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[Mr.PD]

Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo. That ranks right up there as one of my favorites.

ABC put out a song "When Smokey Sings" that I like real well also.
Then there is:
We Got The Beat - The Go Go's
Rock This Town - Stray Cats
Centerfold - J. Geils Band
867-5309/Jenny - Tommy Tutone
Keep Your Hands To Yourself - Georgia Satellites
Wild Wild West - The Escape Club
Karma Chameleon - Boy George
I Touch Myself - divinyls (okay 1990)

That's enough for now.

 

[sanity8me]

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Originally Posted by Mr.PD Mexican Radio by Wall of Voodoo. That ranks right up there as one of my favorites. ABC put out a song "When Smokey Sings" that I like real well also. Then there is: We Got The Beat - The Go Go's Rock This Town - Stray Cats Centerfold - J. Geils Band 867-5309/Jenny - Tommy Tutone Keep Your Hands To Yourself - Georgia Satellites Wild Wild West - The Escape Club Karma Chameleon - Boy George I Touch Myself - divinyls (okay 1990) That's enough for now.

867-5309.. how did i miss that? .. besides I Touch Myself (1990) the rest i'm not sure of. i'm not a big fan of Boy George's Karma Chameleon but it def is an 80's classic. i guess i need to start DLing all these recommendations. too bad i gotta study for an insane two-day final in my Principles of Electrical Engineering II class...

 

[Masonjar]

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Originally Posted by bong and the gloomy b-side "Mesh" which isn't available anywhere else on CD. the "Mesh" on Substance CD2 is actually "Cries and Whispers."

Hmm I thought it was the other way around, that "Cries and Whispers" was on the EP, guess I'll have to change things around a bit.

You know that weird synth sound that opens "Procession" ? Frontline Assembly used it for a track on one of their songs.. can't remember right now which one it was, but it was unmistakeable when I heard it.

there is no end to this, i have seen your face but i don't recognize all these things.. you must have left behind...

sometimes I wish I could go back in time to those first few weeks I was getting into Joy Division and early New Order stuff.. that was like, a drug. Probably the most I had ever been "intoxicated" by music. I couldn't get enough. I still to his day have never come across a music that was so, how do I put it, pungent. Such a singular, pointed musical vision. And it wasn't like, it took me a few months to get into the "New Order" sound, it was instantaneous. From the first time I heard them, something reached into my mind and just planted itself. The highlight of every party was when they/we/I spun "Blue Monday" or "Bizarre Love Triangle."

If anyone is a Mahler fan, it's a similar idea. Listen to 2 or 3 seconds and it's unmistakeable. No one else could have made that music.

-jar

 

[SportaJoe]

The Cars Your All Ive Got Tonight was on their first album also.

 

[utep10]

"What's He Got" and "She Sheila"

Anybody else heard of them?

 

[Masonjar]

One from each band (can't say that each song is my absolute favorite by each band, but all of these songs rule):

New Order "Age of Consent"
The Cure "A Forest"
Echo & The Bunnymen "The Killing Moon"
Siouxsie and the Banshees "The Killing Jar"

Joy Division "The Eternal"
Husker Du "Celebrated Summer"
Dinosaur Jr "Little Fury Things"
Sonic Youth "Schizophrenia"
Minutemen "Political Song for Michael Jackson to Sing"
Black Flag "Jealous Again"
Dead Kennedys "Holiday In Cambodia"
Meat Puppets "Up On The Sun"
The Pursuit of Happiness "She's So Young"
Love & Rockets "A Private Future"
Tones on Tail "Performance"
Depeche Mode "Everything Counts"
The Smiths "Hand In Glove" (I see 12 year old girls walking around with t-shirts that say "Pretty Girls Make Graves" .. did this line exist before the Smiths??.. just curious)
Cocteau Twins "Carolyn's Fingers"
Violent Femmes "Add it Up"
Replacements "Left of the Dial"
Soul Asylum "Sometime to Return"
Gary Numan - To my surprise, THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE came out in 1979 but I would pick "Metal"
The Clash "Straight to Hell"
R.E.M. "Wolves, Lower"
The Jesus & Mary Chain "Cut Dead"
The Flaming Lips "Chrome Plated Suicide" (yes, they were a great 80's band too)
Nick Cave "Up Jumped the Devil" (GOOD SON.. 1990, doh)
Public Image Limited "Rise"

that's good for now. No metal, that's a different list.

-jar

 

[Jahn]

Here's a nice trio of similar ethereal tunes-

1)Streets of Your Town - The Go-Betweens
2)There She Goes - The La's
3)I Don't Know Why I Love You - The House of Love (technically 1990 i think). You like this sound, try something a bit harder in Love and Rockets.

Here's my big sister's 80's trifecta-

1)Party Girl by U2 on "Under a Blood Red Sky"
2)Roxanne by The Police (70s tho I believe)
3)Train in Vain by The Clash (70s too right?)

Bah, you can tell my sister is late 70s/early 80s and I'm mid-late 80s/early 90s. I tried to pick tunes that are worth picking up that children of the 2000s may not have heard (at least the originals) - ok, The Police are an exception lol! But folks may have heard OF The Clash and U2 but haven't checked those tunes out...

 

[Borat]

Talking Heads - Once in a Lifetime
Talking Heads - This Must Be the Place (Naive Melody)
Jesus & Mary Chain - Just Like Honey
The Replacements - I Will Dare
Elvis Costello - Everyday I Write the Book
Bruce Springsteen - Dancing in the Dark
The Pixies - Debaser
XTC - Dear God
Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored
U2 - I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For

There's too many. I remember a thread a while ago asking if the 80's was the worst decade for music. I don't think that's true at all. It's just all those infomercials for 80's hairband/rock ballad compilations that make it seem so today.

 

[asmox]

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Originally Posted by Borat I remember a thread a while ago asking if the 80's was the worst decade for music. I don't think that's true at all. It's just all those infomercials for 80's hairband/rock ballad compilations that make it seem so today.

the 80's spawned Watchtower.. the band that set the foundation for today's progressive and technical metal. that alone is enough to make the 80's not suck.

 

[wakeride74]

Howard Jones - Like to get to know you well
Duran Duran - The Reflex
Duran Duran - Rio
Don't You (Forget About Me) - Simple Minds

geez... I'm drawing a total blank and I know there are many many more....
I'll edit if I can remember

 

[Mr.PD]

Okay, I remembered some more that I truly love;
'cum on feel the noise - Quiet Riot
Round and Round - Ratt
Rock You Like a Hurricane - Scorpions
You Can't Kill Rock and Roll - Ozzy Osbourne
Welcome to the Jungle - Guns and Roses
Rock of Ages - Def Leppard
Photograph - Def Leppard
Talk Dirty to Me - Poison
Nothing But a Good Time - Poison
Hot For Teacher - Van Halen
and The Cradle Will Rock - Van Halen

 

[canloader]

Twisted Sister -
I wanna ROCK !



hahahaa

 

[Masonjar]

Here's a couple more that will bring back memories.. or something..

Helix - "Rock You"
Kick Axe - "Heavy Metal Shuffle"
Krokus - "Screaming in the Night"
Accept - "Balls to the Wall"
W.A.S.P. - "Blind In Texas"
Fastway - "Say What you Will"
Scorpions - "There's No One Like You" (forgotten in the wake of "Hurricane")
Whitesnake - "Slide it In" (uh, yea, the kings of innuendo here)
Dokken - "Alone Again" (one of the first metal ballads that chicks dug.. thanks a lot Dokken..)
Tesla - "Little Suzie"
Great White - "Rock Me"
Autograph - "Turn up the Radio"
Night Ranger - "Don't Tell Me You Love Me"

um yea..

 

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