Since I am pretty old... I can remember the 1980's.

Ok, question for those of you who can remember when MTV actually played music videos... over and over and over the way it was meant to. Best videos from that time had to be Yes "Owner Of A Lonely Heart", Van Halen "Hot For Teacher" and ZZ Top "Legs" or "Gimme All Your Lovin'"

Any of you remember the 80's?


Samurai

My winamp list is full of 70s-80s stuff. Most of it is Crue. Oh how I love the crue. I love the 80's... I wish I was born a bit earlier into it... sadly, I was born in '86, too young to enjoy it. My years were the mid nineties... not too much interesting music then... it was all just stuff.

80's music sucked, unless we are talking about hair band rock.

Funny you should bring up the eighties, me and THD about a month ago went on a 80's music download spree one night. I just turned 28, so I remember that stuff fairly well. The one video that sticks with the most from that time was Burning Down The House by the Talking Heads.

the 80's videos i remember the most, when i was a kid, was the "Sledgehammer" and "Sweet Dreams (are made of these/this/whatever)"...

Posted by Phoque Funny you should bring up the eighties, me and THD about a month ago went on a 80's music download spree one night. I just turned 28, so I remember that stuff fairly well. The one video that sticks with the most from that time was Burning Down The House by the Talking Heads.

I remember that video... David Byrnes big head being projected on to the roadway. That song is infectious, it stays in your head like a virus.

hair metal rocks... One thing I have noticed is that there are more and more shows playing the old 80s hair music now. The stations here each have a couple of syndicated shows (Dee Snyders' House of Hair. Harlan's Monsters of Rock, and The Tour Bus [which features Seth Green and Scott from Anthrax]). Locally, 101.3 Champ FM (www.champrocks.com) has "Hair in My Soup" lunches on thursday from noon to one and the Hard Rock Block from 8:30-9:30pm
I used to stay up all night on Saturdays when I was a kid just to watch "The Headbangers Ball" on MTV. Before we had cable in my town, there was Friday Night Videos on the NBC affiliate... My dad would get me up when he got home at 11:30 (if he was working 3-11pm) so I could watch it.

This is also the same guy that let me watch Alien when I was 8 years old and gave me no warning about the scene where we meet the alien... thanks dad. See ya in therapy til i'm 90

Samurai

I dont remember the 80s because they ended when i was 3, but i like twisted sister videos from back then. Especially i want to rock, I just crack up when the teacher in that video gets blown up with a grenade.

do you know who that teacher was?
Watch "Animal House"...

Samurai

The 80s were the best decade for independant musicians, particularly punk. I do listen to a lot of the clubby dance stuff... things you'd find on any decent retro 80s compilation. Culture Club, Duran Duran, A Ha, Soft Cell, Bronski Beat, Real Life, yada yada...

I was born in '80 so I remember most of the decade. My brother, born in the late 60's, got me into a ton of music. I remember one of the first songs I heard was "Boys Don't Cry" by the Cure (who I still listen to today). It was a good time for artists, and for musical experimentation.

Haha, I actually love the 80's so much that I frequent this local punk club has an 80's themed night on Tuesdays (they also used to have a hair metal night on Fridays that I went to).

Posted by thirstysandwich The one video that sticks with the most from that time was Burning Down The House by the Talking Heads.

That song owns, particularly the Stop Making Sense recording.

Two words for the 80s: Billy Idol.

Posted by Lord Kahos Two words for the 80s: Billy Idol.

Hell yeah.

Wierd little random story: At my last job, we were having our daily morning meeting and my boss announced we were doing a promotion for some record label who had sent along some free promo prints of some paintings Billy Idol did. He would give only one to an employee if they could answer the following question - "What band was Billy Idol part of before branching off on his solo career?" Nobody knew the answer, so I stepped up and said, "I believe that's Generation X." And I got a free print by Billy Idol. lol

I have Valley Of The Dolls on vinyl. Not their best album, but not bad none the less.

Good job in answering the trivia question. It was a toughie.

"dancing with myself, oh oh oh i'll be dancing with myself..." How could you not know who Generation X was?

I have the video for his remake of L.A. Woman on an old explo tape from 1989-1990... talk about a retro flashback.

There is a station out of Burlington VT that does what they call the "Buzz Bag Lunch" (www.999thebuzz.com) It's all 80's and early 90's stuff. You know how weird it is to hear "Der Kommissar" on the radio some 20 years after it was released?

Samurai

One of my friends hooked it up with a whole playlist of 80's music on a CD, it had to be at least 500MB

Posted by Nosferatu Von Two words for the 80s: Billy Idol.

finally...someone with some sense haha.. I started listening to Billy when I was 3 because hearing his music helped me sleep. Since then, I've been a huge fan and I always wanted to meet him. I actually got to meet him 4 times, once granting me with a picture taken with him. Fun times. Has anyone ever seen his sweaty chest without a shirt on? Rawr.

as much as I like to laugh at the 80s there was some excellent music during that time.
Bruce Springsteen
X
U2
Talking Heads
the Ramones (made a couple of good albums during the 80s.)
The Clash
R.E.M
Steve Earle

Some 80s audio bliss from my childhood:

Modern English - I Melt With You
David Bowie - Modern Love
Peter Schilling - Major Tom (Coming Home)
Duran Duran - Hungry Like The Wolf
The Three O'Clock - Hand In Hand
Easterhouse - Come Out Fighting
The Smiths - The Boy With The Thorn In His Side
M|A|R|R|S - Pump Up The Volume
The B-52s - She Brakes for Rainbows
Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark
Talk Talk - It's My Life
New Order - Love Vigilantes
The Woodentops - Well Well Well
Pere Ubu - Oh Catherine
All About Eve - Every Angel
The Fall - Telephone Thing
The Eurythmics - Sex Crime (1984)
The Jasmine Minks - You Cut Me Deep
Anna Domino - Lake
Oingo Boingo - We Close Our Eyes
Throwing Muses - Dizzy
Simple Minds - Alive and Kicking
Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark - Tesla Girls
Happy Mondays - Lazyitis
Suzanne Vega - Marlene On The Wall
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - The Power Of Love
One To One - Angel In My Pocket

and so much more...

I was born in 74' so I caught all the 80's madness.

A few that stand out in my mind is

Anything by The Cars
Huey Lewis
OMD
Cyndi Lauper
The Culture Club
Pet Shop Boys
Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Tears For Fears
and a lot of other stuff I'm glad I've forgotten.

Thankfully,my oldest sister became a metal head and introduced me to the likes of Ozzy,Iron Maiden,Metallica,Motley Crue (I remember their 'lingerie' days),stuff like that.
Much Music had 'The Power Hour" after school every day,it was a must see.