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

China Crisis - Black Man Ray (1985)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYf7PrUWZXY

I allways liked this. Quintisentially 80s. Great mellow melody, lyrics, chorus, singing, the lot. I dunno how much of a hit it was, but i think its a fuckin great track. Good to chill out to, or to sing your heart out along with if you're in the mood. Everyone ive ever played this to has allways kind of done a double take, like wtf is this, its good. :D

Culture Club - Do You Really Want To Hurt Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2nXGPZaTKik

Great track, great bassline hook. The guy had a great voice. He has completely lost his voice these days. I saw him on Jools Holland a couple of years ago and it was tragic, he cant sing for shit anymore. That silky smooth voice has been replaced by gravel.
 
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I think so. The 12" of Black Man Ray dissapointed hugely, it's the 7 inch simply stretched over 12" of vinyl Lol I've still got about 3 copies though *rolls eyes* Bit obsessed with 80's vinyl.

I'm mostly interested in unusual versions, 12's, extended mixes, rare cuts, tracks that weren't hits & albums tracks. It makes old pieces of music more interesting if I can dig up an unusual or unheard version. I still collect 80's vinyl & came home with a Billy Idol album today, with the free 12" of "versions" both in perfect nick, £1 Charity shop... havent played it yet, my gf likes senor Idol so I'll wait til she comes round Lol

Propaganda - Dr Mabuse

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jspBeVa0sTs

Howard Jones - Hide & Seek stretched out 12" of this to... it's like 80's ambient music. First time I heard this was when he sat in front of a piano & played it on Live Aid.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VQCeUrb2uAg

Talking Heads - Listening Wind - some absolutely chilled out musical masterpieces lurk on albums from the 80's. Example.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HEluoeMLTCI
 
i liked the Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9694K85Xc8

Just such a good tune. The lyrics are quality too. Looking back, the 80s seems to be very much a golden era. Is this rose tinted nostalgia. I do remember the 80s having more than its fair share of pap like fucking Bros. :sus:

Do you live anywhere near Manchester, I reckon we could clean up in a pub music quiz between us, maybe get foolsgold to join us, and we'd walk it.
 
haha nah, I'm London!

Isn't it fucking handy that peeps who must be even more obsesed than I have gone to the trouble of uploading so much of my old music so I can bore you all with it!

Anyway, another little known chilled out 80's gem

Roger Waters - The Tide is Turning - from Radio Kaos, a surprisingly pert little album of typically quirky but perhaps less depressing material from the Pink Floyd bassist & primary song writer.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SbeLFG6Lglo

Ghostdance - Fools Gold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G9cQB47ZDHc

Cocteau Twins - Great Spangled Fritillary (yeah!)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2oqh489TFQ
 
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I liked "On the Turning Away" from Momentary Lapse, but I prefer Waters work without Floyd to Floyds work without Waters...

If I could find Youtube links to "Not Now John", "The Gunners Dream" & "Two Suns in the Sunset" from Pink Floyds "The Final Cut" which I think was 1981, I'd stick them up. But Floyd have a team dedicated to removing Youtube links to Floyd music so I'll stick up an Amazon link to this extraordinary album instead.

Apparently, The Wall was supposed to be Pink Floyds final album & it was supposed to be a triple album. What is now The Final Cut would have been the thrid disc. I can't remember the ins & outs of it but I suspect that Waters kinda took over the writing duties for both The Wall & this album, shuffling the rest of the band into session musician roles & alienating them as a result. Some of the credits on The Final Cut apparently credit Pink Floyd members who did not actually participate in the recording.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/The-Final-C...&qid=1384327323&sr=8-1&keywords=the+final+cut
 
i only recently discovered that walters was the main man with all the ideas in floyd after syd left. Id allways wrobnly assumed it was Gilmour. I do love Gilmours guitar playing though, its so harmonic and powerfull. This was just ater it had finally dawned on me that comfortably numb is about heroin :o

Apparently the whole Wall album had a script for it, written by a 3rd party, based on a drug addled character called Floyd who was disillusioned by the music business. I wonder how much of it was kind of autobiographical about Floyd. Ive just discovered ive got a book about them that i dont remember buying. Im not good with books these days, concentration wise.
 
mydrugbuddy said:
i only recently discovered that walters was the main man with all the ideas in floyd after syd left. Id allways wrobnly assumed it was Gilmour.
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It was Richard Wright intitially! And Gilmour did contribute loads - he just wasn't allowed to after a certain point. A point which coincided with the Floyd becoming ultra-stodgy and ultra-pretentious. No coincidences there.

I mean, The Wall is pretty fun to listen to, but it's like a teenager's idea of a 'deep' concept album. It's so po-faced and contrived, and the 'plot' barely makes sense. And how many ideas has Waters had in the past thirty years? Besides constantly performing The Wall to a dwindling audience of bankers?

Roger Waters is a real tosser by all accounts.
 
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walters was a great lyricist. goodn't play guitar to save himself though
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i think he ended up playing bass guitar, though im not 100 % sure. Ill check out the live8 footage of their mini concert, which was the performance of the day IMO, the whole band got so into comfortably numb, it was thrilling to see, i think i was thumping my sofa with joy at how great it was 8). And Sam you are right again, (apart from being overly critical of The wall IMO, its probably my number 1 favourite album, the whole thing is sheer genius imo) i just skimmed the wiki article about The Wall era Pink Floyd. It seems by that time Waters was the main contributor, but having galnced through earier sections of the article it seems Gilmour was "shaping" the band much more for the first few years of the 70s. Waters doesnt come across as a very likeable character, maybe its just irrational and i just dont like his face or hair style or something, but Gilmour looks like a fuckin genius to me, Id love to meet that guy.
 
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Yes but it's not nice tripping man, The Wall is all about death, loss, isolation, addiction, psychosis, depression. It's trippy sure, but that does not make it tripping material. At your peril! The movie is fucked up, I got stoned & was left indoors alone watching it for the first time & I got the fucking freakers!

Waters is a very good bass player & a genius song writer, just lsten to Two Suns & The Gunners Dream, these are musical masterpieces without question. As a genius, he's naturally a little flakey & inclined to megalomania. This does nothing to diminish his genius. I have nothing against Gilmour, he's a master with the guitar & he writes great songs, nor anything against any other Floyd members. I learnt to play drums watching Live in Pompei. But for that "out there" shit, Waters is your man. Gilmour made a superb solo album in the 70's titled "Gilmour" which is one of my favourite albums. I know it's not an 80's release but perhaps you'll forgive me for pluggin it here - http://www.amazon.co.uk/David-Gilmour/dp/B000GFLEX6/ref=ntt_mus_ep_dpi_4/275-7014994-6438116

Gilmour lives on the Thames not far from me, & has been known to play accoustic guitar sets at a small pub near to the river which I obviously have no intention of publicising here!

Roger Waters used to have a home, also not far from me, on the edge of Richmond Park. I once spend a sunny afternoon hunkered under a tree outside his house after the postie told me which one was his, but no-one came or went. Many years later, I'd guess late 90's, Waters drove past me on Richmond Hill in his Jag with the window down. I was within touching distance & was chuffed to fuck!

mydrugbuddy said:
whats he done to proove his conscience ?:?
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He hates Thatcher! How's that?
 
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