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[MUSIC] The 80's thread .... (links only please, no full video screens)

Paul Simon anyone? (probably not)

i fucking love the graceland album and the 'boy in the bubble' has to be my fave, one of my pre teen shower songs, i cant say that im attractive in any respect but the sight of a nine year old sconner warbling away to this would have been a paedos wet dream

(Paul Simon - The Boy In The Bubble)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy5T6s25XK4

mydrugbuddy - the toto + cyndi lauper trax there are just about the pinnacle of the decade
 
I know what you mean,its like The Annapurna massif in the himalaya, lots of sharp peaks but youve defo conquered a few of them in that last list.

Cheesy peak summit cairn is something like

boy meets girl - 'waiting for a star to fall'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zB8txXS2PFs

and the secret cheesy peak is like

wax - building a bridge to your heart (please check the video its mad skillz yo)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E0g5gKp2BHg
 
ive never heard of those tracks or even those bands, they are a bit too light and poppy for me, i allways look for some sort of intensity, nice sax solo in the first track tho.

ZZ Top - I Need You Tonight

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGr4NHj92rY

This has everything a good rock song needs. The guitar solos are amazing.

Madness - It Must Be Love

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

Madness - Our House

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXuvdeEC5y8

Pretenders - Don't Get Me Wrong

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

Pretenders - Brass in Pocket 1979 Video stereo widescreen (it doesnt sound like a 70s song)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMzSe6PbjMI the album was released in 1980 so it kind of sneeks in.

Elvis Costello - Blue Chair

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

Elvis Costello - Battered Old Bird

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G-VotthlR88


Elvis Costello - Home is anywhere you hang your head

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KWqikplVPQ

Elvis Costello & the Attractions - "Crimes of Paris"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZZ5gpXG6b0 comes in at 3:36

Elvis Costello - I want you

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

The Pogues - I'm a Man You Don't Meet Every Day

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJt4y4fH938

The Pogues - The Broad Majestic Shannon - Lyrics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ENqO-VVfmKY

streets of sorrow / the birmingham 6 - the pogues Is Shane McGowan mad, or is he a genius/bit of both :?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cFAzJ7caJho

The Pogues - The Old Main Drag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g-45xNr-udU
 
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My taste in 80's music is particularly awful but i think that it is the one decade that actually did poppy bumfluff well. Cheesed out sax bridges are a must in these songs
From the age of 10 onwards ive just been obsessed with electronic music so i suppose its just an extension of my shallow 80's tastes.

one more - epic intense 80's chedder so i hope ive covered all bases there MDB

Talk Talk - Lifes What You Make It

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXsmyLtpxlA
 
steewith2ees said:
Paul Simon anyone? (probably not)

i fucking love the graceland album and the 'boy in the bubble' has to be my fave, one of my pre teen shower songs, i cant say that im attractive in any respect but the sight of a nine year old sconner warbling away to this would have been a paedos wet dream

(Paul Simon - The Boy In The Bubble)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uy5T6s25XK4
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I saw Paul Simon play live in Zimbabwe in 1987, only a few rows back. I'm even in the concert video with my spikey bleached 80's hair! Lmao We took a bottle of lemonade that was about 80% vodka, 20% lemonade, & a bunch of pre-rolls. Got there well early & hung out with some local criminals at a graveyard from where we could hear the rehearsing. This was in Rufaro stadium where Bob Marley had played at the independence celebrations in 1980. The video is superb, if you like Graceland go buy the DVD, it's a direct copy, hasn't been remastered for DVD or anything, proper retro. Miriam Makeba & Hugh Masekela (famous jazz trumpetter) also played alongside Simon. They played plenty of music that wasn't on Graceland & a track called Whispering Bells that just breaks my heart it's so beautiful!

Sadly, the link won't play for me :( But just in case it plays for you, hereya go!

Paul Simon - Whispering Bells - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYAgZu06BF4
 
steewith2ees said:
Sweet Si will wait untill this evening so I can look at that properly
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Don't count on it playing properly! I couldn't find any other links to the vid but I've torn an audio copy off the DVD in the past. Dunno where it is but if I can get hold of it I'll happily email it you if you don't mind exchanging details with a creepy old weirdo raver Lol 8o
 
Paul Young! At my primary school it was popular for kids to go about claiming to be mods. They didn't look much like mods! And liking Paul Young was part of being a mod.

I never really understood popular culture. Has Paul Young got anything to with mods? :?
 
knock said:
Paul Young! At my primary school it was popular for kids to go about claiming to be mods. They didn't look much like mods! And liking Paul Young was part of being a mod.

I never really understood popular culture. Has Paul Young got anything to with mods? :?
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Paul Weller is the don of mods, i dont reayy know where paul young fits in tbh.

The Cars (HQ) Drive (80's)

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

All Out Of Love | Air Supply - Lyrics [HD Kara+Vietsub]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50Tb50XvUCk one of my favourite songs of the decade.

New Model Army - Vengeance (1984) (Full Album)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOzY0k0g3c8
 
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knock said:
Lol yeah maybe I just don't remember things right. I know about Paul Weller, he was in the Jam!

The Jam - Start! (1980! relevant)

Guitar style inspired by Syd Barrett.
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And the bassline for Start was nicked off the beatles - The Beatles - Taxman (Revolver)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DGE53tP8YHk

Btw a lot of what gets posted on the what are you listening to isnt exactly popular culture, as a lot of it is very niche type stuff. Thats just splitting hairs though. :\ To me, 'popular culture' seems bland/boring/predicatebler, rakng in the millions. Generally thius place is in to slightly less popular culturure, and our musi. I beluieve our taste shows that so well if tahst not too arragont.

BTW thia was not meant as an attack oryou or to set out to blast holes in your theory, but i pride myself in teh fact that we have wider tastes than 'populkar culture' here.

Or are we just both thining that 'popular culture'is a slightly diffeent thing :?
 
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