My hate/love for the 80's

[sutnop]

As much as I hate the commericlization
and whitening of disco music in the 80's

one can't help but get hooked on some of the songs

Taylor Dane - Tell it to my heart
Whitney Houston - How will I know
Jefferson Starship - We built this city
(its not really disco but cheesy enough)
Bowow - I want Candy
Diana Ross - Upside Down (in love with the funk guitarr)
Boney M - Steppenwolf
Phil Collins - Sussusdio
Kylie - I should be so lucky
Prince - I wanna be your lover
Michael Jackson - You wanna be starting something

The two last ones are two of the cathiest songs but also
the songs that lay the ground for commerical inclusion of drum machines and synthaziers
in the Disco funk Music
which became Michael Jackson rise
and the whole Funk generations fall

Prince created
Michael Jackson utalized

so once again thank you Michael
for cross over to Pop
you killed the whole genre

[sirius]

So sorry, but BONEY M. "He Was A Steppenwolf"
and PRINCE"I Wanna Be Your Lover" is from
1978 and 79.
You wouldn´t believe, but in the 80ies I
was in the New-Romantic-& Gothic-Movement...
Cosmic Love & Kisses From SIRIUS & DARKTUNES

[sutnop]

Wasn't I wanna be your lover
The first track on PRince
sophmore album??

[DISCODISK]

is this hells playlist or am i in the wrong place?!!

[sutnop]

I thought I told you guys that I had a love hate realtion to these songs.....

[HustleBaby]

The 80's were okay...I'll take the 70's over the 80's anyday! So what music videos were born in the 80's (MTV). In the beginning I enjoyed them up until the late 80's and then everything became so commercialized (you're right Sutnop)! Even the fashions were lame though I have to admit that I wore some of that stuff (my style was combined with Cyndi Lauper and early hip-hop flava). Jheri Curls UUUUGGGHHHHH!!!! Anyway there was some good songs from that era that I like such as:

1.Genesis
2.The Go-Go's *Head Over Heels/Vacation*
3.Madonna
4.The Bangles *Manic Monday*
5.Pet Shop Boys *West End Girls/D.J Culture /Always On My Mind/Jealousy
6.OMD
7.Duran Duran *View To A Kill*
8.Cyndi Lauper *Girls Just Wanna Have Fun/Change Of Heart/All Through The Night*
9.Simple Minds *Alive & Kickin'/Don't You Forget About Me*
10.The Motels * Summer*
11.Thompson Twins *In The Name Of Love/Lay Your Hands*
12.Human League
13.Culture Club *karma Karmeleon/Time*
14.Erasure
and several others....

*DELIGHTFUL*

[nonkel808]

Wow Hustlebaby,
You just mentioned the soundtrack of my early youth! It's exactly what was playing when i was growing up as a very young kid.
Back then i was buying compilation albums on vinyl (that i still have) such as: HITCONNECTION 84, The best from TOP 40 of 1985, etc... and playing them over and over again on my crappy plastic recordplayer with integrated speakers that i received for my 9th birthday.
I guess my favorites back then were:
Frankie goes to Hollywood, Duran Duran, Vanessa Paradis (Joe le Taxi > i was so much in love with that cute little frensh girly back then!), CULTURE CLUB, Madonna, Modern Talking, WHAM, ...
Well, just all the big 80's bands or artist, and the biggest hits from then!

Later when i was in my teenage rebellion years, i started to hate this 80's music so much i turned myself to more rock and metal bands, just before the big Grunge wave of the 90's. Discovering rockband such as Pixies, Sonic youth, THE THE, Smaching pumpins (i still adore their first album GISH), Tool, Living Colour (most funkiest rockband back then!) Faith No More, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden, Metallica and NIRVANA.

Well, those were the days. Long haired, thorn jeanspants and lumberjack shirts, the louder the guitarsolos the better.
But that didn't last. I still love those albums, but since 5 or 6 years i haven't bought any rock record anymore.
Now i'm just buying music with a groove!
everything from funk, soul, hiphop, house, reggea, disco, ...
But most importantly, i'm buying 80's music again! But nowadays its not the big hit artist anymore. I'm discovering that the eighties were very creative musical years as artist and producers discovered new technological ways to make music! Plus there was lots of musical eperiments going on, mixing all kinds of styles together resulting sometimes in interresting pieces of music, but as well resulting in musical crap that's best forgotten today!

And it seems that everybody is discovering the eighties again! I just think this has a lot to do with the most influential people in music today being from same age as i am. Everybody is looking back to his joyfull happy youth and importing that 80's style in music they make now. Experimenting like they did back in the days.

Anyway, what i was trying to say is that i've changed my disguss for 80's music into love and appreciation! It's rich a part of our musical culture not to be forgotten.

Peace,
808

[Voyage]

HustleBaby, I just love the artists and songs that you've mentioned.

And I agree with you Nonkel that the 80s are "coming back" b/c today some people are even doing covers and remixes from 80s music.

A recent example: Madhouse made a remix/cover (not sure) of Like A Prayer and Holiday

Also the Bloodhound Gang in 2000 with Mope they included some bits of Relax and Amadeus in that song.

Voyage

[sutnop]

I am sorry to hear that the 80's are coming back

Personally I am all for the late 70's

as Noke mentionend the new instruments resulted in a lot of experimenting mostly bad stuff...

And the 80's was basically about Explotation in the late 80's there was this

'hip' black thing called rap who had caught on a white audience

so suddenly Record Companies started to throw in rap rhymes in just about everything to make it hip
hell even stupid commericals.....

But I must say that some of the Disco Songs and Madonna songs are cachty and joyfull
in a chessy way

its for the days I am feeling shallow
those are the days when the 80's suit me the best

For those of you who enjoy such music check out the American Psycho sountrack

that one has some
typical 80's music on it.......

[HustleBaby]

I was in my late teens during the mid 80's and believe it or not, I was the biggest Molly Ringwald fan. From 1981-1987 was okay but like I mentioned earlier, I grew tired of it and found my first love - the 70's!

Hip-hop music which was born in urban cities such as The Bronx was what me and my friends listened to all the time. In its early years, hip-hop music was fun but after 1985 I turned off from it as well. Rap/hip-hop still remains HIP not just to us black folks but to all races worldwide. Personally, I don't like it. Its not like how it used to be when it first started.

I was never a Michael Jackson fan (except for OFF THE WALL) but my sister loved him. I prefer Prince's "Purple Rain" over "Thriller".

Here are some other songs that I like:
Obsession - Animotion
Silent Running - Mike & The Mechanics
I Wonder If I Take You Home - Lisa Lisa
Broken Wings - Mr.Mister
99 Red Balloons - Nena
Too Shy - Kajagoogoo?
Venus/Cruel Summer - Bananarama
Caribbean Queen/Love Zone - Billy Ocean
Safety Dance - ?
Der Kommissar - ?
Be Near Me/When Smokey Sings - ABC
Head Over Heels/Everybody Wants To Rule The World - Tears For Fears
Never Surrender - ?
All Fall Down/Let Me Be The One - Five Star
Take Me Home - Phil Collins
She Blinded Me With Science - Thomas Dolby

My all-time favorite show from the 80's is........MIAMI VICE!!!!!!

*DISCO DELIGHT*

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[BrunoRepublic]

Too Shy - Kajagoogoo?

Correct

Safety Dance - ?

Men Without Hats

Der Kommissar - ?

Falco

Never Surrender - ?

Possibly Corey Hart, although I was under the impression that his music wasn't successfully inflicted on anyone outside of Canada :grin:

[HustleBaby]

On 2002-06-24 03:23, Graham Start wrote:
Never Surrender - ?

Possibly Corey Hart, although I was under the impression that his music wasn't successfully inflicted on anyone outside of Canada :grin:

Hey Graham,
Corey Hart was the name stuck on my tongue but I just couldn't get it out last night. He was quite popular around 1985 especially with his first hit single "Sunglasses At Night". I didn't really care for that song but its what got him on MTV. I think that those were his major hits because he seemed to have faded out towards late 80's.

*DISCO DELIGHT*
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[Robbie]

HustleBaby--

I liked just about all of the songs you mentioned. I liked a lot of the popular music up until 1991, when everything changed practically overnight, and the whole grunge thing came in, and I lost interest of current music completely.

Here are some of my favorite 80's songs:

1. "Holding Back The Years"-Simply Red
2. "Come Go With Me/Seasons Change/Point Of No Return"-Expose
3. "Angel/Open Your Heart/Crazy For You"-Madonna
4. "Touch Me (I Want Your Body)/Naughty Girls (Need Love Too)/I Wanna Have Some Fun"-Samantha Fox
5. "I'm On Fire"-Bruce Springsteen
6. "Easy Lover"-Phil Collins and Philip Bailey
7. "I Still Believe"-Brenda K. Starr
8. "Crush On You/You Got It All/Cross My Broken Heart"-The Jets
9. "I Can't Fight This Feeling"-REO Speedwagon
10. "Secret Lovers"-Atlantic Starr
11. "Piano In The Dark"-Brenda Russell
12. "I Just Died In Your Arms Tonight"-Cutting Crew

There are a lot of others, but I can't think of them at the moment.

I also like Tears For Fears' "Everybody Wants To Rule The World". That is one of my all-time fave 80's songs.

[Blaxman]

Hi, I hate one thing from the 80's.
All those great (and big) funk bands that switch their entire horn sections and their string arrangements for keyboard/sinth stuff. There are nothing worse than fake horns and strings in a funk band. :sad:

_________________
SENHORES DO GROOVE - BRAZIL

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[HustleBaby]

One of the things that I hated from the 80's is those big hair boy bands like TWISTED SISTER, MOTLEY CRUE ETC... Those guys looked HIDEOUS with that HORRENDOUS BIG HAIR and Phyllis Diller make-up!!! Tommy Lee and Vince is much more handsome without all that goo on their faces topped with gallons of mousse and Final Net "superhold" spray! I know it was those times but DAMN it was not flattering!

*DISCO DELIGHT*

[sutnop]

On 2002-06-26 10:21, Blaxman wrote:
Hi, I hate one thing from the 80's.
All those great (and big) funk bands that switch their entire horn sections and their string arrangements for keyboard/sinth stuff. There are nothing worse than fake horns and strings in a funk band. :sad:

_________________
SENHORES DO GROOVE - BRAZIL

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Couldn't Agree more Blax

[Funky Dude]

To my humble opinion, the 80's were good but not as good as the 70's because the 70's music was more wilder and by all means funkier.

Here are some of my favourite 80's dance songs:

Lime - Your Love 1981
Indeep - Last Night A DJ Saved My Life 1981 (Funky bass)
Go West - We Close Our Eyes 1985
Haircut 100 - Boy Meets Girl 1981 (Love the fast funky guitar rhythm)
Weird Al Yankovic - Living With A Hernia 1986 (Great parody of a James Brown hit, haven't heard James Brown's "Living In America" yet)
Bar-Kays - Do It 1982 (Still funky as ever )
Lionel Ritchie - All Night Long 1983 (I know some of you hate it but I like it)
Hamilton Bohannon - Happy Dance 1981
Simple Minds - Promised You A Miracle 1982 (I LOVE the video effects in their promo clip and the girl too )
Bootsy Collins - Body Slam 1982 (He's rippin' that bass man! )
Weird Al Yankovic - Fat 1988 (:lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: )
Gap Band - Burn Rubber On Me 1980
Culture Club - It's A Miracle 1984
Human League - Love Action 1981
Duran Duran - My Own Way 1982
Kool & The Gang - Celebration 1980 (Although overplayed it's still a good song, but Kool & The Gang to me were at their best in the early/mid 70's)
New Order - Blue Monday 1983
Earth Wind & Fire - Let's Groove 1981
Grace Jones - Pull Up To The Bumper 1980
Marcia Hines - Love Still Brings Me To My Knees 1981
Laura Branigan - Gloria 1982 (Another song that pops up on the hate lists, I guess I'm one of few on this board who likes it)
Wham - Young Guns Go For It 1982 (This is to me the best Wham song, it sounds funkier than the rest)
Rocksteady Crew - Uprock 1984 (Great song and watching a 1984 Countdown episode featuring the breakdance special, Rocksteady crew were great breakdancers)
Young MC - Bust A Move 1989 (This rap song has really cool bass)
Prince - Rasberry Beret 1985
S.O.S. Band - Just Be Good To Me 1983 (I've got the Soul Train video clip of this)
David Bowie - Let's Dance 1983
Men At Work - Land Down Under 1981 (Great song done by our home grown group)
Allniters - Montego Bay 1983
KC & The Sunshine Band - Give It Up 1982
Human League - Fascination 1981
Madonna - Holiday 1983 (This is about the only Madonna song that I really go for)
Weird Al Yankovic - Like A Surgeon 1985
Black Lace - Agadoo 1984 (This song sounds silly and a bit like childrens music but it's got really good rhythm and the video is so funny because all the bandmembers are dressed as fruit and the cherry head bartender look like a big red arse :lol: :lol: :lol: )
Nik Kershaw - Wide Boy 1985
Queen - Another One Bites The Dust 1980 (Queen at it's funkiest)
Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round 1985
Tears For Fears - Everybody Wants To Rule The World 1985
Midge Ure - If I Was 1985 (Great song and great nail art music video)
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls 1985 (Great song, my favourite of them is "Can You Forgive Her")
Gangajang - Sounds Of Then 1986
Aretha Franklin - Freeway Of Love 1985
Cameo - Word Up 1986 (About the only video clip I have of him)
Hue Lewis & The News - Hip To Be Square (More rock than dance, but I like it, funny thing about the clip is the group members look like aged 40 school teachers so what comes to my mind is "It's hip to be a square!" :lol: :lol: :lol: )
Gangajang - House Of Cards 1986
M.A.R.R.S. - Pump Up The Volume 1987
Whitney Houston - I Want To Dance With Somebody 1987
Dave Dobbin - Slice Of Heaven 1987 (Theme from the movie of Australia's famous comic "Footrot Flats")
Kylie Minogue - I Should Be So Lucky 1988
Kylie Minogue - Turn Back Time 198? (Song about the 70's disco days, even has the disco wah wah sounds in it)
Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes - I've Had The Time Of My Life 1987
Giorgio Moroder - Electric Dreams 1984

I mainly know the mainstream 80's music as I don't look into the 80's as much as the 70's.

Still I grew up in the 80's as a little kid in Tasmania (the small island below Australia) and at the time I was mainly into the corny kiddy music I'd hear when watching Playschool (ARRRGGHHHH!!!!). Still during the latter half of the 80's 1987-1989 when I was 6-8 years old I remember hearing these on pop radio in the car when my parents were driving here and there:
Midge Ure - If I Was 1985
Sports - Walk Of Life 1986
Bobby McFerrin - Don't Worry Be Happy 1987
Daryl Braithwaite - As Days Go By 1988
The Firm - Star Trekkin' 1987 (Very weird)
Phil Collins - Two Hearts 1988
and others

Anyhow there are a few things I don't like about the 80's:

Some of the mullets looked annoying especially Pseudo Echo's.

The hard funk bands of the 1970's such as Commodores, Kool & The Gang and others have gone softy in the 80's.

Music to my opinion isn't as funky as it was in the 70's.

Disco has merged into new wave and synth pop, not that I don't like those styles but a lot of it doesn't sound as good as 70's disco and funk music.

Australia's pop show "Countdown" had less live studio acts but more music videos.

When I hear some of the songs they bring back memories of my childhood at primary school, they were fond memories but I really really miss the beautiful girls I use to know at the school and a few years after I moved away from Tasmania in 1990 I really started to miss those beautiful girls and haven't seen them in 12 years and I feel pretty sad about that, I can't help it. :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: :cry: And when I hear some of those songs I end up thinking of them and it pisses me off because the fact I may never see them again.

Anyhow getting back on track and to the point, I like the 80's but I LOVE the 70's, that's why I call myself Funky Dude .

[nrgbeat]

Funky, that was one long post!!!

Aren't there any beautiful girls where you live? You can dazzle them with your knowledge of disco and funk music.

[sirius]

Dear Friends! I personally found the 80ies
really terrible: No more Disco, only cold
synthesizer-sounds, new age, AIDS, Ronald
and Maggie...the BIG SPLIT on the Dancefloor
...everyone for himself...and then these
terrible yuppies!
I was really into VISAGE/ULTRAVOX/GRACE JONES
DEAD OR ALIVE/DIVINE/SIOUXIE & THE BANSHEES/
KRAFTWERK/TOYAH/FRONT 242/DIAMANDA GALAS/
ANNE CLARK/SOFT CELL & MARC ALMOND/SIGUE
SIGUE SPUTNIK...there was nothing for me
to party! Love was finished in the 80ies
with DYNASTY and Tchernobyl.
I wish I´ll never see the 80ies again.
But the positive thing on this decade is,
that there were also fantastic Paradise-
GarageTrax, which I am discovering nowadays.
If I´m talking about the 80ies nowadays,
there´s only HI-NRG and ItaloDisco with
quality and certainly the PARADISE-GARAGE.
I began to dance again, when AcidHouse came
along in Europe about 1989...
Cosmic Love & Kisses From SIRIUS & DARKTUNES

[Funky Dude]

Funky, that was one long post!!!

Aren't there any beautiful girls where you live? You can dazzle them with your knowledge of disco and funk music.

I'm not as sociallable as I use to be when I was a kid. On the internet yes but in real life no. Plus I don't fancy most of the girls at my college anyway because most of them are smokers and there is nothing that saddens me more than to see a beautiful girl with a cigarette in her mouth reason being is while she's beautiful on the outside, on the inside her lungs are ROTTING and getting filled up with tar, they are constantly coughing and knowing they are going to age badly and suffer in the long run and possibly die of lung cancer really depresses me :evil: and bash every bastard who run the cigarette companies :evil: , all they care about is money money money and don't give a rats arse about what they are doing to us real humans. They are so damn cruel!!!

I've NEVER EVER smoked one cigarette in my life and never will because I don't want to live knowing my lungs are rotting and risking the possibility of lung cancer.

Anyhow I just want to be with a good looking girl who doesn't smoke and we have a lot in common especially with disco music.

[sutnop]

On 2002-06-29 12:30, Funky Dude wrote:

Funky, that was one long post!!!

Aren't there any beautiful girls where you live? You can dazzle them with your knowledge of disco and funk music.

I hate cigarettes to thats
why I try convince my friends to use a
glass pipe when somking the jays instead

then I can participate too
without getting a cough attack....

I'm not as sociallable as I use to be when I was a kid. On the internet yes but in real life no. Plus I don't fancy most of the girls at my college anyway because most of them are smokers and there is nothing that saddens me more than to see a beautiful girl with a cigarette in her mouth reason being is while she's beautiful on the outside, on the inside her lungs are ROTTING and getting filled up with tar, they are constantly coughing and knowing they are going to age badly and suffer in the long run and possibly die of lung cancer really depresses me :evil: and bash every bastard who run the cigarette companies :evil: , all they care about is money money money and don't give a rats arse about what they are doing to us real humans. They are so damn cruel!!!

I've NEVER EVER smoked one cigarette in my life and never will because I don't want to live knowing my lungs are rotting and risking the possibility of lung cancer.

Anyhow I just want to be with a good looking girl who doesn't smoke and we have a lot in common especially with disco music.

[HustleBaby]

On 2002-06-29 11:53, sirius wrote:
Dear Friends! I personally found the 80ies
really terrible: No more Disco, only cold
synthesizer-sounds, new age, AIDS, Ronald
and Maggie...the BIG SPLIT on the Dancefloor
...everyone for himself...and then these
terrible yuppies!
I wish I´ll never see the 80ies again.

Cosmic Love & Kisses From SIRIUS & DARKTUNES

Hi Sirius,
If I can turn back the hands of time, I would go back to 1975. Why? Because the mid 70's were some of the best years in my life. I have to admit that I had a pretty good childhood. No my family wasn't rich but we had each other and great times together. Plus the whole disco era was fascinating to me.

Once the 80's came it brought "death & destruction"! AIDS & CRACK is what enters my mind when I think of that decade. The world all of a sudden became so scary and I hated it! It was a rude awakening that disco was slain and the fun was OVER. A lot of good people that I knew had their lives destroyed or died in the 80's. The republicans (Ronald Reagan) FUCKED UP the urban cities nationwide and many other programs! Sorry Ricardo. There were good songs that came from that decade but it can't come close to the 70's. My high school years weren't all that great either and that godawful everyone for himself attitude. I couldn't agree with you more! I hated the 80's!

P.S - Who's Maggie?
*DELIGHTFUL*