so Does Anyone here like 80s Music?

[BayBuck]

Fantastic musician but he needs to spend some time in purgatory for trying to popify Clapton.

Do you like Huey Lewis and The News? Their early work was a little too new wave for my tastes, but when Sports came out in '83, I think they really came into their own, commercially and artistically. The whole album has a clear, crisp sound, and a new sheen of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big boost. He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey has a far much more bitter, cynical sense of humor. In '87, Huey released Fore, their most accomplished album. I think their undisputed masterpiece is "Hip to be Square", a song so catchy, most people probably don't listen to the lyrics. But they should, because it's not just about the pleasures of conformity, and the importance of trends, it's also a personal statement about the band itself.

 

[powerlifter]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1tTN-b5KHg&feature=related"]YouTube - Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer (1986)[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=64coD-rx9sk"]YouTube - Dio - Holy Diver[/ame]


This man had good drugs
[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA1wDgPZCDA"]YouTube - Eddie Money Shakin'[/ame]

 

[AKAK]

Here is Thump's favorite...

Oh, I thought it was...

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPLrXFw76Qg"]YouTube - relax frankie goes to hollywood[/ame]

 

[DubCoffman62]

Some of my favorite music from the 80's was soft rock/R&B.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBY4o26fCt8"]YouTube - James Ingram - One Hundred Ways[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H5gM-kz1Z9s"]YouTube - Aretha Franklin & George Benson - Love All The Hurt Away.wmv[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Njwasr1OOuc"]YouTube - Grover Washington Jr. - Just the Two of Us[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H60-z5DIbn0"]YouTube - Lionel Richie - You Are[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-CqaLlrrRM"]YouTube - MOrning - Al Jarreau[/ame]

 

[MaxBuck]

This guy was really good - and he still is.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvnXC_9w7MU&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvnXC_9w7MU&feature=related[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV_oaJAyJBQ"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hV_oaJAyJBQ[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uravhL8FbY"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-uravhL8FbY[/ame]

 

[MaxBuck]

I also liked what Winwood did in the 80s. Amazing: he played with the Spencer Davis Group in the 60s (wrote the hit "Gimme Some Lovin" before he turned 20), Blind Faith and Traffic in the 70s, and solo success afterward. And as a guilty pleasure, it's hard to beat the stuff Robert Palmer cooked up in the mid-80s. "She's so fine, there's no telling where the money went."

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K82nMSy-IWQ&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K82nMSy-IWQ&feature=related[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqlauwX_ums"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqlauwX_ums[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNFp7zStBvY&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNFp7zStBvY&feature=related[/ame]

 

[DubCoffman62]

I also liked what Winwood did in the 80s. Amazing: he played with the Spencer Davis Group in the 60s (wrote the hit "Gimme Some Lovin" before he turned 20), Blind Faith and Traffic in the 70s, and solo success afterward. And as a guilty pleasure, it's hard to beat the stuff Robert Palmer cooked up in the mid-80s. "She's so fine, there's no telling where the money went."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K82nMSy-IWQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqlauwX_ums

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNFp7zStBvY&feature=related

Those songs remind me of my Air Force days, especially Stevie Winwood.

 

[Muck]

Do you like Huey Lewis and The News?

Yep. Sports has always been a guilty pleasure of mine. It's hard for me not to like a band who is having so much damn fun while they're playing.

Similarly I've always liked the J. Geils Band...but their early 70's stuff is far more awesome than the 80's iteration.

 

[buxfan4life]

I also liked what Winwood did in the 80s. Amazing: he played with the Spencer Davis Group in the 60s (wrote the hit "Gimme Some Lovin" before he turned 20), Blind Faith and Traffic in the 70s, and solo success afterward. And as a guilty pleasure, it's hard to beat the stuff Robert Palmer cooked up in the mid-80s. "She's so fine, there's no telling where the money went."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K82nMSy-IWQ&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqlauwX_ums

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XcATvu5f9vE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNFp7zStBvY&feature=related

Those Robert Plant videos helped my, um, stress relief as a youngin.

 

[DubCoffman62]

Another era post, the songs that remind me of my wild days in the Air Force. These are the songs I remember hearing as I drank too much and made a fool of myself.

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKKqLl_ZEEY"]YouTube - R.E.M. - Stand (Video)[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YI6Ms0b4q-4"]YouTube - Def Leppard - Armageddon It[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lvR1YgT7QYs"]YouTube - Roy Orbison - You Got It[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j2r2nDhTzO4"]YouTube - Poison - Every Rose Has It's Thorn[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ErvgV4P6Fzc"]YouTube - Guns N' Roses - Patience[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xxgRUyzgs0"]YouTube - Living Colour - Cult Of Personality[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=387ZDGSKVSg"]YouTube - Tone Loc - Wild Thing[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z8rQ575DWD8"]YouTube - U2 - Desire[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nf0oXY4nDxE"]YouTube - Aerosmith - Dude (Looks Like A Lady)[/ame]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GlN3oEjMpUQ"]YouTube - Winger - Seventeen[/ame]

 

[buckeyebri]

The 80's had some definitively funky tunes with some cool teaming of stars (Super Groups) from multiple bands or major band members breaking out on their own for a disc or two.....

Gary Myrick and the Figures

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glmixhZVO0o"]YouTube - Gary Myrick & The Figures - She Talks In Stereo (1980)[/ame]

Page and Rodgers....these guys rocked and I saw them in concert

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=di3CLFj6_Ag"]YouTube - The Firm - Radioactive[/ame]

John Waite from the Babys.....

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wjAPQJWIz6Y"]YouTube - John Waite - Missing You HQ Official Video[/ame]

Tom Cochran and Red Rider

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sTFVMMCwsss"]YouTube - Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe[/ame]

Asia

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlTvWvfEMxE"]YouTube - Asia - Heat of the Moment[/ame]

 

[cincibuck]

You must be too young for "Honey", "The Night the Lights Went out in Georgia" and "Billy don't be a hero"

The 80s are WAY safe as not the worst decade. :tongue2:

Crimson and Clover, Green Eyed, One Horn, Flying Purple People Eater, Burl Ives covering Dylan's I'll be Your Baby Tonight, in fact all of Burl Ives' music, Bobby Sherwood, Teen Angel...

It's a decade neutral issue, but just like Michigan, disco sucks!

 

[cincibuck]

Gary "each song sounds like the others" Puckett and the Union Gap - Young Girl - now there was some significant suckness.

 

[buckeyebri]

The 80's was also a great time to be a female rocker.....

Pat Benatar

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Sa0MkWoeTk"]YouTube - Pat Benatar - Hell is for Children[/ame]

A nod to Ohio with Chrissy

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HA56J8zlAdo&feature=related"]YouTube - The Pretenders - My City Was Gone[/ame]

Patty Smyth

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT9t5nkZn8I"]YouTube - Scandal - "The Warrior"[/ame]

Joan Jett

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HibE5KIVxBs&feature=related"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3I0Aa4czyLs[/ame]

and just for shits and giggles on Happy Days

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJZZ5o4d6q8"]YouTube - Happy Days - Leather Tuscadero sings "Johnny B. Goode"[/ame]

 

[Dred Scott]

[ame="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMAtL7n_-rc"]YouTube - Maple Leaf Rag Played by Scott Joplin[/ame]