It Came From the 80s

[berrybearie]

door said:

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!

I had a sort of a similar experience. I'd characterize my musical tastes for much of the 80s as eclectic but mostly mainstream. Then my friends and I went to see INXS on the first North American leg of the Kick tour (with Public Image Ltd. opening; my mother, who drove us, still cites that as the worst opening act ever in her opinion). My friends and I were totally enthralled with INXS after that, and from there we dove into a whole bunch of bands, and we kept having the experience of discovering that we really liked bands that we'd only know a song or two from. It was like OMG! We knew we liked "Why Can't I Be You?", but it turns out the other stuff by the Cure is awesome! and Depeche Mode! and New Order! and Midnight Oil! and on and on.

So I sort of ended up working backwards in the late 80s, discovering music and bands from earlier in the 80s that I'd had a passing familiarity with (I was so addicted to MTV the first several years it was on), but I still listen to a ton of that stuff and the music that's followed from it.

There were a couple times when some of my friends and I played little geeky practical jokes on friends about music, (e.g., making up names of allegedly avant-garde bands and raving about them to see if Linda would act like she knew them), and there was the time that a couple of us made a mixtape with quite a mix of selections to see how one friend who lied about being familiar with bands would react. I remember "Rawhead and Bloody Bones" by Siouxsie and the Banshees was on it, and he tried to act like he liked it. Good times. ;D

[Baby Fish Mouth]

Anyone remember the followup to David Bowie's "Space Oddity"? It was Peter Schilling's "Major Tom (I'm Coming Home)."

Earth beloooow us
Drifting, falling
Floating weeeeightless,
Calling, calling home.

What a great song. I could never get sick of it!

[india7]

Scritti Politti!

[Monica Gellar] I know! [/MG] I had the cassette!

Yes, "Whisper to a Scream" was actually titled "(Birds Fly) Whisper to a Scream".

It was Peter Schilling's "Major Tom (I'm Coming Home)."

Love it!

I also had the 45 single to "Don't Dream it's Over"!

Berrybearie, the Pretenders concert sounds like it was great! Thanks for telling us about it, makes me wish I'd been there!

[iceblink]

Hahahaha...one of the radio stations online I like keeps has an 8-minute extended version of the Peter Schilling song on its playlist...it's LONG, yo.

[Ripley]

babyfishmouth said:

Anyone remember the followup to David Bowie's "Space Oddity"? It was Peter Schilling's "Major Tom (I'm Coming Home)."

Earth beloooow us
Drifting, falling
Floating weeeeightless,
Calling, calling home.

What a great song. I could never get sick of it!

I tried to download it off of iTunes last week, but they only had the German version.

[kostgard]

babyfishmouth said:

Anyone remember the followup to David Bowie's "Space Oddity"? It was Peter Schilling's "Major Tom (I'm Coming Home)."

Earth beloooow us
Drifting, falling
Floating weeeeightless,
Calling, calling home.

What a great song. I could never get sick of it!

THANK YOU for listing who sang that song. I've always loved it and a little while ago, Animal Planet (hey! I love that channel) was using that song in a commercial that featured frogs and flying squirrels and such drifting, falling, floating through the air and I've been looking for that damn song ever since I saw it and couldn't remember the name of the song or the artist.

This thread has been just a wonderful trip down memory lane. My first "real" concert was Depeche Mode - I was barely into my teens and I was in the nosebleed section, but one of the best shows I've seen. Far better than the next two concerts I went to (courtesy of my lame BFF at the time) - Debbie Gibson and Richard Marx (ARGH!).

Actually, Debbie was kinda good, we just had crap seats and I was sitting behind a column. Richard Marx made me pray that God would end my young life. That man was just a walking hunk of velveeta. And to top it off, my lame BFF bought Richard Marx underwear on the way out.

[india7]

kostgard said:

And to top it off, my lame BFF bought Richard Marx underwear on the way out.

There's such a thing??? Ya gotta describe it!

[kostgard]

Oh, there was nothing truly remarkable about it. They were just little black string-bikini like numbers with a rose and Richard's autograph on the front. But still - who wants Richard Marx's John Hancock scrawled across your Hello Kitty?

Oh, I should also add that on top of the bad-enough fact that I was at a Richard Marx concert, my lame BFF - at the last minute - decided to invite her EX-boyfriend to the concert. Then they decided to spend half the time there making out. To Richard Marx. And his puffy mullet. That was about when I started to really pray hard for death. Not only was I at a Richard Marx concert, I was a fifth wheel at a Richard Marx concert. Fortunately, God was merciful and as I was trying to avert my eyes from the making out, I saw some other people I knew from our high school a few rows behind us and I went and sat by them for the rest of the show.

I should have known I was in for a bad night when at the beginning of the concert Richard advised the audience to give security personnel the finger if they gave us a hard time about dancing and rocking out. At a Richard Marx concert. He was just that badass. I'm sure the security guys were all, "Whatever, dude."

[biondetta]

I should have known I was in for a bad night when at the beginning of the concert Richard advised the audience to give security personnel the finger if they gave us a hard time about dancing and rocking out. At a Richard Marx concert. He was just that badass. I'm sure the security guys were all, "Whatever, dude."

I think that's one of the most pathetic yet hilarious things I've read in quite a while. Hee!

This thread's great. It's like a checklist of much of my music collection! I've bought some of the stuff mentioned multiple times, such as Scritti Politti. I bought the Cupid & Psyche '85 tape originally, and wore it out, so I bought the tape again. Then a few years later, I bought the CD format because after all these years, I still like it.

[CAgirl]

I love 80's music! My first real concert at an arena was George Michael. I loved it!

I also never get sick of hearing "Let the Music Play," "When I Hear Music," (Shannon and Debbie Deb) or anything by Trinere. I love my Trinere and Freinds CD! I don't know what genre of music it's considered. Some say it's high energy. Stevie B, Seduction, Cover Girls, Expose. Love Espose! (Saw them in concert, too.)

The 80's was totally abou Madonna for me. Loved her! (Still do!) I can still remember the first time I heard "Lucky Star."

But of course I will always have a love for Depeche Mode. Absolutely love them!

The Kick album by INXS was one of my favorites. There isn't one bad song on there. I love "Never Tear Us Apart" and "Mystify."

Really, there is just too much good 80's music to name!