Posted on 04/26/2014 3:28:35 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Yet the last 30 years have been a pretty fun ride, too.
I was living in the London YMCA in 1984 and the hallways and elevators had capital radio piped in. It was mostly
Nena - 99 luftballons
Queen - I want to Break Free, Radio GaGa
Madness - Michael Caine
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
Thompson Twins - You Take Me Up, Doctor Doctor
UB40 - Red Red Wine
Blanc Mange - Don’t Tell Me
Oh wait, someone would have to do a similar list of 85 songs
84 was kind of down year, IMHO
My favorite albums of 1984
Ammonia Avenue-Alan Parsons Project
The Big Express-XTC
Fugazi-Marillion
Joe Bussard (who has 25,000 78s) will tell you that jazz sucked after 1934 and country music after 1950s does...
CLINT HOLMES: PLAYGROUND IN MY MIND (released in 1972, on the charts 23 weeks, #2 in 1973)
And they played this on a syndicated rebroadcast of old Casey Kasem American Top 40 shows recently so it still gets commercial radio rotation.
My fave one by Tina Turner:
Tina Turner - We Don’t Need Another Hero [Official Music Video]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dq4aOaDXIfY&;
I got the MP3 for that one. Haunting.
Me too. Class of ‘84 Moore, OK. “Drive” by The Cars will always be one of my favorite songs I remember from 1984.
I like that one, too. :) Very good tune.
MTV killed the rock band. It became all about the vocalist and music died.
We lived in Norman from 1996 to 1999. My brother (Class of 1982) liked The Cars earlier in the 80s. Then he got into Boston, and I can’t stand them to this day. “Oooh, it’s Boston! Mama hates them, change the station!”
Yup, that’s the music that spurred my interest in classic rock... cause when that crap was on the radio I wanted to gouge out my ears.
My ears have always been finely tuned to truly good music.I've found lots and lots of it from the 50's...far more of it from the 60's....an example of it here and there in the 70's....a fair amount of it in the 80's....
To this day, I can still listen to Candy-O from beginning to end. There isn’t a bad song on that album.
Lol...there is SOME excellent music being made today. I find it constantly. And I’m finding some things made today that have shades of 60’s, 70s, and 80s in the songs. The excellence in music of today is very exciting to me.
This one has shades of the 60s in it...very fun song:
Vampire Weekend - Unbelievers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2_qKmTLbEPc
And another fun one that is very new that has shades of the 60s or 70s in it:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nrBrZz7f4nQ
That was the one my brother played over and over.
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