What Did You Listen To In The 80's?

[tomcat]

Originally Posted by Lynch Anyone remember the song from Sesame Street "one of these things is not like the others"? Heh, can change that to TWO of these things are not like the others. Good list though Tomcat!

Thanks, no one seems to mention the Smiths around here. FABULOSE BAND! Marr and Morrisey are genius! Yeah, I remember that tune. The Stray Cats and the Smiths are the two that are not like the others on my 80's list. I was a metal/hard rock freak in the 80's. I LOVE the Smiths though!

[Lord Grendel]

If you like the Smiths start a new thread for them Tomcat, I have most of their stuff in MP3 but haven't really delved too deeply into them.

[Sunny]

I love the Smiths too!

[Salmacis]

I'm getting a taste for them as well actually. As for the thread, I wasn't born until 91, so I didn't listen to much at all!

[architect]

What did I listen to in the 80's? I'm still listening to it now!!
I grew up with MTV when it still played videos. So classic MTV is what i listened to.

Dire Straits
madonna
Prince
Eurythmics
Scorpions
Def Leppard
Van Halen
Tom Petty
John Mellencamp
Genesis

[Astrid Kirchherr65]

I listened to different phases I think :

Classic Rockers getting second winds

Clapton
David Bowie
Yes
Aerosmith
Kiss
Ozzy Osborne
Rush

..
Hairbands :
Motely Crue
Ratt
Bon Jovi
Tesla
Def Leppard
Dokken

New Wave/punk

The Ramones
The Clash
The Dead Kennedy's
Thomas Dolby
The Cars
The Police
Billy Idol
Inxs

Some southern fried stuff:

Molly Hachet
Lynyrd Skynrd
38 Special

Pop things:

The Thompson Twins
The Go Go's
Duran Duran

Then things like Pat Benatar, Blondie, Annie Lennox...

[TheFeldster]

My listening habits were not really that thrilling in the '80's.

Couldn't even hear the crickets!

[jackory]

I've heard a few "80s channels" on the radio, but they never seem to play the music I was listening to back then. It's always the real synthesizer heavy made-for-pop-radio stuff. It makes me think that the 80s weren't a very good year for music, but when I really look back at the 80s music that I PERSONALLY listened to I can see that it actually was...just like everything I've ever really liked, it just didn't get played on the radio. Most of it, that is. I liked:

Bruce Springsteen
REM (only up to the Fables of the Reconstruction, which was my favorite)
Joy Division
Husker Du
The Smiths
New Order
Psychedelic Furs
Suicide
Cocteau Twins
A good portion of everything they ever played on MTV's 120 Minutes and the music segments of USA's Night Flight.

[Astrid Kirchherr65]

[QUOTE=jackory;112831]I've heard a few "80s channels" on the radio, but they never seem to play the music I was listening to back then. It's always the real synthesizer heavy made-for-pop-radio stuff. It makes me think that the 80s weren't a very good year for music, but when I really look back at the 80s music that I PERSONALLY listened to I can see that it actually was...just like everything I've ever really liked, it just didn't get played on the radio. Most of it, that is. I liked:

Bruce SpringsteenGreat
REM (only up to the Fables of the Reconstruction, which was my favorite)
Joy Division
Husker Du
The Smiths
New Order
Psychedelic Furs
Suicide
Cocteau Twins
A good portion of everything they ever played on MTV's 120 Minutes and the music segments of USA's Night Flight.[/Q]

Those should be on my list too// Alot of stuff I i checked on your lists
And The Cure, The Damned too !

[jackory]

NIGHT FLIGHT KICKED ASS!!!!!!!

Never before and never again will there be another show like USA's Night Flight.

I wish I had been a stoner back when it still on the air.

[Craig in Indy]

I spent a lot of time listening to all those back-to-basics bands like the dBs, the Smithereens and the Bodeans, at least when I wasn't listening to REM or Bruce Cockburn.

I also spent a lot of time listening to bluegrass then.

[Craig in Indy]

Originally Posted by jackory REM (only up to the Fables of the Reconstruction, which was my favorite)[/COLOR]

Excellent choice, Jackory. I vascillate between it and Life's Rich Pageant as my favorite (I may have a slight preference for Pageant). In general though I don't think anything can touch those first 4 LPs as a group.

BTW, the remastered versions of the first two are available and are well worth the price. I think the Fables remaster is supposed to be released sometime this year, and Pageant next year.

[stardust]

I was born in 1983 so I listened to kids stuff mostly and Madonna and Michael Jackson. I only developed a more refined music taste in the 90's :P

[aeroplane]

In the 80's, I was listening to:

-Rick Springfield ("Working Class Dog" was my favorite album at the time)

-Ozzy Osbourne (liked "Over the Mountain")

-Bon Jovi (liked "Slippery When Wet)

-UB40 (the "Rat in Mi Kitchen" album and the one with "Red Red Wine")

-INXS

-Bruce Springsteen ("Born in the USA" song and album)

-Georgia Satellites ("Keep Your Hands To Yourself")

-J. Geils Band ("Freeze Frame" album, especially the song "Piss on the Wall")

-Bryan Adams (the album with "In the Heat of the Night")

-Motley Crue (on account of my older brothers)

-Quiet Riot (also on account of my older brothers)



Most of this was based on whatever tapes my parents picked up for me, since many of the above I most likely became interested in because of Friday Night Videos (didn't have MTV) or the radio. Thus I would bug my folks about some of these groups until they got me the cassette.

In other cases, I was listening to what my brothers had on the stereo.

[Flower]

I've somehow left Clapton & Jeff Beck off my list ...




I'm so ashamed ...