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Alright, who would've thought that we would be listening to bands like "Kajagoogoo" and "Johnny Hates Jazz" (amongst others) in the 1980s. Whenever I think of the early 80s, I hear the song "Too Shy(shy hush hush ido wy...to shy shy hush hush idowy)"....Help!
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Re: Weird band names,et al.
Thu, April 22, 2004 - 9:33 PMYou have a classic case of eightiesphobia. A good dose of Dixies Midnight Runners or Big country won't help but it may get that dang Kaja Goo Goo crap cleared out of your head. : ) -
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Thu, April 22, 2004 - 10:22 PMFortunately, I was able to clear my head of that particular song with a classic dose of Modern English's "I Melt With You"...a bit better in the lyrics. -
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Thu, April 22, 2004 - 11:07 PMack. ackackackackack. that's all i hafta say.
although i did think that guy from kajagoogoo was hella cute. but that was back then, when i owned a copy of 'rio' by duran duran.
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Mon, May 16, 2005 - 6:18 AMIt's DEXY'S MIDNIGHT RUNNERS, not Dixie's, so named because they were all really into Dexedrine - very big in the UK/Ireland in the 80's.
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Thu, January 27, 2005 - 10:05 AMYou can dance if you want to... -
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Fri, January 28, 2005 - 9:29 AM...you can leave your friends behind...cause if your friends don't dance and if they don't dance,well they're no friends of mine...sorry I just can't leave a song hanging like that.It's like some kind of strange eighties-itis...hmm...maybe now I'll attempt nena's "99 Luftballoons"...in German! ;)
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Fri, January 28, 2005 - 9:51 AMyou evil evil person! i had this buzzing in my head for hours last nite... -
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Fri, January 28, 2005 - 12:06 PMYou too,huh? We'll just have to find some kind of remedy for this illness...there's got to be some way of exorcising these continuous round of eighties lyrics that pervade our lives.Alas I am forlorn at the reality that one of my favorite eighties songs ("I melt with you" ) is now a snack cracker commercial...then again Verizon used the Ramones' "Blitzkrieg Bop" in the same way. -
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Sat, March 26, 2005 - 1:35 AMAll right you babies. It is obvious that most of you were fashion victims and were at the head of the line for some awful nipple twisting. And, I am sorry for those of you who lived in areas of Satan Alerts. Talk about mass histeria. You must also remember that the 80s was truly the first decade the Earth became a "global village," so whatever you saw on your TV was soon in stores and being worn by the likes of you - mass marketing at it's finest.
Here is a list that needs to be posted. Please have your discussions, but don't rewrite history. I know I remember this stuff, and I knew what stations were playing them - Independent rock stations and college radio. We didn't need anything else and we liked it.
If you are unfamiliar with most of these artists, it is because you were too busy running your fingers through your boyfriend's bi-level haircut, or "dancing on the ceiling," or listening to "Hall and Oates." You be the judge.
U2
Tears For Fears
Killing Joke
The Plimsoles
Talk Talk
Sade
Camper Van Bethoven
The Fixx
Jesus and the Mary Chain
Grace Jones
Peter Gabriel
REM
Missing Persons
'Til Tuesday
Art of Noise
Frankie Goes to Hollywood
The Cult
The Smiths
Souxie and the Banshees
Everything But the Girl
Robin Hitchcock
The Clash
Depeche Mode
Big Audio Dynamite
Wall of Voodoo
The Mission UK
Prefab Sprout
The Special AKA - Stan Campbell (personal favorite)
Living Colour
Yello
Propaganda
Thomas Dolby
The Pixies
Big Country
Duran Duran
Strawberry Switchblade
The Cocteau Twins
The Untouchables
The Bongos
Husker Du
Eurythmics
Bananarama
Nick Kurshaw
Bad Religion
Dead Can Dance
The Pretenders
Bryan Ferry
INXS
Midnight Oil
The Police
Lori Anderson
Talking Heads
ABC
Prince
Fishbone
Love and Rockets
Bauhaus
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Age of Chance
B-52s
That's 60, and the list goes on. Besides Grunge and Wilco. Name 60 influential bands that came out the 90s.
New Genres of Music that cropped up during the 80s when everything sucked.
Modern Rock
Industrial
Hip Hop
House
Electronic
Hardcore
Thrash
Shoegazer
Goth
Urban Contemporary
New Country
Alt-Country
Cow-Punk
Darkwave
Ambient
Americana
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Sat, March 26, 2005 - 1:47 AM
Public Enemy
Grandmaster Flash
The Beatie Boys
Erik B and Rakim
LL Cool J
Run DMC
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Sat, March 26, 2005 - 12:15 PMThey Might Be Giants
Ween
Cock Robin
Echo and the Bunnymen
Icehouse
Nitzer Ebb
Lone Justice
Guns n' Roses
KMFDM
Susan Vega
Los Lobos
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Sat, March 26, 2005 - 12:32 PMSkinny Puppy, Ministry, Diamanda Galas, Kate Bush, Basia,
Cowboy Junkies, The Pogues, (aforementioned)Front 242, Public Enemy( Straight outta Compton was in '89)...keep it going, you're bringing back a lot of good memories about the Eighties now(i.e. the much better part of the music)...although the comment about the bi-level haircuts when mentioning Bryan Ferry in the list is rather ironic.;)
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Sat, March 26, 2005 - 12:38 PMyeah, that's a very nice list of _alternative_ and _fringe_ bands you've got there patrcik but you're always likely to find good stuff when you look into the alternative (especially when that alternative is today's mainstream) but imo, a more correct judgement should be based on popular culture as this is what _most_ people know, listen, consume and eventually are influenced by.
80's pop culture was horrible. horrible fashion (even when compared to the 70's), horrendous music and the serious establishment of popular media's hijacking people's brain. if you take a look at late 90's pop culture, you'll notice several things:
1. the music is much better (hit record producers learned something)
2. the fashion is bearable.
3. one of the main themes (as ridiculous as it is) is originality and freedom of thought. yeah it's ironic that mass media is "teaching" us to be independent but it's better than being fed plastic thoughts. a lot of this, btw, is a reaction to the horrors of the 80s. -
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Tue, May 24, 2005 - 1:14 PMI still consider Nick Kershaw's Human Racing a great album. Especially "Drum Talk" with its oh so 80's "Ooga Booga" intro. -
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Tue, May 24, 2005 - 1:46 PMyou think oingo boingo is crap but you like nik kershaw??? "I let the drums do the talking" ??? i've heard better music on the ferris bueller soundtrack! -
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Tue, May 24, 2005 - 2:12 PMArtist: Yello
Song: Oh Yeah
Oh Yeah... Oh Yeah... Oh Yeah
The moon... beautiful
The sun... even more beautiful
Oh Yeah... Oh Yeah... Oh Yeah
Beautiful
Oh Yeah... Oh Yeah...
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Tue, May 24, 2005 - 2:14 PMexactly what i mean. just as good as kershow but with better facial hair.
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Sat, March 26, 2005 - 12:17 PMUnfortunately, where I lived in West Virginia, it was nearly impossible to find any decent music on the radio or in the music stores. Luckily, I had a cousin that was going to art school that would pirate cassettes for me of The Cult, Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Sisters of Mercy, etc. (She was living in New York at the time). I also had another cousin that visited from L.A. and turned me onto the Red Hot Chili Peppers(before Hillel o'd'ed). Yes, most of the mass-produced music was absolute crap...that's why it was surprising when Peter Gabriel started being played on the radio and MTV. And that got me hooked onto Youssou N'Dour's music...which led to Ofra Haza...which led to a huge addiction to World Music that took over my music collection...I think I stopped listening to mass-marketed music when everything from Seattle became popular. Although I love it that the Beastie Boys and The Red Hot Chili Peppers survived the curse of bands that just fell apart when grunge became big...however the good part of that particular curse was the fall of the obnoxious "hair bands". -
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Sat, March 26, 2005 - 2:16 PMWell kids, I grew up in Connecticut, land of Polo shirts and close enought to New York to stand in the shadows of the youth culture spill. Thank God for WLIR out of Long Island, WPKN (University of Bridgeport) and a number of college radio too numerous to remember. It was a great location to be. WLIR (RIP as of early this year) broke pretty much everything I listed, with the exception of Rap. By 1984 I was listening to alternative music exclusively and did not have to endure the Lionel Richies, Phil Collins, Huey Lewis' and Hall and Oates, Madonna, Richard Marks, and the torent of lifeless pop foisted on the public as you folks seem to remember. I also avoided the Warrants, Poisons and Motley Crews of the world with a passion. But Ironically, I used to work at a nightclub in SF where all these tough, tattooed guys and gals who worked there had them in their collection. These bands served as their introduction to Punk and harder stuff. And Ironically, when Grunge came about, it just reminded me of the music we were trying to get away from, our older brothers and sisters music of the late 70s. But hey, I see lots of bands around SF with synths again. Even last night there was a band with a guy who played the keytar - the keyboard controller that straps around your shoulder. Ha ha ha. Revenge is mine.
For me, the 80s was a time when youth culture wanted it's own identity, seperate from the 70s and the 60s. This was our time and we were willing to try new things. You guys have the mullet, in my community we had the Gerri Curl (Ack). Me personally, I had the flat top, but more like Grace Jones than Chris Rock on SNL. That was just stupid. I was never into big hair, even though I tried dreads a few years ago. But that's a whole nother story.
Something to think about.
Favorite cartoons - Bloom County and Herman.
So, where is the 90s list of great and influential bands/artists.
Speaking of artists:
Keith Herring
Basquat??
Kate Bush
Front 242 - I could not remember the name for the life of me.
Sisters of Mercy
Ziz Zig Sputnik
Billy Idol
Okay, thats 81. See, it wasn't so bad musically.
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Sat, March 26, 2005 - 10:34 PM>> So, where is the 90s list of great and influential bands/artists.
i look at the 90s mostly as the decade where the fringe became merely underground and the underground became mainstream. for me it started with several years of brit-pop and indy (manic street preachers, blur, suede, oasis, radiohead...) and went on to american college bands and grunge (Mudhoney, Nirvana, smashing pumpkins, stone roses, pearl jam...). apart from that, you can see a lot of innovation in the 90s in electronica (Aphex Twin, chemical bros, the orb, prodigy...) but that was never really my style. -
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Sun, March 27, 2005 - 12:22 PMWell now, here is a discussion waiting to happen. Technological innovations and its effect on the music we listen to.
Guitar technology has not changed much since the 50s, just louder and more crunch with time based effects here and there.
With the advent of digitial technology and devices such as keyboards, samplers, and digital recording formats, music makers seemingly have no limits, but the ones they put on themselves. This really started in the 80s, but back then it was new and a top knotch sampler would give you 2 seconds at 8 bits worth of audio. The Orb, Aphex Twin, Chemical Brothers, Puff Daddy and Linkin Park to name a few, may not have made the music they do today with that kind of top of the line devices. Yet, Depeche Mode, Yello, Art of Noise, Front 242, Public Enemy and others did. Some would just play live with a reel to reel tape machine with all their backing tracks.
Yes, the 80s make lip synching an accepted part of the concert going experience.
And the Grammy Award goes to...
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Mon, March 28, 2005 - 11:51 PMi really dont think music is about the technology, it's about what you do with it. some people made amazing stuff with modern technology that could not be created in any other way while other made total crap. also, having technology that gives you new options can expand your mind and help you do things you never woulda considered otherwise.
i have tons of respect for old school music hackers like kraftwerk and brian eno but that doesnt take anything from the chemical brothers and the cool shit that they do.
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Tue, May 17, 2005 - 4:33 AMWhat about the blasphemous use of devo's "whip it" in the swiffer commercials(or what ever dusting product it is)? I guess some ad-man realized that all those 18 year-old girls who were running wild in new-wave clubs in the 80's are now all soccer moms in their 40's, so in attempt to reconnect them with their youth tried to make housecleaning remind them of skanking in their bobbysocks and combat boots.
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Sat, October 22, 2005 - 2:50 PMHere's some 80's bands from the home of the 80's L.A. . They were local LA bands that no-one really ever heard of.
The fat chick from wilson phillips
Jake
Sam Man and thee apes
Kathleen turner overdrive
Id and the Insatiables
oh and from Ill. my personal favorite.
John Wilkes Phonebooth
