80s Fans -- Post something that captures the decade.

[Arugula Latte]

This one does it for me. "Rip It Up" by Scottish band Orange Juice. The hair. The poofy dress. The boing, boing, boing synth beat. The dancing. The sax riff (complete with sunglasses on the saxophone player). The flashy lights. The whole vibe.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No2ukc5V4EM

Love the lyrics: "I hope to God you're not as dumb as you make out."

That's Edwyn Collins singing lead. He later had a hit in the U.S. with "A Girl Like You." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2rqCJdutB8I

[MissMillie]

1. Voices Carry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zz4pTMN3abw

[Arugula Latte]

2. Aimee is very talented.

Gotta love the talky intro -- that was big in the 80s. :)

[MissMillie]

8. I think she may be one of the most

talented female songwriters EVER

[Swede]

3. Jesus Jones - Right Here Right Now

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5x67Wu46L4w&feature=fvsr

A woman on the radio talked about revolution
when it's already passed her by
Bob Dylan didn't have this to sing about you
you know it feels good to be alive
I was alive and I waited, waited
I was alive and I waited for this
Right here, right now
there is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now
watching the world wake up from history
I saw the decade in, when it seemed
the world could change at the blink of an eye
And if anything
then there's your sign... of the times
I was alive and I waited, waited
I was alive and I waited for this
Right here, right now
I was alive and I waited, waited
I was alive and I waited for this
Right here, right now
there is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now
watching the world wake up from history
Right here, right now
there is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now
watching the world wake up from history
Right here, right now
there is no other place I want to be
Right here, right now
watching the world wake up...

[Arugula Latte]

4. Great song, and very appropriate for the anniversary of the Fall of the Wall.

:thumbsup:

[Common Sense Party]

44. But didn't that come out in 1990, after the fall of the Wall?

[Louisiana1976]

47. It came out in 1991.

[Common Sense Party]

50. That sounds right. Which means it can't really capture or sum up

the decade of the 80s.

[Rambis]

5. Nena-99luft Balons

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

Trio Da Da Da
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMikAeK8rL0

[Arugula Latte]

6. Oh no ... Now I will have "Da Da Da" stuck in my head all day.

"Ah hah."

:D

:hi:

[Rambis]

9. Cheers

and I appologizeB-)

[betharina]

7. simple minds--

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

[Arugula Latte]

29. I was into Simple Minds, too.

This one doesn't get as much play ... New Gold Dream:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n5kX-r6wnxA&feature=related

[theNotoriousP.I.G.]

10. This pretty much covers it all! The good, bad and the ugly hair bands.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0Rhj46yCXc

[Zomby Woof]

11. I hated the 80's

This sums it up:

[Art_from_Ark]

42. That guy helped to make the '80s

the "Me First" decade

[Zomby Woof]

51. Exactly

That pic captures his contempt for the working people who built this country. Nixon poisoned the well, and Reagan took the rancid turd and gold-plated it.

What the two Bushes did is unspeakable.

[TZ]

12. The Bangles...

"Walk like an Egyptian"...http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWP-AsG5DRk
Plus fashion "bangles" were indeed popular in the 80's...

[Blue_Tires]

13. ok...

[Mudoria]

14. Remember this?

[Arugula Latte]

18. Yes I do. Same era as this guy:

[LanternWaste]

15. It ain't a song, but...

[mcctatas]

16. I was all over the map in the 80's (HS and all)

but here are a few things:

Musically
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i41W-NIjMfs

Fashion:
http://pzrservices.typepad.com/.a/6a00d83451ccbc69e2010536238393970b-400wi

OMG, Prom

[Arugula Latte]

27. Hah! Cute pic!

Poofy hair, poofy sleeves. Everything was poofy in the 80s.

OMG, Peekaboo. Haven't heard that one in ages. :hi:

Oh, and Esprit ... I grew up in the San Fran. Bay Area and they were a S.F.-based store. I remember going into their outlet a few times -- very big deal.

[Amerigo Vespucci]

17. "Sitting Still," REM, from the great HBO show "Rock of the 80s"

At their early, jangly best.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9xz8Y1T_WA

:toast:

[driver8]

21. From my ALL TIME favorite album!!

Thanks for posting this...

[Arugula Latte]

23. I LOVE that era of REM

The curly haired Stipey era ... *sigh*

:hi:

[Amerigo Vespucci]

26. On that show, I believe they did three songs...

...if you look at the beginning of the clip, you'll see Jason & The Scorchers, with the "meltdown" finish to their set. The stage would then revolve, the next act would be up, and they'd do their set. The show was on for an hour. Other acts I remember were Flock of Seagulls and Romeo Void (whose hit, "Never Say Never," was the opening theme for the show).

This was before MTV had really ramped up and rock videos were a "so what" commodity. I LOVED that show.

:toast:

[MorningGlow]

19. Oh Yeah

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqU_0xpILIU

[Tikki]

20. This video captures in song and scene..

the 80's vacations of the Tikki family.

Mom, Dad and two young guys driving all over the
SouthWest and up and down the West Coast.
This song always in the cassette player...everyone playing along.:)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iwN6aQN82GY
"Manny, Moe and Jack"...The Dickies

Sigh, our children grow up so soon.

Tikki

[sakabatou]

53. MJ - Thriller

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AtyJbIOZjS8

[Aristus]

22. This one wrapped up the eighties for me in a nice European package. (I was in Germany

at the end of the 80's...)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktRsl2hAPhY&feature=related

[travelingtypist]

59. Where?

I was in Heidelberg from '83 to '87.

We were really insulated from the worst of the '80s big hair stuff. I just remember all of these kids in those skinny pants. I had so much fun.

[Aristus]

60. Kitzingen, about 20k east of Wurzburg. 1989-1991.

The lead singer for Roxette had kind of a so-so face, but she had a smokin' hot body!

[KamaAina]

24. This thread is useless without

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3HrSN7176XI

[Arugula Latte]

28. It had to be done, I guess.

Still, you get :spank:

[Capn Sunshine]

25. what a feeling!

Geese, for about six months every woman and some guys were wearing leotards and leg warmers everywhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FeZ5R3C5bzs

[abq e streeter]

30. In honor of all the great bands that couldn't get on corporate radio back then

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

like The Replacements

[Arugula Latte]

35. Love the Replacements

Especially "Alex Chilton." I'm in love. What's that song? I'm in love. With that song.

[abq e streeter]

39. That's the only one of their songs I've ever performed

wish I had a tape of that. Had a band in the late 80's that did it for about a year, and I sang it pretty damn well if I do say so myself ( and I do ). ( I also never travel too far, without a little Big Star). Never did see The Replacements, but have seen Alex Chilton. ( Unfortunately the sound man didn't know what he was doing and can't even say whether Chilton and band were any good or not; sound was that bad)

[General Zod]

Best band of the 80's....

....in my humble opinion.

[driver8]

52. That was great!!

Love that song -- and with Bob on guitar, too!!

Thanks for posting that.

[blogslut]

31. Frankie says

RELAX:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPLrXFw76Qg

This was the song that would not die. Banned by the BBC, it clung to the charts for a year before it hit number one. Released in the US the following year, MTV refused to play the original video. The song, once again, snaked up the Billboard chart for another year before it finally cracked the Top Ten.

This song defined the 80's, of this I have no doubt.

[Arugula Latte]

38. Remember those shirts w/ the giant letters: RELAX

And then suddenly shirts w/ giant letters were everywhere.

[blogslut]

43. I had a promo pack

...of Frankie quote stickers. I think I still have one left. I worked at this club the record companies loved because we were cutting edge. We were playing the banned RELAX video in 83.

I remember when WHAM was actually a decent band:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B3Q-8jtLIvc

[abq e streeter]

32. and the one moment I was embarrassed to be a Springsteen fanatic:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pk8VZgJkpeg

I think it was Dave Marsh who very accurately said this video "had all the warmth and sincerity of a deodorant commercial"...I still cringe whenever I see this, but the apparently enormous popularity of this video says something about the effect that MTV had on the victory of image over substance. As most anyone who's ever seen Bruce in person can attest, it's not easy to make him look phony and contrived onstage, but this video pulled off that almost impossible feat.

[Arugula Latte]

37. How many times was that video played ... over and over and over ...

Part of its popularity had to be that Courtney Cox looked like everybody's friend from high school in those days ... Every girl could imagine Bruce picking her out of the crowd. Her dancing ability was about the same as an average h.s. girl's too.

[Forkboy]

33. The 80's...when horror was still over the top AND fun!

[valerief]

34. You asked for it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZOU8GIRUd_g

[Arugula Latte]

36. Post 24 ... And now you, too.

Bastid!

:spank:

[valerief]

49. Hehehehehehe! nt

[rug]

40. Iconic.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EU-IBF8nwSY

[Arugula Latte]

41. Gah!

Started us down the road to ruin ...
x(

That douchebag is the reason I became a liberal at age 14.

[Enrique]

45. humungous hair

[AllenVanAllen]

46. Europa (And The Pirate Twins)

by Thomas Dolby

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wMJv-kiyh-E

and Iron Maiden - Run To The Hills

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ZlDZPYzfm4

Metal and New Wave were the sounds I associate most with the 80's

[Yavin4]

48. You Got The Touch

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

Epitomizes 80s music.

[bluesbassman]

54. Oingo Boingo - Dead Man's Party

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iypUpv9xelg

[Tabasco_Dave]

55. Hair Metal

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJrSyFpK3iQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBZQ4kEI5v4 :headbang:

[fNord]

56. Fuck The 80's.....*snif*

does that work?

[JCMach1]

57. Here you go- LEG WARMERS- Modeled by '80's Diva Olivia Newton John

[travelingtypist]

58. Aha -- Take On Me

The song isn't much, but I loved this video, the B&W comic live action thing.

http://www.metacafe.com/watch/1749024/a_ha_take_on_me/

[Zomby Woof]

61. Another 80's image

I saw this LIVE when it aired, lol.

[madrchsod]

62. simply red--money`s to tight to mention

then....http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DrUB0g8Vjgg

now... http://www.youtube.com/user/simplyredvideo?blend=1&ob=4#p/u/9/B9-s79Ek1CE

[NanceGreggs]

63. Can't think of the 80s ...

... without thinking prime time soaps:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ffo2Oqt8bIM

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfIibAt5SOk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ypZT4lQHoK8

[SKKY]

64. Two words...

...Parachute Pants.

[LostInAnomie]

65. American Psycho Music Monologues

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK4sa48Tvxc

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