80's POP
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Been listening to a bit of 80's pop music recently . I'm loving Nik Kershaw's 1984 album "Human Racing" at the moment , it's a great pop album , i had forgotten what a talented songwriter he was . "Wouldn't It Be Good" and the album title song were really great 80's UK hit singles . Intrestingly "Wix" was part of his band then and plays keyboards throughout the album . I know 80's pop gets some stick and justifiably so , but with most decades there is good and bad stuff . So what 80's pop do you rate or hate
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too many to mention but one example is cyndi lauper who will be arriving here in our country (philippines) tonight. maybe she already arrived. i like "time after time," "true colors" and "girls just want to have fun."
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jessiemillano:
too many to mention but one example is cyndi lauper who will be arriving here in our country (philippines) tonight. maybe she already arrived. i like "time after time," "true colors" and "girls just want to have fun."
Cyndi Lauper was very good , she had a great voice , think her hits have really stood the test of time
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I dunno, Adam Ant, Culture Club, Duran Duran. Dire Straits?
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Some favourite pop albums from the 80's : Talk Talk - The Party's Over (1982) Talk Talk - It's My Life (1984) Talk Talk - The Colour of Spring (1986) The Human League - Travelogue (1980) The Human Leaugue - Dare (1981) Yazoo - Up Stairs At Eric's (1982) Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavements (1981) Kate Bush - The Dreaming (1982) Kate Bush - Hounds Of Love (1985) Nik Kershaw - Human Racing (1984) Evelyn King - Get Close (1982) David Bowie - Scary Monsters (198o) Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Welcome To The Pleasuredome (1984) Tears For Fears - The Hurting (1983) Madonna - True Blue (1986) ABBA - The Visitors (1981) Whitney Houston (1985) OMD - Architecture And Morality (1981) Pet Shop Boys - Introspective ( 198
Kirsty McColl - Kite (1989) Paul McCartney - McCartney II (1980) Paul McCarney - Press To Play (1986) Roxy Music - Avalon (1982) Bryan Ferry - Girls And Boys (1985) Bryan Ferry - Bete Noire (1987) Some quilty pleasures on that list 
But i'm 50 so i do have a past 
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Regina - Baby love
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I'm glad someone came up with this thread, especially since the '80s are my second favorite decade of music (after the swinging '60s, of course
). In no particular order, here are some of my favorite artists from the era: Paul McCartney (obviously) The Talking Heads Duran Duran Culture Club Dead or Alive Queen U2 Madonna I'm sure there are plenty of others that come to mind that I forgot to mention, including a sea of one-hit-wonders, but I think that's a good place to start. I'll probably edit this list with new additions when I remember others... -
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Like loads of 80's bands- Queen, Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Human League, Prefab Sprout etc..- too many to mention.
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How could I forget The Smiths
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Smiths, Talking Heads, some of Madonna, Stevie Nicks' 80's albums, Roxy Music, some of the Cars, Annie Lennox, the Pretenders, some of Joe Jackson, Billy Idol, Simple Minds, Ah-Hah, some of the Thompson Twins, Elvis Costello, David Bowie, Marianne Faithfull, Paul McCartney, Cyndy Lauper, KATE BUSH, U2, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Carly Simon's 80's stuff, there are loads more so the Eighties really weren't all that bad a decade for music, actually
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When talking 80's Pop....you can't forget Tiffany and Debbie Gibson...
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walliebaby:
I hate to admit this in public, but I was heavy into horrible boy bands like Color Me Bad, New Kids on the Block, etc. and even went to their concerts...
ops:we all have our guilty pleasures hunni pie
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I hate to admit this in public, but I was heavy into horrible boy bands like Color Me Bad, New Kids on the Block, etc. and even went to their concerts...
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Macsback:
walliebaby:
I hate to admit this in public, but I was heavy into horrible boy bands like Color Me Bad, New Kids on the Block, etc. and even went to their concerts...
ops:we all have our guilty pleasures hunni pie
True, but wow did I listen to some TERRIBLE music back when I was in elementary and middle school!
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walliebaby:
I hate to admit this in public, but I was heavy into horrible boy bands like Color Me Bad, New Kids on the Block, etc. and even went to their concerts...
ops:I wanna sex you up.Class tune
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garyb1971:
walliebaby:
I hate to admit this in public, but I was heavy into horrible boy bands like Color Me Bad, New Kids on the Block, etc. and even went to their concerts...
ops:I wanna sex you up.Class tune
(must admit.I did like that song myself)I recall turning the volume on the TV up really high when this video came on Mtv.
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Been listening to Soft Cells first two studio albums today , they make Lady Gaga sound like Julie Andrews
Marc Almond certainly was a dark twisted soul or should that be devil . His songs on these two albums are the stuff of nightmars . Sex Dwarf , Seedy Films , Numbers and The Art Of Falling Apart are a million miles away from the shite in the charts today . Maybe only Lou Reed in the 60's and 70's wrote songs as dark as they were producing in the early 80's . Non-Stop Erotic Cbaret (1981) and The Art Of Falling Apart (1983) are albums that show some of the 80's acts were not soft This was a 12" bonus single from their second album , the "Hendrix Medley" the heavy synth baselines are brilliant and Marc's voice is cool -
I liked a lot of the British soul that came out of the '80s -- particularly, Wet-Wet-Wet, Curiosity Killed The Cat and -- my favorite -- Love & Money.
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