Music from the 80s now considered "classics"

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• Zorvan Member CommonPosts: 8,912

  February 2008

  Originally posted by Zindaihas
  
  
  I must really be getting old.  I wouldn't mind 80s songs being called classic if it had been a little better, but most of it is trash.  There were some great songs from the 80s, but nothing like had been produced in the 70s.  Minus the disco, of course.
  http://www.cbc.ca/cp/entertainment/080218/e021829A.html
  

  I'm an eighties child ( born in '73 ) so I know how you feel. But I gotta say i love most of the '80's music. Everything from Ozzy to The Thompson Twins.
• hotpie Member Posts: 191

  February 2008

  i like 80's music, like michael jackson's music and aerosmith's. i also like some of new waves but sometimes they're too annoying.
• lomiller Member Posts: 1,810

  February 2008

  I had no problem coming up with some classics from the 80's, in fact it was really hard o limit myself to just one song per band in many cases.  I even found a Madonna song I like to put in and that almost never happens. 

   

   
  
  

   

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbnpdik78Uo

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

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZYxsUDZQ4Q

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEp5Pl25i_o

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fv1N6TVCnLs

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nE11Zrrp24I

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jFQYf94BGGc

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTf52IsksKI

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55nTwg5NIPM

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPudiBR15mk

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_bvT-DGcWw

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwqhhZnl8G4

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

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CyzsBqk8u1w

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz4pTMN3abw

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErMgxtbHcN4

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAn8lu3C9IE

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7VjrW5zgqQ

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6gtj5MuUIw

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k5JkHBC5lDs

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8e-vgQSqNtA

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QT9tpKXFd8A

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1U8lVi0WWbQ

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a7LZRaHz0Q8

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hk28eVDiDaI

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJfKyHR5-1M

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=arUqoKjU3D4

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9J9rTZJBmw

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdVEM5WMDo0

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wx6t11D99tA

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAn8lu3C9IE

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnsDhrEH2h8

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

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N7vCww3j2-w

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10BbpGKLXqk

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aKlgHfexw6g

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gBdUz_IJ4VA

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WlYt8tvuB64

   

   
• Zorvan Member CommonPosts: 8,912

  February 2008

  Originally posted by hotpie
  
  
  i like 80's music, like michael jackson's music and aerosmith's. i also like some of new waves but sometimes they're too annoying.
  

  I guess I should admit i had the multi-zippered red jacket from Thriller, the sequined glove, and matching socks.
• Dekron Member UncommonPosts: 7,359

  February 2008

  Originally posted by lomiller
  
  
  I had no problem coming up with some classics from the 80's, in fact it was really hard o limit myself to just one song per band in many cases.  I even found a Madonna song I like to put in and that almost never happens. 
  

  You forgot Zorvan's favorite.

  www.youtube.com/watch
• Zorvan Member CommonPosts: 8,912

  February 2008

  Originally posted by Dekron
  
  
   
  Originally posted by lomiller
  
  
  I had no problem coming up with some classics from the 80's, in fact it was really hard o limit myself to just one song per band in many cases.  I even found a Madonna song I like to put in and that almost never happens. 
  

  You forgot Zorvan's favorite.

   

  www.youtube.com/watch

  You are teh evil.
• Syncrosonix Member Posts: 341

  February 2008

  my guilty pleasure is cheesy 80s synth-pop.

  
• Ritto Member Posts: 191

  February 2008

  I love the 80's alough technicly Im a 90's child.

  Since Im only 19. One of my favourite bands was from the 80's (Guns N' Roses)

  But my alltime favourite band was from the 70's (Led Zeppelin)

  Alough they are classed under the "classic rock" catagory, There music still seems fresh even today (for me anyway.)

  
• KrAzYBLADE Member UncommonPosts: 70

  February 2008

  I believe it shouldnt be a classic until its past the 50 year mark...lol They're trying to make us 20 something year olds feel old. The bands i do remember back when i was a little kid rocking out with my older brothers is Warrant, Ratt, Faster Pussycat, ZZ top, Van Helan, Bon Jovi, Shotgun messia, Autograph, White Lion and many others.

  
• Vemoi Member Posts: 1,546

  February 2008

  Originally posted by lomiller
  
  
  I had no problem coming up with some classics from the 80's, in fact it was really hard o limit myself to just one song per band in many cases.  I even found a Madonna song I like to put in and that almost never happens. 
  
   
  
   
   
  

  I like your list. I expected to see a bunch of hair bands listed.  I seen both Cowboy Junkies and Joan Jett in concert. Here is a few ya missed. I'll try to keep it short.

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TC8uYhSTKoY

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLQ3i_XQXsw

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8XVHnNaJOo

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLy6UH2hZLQ

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hvi4iA3PnKE

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ORc5Td_T6og

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWhV2l9QPxw

  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDE4LHpK9dU
• Syncrosonix Member Posts: 341

  February 2008

  

  i don't think the link to the video above has been posted. so, there it is!

  
• Techleo Member Posts: 1,984

  February 2008

     Ah the 80's! I loved that era! Neon colored clothes! Funky Music Positive attitudes. I actually think I liked the 1980's more then any other era. Then again I was born in the 1980's hehe. Then the 1990's hit and it all went to hell. I think if you had to ask people in my area what was worst though it had to be meth. Living on the I-5 corridor we saw such a increase of meth related problems that were just now starting to grasp how quickly we went down hill.

  Great music about by the way! Chapman especially!
• daeandor Member UncommonPosts: 2,695

  February 2008

  All I have to say is from living through the 80's as a teenager and then young adult, the music really sucked.  I'd take the 60's, 70's, or 90's any day over the 80's save a very few songs and less than a dozen bands at most.  Even the great bands from the 60's or 70's that produced albums during that time produced relative garbage IMO. 
• lomiller Member Posts: 1,810

  February 2008

  Originally posted by Vemoi
  
  
   
  
  
  I like your list. I expected to see a bunch of hair bands listed.  I seen both Cowboy Junkies and Joan Jett in concert. Here is a few ya missed. I'll try to keep it short.
   
  

   

  It’s hard to keep it short isn’t it.

  
  

   

  
  

  I can’t believe I missed Concrete Blonde!  Since the subject is about “classics” I’d have gone with God is a Bullet because it’s more recognizable.  
• Laserwolf Member Posts: 2,383

  February 2008

  I love 80s music and I love 80s movies. I don't care for 80s tv, 80s style(hair or clothing), or the 80s as a decade.

  80s music is feel good music.

  
• Vemoi Member Posts: 1,546

  February 2008

  Originally posted by lomiller
  
  Originally posted by Vemoi
  
  
   
  
  
  I like your list. I expected to see a bunch of hair bands listed.  I seen both Cowboy Junkies and Joan Jett in concert. Here is a few ya missed. I'll try to keep it short.
   
  

   

  It’s hard to keep it short isn’t it.

  
  

   

  
  

  I can’t believe I missed Concrete Blonde!  Since the subject is about “classics” I’d have gone with God is a Bullet because it’s more recognizable.  

  
  Maybe I am wrong but I think Joey and True got the most airtime.  Johnette Napolitano plays bass and they did a pretty good concert.

  I was thinking of making a list  the other day but then, usually don't get much response to music in these forums.  Anyways, I had thought of some allready when I seen this post. There are many more I like but bad/no videos and wanted to keep list down.

   
• Dis_Ordur Member Posts: 1,501

  February 2008

  Originally posted by KrAzYBLADE

  I believe it shouldnt be a classic until its past the 50 year mark...lol They're trying to make us 20 something year olds feel old. The bands i do remember back when i was a little kid rocking out with my older brothers is Warrant, Ratt, Faster Pussycat, ZZ top, Van Helan, Bon Jovi, Shotgun messia, Autograph, White Lion and many others.

  LOL  White Lion...  Haven't heard that in a grip... 

  I remember the Bullet Boys had one of the cheesiest vidoes of all time.

  
• Aguy Member Posts: 561

  February 2008

  Originally posted by Zindaihas
  
  
  I must really be getting old.  I wouldn't mind 80s songs being called classic if it had been a little better, but most of it is trash.  There were some great songs from the 80s, but nothing like had been produced in the 70s.  Minus the disco, of course.
  http://www.cbc.ca/cp/entertainment/080218/e021829A.html
  

  Uh, is it possible to not like both rock and disco?  It goes against the natural rules.
• lomiller Member Posts: 1,810

  February 2008

  Originally posted by Vemoi
  
  
   
  Maybe I am wrong but I think Joey and True got the most airtime.  Johnette Napolitano plays bass and they did a pretty good concert.

   

  That probably depends a lot on where you are located. Joey definitely got more air time here, but it didn’t come out until 1990. Here at least God is a Bullet got a lot of airtime and got talked about a lot because the title was considered controversial.   
• gnomexxx Member Posts: 2,920

  February 2008

  Just to throw my 2 cents in, I gotta say of all the music I mostly connect with the 80's music.  I don't connect hardly at all to any of the new bands.  Today's music seems like packaged garbage to me.  No originality or taking chances at all.

  Even the cheesy songs from the 80's were at least from bands trying to do something different.  Today it's just all the same.  Negative songs filled with whining kids.  Either that or something so bubble gum poppy that it's enough to make you turn the radio off.

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• Syncrosonix Member Posts: 341

  February 2008

  rick astley, people!

  

  
• frodus Member Posts: 2,396

  February 2008

  The Police, Pat Benatar, Lionel Richie, The Go-Go's, Dire Straits, Duran Duran, Van Halen, Foreigner, Phil Collins, Huey Lewis and the News, Juice Newton, Def Leppard, Deacon Blue, Bryan Adams, Queen, U2, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Cher, Rick Springfield, Tina Turner, Bruce Springsteen, John Mellencamp, Olivia Newton-John, Prince, Michael Jackson, Janet Jackson, Whitney Houston, Beastie Boys, Amy Grant, Laura Branigan and Bon Jovi.And my favorite BLONDIE and Black Flag.Just a few I could think of at the moment.

  Trade in material assumptions for spiritual facts and make permanent progress.