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AmericanKulak says

All Great.

Yes, Siouxie Sioux. Cities in Dust was a smash hit. I find the videos to be unsettling and dark, and anyone who believes they can find satanic imagery in film and videos (not a personal interest) would have a field day here.

Duran Duran - great group, string of hits, and Princess Di's fave. Robert Palmer - incredible talent. My Power Station favorite is Some Like It Hot which I took for a Robert Plamer song which it sort of is.

I left off with Echo at their fifth, self-titled album, and hadn't heard about Reverberation.

Re: the captivating Robert Palmer Addicted to Love video featuring babes in tight black skirts and high heels, it pays homage to artist Robert Nagel.

Talking Heads?

WookieMan says

Talking Heads?

Absolutely. Should be in anybody's top 10 list.

Prince Harry Post herewith.

I dated a girl in college, and we went to visit her sister at Rhode Island School of Design.
We ate at a Chinese place with her boyfriend.
We stayed with her and the 3 of us went up to New Hampshire for a few days.

8 years later I was back in Massachusetts for a visit home from a job in Baja California Sur Mexico.
I was in a record store (remember those?) and I saw the Talking Heads album picture; it was the sister and her boyfriend from RISD.

I was surprised since when I met Martina “Tina” she was not playing an instrument nor played music in her apartment as I recall.

The sister I dated and Tina later had a record “Tom Tom Club”.

The family was interesting; an older brother Yann (sp?) was a big shot architect, and the father was an admiral who commanded the US Navy in Iceland for NATO in the cold war. He was a Navy pilot in the Pacific in WWII.

Damn! There you go:

Tina Weymouth: Born in Coronado, California, Weymouth is the daughter of Laura Bouchage and U.S. Navy Vice Admiral Ralph Weymouth. The third of seven children, her siblings include Lani and Laura Weymouth, who are collaborators in Tina's band Tom Tom Club, and architect Yann Weymouth, the designer of the Salvador Dalí Museum. Weymouth is of French heritage on her mother's side (she is the great-granddaughter of Anatole Le Braz, a Breton writer).[4][5]

When she was 12, Weymouth joined the Potomac English Hand Bell Ringers, an amateur music group directed by Nancy Tufts, and toured with them. At 14, she started to teach herself the guitar.[6][7]

Talking Heads[edit]
As a student at the Rhode Island School of Design, she met Chris Frantz and David Byrne, who formed a band called the Artistics. She began dating Frantz and served as the band's driver. After graduation, the three of them moved to New York City. Since Byrne and Frantz were unable to find a suitable bass guitar player she joined them at the latter's request, and began learning and playing the instrument.

As a bass player she combined the minimalist art-punk bass lines of groups such as Wire and Pere Ubu with danceable, funk-inflected riffs to provide the bedrock of Talking Heads' signature sound.[8] - Wikid

Her true name is Martina I believe.
Trivia: I believe Yann designed the Eternal Flame memorial in Washington DC.

Edit: "Your stories and a quarter get you a ride on the Staten Island Ferry." (now it's free for some reason)

The 80's were a pure let down for any Gen X'er that had older siblings or cousins, who's Record crates you had access to. Their music collection from the previous decade were all still relevant, and fresh. For youngsters that had never heard them before, As new bands came along and established bands, all started embracing that cheese 8 bit digital homogenized pop sound, music started going flat. The rock heroes that were trying to embrace the synth pop and work it into their new tracks, it was crass and cheap compared to their earlier works. I loved Yes, but their 80's contribution was "Owner of the Lonely heart" for someone who took the hours and time to learn to play "Round About" note for note, it sure was a let down. Like Kansas' offering in the 80's was nothing like "Dust in the wind". I mean they hold up today, because it was the cut off point of decent rock music anyway. Going forward at that point, all rock acts, had to be frizzy hair and spandex cartoon package. You had to have the looks, the gear and sponsors. It got harder to break into the rock scene, but any ugly eyesore could make an 80's synth pop hit, and be marketed regardless of their image. That was my take on bands like "Flock of Seagulls", "Oingo Boingo", "Culture Club" and "Blondie"
I did like the Cars, Elvis Costello, and a few other acts.

I actually appreciate many of the 80's hits in all of its various genre forms, than I did at the time they came out.

I was exclusively into European Metal in the 80's. Early Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Ozzy, ACDC, Nazareth, Pink Floyd. The LA lipstick and spandex ruined Metal plus by the late mid 80's I moved to South Florida and we had no Metal scene to speak of. Some say "Shoot we had the Metal Factory and the Elbow Room" they did but it was local LA metal cover bands, nobody was doing a Judas Preist or Ozzy cover band, they were doing Rat, Motley Crue, and Poison, the glam bullshit I despised. So by '89 the Grateful Dead came to down and became a bit of a Deadhead and collected all of their tapes, and went to every show in the south east I could attend. Until 95 when Jerry Garcia died. Then what was left of the Dead became some kind of skin suit, the remaining members brought out on tour, but it wasn't the same. By the mid 90's I primarily wrote music and was into my own music, and playing with other people.

If I could go back to the 80's I think I would have been a more vocally active against the Cultural Marxism that ruined American music in every genre and form. I saw it happening then, I just didn't know what it was or how to describe, why giving Boy George a Grammy for Church of the Poinsoned mind rather than Tom Petty "You got lucky babe". Which was at 97 in the Billboard 100 for the year.

83 was the quintessential 80's sound, that the rest of the Decade kept trying to best But most of the real hits were made in 83.


No. Title Artist(s)
1 "Every Breath You Take" The Police
2 "Billie Jean" Michael Jackson
3 "Flashdance... What a Feeling" Irene Cara
4 "Down Under" Men at Work
5 "Beat It" Michael Jackson
6 "Total Eclipse of the Heart" Bonnie Tyler
7 "Maneater" Hall & Oates
8 "Baby, Come to Me" Patti Austin and James Ingram
9 "Maniac" Michael Sembello
10 "Sweet Dreams (Are Made of This)" Eurythmics
11 "Do You Really Want to Hurt Me" Culture Club
12 "You and I" Eddie Rabbitt and Crystal Gayle
13 "Come On Eileen" Dexys Midnight Runners
14 "Shame on the Moon" Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
15 "She Works Hard for the Money" Donna Summer
16 "Never Gonna Let You Go" Sérgio Mendes
17 "Hungry Like the Wolf" Duran Duran
18 "Let's Dance" David Bowie
19 "Twilight Zone" Golden Earring
20 "I Know There's Something Going On" Frida
21 "Jeopardy" The Greg Kihn Band
22 "Electric Avenue" Eddy Grant
23 "She Blinded Me with Science" Thomas Dolby
24 "Africa" Toto
25 "Little Red Corvette" Prince
26 "Back on the Chain Gang" The Pretenders
27 "Up Where We Belong" Joe Cocker and Jennifer Warnes
28 "Mr. Roboto" Styx
29 "You Are" Lionel Richie
30 "Der Kommissar" After the Fire
31 "Puttin' on the Ritz" Taco
32 "Sexual Healing" Marvin Gaye
33 "(Keep Feeling) Fascination" The Human League
34 "Time (Clock of the Heart)" Culture Club
35 "The Safety Dance" Men Without Hats
36 "Mickey" Toni Basil
37 "You Can't Hurry Love" Phil Collins
38 "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" Journey
39 "One on One" Hall & Oates
40 "We've Got Tonight" Kenny Rogers and Sheena Easton
41 "1999" Prince
42 "Stray Cat Strut" Stray Cats
43 "Allentown" Billy Joel
44 "Stand Back" Stevie Nicks
45 "Tell Her About It" Billy Joel
46 "Always Something There to Remind Me" Naked Eyes
47 "Truly" Lionel Richie
48 "Dirty Laundry" Don Henley
49 "The Girl Is Mine" Michael Jackson and Paul McCartney
50 "Too Shy" Kajagoogoo
51 "Goody Two-Shoes" Adam Ant
52 "Rock the Casbah" The Clash
53 "Our House" Madness
54 "Overkill" Men at Work
55 "Is There Something I Should Know?" Duran Duran
56 "Gloria" Laura Branigan
57 "Affair of the Heart" Rick Springfield
58 "She's a Beauty" The Tubes
59 "Solitaire" Laura Branigan
60 "Don't Let It End" Styx
61 "How Am I Supposed to Live Without You" Laura Branigan
62 "China Girl" David Bowie
63 "Come Dancing" The Kinks
64 "Promises, Promises" Naked Eyes
65 "The Other Guy" Little River Band
66 "Making Love Out of Nothing at All" Air Supply
67 "Family Man" Hall & Oates
68 "Wanna Be Startin' Somethin'" Michael Jackson
69 "I Won't Hold You Back" Toto
70 "All Right" Christopher Cross
71 "Straight from the Heart" Bryan Adams
72 "Heart to Heart" Kenny Loggins
73 "My Love" Lionel Richie
74 "I'm Still Standing" Elton John
75 "Hot Girls in Love" Loverboy
76 "It's a Mistake" Men at Work
77 "I'll Tumble 4 Ya" Culture Club
78 "All This Love" DeBarge
79 "Your Love Is Driving Me Crazy" Sammy Hagar
80 "Heartbreaker" Dionne Warwick
81 "Faithfully" Journey
82 "Steppin' Out" Joe Jackson
83 "Take Me to Heart" Quarterflash
84 "(She's) Sexy + 17" Stray Cats
85 "Try Again" Champaign
86 "Dead Giveaway" Shalamar
87 "Lawyers in Love" Jackson Browne
88 "What About Me" Moving Pictures
89 "Human Nature" Michael Jackson
90 "Photograph" Def Leppard
91 "Pass the Dutchie" Musical Youth
92 "True" Spandau Ballet
93 "Far from Over" Frank Stallone
94 "I've Got a Rock 'n' Roll Heart" Eric Clapton
95 "It Might Be You" Stephen Bishop
96 "Tonight, I Celebrate My Love" Peabo Bryson and Roberta Flack
97 "You Got Lucky" Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
98 "Don't Cry" Asia
99 "Breaking Us in Two" Joe Jackson
100 "Fall in Love with Me" Earth, Wind & Fire

Well, can't forget earlier 80s - ex: Physical, ONJ, 1981. That IMO really kicked the decade off...

My first favorite song. Of course, I had no idea what it was about at the time. Thought it was about aerobics.

NuttBoxer says

Someone who always seems to get overlooked from that era, Cyndi Lauper.

In that same vein, The Hooters (Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman both worked on She's So Unusual). The Hooters had three album released in the eighties (not including their independent debut).

Tenpoundbass says

I was exclusively into European Metal in the 80's. Early Judas Priest, Black Sabbath, Ozzy, ACDC, Nazareth, Pink Floyd. The LA lipstick and spandex ruined Metal plus by the late mid 80's I moved to South Florida and we had no Metal scene to speak of. Some say "Shoot we had the Metal Factory and the Elbow Room" they did but it was local LA metal cover bands, nobody was doing a Judas Preist or Ozzy cover band, they were doing Rat, Motley Crue, and Poison, the glam bullshit I despised. So by '89 the Grateful Dead came to down and became a bit of a Deadhead and collected all of their tapes, and went to every show in the south east I could attend. Until 95 when Jerry Garcia died. Then what was left of the Dead became some kind of skin suit, the remaining members brought out on tour, but it wasn't the same. By the mid 90's I primarily wrote music and was into my own music, and playing with other people.

Glam was forgettable. Metal turned out to be eternal and worldwide, despite the claims of those at the time that it was a fad that was only in a few countries and would die.

Walk the streets of South America, Russia, Europe, and surprisingly less so in the USA, and you'll see kids born this century practicing AC/DC licks on their first guitar wearing Judas Priest shirts (or vice-versa). Even young Sikh guys dig metal.

Notable mentions for George Michael, Queen and Elton John.

Tenpoundbass says

83 was the quintessential 80's sound, that the rest of the Decade kept trying to best But most of the real hits were made in 83.

The list is a potpourri of diverse artists. Might as well put Pavarotti on there. The OP atempted to list groups representative of an emerging new category of popular music called modern rock or alternative rock at the time. Peabo Bryson (!) would not be in that category. Nor Donna Summer, Shalamar (!), and other artsts listed. I am afraid the metal inspired head banging may have resulted in permanent damage.

Al_Sharpton_for_President says

The list is a potpourri of diverse artists. Might as well put Pavarotti on there.

I'm not sure how old you are, but back then Jimmy Buffet and Sindy Lauper played on the same radio station.

My point was 83 was the year, when Rock music seemed displaced by digital beeps and squeaks that was not heard previously in pop and rock music.
Those of us that wanted more Back in Black out of Rock only got more "Do you really want to hurt me".
And for what it's worth 90% of people only heard of Pavarotti only after K-Tel made him an "as seen on TV" star.

Along with Box Car Willy, Zamphir, and Slim Whitman. Did you know that thanks to the Sha Na Na variety show, many of the Coaster and the Platter's 50's era hits charted again, and they toured to pack crowds for the first time in their lives.

I guess the 80's was far more eclectic than what has been since.

The late 90s easily has the worst music. Pop Punk, Death Metal, and Nu Metal, all total crap. Interspersed with Welfare Ho Bastard Making Music.

My personal hell would be stuck in an elevator forever with late 90s music.

"That was SMORGASBOARD from Sweden with "Grrrrr (one D minor chord strummed every 30 seconds)", next, it's "Love You Down (Gibsmethat 40 mix). And the Linkin Park two-for-tuesday is on the way!"

Well, Peter Gabriel released the monster album So in 1986, and REM really hit their commercial stride from 1985-1992. The Psychadelic Furs, currently touring, released the excellent Mirror Moves in 1984. Heck, Pretty in Pink didn't come out till 1986, and the prophetically funny Repo Man in 1984.

But consider, the detestable disco scene was contemporaneous with CBGB's and punk at its peak. You could romance some Italian hottie in your form fitting polyster shirt with prominent gold chain and pleated plaid cuffed bell bottoms and platform shoes in the Bronx, ditch those threads for a torn T shirt and ripped jeans and high top Keds, and booggie oogie over to the East Village to catch Blondie, The Ramones, and personal fave the New York Dolls all in one night. The '70's.

I'm not saying that 83 was the only year, I'm saying it was the year that radio went from Charlie Daniels to Flock of Seagulls.
My brother went in the army after he graduated in 82, when he got out in 86, he and I moved to South Florida.
He was exposed to music I wasn't exposed to in South Carolina. The music scene there was Country, Southern Rock, Heavy Metal and what ever the radio stations played.
My brother turned me onto Psychedelic Furs, REM, Black Flag, Husker Du, Violent Femes, Fine Young Cannibals, and Wall of Voodoo Dead Kennedys ect.. These bands were mostly unknown to the East Coast markets. They became more mainstream as the 80's came to a close.

The 80's kicked ass. Don't ruin the nostalgia by quibbling over details.

Former occasional Guilty pleasure: Erasure.

I listened a few weeks ago and all the drag queen faggotry fake love and peace shit made me barf.

Now U2 is making me barf. A Bono/Edge appearance now seems to frame a bullshit atrocity.

AmericanKulak says

The late 90s easily has the worst music. Pop Punk, Death Metal, and Nu Metal, all total crap. Interspersed with Welfare Ho Bastard Making Music.

No, that wasn't the worst. Today is the worst. Today, music sucks so bad, that there literally is none being created.