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Favorite 80s or 90s Song?

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Now I know some of you are too young to play but 80s are your oldies now :laughing

So I love concerts, always have and lately I have been going to see a lot of 80s bands. So what is your favorite song from the 80s

Mine is "Pour Some Sugar On Me" by Def Leopard. Got to see them in concert 2 years ago and that was a blast.
 
I've been playing lots of 80's stuff for my kids. Our favorite now:
Copperhead road - Steve Earle.
 
Just too much music to pick a single fav song; here are couple that came across my playlist this AM:
Tesla - What You Give
Talking Heads - She Was; Same as it Ever Was
Echo and the Bunnymen - Lips Like Sugar
 
From 1982 "Fuck Armageddon...This Is Hell" by Bad Religion off the album "How Could Hell Be Any Worse?"

Really just about any song off that album. I was 14 the first time I heard it (pictured below). It still touches my core today.
 

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It's curious to me how 80's had "a sound", at least it seems to me it did.

The 70's did too.

I think that were you to hear a song you never heard before, you could quickly say it it's an 70's or 80's song.

Now, being as my music tastes were cast in stone during my formative years (with a brief digression in the 80's, but I got better), I can't say what the 90's sound is (grunge? "alternative"? I hope not).

But it's also remarkable to me some from those era's today is utterly unlistenable to me now. Mike and the Mechanics, for me, is an example. Too much 80's.

And I can watch Miami Vice episodes all day long.

My tastes are fairly narrow however.

Pink Floyd's '94 tour to support The Division Bell is probably the best concert I've ever seen. Just an extraordinary show. This is a group that knows how to put on a show that fills a stadium.

Queensryche's Operation Livecrime, the live rendition of the entirety of Operation Mindcrime recorded during their Empire tour is probably my favorite concert that I did not see live. It's not the show of the Pink Floyd concert, but the power and energy from that stage, especially from Geoff Tate, is remarkable. It just goes and goes and goes. Energizer *** Bunny.

Favorite "song" is unfair. 6 Degrees of Inner Turbulence from Dream Theater is a 42m monster cut in to digestible pieces. But it's a great "song".

All that said, I once went to see a Journey cover band.

This was remarkable. First, it was $5 to get in (technically, $15, but that covered fair admission of $10). Every song they played I recognized. Including some "I didn't know they played this" songs. I don't own any Journey albums, never had. But it's pretty remarkable the penetration that they had on AOR radio over the years that the 10-20 songs this band played were all recognizable to me.

Also interesting was less than 10 miles away, the "real" Journey was playing also. Steve Perry wasn't touring with them either, but they had Neal Schon. So, anyway, at a minimum, they had a "cover singer" just like the band I saw did. What I saw sure sounded like "Journey" songs to me, and I'm pretty sure the folks at the other concert didn't pay $5 to see them. So, it just brought up the question of what folks are going to concerts to see.
 
There are literally hundreds of great albums from dozens of genres that came out in that 20 year time period. Far, far too many too narrow down.
 
I think its from the 80s, that "Everybody Wants to Rule The World". That thing is always with me. I really liked the Brit stuff in those days.
 
Beauregard said:
From 1982 "Armageddon...This Is Hell" by Bad Religion off the album "How Could Hell Be Any Worse?"

Really just about any song off that album. I was 14 the first time I heard it (pictured below). It still touches my core today.
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You had a tat at 14? or was that from a crack jack box? :laughing You owe me quarters :p Why such a fierce look on your face?
Bay Arean said:
I think its from the 80s, that "Everybody Wants to Rule The World". That thing is always with me. I really liked the Brit stuff in those days.
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I loved Tear for Fears!
aminalmutha said:
There are literally hundreds of great albums from dozens of genres that came out in that 20 year time period. Far, far too many too narrow down.
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so pick a tape, a band, a bunch! It is for fun :p

I also loved the Slippery When Wet tape - Bon Jovi and the song Hit Me with your Best Shot - Pat Benatar.
 
Ok...

Raining Blood by Slayer

Ruiner by Nine Inch Nails

Filth Pig by Ministry

Meat Hook Sodomy by Cannibal Corpse

:twofinger
 
Slayer sucked :p
 
Level 42 - Something About You
Duran Duran - Is There Something I Should Know?
Bob Seger - Ramblin Gamblin Man
Stevie Ray Vaughn - Voodoo Child
Eurythmics - Sweet Dreams
The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?
When In Rome - The Promise
CZR - When Galaxies Form
Q Lazzarus - Goodbye Horses
The Cure - Plainsong
New Order - Your Silent Face
New Order - True Faith
Boston - Foreplay/Long Time
Queen - Heaven For Everyone
Sons of the Sea - Lady Black
After 7 - Can't Stop
Al B Sure - Night and Day
Nightcrawlers - Push the Feeling On
Danny Tenaglia - Turn Me On
Danny Tenaglia - Turn Me On (Bedrock Mix)
 
Johndicezx9 said:
Party All the Time
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I see your Eddie Murphy - Party All the Time and raise you,

Eddie Murphy - Boogie in Your Butt

Well step aside my friend
I been doing it for years
I say, sit on down, open your eyes
And open up your ears
Say, put a tree in your butt
Put a, a bumblebee in your butt
Put a clock in your butt
Put a big rock in your butt
Say, put some fleas in your butt
Say, start to sneeze in your butt
Say, put a tin can in your butt
Put a little tiny man in your butt
Say, put a light in your butt
Say, make it bright in your butt
 
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