(Roj, thats the 1980s mate :ok:)

This is a self indulgent odyssey - forgive me. Which acts have stood the 25 year test of time?

For starters, let me offer Simple Minds. Forever the whipping boys to U2, they did some great stuff. Tears for Fears too, haven't they stood the test of time well and I am only now, less than uneasy about allowing my offspring sift through pop's CD collection.

YouTube - Simple Minds - New Gold Dream (Maxi) 12" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWAC4UeWGd0)

YouTube - Tears For Fears - Head Over Heels: Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yj_2LxY757I)

YouTube - The Adventures - Broken Land (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87PMeLEHISA)

.. and perhaps the most under rated band of the lot?

YouTube - Talk Talk - Life's What You Make It (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXsmyLtpxlA)

YouTube - Talk Talk - LIVING IN ANOTHER WORLD - 1986 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAlLQaDXc4I&feature=related)

.. well, perhaps not all the collection is available for scrutiny - not just yet.

YouTube - If you were here tonight-Alexander O'neal (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QpmdNqRhhR0)

YouTube - A Flock Of Seagulls - I Ran (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uUjIA3Rt7gk&feature=PlayList&p=2E03968520CE284B&playnext=1&playnext_from=PL&index=1)

Drifting off thread before the thread even starts, didn't U2 do some fabulous stuff?

YouTube - Bad - U2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V2kDzJ5hsbw)

YouTube - U2 - The Unforgettable Fire: Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yiNqwEAtpk&feature=related)

YouTube - U2 - Lemon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HAXI1urvxDI&feature=channel)

YouTube - U2 - Sweetest Thing: Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1wfv3lJs5qE&feature=channel)

YouTube - U2 - All I Want Is You: Video (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w-TssRlmmBE&feature=channel)

Bono's preamble at the start of this puts the track in a wider context.

YouTube - Sunday Bloody Sunday (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdceKu89SxY&feature=related)

still fresh..
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Roj, thats the 1980s mate


Hmmmmmm ---- thinks ---- must ask Flaps if she thinks that's worth one
week or two.

;)

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Referee!

Bruce: Run DMC are cool. Its official.

can't touch this:

YouTube - Mc Hammer can't touch this (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ2ZFVx6A4Q)

I was in the crowd at Run DMC's first ever UK gig, at the Electric Ballroom in Camden in 1984. Therefore, by extension, I'm cool.:cool:

how about this one? Bomb The Bass - Winter in July. :ok:

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My embarassing but still much loved CD? :O

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Sprogget,

With a mug of cocoa in my hand, on my father's lap, I watched Neil Armstrong walk on the moon. That doesn't make me an astronaut. :=

One of the best songs of the 80s. Although, not cool. Yet. But it will be.

Maybe.

YouTube - Don Henley ? The Boys Of Summer ? ?HD16:9? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0vVAOrWUcrM)

Don Henley - are you serious?:eek:

Besides, by your own anaolgy, you were at mission control - I was in the Eagle.:p

Yes and Mr Henley plus Talk Talk good choice

YouTube - Yes - Going For The One (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ZNE36VjIlk)

Actually, no Sprogget.

Dad and I were first in and did the route recce.. god, it was cold, the only thing that kept us going was the Cocoa. That must have been you I saw.. getting closer and peering down from that little triangular window then?

Anyway Sproggers, Don Henley is the dogs nuts. :cool:

fhegner, wrong decade mebbe, but great choice. I love this one.

YouTube - I've Seen All Good People (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bvPyT-YGUIg)

Don't you love it when things just.. work?

YouTube - Sugar Hill Gang - Rapper's Delight 1/2 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1QvfrNIK_WQ)

AI R

Yes I understand (now) it was wrong decade, but then here's a very much '80 thing, specially the video (low quality though).

YouTube - Yes-Rhythm Of Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RLMKyADJyY)

btw: Danmark-Sverige 1-0

going SA

Yes

Dunno about low quality, that Sam Fox look still works for me. :ok:

This one just squeeks in.

YouTube - U.B.40 - King (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i2CHP071rnQ)

Pah! Bearing in mind the thread title, Don Henley was only ever cool for four or five years up until '76 at best & certainly not after punk. That eighties schtick was strictly for spotty youths who are no longer youths but still spotty and have well worn copies of Top Gun, Days of Thunder & An officer & a gentleman perched atop the VCR.:=

Radar66 among others......

can you pls explain me how I can 'embed' the videos like you do?

thx

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Sprogget,

Clearly, you have just turned 16. I'll see your Run DMC and raise you.

YouTube - The End of the Innocence (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipP3qy-NZKE&feature=related)

Anyway.. def 80s cool again. Apparantly.

YouTube - Propaganda - Duel (HQ) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yLhYxLE8uCA)

I'm off to Youtube(Sounds like ubend) to find a performance of ...

Piper at the Gates of Dawn..

Failure is only a step on the road to success..

CAT III

To me, that song is formulaic 80's pop & I certainly don't remember them. I prefer bands that blazed a trail, not followed the pack:

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And these. best British band of the last twenty five years. There is no question of that, a massive legacy. You know your musical legacy is secure when you're asked onto Newsnight to deny rumours of a reunion....

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And if that weren't enough, things got warm at the end of the decade...

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Great last two, this works for me.

YouTube - Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cme2q0N7nM&feature=PlayList&p=B338C6943C976586&index=0&playnext=1)

Fabulous.. its like the tide coming in, slowly but relentlessly.. wave after wave.. getting stronger and stronger. They couldn't hold a beat if their lives depended on it, but who cared? Brilliant memories.

And always cool. But now a bit fat. A bit of a stalkers anthem too. Scary.

YouTube - Morrissey -The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cZFd5w_IoBQ)

This reminds me of jankers.

YouTube - Double - The Captain Of Her Heart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YX-Ru1XkNZc)

And, well..

YouTube - Furniture - Brilliant Mind 1986 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JeEXP717T0)

Remember this? A smile with your subversion.

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And this. The very best night out I ever had was in the Hacienda, shortly before it finally ran out of New Order's cash.

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Ohhh, very good Sprogsley. :D

YouTube - The The - "This Is The Day" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMWzYip6R30&feature=PlayList&p=84929727A39820B7&index=0&playnext=1)

I fear they will never be cool again though.

This song reminds me of taking my mate's wife to see him in hospital after he got shot. We parked up by the Autobahn and I found a bottle of Martini in the boot.

The Scorpion in Catterick Garrison.. right AA? :ok:

YouTube - Lotus Eaters - "First Picture Of You" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oynqVSmYdzM&feature=PlayList&p=84929727A39820B7&index=5)

It's interesting to me that the 80's are widely held up as the decade music forgot & yet the kids are now sampling tunes widely from then & having hits.

There was always good stuff around, just as there is now - the trick, as ever is to separate the wheat from the chaff. Spandau Ballet were great in the early days. ABC, Human League - Sheffield had it stitched up for a while

British rock & pop has always been strong throughout the decades, but the 80's was really all about the advent of technology, samplers, synths, drum machines - remember 808 state? They were named after a drum machine - the Linn 808 IIRC.

But for me, the back end of the decade was absolutely stormed by Manchester, it was where all of the really, really good stuff was coming from - The Roses, Happy Mondays, Durutti Column, Joy Division & then New Order, Northside, Wonder Stuff, the Inspiral Carpets, The Smiths. At the time, it was dismissed as student music, but a very great deal of it has stood the test of time, especially the Stone Roses & The Smiths.:ok:

A one hit curio...
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For 6 months, I worked in a hotel in a region where all the best bands stayed. I got to see ABC, H17 (great act), Human League, Teardrop Explodes, Spandau Ballet, Haircut 100, Gillan (!), The Mighty WAH!, AFoS etc. Good times.

YouTube - Julian Cope - World Shut Your Mouth (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa8gYL_SC9o)

One of the greatest lost bands of the period.

YouTube - The Faith Brothers - Stranger on Home Ground In-Concert 1985 (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE8-wGeOthg&feature=PlayList&p=1251308960492FE2&index=0&playnext=1)

The Manchester scene for me, didn't come into its own until the early/mid 90s when the Charlatans mellowed a bit. James can hardly put a foot wrong in my book and bands like Oasis of course, and especially (for me) Gomez carried things on although there seems to be a void at the moment. This is an almost genius incidental post script to the period.

YouTube - ELECTRONIC GETTING AWAY WITH IT (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSP1EPfXxsQ&feature=related)

What lyrics.

Korgis - yes.. good one off curio that. A bit like this weird thing.

YouTube - Landscape - My Name Is Norman Bates (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pLvnYwvJMKE)

Loved this.

YouTube - Kraftwerk - Neon Lights (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9YCZVeIJ8xk)

YouTube - Yes-Rhythm Of Love (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RLMKyADJyY)
I listened to that album (Big Generator) recently - it's pretty mental, like Yes went so deep in to "commercial" they came out the other side. Ol' Jon isn't doing half bad for a milkman from Accrington, Lancashire. In case anyone doubts whether they are cool again, check this out:

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If you go and see Simple Minds on their upcoming tour, be sure to get there in time for the opening act: Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark (OMD). I saw them a couple of years ago, and they were pretty amazing. They were weird in the 80s in that they were supposedly a "synth band", but used real instruments too. They even managed to make a Mellotron sound funky, which is deserving of respect. :ok:

ps: Moby thinks they're cool:
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Anything by Duran Duran.

bnt

So sad to see Yes sink that deep and who the fcuk wanna buy ANY car made in the US of A nowadays?

AI R

Like your broad taste.

Mike Nesmith?

Elephant Parts

ok.. I thought it pretty funny at the time...

Al R, top tunes nominated but like all of us you have one blind spot. Talk Talk....pllleeeaaassssee, gotta be the most pretentious band of all time and sum up the dark side of the 80's.

I'll throw these into the mix:

YouTube - The Chameleons - Don't Fall (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr3-4CNzM0I) One of the most underrated bands of the area/era.

YouTube - Echo and The Bunnymen - Over The Wall (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPmLhxaEvG8) Fantastic live

YouTube - REM - So. Central Rain (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ykp0Vq77IBw) When Stipe had hair

YouTube - Hoodoo Gurus - What's My Scene (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ugA5bLqivkY) Cracking Aussie noise

How can the 80's be caned when it produced The Smiths, New Order, REM, Stone Roses, U2, inspirations all to the likes of the Killers today.

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Ooops, they never went away.

Talk Talk....pllleeeaaassssee, gotta be the most pretentious band of all time and sum up the dark side of the 80's.

:=

YouTube - Talk Talk - It's My Life (UK Version) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NXQYyKzyDaE)

The Tory party?

The Adventures was a great act.

YouTube - Broken Land (7" version) The Adventures (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JdyG0NQUadk)

How could these gems be excluded....

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Have to agree with Sprogget, with regards the arse end of the 80s.
FAC 51 was the place to be of a weekend, or even Konspiracy if you prefered 'proper' seedy and a can of Red Stripe, listening to the likes of The Roses, James, Inspiral Carpets, etc.

Being a Manc, I may be a little biased, but living there when it was all going off was top banana. Even Gio Goi relaunched recently and they were the mutts knuts at the time. Anthony told me...;)

Happy Mondays for me though. Bunch of idiots, but some top tunes.

YouTube - Loose Fit - Happy Mondays (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HQCrgu8Am2U)

ok here's a unison of two 80's icons

Miami Vice and Phil Collins...

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