Music Break: Post Your Favorite 80s Songs...

[K'Tesh]

Do They Know It’s Christmas?

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[kramer714]

Joy Division - the eternal

An enveloping cloud of hope and despair. listen to the whole album, Closer.

The The - Uncertain Smile

Come for the beat, stay for the hooks....

Sad Lovers and Giants - In Flux

synth used for good not for evil...

Mission of Burma -Your Academy

What pop music could have been...

Savage Republic - Film Noir

Soundtrack to someone else's life...

 

[NateB]

 

[Sandy H.]

Too many to list, but here are a few I thought of immediately:

Motorhead: Ace of Spades
AC/DC: Back in Black
Metallica: Orion
Rush: Subdivisions
Dire Straits: Walk of Life.

Way too many to list for sure, but by reading that list, you could probably figure out a bunch more of them I loved.

 

[stealth6]

So I realized I never posted anything in this thread (though I usually do for all the music/listening threads). So, I'll catch up and list what amounts to a "taste" of what an 80's playlist would look like for me. Yes it will be a bunch of videos (in probably four posts). Starting with these:






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[stealth6]

Then there are these:






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[stealth6]

Then a bit of this:






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[stealth6]

And some of this too:






I'll stop there, cause I'm sure some of y'all will think that's quite enough. But there's more....LOTS more. I've left out so much.

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[Hobie1dog]

1985- good melody and lyrics

 

[K'Tesh]

Don't you hate it when you have a fragment of a tune stuck in your head, and you can't for the life of you remember what the song it was part of? Well that happened to me tonight... and for a moment there it was "Touch And Go"...

 

[KenECoyote]

Alphaville Forever Young... arguably the best song EVER for an 80s teen.

 

[Hobie1dog]

 

[K'Tesh]

WHAT‽‽‽‽ This song is *FORTY*(one)‽‽‽‽



I swear... Taco could be a Tim Curry double...

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[K'Tesh]

 

[samb]

Jersey boys.

 

[samb]

New Wave Rush. I like it. So what!

 

[Hobie1dog]

 

[Hobie1dog]

1982- monster guitar solo

 

[Hobie1dog]

 

[Hobie1dog]

1987

 

[Hobie1dog]

1981 such a great songwriter and singer

 

[samb]

This one has recently bored it's way into my ear like one of Khan's earworms. Think he might have been "Snowblind" when he wrote this IDK.



I think this version he did a few years ago with the kid's orchestra is a jam! The conductor was definitely feelin' it.

 

[K'Tesh]

I used this today in class. It's hard to believe that in 3 years this song will be 40 years old... WTH? Where'd the time go?



The kids got a kick from it... even if they didn't understand half the vocab.

 

[Hobie1dog]

1988

 

[lawn dart]

Alphaville Forever Young... arguably the best song EVER for an 80s teen.

Love this song.

I have to confess the first version I heard was Laura Branigan's cover. And since we were all in love with Laura back in the 80's, it will always be my favorite.





And speaking of living forever...

 

[lawn dart]

Alphaville Forever Young... arguably the best song EVER for an 80s teen.

Like I said, love the song. But I never new the story behind it, or much about the band either. Now...

 

[tsmith1315]

The kids got a kick from it... even if they didn't understand half the vocab.

It may be best they didn’t understand!

 

[Hobie1dog]

1982