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Grand Lodge

Bed Of Nails

Alice Cooper


Cheers Theme Song

Gary Portnoy

Dark Archive

Get my gun

D12


Die With Your Boots On

Iron Maiden

Dark Archive

Im shady

Eminem

Grand Lodge

Enola Gay

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark


The Other Side of Love

Yaz(oo)

Grand Lodge

You're No Good For Me

Joy Division

An old JD demo. Doesn't sound much like Love Will Tear Us Apart, does it?


Just the Two of Us

Will Smith

My students don't believe me when I tell them Will Smith had a career before he became an actor...


Summertime Sadness

Lana Del Rey

Grand Lodge

Down In The Tube Station At Midnight

The Jam

Not their finest, but still plenty good.

Scarab Sages

Jack's Obsession

Danny Elfman


Easy Street

Carol Burnett, Tim Curry and Bernadette Peters


Brainstorm

DJ Marky & S.P.Y.


Spooky

New Order

Scarab Sages

National Anthem of South Africa (South African National Anthem)

Enoch Sontonga and C. J. Langenhoven


Last Child
Steven Tyler and Joe Perry (Aerosmith)


And She Was

Talking Heads

Grand Lodge

Here Comes The Rain Again

Eurythmics

Looking back, it seems like Eurythmics (and maybe Depeche Mode) are the only quintessentially 1980s bands that you don't need to be embarassed about having liked. By contrast, nobody will admit they liked Thompson Twins or Modern Talking. Christ, what a crummy decade...

Scarab Sages

Eternal Champions Biographies

Joe Delia


The Dead of Night

Depeche Mode

I'm glad you included Depeche Mode in there, Vatnisse... I would hate to have to defend my favorite band against slander and calumny... ;)

What would you say the qualities of a "quintessentially 80's" band are? Eurythmics and Depeche Mode I agree with; what about, say, Bananarama or Duran Duran (shudder)?

Grand Lodge

Dead Battery

Pitchshifter

The period had a certain look (puffy shoulders, big hair, bad makeup) and feel (out-of-control consumerism, disposable crap, me-first a%!!##~s), and the quintessential 1980s music reflects that. If you can plausibly imagine something being played on an episode of Miami Vice or maybe Dynasty, yeah. So, Duran Duran is quitessentially 1980s, but The The is not; WASP is 1980s but Iron Maiden is not (or at least not until Seventh son of a seventh son). Def Leppard is 1980s, as is Van Halen. Dire Straits isn't, except for Walk of life, which is the most 1980s thing ever. Still, the ultimate 1980s anthem is Tiffany's I think we're alone now - prefab teenage crap with thin-sounding synth, unneccessary percussion that serves no purpose other than to muddle the beat, the fake emotion-growly stuff before the chorus... It is perfect.

Scarab Sages

...and then the '90s came and the Arabs all bought Mercedez-Benzes....

Prince Ali

Robin Williams


Walk of Life

Dire Straits

Sorry, Vatnisse, after Hiding put it on a tee for me, I just couldn't resist...

Grand Lodge

Die With A Beer In Your Hand

Tankard

There are a bunch of themed bands out there. There are Satanic bands (Deicide), Christian band (Tourniquet), neo-pagan bands (Bathory)... These guys, they like beer a lot.


The 80's music was mostly about look and feel first (and musicality as a second thought). I think the John Hughes films helped make the 80's music scene what it was (at least in the bigger cities and the coasts...the midwest was still ACDC/Floyd/LedZep/Priest/Queen/MeatLoaf). most of the bands from those movies are at least as 80s as the popmetal of those days. Also stuff like ABC/Eurythmics/HueyLewis/Cars...and that DireStraits album. Michael Jackson was just a smidge more 80s than DireStraits or BRUUUUCE!, but only a smidge.

I do remember a 'World Piece Tour' poster in an episode of Facts of Life, but I also agree Iron Maiden isnt really 80's rock. Crue/TwistedSister/Dio/QuietRiot/RATT/VH/Poison/DefLep/Guiffria/Whitesnake/ and the non-makeup KISS are all 80s. Still like some of those bands...but rather than be embarrassed when someone pulls up beside me when Im jamming one of these cheezeball metal bands...I do this: Living the Life

Heres something from the 90s
Time Bomb

Rancid

Scarab Sages

Here's something from the...1890s.

Russian Dance

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

Dark Archive

The way I am
Eminem

Grand Lodge

Embers Fire

Paradise Lost

Such a good, unique band. Amazingly, the songs work just as well after Nick dropped the death growl.


Psychobabble

The Alan Parsons Project


Ashes Falling Upon Us

Charred Walls of the Damned

Scarab Sages

By the way, Cr500cricket, we have a standing tradition in this thread of "not counting" articles, and possibly not even pronouns, in the names of songs or creators unless they're meant to be exceptionally important to the song/creator name - otherwise we'd be up to our hat-jingles in songs beginning with "T" or "A," you understand.

Chemical Plant Zone

Masato Nakamura

Grand Lodge

Noldor (Dead Winter Reigns)

Blind Guardian


80's metal from the land of the rising sun!

Get Away

Loudness

Dark Archive

Lose yourself

Eminem


Love Like We Do

Edie Brickell and New Bohemians

I don't know how you would categorize this, but I remember thinking this album was much deeper years ago when I first heard it...


Entertain Me

Soft Cell


Slipping Away

Nine Inch Nails

Grand Lodge

Naughty Naughty

Danger Danger

They had another hit called "Bang Bang". Was everything about these guys doubled? Beyond that, this is a pretty good tune.

Scarab Sages

Duel of the Fates

John Williams


Vatnisse, for a moment I though you were continuing your '80s jaunt, referencing John Parr's "Naughty Naughty". Speaking of naughty naughty...

Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow

The Shirelles

Grand Lodge

You know, I certainly thought Danger Danger was an 80s thing. As for the other naughty song - wow, what a video. The hair, the shirtless-with-leather-pants look... I didn't recognize the name, but I thought he looked kinda familiar - turns out he did the St. Elmo's Fire soundtrack. Crappy, crappy movie, but an OK song.

Stars

Hear'n Aid

The heavy metal 'aid to Ethiopia' song. Better than We Are The World, not as good as Do They Know It's Christmas.


plus it had Dio!

Another Lie

Ronnie James Dio


You know, somehow I passed over the Danger Danger thing... definitely '80s. This next was '80s for me, regardless of when it first appeared... good ol' Doctor Demento...

Dead Puppies Aren't Much Fun

Ogden Edsl feat. Bill Frenzer

Grand Lodge

Bad For Good

Jim Steinman

So, I hear you cry, why does Meat Loaf sound so bad on this song? Well, kids, that's because he was laid up recovering from throat blowout and Jim Steinman hadn't discovered Bonnie Tyler yet. So Steinman did what any self-respecting megalomaniac would do when the intended vocalist was unavailable, and sang the songs himself. The result isn't exactly great.


(The) Secret Ocean

Elf Power

Grand Lodge

Easy Livin'

Uriah Heep

UH may have been a dodgy Deep Purple knockoff, but who cares when they sound as good as this? Less cool: the sub-sixth grade cover art.


Dodgy Deep Purple knockoff, yes, but I love the literary band name. These guys and Steppenwolf... how many others came out of that period?

Under the Bridge

Red Hot Chili Peppers

Scarab Sages

Ricky

Weird Al Yankovic


You Want What's Owed to You

Mesh

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