So how bad were the 80s really?

Bob-Dubery · 2012-10-31T13:56:16+00:00

Squonk and I were discussing this recently. You know, how bad the 80s were for recorded music. Oddly we both agreed that it was a very strong era for local m...

So how bad were the 80s really?

Hammeron

Where did the number called 'Funky Town' fit in?

vic

Hammeron wrote: Where did the number called 'Funky Town' fit in?

From 1980 by a disco act called Lipps Inc. Sold 3.45 million copies and was the no1 hit in about 20 countries including the US ?

PS: I looked it up on Wikipedia for you ?

Hammeron

Vic wrote:
Hammeron wrote: Where did the number called 'Funky Town' fit in?

From 1980 by a disco act called Lipps Inc. Sold 3.45 million copies and was the no1 hit in about 20 countries including the US ?

PS: I looked it up on Wikipedia for you ?

Ta Vic! My Dad played it for me and I thought whoa, I don't wanna like this but I do!

Seventhson

Hammeron wrote:
Vic wrote:
Hammeron wrote: Where did the number called 'Funky Town' fit in?

From 1980 by a disco act called Lipps Inc. Sold 3.45 million copies and was the no1 hit in about 20 countries including the US ?

PS: I looked it up on Wikipedia for you ?
Ta Vic! My Dad played it for me and I thought whoa, I don't wanna like this but I do!

Its an awesome song ? My buddy and I did a jig to it ?

guidothepimmp

Hmmm

Sisters of mercy
The mission
Alice in chains
The offspring
Bauhaus
Exodus
Extreme
Fields of the nephilim
Annihilator
Motley crue
Danzig
Mr big
L7
Soundgarden
Mudhoney
Pixies
Swan

And the list goes on... damn unless I've missed something, the 80s had epic music

singemonkey

Jack Flash Jr wrote:
Hammeron wrote: http://rb101182.hubpages.com/hub/Top-100-Songs-of-the-90s

....let the scariness continue
Not quite the same thing since most of the list is arguably not total cr*pola ?

Nirvana - "Smells Like Teen Spirit" (1991, #6 US)
U2 - "One" (1991, #10 US)
R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion" (1991, #4 US)
Sinéad O'Connor - "Nothing Compares 2 U" (1990, #1 US)
Pearl Jam - "Jeremy" (1991, #79 US)
Alanis Morissette - "You Oughta Know" (1995)
Dr. Dre (featuring Snoop Doggy Dogg) - "Nuthin' but a "G" Thang" (1992, #2 US)
Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Under the Bridge" (1991, #2 US)
Metallica - "Enter Sandman" (1991, #16 US)
Beastie Boys - "Sabotage" (1994)
Beck - "Loser" (1994, #10 US)
House of Pain - "Jump Around" (1992, #3 US)
Soundgarden - "Black Hole Sun" (1994)
Eminem - "My Name Is" (1999, #26 US)
Counting Crows - "Mr. Jones" (1993)
Radiohead - "Creep" (1993)
Third Eye Blind - "Semi-Charmed Life" (1997, #4 US)
Oasis - "Wonderwall" (1995, #8 US)
Green Day - "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" (1998)
Collective Soul - "Shine" (1994, #11 US)
The Fugees - "Killing Me Softly With His Song" (1996)
Jewel - "Who Will Save Your Soul" (1996, #11 US)
Alice in Chains - "Man in the Box" (1990)
2Pac (featuring Dr. Dre and Roger Troutman) - "California Love" (1996, #6 US)
Sugar Ray - "Fly" (1997)
Fiona Apple - "Criminal" (1996, #21 US)
L.L. Cool J - "Mama Said Knock You Out" (1990, #17 US)
Weezer - "Buddy Holly" (1994)
Sheryl Crow - "All I Wanna Do" (1993, #2 US)
Live - "I Alone" (1994)
The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Mase & Puff Daddy - "Mo Money Mo Problems" (1997, #1 US)
The Presidents of the United States of America - "Peaches" (1995)
Deee-Lite - "Groove Is In The Heart" (1990, #4 US)
Will Smith - "Gettin' Jiggy Wit It" (1998, #1 US)
Korn - "Freak on a Leash" (1998)
Jamiroquai - "Virtual Insanity" (1997)
Arrested Development - "Tennessee" (1992, #6 US)
Barenaked Ladies - "One Week" (1998, #1 US)
Marcy Playground - "Sex and Candy" (1998, #5 US)
Blues Traveler - "Run-around" (1995, #8 US)
Ice Cube - "It Was a Good Day" (1992, #15 US)
Lenny Kravitz - "Are You Gonna Go My Way" (1993)
The Breeders - "Cannonball" (1993)
Snow - "Informer" (1993, #1 US)
Cypress Hill - "Insane In The Brain" (1993, #19 US)
The Cranberries - "Linger" (1993, #8 US)
Liz Phair - "Never Said" (1993)
New Radicals - "You Get What You Give" (1998, #37 US)
Public Enemy - "911 Is a Joke" (1990)
Lisa Loeb - "Stay (I Missed You)" (1994, #1 US)
Prince & The New Power Generation - "Gett Off" (1991, #27 US)
EMF - "Unbelievable" (1991, #1 US)
Missy Elliott - "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" (1997)

Psean

guidothepimmp wrote: Hmmm

Sisters of mercy
The mission
Alice in chains
The offspring
Bauhaus
Exodus
Extreme
Fields of the nephilim
Annihilator
Motley crue
Danzig
Mr big
L7
Soundgarden
Mudhoney
Pixies
Swan

And the list goes on... damn unless I've missed something, the 80s had epic music

Forgot that The Offspring started out in the 80's. I really like their early stuff and still eant to get an original copy of theor first album. That one rocks.

Coolcat

Just joined today so I thought I might resurrect this discussion.

The overseas bands I listened to were Journey, TOTO, Boston, Foreigner, Whitesnake etc.

There were some good SA bands around too ...
From the late 70's there was a band called STINGRAY - there hit song was; Better The Devil You Know Than You Don't Know.

There was also a band from Joburg - Yeoville, I think(?) called; The Spectres. They had a couple of hits, but my favourite was; BE Bop Pop ( Vox Populi ).

The 80's were great years for music .... sigh.

stompie

I love the 80's. Grew up listening to my dad's l.p.'s. Big guitar solos! I don't see the whole guitar hero type thing anymore.

lindsmuse

The only mainstream band for me in the eighties was U2. For some obscure reason I kind of liked the B52's. Oh and Grace Jones. The rest was all the more substantial music I brought with from the seventies. Wasn't Rickie Lee Jones eighties? She was amazing! SRV was a massive find - but not really mainstream I guess.

There just didn't seem to be any magic happening in the eighties - seemed like fashion and how you looked was more important than how you sounded. I saw a terrible video of Mick Jagger and David Bowie singing together recently - and this makes me want to bury the eighties FOREVER - just perceptions I know ?

Argggghhhhhhh I agree - Asia - really grated with me!

Jack-Flash-Jr

Haha! AWESOME!

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flatfourfan

No mention of Robert Smith? Shame on you guys.

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Faith no more - EPIC? (released end of 1989)

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I dunno, the 80's music wise all depended on what you were into. I already was into alternative and harder rock thanks to my mum, so I had no complaints.

Jack-Flash-Jr

I think when people say 80s it's the same as when people say 60s in other words 60s = '66-'69. Maybe 80s = '80 to '87.
I never think of Soundgarden, FNM etc. as 80s bands :-\

flatfourfan

Also people seem to think that the 80's was all springbok treffers and top of the pops.

Slayer released Reign in Blood in 1986 and that is considered by many a metalhead to be probably the BEST metal album ever.......That was above anything that was released by anyone else at the time.

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Keira-WitherKay

Absolutely correct .... In 80's radio pop especially in apartheid south africa was horrendous and heavily censored ....

But hey for guitarists it was the birth of "hair bands" with long hair , tight pants and pointy guitars delivering "more notes for your money" ... Think van halen ..... Stadium rock was born ..

Mainstream sucked locally but lots was on offer to alternative and rock fans

IceCreamMan

apart from one or 2 legends like jim and jimi , the 80's were the most happenning of all decades .....everything else pales into insignificance except possiblt the early 60's....i reckon the decade from 1977 to 1987 ...i.e VH1 to Appetite for destruction as the greatest 10 years of rock n roll history.... but thats me hey

flatfourfan

Bingo Keira

I remember in grade 2 (1981) my parents were called in because for music appreciation day I brought in under the boardwalk from the drifters and queen- I want to break free.

The latter caused a stink because I brought in the uncensored version from the UK that had the word God in it.

I was pretty much branded a Satanist until I left that school.........lol.

AlanRatcliffe

flatfourfan wrote: I was pretty much branded a Satanist until I left that school.........lol.

One school I was at, I was branded similarly just because I listened to AC/DC. ?

Caused a bit of a furore in the mid '80s by playing Another Brick in the Wall (Pt 2) at assembly, which was also banned then. ?

NeilDP

I'm sure some of the other posters already mentioned it, but the 80's (not that I was exposed to any of it at said time) was the time when guitar mastery really went mainstream. We've always had guys who were monsters on guitar in the jazz genre, but that obviously never really went as mainstream as hair metal / hard rock did. Talking to some of the people I've met here in Hollywood who were living here then, it really was quite something seeing the whole Sunset Strip explode around that time.

Coolcat

Petit Cheval were another good band. Had things been different back then, and the band had more opportunities, I reckon they could have easily held their own against other 'New Romantic' bands such as Spandau Ballet and Duran Duran.