80's Music
 

Last night we watched the Top Fifty Singles from the 80's on TV Channel VH1. Although many were OK some of the high flyers were puzzling;

No.1 - Bad - Michael Jackson
No.2- Get Into The Groove - Madonna
No.3 - Paradise City - Guns & Roses
No.4 - When Doves Cry - Prince

The list included the following too;
I'm Your Man - Wham
Wild Boys - Duran Duran
Radio Gaga - Queen
China Girl - David Bowie

It seems to me that they have selected one from each of the Big Stars but not necessarily the best ones IMHO...

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What would you have picked then?

Taste is subjective, so you can never really have a definitive list that everyone will agree on. That said those are certainly not the best Queen, Duran Duran, Madonna or Wham songs and I cannot bear to hear any Michael Jackson tracks these days.

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Got to admit When Doves Cry is one of Prince's I remember best, as it was always being played full blast on Morecambe Pier when we had one (RIP!).

Material Girl would be my Madonna choice.

Radio Gaga was quite a big Queen hit and does bring back primary school memories.

Bad, however, wouldn't have made the list. Would be thinking more Billy Jean or Beat It.

Duran Duran would have to be Rio.

Guns n Roses - Sweet Child O Mine.

David Bowie - loads to choose from but probably Let's Dance.

Wham - wasn't really into them but think it was something like Club Tropicana which reminds me of the fairground.

Sorry went off on one there, what would your choices be?

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My personal choices would have been;
Michael Jackson - Billy Jean or Thriller
Madonna - Vogue or Papa Don't Preach
Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody or Killer Queen or We Are The Champions or...
Wham/George Michael - Club Tropicana or Careless Whisper
Duran Duran - Rio or Save A Prayer
Prince - Purple Rain
At least they played some really nice tracks, like:
U2's In The Name of Love
Every Breath You Take by the Police
There Must Be An Angel by the Eurythmics
Lady In Red by Chris De Burgh
Money For Nothing by Dire Straits
hence the reason for sitting through the entire show. The ending rather spoiled it for me, that's all.

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One band that were and still are 80's Icons appear to be missing, Messrs Marr & Morrissey !:blink:

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Lady in ****ing red??

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Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Geno
The Specials - Too Much Too Young
The Beat - Stand Down Margaret
Billy Bragg - Between The Wars
New Order - Blue Monday
The Smiths - This Charming Man
A Guy Called Gerald - Voodoo Ray
Stone Roses - I Am The Resurrection

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:eek: you corned beef ?

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Dexy's was in the show along with Madness but no Specials, Beat or Smiths. Joy Division and New Order should have definitely been there. As for Spugsy, you can keep your type of music and stick it firmly up your ass.:rofl:

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I can't argue with a single one, in particular the Dexy's track.

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they played here a few years back at the creek golf club, fantastic, heaven knows where dirge like Come On Eileen came from

downloaded Sounds Of The 80's the other day and made the kids watch them and appreciate it instead of the shite they listen to :o

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errr, i think you'll find that Bohemian Rhapsody was in fact 1975!!

Did you slip into a coma from 1975 until 1992 by any chance, when it was re-released after the success of Wayne's World ?

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thank christ for that !!

No-one, apart from druggy Northerners liked 'em !

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By eck less of the druggy please!

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The most influencial band of the eighties BM!

And I was never into drugs!:eek:

Without bands like The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, Stone Roses the eighties scene would have been dire!

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That probably explains why it was missing.:)

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how can it not include the smiths...what a load of crap...on what basis was the list compiled...??

MM, xx

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ha ha, they probably just did a survey of 100 random people and thats that.

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'down under' by Men at Work.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNT7uZf7lew

I didn't post a link so you'd know which song I was talking about. I know you all know it. Posted the link because you should never miss an opportunity to listen to it.

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brilliant song.

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Me neither, although a few off the top of my head that I might have subsituted are:

Belalugosi's dead Bauhaus
Rock lobster B52's
Fairy tale of New York Pogues + Kirsty McCall
She sells sanctuary The Cult
Alice The Sisters of Mercy
Atomic Blondie
Pretty in Pink The Psychadelic furs
A new England Billy Bragg
Westworld Theater of Hate
Micky Spear of Destiny
Situation Yazoo
Googoo Muck The Cramps
Orange Crush REM

Plus just about anything from the brilliant Stone Roses self titled first album....my all time top album.

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Sisters of Mercy -Now they were a band!

Liberator - Spear Of Destiny, should definately be in the top 10!

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:thumbsup: As you can probably guess - I didn't spend much time down the disco!

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have you got 'dark side of the 80s' compilation?

It's brilliant, got all that sort of stuff on.

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Not got that particular one - but will keep an eye out for it - thanks for the suggestion.

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Double CD - The Mission, Cult, Cure etc.

It is in my collection Spugs! ;)

Only thing I find strange is 'Temple Of Love' is not on there!

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How's about some:

Simple Minds - Someone, Somewhere in Summertime
Talk Talk- It's My Life
OMD - Enola Gay
A-Ha - Take On Me
Lloyd Cole and the Commotions - Lost Weekend
U2 - With or Without You
Varicose Bingo - Suicide Duck

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Can live with Mssrs Kerr and Birchall but I prefer Book of Brilliant Things!

Lost Weekend............Fantastic!

Born To Run - FGTH - Puts Springsteen to shame!

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More classic 80's but on the lighter electro side:

Tainted love - Soft Cell
Fade to Grey - Visage
Being Boiled - The Human League
Smalltown boy - Bronski beat
The Race - Yellow
Just can't get enough - Depeche mode
Pale Shelter - Tears for Fears
Temptation - New Order
Only you - Yazoo
Wonderful life - Black (I think the chorus is currently the backing track to a Emirates/Dubai Inc. ad)

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best song ever :thumbup:




Orange Juice - Rip It Up
Story Of The Blues - Wah
Associates - Party Fears Two, I could never walk into the Country Club without singing Club Country either :D
Bourgie Bourgie - Breaking Point
Aztec Camera - Oblivious
Scritti Pollitti - Sweetest Girl

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terrible choices, almost every one....

Where's adam and the ants then??

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I was listening to depeche mode a few days ago, you forget over the years, just how bloody good they were.

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Hadaway and shite, bonny lad. If your taste in music is like your taste in football teams and all that... ;)

Actually, I'll change A-ha Take On Me to a better song from the album - Blue Skies.

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Enola Gay by OMD was one of my favourites. Would Vienna by Ultravox have been made in the 80's too? My favourite bands back then were probably The Cure, U2 and Echo & the Bunneymen, the latter appearing at this year's Glastonbury Festival along with some old geezers by the name of Neil Young and Bruce Springsteen.

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There's much more in Ultravox's canon bseides Vienna. Great band, though. I don't get why people have such a downer on the '80s and the music that came out of the decade. I might be biased cos I grew up then, but I think it was a great decade. What really new stuff has appeared since then? It's all been derivative and recycled since, IMO.

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I love all the 80s stuff, absolutely love it.

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don't make them like this any more.