| Favorite 80s music
Posted: 11/4/2009 8:36:42 PM | I think my all time favorite 80's band is...
The Talking Heads | |
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| Favorite 80s music
Posted: 11/4/2009 8:41:26 PM |
I think my all time favorite 80's band is...
The 80's were actually one of the more diverse times in music. It was when rock music started to fade away and when "true" alternative was at it's best. Man, I remember many nights after moving to Toronto listening to CFNY 102.1 The Spirit of Radio. It was also the beginning of hip hop music (before it sold out to the man). Grandmaster Flash, Public Enemy, Ice T, etc.
People make fun of that era but in all reality it was incredibly musically diverse...hair styles aside. | |
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| Favorite 80s music
Posted: 11/4/2009 8:42:36 PM | Oingo Boingo. We were listening to some 80's stuff at work. Herbie Hancock, Tears for Fears, Eurythmics, Cultrue Club, Milli Vanilli. It was scrunchie awesome.
AE, The Message was Hip Hop at its greatest. Even Easy E and the rest of NWA were core. The only good rap artist now is Eminem. His new CD is crazy good. | |
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Posted: 11/5/2009 10:50:57 PM | Oh I loved 80's hair bands and their power balads........to this day, still a sucker for them! hahahahaha, I don't care, I'm not cool.........I LOVE THEM! lol | |
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| Favorite 80s music
Posted: 11/5/2009 11:00:12 PM | | I had an overdose of samba music but loved Roberto Carlos!!! | |
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| Favorite 80s music
Posted: 11/5/2009 11:50:29 PM | Gotta include a few of my personal favs:
- Buggles (what defined the decade more than Video Killed the Radio Star - the first song played on MTV)
- Depeche Mode
- Duran Duran
- The Specials
- The Bangles
- The Cars
- B-52s (so good they named a drink after them) LOL
- The Cure
- Talking Heads
- The Culture Club
- Boomtown Rats
- DEVO
- Elvis Costello
- Madonna
- The Police
- The Smiths
- Phil Collins
- Motorhead (they never died - they just kept on going)
- Metallica
- Van Halen
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| Favorite 80s music
Posted: 11/6/2009 7:40:30 AM | | How about Wham, Journey, Foreigner, Bryan Adams. | |
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Posted: 11/6/2009 12:22:37 PM | Judas Priest
Iron Maiden
Ozzy's solo stuff
Motley Crue
Poison
Wasp
Whitesnake
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Posted: 11/6/2009 6:42:00 PM | AE, The Message was Hip Hop at its greatest. Even Easy E and the rest of NWA were core. The only good rap artist now is Eminem. His new CD is crazy good.
Personally I thought Public Enemy were a better band than N.W.A. I always thought that the Public Enemy CD "It Takes a Nation of Millions" was THE best rap record ever. Songs like "She Watch Channel Zero", "Night of the Living Baseheads" (song that rips apart crack) and Black Steel (in the hour of chaos). Whereas N.W.A talked about AK47's and such, Public Enemy was politically explosive.
As for the best rap song..I'd say that probably goes to "Fight the Power" by Public Enemy. Chuck D summed up rap..in this song in the following lyrics:
As the rhythm designed to bounce (bounce = cool, hip, moxy, dance)
What counts is the rhymes
Designed to fill your mind
Now that you've realized the prides arrived
The song also has a verse about Elvis Presley..where they take a shot at him for his abuse & theft of black music to make his millions. Eminem makes a tongue in cheek reference a few records ago how, just like Elvis, he used Black music to make millions. A part of me can't stand Eminem because he's such an idiot, but behind all that lies one incredibly creative individual. He was exceptional in the movie 8 mile too. Oh, and the name "Anti Elvis" comes from that song sorta. Elvis is a street term for a narrow minded redneck.
BTW..my own personal favourite for rap was Biggie Smalls. Watch the movie Notorious, it's awesome. The guy "smokes mic's like crack pipes". And there is lots of good rap today, you just won't hear it on the radio. The odd song makes it there..KNaan - ABC's is a Canadian rap song, it was great. | |
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Posted: 11/6/2009 6:56:18 PM | | See, I have to disagree with you about Eminem. If you really listen to his words there is lots of messages there. In MOSH he takes aim directly at Bush. In Stan he takes aim at the kind of entertainers that blow off fans, as well as mental illness. There are very few of his songs that he isn't talking about real issues. He is a hell of a talent. Public Enemy is great. 911 was a fav of mine. I guess I liked NWA because they were telling about how it was growing up for them. Not about tons of money and spinning rims. | |
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Posted: 11/6/2009 7:22:31 PM |
The song also has a verse about Elvis Presley..where they take a shot at him for his abuse & theft of black music to make his millions.
Kinda off topic, but I feel I have to stand up for the King here a little... Chuck D later admitted that Elvis was not a racist. Chuck never had a problem with Elvis the man, he had a problem with the music industry and the fact that Elvis became the biggest star in music history by playing "black" music. That lyric was written for shock value and nothing else.
Chuck D Speaks on Elvis' Legacy
Mon Aug 12, 8:44 AM ET
NEW YORK (AP) - Public Enemy frontman Chuck D derided Elvis Presley on the group's 1989 anthem "Fight The Power," but it turns out his feelings for Presley are a little more complicated than the song suggests.
"As a musicologist — and I consider myself one — there was always a great deal of respect for Elvis, especially during his Sun sessions. As a black people, we all knew that," the rapper said.
"My whole thing was the one-sidedness — like, Elvis' icon status in America made it like nobody else counted. ... My heroes came from someone else. My heroes came before him. My heroes were probably his heroes. As far as Elvis being 'The King,' I couldn't buy that."
Chuck D spoke to Newsday about Presley's legacy for a 25th anniversary story on the singer's death.
On "Fight the Power," he said of Presley, "Elvis was a hero to most/But he never meant (expletive) to me, you see/Straight up racist that sucker was, simple and plain."
As for whether there is a modern-day Elvis, Chuck D points to Eminem ( news - web sites).
"Eminem is the new Elvis because, number one, he had the respect for black music that Elvis had," Chuck D said. "I think he's courteous and sympathetic to black music, and, unfortunately, he's more sympathetic to black music than many black artists themselves." | |
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Posted: 11/6/2009 8:00:07 PM | Well man, Chuck D's tone on many things changed as time went by. You might also take into consideration when the above comments were made while discussing the legacy publicly. Some years ago Madonna called MJ something like a "freak space alien"...years later she was crying when he died. So which is it?
But there is a great deal of truth to the argument that Elvis (and others) made a living off black music. Many of the artists that created the sounds of early rock ended up living in poverty while the "big music" made a profit off them. Elvis was just a figurehead to a bigger system. Best example I can think of is the Motown Museum in Detroit. For a long time, it wasn't much better than a shack (though it's much better now). Even today, as a marker of music history, it's nothing close to it's kin in say Nashville.
But Chuck is bang on when he talks about today's black artists. Rap went from being a politically and socially conscious music force to nothing more than a big marketing machine. Much of today's most popular hiphop success comes from the rhythms of the past. You can hear that in most of the music today.
Black music..sold itself down the river man. It found out that if it appealed to white kids, they could make WAY more $$$. That's why if you watch a NWA (N*g*as with Attitude) video, you'll see the audience is mostly white kids. Sell the story of the hood to white kids living on a street with little circles around the trees in their front yard. The bad ass dudes that chill at the mall eating KFC.
As for Ememin. Well he did grow up in Detroit and he is a great rapper. 8 mile is a road in Detroit that essentially separates the suburbs from the city..and in the D it was the dividing line between the blacks and whites. Detroit (the city) is 90% black, the 'burbs are more white (but that's changing). I think Eminem is a whack job, but he gets it. | |
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Posted: 11/6/2009 8:28:12 PM | | Holy smokes-another flippin essay from AE. He must think we are all stoopid or somethin! | |
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Posted: 11/6/2009 8:41:39 PM |
Holy smokes-another flippin essay from AE. He must think we are all stoopid or somethin!
Now now Widow, you're just upset at that Peggy Lee remix I sent you ! | |
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Posted: 11/6/2009 9:20:06 PM | I just wonder if any of my Saskatchewan brethren remember a punk rock band from Prince Albert in the early 80's by the name of Sound FX who sang Agent 88. For the life of me I cannot find that album, let alone song ANYWHERES | |
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| Favorite 80s music
Posted: 11/6/2009 9:20:57 PM | | By the way AntiElvis...nice do you have going there...that from '86? You remind me of the boys from Poison back in the day........ | |
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Posted: 11/6/2009 9:27:39 PM |
AE-why would that upset me? Guess again!
Awesome, I'm glad you're not upset..I mean, I was hoping you and I'd do the Palo, get wasted big time then dance to this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DwQbPgouUYo | |
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Posted: 11/6/2009 9:41:44 PM | You are a big doofus!
You have to tell me a name this time cuz I'm still obsessing about Johnny Reid being here at Westhills tomorrow! | |
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Posted: 11/6/2009 10:08:06 PM | Widow... eu pensei alguma e musica portuguese ;-)
Eu quero ficar perto de tudo que acho certo
Até o dia em que eu mudar de opinião
A minha experiência, meu pacto com a ciência
O meu conhecimento é minha distração
Coisas que eu sei
Eu adivinho sem ninguém ter me contado
Coisas que eu sei
O meu rádio relógio mostra o tempo errado
Aperte o Play | |
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Posted: 11/6/2009 10:11:59 PM | | Saudades to you too! I'd rather be in Guaruja as I type this sipping a caipirinha and thinking about Saturday lunch of feijoada completa or better still muceca!!! | |
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Posted: 11/6/2009 10:26:40 PM | I think maybe it was songs like "In the Ghetto" and "Walk a Mile in My Shoes" that pissed off black artists much much more than a white guy doing their music.
Now there are people on reservations
And out in the ghetto
And brother there, but, for the grace of God
Go you and I,
That's gonna do it. His talent was obviously appreciable but his subject matter leaves a bit to question. In the Ghetto is a beautiful song but man, it just makes me cringe.
80's hip hop? Whodini, LL, Eric B. Schooly D. But I'm living within my prescribed boundaries now with Walk Like an Egyptian as my ringtone. I love that ballad. | |
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Posted: 11/6/2009 10:33:47 PM | Ballad??? This message is toooo short!
There is a large ghetto in To with a high ratio of white to other ratio!!! | |
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Posted: 11/7/2009 12:10:09 AM | By the way AntiElvis...nice do you have going there...that from '86? You remind me of the boys from Poison back in the day........
1987 man. My dad took it with my buddy Jay out front of the house before I went to the prom. And yeah, I was a fan of hair metal back then.
And in honour of "true metal hair"..I leave you this video . Because..it just PHUCKING ROCKED
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIyPrMdRabM | |
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