What Song Most Encapsulates the 1980s? (2 Viewers)

[sfidc3]

And Skateaway

Yup, that's a good one....

Henry Rollins was a manager at a local D.C. Haagen-Daaz ice cream shop.

He was also a neighbor of one my best friends (RIP Kevin) growing up in Bethesda.....he was a very well none a-hole and bully as a kid/teenager.....

 

[MarylandWHODAT]

This is the song that, in my opinion, is the 80's....

 

[Hoodoo]

Man, started listing a few songs and the rabbit hole is unending. So much great music & a lot of it. Just too much to keep posting videos, but here are a couple that I never could get enough of.

Police - Every Breath you Take
Van Halen - Panama
Cars - Drive
Chaka Khan - I Feel for You
Journey - Don't Stop Believin
Commodores - Night Shift
AC/DC - Back in Black
Ozzy - Crazy Train
Back in the High Life - Steve Winwood
Simply Red - Holding Back the Years
Toto - Africa
INXS - Need you Tonight
Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Bruce Hornsby & the Range - The Way it Is
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary

I've gotta stop... Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

 

[Saintman2884]

Man, started listing a few songs and the rabbit hole is unending. So much great music & a lot of it. Just too much to keep posting videos, but here are a couple that I never could get enough of.

Police - Every Breath you Take
Van Halen - Panama
Cars - Drive
Chaka Khan - I Feel for You
Journey - Don't Stop Believin
Commodores - Night Shift
AC/DC - Back in Black
Ozzy - Crazy Train
Back in the High Life - Steve Winwood
Simply Red - Holding Back the Years
Toto - Africa
INXS - Need you Tonight
Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Bruce Hornsby & the Range - The Way it Is
Depeche Mode - Personal Jesus
The Cult - She Sells Sanctuary

I've gotta stop... Thanks for the trip down memory lane.

You forgot Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" theme song from the film Rocky III. That song where ever its played, has this "feel", " aura", and visceral intensity to it that Ive seen seemingly mild-mannered men and women at bowling alleys, gyms, playing pickup basketball, they turn into almost superhuman, unstoppable maniacs hearing the song.

It's one of those songs where if you're boxing someone, you can be bloody, tired, your body is worn-down, that song pops in your head, it's like a placebo adrenaline shot that makes you get off the mat, and fight like a complete, uncontrollable, vicious animal. You will make the unfortunate souls who forked with you realize that was the worst decision of their respective lives.

 

[LonghornSaint]

Man, started listing a few songs and the rabbit hole is unending. So much great music & a lot of it. Just too much to keep posting videos, but here are a couple that I never could get enough of.

Police - Every Breath you Take

I really really didn't like them when they first came out. Something about their style, just can't put my finger on why it didn't sit well with me.

And now I really like them.

A perfect example of how tastes can change over time.

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

I’ve noted before, but the 80s are EASILY the best era for music white guys can dance to - and no other era comes close
And yet too many are posting basic rock songs
I’ve now become sad thinking that the synthesizer offered a paint by numbers approach to dancing and many of y’all still didn’t take advantage

*sad face*

 

[Hoodoo]

You forgot Survivor's "Eye of the Tiger" theme song from the film Rocky III. That song where ever its played, has this "feel", " aura", and visceral intensity to it that Ive seen seemingly mild-mannered men and women at bowling alleys, gyms, playing pickup basketball, they turn into almost superhuman, unstoppable maniacs hearing the song.

It's one of those songs where if you're boxing someone, you can be bloody, tired, your body is worn-down, that song pops in your head, it's like a placebo adrenaline shot that makes you get off the mat, and fight like a complete, uncontrollable, vicious animal. You will make the unfortunate souls who forked with you realize that was the worst decision of their respective lives.

I'll be honest, thats one I never really cared much for outside of the context of the movie. It always felt campy to me for some reason. I do like it for nostalgia-sake and get a chuckle when my kids sing it.

 

[faceman]

Over 5 pages and no G&R?



Welcome to the Jungle always kind of summed up the no-holds-barred approach many of us took to life in the 80’s. Right foot flat on the floor, throttle wide open all the time both figuratively and literally.

There was not one bad song on that whole album. All of them kicked arse. My favorite was Mr. Brownstone.
A not so subtle message from Axl to the rest of the group you're getting out of control.

 

[Hoodoo]

I’ve noted before, but the 80s are EASILY the best era for music white guys can dance to - and no other era comes close
And yet too many are posting basic rock songs
I’ve now become sad thinking that the synthesizer offered a paint by numbers approach to dancing and many of y’all still didn’t take advantage

*sad face*

The hell you say...

 

[DCSaints_Fan]

Since it was released in 1981, it counts?



But of course this is one of those "trascended the decade cases"

 

[guidomerkinsrules]

Since it was released in 1981, it counts?



But of course this is one of those "trascended the decade cases"

I mean, I can dance to it - not sure about the rest of y’all

 

[saintmdterps]

Early R.E.M? Those were the days back around maybe 1984-86 when Michael Stipe had long hair, their sound was more of a proto-grungy, alternative "folk" weird, backwoods Southern gothic aura, allure to them. And that was also a time when Athens, Ga. was still just a small, Southern college town that hadn't yet exploded in population or notoriety yet. R.E.M. actually opened a few shows for U2 during this time in the U.S. and on some of their European/British tours in the mid-80's. MTV might play or show a R.E.M. video at 2 or 3 o'clock in the mornings back then and they were sort of known about only to certain rock fans.

By the early 80's, the Damned had fallen apart or were in the process of collapsing.

Did you see Black Flag, a local D.C. hardcore punk band or the Misfits back in the day? Before he joined Black Flag, Henry Rollins was a manager at a local D.C. Haagen-Daaz ice cream shop.

Actually REM started in 1980 and released Radio Free Europe in 1981. It was early 1981 that we saw them—I think.

The Damned broke up in 1977 but reformed in 1979 without Brian James, who went on to form The Lords of the New Church with Stiv Bators in 1982.

The Black Album in 1980 still remains The Damned’s best album IMHO. They broke up again in 1985 or 86

I missed Black Flag. They played The 9:30 club in DC but I was never able to make one of their shows.

 

[antipop]

waiting for @sonicboom to remember that Nirvana's first album was actually released in the 80's

 

[Grumpy Old Manatee]

I mean, I can dance to it - not sure about the rest of y’all

Proof, or it won’t happen.

 

[EGLSShin]