What songs from 80's should should be heard in the 2080's

[AllenVanAllen]

and not be lost in obscurity?





I've got few:

The Motels - Only the Lonely

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uquEXROFja0

Black Sabbath - Neon Knights

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kd48HDDv-c0

Tears for Fears - Pale Shelter

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yYHp_NB1mws

Til Tuesday -Voices Carry

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K5XJMoVzPD4

Post yours!


Peace! :hi:

[taterguy]

1. The Long Ryders' Looking for Lewis and Clark

First that popped into my head

I could post a couple hundred others if I thought about it long enough

[SoxFan]

19. Good one!

I'd add "Gunslinger Man" and "Harriet Tubman's Gonna Carry M Home" to your list!

[J-Lo Biafra]

2. Slayer- "Postmortem/Raining Blood"

[MrSlayer]

3. Hell, "Reign" in its entirety.

A timeless work of art.

[AllenVanAllen]

12. Great choices!

[mix]

4. Lords of the New Church-Open Your Eyes

http://vids.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=vids.individual&videoid=33005240
Video games train the kids for war.
Army chic in high-fashion stores. Law and order's
done their job. Prisons filled while the rich
still rob. Assassination politics. Violence rules
within' our nation's midst. Well ignorance is
their power tool. You'll only know what they want
you to know. The television cannot lie.
Controlling media with smokescreen eyes. Nuclear
politicians picture show. The acting's lousy but
the blind don't know. They scare us all with
threats of war. So we forget just how bad things
are. You taste the fear when you're all alone.
They gonna git'cha when you're on your own. The
silence of conspiracy. Slaughtered on the altar of
apathy. You gotta wake up from your sleep. 'Cause
meek inherits earth...six feet deep. Open your
eyes see the lies right in front of ya. Open your
eyes.....

[AllenVanAllen]

15. cool!

this one's cool too:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ysnkkrhlK4

[pokerfan]

5. I can only think of three

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3T_xeoGES8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWP-AsG5DRk
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yu_moia-oVI

[mix]

6. what about this one?

eighties

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1oyfG6t2ew

[hfojvt]

7. I think you forgot a few

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9R9ouKeLPg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBtZk13miAE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mucNFvvoE8Q

[Capn Sunshine]

8. ah, the stealth Rickroll

Never felt a thing. Then it was over. Very good, grasshopper

[AllenVanAllen]

13. I've been Rick-Rolled twice in one month!

[Bennyboy]

9. Throwing Stones..>Grateful Dead...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSC6m4LPW1Y

Written about Dick Cheney by John Perry Barlow who had some dealings with him in Wyoming politics...

[malta blue]

21. I didn't know that.

Thanks, Bennyboy!

[Bennyboy]

26. From a DU post a while ago...

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=290x676

AD: What is the story behind “Throwing Stones”? You wrote that in Cora as well, right?

JPB: Yeah. That’s the only explicitly political song we ever wrote. And the story behind that was that I was having a serious argument with Dick Cheney at that point, who I’d help get elected and been a pretty good congressman for the stuff that I was interested in, which was environmental stuff. We’d helped stop acid rain in the Wind River Mountains and passed the Wyoming Wilderness Act together and worked out a lot of the necessary compromises. He fished on my ranch and…we were co-conspirators.

But then he got into this obsession with the Russians and this conviction that we had a clash of cultures that had to be resolved by whatever means, and so he helped base the MX Missile in Wyoming. The original idea of the MX Missile was that it was a second-strike, retaliatory weapon that could not be taken out by a first strike because it would be running around on a vast railroad system kind of like a gigantic shell game, so the Russians wouldn’t know where the MX’s were. And the MX itself is an extremely destructive instrument. It has ten warheads, each one of which delivers 550 kilotons of explosive energy. And just for purposes of comparison, the bomb that completely leveled Hiroshima and took out half a million people in a second had only seventeen kilotons to give you some idea. So you can to the math. That’s just one missile. And the plan was to base 100 of them. And Dick was instrumental in seeing to it that they were not based in the original basing formula, which made them explicitly second strike, but that they were basically first strike weapons. They were completely naked and stationary and they were all put on launch on warning. And had all of those missiles gone, because some cloud of geese flew over a radar in Greenland, that would’ve been the end of all like on the planet. And I got so freaked out that somebody was so determined to win a political battle that he was literally willing to endanger all the life on planet Earth, that I felt like I had to say something…so I wrote that song. And like I say, I owe Dick a lot for that song.

snip

http://www.planetjh.com/davis/davis_2005_07_27.html

[Orsino]

10. All of them...as cautionary tales.

Frighten the kids with them, once, and the horror of that age need never be repeated.

[Brigid]

11. Anything on "Born in the USA."

Truly one of the Boss's best. Reflected the '80's perfectly. :)

[mix]

16. Nebraska (1982) was great too

Atlantic City
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BEkyaoPdar8

[Brigid]

18. Oh, yes.

Some of the cuts were kind of creepy, but still a good one. :)

[AllenVanAllen]

14. Here are some more

David Bowie - Ashes To Ashes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMThz7eQ6K0


Iron Maiden - The Trooper

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgqxQmAbTBc


The Psychedelic Furs - Love my Way

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-P09gm_I5RI

[Capn Sunshine]

17. Let's Not forget Sunset Strip 80's rock

so emblematic of the excess of the 80's.......

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe71zCA5xFQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4457H6Gxd8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMQa1-mToN8


We actually securitized the revenue streams of some of these guys and had it underwritten by Drexel-Burnham.In retrospect..:wtf:

ah, the 80's............

[SoxFan]

20. Key word: "obscurity"

The Lucy Show, "A Million Things"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hARb-L7s8zE

Lone Justice, "Soap, Soup, and Salvation" (I luvs me some Maria McKee!)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6B0fVsm3rME

Translator, "Come With Me"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d9fPjeuLM8w

Feargal Sharkey, "A Good Heart"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bx9qUR9P2ZQ

Shriekback, "Nemesis"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovH46-o0rLw

[mix]

22. ABC, classic first album: The Lexicon of Love

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZkwEK9AYQHg
They were punks who liked disco apparently.

[AllenVanAllen]

23. a few more

Cramps - Surfin Dead

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3D3DnPiWi8


Blue Oyster Cult - Shooting Shark

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMFL4OS5FRM


Love and Rockets - Haunted, When the Minutes Drag

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VvS9YTi7VXI

[XemaSab]

24. .

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5b51JVubo8

[Bluzmann57]

25. Can't be done

The 80's is quite likely the most barren period in musical history. At least as far as Rock and Roll. The end of disco (thank god) and the beginning of...something strange. Bring on Da Blues!

[taterguy]

29. Stevie Ray Vaughan was an 80s artist

[keroro gunsou]

27. the song

when in rome: the promise
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMdR-9ysgc8&feature=related

and the anime that was used to make the video: ah megami-sama

ok the anime was early 90's but the manga started in 1988.

amg linkage: http://ohmygoddess.wikia.com/wiki/Oh_My_Goddess

[carlyhippy]

28. I have ..3...and a bonus

The consumate 80's songs.....

Sunglasses at night-Corey Hart
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bLEuWEvH5GI

You Spin Me Round-Dead or Alive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mCiVXigrjjQ

Tainted Love-Soft Cell

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RuMsbOrDinY

and my personal favorite from an underrated 80's superband-
Bang a Gong-Power Station
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUc629OcQPo

[AllenVanAllen]

30. Thanks everybody! Here are a few more

Billy Idol - Eyes Without a Face

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7hcz1kHM7jg


Donald Fagen-True Companion

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DCGEqOppAw


Fight Club - Where is my Mind

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zP1IjgSO_E


Metallica - For Whom the Bell Tolls

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XX-KjkdDozQ


and this is the song that gave me the idea for this thread:

Heaven 17 - Let Me go

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9uj98Tgm8Y


:hi:

[Steely_Dan]

31. Any Steely Dan n/t