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Best decade for music has to be the 80s in my opinion.

So what are your favourite tracks?

Here's some of mine:


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80's eh...

Hmm - I see Tears for Fears - To be contraversial I say it would have to be "The Hurting" album.
I was never made on "Tales from the high chair"

For me, being at College and on a YTS course,
The popular big hitters were -
U2 "Under a Blood Red Sky" - favourite track "Party Girl"....

Dire Straits - "Brothers in Arms" - The whole album.

And I was a massive Simple Minds fan. - especially the 1982 album "New Gold Dream 81, 82, 83 , 84"...
Fave track - "Big Sleep".
In fact my first concert was Simple Minds at Roundhay Park in Leeds in July 1989.
"Street Fighting Years" tour in front of 90-odd thousand fans in searing hot sun.
Fell out of fanhood with them about 15 years ago with the Neapolis album - total junk but hey ho.
Never really got the vibe after that....

Other than that - Orchestral Manoeuvres In the Dark and Thompson Twins...

Simple Minds. A band named after their fans.
(present company excepted, of course!)

Just for total geekiness...

Named after a line from Jean Genie by David Bowie

He's so simple minded 
he can't drive his module
He bites on the neon and sleeps in the capsule
Loves to be loved, loves to be loved


Previously Johnny and the Self Abusers
(When they were a punk band 1977 - 1978).

James,

I've probably suggested this before, but you should get yourself a copy of the Grand Theft Auto 'Vice City' OST box set. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_The ... ck_Box_Set

The track listing is excellent (if you like popular '80s music), and you can press play on Disc #1 at the start of your working day, only for the final notes of the last song on Disc #7 to expire as you get ready to head home. A day well spent!

In fact, I think all of the videos you've just posted links to (other than the Talk Talk track) are included!

Ah, the 80's very good era for experimentation and expression.

The hurting was a cracking album, I played it over until the tape stretched. I had a bit of a thing for New Order too.

Strange - I put Brothers in Arms on in the car CD player yesterday.
I got bored of it within 30 seconds.
Strange how your tastes change.

but then I get bored of music very easily these days.

My first vinyl LP was Snap! by The Jam. (Christmas 83).
My first CD was U2's Rattle and Hum a couple of years later.

GTA: Vice City has an amazing soundtrack, both pop and rock. Flash FM, Wave 103 and VRock are my usual choice of stations when playing.

As for favourite, well that could be any number of songs, can't pin down my top 1 though.

I don't like pigeonholing them as an '80s band (after all, they've been going strong since 1977, and their commercial peak was 89-93), but The Cure are my all-time favourite band. Then again, Robert Smith and co. produced a lot of great music during the 1980s, which was also their most active decade in terms of singles and albums released, so I guess they do qualify for inclusion on this thread one way or another!


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Just remembered an 80's song I like, Nick Kershaw - The Riddle.

A few tunes that I have on my phone...

H2O - Dream to sleep.
Friction Factory - Feels like heaven.
The Stranglers - Skin Deep.
Ice House - Hey little girl.
Visage - Fade to grey.

for my "softer chilled moments".. well not the stranglers, but the rest are pretty much new romantic "old standards".

And before you ask - nope I never wore make up

humbucker wrote:James,

I've probably suggested this before, but you should get yourself a copy of the Grand Theft Auto 'Vice City' OST box set. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grand_The ... ck_Box_Set

The track listing is excellent (if you like popular '80s music), and you can press play on Disc #1 at the start of your working day, only for the final notes of the last song on Disc #7 to expire as you get ready to head home. A day well spent!

In fact, I think all of the videos you've just posted links to (other than the Talk Talk track) are included!

I think my love of 80s music can be singularly traced back to the many hours I spent playing Vice City back in the day.

Best GTA ever in my opinion.

I'm in a similar boat as you James, however I have heard and liked various 80's songs years before Vice City and even GTA 3 came out. The Police - Message In A Bottle was among my favourites back in school days. Also, Broken Wings by Mister Mister, and Video Killed The Radio Star by The Buggles. Awesome songs.

Have you played Vice City Stories? The soundtrack is also really good, including some very good early metal and power ballards galore.

Time for a thread revival!


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Talk Talk - It’s my life
Black - Wonderful Life
Eric B & Rakim - Paid in full
The Smiths - Charming Man
Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock
Run DMC - Raising Hell
FYC - She drives me crazy
Ultravox - Vienna
Any Madness song
Bob Marley

Some great tracks there Dave.


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Thinking of 80's stuff.

Last night, me n the missus went to see her all time favourite singer at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester.

Sounds very high brow, and indeed was very odd going past hundreds of students in the "refectory" with their cellos and violins.
Students are an unusual breed... music students appear to be just a whole world more stranger and distanced from the human race.
(Just a personal view point.).

Anyway - back to the point.
The person we went to see was seen as a huge Synth Pop singer in the mid eighties, and indeed he honed his keyboard skills for 2 1/2 years at the college all those years ago.

Of course I am talking of Howard Jones, who is still writing and recording songs and has his own label D-Tox.

We sat through a two hour set of mainly old eighties hits whilst he reminisced about his life as a student and his sudden fame after appearing on Top of the Pops and Live aid with material leading all the way up to his two new songs in the new Eddie the Eagle movie.

An anecdote that he revealed last night was that the Japanese version of his hit song "Like to get to know you well" was nearly rejected, because it had been mis-translated from English and had morphed into " Like to force myself upon you"...ooh err!!

Back then (1985 ish).
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And last night...



And the wife's favourite 80's tracks of all time.
Hide n Seek and Pearl in the Shell.

Howard Jones is best mates with my brother-in-law. Lots of nights at his flat spent in the company of Mr Jones, Louis Walsh and Pat Sharp. 80s-tastic. The mother-in-law seems to have Pat Sharp as her personal DJ. Whenever he's on air, she texts him musical requests and he obliges!

I think the missus is only one step short of being a stalker.
Been to every tour of his in the last 15 years or so.
Always attends the meets and greets after his concerts.
Personally I can't see how he makes much money from ticket sales, because all his gigs are very small and intimate with only a couple of hundred fans at each one.

Apart from the festivals and rewind tours of course.

Obviously for the love of the music and the fans... sounds a bit cliche, I know.

My wife is the same with Nik Kershaw, who is still writing and performing songs. I end up taking her to see him at small venues for genuine fans and the odd 80s revival festival.

The Riddle is still one of my favourite pop songs of all time. When I say all time, I mean the proper pop songs, not anything past say... 1995.. ish.

Some excellent songs there, let's have them up:


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I love this music video:


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Billy Joel: We Didn't Start The Fire

Got to learn it word for word last summer as it was on every other night coming from my room after a few beers

It's going up!


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