"Well I find myself in reverie....." (80's nostalgia)

[doc_bean]

My musical taste has changed a lot since HS. I used to listen to crappy house music until I was about 16, then I discovered real music with notes and everything.

One song that does remind me of HS is The Offspring: No Selfesteem, since it was so goddamn popular with the other kids back then. Rape me (Nirvana) and Knocking on Heaven's door (Guns & Roses, I know it's a cover) remind me of elementary school, since those were really popular with the tough kids. Having 10y olds scream "Rape me!" does feel kinda wrong, now that I look back on it...

[Reverend Joe]

The ONE band I like from the 80's is The Lyres. The main writer is obviously a Syd Barrett addict- hell, the opening song on "On Fyre" has exactly the same neat and rhythm as "Lucifer Sam." They use the same lighter guitar sound, as well as the same style of electronic keyboard.

Great band. Sadly, they seem to have been the only "Punkadelic" band... ever.

[Seamus Fermanagh]

"Will the Wolf Survive?" -- Los Lobos

"Gunner's Dream" -- Pink Floyd

"Broadsword" & "Beastie" -- Jethro Tull

[macsen rufus]

Hmmm...

Non-stop Erotic Cabaret - Soft Cell
Reward - Teardrop Explodes (okay not an album, but quintessentially 80s)
The Sky's Gone Out - Bauhaus
Rum, Sodomy and the Lash - The Pogues
Transformer, Berlin - Lou Reed
Quiet Life - Japan


ah, too many to mention really. Although I did spend a lot of the 80s retroing into earlier stuff like the Velvets, Bowie, Hawkwind, Eddie Cochrane, Billie Holliday...

I have more memories of the bands I saw live: the Clash (pretty lousy really), Ian Dury (one of the best ever live performers ever ... did I remember to say EVER?), Echo and the Bunnymen (bit pretentious, but still fun), Japan, Bauhaus (also one of the best ever - more energy than a fusion reactor on meth!), The Jam (a few times, the Setting Sons tour was the best). The Selector (remember 2-tone??), The Beat and UB40 together, Hawkwind (Levitation Tour), Here and Now (any old festival hands out there? Stonehenge '81...), Teardrop Explodes (alas in their arty-fairy phase just before splitting up), The Smiths. Anyone recall Gaye Bikers on Acid - made it quite big but were essentially a local band, and ditto for Crazyhead....

Ah the memories.. blast you Don, you've made me feel old all of a sudden

[Togakure]

I wasn't just listening back then, I was playing keyboards professionally in touring nightclub bands, traveling for 12 weeks at a time, back and forth from clubs in Northern California to Vegas, Phoenix, Tucson, El Paso, and other venues in Central Texas. I did this for a living for 5 years. It was a crazy, sometimes dangerous life of rock n roll, sex, and drugs, and while I'd not do it again like that, I treasure the memories.

Off the top of my head, my 80s memories (some offline, some horribly mainstream): Missing Persons, Thomas Dolby, Berlin, The Pretenders, The Fixx, Ultravox, Simple Minds, Billy Idol, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Prince, Scorpions, Van Halen, MSG, Ratt, Journey, Guns n Roses, Saga, UK, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Yellow Magic Orchestra, Jan Hammer (Miami Vice era), 80s Queen, gah ... so many. Those are a few.

[naut]

The ONE band I like from the 80's is The Lyres. The main writer is obviously a Syd Barrett addict- hell, the opening song on "On Fyre" has exactly the same neat and rhythm as "Lucifer Sam." They use the same lighter guitar sound, as well as the same style of electronic keyboard.

Great band. Sadly, they seem to have been the only "Punkadelic" band... ever.

Although I'm not old enough to have lived throught he 80s, The Lyres are awesome

I thought I'd mention Fugazi.

[The_Mark]

Dschinghis Khan - Moskau

[yesdachi]

Most of the music I liked in HS was metal (metallica, king diamond, slayer, anthrax, etc.) and you don’t here much of it anymore.

I was actually hoping the thread was going to be about teansformers, thundercats and TMNT!