabriel, Queen, Robert Plant, Don Henley, Glen Fry, Stevie Wonder, Foreigner and Lou Gramm, J. Geils Band and Peter Wolf, Journey and Steve Perry, Bob Segar, Steve Miller, Jackson Browne, the Pointer Sisters, Donna Summer, Diana Ross...all 70s artists who had at least one big hit in the 80s.
Even artists like the Talking Heads and the Cars got their start in the 70s. |
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bejarano-korea
Joined: 13 Dec 2006
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 11:55 am Post subject: |
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Australian and NZ rock and pop became very popular during the 1980s soooo - will honour these as well as other acts
Midnight Oil (Is diesel and dust one of the greatest albums of all time? I think so)
INXS
Mental as Anything
Split Enz/Crowded House
The Black Sorrows
Jimmy Barnes
Men at Work
1927
Some British acts
Bananarama
The Specials
Fun Boy Three
Madness
Altered Images (Listen to them if you have never heard them)
Tracy Ullman (They don't know - is just a perfect pop song)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4K1xnVFxfw0
Dexys Midnight Runners
Blancmange
Gary Numan and the Tubeway Army
The Human League
Heaven 17 (Come live with me)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j_ca1JXmfCw
ABC (Be near me)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rxcpDR6drHk
Toyah Wilcox
Bad Manners
I can think of many more... but my brain has gone into deep freeze!
I would love to say that we listened to great tunes everyday on the radio but the 1980s radio meant listening to Rick Astley, Shaking Stevens and
'The Birdie Song' 50 times a day!  |
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Hank the Iconoclast
Joined: 08 Oct 2007
Location: Busan
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 1:20 pm Post subject: |
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I'll add Phil Collins because of Face Value and Hello, I Must Be Going  |
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Fishead soup
Joined: 24 Jun 2007
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 3:20 pm Post subject: |
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New Order/Joy Division
Bauhaus
B52s
Billy Idol
Violent Femmes
Simple Minds
English Beat/General Public
Talking Heads
The Stranglers
The Ramones
Thomas Dolby
Duran Duran
REM
The Go Gos
The Clash/Big Audio Dynamite
Blancmange
Bob Seger
The Cure
Depeche Mode
Elvis Costello
Elvis Hitler
Eurythmics
Blondie
Grapes of Wrath
House Martins
King Missile
OMD
Payolas
Prince
Roxy Music
Sex Pistols
Shriekback
The Spoons
The Style Council
Tears for Fears
Supertramp
The The |
I though this was an eighties thread. The Sex Pistols broke up in 1978. |
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Justin Hale
Joined: 24 Nov 2007
Location: the Straight Talk Express
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 4:22 pm Post subject: |
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Don't forget Tears for Fears, guys.
Albums The Hurting, Songs from the big chair and Seeds of love all contain essentials.
I consider Depeche Mode a 90s band really because their most revered albums - Violator in particular (but Ultra from 1997 is my favorite) - were 90s albums.
See also the Pet Shop Boys. They were a great group until they became uber-pooftas with dancing sailors etc. Jesus, way to alienate your heterosexual fans, eh? However their songs Love comes quickly and Violence are exceptional. |
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mrgiles
Joined: 09 Jul 2007
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 5:49 pm Post subject: |
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Midnight Oil (Is diesel and dust one of the greatest albums of all time? I think so)
INXS
Split Enz/Crowded House |
damn straight!! fantastic bands. the oils are right up there in my favourite rock acts. also, don't forget the scientists - one of those bands that did grunge before grunge was grunge - awesome stuff.
i can't believe i forgot about blondie and the cure, either. |
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| Posted: Wed Apr 23, 2008 9:07 pm Post subject: |
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a few classics:
minor threat
cro-mags
big black
dinosaur jr.
black flag
husker fucking du
corrosion of conformity
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the jesus and mary chain - i'm damned surprised this album has not been mentioned yet. it was pretty much my grade 10 soundtrack.
like 'em or not, S.O.D.
-this album could be a really good motivational tool for korean hagwon classes, no?
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No_hite_pls
Joined: 05 Mar 2007
Location: Don't hate me because I'm right
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U2 is by far the best band of the eighties, I can't beleive I was first person to write this
Run D.M.C. 
Tear for Fears
Simple Minds
Crowded House
Police
Def Lepard
The Cure
Duran Duran
The Clash/BAD
Genesis
INXS
Solo Artists
Bruce Springsteen
Peter Gabriel
Micheal Jackson
Cynthia Lauper
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uberscheisse
Joined: 02 Dec 2003
Location: japan is better than korea.
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| No_hite_pls wrote: |
| U2 is by far the best band of the eighties |
no they weren't, and there was a whole other thread pitting them against the equally dull REM. maybe you didn't see it. (and i say that trying to be as non-message-board-condescending-fruit as possible). |
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BS.Dos.
Joined: 29 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Thu Apr 24, 2008 3:39 am Post subject: |
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The Clash? Most definitely.
BAD? I'm not so sure. With the exception of E=MC2 their stuff hasn't aged particularly well. |
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