2020s are rubbish, so were the 1980s any good?

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tamarmole

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Definitive proof that the 80s were better than the 2020s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ZxkErDC16A&list=RDGMEMJQXQAmqrnmK1SEjY_rKBGA&index=2
 
sinker

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pwhole said:
This was originally from 1981, but this live version from 2009 is so damn good I thought it might be better:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X0Fs8IFTFDE
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Good that. So.? Tom Tom Club or Talking Heads?

I always thought Tom Tom Club were obviously a bit more commercial than TH, but they were very much "of their time", early to mid-eighties, very synthy and poppy, drum machines, poppy graphics and pastel colours and all that wazz. When their earlier stuff is played live 20+ years later and remixed it always sounds much fuller and more mature.
That ties in with your comment that the 2009 version is better that the 1981 version  (y)

 
pwhole

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I wouldn't like to compare the two really as they seemed to be very different beasts, both fabulous. I actually met Chris Frantz and Tina Weymouth backstage years ago when they played The Leadmill in Sheffield, and they were lovely people and very funny - not that it makes any difference of course, but that incarnation (must have been mid-90s) was much tougher and far less poppy/silly than the original - they all dressed in black, had a brutal edge and played for what seemed like hours. Of course the original 1980s line-up also featured Adrian Belew, fresh from playing with Frank Zappa and Bowie, who then of course joined the revamped King Crimson after Tom Tom Club. Now that was a good '80s' band, hahah.

David Byrne's career since Talking Heads has also gone in many directions. This could go on for ever ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cNwf-lifIw&t=3643s

 
Graigwen

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Roger W said:
I have to say I'm with Graigwen, harking back to the '60s.

I had this one running round in my head for a few days until I managed to find it on Youtube...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FlcmUdWCzaY
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There is a bit of history here........this is from the 1920s.....
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fTcZbUnH5OU


But I think the story is a bit more complicated than this...when I have had a cup of tea I'll hunt down the rest - I have it on CD but no doubt it is also online.

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Graigwen

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Here is where I first heard something like this song. I don't know if anyone really wrote it or if it evolved. It is sometimes credited to Leadbelly, who is recorded as saying "I'se got a nickel, you'se got a dime. You buy the coke and I'll buy the wine" but it seems to have been around before he found it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oN6WYvTvQZo

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Fishes

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I'm not a huge fan of 80's music but here is a live performance of one of the songs that resonated with me at the time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxXO2ybSvfg
 
pwhole

pwhole

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From the second wave (or was it the third, I can't remember!) of 'new' psychedelia in 1983, from The Rain Parade in LA. Their 'Emergency Third Rail Power Trip' was barely off my turntable for weeks and saw them at The Leadmill too. Some familiar chord changes going on if you're a Syd Barrett fan - it's pretty much an homage to be honest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q44hnFvTPPs
 
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tamarmole

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pwhole said:
From the second wave (or was it the third, I can't remember!) of 'new' psychedelia in 1983, from The Rain Parade in LA. Their 'Emergency Third Rail Power Trip' was barely off my turntable for weeks and saw them at The Leadmill too. Some familiar chord changes going on if you're a Syd Barrett fan - it's pretty much an homage to be honest.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q44hnFvTPPs
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If we're talking 80's psychedelica you can't beat The Dukes of Stratosphere, an XTC side product:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGF7o_I4mAw
 
pwhole

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pwhole

pwhole

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Mais oui, but of course, the sophisto's favourites. They were genuinely funny people though, and Suzanne once pinned my ears back at a party for about three hours trying to convince me that...actually, no, better not. Party privileges! There was also the time when Martin Fry tapped his fag-end onto my friend Dawn's brand-new black carpet after crashing her New Year party uninvited, thinking it would be 'fine' and she was so annoyed she made him clean it up with a dustpan and then talk to her mum on the phone (landline of course) and sing 'The Look of Love' down the phone to her - which blew her mind for years as she really fancied him. Dawn took several photos of him singing this in her living-room, and one ended up on a gold frame on the wall.

His career's never properly recovered from that. There's no celebrity allowed here ;)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cNEdxZURTaI
 
pwhole

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This one ticks ALL the boxes, and is from one of my favourite albums. It's Easter Sunday today and I'm still technically Catholic, even though I lost my membership card years ago (You Can't Ever Leave), so you can have this one on me - Holger Czukay of Can, from one of his many solo albums, 1987. Special thanks to PJP II.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IO-KIKGezCA
 
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