Cheesy 80s pop songs/vids you can't help but love?

Time Stand Still by Rush from 1987. This is great in a cheesy way, but it's no 2112.

This probably isn't a cheesy video at all, it just seems quite primitive by modern standards. But, for once, Rush show that less is more.

1340flh said:

It Gives me strength of 4 guys in cars
Gary Newman-Cars

26 pages&nobody played this?

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That's because there's no cheese involved at all. This is a great song!!

Vehicle said:

That's because there's no cheese involved at all. This is a great song!!

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Agreed -Totally Dude (80s punn)Seen alot of great tunes on this thread,Use to have alot of these records, Another great one from the era.

The 80s was Hell On Earth for any musical human being :mad :mad :mad :mad

Really? I consider the DMV hell on earth. Surely the 80s weren't as bad as that?

KingHeadache said:

The 80s was Hell On Earth for any musical human being :mad :mad :mad :mad

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The 80's wasn't as bad as recent generations of music,Some Crappy rap tunes&shrillex make me want to vomit, We had an Atari with astroids/tetris/centipede games,If ya had a Sony Walkman you was the shit!+there was still 8tracks floating around
Some more of My records
Diesel-Sausolito Summernight


Joe Jackson-Steppin out

KingHeadache said:

The 80s was Hell On Earth for any musical human being :mad :mad :mad :mad

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I gotta differ.

The music industry certainly shifted focus in the 80s with the ushering in of MTV. The visuals, man, the visuals. That's all any of the suits cared about.

And yes, there was some real $hit that got air time because of the way it looked

But that by no means made music hell on earth. The music itself evolved nicely, I think.

The beginnings of new wave came at the end of the 70s, with The Knack, Devo, The Cars, Talking Head, Blondie, etc, etc, etc.

Punk rockers like the Sex Pistols & the Ramones had a hand in the the developement of New Wave as well. They donated the hard edge.

And, there was still plenty of 'regular' rock out there, too. I'm not talking about hair metal, which, ironically, was supposedly the 'hard rock' of that era, and had the most feminine, androgynous look of any genre of the 80s.

Some people don't like the 80s music because of how it looked. I was actually one of those people at first, simply because it wasn't what I'd always listened to. But I figured out pretty quickly that a lot of that stuff was really, really good music.

This list shows how diverse the 80s were. There are a handful of names on here that got their start in the 70s, but boomed in the 80s.

The Police
Madonna
Duran Duran
U2
Prince
Def Leppard
Guns N Roses
John Mellencamp
Pat Benatar
Culture Club
Cyndi Lauper
Journey
Tears For Fears


And that's just off the top of my head. That's a successful group of artists, without even leaving the rock/pop genre.

I would put the eighties in Room 101, along with people that shout into mobile phones, place names without possessive nouns, politicians that don't answer questions and 'reality' TV shows.

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