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ok.... it's late here in Melbourne.... i'm home after a night out....

late night tv.... repeats of "Countdown" are on...

(for all you non Aussies... this was a music show in the 70's and 80's.)

so... i've just realized how good 1984 was for music??? prince, the cars, john thwaite, band aid....

how good is it?????!!!!???

or is it just me....

umm.....


ok.....

It's just you, don't worry. The best thing about the 80's is that they're over

am wrote:ok.... it's late here in Melbourne.... i'm home after a night out....

late night tv.... repeats of "Countdown" are on...

(for all you non Aussies... this was a music show in the 70's and 80's.)

so... i've just realized how good 1984 was for music??? prince, the cars, john thwaite, band aid....

how good is it?????!!!!???

or is it just me....

umm.....


ok.....

Nope Melbourne lad too and I love the early to mid 80's for music
I was 17 in 1984 - very good memories for me anyway.

Thomas Dolby
Depche Mode
HUman League
Heaven 17
Cabaret Voltaire
Severed Heads
SPK
Propoganda
Art of Noise
The The
The SMiths
FunBoy 3
Magazine
Japan
Bauhaus
The Cure
Souxsie
Howard Jones
front 242
Foetus
Early Erasure
Marc Almonds best solo works IMHO
KateBush - Hounds of Love (great album)
Bowie - Scary Monsters (ditto though that was 1980)
Devo
Shower Scene From psycho - that's a good Melbourne reference for you
etc etc etc etc ..............

FaX-01 wrote:

am wrote:ok.... it's late here in Melbourne.... i'm home after a night out....

late night tv.... repeats of "Countdown" are on...

(for all you non Aussies... this was a music show in the 70's and 80's.)

so... i've just realized how good 1984 was for music??? prince, the cars, john thwaite, band aid....

how good is it?????!!!!???

or is it just me....

umm.....


ok.....

Nope Melbourne lad too and I love the early to mid 80's for music
I was 17 in 1984 - very good memories for me anyway.

Thomas Dolby
Depche Mode
HUman League
Heaven 17
Cabaret Voltaire
Severed Heads
SPK
Propoganda
Art of Noise
The The
The SMiths
FunBoy 3
Magazine
Japan
Bauhaus
The Cure
Souxsie
Howard Jones
front 242
Foetus
Early Erasure
Marc Almonds best solo works IMHO
KateBush - Hounds of Love (great album)
Bowie - Scary Monsters (ditto though that was 1980)
Devo
Shower Scene From psycho - that's a good Melbourne reference for you
etc etc etc etc ..............

What? no duran duran?

Aaaaaaah,
1984, the year I was born!
bet that makes you feel old
hehehe

I was 2 then.
You can't mess with the Cure. Or New Order. Or Talking Heads.

8 reasons the 80's kicked ass

the cure
depeche mode
the smiths
bauhaus
prince
new order
the cult
motley crue

I thought this was about the book then.

It was a cold bright day in April and the clocks were striking thirteen....

Yeah 1984 was an AMAZING year for music.

I was 15 then.

Jesus and Mary Chain's Psychocandy
P.I.L.
Killing Joke
Butthole Surfers
Virgin Prunes
Siouxie
King Crimson
Scratch Acid
Sisters of Mercy
The Cult

All put out GREAT alnums that year.




I think I got my first Blow Job that year too........

FaX-01 wrote:

Nope Melbourne lad too and I love the early to mid 80's for music
I was 17 in 1984 - very good memories for me anyway.

Thomas Dolby
Depche Mode
HUman League
Heaven 17
Cabaret Voltaire
Severed Heads
SPK
Propoganda
Art of Noise
The The
The SMiths
FunBoy 3
Magazine
Japan
Bauhaus
The Cure
Souxsie
Howard Jones
front 242
Foetus
Early Erasure
Marc Almonds best solo works IMHO
KateBush - Hounds of Love (great album)
Bowie - Scary Monsters (ditto though that was 1980)
Devo
Shower Scene From psycho - that's a good Melbourne reference for you
etc etc etc etc ..............

Oh, god you're giving me flashbacks!!

FB3 - Lunatics are taking over the Asylum
Japan - Methods of Dance
Art of Noise - Moments in Love
Magazine - Shot by both sides


Damn -
I hope I don't sound like one of those Hippies I always hated blabbing on about how great Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd were....................

Damn -
I hope I don't sound like one of those Hippies I always hated blabbing on about how great Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd were....................

well they were great, and i wasnt born till 77.

special ed wrote:

Damn -
I hope I don't sound like one of those Hippies I always hated blabbing on about how great Led Zeppelin and Pink Floyd were....................

well they were great, and i wasnt born till 77.

LOL!

Yeah, they were. But you know what I mean. I think every generation has a special connection to the music they listened to "growing up". I guess that means tweens- teen years. And then every generation inevitably starts bitching about how music was so much better back in "their day" I just don't want to ever get like that. Theres an amazing amount of music coming out these days. Most of it underground. Its just all the mainstream stuff is all such crap now.

I am a Melbourne Lad too, but I live in Europe these days ( I come back to Oz once a year to remember what a great place it is). Anyway, the 80s was crap in my opinion. Though I did enjoy fantasising about Kate Bush and Blondie.
Cold Chisel were a good Aussie band at the time!! Iva Davies From Flowers also made some decent stuff. Most of the 80s though was pseudo pretentious rubbish and crap fashion!! Shoulder pads on jackets and puffy hairdos. YUK!!!!! Though guitar playing broke new ground (then). Guys like Joe Satriani and Steve Vai were breaking into the music scene. So that was a good thing.

Don't forget Sexcrime (1984) by the Eurythmics. That's some serious Supatrigga going on!