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Favourite bands/albums/songs from the ... 80's

LLoyd Cole and the Commotions, Rezillos, Del Amitri, are a few more I forgot to mention. Flash and the Pan with Waiting for a Train was great song too. Hide and Seek by Howard Jones.
 
Just spoke to her indoors re eighties music and people who reckon it was boring. She reckons it wasn't just about the music but the fashion that went with it and they both worked together. Just come back from a do where one of the lads (about 24 yr old ) is having a leaving do and goin to Australia. All his pals both hims and hers looked smart but fashionable. Not at all.

eighties deffo worked for Missis and mr tash

human league don't you want me baby.

soft cell. Tainted love.

omd. Enola gay. Saw them in nots last year. It was rocking
 
Tashyboy said:
Just spoke to her indoors re eighties music and people who reckon it was boring. She reckons it wasn't just about the music but the fashion that went with it and they both worked together. Just come back from a do where one of the lads (about 24 yr old ) is having a leaving do and goin to Australia. All his pals both hims and hers looked smart but fashionable. Not at all.

eighties deffo worked for Missis and mr tash

human league don't you want me baby.

soft cell. Tainted love.

omd. Enola gay. Saw them in nots last year. It was rocking
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Tainted love was/ is a northern soul classic originally by Gloria Jones, a copy of the original vinyl is sat in my attic. Gloria Jones was also Marc Bolan's girlfriend and was driving on the night he met his untimely end.
 
Stevie me man ah remember when I first heard that song which must of been a 12" version (tainted love) was the second song which it led into baby baby where did our love go. At way it was the flamingo on oak tree lane in mansfield on a Tuesday night it's now flattened and a farm foods is there. Anyway a bird got up dancing on her own when the DJ put the record on everyone thought what the fcuk is this ****. After about 30 seconds she owned the dance floor for about 10 mins. It was mesmerising every man wanted her ( in her leopard skin one piece cossie). Every woman thought slag.

the following week the dance floor was solid with the same song. Me finks the top 20 was taped to death that in between Sunday in mansfield.
 
Not read the first few pages, but I can't believe that no one has mentioned 2 of the best bands around in the 80's.

Echo and the Bunnymen might have formed in 78, but all their best work was in the early/mid 80's.
Also, The Stone Roses first album was released in 89 and is still played weekly in my house (as is the Echo and the Bunnymen greatest hits CD - much to my Missus frustration...)
 
bluewolf said:
Not read the first few pages, but I can't believe that no one has mentioned 2 of the best bands around in the 80's.

Echo and the Bunnymen might have formed in 78, but all their best work was in the early/mid 80's.
Also, The Stone Roses first album was released in 89 and is still played weekly in my house (as is the Echo and the Bunnymen greatest hits CD - much to my Missus frustration...)
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I've tried the bunnymen, and it just doesn't stick for me.

However, Killing moon and the cutter are 2 of my all time favourite songs, only grew on me in the last 10 years though.
 
bluewolf said:
Not read the first few pages, but I can't believe that no one has mentioned 2 of the best bands around in the 80's.

Echo and the Bunnymen might have formed in 78, but all their best work was in the early/mid 80's.
Also, The Stone Roses first album was released in 89 and is still played weekly in my house (as is the Echo and the Bunnymen greatest hits CD - much to my Missus frustration...)
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AHEM, I think you will find I referred to what is probably the best debut album of all time, ie the Roses indignant smiley. I'm so staunch a fan I genuinely believe Second Coming was quality too :)
 
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AHEM, I think you will find I referred to what is probably the best debut album of all time, ie the Roses indignant smiley. I'm so staunch a fan I genuinely believe Second Coming was quality too :)
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Apologies matey. I did say I hadn't read the first few pages though ;)..

I once got into an argument with another Roses fan when I said I thought "Second Coming" was a great album that just paled next to the behemoth that was the eponymous first album. He made all sorts of claims about that album being the reason they split up, because Squier wanted to go mainstream and play Led Zep riffs and Brown wanted to stay true to their roots.. He refused to listen to it when I put it on the Stereo and went and sat in the garden for a smoke.... So I just kept playing it all night...No one likes a smartar*e....:D
 
bluewolf said:
Apologies matey. I did say I hadn't read the first few pages though ;)..

I once got into an argument with another Roses fan when I said I thought "Second Coming" was a great album that just paled next to the behemoth that was the eponymous first album. He made all sorts of claims about that album being the reason they split up, because Squier wanted to go mainstream and play Led Zep riffs and Brown wanted to stay true to their roots.. He refused to listen to it when I put it on the Stereo and went and sat in the garden for a smoke.... So I just kept playing it all night...No one likes a smartar*e....:D
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The first album is probably the greatest debut album of all time, Definitely Maybe is also pretty good. Second Coming is totally different but still great, and yes Squire was going all zeppelinesque on our ass. At least we didn't have to wait as long for an album as G 'n' R fans did thought :D
 
stevie_r said:
The first album is probably the greatest debut album of all time, Definitely Maybe is also pretty good. Second Coming is totally different but still great, and yes Squire was going all zeppelinesque on our ass. At least we didn't have to wait as long for an album as G 'n' R fans did thought :D
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Very true.. You could see the direction Brown wanted to take from his solo stuff. Very low key and typically "Northern". There was no way Squire was going to fit into that.. Did you get to any of the Heaton park gigs? I did the Saturday, but jibbed the Sunday as it took me all day to recover..

Oh, and as for best debut albums, I've still got a softspot for Lenny Kravitz debut - Let Love Rule.. Some of the tracks on that album are sheer genius (My favourite being "I build this garden for us"). A bit rock/gospel/soul/psychedelia all rolled into one. It's a shame that he pursued Rock God status after that though...
 
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Love Echo and the Bunnymen! I bought Songs to learn and sing in about 1990 I still play it regular and never tire of it, great band.


The Roses.. What a band, what a first album. I am the Resurrection never fails to stir me.
Manchester really was a great place to be a teenager in the early 90s :whoo:
 
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Qwerty said:
Love Echo and the Bunnymen! I bought Songs to learn and sing in about 1990 I still play it regular and never tire of it, great band.
The Roses.. What a band, what a first album. Manchester really was a great place to be a teenager in the early 90s :whoo:
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It's not where you're from mate, it's where you're at - I Brown
 
bluewolf said:
Very true.. You could see the direction Brown wanted to take from his solo stuff. Very low key and typically "Northern". There was no way Squire was going to fit into that.. Did you get to any of the Heaton park gigs? I did the Saturday, but jibbed the Sunday as it took me all day to recover..

Oh, and as for best debut albums, I've still got a softspot for Lenny Kravitz debut - Let Love Rule.. Some of the tracks on that album are sheer genius (My favourite being "I build this garden for us"). A bit rock/gospel/soul/psychedelia all rolled into one. It's a shame that he pursued Rock God status after that though...
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TBH I didn't try to hard to get a Glasgow Green ticket, couldn't get one cheap enough. I get my yearly fix from seeing The Complete Stone Roses, a tribute band yes, but better live than the Roses ever were, sadly :(
 
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