Greatest Popular Music of the 1980s

[BU BEAR]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ovyq19v5Y94

The Different Story by Peter Schilling


What are your nominations/thoughts?

[sooneron]

That wouldn't crack my top 50.

[SicEmBaylor]

Everything by Huey Lewis and the News
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[sooneron]

fag

[OU_Sooners75]

1980s Metallica /Thread!

[reflector]

Rock of Ages

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[sooneron]

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NSFA

A is for anything... :D

[sooneron]

And I'm pretty sure that Peter Schilling wasn't considered "popular" music. Some of use were actually alive in the 80's. If we're going popular - Metallica was pretty much metal (which was fringe). Huey Lewis and The News were duking it out with Peter Cetera, Ray Parker and Debbie Gibson....

[Partial Qualifier]

I grew up in the 80's, and I thought 90% - 95% of all 80's pop music - the **** they played on the radio - sucked really, really bad. Awful.

Just Terrible.

Alternative rock & techno, obscure metal (to include Metallica) and 70's hard rock was what the cool kids were listening to back then ;)

[Partial Qualifier]

And I agree with Ron, I don't think this could be labeled 'pop'. Pop was Michael Jackson, Duran Duran, that Cuban chick (dear lord dont even say her name) and crap like that.

My MOM liked Huey Lewis.

did Peter Schilling rip off New Order's "Faith", or vice versa?

[SicEmBaylor]

Gloria Estefan.

[OU_Sooners75]

And I'm pretty sure that Peter Schilling wasn't considered "popular" music. Some of use were actually alive in the 80's. If we're going popular - Metallica was pretty much metal (which was fringe). Huey Lewis and The News were duking it out with Peter Cetera, Ray Parker and Debbie Gibson....

Who really cares about pop music?

If that is the case, you couldnt get much more popular than Micheal Jackson in the 1980s or Madonna!

[Partial Qualifier]

Gloria Estefan.

I hate this place sometimes. :mad:

Fine, I thought "I want a new drug" was catchy there for a few days. U Happy?

[SicEmBaylor]

I hate this place sometimes. :mad:

Fine, I thought "I want a new drug" was catchy there for a few days. U Happy?

Now I feel all guilty and ****.

Huey Lewis was like THE sound of the 80s. His music defined the decade.

[Partial Qualifier]

Now I feel all guilty and ****.


just kidding :D

[SicEmBaylor]

just kidding :D

I'm a sensitive bloke ;)

[Mongo]

I grew up in the 80's, and I thought 90% - 95% of all 80's pop music - the **** they played on the radio - sucked really, really bad. Awful.

Just Terrible.

Alternative rock & techno, obscure metal (to include Metallica) and 70's hard rock was what the cool kids were listening to back then ;)

you had the acid washed jean jacket that reeked of shwag and cigs, and skipped class in high school, didnt you?

[oumartin]

I grew up in the eighties and what sucked it stuff like Culture Club, Wham, Duran Duran, madonna were all being played on the radio like there was no tomorrow.

Prince, Bryan Adams and others pre 1987. after that year you started to get the first album since pyromania from Def lepard that got the radio play and was only outdone by Guns N Roses.

Pre 1987 was more pop and post 87 was more radio friendly rock like GNR, Poison, Def lepard, whitesnake, etc.

[Partial Qualifier]

you had the acid washed jean jacket that reeked of shwag and cigs, and skipped class in high school, didnt you?

Schwag, mainly. Cigs too but yeah. No acid-washed jean jacket though.

OUDoc rocked those Members Only jackets, I always wanted one of those :D

[Mongo]

Schwag, mainly. Cigs too but yeah. No acid-washed jean jacket though.

OUDoc rocked those Members Only jackets, I always wanted one of those :D

Tanner is such a high class *******

[SanJoaquinSooner]

Michael Jackson

Prince

Madonna

Bon Jovi

Whitney Houston

U2

"greatest popular" is a tricky phrase

[Partial Qualifier]

I grew up in the eighties and what sucked it stuff like Culture Club, Wham, Duran Duran, madonna were all being played on the radio like there was no tomorrow.

Prince, Bryan Adams and others pre 1987. after that year you started to get the first album since pyromania from Def lepard that got the radio play and was only outdone by Guns N Roses.

Pre 1987 was more pop and post 87 was more radio friendly rock like GNR, Poison, Def lepard, whitesnake, etc.

Fair synopsis. Def Leppard was kindof a quandry for me, they had a couple songs I liked (Photograph; Bringin on the Heartbreak) but I always put them in the "chick rock" category regardless .

[oumartin]

the high n dry album was pretty good rock as was pyromania but yes hysteria was more chick rock and adrenalize was even more of it than ever.

There wasn't a bad song on either pyromania or hysteria however.

I guess I kinda like the chick rock! :D


I totally left out Michael Jackson.


oh, and can't forget Motley Crue going a more radio friendly rock from girls,girls,girls on.

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[Mongo]

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still greatness

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ya i dig 80s music. a lot.

[oumartin]

Someone knows how to use youtube! :D

Missing simply red and steve winwood chris deberg, robert palmer, the go gos, bangles, till tuesday and roxette

[GKeeper316]

and every time i think about 80s music, i think of this chick

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who turned into this chick

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who desperately needs my tongue up her ***.

[GKeeper316]

Someone knows how to use youtube! :D

Missing simply red and steve winwood chris deberg, robert palmer, the go gos, bangles, till tuesday and roxette



ooooooo i cant believe i forgot the go gos and the bangles!!!

hell i consider the bangles hazy shade of winter the greatest cover of all time on the soundtrack of a movie easily in my top 5 all time.

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Terry Nunn was :hot:

[SoCaliSooner]

No Hall & Oates?

[GKeeper316]

Fair synopsis. Def Leppard was kindof a quandry for me, they had a couple songs I liked (Photograph; Bringin on the Heartbreak) but I always put them in the "chick rock" category regardless .

you gotta take your hat off to def leppard. they accomplished the one thing i set out to do, but never got done in the music business... write a song that will forever be played to a nekkid hot girl swingin around a pole. i've heard pour some sugar on me at every titty bar in every corner of the world i ever found myself in.

[XingTheRubicon]

beastie boys

the clash
(combat rock was '82)

[GKeeper316]

if you dont like this song, you fail at music

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[the-rover]

I lived on Def Leppard in the 80's....Pop sucked. Still does. MTV killed good rock.

What about Van Halen, ZZ Top, Boston, Aerosmith? Too 70's?

I never cared for them much, but Journey and Foreigner were huge in the 80's

[GKeeper316]

I lived on Def Leppard in the 80's....Pop sucked. Still does. MTV killed good rock.

What about Van Halen, ZZ Top, Boston, Aerosmith? Too 70's?

I never cared for them much, but Journey and Foreigner were huge in the 80's

this isn't an 80s rock thread. this is an 80s pop thread.

you want rock? i'll school you with some

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[SicEmBaylor]

you gotta take your hat off to def leppard. they accomplished the one thing i set out to do, but never got done in the music business... write a song that will forever be played to a nekkid hot girl swingin around a pole. i've heard pour some sugar on me at every titty bar in every corner of the world i ever found myself in.

I haven't been to a lot of titty bars, but there was this BYOB club outside of Waco we'd go to my fish year after getting drunk. Anyway, they played that damned song on a loop sometimes. I hate that freaking song.

There was one other tjey played...Sweet Cherry Pie but I can't remember who plays it. I don't know my hairbands.

[GKeeper316]

I haven't been to a lot of titty bars, but there was this BYOB club outside of Waco we'd go to my fish year after getting drunk. Anyway, they played that damned song on a loop sometimes. I hate that freaking song.

There was one other tjey played...Sweet Cherry Pie but I can't remember who plays it. I don't know my hairbands.

its just Cherry Pie and Warrant did it. jani lane says he wishes he'd never recorded that piece of ****.

[the-rover]

this isn't an 80s rock thread. this is an 80s pop thread.

you want rock? i'll school you with some

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Nah, somewhere you gotta draw a line between rock and metal. The bands I listed were better in the 70's, but were trying to pop it up in the 80's. I never thought I would ever have heard a keyboard in a Van Halen song when 1984 came out.

I was more interested in classic rock then and now as well

[Prodigal]

Journey and Air Supply

Night Ranger and The Cars

[boomerinhou]

And in the words
of the immortal
Francios de la Brioskee...

"EVERYBODY BOPS"

http://youtu.be/KFq4E9XTueY

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[A Sooner in Texas]

And in the words
of the immortal
Francios de la Brioskee...

"EVERYBODY BOPS"

http://youtu.be/KFq4E9XTueY





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I was waiting for someone to get Cyndi in this thread.

But if you're talking 80s pop, you can't ignore this one:

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

[sheepdogs]

Tears for Fears

The English Beat, Bob Marley and the revival of Reggae influenced music

The Police

Simple Minds

Level 42

That "singer" for Led Zeppelin.

Toto

Bruce Hornsby and the Range

Kenny G

[BU BEAR]

Tears for Fears



Definitely.

[sooneron]

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[waynepayne]

Tears for Fears

The English Beat, Bob Marley and the revival of Reggae influenced music

The Police

Simple Minds

Level 42

That "singer" for Led Zeppelin.

Toto

Bruce Hornsby and the Range

kenny G

Now that is a blast from the past! I thought I was the only one that listened to them :P

[sooneron]

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[sooneron]

People that rag on 80's only to praise the 90's carck me up. Yeah there were some horrendous bands in the 80's, but the 90's had them too-
Right Said Fred, The Macarena guys, RuPaul, Three Non Blondes, Ini Kamoze, "Who let the dogs out", The boy bands of 98 deg, Backstreet, Nsync ...

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[sooneron]

One of my fave bands-
Still, one of the tightest bands that I saw perform. & I saw them 7 times-

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Even their sappy stuff was good, hella good-

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[sooneron]

Bryan Adams before he sucked-

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[crawfish]

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[GKeeper316]

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[hellogoodbye]

not a big fan of this decade, and the early stuff always seems to be their best

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edit - Costellos song is actually late 70s ..so ill throw in:

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[WA. Sooner]

Phil Collins

[the-rover]

Phil Collins

Good one! I actually owned a Genesis album

[Ctina]

Many good ones in this thread. That Peter Shilling one I've never heard of though, along with a couple of others.

I've always loved these:
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I guess this was actually released in 1990, but I always thought of it as an 80's thing.

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Personal Jesus was always a good one also.

[GKeeper316]

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