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I just was listening to a bunch of 80's songs the other day...and thinking that I can remember exactly what year it was, what I was doing, who my friends were, all that stuff...when they came out.
Some of the songs I connect to a certain time are not always my total favorites, but they defined certain moments of the 80's for me.
Some are:
Rosanna-Toto Crazy Train-Ozzy Osbourne I Love Rock N Roll-Joan Jett Hurts so Good-John Cougar Jessie's Girl-Rick Springfield Urgent-Foreigner Physical-Olivia Newton-John Love is like a Rock- Donnie Iris
Are there certain songs you hear and they don't have to remind you of a certain person exactly...they remind you of a certain time frame in your life??
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I grew up in the 80's, so for me it is kind of divided into different "era's"
Early 80's (1980 - 1983)
"Total Eclipse of the heart" "6 months in a leaky boat" "Video killed the radio star"
Mid 80's (1984 - 1986)
"Hello" "We built this city" "One night in Bangkok" "Live it up"
Late 80's (1987 - 1989)
"You little thief" "Simply Irresistable" "I should be so lucky"
Whenever I hear these songs, I remember the times I would hear them, most often on the radio on the school bus!
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I have a bunch of memories like this. I wasn't that huge into music in the early 80's unfortunately, so my memories of these songs come from hearing them on the car radio when my family used to take trips.
Police-Every Breath you take Kim Carnes-Betty Davis Eyes Burton Cummings-Fine State of Affairs Chiliwack-I believe/My Girl Alan Parsons project-Eye in the Sky
I guess the radio playlist back then was pretty conservative, judging from these songs, as I have no vivd memory of real quirky new wave being played on the radio. I also have a very vivid memory of a kid in the neighbourhood who had to crank Joan Jett's I love Rock'n Roll all the time in the neighbourhood because it was his favorite song. Also recall hearing these older , cooler guys working on their vintage cars while billy Squier's the Stroke was blasting. Those songs I guess are like carbon dating, because that tells me this stuff happened 81-82 when these songs were popular. I have forgotten so much that it's kind of cool to remember what happened during what year.
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I think Every Breath You Take is another one for me too.
Hit Me with Your Best Shot-Pat Benatar Our Lips are Sealed-The Go Go's All through the Night-Cyndi Lauper When Doves Cry-Prince Human Nature-Michael Jackson...and even Beat It- those were awesome songs. Drive-The Cars Do you Really Want to Hurt Me-Culture Club The Reflex-Duran Duran Summer of 69-Bryan Adams Panama-Van Halen Dirty Laundry-Don Henley Photograph-Def Leppard Mickey-Toni Basil
I think about how totally cool music use to be all the time...and how so many great people were making such a variety of music...and then boom it all came to a hault.
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It stopped in the late 80's...most of the music I really liked...came to a hault....cause I met my husband in September of 1989 and by then MTV went right down the tubes. I remember when I lived on my own in 1987 I couldn't get enough MTV...but the music was even better in the early 80's to around 1986 when I graduated high school. I remember when the 90's started out, I only remember liking a few songs...I liked Listen to Your Heart by Roxette...and I liked Janet Jackson...Black Cat and Miss You Much and Escapade...those songs were good...and had a semi 80's feel still too them. But then it turned in to crud....and just kept going...and each year more people dropped out of sight...and quit making music. And even the ones that still make music...don't make good music...it is like they tapped out all their creativity...but I really think it is deeper than that...and that music is a reflection of what we see going on around us...and the way people write music seems to go with how the world is acting in the moment...that's why half the songs out now have swear words in them.
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This sounds crazy, but I can remember which songs were popular during the 80s depending on what grade I was in school. Like "Power of Love" and "Back in Time" were popular leading into my 5th grade school year since Back to the Future was released in the summer of 1985...
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Isis said: " And even the ones that still make music...don't make good music."
Bon Jovi is the prime example. A friend of mine bought the new cd and I got to hear it. It's horrid...
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The 80s spirit lives on in dance music...There's MP3s by the score by current dance artists who retain the danceability of the pre-90s era. You have to listen closely for the influences and open up your scope beyond the pop music of our favorite decade, but the spirit lives on.
Variety lives on...It's all in the dance clubs now.
Sincerely,
John Kilduff
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I think for me the songs that Defined certain moments in the '80s would be:
"THRILLER"...(especially near HALLOWEEN) cause the 1st time i saw THRILLER was on HALLOWEEN NIGHT..just before i watch RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD for the first time on HBO.
"Every Breath You Take" & "Uptown Girls"....I still can remeber those Summer Vacations staying up late with my bother on Friday Nights to watch FRIDAY NIGHT VIDEOS on NBC.
"Hold Me"..evertime i hear that song..it reminds me of being in the car with my Grand-Mother & Brother. On the way to the movies to go see THE BEASTMASTER..My brother and i used to think that that lady in FLEETWOOD MAC was sing .."HOLD ME, HOLD ME, HOLD ME....E.T."
"STEPPING OUT"...Oh Man!...it seem like everytime we went to go see The Big CHRISTMAS TREE downtown this song was on the radio.
"Just Once"...cause just like GARY in THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN..this same damn song was playing when i got my heart broken, and we where both at parties. But i was way younger than GARY..i was in love with this older girl(Well i though it was LOVE i was young)And just like GARY i saw her kissing some dude. She was like 10 years older than me. Than a few days later i had watched THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN for the first time..Lets just say i FREAKED when i saw the end it was like somebody made a movie about me!!!!. The same song was playing..James Ingram "JUST ONCE"..everytime i hear that sond i get that Lump in My Throat.
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Pretty much anything from the soundtrack to "The Little Mermaid"...I saw it in my 1st year of elementary school and the song "Part Of Your World" basically defined the effort I would have to make (and the effort I'm still trying to make) in order to fit in with people around me.
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John Kilduff
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"Dancing in the Dark" That is definately a defining 80's song.
Lights out-Peter Wolf I wear my sunglasses at night-Corey Hart Glamorous Life-Sheila E. Dynamite-Jermaine Jackson Obsession-Animotion
I think about high school and I remember I would fall asleep every night with my radio playing...and every song was great. Which is so weird to think about now...that during the 80's...none of the stuff that I have heard in the past 15 years was around...and so every song I ever heard on the radio was from that year and earlier, and that's when the best music played...I never heard of Eminem or Marylin Mansun, or P. Diddy and J.Lo. That's why the 80's were so great.
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Wow, I'm such an eighties music nut that it's hard to answer the topic. All I need to hear is any song from the Police, Prince/The Purple Rain Soundtrack, Duran Duran, Men at Work, Genesis, and I instantly slip into nostalgia mode.
I love hearing songs like "One Night in Bangkok", "Whip It", "Putting on the Ritz", "Mr. Roboto", etc., they have a uniqely eigties flavor.
But one song that defined a special eighties moment for me was "Wrapped Around Your Finger" by the Police. That's because it was one of the first songs my older sister played on her new stereo system.
My sisters and cousins and I spent one night listening to the Police and Prince, Kraftwerk and such. We had such fun just hanging out together and listening to good music. And "Wrapped Around Your Finger" sounded absolutely magnificant on her Fisher component system. Loving family and fun times is what the eighties really meant for me, and that song brings it all back.
Sisko
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There are so many great songs of the 80's. That's what I miss so much about today's music, is you never hear anything that is even close to as good as the 80's music was...and even the very few songs that I have heard in the past 10-15 years give me the same kind of positive feeling I get when I hear an 80's song, and think about that time period in my life. But...even now those songs to me are still the best music ever made.
Some more songs that really defined 80's moments for me are:
Keep on Loving You-REO Speedwagon We Don't Have to Take Our Clothes Off-Jermaine Stewart The Tide is High-Blondie I Love a Rainy Night-Eddie Rabbit The Rose-Bette Midler Angel of the Morning-Juice Newton My Sharona-The Knack
There just was so many different songs that came out in that 10 years period, and they still hold up....there has been a few songs here and there that I thought were ok, in the past 15 years...that I might have liked a little bit when they first came out...but when I hear them now I think they are horrible.
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