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Poll Question: Do you like 80s music?
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: October 18 2014 at 18:58
Some of my favourite 80's music ......
Bi Kyo Ran
Holger Czukay
Eloy
Buggles
King Crimson
Peter Hammill
Hawkwind
Stewart / Gaskin
IQ
Iron Maiden
Jefferson Starship
Mother Gong
Tangerine Dream
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2015 at 04:35
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Not all 80s metal was hair metal. In my list I only gave one metal band (Head of David) but the 80s was the birth of all extreme metal. Napalm Death, Voivod, Cathedral, Metallica, Megadeth, Venom, Savatage, Dream Theater, Mayhem and Celtic Frost were all active in the 80s.



Cathedral released their debut album in 1991 if i remember right, but there was Candlemass that were great and Trouble (as far as doom goes).
A lot of metal bands were great in the 80s, you mentioned a few, a lot of great thrash metal bands, German metal was nice (Helloween, Accept, Blind Guardian, Warlock to name a few), some US power (beside Savatage, there were Helstar and Jag Panzer that I know and like).
I enjoy a little bit of hair-metal (Motley Crue, Ratt, Dokken, Cinderella, Great White, WASP).

Dio, Judas Priest, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Diamond Head, Def Leppard, mercyful Fate and King Diamond, Fates Warning, Queensryche, Saxon, Ozzy, so many great bands...

Toto and Foreigner contiunued making nice music, plus Survivor and Night Ranger, Journey.

As far as pop goes, A-ha and Depeche Mode were great, also Ultravox put out some nice music.
Duran Duran started really well, their debut album was great but they went downhill after that, some uneven albums, with some good songs and some cringe-worthy stuff. Their 1984 live album Arena was quite good though.
Simple Minds deserves a mention, I've always preferred them to the overrated U2 (some uneven albums, at least for me).
Talk Talk obviously.

there was neo-prog.

So yeah, I like 80s music. LOL




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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2015 at 04:39
Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Not all 80s metal was hair metal. In my list I only gave one metal band (Head of David) but the 80s was the birth of all extreme metal. Napalm Death, Voivod, Cathedral, Metallica, Megadeth, Venom, Savatage, Dream Theater, Mayhem and Celtic Frost were all active in the 80s.



Cathedral released their debut album in 1991 if i remember right, 
Yes, but I didn't say that they didn't. They formed in 1989 Wink
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 14 2015 at 04:45
Have we mentioned Propaganda? 
Blancmange.
Heaven 17.
West India Company.
Monsoon.
Gina X Performance.
Der Plan.
Nash the Slash.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 16 2015 at 05:34
If just limiting to the 'world wide' pop chart famous artists, I'd like to mention these: Men At Work, Pet Shop Boys, Dire Straits, UB40, U2, Eurythmics, Simple Minds, Rick Astley (87-90), Tears For Fears, Duran Duran, Berlin, Daryl Hall, A-Ha etc., these are the 80's artists whose hits I used to get hookd on, a fair bunch of really catchy melodies that I never forget, easy for me to recognize today. But there were many as well from the seventies that extended their works to the eighties, some of their music I was quite hooked on too those times and still enjoy: Stevie Wonder, Elton John, ELO, Rod Stewart, Lionel Ritchie, Al Jarreau, Air Supply, Michael Jackson, Madonna and others that I don't recall now. Unfortunately in the 80's I hadn't been lucky to know the really good Blue Oyster Cult, they released great music during the eighties too.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 18 2015 at 04:19
I'm going to have to remove Gina X Performance from my list.  I see the album came out in 1978.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 18 2015 at 05:25
Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Originally posted by Cristi Cristi wrote:

Originally posted by Dean Dean wrote:

Not all 80s metal was hair metal. In my list I only gave one metal band (Head of David) but the 80s was the birth of all extreme metal. Napalm Death, Voivod, Cathedral, Metallica, Megadeth, Venom, Savatage, Dream Theater, Mayhem and Celtic Frost were all active in the 80s.



Cathedral released their debut album in 1991 if i remember right, 
Yes, but I didn't say that they didn't. They formed in 1989 Wink


Furthermore, the musicians of Cathedral all started in other bands created in the 80's: Lee Dorrian in the mentioned Napalm Death, and guitarists Gaz Jennings and Adam Lehan in Acid Reign. They are from the same generation.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 18 2015 at 05:42
So much good and bad music in any dekade, that its an impossible question to ansver Yes / No.
 
I can easily find 20 albums that to me is brilliant, from the 80's 
Prog is whatevey you want it to be. So dont diss other peoples prog, and they wont diss yours
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 18 2015 at 07:41
Originally posted by Guy Guden Guy Guden wrote:

Nash the Slash.
 
my man!
 
he isn't in the PA archives .. but I think he should be
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 18 2015 at 07:46
in the 80s I was into those Steve Lilywhite bands ..
Simple Minds
Psychedelic Furs
Icicle Works,
 
I liked the hoodoo Gurus, Lime Spiders, Donnie Iris, The Hooters,
Japan, Roxy Music, etc
There was a crap-ton of stuff and I still enjoy it today
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 18 2015 at 07:58
Originally posted by Walton Street Walton Street wrote:

Icicle Works,

Clap a seldom mentioned band who deserve greater appreciation, they produced some terrific albums in the 80s
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 18 2015 at 08:07
Thank you Walton Street for the Nash the Slash fave.  Sorry we lost him this past year.
I agree with you about Steve Lilywhite.  I would pick up albums based on who produced them.  Siouxsie & the Banshess is another example.  When I met Mike and Paul of A Flock of Seagulls, I told them I would never have discovered their music if Bill Nelson hadn't been involved.  Same with The Police, if they hadn't performed on Eberhard Schoener's LP.  Or Strontium 90.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 18 2015 at 08:11
Originally posted by Guy Guden Guy Guden wrote:

Thank you Walton Street for the Nash the Slash fave.  Sorry we lost him this past year.
I agree with you about Steve Lilywhite.  I would pick up albums based on who produced them.  Siouxsie & the Banshess is another example.  When I met Mike and Paul of A Flock of Seagulls, I told them I would never have discovered their music if Bill Nelson hadn't been involved.  Same with The Police, if they hadn't performed on Eberhard Schoener's LP.  Or Strontium 90.
 
 
it was a shame about Nash. I'd gotten to know him a little personally. I interviewed him, shot one of his last live performances, had beers with him one night. an interesting guy steeped in the history of the Canadian music scene.  I was a fan since his first album and have most everything he put out or worked on (except that tough to find live album)
 
I did get some great photos of him - he was fun to shoot on stage
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 18 2015 at 08:18
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it was a shame about Nash. I'd gotten to know him a little personally. I interviewed him, shot one of his last live performances, had beers with him one night. an interesting guy steeped in the history of the Canadian music scene.  I was a fan since his first album and have most everything he put out or worked on (except that tough to find live album)
 
I did get some great photos of him - he was fun to shoot on stage
 
Very cool.  Thank you for the information


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 18 2015 at 09:16
Originally posted by Guy Guden Guy Guden wrote:

 Walton Street wrote:
 
it was a shame about Nash. I'd gotten to know him a little personally. I interviewed him, shot one of his last live performances, had beers with him one night. an interesting guy steeped in the history of the Canadian music scene.  I was a fan since his first album and have most everything he put out or worked on (except that tough to find live album)
 
I did get some great photos of him - he was fun to shoot on stage
 
Very cool.  Thank you for the information
 
 
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: February 18 2015 at 15:56
There was lot's of good 80's stuff--no 5 star prog IMO---but Rick Robson named some good bands/music---but I did love 80's KC.
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