It Came From the 80s

[Daisy Pusher]

india7 said:

kokopelli said:

Oh! How could I forget Big Country??? I still listen to them all the time.

eta: And another one of THE great 80s songs: "Whisper to a Scream" by Icicle Works.

Holy crap, get outta my head!! The 80s college boyfriend I mentioned before? When it became common knowledge that he was interested in me, my two friends and I danced around her dorm room to "Big Country" to celebrate! AND, when he and I started dating - our song? "Whisper to a Scream"! This is freaky in a good way!

ETA: How about "I've Got a Crush on You" by The Jets? That song is so 80s to me

Wow, I didn't even know anyone in the 80s who liked that song besides me!

I love it! Great minds think alike, dontcha know!

This thread has me reminiscing in a big way. Remember Crowded House's "Don't Dream, it's Over?" I thought that was the most lovely song EVAH when it came out. I had the 45...the 45!!!

Oh what else...Culture Club? REO Speedwagon? Loverboy? Everytime I hear Loverboy, to this day, I want to go swimming, because I used to play it on my mahoosive boombox in the summers, and it just makes me think of sunshine and flipflops and cold cans of Country Time Lemonade.

Time for a TC here: I actually went and ordered Icicle Works and the Plimsouls off Amazon this afternoon.

[iceblink]

"Whisper To A Scream" is the best one-hit wonder EVER. EVER!!
And I think Crowded House are/were a great band...
Edited because I remembered that song's actually called "Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream)", isn't it?

[Daisy Pusher]

iceblink said:

"Whisper To A Scream" is the best one-hit wonder EVER. EVER!!
And I think Crowded House are/were a great band...
Edited because I remembered that song's actually called "Birds Fly (Whisper To A Scream)", isn't it?

I'll find out for sure (fer sure) now when it arrives in the mail! ;D Either Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly), or vice versa--regardless, my fat butt will be bouncing along to it on New Year's Eve, with any luck.

[iceblink]

I *did* manage to get a DJ to play that once in a club, and I have never danced so enthusiastically in my life, I'm sure.

[Daisy Pusher]

iceblink said:

I *did* manage to get a DJ to play that once in a club, and I have never danced so enthusiastically in my life, I'm sure.

Hee! That song sure takes me back to dancing at all-ages clubs when I was a teen. That and "How Soon is Now?" (yea, some dancing song, but still) and Dead or Alive's "You Spin Me Round" and one-hit wonders like T'Pau and Scritti Politti and (gulp) Billy Vera and the Beaters and the inevitable "Mony, Mony" (not that Billy Idol was a one-hit wonder, but just that that song was always played)...

[berrybearie]

india7 said:

Jesus! See, this is what happens when you're young and vital during the 80s and now I'm senile! How could I forget "Talk of the Town", "Kid", and "Back on the Chain Gang" by The Pretenders?

I saw the Pretenders recently when they opened for the Who -- despite Pete's problems I love the music -- but I was equally psyched to see the Pretenders. Chrissie sounded fantastic -- just as good as ever and just as good as on record. She was very cheeky and playful in between and during songs. I smiled through the whole set as I sang along. Seeing Chrissie live and in action is such a refreshing contrast to the heavily protooled crap out there.

Anyway -- keeping this about the 80s. The set was pretty much a subset of their greatest hits, including "Brass in Pocket", which my sibs and I used to love on early MTV, especially when the guys pointed to the word "Special" on the menus.

[Beyle]

I remember watching MTV the day it aired. "Video Killed the Radio Star" was the first video played followed by Pat Benetar's "We Belong." I never liked that song though.

Scritti Politti!

How about a little 80s soul: Roger's "I Want to Be Your Man" and " or Levert's "Casanova?"

"Oh Sheila" by Ready for the World?

"Mr. Telephone Man," "Cool It Now" by New Edition.

Any songs by NKOTB, Tiffany, or Debbie Gibson. . . they were more late 80s.

Devo's "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" or "Whip It"

a-ha's "Take On Me"

Another one of my very fave, cheesy, yet sexy songs of the 80s was Sheena Easton's "Strut."


I think I'm going to be living in this thread, thankyouverymuch. ;D

[duskwolf]

Robert Palmer was THE SEX.

He may very well have kickstarted puberty for me.

[Door]

My mom didn't listen to "devil's music," but there was one video on MTV that put pop radio on the map for me when I was a wee, fae thing: "Need You Tonight" by INXS. That was the first song I liked despite the wounds to my immortal soul. It was all downhill from there!

[dwanollah]

"Oh Sheila" by Ready for the World?

That song has been on every party mix I've put together in, like, the last DECADE! So good. So bad. So goodly badly good.