TGIF June 10, 2005

[Garrett]

I'm surprised no one has jumped on this yet.

Haven't had lunch yet, but I brought me a turkey sandwich and some leftover macaroni &cheese to work.

Name a reason why 80's music didn't suck. It seems like it usually gets a bad rap, but there was some really cool stuff going on. And mentioning the obvious ones like SRV, Van Halen, Rush, etc is OFF LIMITS!

My choice is Power Station and Robert Palmer. They did some really cool rockin' stuff. I particularly like "Simply Irresistable" by Robert Palmer. The guitar solo section of that song is great. A total departure from the rest of the song structure, then they pull you right back in. I don't think you could get away with something like that in pop music today.

[johnreardon]

Couple of pieces of toast, well burnt by me in the toaster, and a cup of tea.

I seemed to have missed the 80's. Those people with the mullets and shoulder pads put me right of music. I sold my pre CBS Strat in 1980, so went right off any sort of music for a whole decade. Was into snooker, darts and running.

I do agree with your choice of Robert Palmer, however, I believe you will find he was around in the late 60's and 70's as well.

[jas]

Two chili dogs and an order (3) of peirogies and a root beer. Ummmmm.

I have nothing to say about 80's music. In the 80's I was still playing 60's and 70's stuff on my guitar, I suppose.

-John

[nasum]

No lunch today, hangover from hell doesn't want to be fed

The largely redeeming quality of 80's music (for me) is the emergence of death/black metal. Slayer, Bathory, Cannibal Corpse, etc.. came to be during the mid to late 80's.
I also absolutely love synth pop, as much as I am ashamed to admit it.

[bryanrheem]

McDonalds #6 with a Diet Coke

I loved the 80s. It takes me back to a time of endless fun, awesome summers, friday night dance parties, skateboard filled weekends, learning to play the guitar to GnR and Whitesnake, playing spin the bottle after school, growing my hair long, playing baseball till the sun set...

yes folks, I'm talking about JUNIOR HIGH SCHOOL! hahahaha

[Peter]

Lunch will be some sort of sandwich, in a few minutes.
The 80s: I was in college. Lots of great bands from the late 70s came into their own in the next decade.
The Clash
Talking Heads
U2
Elvis Costello
Prince
Peter Gabriel

King Crimson rose again from its ashes

Sure there was a lot of dreck in the eighties, but on the other hand offbeat bands were getting actual AIRPLAY! Imagine the Talking Heads having a hit single now....

[Adam]

No lunch today, hangover from hell doesn't want to be fed

The largely redeeming quality of 80's music (for me) is the emergence of death/black metal. Slayer, Bathory, Cannibal Corpse, etc.. came to be during the mid to late 80's.
I also absolutely love synth pop, as much as I am ashamed to admit it.
Three Little Debbie oatmeal creme pies. Bleh.

I'm starting to realize you're a pretty weird guy. Bathory? Cannibal Corpse? Why did I peg you as an AC/DC 70's rocker type? The veil has been lifted. Oh, and I agree with your assessment of 80's music also.

And your avatar makes me picture you as a hung-over Gary Bussy shouting and belching at innocent passers-by. That makes me laugh.

[CAFeathers]

Lunch today was Black Forrest Ham, Monterey Jack Cheese, with Mayo on Sourdough bread.


In the 80's I quit playing guitar, was driving truck, doing massive amounts of drugs, drinking my fair share (and then some) of Jack Daniels, and listening to Country Music.
I am better now.

[Dan Desy]

Two chili dogs and an order (3) of peirogies and a root beer. Ummmmm.

I have nothing to say about 80's music. In the 80's I was still playing 60's and 70's stuff on my guitar, I suppose.

-John
I guess things haven't changed much for you in the last 20-25 years, uh? ;)

Orange Chicken and fried rice.

U2 - they (and their style) defined most of the 80s musically for me. But then, 1988 came by, they realized how big they were and it was all down hill from there...

And hair metal wasn't that bad. OK, so there were 37,654 bands doing it, and only about a 25 them were any good. Still, they could rock!

[Garrett]

Dayum, the 80's were a dark time for a lot of you!

I'm a child of the 80's so I look back on most of the stuff fondly. I discovered music in '82 at the age of 3. So I have all these rosie memories of 80's music: Getting the picture disc of the Footloose soundtrack, listening to Air Supply, Kajagoogoo, Cindy Lauper, Ronnie Milsap and Alabama 45's...

[Dan Desy]

Dayum, the 80's were a dark time for a lot of you!

I'm a child of the 80's so I look back on most of the stuff fondly. I discovered music in '82 at the age of 3. So I have all these rosie memories of 80's music: Getting the picture disc of the Footloose soundtrack, listening to Air Supply, Kajagoogoo, Cindy Lauper, Ronnie Milsap and Alabama 45's...
And you say it was a dark time for others??? ;)

[Elgreco]

Veggie Lasagnia.

The Cars

The Motels

Missing Persons

A Flock Of Seagulls

New Order

Ultravox

Simple Minds

Billy Idol

Bannanarama

Tears For Fears

B-52's

Stray Cats

Modern English

Thompson Twins

Eurythmics

Dexy's Midnight Runners

Wang Chung

Katrina And The Waves

Pat Benatar

Duran Duran

The Go Go's

The Bangles

Peter Gabriel

REM

10,000 Maniacs

[Donk70]

Ham sandwich and macaroni salad.

Hair Metal really gives the 80's a bad name, and I can understand why that decade cannot be taken seriously. But the 80's also gave us

The Police- Syncronisity
Prince- 1999 and Purple Rain
The Cars- Heartbeat City
Dire Straits- Brothers In Arms
Queen- The Game
Sting- Dream Of The Blue Turtles
Jane's Addiction- Nothing Shocking
George Harrison- Cloud 9
Bruce Springsteen- The River and Born in the USA
Stray Cats- Self Titled
ZZ Top- Eliminator
Van Halen- Almost all of the DLR era albums

[kev]

Leftover Thai and some chocolate treat that looked like it could outlive a Twinkie / fully leaded Coke

My two picks for covering the entire decade, although maybe they don't count since they're too obvious:

The Police - Don, I got your back

U2


kev

[Garrett]

And you say it was a dark time for others??? ;)
Hey, now. I defy anyone to tell me that the opening riff to "Footloose" isn't like, totally awesome.

PS. I take no responsibility for Kajagoogoo or Air Supply. I was like FIVE. I didn't know any better.;)

[Dan Desy]

Hey, now. I defy anyone to tell me that the opening riff to "Footloose" isn't like, totally awesome.

PS. I take no responsibility for Kajagoogoo or Air Supply. I was like FIVE. I didn't know any better.;)
You should have stuck with Sesame Street at that age...

[DanHund]

EasyMac today. No measuring cup here at work, so i winged on how much water to put in. It was a little runny :rolleyes:


I was too busy listing to my older brothers' Beatles and Who records to listen to much 80's music when it was new. Despised most all of it at the time.

As I've grown older, and listen now, I don't really see much different than any other period of music. You've got your top-40 and "bubble-gum" type of music, which is usually 90% garbage, no matter the decade. Then you've got your good stuff which never quite makes it on the charts anyway. So...

[darial]

80's pop was a total wasteland, but mainstream 80's rock was more or less excelent across the board. The guitar playing was the strongest ever seenm with EVH, Randy Rhoads, Michael Schenker, etc. started the decade out, and a huge number of excelent players to follow. The singing was also generally strong - most rock vocals of the era demonstrated a good range and sense of pitch (without pitch correction).

Compared to the cookie monster vocals and one finger downtuned floggers that dominate modern rock, the 80's was a paradise.

[kev]

cookie monster vocals
Hey now, don't be dogging out my main man. :D

What'd'ya eat for lunch today, that's part of our price of admission ya know?


kev

[Donk70]

Leftover Thai and some chocolate treat that looked like it could outlive a Twinkie / fully leaded Coke

My two picks for covering the entire decade, although maybe they don't count since they're too obvious:

The Police - Don, I got your back

U2


kev
Thanks Kevin. Great minds think alike :)

[daddycam]

Philly Cheesesteak sammich and fries from Penn Station

I disagree about 80's pop being a wasteland. While there was a lot of silliness and the electronic instrumentation sucked, I think a lot of great pop songs were written. When I think of pop, I think of hooks especially on the chorus. If I hear an 80's station or 80's music somewhere these days with my friends around my age, everyone seems to remember most of the songs right away. They were just so darn catchy. So there.

Also, I started listening to hard rock in the early 80's. Not all of it was over-the-top cheese. :dude:

[irwcustom]

not a lot - 2 bananas, an apple and a double decker.

The Police
The Stray Cats
Dire Straits

There was a lot of rubbish in the charts then though on the whole - ah no change there then.

Maybe the 8th Dec 1980 was the day the music died:(

[Donk70]

not a lot - 2 bananas, an apple and a double decker.

The Police
The Stray Cats
Dire Straits

There was a lot of rubbish in the charts then though on the whole - ah no change there then.

Maybe the 8th Dec 1980 was the day the music died:(
Amen, along with Novemeber 29th, 2001.:(

[nasum]

Three Little Debbie oatmeal creme pies. Bleh.

I'm starting to realize you're a pretty weird guy. Bathory? Cannibal Corpse? Why did I peg you as an AC/DC 70's rocker type? The veil has been lifted. Oh, and I agree with your assessment of 80's music also.

And your avatar makes me picture you as a hung-over Gary Bussy shouting and belching at innocent passers-by. That makes me laugh.
And yet I've had Junior Brown in my car CD player for the better part of the last two weeks...
I like showtunes too.
My musical tastes pretty much go EVERYWHERE including the dreaded realm of rap music from time to time. 70's rocker guy? Christ, I'm only 26... But I do have a fondness for some of T. Rex's lesser commercial works.

[Garrett]

Ah, rap music. Another great product of the 80's. Beastie Boys, Run DMC. I think rap music gets an undeserved bad reputation. There's a lot of really great rap music out there, but unfortunately almost all the commercial attention is paid to crap artists.

I think of it like jazz. Pretty much the only jazz you'll hear on the radio is crap smooth jazz. But there's a whole great big world of wonderful artists out there.

[darial]

Hey now, don't be dogging out my main man. :D

What'd'ya eat for lunch today, that's part of our price of admission ya know?


kev
Oyster stew - excelent.

[irwcustom]

Amen, along with Novemeber 29th, 2001.:( Absolutely ..and here's one of my favourite albums ..from 1987 no less. Goerge saved the 80's. I'd like to add the Jam to my list - retrospectively.

http://web.mit.edu/scholvin/www/harrison/gifs/c311_00.jpg

[jas]

"Blood and Chocolate" (Elvis C) came out in '86. That was a good album.

Or should I just shut up and stay out of it?

-John

[irwcustom]

"Blood and Chocolate" (Elvis C) came out in '86. That was a good album.

Or should I just shut up and stay out of it?

-John Just looked that one up. I don't recognise a lot of tracks on that one. Got a 'best of' and like it a lot. 17 tracks - might give it a shot - ta.

Missed you posting Coud 9 Don - sorry.