'80s? Music? I wasn't all silly pop.

[blueeyedogre]

One word makes the 80's worth while in music. One word that still to this day can bring chills down your spine.......

JOURNEY!!!

Echo and the Bunnymen, The Clash, XTC, Talking Heads, The Cure, The Jam, The Smiths, Joy Division, I could go on all night. What's not to like? There were some GREAT bands in the '80s

Great bands, the eighties where IMO the high of the punk/alternative age. Bands like the Cure, SNFU, Stiff Little Fingers, the Pogues would go on to forever change the shape of music.

 

[voorhees]

blueeyedogre..to me, the BEST Journey song ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kFqXFE8OSG4

 

[indianafrank]

phil67 +1 and then some.
I grew up listening to the Doors, Crosby Stills & Nash, Neil Diamond, Marvin Gaye, Little Anthony, Dianna Ross, Dionne Warwick singing Burt Bacharach hits, The Temptations, BJ Thomas, The Righteous Brothers, The Four Seasons, The Beach Boys,etc.
You could actually dance to those tunes, especially slow dance. You knew the words to and could sing along cause you could understand what the singers were saying.

 

[ssjones]

Rush put out some great albums in the 1980's.

ZZ Top really hit their stride in sales, but I prefer their older work.

Guns & Roses blew up the late 80's with Appetite

Dire Straits had three good albums.

The Pretenders had a couple

All of The Cars 80's releases were excellent

My top artist in the 80's was Stevie Ray Vaughn who redefined the blues.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Huey Lewis And The News. That's one of the few 80's bands I still listen to.

 

[brian64]

One of the better of the '80s bands, with the '80s sound, that I don't think has been mentioned yet.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pIe-Cj071l0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy3sxbKqloI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Ti8dd24MVg

 

[voorhees]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Huey Lewis And The News. That's one of the few 80's bands I still listen to.

You are redeemed. Nice choice as HLN are one of my favs from the 80's, I have all their music.

 

[johnnyreb]

Missing from all the above are Tom Petty, and Fleetwood Mac. Man I will always remember blasting down the road with the top down listening at full volume to Stevie Nicks sing, "Gypsy"!

 

[lordofthepiperings]

Also a bit surpised these guys haven't been mentioned.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3T1c7GkzRQQ

 

[lordofthepiperings]

I will admit I do have some pop 80s guilty pleasures like this one:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zNgcYGgtf8M

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Then for some it was doom! The 80's was when Steve Miller thought it would be ok to sing, "Abra-abra-cadabre, I'm gonna reach out a grab ya." Ha ha!!
But, we were blinded by SCIENCE!! So, all is forgiven. I still have no idea what it means to rock a casbah, and I'm darned sure glad that some of those guys really like their house, in the middle of the street. But, it was a time for putting on the ritz while video killed the radio stars. ]
It was also an age of Champagne Wishes and Caviar Dreams, while we waited to hear who killed JR.

 

[lordofthepiperings]

I still have no idea what it means to rock a casbah

Whenever that song comes on my girl and I always sing, "Rock the cat box" instead lol.

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Ha,

Rock the cat box"

That actually makes more sense, ha ha!!

 

[cosmicfolklore]

And, while most think of The Grateful Dead as a 60's thing, it was really in the 80's that deadheads went from a few hundred people in Volkswagons to 200,000+ frat kids in BMW's and Volvos driving across the country to fill domes stadiums every single night of the week.

 

[av8scuba]

But I still dream of the girls with the "big hair"! ::

 

[voorhees]

me too av8scuba...miss those days.
Metallica's Master of Puppets/Justice for All , Guns and Roses' Appetite for Destruction, Van Halen/Hagar 1984/5150, Aerosmith's comback with Permanent Vacation, hell even George Michael's Faith was a solid album.

Not to mention Run DMC, Grandmaster Flash, Beastie Boys.

 

[beefeater33]

REO Speedwagon's Hi Infidelity album came out when I was a freshman in High school. It was the first album I ever bought with my own money and it was well worth it..............I must have played that album a thousand times! LOL!

 

[drwatson]

But I still dream of the girls with the "big hair

Ever notice there was no such thing as a muffin top in the 80's...

 

[cosmicfolklore]

Ever notice there was no such thing as a muffin top in the 80's...

Because we got physical, phys-i-cal... and we were... footloose, footloose... everybody cut loose.

 

[yaddy306]

Also a bit surpised these guys haven't been mentioned.
The Police - Roxanne
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lordofthepiperings, that song was released in 78, but they did put out lots of good stuff in the 80s too.