80s Music Thread: what you got?

[aikofan]

Craig Ruhnke - One Love (1983)

The Shivvers - Hold On (1982)

38 Special - Hold on Loosely (1981)

 

[El_Duderino]

From 1982

 

[Ropeburn]

My best blind/random buy of all times:

From the Around the Planet album.

More 80s than the 80s themselves. All the clichees are there and executed to perfection.

 

[Ibofobi]

 

[El_Duderino]

 

[Redacted]

There's no accounting for taste, and no debate of it. Anyway, I have about 120 playlists, and here are a few of my fave bands that had some 80's presence, pulled out of those lists. Albums and tracks vary, but someone may make a discovery with some not yet heard....
Cocteau Twins
The Cure
The Cult
Dead Can Dance
Joy Division
Public Image Ltd
Sisters Of Mercy
U2
Yello
Eurythmics
Depeche Mode
Fields Of The Nephilim
New Age Steppers
New Order
Nick Cave
Ozric Tentacles
Propaganda
Smiths
Talk Talk
Sade
... there are many more that I play, but I'm probably already boring you.

 

[Robin L]

The kind of performer who could only have appeared in the 1980s. Nina Hagen teams up with Giorgio Moroder, this is the German language version:

 

[Robin L]

1984/1986 was working at Tower Records, Berkeley California. There was a place next door, cheap pizza, went there many times. For some reason, this song got played a lot on their jukebox.

 

[Robin L]

A Totally, Totally, Totally Iconic 1980s music video:

 

[DanielT]

Some good pop songs that to me ooze and remind me of the 80s, very possible that they have already been brought up in the thread. In that case, once again:

 

[Robin L]

Prince. Kiss:

 

[DanielT]

And since I picked up ABC's The Look Of Love as the kick off to the pop 80s, for me this is the rock song that kicked off the 80s:

 

[Robin L]

Tom Jones covers Kiss, a collaboration with Art of Noise:

 

[Juhazi]

Lots of anglo-american pop/rock...

In Finland we had high season of punk-based rock bands and singer-songwriters that are now considered as national immortal jewels.

Search in your favourite portal or Youtube:

Juice Leskinen
Eppu Normaali
Pobeda
Sleepy Sleepers
Ismo Alanko
Maarit
Liisa Tavi
Mikko Alatalo
Badding Somerjoki & Agents
Tuomari Nurmio
J J Karjalainen
Etc.

In classical:
Kaija Saariaho
Esa-Pekka Salonen
E J Rautavaara
Soile Isokoski
Karita Mattila
Jaakko Ryhänen
Etc.

 

[Robin L]

Cocteau Twins. Yes, there really are lyrics to this, good luck figuring that out:

 

[Robin L]

Another favorite Nina Hagen track:

 

[DanielT]

A Totally, Totally, Totally Iconic 1980s music video:

I also like this one by Robert Palmer which was a hit in the late 70s early 80s:

Spoiler: Now also in this cover version

 

[Ropeburn]

Omg you guys, Nina Hagen

Certainly a... colourful and eccentric character. She's loved and hated, but even the haters admit it's just because she's simply too much for them.

Hagen vs Merkel. She's at her best there.

(With subtitles but that's less important than her tone and whole unhinged style. Lol)

 

[Labhound]

Another from Thomas Dolby with British scientist Magnus Pyke

 

[Robin L]

Omg you guys, Nina Hagen

Certainly a... colourful and eccentric character. She's loved and hated, but even the haters admit it's just because she's simply too much for them.

Hagen vs Merkel. She's at her best there.

(With subtitles but that's less important than her tone and whole unhinged style. Lol)

Wunderbar!

1985ish, Tower records. Daniell Revenaugh is a regular customer. A pianist and conductor, he won the Grand Prix du Disque for his collaboration with pianist John Ogdon in Busoni's Piano Concerto. He was very impressed with this track that I was playing on the stores audio system. Brechtian opera in the plastic 1980s: