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Somehow I stumbled onto this vid, and all the hugeness of the 80's came thundering back at me, in all it's giant reverb'd, curly hair'd, spandex'd glory..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrPJgnOXjy8


problem is, whose cuter...lead singer? or the chik!

Seems like yesterday...
I still liked INXS through all that crap big verb and all
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Sx-CAsiw8c Check out the guitarist on the Tele. Big hair/mohawk/tooo much hairspray.

As bad as the eighties were we still got Pretty Hate Machine and Nothings Shocking, some great U2 albums among others from it.

Right Jahva, not to mention Depeche Mode, The Cure, The Smiths, The Pretenders, The B-52s, The Clash, Joe Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, The Fixx, Duran Duran, 10,000 Maniacs, Bananarama, Elvis Costello, The Police, as well as new music from Peter Gabriel, David Bowie, King Crimson and many others. Bands like Poison, Cinderella and White Lion were the jokes of the 80's.

jimmydanger wrote:Right Jahva, not to mention Depeche Mode, The Cure, The Smiths, The Pretenders, The B-52s, The Clash, Joe Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, The Fixx, Duran Duran, 10,000 Maniacs, Bananarama, Elvis Costello, The Police, as well as new music from Peter Gabriel, David Bowie, King Crimson and many others. Bands like Poison, Cinderella and White Lion were the jokes of the 80's.

Hey I liked Cinderella they possibly had the biggest Hair of them all!
Costello wrote some great songs "my aim is true"... such a great album.

White Lion were the jokes of the 80

heyy there...
didn't you hear the solo on that utube!?

cmon man...

Since I've been a music fan (from 1965 on) I would rate the 80's and 90's as my least favorite decades for music.

If you had the time to separate the fads, the fashion, the utterly idiotic New Wave bands that had one hit and were destined to disentegrate once the 90s and Grunge returned real rock n' roll back to major domination of the airwaves - well, you'd find a lot of great bands who were produced using my favorite media: ADAT. And you had a choice of listening to these bands on tape, vinyl, CD when it first came of age, on huge multi-functional high-end stereo gear. I even used VHS Tape to record music onto for parties and never had to touch the eject button until everyone was fried at 4:00am. I recorded 45's onto VHS, songs off of full length albums, and it sounded 100 times better than this MP3 crap, which appears to be the only format anyone will use anymore, and they download songs more than they buy CDs and its a disgrace to the music scene as we once knew it. Now there's HD, Blue Ray, 3D TV. Its only as godd as the music or television program is. HD is horrible for Baseball c'os they do these slow close CLOSE ups to the point where some pitcher's untrimmed (or Naired like I do) nose hairs can be seen at the microscopic level. Anyway, the 80s gave us the Clash, The Ramones, Saga, Missing Persons, Journey, Megadeth, Metallica, and a slew of bands who were the BEST at their craft. You had it all, and I loved big hair, guitarist extrodinair Steve Stevens, Billy Idols right hand man. Cool, very cool and he wore that hair without looking like Poison on.................here it comes, steroids. And the production, raise my rent, it was HUGE (maybe too big and overblown here and there) but ADAT is more organic, it has a natural compression unlike MP3 which doesn't compress, it crushes the frickin' music. Most non-musicians don't know the difference, as long as their PlayList kicks your Playlists' butt.The 90s almost saved the day but now its 2011 and I don't like whats going down. Too many bands for one thing and we're running dangerously low on good band names - if you can think of it, sorry, its already taken. Dangerous times for new talent.

Cinderella's vocalist sounded a bit like Brian Johnson from AC/DC, especially on Gypsy Road.

Jahva wrote:

jimmydanger wrote:Right Jahva, not to mention Depeche Mode, The Cure, The Smiths, The Pretenders, The B-52s, The Clash, Joe Jackson, Cyndi Lauper, The Fixx, Duran Duran, 10,000 Maniacs, Bananarama, Elvis Costello, The Police, as well as new music from Peter Gabriel, David Bowie, King Crimson and many others. Bands like Poison, Cinderella and White Lion were the jokes of the 80's.

Hey I liked Cinderella they possibly had the biggest Hair of them all!
Costello wrote some great songs "my aim is true"... such a great album.

Yeah, why not. Gonna toot my own horn. But someone has to click on my link and listen to the songs (three of 12 we are playing this Friday night opening for Steelheart). I believe our sound is unlike anyone else, and I write metal to last like metal of the past. We say something other than Grrrrrrrhhhhhgggt destruction of / the wasted world / taste my blood grrrrrrraarrrhhhh 3 minute speed metal guitar solo. Give me The Eagles anyday of the week. WHAT THE HECK HAPPENED FISHERMAN BOB?

I was on drugs in the 80s and only listened to music from the 60s and 70s, or should I say real music. I never cared to have big hair and prance around dressed like a girl.

I was "loaded as the dice" too and I played in many bands. My biggest mistake was quitting one called ATROX, a 50/50 covers and originals biker bar band with the hottest chick lead singer I've ever shared a stage with. Unfortunately never shared her bed! Whew doggie, platinum blonde hair down to her shapely tight butt, baby blue eyes and she sounded almost as good as Ann Wilson from heart. We were like Heart meets a heavier Fleetwood Mac. I quit c'os I was too young to have any foresight, or know what a blunder I was making. And now I'm in a metal band, doing what I should have done years ago.

Lynard Dylan wrote:I was on drugs in the 80s and only listened to music from the 60s and 70s, or should I say real music. I never cared to have big hair and prance around dressed like a girl.

well lads, only three words for ya all:

Rush
Journey
Boston

Damn...I haven't listened to Journey in so many years, but at 15 they were one of my favorites. There early albums with Perry were an awesome blend of guitars, piano, and always great harmonizes. This is from the 70's with Ansly Dunbar on drums.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5NA0exiQ ... re=related

Rush, Journey, and Boston did their best stuff in the 70s

Rolling Stones Best 100 albums of the 80's:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/lists ... s-20110418