80's / Eighties

[Bohnjaggs]

Spotify Master Playlist




Sometimes you're better off dead
There's a gun in your hand it's pointing at your head
You think you're mad, too unstable
Kicking in chairs and knocking down tables
In a restaurant in a West end town
Call the police there's a madman around
Running down, underground
To a dive bar in a West end town

 

[DataBase]

If I wait for just a second more,
I know I'll forget what I came here for,
My head was so full of things to say,
But as I open my lips all my words slip away
And anyway,
I can't believe you want to turn the page,
And move your life onto another stage,
You can change the chapter you can change the book,
But the story remains the same if you'd take a look.

 

[Aron]

Posted The Fugees 'Ready or Not' in the 90's thread since it popped up in my playlist while I was running this evening. This was the song that played right before that one. Very different tunes, but I love 'em both. This feels like a 90's tune to be honest.

 

[Bohnjaggs]

Posted The Fugees 'Ready or Not' in the 90's thread since it popped up in my playlist while I was running this evening. This was the song that played right before that one. Very different tunes, but I love 'em both. This feels like a 90's tune to be honest.

I don't think I knew that Soul Asylum were even around in the 80's

 

[Aron]

I don't think I knew that Soul Asylum were even around in the 80's

The album that song is on, "Hang Time", is actually very good. 'Cartoon' is another really good track from that record.

 

[tvham]

I know @mcherry has been super busy but here's hoping she starts a the Cure thread soon

 

[QotsaFan87]

Why are you doing this to me?
Am I not living up to what I'm supposed to be?
Why am I seething with this animosity?

I think you owe me a great big apology

Terrible lie

 

[stpaulbrowns]

I don't think I knew that Soul Asylum were even around in the 80's

Blasphemy!!!!

 

[stpaulbrowns]

The album that song is on, "Hang Time", is actually very good. 'Cartoon' is another really good track from that record.

My favorite SA album.

 

[Aron]

My favorite SA album.

Same

 

[batkins]

My inner child finds this song hilarious. "Put the bone in...."

 

[stpaulbrowns]

May I also recommend ...

 

[dmoney]

 

[gwerbnm]

Why are you doing this to me?
Am I not living up to what I'm supposed to be?
Why am I seething with this animosity?

I think you owe me a great big apology

Terrible lie

I was thinking of posting this...nice one

 

[Max Sterling]

 

[Bohnjaggs]

This is great

 

[Yer Ol' Uncle D]

I had two musical epiphany LPs in 1985. Here's a song from each...

The Jesus And Mary Chain - Psychocandy



The Cult - Love

 

[gwerbnm]

One of my all-time favorites.

 

[Bohnjaggs]

One of my all-time favorites.

I honestly don't know enough about OMD. One of these days I need to listen to more of their stuff. For years I really only knew "If You Leave" but that doesn't even seem to be their normal style.

My favorite song of theirs overall is "Forever Live And Die"

 

[Kris]

OMD is an eighties band that I only got into a few years ago. I think all I knew was "If You Leave", "Tesla Girls" and "Sailing on the Seven Seas". They really have been a consistent band with only a few album duds. I think their last two albums "English Electric" and "The Punishment of Luxury" are really good.

Their album "Dazzle Ships" was a dud on release. It was the dreaded "ahead of it's time". It was a concept album on the role of technology in our lives. The cover alluded to the British Navy's method of painting their ships in patterns to camouflage them. The artwork of "Dazzle Ships" was done by Peter Saville, most famous for designing New Order's album Artwork.

Radiohead was definitely inspired by "Dazzle Ships". There's even a song on "OK Computer" called "Fitter Happier" that pays homage to "Genetic Engineering.

I've heard "Dazzle Ships" called the "Kid A" of the 80s. I think it was in this article listed below.

If you want to read more, Pop Matter's wrote up a really good piece on "Dazzle Ships" a few years ago.

https://www.popmatters.com/omd-dazzle-ships-2496159959.html

Also, the half speed remasters from a couple years ago are really nice.