Best of the 80s

[stann]

John Cougar Mellancamp if I recall MT USA correctly. Poor auld Vinnie...

What's worse, I hereby call Shenanigans!

List looks suspiciously like a downloaded playlist from a Today FM 80's show or possibly some Australian equivalent going by the suspicious amount of Australasian muck some of which wasn't even released here much less a hit.

Tell the truth and shame the devil.
Shenanigans!

I concur with this call by the way.

Forever Now - Cold Chisel

Hmmmmm..... Very dubious. Hum it then!

[paul_oshea]

Cold chisel, i prefer khe sanh but thats 70s I think?! Anyhow its a great tune whereever its from. Have ye ever seen the live video to it with the big gay fella dancing in the tight yellow top he reminds me of vince vaughan in dodgeball.

No shenanigans Lionel.

[paul_oshea]

i probably should have added flock of seaguls I ran to this. NOt that poxy bowling for soup version.

One thing that does annoy me about the majority of music from the 80s is when it breaks from a chorus to an interlude, and the music stops for about 5 seconds and the singer interjects with the main lyric of the song. What is this called and does it annoying anyone else? I think it sorta ruins the song, much in the same way it ruins Love Hurts by Nazareth when they are building up the song and then it just stops dead and goes slow again when it would be better had it continued to a crescendo.

[BohsPartisan]

i probably should have added flock of seaguls

Please don't

[paul_oshea]

are you a bit partisan to that song bohs?

[sadloserkid]

[QUOTE:Lionel Ritchie]Strawberry Switchblade[/QUOTE]

What an awesome name for a band.

And some Danny Wilson for your list Paul.

[SkStu]

for the list that he copied and pasted? worst example of copying and pasting to look knowledgeable since the great scandal of 2005. paul, paul, paul... never afraid to make a tit of yourself...

anyway, a list without Electric Dreams by the Human League isnt worth copying.

ola, ola!

[paul_oshea]

its my playlist of 80s music from my home pc so of course its a copy and paste!

[SkStu]

its my playlist of 80s music from my home pc so of course its a copy and paste!

wow, they were right... i was drunk last night!

[paul_oshea]

wow, they were right... i was drunk last night!

Don't worry skstu, we are all used to you floating around the forums like a good voyeur making a tit of yourself

[SkStu]

sorry Paul, i just thought that the list was lifted from some website... i actually still do... a few weird tunes in there, some notable omissions too...

voyeur though? ooh er...

[paul_oshea]

I have about 3 or 400 80's tunes I "acquired" over the years, thats the resulting text of a java program i wrote to read all files in a directory. It could well be on the internet too, if ppl have the same songs

[sadloserkid]

Dunno if Midnight Oil are on your list but throw on 'Beds Are Burning'. And maybe some John Farnum - 'You're The Voice'.

[paul_oshea]

i thought i had your the voice?

[sadloserkid]

i thought i had your the voice?

You probably do man, it just occured to me today and I didn't actually check the main list before suggesting it. Midnight Oil then?

[Billsthoughts]

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=b-63aw...eature=related

[Stuttgart88]

I'd have some Talk Talk in there. Party's Over, Talk Talk, Today, It's My Life and the whole Colour of Spring Album.

Were Teardrop Explodes 79 or early 80s? Some of Julian Cope's solo stuff was great.

Pete Burns from Dead or Alive is a neighbour of mine in NW6 - I see him & his "husband" regularly. Bloody weird looking bloke!

[Stuttgart88]

Echo Beach by Martha and the Muffins?

[Billsthoughts]

Bout thirty years ahead of its time....http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=WNM4HBSfgtU