Naff today...

[Quigley Brown]

I'm the world's biggest Kraftwerk fan...those dapper technopops.

 

[mysterygal]

oh, and how about def leopard? I was a total fan of especially the lead singer..pour some sugar on me?...oh yeah

 

[Marc Chevalier]

And I liked SPINAL TAP.

 

[Salv]

What about The Smiths/Morrissey...?
Not mentioned so far.

I did/do like them/him

...(snip)...

He's a sharp dressing Man...

B
T

I always liked, and still do like, his style but never liked The Smiths as a band. As nightandthecity said I just wanted to give him a shake...

 

[Marc Chevalier]

In the '80s, I listened to:

-- Devo
-- Talking Heads
-- Dead Kennedys
-- The Clash
-- X
-- Black Flag
-- Rancid
-- Social Distortion
-- English Beat (ska)
-- Souxie and the Banshees
-- Joy Division
-- Sonic Youth
-- The Psychedelic Furs
-- The Cure
-- The Pixies
-- Sandy Duncan's Eye
-- The Pretenders (rarely)
-- Bauhaus
-- The Damned
-- The Jesus and Mary Chain
-- Echo and the Bunnymen
-- Flesh For Lulu
-- 45 Grave
-- Clan of Xymox
-- Dead Can Dance
-- Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel
-- The Meat Puppets
-- They Might Be Giants
-- Alien Sex Fiend
-- (vintage) Screamin' Jay Hawkins

And lots of classical music.


.

 

[BellyTank]

Marc...

What about- The Minutemen/fIREHOSE..?

I still buy Mike Watt records...


B
T

 

[The Wolf]

I try to only write about Golden Era but since I started

M. Chevalier, I knew of most of those groups because of my friend, Sten.
Screamin' Jay Hawkins I had already known about because of my father.

To the Duran Duran fans, I got really sick of "Hungry Like the Wolf" because people would always play it on the jukebox in my honor and I OD'd fast.


The Wolf

 

["Doc" Devereux]

To the Duran Duran fans, I got really sick of "Hungry Like the Wolf" because people would always play it on the jukebox in my honor and I OD'd fast.

I can sympathise. In certain circles my radio callsign is "Wabbit." Unfortunately a couple of guys named Chas 'n' Dave recorded a song by the same name during the eighties. Imagine my joy every time I hear it now.

The same applies to Flanagan and Allen's "Run Rabbit Run" and certain parts of "What's Opera Doc?" (but it's still my favourite cartoon).

 

[Jack Scorpion]

-Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
-The Clash
-Cowboy Junkies
-Talking Heads
-Cowboy Junkies
-Tom Waits

And speaking of great things from the 80s,

me. Circa 1984.

 

[nightandthecity]

Joy Division had their moments - Love Will Tear Us Apart is possibly my favourite 80s song (except it was first recorded in 1979 but you know what I mean...)

 

[jamespowers]

Yes, but ... Duran Duran just ripped off every move Spandau Ballet ever made. Spandau Ballet were based in London while Duran Duran were based in Birmingham - those 100 miles made all the difference as to whether you set the styles or followed them, and Duran Duran were definitely followers.

(dons flame proof suit, and awaits the barrage...)

Heheheheh! That is why they are still around and Spandau Ballet are where? Who are they following now? lol
I have to admit that I liked their first Album with True on it. The well dressed similarity is where it ends though. Their style is totally different. I could just see Spandau Ballet singing Wild Boys---yeah right.

Regards,

J

 

[jamespowers]

[QUOTE="Doc" Devereux]I can't laugh - I still like Robert Palmer's stuff.[/QUOTE]

Powerstation? Sure that was a great project. He had plenty of good stuff on his own as well. Riptide on the Powerstation Album was very vintage.

Regards,

J

 

[jamespowers]

oh, and how about def leopard? I was a total fan of especially the lead singer..pour some sugar on me?...oh yeah

That I can't absolve. Too minimalist and incomprehensible for me. Then again, I wasn't a teenage girl at the time. lol

Regards,

J

 

["Doc" Devereux]

Powerstation? Sure that was a great project. He had plenty of good stuff on his own as well. Riptide on the Powerstation Album was very vintage.

The Power Station album was a lot of fun, and as he got older he moved more toward a vintage style and let his life-long love of early blues music come to the fore. Being that little bit older than most of the eighties pop figures (he was born in 1949), he grew up listening to that sort of thing and wanted to introduce more people to it.

He's also responsible for my initial interest in suits as a teenager.

 

[mysterygal]

and that's just it James, you've gotta have been a teenage girl to fully appreciate it
Thank goodness tastes change! In the words of Aerosmith, 'dude looks like a lady'

 

[jamespowers]

and that's just it James, you've gotta have been a teenage girl to fully appreciate it
Thank goodness tastes change! In the words of Aerosmith, 'dude looks like a lady'

I was thinking of that Aerosmith song but I didn't say it---you did. lol Ahhhhhh! Ahhhhhhh!

Regards,

J

 

[Senator Jack]

The Godfathers

Best dressed band in rock and roll. How they became a footnote, I'll never know.

Regards,

Senator Jack

 

[CWetherby]

In the '80s, I listened to:

-- Devo
-- Talking Heads
-- Dead Kennedys
-- The Clash
-- X
-- Black Flag
-- Rancid
-- Social Distortion
-- English Beat (ska)
-- Souxie and the Banshees
-- Joy Division
-- Sonic Youth
-- The Psychedelic Furs
-- The Cure
-- The Pixies
-- Sandy Duncan's Eye
-- The Pretenders (rarely)
-- Bauhaus
-- The Damned
-- The Jesus and Mary Chain
-- Echo and the Bunnymen
-- Flesh For Lulu
-- 45 Grave
-- Clan of Xymox
-- Dead Can Dance
-- Scraping Foetus Off the Wheel
-- The Meat Puppets
-- They Might Be Giants
-- Alien Sex Fiend
-- (vintage) Screamin' Jay Hawkins

And lots of classical music.


.

I'm sorry, but I find it scary that you can make such a LONG list about 80's music! Of course, I drank back then, so maybe that's why my list is not nearly so long Oh, but the P.Furs!!! And The Fixx and Tears for Fears !! And Simple Minds!! I touched Jim Kerr on the foot during a concert at the (in)famous Bronco Bowl in Dallas. Those were the days! Or so they seemed! And I used to love the Police, but now every time I see Sting I'm almost nauseous. And speaking of nauseous, did you know there's some new pre-teen group called something like Devo 2 and they have re-recorded Devo tunes. Yikes!

 

[Senator Jack]

And how about these Britpop bands:

The Shop Assistants
The Wedding Present
Tallulah Gosh
The Flatmates
Pop Will Eat Itself
The Mighty Lemon Drops
The Motorcycle Boy
Tbe Primitives


Regards,

Senator Jack

 

[Lincsong]

I was the only teenager in the 1980's

Who listened to Frank Sinatra.[huh]