Shameless Eighties Nostalgia Fest

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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Speaking of Yaz,

    You can't leave out Yazoo - Goodbye 70's.
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • Sleepycol
    Sleepycol Posts: 66
    Eighties by Killing Joke. Fairly obvious.
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  • pneumatic
    pneumatic Posts: 1,989
    desmosedici wrote:
    Come on Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners


    OH LORD, NO, No, no, no, nooooooooooooooooooooo!

    NO!

    No!

    Am I the only person that vomits copiously at the very thought of those dungaree-wearing balloons and their hateful little ditty? surely not? Please someone agree with me that this was as totally unnacceptable an 80's episode as Margaret Thatcher's "May we bring peace" speech.

    Every effing works Xmas night out was blighted by that horrible song and the sheer terror of being kidnapped by the clerical staff and made to shout Too Rai Ray!

    UURRRRRRRRRGH!

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  • Mad Roadie
    Mad Roadie Posts: 710
    nicklouse wrote:
    ars*,
    NMA are playing in Holmfirth on the 24 June (my old hometown).

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  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    Dexy; The only thing good were the words, " Cum ON Eileen," as the rest of their - music? - and I use those words carefully, was crap.

    Mimed, plastic, badly danced, contrived, engineered, false, offensive, insulting, childish.

    Total crap.

    Total...
  • pneumatic
    pneumatic Posts: 1,989
    Splottboy wrote:
    Dexy; The only thing good were the words, " Cum ON Eileen," as the rest of their - music? - and I use those words carefully, was crap.

    Mimed, plastic, badly danced, contrived, engineered, false, offensive, insulting, childish.

    Total crap.

    Total...

    thank you!

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  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    My pleasure, my Celtic cousin!
  • skyd0g
    skyd0g Posts: 2,540
    pneumatic wrote:
    Splottboy wrote:
    Dexy; The only thing good were the words, " Cum ON Eileen," as the rest of their - music? - and I use those words carefully, was crap.

    Mimed, plastic, badly danced, contrived, engineered, false, offensive, insulting, childish.

    Total crap.

    Total...

    thank you!

    Irrespective of your individual obvious distain for the said 'tune' - you can't deny it left an impession on the eighties.

    That maybe an impression somewhat similar to the trace that the sole of your desert boot left as it crossed a beige carpet after a close encounter with a dog poo.
    It may be the entry to an exhibition to the Tate to some... ...to others? :wink:
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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Posts: 79,667
    Hipsway, The Honeythief.
  • unixnerd
    unixnerd Posts: 2,864
    The The have a new album out this week.

    Great stuff, Infected and Mind Bomb were two of the best albums ever.

    Oddly enough just a few days ago on Twitter Lance Armstrong was asking what Matt Johnson was up to these days! Small world.....

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  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    Page 3 already and no mention of Talking Heads Once in a Lifetime?

    Shameful, just shameful ...
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    Crapaud wrote:
    Page 3 already and no mention of Talking Heads Once in a Lifetime?

    Shameful, just shameful ...

    Personal favourite:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cqg_ZGcuybs
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  • IronHorse100
    IronHorse100 Posts: 302
    pneumatic wrote:
    Splottboy wrote:
    Dexy; The only thing good were the words, " Cum ON Eileen," as the rest of their - music? - and I use those words carefully, was crap.

    Mimed, plastic, badly danced, contrived, engineered, false, offensive, insulting, childish.

    Total crap.

    Total...

    thank you!

    Jesus! I disagree. Dexy's did some great stuff. So they had an enduring smash hit that became a little grating through overplaying; hardly their fault. I don't think any of the adjectives you list apply to them at all - but could be applied to most of the $hite that surrounded them in the charts at the time.
  • waynej
    waynej Posts: 56
    Talking Heads - Girlfriend is better
    Talking Heads - And she was
    Talking Heads - Road to nowhere
    Talking Heads - ...

    You get the picture...

    No band's music is more synonymous with the 80's than the heads for me tbh. Stop Making Sense is still the greatest concert video ever.

    Other great tracks (in no particular order) :

    Flock of Seagulls - Wishing (if I had a photograph of you)
    Talk Talk - Life's what you make it
    Black - Wonderful life
    Public Image Limited - Seattle
    Blondie - Union city blue
    Joy Division - Love will tear us apart
    The Blue Nile - Tinseltown
    Big Country - Fields of fire
    Goodbye Mr Mackenzie - the rattler

    I could go on for hours - and probably would given half a chance - the amount of great music from the 80's is huge. Time to fire up the Youtube methinks.
  • waynej
    waynej Posts: 56
    Some more:

    Public Image - Rise, Disappointed
    Kraftwerk - Tour de France (had to be...)
    Godley and Creme - Cry
    Simple Minds - Alive and kicking
    The Skids - Into the valley
    Tenpole Tudor - Swords of a thousand men, Wunderbar (no one can sit still to these)
    Undertones - My perfect cousin, Here comes the summer
    Bad Manners - Lip up fatty
    Madness - Wings of a dove and let's face it any of their songs!
    The Specials - Ghost town, Monkey man
    The Stranglers - Always the sun

    Better stop and do some work now.
  • crumbschief
    crumbschief Posts: 3,399
    Here's a few

    let the music play - Shannon
    you'll never know - edwyn collins
    the chinese way - level 42
    king tut - paul hardcastle
    who can it be now - men at work
    beat city - flowerpot men
    simple simon - mantronix
    it is time to get funky - d mob
    wait - wang chung
  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    No eighties thread would be complete without Ultravox - Vienna, New Order - Blue
    Monday    , The Clash - Rock The Casbah (1979, but played at every party I can remember).
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  • skyd0g
    skyd0g Posts: 2,540
    Crapaud wrote:
    No eighties thread would be complete without Ultravox - Vienna, New Order - Blue
    Monday    , The Clash - Rock The Casbah (1979, but played at every party I can remember).

    Good call x3 :D
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    i am going to have to playlist this on Spotify later.
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  • shockedsoshocked
    shockedsoshocked Posts: 4,021
    The Icicle Works - Birds Fly (Whisper to a Scream)
    David Bowie - Modern Love
    ABC - Look of Love
    Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science
    The Style Council - Party Chambers
    OMD - Bunker Soldiers
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  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    nicklouse wrote:
    i am going to have to playlist this on Spotify later.
    What is this 'Spotify' to which you refer? :?
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    Crapaud
    http://www.spotify.com/int/
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  • Crapaud
    Crapaud Posts: 2,483
    nicklouse wrote:
    Crapaud
    http://www.spotify.com/int/
    Ah ha, some new fangled, modern thing that the kids use!

    Whatever happened to the good old days when you'd bungee the gramaphone onto the rack, attach the starting handle to the rear hub and cycle off into the distance?

    The music did sound a bit odd at 100 - 120 rpm though. (even George Formby)
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  • Bunneh
    Bunneh Posts: 1,329
    Wait...What? Yes I know it's mostly about music but...what about TOYS? The cartoons? Oh man they were brilliant.

    I remember having my Gran record Transformers for me every morning off TVAM. It was only on for around 10 minutes but I couldn't wait to get home. Had a few VHS filled with them. I had every transformer I could mither out of my grand parents - then girls interfered with that :( Should have stuck with the toys.

    Sigh, oh to turn back time.
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  • Mad Roadie
    Mad Roadie Posts: 710
    crumbschief
    totally up for Level 42 - cant see how this thread has gone on for so long without a mention - also saw them live 4 years ago - still cant work out how he plays bass like it
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    How on earth did you guys get to see my playlist? :shock:

    The amount of tracks listed here that I thought were too left field (not Leftfield :wink: ) for the masses tells me that a lot of us have walked similar paths 8)
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • shouldbeinbed
    shouldbeinbed Posts: 2,660
    crash - the primitives
    rat race - the specials
    my perfet cousin - the undertones
    double dutch - malcolm mclaren
    sunshine on leith - the proclaimers
    james - come home
    marlene on the wall - suzanne vega (lots of her other stuff too)
    deutcher girls - adam and the ants

    pick anything by madness or The Housemartins
  • bartimaeus
    bartimaeus Posts: 1,812
    Coming Up for Air by Easterhouse

    Jet Set junta by the Monochrome Set

    Takes me back... could be reading this thread and searching Youtube and iTunes for some time
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  • alp777
    alp777 Posts: 211
    skyd0g wrote:
    a few more to add

    Smiths - How soon is now.
    Swansway - Soultrain.
    Lloyd Cole & the Commotions - Lost Weekend.
    Cure - 10.15 Saturday Night
    Spizz - Where's Captain Kirk?
    Heaven 17 - (We Don't Need This) Fascist Groove Thang
    Pigbag - Papa’s Got A Brand New Pigbag
    Cult - Spiritwalker
    Buzzcocks - What do I get?
    Clash - Should I stay or should I go?

    Wow! Suprised anyone mentioned Swansway! Top tune! Remember seeing them play live.in a club in Torquay
  • Splottboy
    Splottboy Posts: 3,695
    Spotify? Surely, that's very close to Splottyfy.

    Hmmm...Court case pending methinks.



    Eurythmics one of the best 80's groups, saw 'em at Wembley arena.
    Stranglers, Bristol.
    Bob Marley, but that was the late 70's, Cardiff.

    Does - watching "Teardrop Explodes", live concert on a portable TV in a 60's Mini, camping under Tryfan mountain - count? Oh, in 1982...

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