Cuz she's still preoccupied...with 1985 [Archive]

LadyShea

03-11-2005, 03:43 PM

She’s seen all the classics
She knows every line
Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink
Even Saint Elmo’s Fire
She rocked out to wham
Not a big Limp Bizkit fan
Thought she’d get a hand
On a member of Duran Duran

So Frankie laughs every time we hear this song and says it was written for me (even though I like Limp Bizkit)...and I go and prove him right. I bought Duran Duran tickets for Monday night and am going with the girl who was my best friend ca. 1982.

Anyone else cling to their past musically? Anyone seen one of their favorite bands in concert years later? How bad/good was it.

I worry, because when Axel Rose sang at the MTV music awards a couple years ago and he was SO awful and winded I felt downright ancient. Duran Duran is my band, man, soundtrack of my life and all that.

Ex-zombie

03-11-2005, 04:09 PM

LadyShea

03-11-2005, 04:16 PM

"In touch with the ground
I’m on the hunt I’m after you
Scent and a sound, I’m lost and I’m found
And I’m hungry like the wolf
Strut on a line, it’s discord and rhyme
I howl and I whine I’m after you
Mouth is alive all running inside
And I’m hungry like the wolf."

Everytime I hear this song by Duran Duran I am reminded of my wild partying days. Geez, now I feel old.

Me too. We're geezers now. How the hell did that happen?

My mom was the age I am now, 35, when I was 12 years old and her music was already called "Oldies"...as far as I know 80's music isn't called "Oldies" on any station.

Shake

03-11-2005, 04:38 PM

No, but at first I was surprised that VH-1 was doing "I love the 90s" 'cause I still feel like they just ended. Then I realize it's 2005, and we're halfway through this decade already. I guess the changes have been less subtle between now and the '90s versus now and say, the 80s!

Favorite bands from the 80s? Well, let's see ... U2 is still together and going strong, but I haven't bought one of their albums since Achtung Baby. I'm more a fan of their earlier stuff, although Vertigo is a good song. The Police broke up, and I did see Rush, but that was back in '90 or '91.

No, my musical tastes have evolved with the times. Not that I don't still enjoy some good '80s tunes, but I don't have the need to hear them. Nor can I can think of more than a couple of bands from that era that I'd like to see. As I mentioned above, some just simply aren't together anymore.

I'm also 35, btw, so we should remember the same stuff.

slimshady2357

03-11-2005, 04:44 PM

My mom was the age I am now, 35, when I was 12 years old and her music was already called "Oldies"...as far as I know 80's music isn't called "Oldies" on any station.

No, mostly it's just called 'crap' :giggle:

Just kidding... sort of.

They play ALOT of 80's music on the "Classics" music channel here in the UK. So they're 'classic' at least :D

And I still listen to some of the music I grew up listening to, like Sabbath and Maiden. But I also loved KISS, Motley Crue, GnR, Skid Row... and I never listen to them anymore. But I have discovered a few bands from the eighties, that I didn't listen to then, like Depeche Mode. So it goes both ways :)

And I saw Iron Maiden in concert two years ago, they kicked ass, but they mostly played stuff from their new album, which was a shame.

Whenever people look back and ask "Who was the best band from the eighties?" I always say "Iron Maiden!" and then they roll their eyes.

Adam

LadyShea

03-11-2005, 04:45 PM

Oh I listen to plenty of new music, and most of the music from the past I no longer care to listen to, but Duran Duran, The Police, Missing Persons, Blondie, Berlin, Guns -n- Roses...I never seem to tire of.

I was never much of a Maiden fan, but hubby was and I saw them in concert with him in like 92.

I still can't get over when my younger friend (8 years younger than me) asked if I wanted to go see a "new" band with her...Violent Femmes.

viscousmemories

03-11-2005, 04:58 PM

I think I probably like Duran Duran more now than I did when they were on the radio. I was a heavy metal kinda juvenile delinquent in those days, but the arcade I hung out at played all that 80's pop music constantly. So I'm pretty sure it appeals to me now because it haunted my youth. I'm not positive though. In any case I like Duran Duran, The Police, Blondie and Berlin. Can't think of anything Missing Persons did and I've never liked Guns -n- Roses.

But anyway no, I don't really cling to the music of my past. I don't really listen to music that often, but I'm as likely to put in Cat Stevens or the Beatles as Aphex Twin or Eminem, depending on my mood. And I'm not a big fan of concerts. In fact I've only seen a handful of live shows in my life, including the first Lalapalooza, Bruce Hornsby, Tori Amos, Johnny Clegg and Savuka, and some local bands.

beyelzu

03-11-2005, 06:04 PM

a few years ago I saw suicidal tendencies in concert and it was very bad ass.

when I was maybe 13-14 I started listening to them.

LadyShea

03-11-2005, 06:30 PM

a few years ago I saw suicidal tendencies in concert and it was very bad ass.

when I was maybe 13-14 I started listening to them.

Oh man I love ST, just listened to them while I was doing serious house cleaning the other day. I saw them in concert with Metallica and much preffered ST.

Roland98

03-11-2005, 06:42 PM

You're not alone, LS. The most popular dance at my college every year was the "Safety Dance," where they played all 80's music and everyone dressed up like the 80s were still swingin'--big hair and all. It's hilarious how a bunch of stuffed-shirt, uptight nerds change when some Erasure or Blondie is playing...

I still love a lot of 80's and 90's music that I grew up on--but I listen to some stuff from about every decade from the 60s on, so I don't think I'm stuck in any one time period. I do love the song in the OP though...Aurora of course doesn't really understand it, but she knows all the words and repeats the "nineteen...nineteen...nineteen" over and over.

The only band I ever saw from that era that I saw again later was Def Leppard. I went to one of their concerts when I was in junior high, and then they played at a local venue maybe 3-4 years ago. I went with the same friend whose parents took us to the concert when we were kids (she was one of those with the "cool parents" who actually knew who Def Leppard was!) Didn't even close to measure up--one reason was because it was all a bunch of people my age rather than teenage girls like it had been before. Just don't get the same energy from people in their late 20s/early 30s as you do from starstruck 14-year-olds.

LadyShea

03-11-2005, 06:50 PM

In any case I like Duran Duran, The Police, Blondie and Berlin. Can't think of anything Missing Persons did

Yay on liking some of my fave bands! Missing Persons sang "Words" and "Destination Unknown" which I am sure you would recognize if you heard them. Also, the drummer Terry Bozio is considered one of the best in the world.

and I've never liked Guns -n- Roses.

G-n-R brought back real rock and they did "Pretty Tied Up" which I think is one of the best songs ever. After all that glam bullshit Posoin and such, I really felt G-n-R was refreshing. Got me ready for some alternative stuff in the 90's.

Roland, I too like music from all over the timeline. I love to drive to surf music for example. I have a feeling the Duran Duran concert is going to be a bunch of 30-something women just like me and my friend. We'll have fun though :)

livius drusus

03-11-2005, 06:52 PM

Last summer I found a mixed tape I made in 1990 when I was leaving Italy (and the 80s) to go to college. I loved it. I had totally forgotten about a couple of my favorite bands like Italian guitar rock Litfiba. La Gioconda is a great fucking song.

I love 80s shit too. I was a teenybopper myself and certain songs have memory associations so strong they make listening more akin to watching a movie.

Roland98

03-11-2005, 06:53 PM

Roland, I too like music from all over the timeline. I love to drive to surf music for example. I have a feeling the Duran Duran concert is going to be a bunch of 30-something women just like me and my friend. We'll have fun though :)

I have to admit I'm jealous. :) I listened to Duran Duran in junior high and high school, but never really got into them until college, when a roomate was a huge fan. "Hungry like the wolf" and "Rio" always bring back memories of college parties. (The ones I can actually remember, of course! :innocent: )

LadyShea

03-11-2005, 07:02 PM

Last summer I found a mixed tape I made in 1990 when I was leaving Italy (and the 80s) to go to college. I loved it. I had totally forgotten about a couple of my favorite bands like Italian guitar rock Litfiba. La Gioconda is a great fucking song.

If you have an MP3 of it on file, shoot it to me :)

I love 80s shit too. I was a teenybopper myself and certain songs have memory associations so strong they make listening more akin to watching a movie.

Maybe that's the key. The memories associated with the music are almost all good and music, like scent, triggers the whole thing. Not just the visual "movie" part of the memory, but the feelings...carefree and silly and young and hot with everything ahead of me. Some songs are so associated with a specifc time or event I cannot separate them even.

Crumb

03-11-2005, 07:03 PM

I listen to music from anytime in the last 50 years. It seems odd to me sometimes when I pull out the Eminem, Metallica, or NIN and then throw in Buddy Holly or Chuck Berry. Good music appeals to me and has no expiration date.

Ensign Steve

03-12-2005, 01:12 AM

Duran Duran sucks. :P

Crumb

03-12-2005, 01:40 AM

Duran Duran sucks.

Yeah, I thought this went without saying, but just in case I will second it.

Ex-zombie

03-12-2005, 01:58 AM

Duran Duran sucks. :P

If that is the sum total of your contribution to this thread, why did you bother to post?

LadyShea

03-12-2005, 03:52 AM

Duran Duran sucks. :P

Care to back that opinion up with some highbrow musicalism?

Ensign Steve

03-12-2005, 03:59 AM

Duran Duran sucks. :P

If that is the sum total of your contribution to this thread, why did you bother to post?

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know that I need to evaluate my individual posts for intrinsic value before deciding whether they are worthy of anybody's attention. I promise henseforth to never inconvenience you with frivolity and to post only pearls of wisdom and wit.

:rolleye2:

Beth

03-12-2005, 03:59 AM

Gosh, 80's. That whole era sucked for me. The only good thing I remember about it was the bobby socks with pumps. That was a way cute look. Oh, John Cuzak was like totally hot fer sure! Better Off Dead, I fell in love with a demented pathetically adorable guy with a bitch girlfriend named Beth, must be why I liked dark hair on guys so much.

Ex-zombie

03-12-2005, 04:54 AM

Oh, I'm sorry. I didn't know that I need to evaluate my individual posts for intrinsic value before deciding whether they are worthy of anybody's attention. I promise henseforth to never inconvenience you with frivolity and to post only pearls of wisdom and wit.

Your posts do not have to be full of wisdom and wit. I do not see the point of responding in a thread by saying so and so sucks. I do not like Star Trek or The Simpsons. Therefore I do not butt into discussions about them by posting, "They suck." I simply do not see the purpose of such a post. Perhaps you intended it as a joke. I just don't see it as necessary to post my opinion when other people are enjoying a discussion on a particular topic.

Ensign Steve

03-12-2005, 04:57 AM

Dude, it was a joke.

freemonkey

03-12-2005, 06:29 AM

Hey, I remember the 80's! I loved Missing Persons, I saw them maybe 10, 12 years ago in one of those clubs in Chicago where there are no seats. I was so tired from standing all night I can't remember if they were much good.

Some other bands I loved:Blondie, Pretenders, Split Enz, Squeeze, Cheap Trick, Cyndi Lauper.... OK, I'll stop now.

I got to see Cheap Trick about 6 years ago at an outdoor festival. They were awesome.

In some cases I still love the music I loved then; and in other cases, not so much. For instance - I liked AC/DC back in the 70's, but I'm older, wiser and drug-free now. :wink:

viscousmemories

03-12-2005, 02:49 PM

You're probably thinking of A-ha's video for Take on Me, freemonkey. That was the coolest video ever. :)

livius drusus

03-12-2005, 03:15 PM

That video ruled.

LadyShea

03-12-2005, 03:21 PM

Oooh, Split Enz and Cheap Trick. Frankie's off golfing, maybe I'll just pop in some of my CD's for the morning.

livius drusus

03-12-2005, 03:30 PM

Okay I'll admit it. I like the Pet Shop Boys. I liked them then and I still like them now. There, I've said it.

LadyShea

03-12-2005, 03:38 PM

Okay I'll admit it. I like the Pet Shop Boys. I liked them then and I still like them now. There, I've said it.

There now, don't you feel better getting it off your chest?

livius drusus

03-12-2005, 03:42 PM

Much better, thank you. I shall now play "Rent" and giggle.

Lauri D

03-12-2005, 04:47 PM

Okay I'll admit it. I like the Pet Shop Boys. I liked them then and I still like them now. There, I've said it.
Hehe. Hey, it could be worse... you could have had a life-sized poster of George Michael taped to your bedroom door.

Not that I know anyone who did that... no m'aam...

:tiptoe:

livius drusus

03-12-2005, 05:05 PM

Are we talking "Careless Whisper" George Michael or "Faith" George Michael?

Lauri D

03-12-2005, 05:20 PM

Are we talking "Careless Whisper" George Michael or "Faith" George Michael?
Oh... er, now that you mention it, it was "Faith". That puts me behind (early 90's), huh?

Sweetie

03-12-2005, 05:59 PM

What age would you think fits the idea of "preoccupied with 1985." Like her 1985 would be my 1992 maybe? about the 12-17 year old range? LOL, her 1985 is my Mom's 1966 or whatever, I still have to put up with the Everly Brothers occasionally. :D

I remember all those songs, I remember the day "Take on Me" came out on video, I remember when Michael Jackson's "Thriller" was being played over and over and over again, it wouldn't stop, that was '84 I think, I was six maybe. I remember when George Michael hit the scene, Madonna and Bruce Springstein. He could sing to me "I'm on Fire" if he wants. :suave:

I'm not preoccupied with those years, they went so fast but yeah, some of that music still hangs around for me, Pearl Jam, U2, GnR, AC/DC, then Techno started.

Oh! Actually probably the most defining songs and music from High School at the one point in my life was some country, Garth Brooks' "Standing Outside the Fire," and especially John Michael Montgomery's "Life's a Dance."

The teen version, "Life's a dance you learn as you blow, sometimes you spit, sometimes you swallow," our teachers always used to come out and tell us to turn it off on our breaks. "Baby Got Back", "Damn I wish I was your Lover," "Whoop There it is," "Smells Like Teen Spirit," etc.

Billy Idol, I can still listen to him, he deserves it, just pure rock.

There was one band, they were Norweigan, they sang a song called "Black and Blue," .....colours of love, pain that we live for, Black and Blue........

I don't remember their names at all and I want to, sound familiar to anybody?

I've always found it interesting though to consider how much a product of our environments that we are.

Sweetie

03-12-2005, 06:39 PM

I am so not listening to "Rebel Yell" right now.....no, no...not me.....:innocent:

LadyShea

03-12-2005, 06:52 PM

You might be a bit young. 1985 was when I was 15. You were like 6 or 7 at the time. When I was 6-7 Donnie Osmand, Shaun Cassidy, Kiss and for some reason the Grease soundtrack were all the rage. My mom listened to Cher and the Eagles at that time, so I remember those too.

Nope, you're more of a 90's girl than an 80's girl :) In ten years you may know how this pull to the past feels. Of course it may just be me.

Sweetie

03-12-2005, 08:30 PM

In 1985 my Mom had the best record collection, she still has the records, she was just recently talking about getting rid of them, I'm like "Mom, are you nuts!" She's keeping them mostly just in case some of them are worth a pretty penny to a collector.

But she has everything, Blondie, Pink Floyd, Led Zeplin, Pat Benetar, Prism, Meatloaf, Eagles and so much more. I made all my compilations off of her and then off my aunt because my aunt was younger and kept her collection more up to date until I got around to buying my own stuff.

pescifish

03-12-2005, 08:50 PM

You're probably thinking of A-ha's video for Take on Me, freemonkey. That was the coolest video ever. :) When I saw this thread, I immediately thought of this video but had no clue who or what it was. This one was the one with the cartoon that the guy is drawing and gets pulled into? Definitely a cool video!

I don't think you can assign a particular age to everyone regarding what era most pulls them (and the music that might help that pull.) I was in my mid to late 20s in the 80s, but that music pulls me more than the music I listened to as a teen. I have never been into music and my childhood and especially teen years were consumed with family shit so there was no typical self-absorbed identification with music and fashion during those ages for me.

By mid-20s, I was finally able to live my own life and the music playing then was more of a soundtrack to a part of my life that I strongly identify with. In spite of my Dad's ever destructive MS and my mom's building mental illness, I was stunningly rewarded for an amazing and exciting job and I had a solid, loving long term relationship with a horndog and was, on average, probably having sex 3 times a day for most years in the 80s. I had money, was powerful, strong and could do anything during those years (well, anything but heal either of my parents, of course.)

Screw teen years for defining my music: mid 20s to mid 30s were my years.

Still, I have no memory for names of bands or songs, so even if I remember stuff, I can't articulate it.

lisarea

03-12-2005, 09:25 PM

There's something I've been really wanting to get off my chest for a while now. Here goes: I went through a brief but intense teenybopper stage when I was like 11 and 12. Shawn Cassidy, the Bay City Rollers, shit like that. I got over it pretty quickly and tried to bury all evidence of said phase, but I'm tired of hiding from my past. I HAD JOHN TRAVOLTA'S ALBUM, OKAY? And I've always lived with the fear that, at some point, my sister would blackmail me with this information, and I would have to retaliate by exposing her GIANTASSED CRUSH on Barry Manilow. She was all in love with him. Probably still is.

I had a very strange and very rapid transition, though, which probably completed in 1977 or 1978, during which I got into punk and arty stuff. So during said transition, there was probably a time when I thought that both Andy Gibb and David Johanssen were totally hot.

I was pretty angry still for most of the 80s, and a lot of it was carried over from the late 70s. Iggy Pop, the Ramones, the Dead Boys and subsequent Stiv Bators projects, PiL, things like that. I still love the Dead Boys way more than I ought to. I had a dream that Cheetah Chrome was my best friend just a couple of years ago, in fact.

I could. not. fucking. stand. Missing Persons. Still can't. I still think they were posers and they still actually piss me off. I'm serious. I am forty fucking years old, and I still want to beat up Missing Persons. Maybe I should go track them down and just get it over with, eh?

I bought Billy Idol's first solo album because I was missing Generation X but hard, but by the time the second came out, I was through with him. I think he just wasn't angry enough for me anymore and it kind of bugged me to have to buy albums with big 'dreamy boy' pictures taking up the whole cover. I was over that, you know?

I also loved Cheap Trick, and I do mean LOVED. They were my first major concert, in fact. Loved Talking Heads, Brian Eno (my Brian Eno collection was almost exclusively on 8-track, unfortunately), and things like that, too.

And of course, I bought Elvis Costello's first album when it came out, and have stuck with him through thick and thin ever since.

Most of what I liked was I guess either too obscure or has accumulated some weirdassed credibility or something so that it mostly doesn't come across as being too dated, even though it really kind of is. I mean, the kids these days. They steal my CDs.

In closing, I would like to say that Duran Duran sucks.

pescifish

03-12-2005, 09:51 PM

Brian Eno! :thumbsup:

Crumb

03-12-2005, 10:04 PM

Oh, I guess I didn't realize this was an 80s thread when I posted. :doh: I think I was too young for much music listening in the 80s. I was 9 in 1985.

In the late 80s early 90s I listened to RUN DMC, Young MC, Beastie Boys, Fresh Prince, and some other rap stuff. From the mid to late 90s it was NIN, violent femmes, They Might Be Giants, Nirvana, Primus, Weird Al, Camper Van Beethoven, Cracker, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Phil Collins, and Everclear. Now it is all kinds of stuff including a lot of that stuff too and Billy Joel, The Beatles, Dido, Buddy Holly, Eminem, Enya, John Lennon.

It's not that I don't like 80s stuff. I have a lot of the one hit wonder stuff from that time, and I like Billy Idol a lot. I just didn't grow up with 80s music.

LadyShea

03-12-2005, 10:39 PM

Wasn't necessarily an 80's thread or a teen thread or anything, see Pesci's post and liv's discussion of music bringing back memories. I just happen to be an 80's girl and that's the music that pulls me back and that's why I started the OP. Perhaps you're a 90's person as Sweetie is...but 90's music is still played on modern stations and isn't called Oldies or Classics yet.

I could. not. fucking. stand. Missing Persons. Still can't. I still think they were posers and they still actually piss me off. I'm serious. I am forty fucking years old, and I still want to beat up Missing Persons. Maybe I should go track them down and just get it over with, eh?

Posers? Pissed off? But that wasn't a drum machine, that was like, a real person, one of the best up there with Peart and Copeland. Even just for that aspect they were awesome!

sorta on topic:
When I was dancing, I got made fun of because I would choose Sex Pistols and ST one set, then Sisters of Mercy and Concrete Blonde for another set, and maybe Cake and Eve6 for another. Nobody understood my tatses.

freemonkey

03-13-2005, 01:14 AM

You're probably thinking of A-ha's video for Take on Me, freemonkey. That was the coolest video ever. :)
Yes. That's the one. I knew it last night, but I couldn't think of anything else they did, and so, they didn't quite fit into the thread. But I was already partway committed, so I had to make the explanation.

Billy Idol (grrrrr), Elvis Costello, Ramones, Iggy Pop (I cannot sit still when I hear "Wild Child").

OK, I'll admit it, Pat Benatar.

godfry n. glad

03-13-2005, 02:23 AM

1985?

I was 32 and got married that year. Lessee... Billy Joel and Jim Croce were my wife's favorite popular musicians.

My defining years were the late 60's and the early 70's. I remember when the Beatles put out the White Alblum, Abbey Road and Let It Be. The Doors were still going strong and the Stones were at the height of their "creativity" (such as it was). Moody Blues was a regular feature on the radio.

The defining groups I identify with are Fleetwood Mac (particularly the Rumors album) and Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, and Country Joe McDonald and the Fish. Great stuff that I still love. Along with The Band, James Gang, Stevie "Guitar" Miller, Procol Harum, Leon Russell, Paul Simon (Simon and Garfunkel were before my time, but their stuff still got a lot of airplay), It's a Beautiful Day , The Butterfield Blues Band, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention, and John Mayall and the Blues Breakers. I loved the Eric Clapton of Derek and the Dominos. Although Creedence Clearwater is a defining sound of my generation, I never cottoned much to their music. My first live concert was a group known as The Chicago Transit Authority...later to become Chicago. I was 16.

I have a definite taste in folk that started back then, too, with James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, and Taj Mahal. Taj was awesome live. Of course, he was the lead act for John McLoughlin and the Birds of Fire, who stunk big time (too fukken loud).

During the 80's, I was pretty disappointed with what happened to rock, so I kind drifted into jazz at that time. I love Dave Brubeck, Hubert Laws, Paul Horn, and the Modern Jazz Quartet. Outside of jazz, I tended to listen to the likes of Harry Nilsson, Steely Dan and Randy Newman. Police and Dire Straits were big favorites during the 80s and 90s. Oh, yes, and Pink Floyd. I saw Pink Floyd live, during their Dark Side of the Moon tour..that was the most stunning concert I've ever attended. David Bowie managed to make and impression, but I didn't see him until just last year....he sucked, big time. Too fukken loud. I had to sit in the concourse of the venue in order to suffer the music.

All ancient history, right?

I stopped attending live concerts after dropping $55 to see Sting live. I got seats 12 rows from the stage. The concert was fine, but from the time Sting walked on stage until the end of the concert, nobody sat. Everybody stood. I was in my mid-40s at the time and that made me cranky by the end of the concert. I coulda paid $14 for standing room only and got a better show. It was also way too short for the money I'd paid. I have decided that I'm too much of a crank to attend live concerts, plus, my tightwad tendencies kicked in as well and I figured that I could have bought nearly all of Sting's repetoire for the price I'd paid for the ticket, it would comprise well over 12 times the music as I'd hear live, and I could listen to it again, and again, and again.

Still...I went to see David Bowie. And regretted it.

godfry

Sweetie

03-13-2005, 04:45 AM

OK, I'll admit it, Pat Benatar.

Just heard "Rated X" on the radio last week and noticed it, forgot it existed, never knew the lyrics really until then. Heard "All Fired Up" too a week or so ago, she is still alive.

Sweetie

03-13-2005, 04:52 AM

In ten years you may know how this pull to the past feels. Of course it may just be me.

"Glory Days" - Bruce Springsteen

"Now I think I’m going down to the well tonight
And I’m going to drink till I get my fill
And I hope when I get old[er] I don’t sit around thinking about it
But I probably will
Yeah, just sitting back trying to recapture
A little of the glory of, well time slips away....."

Sweetie

03-13-2005, 04:58 AM

Though you know truthfully I feel like my glory days are right now. I'm a full grown woman, I have power in my life, I can drink, smoke, curse, stay out late, I know who I am, I'm not afraid to be who I am, I have enough money to cover alot of the things I'd like to do, and don't forget, I still have my sexual peak to look forward to :2thumbsup: lol. :D

Ensign Steve

03-13-2005, 05:17 AM

Sadly, my 1985 was in 1992, when there was shit for music available to me. Huge fan of Pearl Jam, for the two seconds before Eddie Vedder got all preachy. Could not, still cannot, stand the sound of Chris Cornell's voice, which kills three bands for me: Soundgarden; Temple of the Dog; and, in this century, Audioslave (though I must admit, I hate Audioslave the least of those three bands). Goddamn, that stupid Soundgarden video where they cook the Barbies on the barbecue (wait, I just got that) was so fucking overplayed and everybody thought it was "art" when I knew it was garbage the first time they played it, not to mention the next 10000000 x 10^100000 times they played it. Anyway, Alice in Chains was good. And I'm afraid I'm one of those assholes who liked Nirvana before Nevermind, and after that they kind of lost all meaning for me. Grunge sucked, early nineties alterna-rock sucked, but unfortunately it's the only thing my twentysomething ass has to get nostalgic about, so I still own the CDs (the first CD I owned was Pearl Jam's Ten) and I still listen to them, god damnit.

Oh wait. Red Hot Chili Peppers was still cool until like the late nineties. "Righteous and the Wicked" was, is, and ever will be both righteous and wicked. Woo!

Ymir's blood

03-13-2005, 06:59 AM

I don't have a decade or time period that I really identify with musically. My exposure to music was very limited until my late teens (c.'86) when a friend turned me on to Iron Maiden. I listened to metal for a few years but got into sixties/seventies classic in college. Since then, I've had periods of listening to many different kinds of music but never really stuck to any of them.

Metal is the closest I could get to nostalgia, but it doesn't work very well for me anymore. The two drawing points were the aggression and the fantasy/horror elements that some bands went in for. However, I'm not angry anymore, so the aggression doesn't have much appeal now. The fantasy stuff tended to be on the puerile side for most of those bands and it didn't stand the test of time. The party bands and teenage rebellion stuff never had that much appeal anyway.

Right now, I'm listening to mostly goth rock, darkwave, and related bands in punk and industrial. This seems to be clicking for me more than anything has in the past. The occasional fantasy elements aren't as forced and the overall darkness fits the outlook on life I've always had. Perhaps this will be 'my time.' :shrug:

xorbie

03-13-2005, 08:24 AM

I was born in 1985, and for the most part I dislike music from that era. I guess you had to be there :shrug:

SharonDee

03-13-2005, 02:01 PM

You people born in the 80s can bite me. I gave birth in 1985 and she turns 20 in November. Oh, and I also married for the first time in 1985.

I think I hate this thread. :brooding:

Oh wait, this is about music. Wham was my bane that year. "Everything She Wants"; "Careless Whisper"; both songs underscored the hopelessness and helplessness I labored under then.

Nah, I still hate this thread. :brooding:

Beth

03-13-2005, 02:55 PM

pescifish

03-13-2005, 08:08 PM

I think that sexual peak is a myth.Oh, I don't! :girl: We were horndogs in our 20s, but when I hit my 30s, :flex: !
:qwow:
:yowza:

viscousmemories

03-14-2005, 04:33 AM

re: My reference to A-ha's cool video and liv's love of the Pet Shop Boys.

I had dinner with Lauri and Gawen at Joe's Crab Shack a few nights ago, and Take on Me came on the radio. I swear Lauri guessed that it was Thompson Twins (though she'll probably correct me if I'm wrong) and I guessed it was the Pet Shop Boys. Gawen sided with me. I didn't find out it was A-ha until I came home and Googled it, and that's why I was able to identify it here.

When I saw this thread, I immediately thought of this video but had no clue who or what it was. This one was the one with the cartoon that the guy is drawing and gets pulled into? Definitely a cool video!
Yup, that's the one. :yup:

Beth

03-14-2005, 03:30 PM

I think that sexual peak is a myth.Oh, I don't! :girl: We were horndogs in our 20s, but when I hit my 30s, :flex: !
:qwow:
:yowza:I was a horndog and now... *sigh* Something must be wrong with me.

Beth

03-14-2005, 03:39 PM

I remember Walk Like An Egyptian. I wasn't allowed to listen to rock or pop throughout all of my teen years, but an aunt would sneak music to me on occasion and I would listen to it at her house, as well as watch music videos. That song was the first forbidden song that I had listened to since my mother had banned me from music. So, I have fond memories of that song and still find it to be one of my favorites, although my musical taste is totally different now.

Ab_Normal

03-14-2005, 03:44 PM

I'm more of a Devo, Modern English, Thomspon Twins, Depeche Mode, Oingo Boingo/Danny Elfman kind of girl... (graduated from high school in 1984, college in 1987).

pescifish

03-14-2005, 07:43 PM

I was a horndog and now... *sigh* Something must be wrong with me.Don't forget it takes two to tango. I was lucky enough to be with a guy who looked at me and saw the sexiest woman in the world. When you see that in the face of your lover and, without a doubt, know that he respects, admires and you are the love of his life, the hormones are just an enhancement.

Ah, speaking of which, did someone mention George Michael's Faith? Was that in the 80s? Damn, I can't hear anything on that CD without thinking about sex.

viscousmemories

03-14-2005, 07:51 PM

I remember Walk Like An Egyptian.
For reasons I can't really explain I remember the close-up on Susanna Hoff's shifty eyes in that video as one of the most erotic images in video history. It haunts me to this day.

Beth

03-14-2005, 08:29 PM

Lauri D

03-15-2005, 12:05 AM

Ah, speaking of which, did someone mention George Michael's Faith? Was that in the 80s? Damn, I can't hear anything on that CD without thinking about sex. *raises hand* Heh. Yah, I'm pretty sure it was the very end of the 80's, I was in high school and had a huge poster of G.M. from that album time on the door of my bedroom. LOVED the album. I guess my hormones were just beginning to, er, rage. :D

Lauri D

03-15-2005, 07:12 PM

Hey, how was the concert, Lady? I hope you had a great time!

wei yau

03-15-2005, 07:51 PM

Thanks to this thread, I listened to the Pet Shop Boys during my morning commute.

Perhaps not the most well-remembered band from the 80s (90s?), but I do love their music.

Most of my friends probably think I have bad taste in music, though.

EDIT: I posted this before I read all of the thread, I did not know that liv loves the Pet Shop Boys. My opinion of them is sincere, I'm not just sucking up

:bow2: :livcrop:

livius drusus

03-15-2005, 07:58 PM

Yay! There are two of us! :bigglomp:

wei yau

03-15-2005, 08:08 PM

I really need to go some more of their stuff. All I have is "Discography", which is an excellent "Greatest Hits" album and "Very", which is very cool.

I think they are highly underrated. I know next to nothing about music, but I find their songs to be very intelligent and equally evocative.

I can feel the ennui in "Suburbia" and "Rent". I immerse myself in the melancholy nostalgia of "Being Boring". "It's a Sin" echoed the teenage angst and self-loathing I suffered. And yet for all of this heaviness, I love the playfulness in covering "Always on My Mind" and "Where the Streets Have No Name (I Can't Take My Eyes Off of You.)"

Finally, two words: "Dusty. fucking-Springfield."

wei yau

03-15-2005, 08:15 PM

Oh and, Duran Duran does suck.

The object of a pretty severe high school crush of mine was a devoted to John Taylor. She even had a "Duranie number".

Their music will always bring feelings of jealousy and inadequacy in me, yet I still enjoy listening. I'm like some kind of masochist, I guess.

wei yau

03-15-2005, 08:23 PM

I know, I know, three posts in a row.

But, they each cover a different topic, really.

My other favorite band from the 80s is The Eurythmics. To this day, I still harbor a crush for Annie Lennox. I was fortunate enough to have seen her twice in concert in the last few years.

Apparently, during the 80s I was English.

LadyShea

03-16-2005, 01:35 AM

Hey, how was the concert, Lady? I hope you had a great time!

It was great, I had a blast. Unfortunately I drank too much though and it all hit me right at the end. I had to have Frankie come get me. My car is still at the Hard Rock.

They did a great version of White Line during the encore, which was fun.

livius drusus

03-19-2005, 02:09 PM

I stumbled on a great video last night while channel surfing on the weird sections of the cable: Slave to Love, by Bryan Ferry. That man was supersexy. I love that song and I love that video.

Sweetie

03-19-2005, 04:01 PM

Just thinking about my Mom's record collection brought back so much music and so many memories to my mind.

One of my Dad's favorite songs is "I just died in your arms tonight" by Cutting Crew, it's funny and uncomfortable for me because it's rather, not necessarily steamy, but it's........yeah, it's something. Anybody know the song?

My Mom's, Paul Young, "Living for the Love of the Common People" and "Living Years," by Mike and the Mechanics.

If we jump to the 90's I remember babysitting and the guy I was babysitting for said I was too young to be absorbed by the song "Praying for Time" by George Michael, lol. It's one of my favorites.

My song with my husband is "Love Bites" by Def Leopard though my husband happened to forget that little fact, lol.

Anybody remember:

Loverboy
Paul Young
Mike and the Mechanics
REO Speedwagon
Air Supply
Journey
ZZ Top

Oh man, today is Def Leopard listening day though I won't go find the record. Can you believe I even have the record, can you believe they still made records in 1987? :eek:

livius drusus

03-19-2005, 04:44 PM

One of my Dad's favorite songs is "I just died in your arms tonight" by Cutting Crew, it's funny and uncomfortable for me because it's rather, not necessarily steamy, but it's........yeah, it's something. Anybody know the song?

Oh my yes. It was one of my favorite songs, particularly if you assume every death reference is actually referring to an orgasm. (Death = orgasm is a lot of English and French literature.)

You might enjoy this (http://www.tgilmore.com/cc/text/OnlyMusic.html) blast from the past article.

My Mom's, Paul Young, "Living for the Love of the Common People" and "Living Years," by Mike and the Mechanics.

I liked Paul Young too. I actually saw him in concert in 7th grade. :) He also sang a duet with Italian singer Zucchero -- very famous in Italy -- of one Zucchero's most famous songs, "Senza Una Donna", aka, "Without a Woman". Zucchero's Italian-accented English and Young's English-accented Italian make the song worth the price of a listen.

Loverboy

I might have been known to sing along to "Lovin Every Minute of it" once or twice.

REO Speedwagon

Yup. "I Can't Fight This Feeling", mainly.

Air Supply

Yup. Although I tend to think of them as late 70s, really, even though that may very well not be accurate.

Journey

Steve Perry was totally heinous, but I'll still holler "Separate Ways" at the top of my lungs when inspiration strikes.

ZZ Top

Just the "Legs" video.

Sweetie

03-19-2005, 05:19 PM

Oh my yes. It was one of my favorite songs, particularly if you assume every death reference is actually referring to an orgasm. (Death = orgasm is a lot of English and French literature.)

Oh yes, die the "little death."

Oh, you gone and done it! :whup: Dad....orgasms....Dad....orgasms. *winces*

:D

Was looking up a song, "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell, sounds like The Cure did that song too. Soft Cell, that's 1981 but I think that song is engraved permanently in my brain and I still love it:

"and you think to love is to pray
but I'm sorry I don't pray that way"

"Don't touch me please
I cannot stand the way you tease"

Damn, I find stuff like that so sexy. :wtf: :D

LadyShea

03-19-2005, 05:35 PM

Loverboy

My fave radio station played "Working for the Weekend" at 5pm every Friday.

REO Speedwagon

My friends and I would put a tape recorder to the speaker when anything off Hi Infidelity was on the radio. Yes a tape recorder because we didn't have cassette decks that could tape off the radio. That was in 5th grade.

Journey

The stupid DJ didn't bring the song we wanted for our wedding dance ( Everything I Do I Do For You, Bryan Adams. Shut up it was 1991), so we danced to Faithfully. Sad, I know, and I have it on video :paperbag:

ZZ Top

My dad was a huge fan, so I bought him their cassettes and listened to it when he drove me anywhere. He had a Corvette, and we got more than a few scowls from women who seemed to think he was having a midlife crisis and I was his little chippy making him listen to my teeny bopper music.

lisarea

03-19-2005, 08:49 PM

Was looking up a song, "Tainted Love" by Soft Cell, sounds like The Cure did that song too. Soft Cell, that's 1981 but I think that song is engraved permanently in my brain and I still love it:

"and you think to love is to pray
but I'm sorry I don't pray that way"

"Don't touch me please
I cannot stand the way you tease"

Damn, I find stuff like that so sexy. :wtf: :D

That was actually a cover of Gloria Jones song from the 60s, but Soft Cell really did kind of own it. Their cover sounds very little like the original, and they did change a few of the lyrics, even.

I've always thought Marc Almond was way underrated, probably largely because Tainted Love was just so huge that his other projects were overshadowed, maybe. I would love to get Marc and the Mambas' Untitled on CD, but I don't think it's there to be had.

Ha ha. We actually have a picture of Marc Almond hanging up in the bedroom, but not because it's him. That's just a coincidence. I swear.
http://www.pierreetgilles.net/m026imagineria.jpg

viscousmemories

03-19-2005, 09:14 PM

Softcell's Tainted Love is one of my favorite songs ever. And yeah, I remember all the rest of those bands too. I amazed a nephew of mine when he asked me if I knew who Def Leppard was and I said "I used to listen to them before the drummer lost his arm!" I actually remember hearing the news of the accident and wondering if he'd ever play again...

TomJoe

03-20-2005, 12:55 AM

... the arcade I hung out at played all that 80's pop music constantly. So I'm pretty sure it appeals to me now because it haunted my youth. I'm not positive though. In any case I like Duran Duran, The Police, Blondie and Berlin.

Don't ever ... ever ... call what The Police did, "pop music". My goodness gracious, how could you?

TomJoe

03-20-2005, 01:00 AM

You're probably thinking of A-ha's video for Take on Me, freemonkey. That was the coolest video ever. :)

Actually, IMO, that video, while awesome, pales in comparison to Radioheads "Just" video. Make it a distant second.

TomJoe

03-20-2005, 01:11 AM

Top 20 Videos Of All Time (http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1401701,00.html)

viscousmemories

03-20-2005, 01:18 AM

I'd rather clean my ears with sulphuric acid than listen to Johnny Cash, but I think it's awesome that Richard James nailed the #3 spot. He's a musical genius. I'm also surprised that Take on Me was #6. I was being somewhat facetious when I said it was the best video ever. I thought maybe I was the only one who loved it until I posted here. And I've never seen that Radiohead video, but Creep is one of my top 10 favorite songs of all time ever. Even though I've never actually made a list.

Roland98

03-20-2005, 04:39 PM

I'd rather clean my ears with sulphuric acid than listen to Johnny Cash

Awww, I like Johnny Cash. And his version of "Hurt" really kicks ass--you should at least listen to it first and then clean your ears with sulphuric acid. :)

Thanks to whoever mentioned REO Speedwagon--I was having a conversation about 80's music on Friday and couldn't for the life of me remember their name! I had them on tape way back in the day.

lisarea

03-20-2005, 11:45 PM

Guess what just came booming through the house out of nowhere? Marilyn Manson's cover of Tainted Love.

Conflarned kid.

I'd rather clean my ears with sulphuric acid than listen to Johnny Cash[...]

Well, then you probably should.

No offense or anything, but damn. There's something wrong with you, boy.

viscousmemories

03-21-2005, 12:02 AM

lisarea

03-21-2005, 04:06 AM

Hey, all I'm saying is it takes more than an all black outfit and a lot of spin to make me buy that a washed up country singer has suddenly become an icon for the "alternative" crowd. He can play every rodeo from San Diego to Maine for all I care, just don't play that garbage on my radio station.

Hey, I SAID no offense!

Really, though, you don't have to like the guy, but you can't realistically imply he was a poseur or anything. He was wearing black and singing outlaw songs before there was an alternative crowd. Hell, Johnny Cash predates rock and roll. To be honest, I'm not really all that familiar with the more recent stuff he did. I prefer the Johnny Cash Johnny Cash. I do kind of understand that can be annoying. I mean, I was pretty annoyed when hipsters the world over were embracing bad lounge singers. (Ugh. Tony Bennett was everywhere.) So maybe it's like that or something.

But Johnny Cash was badass independent of anybody else recognizing him as such.

viscousmemories

03-21-2005, 04:53 AM

Hey, I SAID no offense!

Really, though, you don't have to like the guy, but you can't realistically imply he was a poseur or anything. He was wearing black and singing outlaw songs before there was an alternative crowd. Hell, Johnny Cash predates rock and roll. To be honest, I'm not really all that familiar with the more recent stuff he did. I prefer the Johnny Cash Johnny Cash. I do kind of understand that can be annoying. I mean, I was pretty annoyed when hipsters the world over were embracing bad lounge singers. (Ugh. Tony Bennett was everywhere.) So maybe it's like that or something.

But Johnny Cash was badass independent of anybody else recognizing him as such.
Okay I'll come clean and admit I don't really know anything about the man, nor do I have anything like strong feelings about his music. Unless you count a strong feeling of ambivalence. The truth is I knew him by name and voice as a country singer (and I've never listened to country, so that isn't really saying anything) and then one day out of the blue I saw him on MTV and they started playing him on the local "alternative" station. Unfortunately I have such a deep seated dislike for all things country that I have no idea if I like his music or not; I can't even hear it when I'm listening. Oh, and the first time I ever heard Ring of Fire was the Social D version, so when I heard Cash's original it sounded like a drunk basset hound singing punk. :P

Sweetie

03-22-2005, 03:30 PM

oh, oh, oh......

Who's ears perk up when they hear this one and this beat?

"Jesse is a friend......."

livius drusus

03-22-2005, 04:25 PM

:mememe: Remember his white pants and black shirt outfit in the video?

Sweetie

03-22-2005, 04:44 PM

:mememe: Remember his white pants and black shirt outfit in the video?

:sadcheer: I never got to see the video, in fact I have no idea what he looks like.

He's sexy? He sure sounds sexy and the song is sexy:

"you know I feel so dirty when they start talking cute....."

"cause she's watching him with those eyes
and she's loving him with that body I just know it"

:lecher:

Attracted men are just so damned attractive. :innocent:

That's the only song I've ever braved singing kareokee because a friend agreed to sing it with me, lol, and it didn't go well. :D

Sweetie

03-22-2005, 04:57 PM

Of course, you could've been talking about Johnny Cash. :chin: :eek:

:P :D

livius drusus

03-22-2005, 04:59 PM

I thought he was way cute. Tall, slender, dark hair, fabulous dimples. He was my friend Isabella's, though, so I couldn't think he was too hot.

Sweetie

03-22-2005, 05:03 PM

I thought he was way cute. Tall, slender, dark hair, fabulous dimples. He was my friend Isabella's, though, so I couldn't think he was too hot.

Oh yeah, sounds real good. I got to dance with a tall dark sweetie sounds just like that last time I went out. :yup:

I'm going to have to do some research. :wink:

Sweetie

03-22-2005, 05:14 PM

Dang, two edits and I finally got it right and I'm listening to the dang song!

Not:

"Jesse's got a friend"

Is:

"Jesse is a friend."

:doh:

All these boys are gonna be included in the formation of one of my charachters in the novel I'm trying to write in case anyone is wondering why I'm paying attention to such things, lol. :yup:

Sweetie

03-22-2005, 08:43 PM

Oh my, :beating:: This the guy? Wow:

http://www.rickspringfield.com/full/photos.html

livius drusus

03-22-2005, 10:16 PM

That's the man himself. I wish I could find a pic of that 80's Armani thing he had going on in the Jessie's Girl video. Oh sure, the middle part feathered hair choice didn't age well -- to say the least -- but the whole package is still yummy.

Shake

04-06-2005, 04:43 PM

Top 20 Videos Of All Time (http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1401701,00.html)
That list is just plain wrong if for nothing else than the inclusion of this:19 Praise You, Fatboy Slim, 1999
A no-talent, shitty video to an even worse song, at #19? Who are they fucking kidding? Yeah, Fatboy Slim really has to be the most overrated band EVER!

Almost any Tool video kicks the living shit out of that video, and Metallica's One should be on that list, too. :whup:

Yeah, I get nostalgic over the '80s music, but a lot of it was crap, too.

Although 1985 is when the only station that matters, 90.5 FM, Rochester (http://wber.monroe.edu) began broadcasting. They're still going strong today and every Friday morning around 8am ET, they do a set of the Beasties! :yup: