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General => The Superdeep Borehole => Topic started by: Ichirou on May 08, 2007, 07:15:53 PM

Title: HERE I AM ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE EIGHTIES MUSIC THREAD
Post by: Ichirou on May 08, 2007, 07:15:53 PM
Post links to eighties music and only eighties music here, or talk about your favorite band from the eighties.

My top five list of favorite bands/musicians who are mostly famous for their work in the '80s:

1. Oingo Boingo
2. Huey Lewis and the News
3. R.E.M.
4. Alphaville
5. 'Weird' Al Yankovic
Title: Re: HERE I AM ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE EIGHTIES MUSIC THREAD
Post by: Vizzys on May 08, 2007, 08:15:01 PM
Do as the scorpions have before you :rock
Title: Re: HERE I AM ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE EIGHTIES MUSIC THREAD
Post by: xnikki118x on May 09, 2007, 12:33:51 AM
Phil Collins, R.E.M., Madonna, Twisted Sister...80s were awesome.
Title: Re: HERE I AM ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE EIGHTIES MUSIC THREAD
Post by: Mike Works on May 09, 2007, 12:35:19 AM
(http://www.annrich.com/rich/acdc/about_to_rock.jpg)

(http://www.silviapecota.com/media/1A_Salute/Salute.jpg)
Title: Re: HERE I AM ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE EIGHTIES MUSIC THREAD
Post by: Ichirou on May 09, 2007, 01:38:29 AM
It's a shame the eighties got such a reputation for being a cheezy time period, it was pretty damn awesome, and this is coming from someone who lived through it.
Title: Re: HERE I AM ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE EIGHTIES MUSIC THREAD
Post by: BlackMage on May 09, 2007, 01:39:56 AM
I thought R.E.M. had better music in the 90s
Title: Re: HERE I AM ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE EIGHTIES MUSIC THREAD
Post by: Error Macro on May 09, 2007, 01:50:06 AM
Essential viewing:

[youtube=425,350]hVkEHBbv4Fg[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]JSCYBjfZnEQ[/youtube]
[youtube=425,350]8TLmpL2AzLs[/youtube]

Sony BMG sucks, watch these too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccXjHksIakY (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccXjHksIakY)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE6RqGgmPZA (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uE6RqGgmPZA)
Title: Re: HERE I AM ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE EIGHTIES MUSIC THREAD
Post by: xnikki118x on May 09, 2007, 03:28:13 AM
Quote from: BlackMage on May 09, 2007, 01:39:56 AM
I thought R.E.M. had better music in the 90s

Whenever they released Shiny Happy People and It's The End of the World (As We Know It) was their better decade. If one song is from the 80s and one from the 90s, well, even better!
Title: Re: HERE I AM ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE EIGHTIES MUSIC THREAD
Post by: BobbyRobby on May 09, 2007, 05:27:16 AM
[youtube=425,350]jSnLdYBdeHg[/youtube]

One of the few 80s bands i really dig
Title: Re: HERE I AM ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE EIGHTIES MUSIC THREAD
Post by: Robo on May 09, 2007, 12:58:42 PM
Quote from: xnikki118x on May 09, 2007, 03:28:13 AM
Quote from: BlackMage on May 09, 2007, 01:39:56 AM
I thought R.E.M. had better music in the 90s

Whenever they released Shiny Happy People and It's The End of the World (As We Know It) was their better decade. If one song is from the 80s and one from the 90s, well, even better!

That's two decades different, but only a few years apart.

There really shouldn't be any question as to what decade R.E.M excelled in.  Murmur and Reckoning are both brilliant highlights of 80's alternative and their next few albums: Fables, Life Rich Pagent, Document and Green aren't anything to scoff at either.  In the 90's, Out of Time is hugely disappointing after Green, although it produced a few major radio hits, and as good as Automatic for the People is, they would never reach the heights of their earlier albums again, mostly ranging from only ignorable and irrelevent to downright bad.
Title: Re: HERE I AM ROCK YOU LIKE A HURRICANE EIGHTIES MUSIC THREAD
Post by: Fragamemnon on May 09, 2007, 03:56:07 PM
You're a crazy person if you think R.E.M. was better in the 90s than in the 80s.

Depeche Mode
New Order

Easily my two favorite bands with lots of great 80s material that doesn't sound Rick Astley grating nowadays.