Favorite 80's band? Or, if I could only have one album...

[Todd Patten]

OK. More off topic stuff. I find that it helps me to get to know a new community! trust me, I ask the same questions if I am new to a group of people at a party. The only difference is that it takes about 35 minutes to get all the questions out

I'm sitting here in my office, no one else has arrived yet. So, I'm listeing to some music at a rather loud decibal level as I read through the board. It got me wondering what y'all listen to while relaxing at the computer.

For me, being a child/teenager of the 80's, I still have not lost my love for 80's music. My all time favorite is Genesis. Not the "We Can't Dance" junk, but rather the Abacab, Three Sides Live, Lamb Lies Down type music. Right now, I'm listening to the In The Cage/Afterglow medley. I miss the days of good music from Collins and the collaboration of Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins and Mike Rutherford. Just damned good music.

A close second is U2. Then of course REM, The Fixx and The Outfield. I have a ratehr extensive collection of illegally-put-me-in-jail-because-i-am-evil mp3's from the 80's and 90's that keep me going all day When I have the radio on, I prefer "alternative" rock. Maybe it's called "progressive"?

Just doing my part to distract from photography

[megan]

Hm. There are a quite a few great solid albums from the 80's.... "Juju" by Siouxsie and the Banshees, "First and Last and Always" by Sisters of Mercy is also pretty solid and classic... "Pornography" by the Cure... the Bauhaus double "Best of" album... "Mind: the Perpetual Intercourse" or "Rabies" by Skinny Puppy... "Twitch" by Ministry... "Halber Mensch" by EN... STOP ME NOW!

Of course my boyfriend would argue "Operation Mindcrime" by Queensryche is hands down the best. those goofy metalheads.... but 'ryche might be 90's. 'mibad!

That was fun!

Megan

[another view]

I was into REM, U2 and a lot of bands beginning with "The" (like The Cult!). Is it just me or everytime a new REM album/disc came out I liked it less than the one before? We were talking about Missing Persons at work the other day too...

I share an office with one of those goofy metalheads - does the fact that his computer password is "Dokken" mean anything??

[adina]

I know they stretched out of the 80's, but just yesterday while doing my treadmilling I looked at the cd, and it said 1986, so I guess it would qualify. Although I didn't buy it until the late 90's.

Trouble is, I was only 3-13 during the 80's. Not the most music aware years. But I remember the first cassette I got was Madonna "true blue".

adina

[adina]

I was into REM, U2 and a lot of bands beginning with "The" (like The Cult!). Is it just me or everytime a new REM album/disc came out I liked it less than the one before? We were talking about Missing Persons at work the other day too...

I share an office with one of those goofy metalheads - does the fact that his computer password is "Dokken" mean anything??

I've actually read that somewhere, the newer the stuff gets, the less people like it.

[megan]

Love was a pretty great Cult album, very high on rotation in my house. Though "Brother Wold, Sister Moon" is always skipped over.

Definitely agree about the REM albums. Man - I was grounded when all my friends went to Vassar to see the English Beat and this little band from Athens GA opened for them, playing this great song "Radio Free Europe."



Megan

[megan]

Synchronicity.

Megan

[another view]

Synchronicity.

Megan

Deja Vu all over again... I was just on hold (at work...) listening to "King of Pain". Had Synchronicity on cassette then CD when I "went digital".

[MaxPower]

As a child of the 80's I saw a lot of great music emerge from that decade.

However, I listened mostly to bands like The Smiths/Morrissey, The Cure, The English Beat and what has been mentioned here.

Ironically though, I find myself listening to Metal now rather than the New Wave. Kiss, Poison, etc. Maybe it's because this music is fresh now.

[Todd Patten]

I like 80's metal more today than I did when I was a teenager. Go figure.

adina - The Beastie Boys amaze me. I love their sound and style. I can't help but to smile and or laugh when I listen to them. The other day I was jamming to "Ch-Ch-Check It Out" and it hit me that the Beastie Boys have been around 20 years and they are as fresh as the first day I heard "No Sleep 'til Brooklyn". These guys are either in their early 40's or close to it and they still know what it takes to make fresh "hip hop" per se.

The Cult was one of my favorite bands in the 80's early 90's. I still love to listen to mp3's of their albums.

megan -- Ministry is an interesting band. Synth pop in the 80's, then they went hardcore with stuff like New World Order. I saw them live at my first Lollapolooza back in '92 and my god was the crowd nuts. They tore up the field, started bonfires and essentially trashed the ampatheater. I was scared for my life that night. I will never forget the images of the sun setting, grass and sod flying in the air like pop corn, bonfires igniting all around me and bodies tossed by blanket slingshots flipping in the air. Downright surreal.

[megan]

I saw Ministry on the same Lolla....
There was some moshing and uprooted seats, but not even close to that!

Megan

[natatbeach]

But I think these qualify...

Eurythmics (still love annie lennox), Madonna , Sting, REM, Culture Club (woo hoo Boy george)...have never been good with specific names of titles but I also used to listen(non 80's related)--- to Clannad(sp?), Enya and classical (Mozart and Vivaldi and Pachabel)...Simon and garfunkel, Peter Paul and Mary---I was an odd kid and my tastes in music were very different than most of my friends...

[Asylum Steve]

Todd,

Gensis being one of my favorite groups, I have to say I like your choice of music. Oh, the other bands too (saw the Fixx in concert three times).

Just want to set you straight on "Lamb", though. It was released in 1974, not long berfore Peter Gabriel left the group. In fact (IMO), all the best Genesis material was in the 70's. Granted "3 Sides Live" was an early 80's release, but that was Collins singing all the older Gabriel parts.

But I certainly agree the 80's had a lot of great music....

[natatbeach]

and the Jim Rose circus...ewwwww

[adina]

and the Jim Rose circus...ewwwww

I saw the Jim Rose circus once!

My best friend in high school and I went to see Nine Inch Nails. Fortunately, I chose the circus portion of the show to pass out. Had it been during NIN, I would have been trampled. Scared the **** out of my friend. He was ready to leave after that, mind you it was before the "real" show even started.

adina

[opus]

I have to choose Journey, not because their level of music is so great, but because of the memories it provokes.

It's my Junior year in high school, a perfect spring day in 1983, and I'm blessed to be in the company of the Yearbook Photographer and Photo Editor, a cute, shy Senior. I had such a crush on him. Anyway, he and I and a couple other people were supposed to go to some photography/yearbook seminar sponsored by Jostens, the yearbook company, at a Holiday Inn. We had passes to skip class to go to this seminar. We get there, and we can't find the seminar anywhere. (Looking back, I don't think we tried too hard.) So instead of going back to school, we go to the park and play frisbee, while "Forever Yours" is playing on the radio.

Such a sweet, innocent memory, but it's burned forever into my heart.

My crush graduated that year and I never saw him again, but the next year I got his job, as Photo Editor and Chief Photographer for the yearbook.

Journey is all wrapped up in my memories of high school journalism and photography, so it wins as my favorite 80s band.

[schrackman]

My all-time favorite band for the (early) 80's was Rush (didn't like much of their later stuff in that decade). Of course, the group goes way back into the seventies as well (good stuff...anyone remember 2112??). My wife just bought me the new Rush CD, the one with a redo of "Summertime Blues" and other songs from the 60's that inspired the group. Finally, some more good stuff from north of the border.

Ray

[villenadecorte]

All I can say is "Wake me up before you go go ......"
Before young George (michael) was playing for that side of the team... or rather, before we knew he was playing for that side of the team...
DAMN. What a nice @$$ he had

Also, does anyone remember when Julian Lennon put out his Too Late for Goodbye?
Prince, Culture Club, Cure, DURAN DURAN!
The Smiths, Morrissey....
geeze, this list could go on...

WHEN IN ROME? The Promise... I think that is my all time 80s favorite.

OK, Im heading off to Napster now.... ;)

[opus]

The album that "Too Late" was from came out in 1984.

[adina]

All I can say is "Wake me up before you go go ......"
Before young George (michael) was playing for that side of the team... or rather, before we knew he was playing for that side of the team...
DAMN. What a nice @$$ he had

Also, does anyone remember when Julian Lennon put out his Too Late for Goodbye?
Prince, Culture Club, Cure, DURAN DURAN!
The Smiths, Morrissey....
geeze, this list could go on...

WHEN IN ROME? The Promise... I think that is my all time 80s favorite.

OK, Im heading off to Napster now.... ;)

I loved Duran Duran!

Of course, again, it was late 90's when I picked it up, and whatever I bought was thier new stuff when I bought it.

Ahh...memories...

adina

[natatbeach]

Journey was cool for similar reasons

but I think mine a less G rated

I was a very bad bunny in high school....what can you do...

[another view]

My all-time favorite band for the (early) 80's was Rush (didn't like much of their later stuff in that decade). Of course, the group goes way back into the seventies as well (good stuff...anyone remember 2112??). My wife just bought me the new Rush CD, the one with a redo of "Summertime Blues" and other songs from the 60's that inspired the group. Finally, some more good stuff from north of the border.

Ray

Yeah - waiting to see if anyone else brought them up. I liked Signals a lot ('83?) but a lot of people I knew thought it was kind of the first "New Rush" album - you know what I mean. I've been a Rush fan for 20 years or so. Haven't checked out the new disc of covers, I'll have to get it. Drummer Neil Peart has written two really good books about travels in the last few years.

[Lara]

70's 80's 90's (00's, well barely ) Aerosmith

[villenadecorte]

Right on! I saw D/D at a 93 concert (when they made their big comeback from the 80s) with Terence Trent D'arby... OoOOH weeeee. Now theres a hottie. I love that voice of his.
(Sign your name across my heart... I want you to be my baaaaaybeee)

Kelly- How did you know that about Julian! I thought he fell of the face of the earth.
I was inlove with him shortly before I became inlove with MJ when Off the Wall came out (yeah, lets not go there with any jokes!)

I now see the Cure has comeback. Wohoo.

I love VH1's I love the 80, 90 you fill in the blank.
hee hee

What about Jesus Jones, was he 80s or 90s? And what about Erasure and DEPECHE MODE. Yo! Who can forget them.
OK I am quickly dating myself here.............


VD

I loved Duran Duran!

Of course, again, it was late 90's when I picked it up, and whatever I bought was thier new stuff when I bought it.

Ahh...memories...

adina

[Mig]

I went to see Annie Lennox and Sting last month - they did the 4th of July concert at Saratoga Performing Arts Center. Can't beat $34 for lawn seats to see two amazing artists. I of course did not sit on the lawn, I stood at the fence where I could see them! Then I tooks pics with my camera phone of them on the monitors - I'll see if I can get them on the 10D and upload them later.

Annie did some of her more recent stuff, but then she busted out the baby grand and sang and played piano for "Here Comes the Rain Again," and she also sang "Sweet Dreams." This was my second time seeing Sting so I knew he would do some Police, but it was great when he and Annie did a duet of "We'll Be Together."

Danielle