Dust off the memory - late 70s & early 80s tunes please!

greg66_tri_v2.0
greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
edited January 2011 in Commuting chat
Right. Having recently been introduced to the delights of Spotify, I have started to put together a list of tunes from my yoof. No, not Arthur Askey, Vera Lynn,et al. Yoof, not childhood.

So I'm looking for stuff that was getting radio airplay from the late 70s to the early 80s. Glam rock lovers need not apply (cos it's the wrong period, and utter shite). At the mo, I'm going back to circa Cruel to be Kind as far as stuff that was contemporary when played, and things like Hotel California/the Beach Boys for old stuff that was getting airplay then.

Mid 80s is the cut off - Into The Groove is well into the twilight of this window.

So, let's have some suggestions please. I've googled a few 80s playlists, but they are too US-centric. There's a limit to how much REO Speedwagon a man can take.

Winning entries will receive the satisfaction of a job well done.

[cue "jokes" about 78s, and playlists that would make Charlotte Green pee herself with the giggles]
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  • Oddjob62
    Oddjob62 Posts: 1,056
    One of the first albums i owned was Now 1. It's the tail end of the period you mention, but might bring back some good memories.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_That%2 ... _series%29
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  • plowmar
    plowmar Posts: 1,032
    Did the Beach Boys keep their success into the 70's?

    Seriously though for the 70's early 80's nowt better than Bowie, any L.P. of that era, or is he classed as Glam Rock.
  • marchant
    marchant Posts: 362
    heartbeat.jpg
    Track listing


    First album I ever bought :)
  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    How about "Kitchen at Parties" by Jona Lewie, currently playing on an Ikea ad. Sorry if this is way off, I'm a tad too young, you know. :D
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,355
    Oddjob62 wrote:
    One of the first albums i owned was Now 1. It's the tail end of the period you mention, but might bring back some good memories.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Now_That%2 ... _series%29


    You could try wikipedia listings for number one singles by year

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nu ... f_1974_(UK)#1974

    and so on.

    I'm only 8 years younger than the OP - funny how such a small time gap can lead to a completely different cultural experience
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Off the top of my head...

    The Police.
    Big Audio Dynamite (might be a shade too late)
    Elton John - Rocket Man
    Dire Straits
    The Buggles
    Joy Division

    Then I Googled and found this:

    http://www.rhapsody.com/playlistcentral ... ly.8926549
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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    Oooh, would Ian Dury make the list?
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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,165
    If the number in your username is a clue to your age then you're pretty much the same age as me. This is something I've been meaning to do for years, so will have to put the zimmer away and dig up the memory banks :wink:

    Here's a few random starters for 10:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MyIi8-BJAQo
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a84L1hVVEls&ob=av2nl
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-qHTn_wtQas
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VPgHbt0ODr4
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9MYXr9gY5U&feature=related
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6siGKxcKol0
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  • MichaelW
    MichaelW Posts: 2,164
    Madness
    10cc
    Gloria Gaynor
    Boney M
    Ultravox
    Queen
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Siouxsie & the Banshees.
    Early Simple Minds - New Gold Dream is the cut off.
    Echo & the Bunnymen
    Cure
    Blondie
    Thin Lizzy - Live & Dangerous
    Clash
    Micheal Jackson - Off the Wall
    The Police
    Specials
    Selector
    Madness
    The Beat
    Peter Gabriel
    Kate Bush
    U2 - War is the cut off
    Fashion
    Yazoo
    Shriekback
    Talking Heads

    That should be long enough and varied enough to keep you busy for a while!
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  • greg66_tri_v2.0
    greg66_tri_v2.0 Posts: 7,172
    There's some good stuff in here, chaps. Keep it coming.

    For a cultural reference point, I used to get home from school in time to listen to Roger Scott on Capital. Much influenced by his playlists, therefore: the Boss, the Eagles, Beach Boys, Loud Reed, the Kinks, Billy Joel, stuff in that vein, plus then Brit stuff like Squeeze, Dire Straits (has their stock taken a beating over time), XTC, Bowie. Plus oddities like 99 Luftballons und Echo Beach.

    This is Nostalgia Central...

    Will add some of the above to the list, and if I can figure put, may post it somewhere in due course.
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    we did an 80 play list on spotify a while back

    http://open.spotify.com/user/nicklouse/ ... xL9XwwCFjm
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    Not familiar with Roger Scott's work. I was listening when Radio 1 was good, or had to put up with Red Dragon Radio.

    How about:

    Men at Work
    Pink Floyd
    Kraftwerk
    Genesis (never listened to their earlier stuff, mind, so that's a blind suggestion)?
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  • itboffin
    itboffin Posts: 20,064
    The 80s S-H-U-D-D-E-R

    horrible period in time.
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  • gospeedgo
    gospeedgo Posts: 1
    My favorite record in the late Seventies was the debut album by the Cars. It was released in '78 and generated a couple of hits--Just What I Needed and My Best Friend's Girl--and later Moving in Stereo was featured in Fast Times at Ridgemont High. And you still hear snippets of that album in ads and just about everywhere, it seems.
  • Nik Cube
    Nik Cube Posts: 311
    A bit of electro pop

    OMD - Organisation is my favourite album
    Duran Duran - Rio is a must for an early 80's playlist

    Neo Prog - Marillion (Song for a Jesters tear, Misplaced Childhood etc..)

    and lets not miss out on the god man Roger Waters greatest post Pink Floyd Album (the Pro's and Con's of Hitchhiking)

    I will think up some more

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  • gbsahne001
    gbsahne001 Posts: 1,973
    all of the above, plus, off the top of my head

    the jam
    adam and the ants
    alarm
    big country
    heaven 17
    dire straits
    chris rea (thinking road to hell but that might be too late on your timeline)
    showaddywaddy
    teardrop explodes

    oddities abound.....

    shadda upa your face..... Joe Dolce
    Wurzels
    matchstick cats and dogs....brian and michael
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  • Nik Cube
    Nik Cube Posts: 311
    The The Soul Mining and Infected both great albums

    The Smiths
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  • prawny
    prawny Posts: 5,440
    Ha! You're all old 8)
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  • cjcp
    cjcp Posts: 13,345
    gbsahne wrote:
    big country

    Amen to that.

    And Fleetwood Mac!
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  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,355
    Oddjob62 wrote:
    One of the first albums i owned was Now 1.

    Depressingly that series of albums is now at number 77

    Also you say 'album' and you get blank looks from your kids
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  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,776
    I always liked Geno by Dexys Midnight Runners. It's been completely overshadowed by Come on Eileen as far as airplay goes but is the far better track to my mind.
    Lots of other stuff has been mentioned. Good shout for Ian Dury buy someone earlier.
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  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    From my 80's 12 inchers CD box set, plus selected extracts from the seamier side of the iPod - try this lot, omitting the James Lasts & Nelson Riddles of this world and mainly the Prog Rock stuff that make up most of my stuff as you specifically [and wrongly] criticised it. :)

    Sorted alphabetically to hide any implied preference.

    All Out Of Love - Air Supply
    Babylon's Burning - Ruts
    By The Time I Get To Phoenix - Glen Campbell
    Digging Your Scene - Blow Monkeys
    D.I.S.C.O. - Ottowan
    Down To Earth - Curiosity Killed The Cat
    Dreadlock Holiday - 10CC
    Eton Rifles - Jam
    Ever Changing Moods - Style Council
    Ever So Lonely - Monsoon
    Every 1's A Winner - Hot Chocolate
    Fade To Grey - Visage
    Fat Bottomed Girls - Queen
    Gary Gilmore's Eyes - Rezillos
    Ghosts - Japan
    Girl With The Faraway Eyes - Stones
    Howzat - Sherbert
    I'm A Wonderful Thing - Kid Creaole
    I'm Mandy Fly Me - 10CC
    In Love With A German Film Star - Passions
    Invisible Sun - Police
    It's My Life - Talk Talk
    King Of Hollywood - Eagles
    London Calling - Clash
    Love Action - Human League
    Love Is A Wonderful Colour - Icicle Works
    Love Plus One - Haircut 100
    Mama - Genesis
    Mandy - Barry Manilow
    More Than A Feeling - Boston
    My Best Friends Girl - Cars
    Never Stop - Echo & The Bunnymen
    Now I'm Here - Queen
    Obsession - Animotion
    Pretty vacant - Pistols
    Pull Up To The Bumper - Grace Jones
    Quiet Life - Japan
    Respectable - Stones
    So In Love - OMD
    Somewhere In My Heart - Aztec Camera
    So You Win Again - Hot Chocolate
    Still The Same - Bob Seger
    Talk Of The Town - Pretenders
    Teenage Kicks - Undertones
    Waiting for a Train - Flash In The Pan
    Whistle Down The Wind - Nick Heywood
    Wild West Hero - ELO
    Won't Get Fooled Again - Who
    Wonderful Life - Black
    Wood Beez - Scritti Politti
    Wordy Rappinghood - Tom Tom Club
    You Might Think - Cars
  • CiB
    CiB Posts: 6,098
    Veronese68 wrote:
    I always liked Geno by Dexys Midnight Runners. It's been completely overshadowed by Come on Eileen as far as airplay goes but is the far better track to my mind.
    Come On Eileen is quite probably the worst record ever made in the history of time. Gaah - I can't do with it. It did lead to one of the better witty tee-shirts though - "I Came On Eileen", spotted on a fat bloke's shirt last year..
  • KnightOfTheLongTights
    KnightOfTheLongTights Posts: 1,415
    Police
    Blondie
    Adam & the Ants
    Teardrop Explodes
    Simple Minds (1981-84 stuff was great)
    U2 (ditto)
    Motorhead
    Talking Heads
    PiL
    The Jam
    The Clash
    Pere Ubu
  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,165
    prawny wrote:
    Ha! You're all old 8)
    Yup, but at least we got to enjoy some decent music when we were young, unlike you :P
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  • green thing
    green thing Posts: 33
    Matthew Wilder - Break My Stride.


    Ha ha.....now get it out of your head!
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  • nicklouse
    nicklouse Posts: 50,675
    green thing

    You Untc.
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  • catdrivingabus
    catdrivingabus Posts: 19
    Sex Pistols
    Buzzcocks
    Stranglers
    Clash
    UB40 - before they lost interest in making music and just did covers
    The Beat
    New York Dolls
    Dennis Brown
    Gregory Isaacs
    Mad Professor
    The Fall
    Sly and Robbie
    Undertones
    Aswad
    Smiths
  • veronese68
    veronese68 Posts: 27,776
    Come On Eileen is quite probably the worst record ever made in the history of time. Gaah - I can't do with it. It did lead to one of the better witty tee-shirts though - "I Came On Eileen", spotted on a fat bloke's shirt last year..
    I completely agree, I was trying to be polite. Another great song related Tshirt I saw was "Sex & Drugs & Sausage Rolls"
    This could turn into a thread for song name puns.
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