5 favorite singles of the 80's

[Tarpon]

The Jam Setting Sons ...Smithers Jones
Elvis Costello Armed Forces ...Olivers Army
The Specials The Specials ...Too Much Too Young
The Skids Absolute Game ...Circus Games
The Police Regatta de Bl ...Message in a bottle
Joe Jackson Look Sharp ...Is she really going out with him? 1979 so very sadly left out of the six

I could be wrong but reckon all or most of these were pre 80s releases.

 

[loco61]

lets start with setting sons ... 17 November 1979 !!

 

[Eeyore]

Talk Talk- All their singles
The Motors-Love & Loneliness
Icicle Works-Love is a wonderful colour.
Aztec Camera- Oblivious
Teardrop Explodes-Treason

Most music created within 20 miles of the Manchester Ship Canal.

 

[Tarpon]

Some of the singles might be 1980...

 

[loco61]

Regatta de Blanc ... October 1979

 

[loco61]

lp Look Sharp is Jan 1979 but the single "Is she really" is 1978

 

[loco61]

Hooray !!!. The Skids lp and single ... 1980!!!

 

[loco61]

Talk Talk- All their singles
The Motors-Love & Loneliness
Icicle Works-Love is a wonderful colour.
Aztec Camera- Oblivious
Teardrop Explodes-Treason


Most music created within 20 miles of the Manchester Ship Canal.

saw Teardrop Explodes 1980 in Nottingham

 

[Tarpon]

Hooray !!!. The Skids lp and single ... 1980!!!

I would have put money against that so:

 

[The Large One]

In no particular order...

There, There My Dear - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Echo Beach - Martha & The Muffins
Boys of Summer - Don Henley
One Better Day - Madness
The Duel - Propaganda

 

[Razzoo]

The Smiths - This Charming Man
The Lotus Eaters - The First Picture of You
The Meteors - The Crazed/Attack of the Zorch Men
The Beat - Mirror In The Bathroom
Echo and the Bunnymen - The Killing Moon
So tough to narrow it down to five. No Cocteaus or Jam or Chameleons etc. The Eighties had some right tunes and bands.

 

[studio150]

I could be wrong but reckon all or most of these were pre 80s releases.

Don't believe Smithers Jones was a single
Olivers army was 1979
Message in a bottle was also 1979, unless the Six Pack singles edition (in blue vinyl) is permitted

Specials and Skids OK.

 

[The Large One]

Don't believe Smithers Jones was a single
Olivers army was 1979
Message in a bottle was also 1979, unless the Six Pack singles edition (in blue vinyl) is permitted

Specials and Skids OK.

Technically it was. It was the B-side of 'When You're Young', but it was in 1979.

 

[finlaych]

She's Like Heroin To Me - The Gun Club
This Charming Man - The Smiths
Sally Cinnamon - The Stone Roses
Don't Believe the Hype - Public Enemy
Fools Gold - The Stone Roses

 

[Trufflehound]

Another day. Sod it, I'm having another five*.

Kitchen Person - The Associates
Mr Clarinet - The Birthday Party
In Shreds - The Chameleons
Invisibility - Eyeless in Gaza
4 Hours - Clock DVA
Blue Boy - Orange Juice
Chance Meeting - Josef K



(*I meant seven...)

 

[paul wickens]

Golden era for music!

To Cut a Long Story Short: Spandau Ballet
Smooth Criminal: Michael Jackson
Everybody Wants to Rule the World: Tears for Fears
Smooth Operator: Sade
Two Tribes: Frankie Goes to Hollywood

 

[KingKev]

Love Will Tear Us Apart
A Forest
Special AKA Live EP (Too Much Too Young, Guns if Navaribe etc)
Ceremony or The Perfect Kiss (or Temptation or Sub-Culture or Bizarre Love Triangle... Get the message?)
Geno

If I can have 6, I'd add The Message by Grand Master Flash and the Furious Five

 

[Mr Icicle Boots]

When It All Comes Down - The Icicle Works
December - The Waterboys
Primitive Painters - Felt
Superlovexperience - Thee Amazing Colossal Men
Jesus On The Payroll - Thrashing Doves

Just for a kick off............

 

[Trufflehound]

Just remembered:

The Woodentops - Move Me

 

[The Large One]

In no particular order...

There, There My Dear - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Echo Beach - Martha & The Muffins
Boys of Summer - Don Henley
One Better Day - Madness
The Duel - Propaganda

Additional - one of my first 'slow dance, going round in circles at the end of the evening'...

Christian - China Crisis