80s Music Thread: what you got?

[El_Duderino]

The perfect blend of prog and pop:

From the album Invisible Touch (1986)

 

[Puddingbuks]

Oh yes the eighties. So many good songs and albums.

Talk talk, foreigner, FGTH, Roxy Music, U2 (before achtung baby ), Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, The Police, The Cure, Tears for fears, etc.

For me it was a perfect pop blend with synths and guitars. Classic drums and drumcomputers.

At the end of the decade the beginning of house and techno.

Some true 80s classics:

 

[GroeneLeeuw]

 

[zman01]

This came out in 1990 man... Awesome album.

From 1986:

 

[zman01]

Some "Simple Minds" folks?

 

[Ibofobi]

Here is Aneka, from '81.

 

[Rick63]

Well, umm...

 

[Timcognito]

Recorded in '89, just makes it

 

[Timcognito]

The first New Millennium party song '82

 

[Chrispy]

While I'm more looking at late 60s thru the 80s for my go-to for music of the past, I'm 10 years older than you, too. Romeo Void, Tommy Tutone, Wall of Voodoo, The Police and some others come to mind immediately, but in my collection of recordings you could randomly pick out something and there's a good chance it's from that time period, and bought a lot of stuff in the 80s too as my income had increased by then .

 

[DanielT]

Oh yes the eighties. So many good songs and albums.

Talk talk, foreigner, FGTH, Roxy Music, U2 (before achtung baby ), Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, The Police, The Cure, Tears for fears, etc.

For me it was a perfect pop blend with synths and guitars. Classic drums and drumcomputers.

At the end of the decade the beginning of house and techno.

Some true 80s classics:

Duran Duran's first album. My friend and I weren't even teenagers at the time, but my friend bought the cassette tape of that album. Damn, we listened to it that summer
in the early 1980s. All the songs, for example:

I also have nice 80s memories of a fun Swedish punk band called KSMB who also played after the heyday of classic punk. Here for example:

 

[Audionaut]

Soft Cell
Tainted Love

 

[Audionaut]

Thomas Dolby
Dissidents

 

[Audionaut]

David Bowie
China Girl

 

[Audionaut]

ZZ Top
Cheap Sunglasses

 

[Raiju]

It is incredible what they got away with in the eighties. So much nipple slip, this is remastered but the original has it too.

 

[Timcognito]

 

[kemmler3D]

I don't know if anyone agrees but I think this album is great front-to-back and a great example of "80s":

This also covers quite a few bases, I have a copy of the actual compilation but you can get close with this Spotify playlist:

 

[AA63]

Incredible sonics, very well mixed - and very cool tunes...

 

[Ibofobi]