Tom Hark Preston Park
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[Music] 80’s Music
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From New York. Saw them play in Vancouver in 83. Technology was limited preventing total abandonment of delicious in favour of repetitious. Primitive electro still sounds cool today, especially with some of the newer minimalistic acts like Mr Kitty.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=013aSBkrv-k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=013aSBkrv-k
boik
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Sorry you appear to have missed out the sheer gorgeousness of the 70s and the 90s music revolutions. Oh well
Went to hundreds of gigs in the 70s, 80s, and 90s and not sure that I missed out on much.
Give me an example of the gorgeousness that I missed out on and that wasn't around in the 80s.
John Cale had a renaissance in the 80s. This is haunting.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd9UMWGKUxM&list=RDHd9UMWGKUxM&start_radio=1&t=0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hd9UMWGKUxM&list=RDHd9UMWGKUxM&start_radio=1&t=0
Sounds more like your heart missed a decade H
Never missed a decade of my own life, yet.
Anyway, so you got stuck on John, Paul, George and Ringo, slept through Wings, and woke up when Oasis emerged?
Sounds ghastly. My commiserations 
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Never missed a decade of my own life, yet.
Anyway, so you got stuck on John, Paul, George and Ringo, slept through Wings, and woke up when Oasis emerged?
About as wrong as you could be, apart from your ever-dreary choice of stuff you never tire of trying to inflict on the uncaring rest of us. Me? Fell deeply in love with Slade, Marc Bolan, David Bowie. Then neck-deep in punk. Then swerved much of the vile decade that was the 80's apart from maybe New Order and Pet Shop Boys. If I'm honest, I'd far rather be Living In A Box. Then that shitty decade was finally over, to be replaced with new drugs, new dance, new indie. What a TIME to be alive and get a second wind!
This was posted on another thread but deserves to be on here too. RIP Andy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbXfk51R1o
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fbXfk51R1o
I loved all that same early stuff as you. So, I have no idea why you have so much sand in your 80s vagina. Did somethig nasty happen to you in the 80s (apart from Thatcher, which happened to all of us, obviously)?
I have no idea why you've taken such a stand against stuff I like (from any decade), either. It feels a bit stalkery, tbh...
I can find you some terrific jock music from the 80s, very *little of it 'dreary', if you like
What about this loveliness:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uWjuconWM0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uH7lwGZm7x4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eQPMFPioOYg
*The following is a tad dreary I grant you, but lovely nevertheless. And Scottish. Embrace it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEWGL_IyK74
Tom Hark Preston Park
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Harry Wilson's tackle;923 have no idea why you've taken such a stand against stuff I like (from [I said:any [/I]decade), either. It feels a bit stalkery, tbh...
Throwback to my punk days I guess. Never quite been able to shake off the urge to call out a laughably pretentious music snob. Especially one whose specialist subject appears to be the laughable Eighties. Less is more y'know. Post one killer track a week and some of us might even take you a bit seriously. But piss all over the board with tracks that may mean something to you but are primarily intended to demonstrate... something... then sorry but you just come across as that creepy bloke that invested WAY too much time in creating cassette mixtapes that meant everything to the creater and jackshit to anybody else. And yeah 'listen from 2 minutes 15 seconds in, its really like DEEP and meaningful'. Any idea how far up your own jacksie you are?
If it's any consolation, I get up Aatiilaa'ss back in pretty much the same way as I get up yours. I guess it just goes to show that the true meaning of punk is you don't take no shit from no charlatan
Weststander
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Isn’t it possible to love music from each era and not to pigeon hole an entire decade? Other than classical, I love so much music from the 60’s onwards. The 80’s didn’t let me down with:
The last bit of Joy Division, New Order, Soft Cell, Simple Minds, The Smiths, The Bunnymen, some further Kraftwerk tracks, The Cure, OMD, Pet Shop Boys, Propaganda, dance music including early Madonna and countless amazing tracks from USA/Canada, Euro dance, Big Country, Human League, Billy Idol, Associates, Roxy Music, Altered Images and assorted other brilliant singles.
I was in my teens and early 20’s, a magical time for me and my mates. People often have a very powerful bond with the music at that age to them.
Perhaps it was a miserable time for you, with a government not to your liking. Many others across all social classes were having the musical, gigging and clubbing time of their lives.
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Mon nez est retiré.
I was born in 1970. So, the 80's took me from 10 years old, to 20 years old. These, as you could say, were my 'formative years' and the times when music shapes you.
At the time some 80's music was utter pony, and some was brilliant.
Now I'm in my late 40's I listen to it again (frequently).. and some of which I though was brilliant then I now think is pony - and some of which I think was pony then I now think is brilliant....
As we age, we change. Personally I think 1980-1987 were golden, then there were a couple of years of "things need to change, but let's pump out some crap whilst we think" - then 1989 onwards it all changed and took off again.
I feel privileged to have been born in 1970, to have lived through the 'no tech / tech / total tech' era, and all the music which has gone with it. We have lived in some amazing times.
At the time some 80's music was utter pony, and some was brilliant.
Now I'm in my late 40's I listen to it again (frequently).. and some of which I though was brilliant then I now think is pony - and some of which I think was pony then I now think is brilliant....
As we age, we change. Personally I think 1980-1987 were golden, then there were a couple of years of "things need to change, but let's pump out some crap whilst we think" - then 1989 onwards it all changed and took off again.
I feel privileged to have been born in 1970, to have lived through the 'no tech / tech / total tech' era, and all the music which has gone with it. We have lived in some amazing times.
Weststander
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Well said.
My son and plenty of youngsters love lots of 80’s music, “You were so lucky to been around then”. Yes I was.
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Tom Hark Preston Park
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Throwback to my punk days I guess. Never quite been able to shake off the urge to call out a laughably pretentious music snob. Especially one whose specialist subject appears to be the laughable Eighties. Less is more y'know. Post one killer track a week and some of us might even take you a bit seriously. But piss all over the board with tracks that may mean something to you but are primarily intended to demonstrate... something... then sorry but you just come across as that creepy bloke that invested WAY too much time in creating cassette mixtapes that meant everything to the creater and jackshit to anybody else. And yeah 'listen from 2 minutes 15 seconds in, its really like DEEP and meaningful'. Any idea how far up your own jacksie you are?
If it's any consolation, I get up Aatiilaa'ss back in pretty much the same way as I get up yours. I guess it just goes to show that the true meaning of punk is you don't take no shit from no charlatan
Sincere apologies to [MENTION=1200]Harry Wilson's tackle[/MENTION] for my rant above last night. I was bang out of order
The clue is in the the thread title. If I'm not interested in 80's Music, which I'm not, then I should leave the thread to those who ARE interested. Simples.
And there's far worse crimes on NSC than trying to turn folks onto stuff they may not have heard before. Time was when I used to do the exact same thing meself. Fair play to H for his enthusiasm, genuinely hope I haven't dented it too much.
Mea culpa
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
He even dressed in concerts like he was going to a wine bar, I am sure this would wake everyone up though
Is it PotG?
Thrifty non-licker
boik
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Sincere apologies to [MENTION=1200]Harry Wilson's tackle[/MENTION] for my rant above last night. I was bang out of order
The clue is in the the thread title. If I'm not interested in 80's Music, which I'm not, then I should leave the thread to those who ARE interested. Simples.
And there's far worse crimes on NSC than trying to turn folks onto stuff they may not have heard before. Time was when I used to do the exact same thing meself. Fair play to H for his enthusiasm, genuinely hope I haven't dented it too much.
Mea culpa
Well done for that. I just can't see that there's such a thing as "80s music" - the spectrum was as wide then as it was before and after. Are you really telling me you can read all 10 of Peels Festive Fifties from the 80s and not find anything you like? Maybe there's some stuff that was released in the 80s that you hate and now just lump everything from that period in together in your mind?