80's Flashback Thread

[thetrailboss]

OK, I thought I would start this thread for you to post videos and music that you recall from the 80's.

I saw this and I can actually recall hearing this on AM radio when I was a kid in the 'Kingdom. Scary.

 

[dmc]

In the 80's I pretty much got turned off to pop music. Unfortunately every friggin house in the US was tuned to MTV so there wasn't much escape from it..
Was already getting into the Grateful Dead after seeing a show in 79... But still retained a love for "art rock" and punk... Loathed synth-pop and hairbands...

 

[ChileMass]

The 80s were the end of punk (Clash, Ramones) and good New Wave (Talking Heads, Devo) morphed into pop-crap (too many to list). I enjoyed the rise of indie rock (REM, Replacements, etc). And the older 60s/70s bands became like national monuments (CSN, Stones, Bruce, etc). How much friggin' money do you think bands like Pink Floyd or the Stones made from this period on? Amazing. I hated the hair bands, too......

Favorite 80s tunes:

REM - South Central Rain
Kate Bush - Running Up That Hill
Siouxie/Banshees - The Killing Jar
Living Color - Cult of Personality

 

[Mark_151]

Here's one I recently discovered again:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6593253909585524706

And the inspiration that lead me to the search:

 

[NYDrew]

80's it up fellas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OrBUQzNOn0o

not sure about this one http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rar6MO9ybC0

 

[NYDrew]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CSa9s5x6tIQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HuOhUa5GxA0

and lastly, for those of you with younger sons, perhaps you should take him more seriously next time he claims there is a monster grabbing him from under the bed.... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-8vA30ELuXY

 

[ChileMass]

OMG - didn't you just hate Pat Benatar? One of the worst ever.......

 

[andyzee]

This may be more 70s than 80s, but sure that they lasted into the 80s. I've been listening to the Cramps lately, classics such as:

Eyeball in My Martini
I Wanna Get in Your Pants
Wilder Wilder Faster Faster
Naked Girl Falling
Lets Get F-cked Up
Cramps_NakedGirlFallingDownTheStairs
Surfin' Bird
Ultra Twist
Confessions Of A Psycho Cat
No Club Lone Wolf

 

[roark]

Bikini Girls with Machine Guns was 80's Cramps... for better or worse

 

[dmc]

This may be more 70s than 80s, but sure that they lasted into the 80s.

That was my earlier point..
Those 70's bands kept me sane in the early 80's...
Like the Clash for instance..

A shot I took from the ledgendary Bonds Casino...

 

[andyzee]

That was my earlier point..
Those 70's bands kept me sane in the early 80's...
Like the Clash for instance..

A shot I took from the ledgendary Bonds Casino...

Same here, a lot of 70s punk and then started getting into a lot of reggae to keep me sane . And no, that doesn't mean Marley. For me it was Yellowman, Johnny Osbourne, Eek a Mouse, Half Pint, Lovindeer, Michican and Smilie, the list goes on and on. There is so much gold in Jamaica.

 

[Paul]

Funny, I come across this thread as I'm listening to "Emotion Detector"