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

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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,099
    Not waded through the other replies but you could catch some of:
    The Cure
    The Chameleons
    EArly Echo and the Bunnymen
    OMD
    The Smiths
    Joy Div
    New Order (early)
    Flock of Seagulls
    Japan
    Heaven 17
    The Stranglers

    That'll do for now, no prizes for guessing that I'm about the same age as you...
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  • secretsam
    secretsam Posts: 5,099
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    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

    +1, back of the net, Stevo
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  • green thing
    green thing Posts: 33
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    Always a pleasure to be of service....

    There's so much that's far worse; I just need to go and raid my sister's record collection....

    The Popguns' "Waiting For The Winter" is good, though, as is a lot of the early Poppies' stuff.
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  • Christophe3967
    Christophe3967 Posts: 1,200
    Johnny Hates Jazz, and Roachford to add to your list.....

    I saw Squeeze before Christmas, still sounding as good as ever :) Most of their stuff went back on my mp3....
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  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    A little known band came up on shuffle just now - The Fixx. Stands the test of time better than most. IMO :oops:
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • notsoblue
    notsoblue Posts: 5,756
    Stevo 666 wrote:
    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

    Its cumulative. The good stuff stays good :)
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  • jejv
    jejv Posts: 566
    edited January 2011
    Best live (no order):
    Misty in Roots at Durham Uni
    Laurie Anderson United States I-IV (twice)
    Magazine, Bauhaus, Deutsch-Amerikanische Freundschaft & the Last Dance @ the Lyceum

    Some tracks I don't think have been mentioned yet, in random order:
    - "Damaged Goods", "Armalite Rifle" (Gang of Four)
    - White Man in Hamersmith Palais (The Clash)
    - I got your number (The Jags)
    - Bella Lugosi's Dead (Bauhaus) - This one got me through the Cambridge General paper. Psychologically, at least. There was a question about vampires, and we'd just had it on the deck...
    - Another Girl, Another Planet (The Only Ones)
    - Do the Du (A Certain Ratio) - But I think I liked them better when they went dancy. Good at The Hacienda.
    - "Harmony in my Head", "You Say You Don't Love Me", "Ever fallen in love with ..." , Spiral Scratch (The Buzzcocks) - well, different Buzzcocks
    - "A song from under the Floorboards", "Shot By Both Sides" (Magazine)
    - "I feel love" (Donna Summer/Giorgio Moroder)
    - Disorder (Joy Division)
    - Biig Noise from the Jungle EP (The Tiller Boys)
    - "Sunday Morning" "Venus in Furs" (The Velvet Underground) - Oops - wrong decade.
    - "Don't you want me..." "Zero as a Limit" (Human League")
    - "Cash" (Prince Charles & the City Beat band)
    - "Uptown top Ranking" - (Althea & Donna)
    - "Planet Clare" - The B52's"
    - ...
  • daviesee
    daviesee Posts: 6,386
    Oooooohhh - Gang of Four!

    I only have them on dodgy tapes and no tape deck. The search begins :P
    None of the above should be taken seriously, and certainly not personally.
  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    Pretenders - Brass in Pocket 8) .
    Life is like a roll of toilet paper; long and useful, but always ends at the wrong moment. Anon.
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  • dilemna
    dilemna Posts: 2,187
    CiB wrote:
    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..

    Music snobs. You're only jealous you didn't write it :roll: .
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  • UndercoverElephant
    UndercoverElephant Posts: 5,796
    Stevie Nicks - Edge of seventeen. Top tune.
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  • beverick
    beverick Posts: 3,461
    UFO & Rush have just made a comeback onto my play list.

    Supertramp and Fleetwood Mac are next.....or perhaps not!

    Bob
  • Ian.B
    Ian.B Posts: 732
    Early Eurythmics should scrape in, if no one's mentioned them yet
  • Loretta Damage
    Loretta Damage Posts: 270
    daviesee wrote:
    Oooooohhh - Gang of Four!

    I only have them on dodgy tapes and no tape deck. The search begins :P

    I think there is a Gang of Four special on BBC 6 Music this week.

    4 of my favourite 80s Albums:

    The Gift - The Jam
    Absolutey - Madness
    Rise & Fall - Madness
    Searching for the Young Soul Rebels - Dexys Midnight Runners

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