I beg to differ.
If this cat isn't "decent", then I don't know who is.
Posted on 03/04/2005 3:18:53 PM PST by qam1
When I saw Depeche Mode at Jones Beach, I remember all the cars in the parking lot were tuned to WLIR - it was really cool (for a young teenager who got dropped off by her parents)!
I beg to differ.
If this cat isn't "decent", then I don't know who is.
Okay - what was the song about teen suicide, then?
It was "Blasphemous Rumors" by Depeche Mode.
Wow, that is awesome. And it opens right in my iTunes. Thanks!
I, too, have a great deal of nostalgia for the 1980s. The music, movies, and the gestalt of the decade were great. It seemed like a more upbeat, devil-may-care decade. You didn't take things too seriously and you could have fun. PC has killed much of the fun in life. Most pop music today isn't worth as much as toilet paper. Okay, now I need to watch some John Hughes films and listen to my new wave collection.
"Remember "Strange Brew"? We've been looking for it recently for the kids. That was a funny movie!"
Beauty, eh. I have seen it on sale at Circuit City.
Man how i love Whitesnake, David Coverdale was awesome!
How about Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Deep Purple, Rainbow, Led Z, Thin Lizzy, and the list goes on.
I was a very young man in early 80"s and that time was the best time of my life.
No bills, no worries, no killings, no PC'sness just pure, raw fun time.
It was school, GIRLS, and party, be happy. Sometimes I found myself walking home at 2 AM. Try that nowadays without been robbed or shot!
I am a Rock and Roller and every time the radio plays certain songs it brings back fond memories of the bygone good ol' times.
Sometimes I feel like turning back the time and revisit the era of real fun...the good ol' eighties!
You said it. I remember when rap was party music! I remember when rap lyrics were light-hearted and weren't filled with death, racism, and mysogyny. Thanks to this thread, I now have the Scorpions playing in my head.
Are you thinking of one of Judas Priest's songs or one by Depeche Mode?
Meatloaf!
try Clockwise's link in 117 for some new wave music.
Fascinating insight about media and psychology. I wonder if Reagan's children used the Internet and technology to express themselves directly, as opposed to the post-war demographic's self-identification through mass-media based mock emulation. The record companies may not like it, but those of us who grew up in the 1980's might view music as just entertainment.
Don't Fear the Reaper was about suicide.
Au contraire, IMHO.
U2 blew the whole way through.
Did my last two years of high school, started college, got into the fraternity, finished college a year late...good times.
I am a huge U2 fan, even though Bono is a liberal puke. It's the Irishwoman in me, I guess!
Who do you like?
Did you have the Def Leppard Union Jack shirt?
Actung Baby is one of my favourite U2 albums. Which one do you like best?
Who knows...it's past my bedtime!
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