Favorite '80s band? (depeche mode, metal, pop, albums, metallica)

Urban Hat€monger ? · 10-09-2007, 03:06 PM

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Originally Posted by =ladyface=

I've noticed that people my age don't seem to take Tears For Fears seriously because they were around at the same time as bands like Wham! and the like... but they're perfectly happy to take Joy Division seriously.

Poor Tears For Fears.

Please tell me you didn't just compare Tears For Fears with Joy Division. Thats like saying Shed 7 were just as good as Radiohead.

=ladyface= · 10-09-2007, 03:08 PM

I'm not comparing them directly but they were amazing songwriters and people seem to remember them for Mad World and nothing else and they associate them with the massive pop acts of the time. When it comes to Joy Division they take them seriously before they've heard more than Love Will Tear Us Apart.

anticipation · 10-09-2007, 05:39 PM

Spinal Tap was pretty good.

stakeraiser · 10-09-2007, 06:03 PM

Smiths, Pogues

dragster · 10-09-2007, 08:57 PM

If we're talking NON wimpy music: The Knack, Blondie, The Shirts, Bangles...

=ladyface= · 10-10-2007, 11:46 AM

I never thought I'd hear 'non-wimpy' and 'The Bangles' in the same sentence.

sleepy jack · 10-10-2007, 06:12 PM

and the Knack...I always considered them one of the definitive bad 80s bands.

jackhammer · 10-10-2007, 06:30 PM

The knack were only memorable for the immortal MY SHARONA. I like Tears For Fears myself. They never set the world alight but they made good solid pop music.

Prefab Sprout
Spear Of Destiny
were good bands.

Sparky · 10-10-2007, 06:33 PM

talking heads
the smiths
the replacements
psychedelic furs

jackhammer · 10-10-2007, 06:36 PM

Talking heads are classed as a 70's band (debut 77) but good choices.

ART OF NOISE
PROPOGANDA

Both signed to ZTT (Trevor Horn) done some great experimental stuff in the 80's.

10-09-2007, 06:03 PM	#34 (permalink)
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jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	The knack were only memorable for the immortal MY SHARONA. I like Tears For Fears myself. They never set the world alight but they made good solid pop music. Prefab Sprout Spear Of Destiny were good bands. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

10-10-2007, 06:36 PM	#40 (permalink)
jackhammer Ba and Be. Join Date: May 2007 Location: This Is England Posts: 17,331	Talking heads are classed as a 70's band (debut 77) but good choices. ART OF NOISE PROPOGANDA Both signed to ZTT (Trevor Horn) done some great experimental stuff in the 80's. __________________ It be my music and film collection. “A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.”

10-09-2007, 03:08 PM	#32 (permalink)
=ladyface= Sounds Like Disco Tetris Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: UK Posts: 346	I'm not comparing them directly but they were amazing songwriters and people seem to remember them for Mad World and nothing else and they associate them with the massive pop acts of the time. When it comes to Joy Division they take them seriously before they've heard more than Love Will Tear Us Apart.

10-09-2007, 05:39 PM	#33 (permalink)
anticipation Music Addict Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 3,565	Spinal Tap was pretty good.

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dragster Groupie Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: Australia Posts: 5	If we're talking NON wimpy music: The Knack, Blondie, The Shirts, Bangles...

10-10-2007, 11:46 AM	#36 (permalink)
=ladyface= Sounds Like Disco Tetris Join Date: Oct 2007 Location: UK Posts: 346	I never thought I'd hear 'non-wimpy' and 'The Bangles' in the same sentence.

10-10-2007, 06:33 PM	#39 (permalink)
Sparky not really Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 5,223	talking heads the smiths the replacements psychedelic furs