What's Your Favorite 80s Hit

Started by Solar, May 28, 2016, 02:26:16 PM

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I can't praise the music from 1980s very much, most of it was kind of melodramatic and commercial stuff, not much inventive, but there were some exceptions. Although the 1980s brought back some more conservative and decent fashion after the 1970s, for example smart attire for both men and women, while still keeping the long hair, they also brought further development of gay and feminist movements and progressive agenda from the 1970s through the pop culture. I remember, in the late 1980s and early 1990s, we were dividing in the school between heavy metal and rap fans, me myself being a heavy metal fan of course, like any decent man would have been. When I think of the performers who marked the 1980s, Madonna and Michael Jackson come first to my mind, but I have never been into their music.

If I think of the 1980s music, this video comes to my mind in the first place. Both the music and the fashion. I'm not sure what music style this is, it could probably be called slow reggae or slow ska. That Susanna babe was awesome, wish modern women of today looked like her. I have always thought Art Company was an American band, I have only discovered today they were actually Dutch.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GB2Sf4g_PIg

And this one marked my childhood. It was on TV every morning at 7:30. So I remember when I was eating my breakfast before going to the primary school, watching and listening to this, and consoling myself that everything should be fine. I wish I had taken it more seriously, instead of being angry most of the time. "Ain't got no cash, ain't got no style, ain't got no girl to make you smile...", ha ha, this is totally me, my personal anthem.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YHmE8kavv9A

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-diB65scQU

And this one of course. Although a bit gay-alike in appearance, it is still some awesome music. I thought it was cool they wore Scottish attire and performing in a castle. The song has some intriguing dark and epic appeal to it. And those two dancing ladies were sexy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pjUyVDkS2w0



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But to your point 80s music essentially sucked? It was the last decade of music where record Co's actually pumped money into quality, as in backup orchestral pieces, unlike today where everything is synthesized by some kid with a keyboard.
The 80s brought us Queen, the Police, Blondie, Greenday to name a few.

What we have today is pretty much crap, or Rap, take your choice.
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Quote from: milos on May 29, 2016, 01:46:54 AM
See if this one will work.
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Interesting, for me the first link works, but the added one doesn't.

Quote from: Solar on June 02, 2016, 11:32:23 AM
Bobby McFarin downright sucked!
But to your point 80s music essentially sucked? It was the last decade of music where record Co's actually pumped money into quality, as in backup orchestral pieces, unlike today where everything is synthesized by some kid with a keyboard.
The 80s brought us Queen, the Police, Blondie, Greenday to name a few.

What we have today is pretty much crap, or Rap, take your choice.

You are absolutely right that the 1980s music was far better in comparison to what we have today. But as a 1960s music lover, I would say that the music of 1980s was boring to me. Queen is ok, and Freddie Mercury was an extraordinary singer and composer. I look at The Queen more as of a 1970s band, because of their Bohemian Rhapsody, which is an eternal musical masterpiece. Blondie was also great, but not even close to Nancy Sinatra for example, or Mama Cass, OMG.
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Quote from: milos on June 03, 2016, 02:32:03 AM
Interesting, for me the first link works, but the added one doesn't.

You are absolutely right that the 1980s music was far better in comparison to what we have today. But as a 1960s music lover, I would say that the music of 1980s was boring to me. Queen is ok, and Freddie Mercury was an extraordinary singer and composer. I look at The Queen more as of a 1970s band, because of their Bohemian Rhapsody, which is an eternal musical masterpiece. Blondie was also great, but not even close to Nancy Sinatra for example, or Mama Cass, OMG.
No doubt the 60s produced far more talent/quality, though Nancy Sinatra in the mix of either? :lol:
Aside, the thread was isolated to the 80s, arguably the last decade that still produced a quality genre.
The 90s saw Rap takeover the industry along with techno dance repetitious BS, and the 21st century gutted the industry due to music sharing, and taking us present, where the industry struggles with but a handful of so called star artists and most of them are in the country genre.

So I chose the 80s, the Reagan era, the last decade that still knew freedom and liberty, essentially low debt comparative to the following decades.
The 80s still offered a somewhat upbeat music that was still fun to just listen to, anyway it was for me, it still had a mix of Bubblegum and rock, no rap or  self immolation, just fun music.
I see music as a reflection of the psyche of the populace, and right now, outside of country, one is hard-pressed to find anything resembling quality.
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Wanted to post something from Blondie, but all of her songs I love happened to be from the 1970s, like "Fade Away and Radiate" or "Atomic".

Maybe my bad feeling for the 1980s comes from an incident I had back then in the school, when I said I liked Pet Shop Boys, and everyone started accusing me of being gay. When I search for their music now, it also appear to me a bit flat, but here's one I liked. (Sorry for the Spanish subtitles, I couldn't find any other official video than this one.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tffTrA1dbag

And I was actually able to find some really moving song from the 1980s. I believe this one is about the Illuminati. I have read from a person with the nick name Hidden Hand on The Above Top Secret Forum that the Illuminati are a group soul, or a planetary entity, from Venus, and so this song means they are travelling back their home soon. Wish them a happy trip, lol.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw
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One more interesting music video and song from the 1980s that I've always loved to see and listen to. One of the songs I loved to play in my head for hours when I was bored or anxious. The video was worth of watching mostly because of that woman who looked like a teacher, was always eager to see that gorgeous leg at the end. :wub:  :smile:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o41A91X5pns
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I got to praise those hairy hairstyles from the 1980s, when I look at the images or video footages from that period, it always amazes me how people had like tons of hair back then, in comparison to modern hairstyles.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1y3TKv7Chk4
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OMG, I can't believe this was in 2016, it feels like yesterday. :scared:

One performance from the 1980s which should raise us from the dead, in this time when Facebook wants me to assign someone to run my account instead of me once I die.

Fortunately the song is in French, please don't look for the lyrics translation. :laugh:  :laugh:  :laugh:


Anyways, 1980s were the last decade I felt alive.
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