CRAPPY 80's MUSIC

This is the spirit folks. I submit that the 80's was a decade of untapped musical mediocrity.

ANYBODY REMEMBER TIMBUKTHREE???

sure... how 'bout this here?

Excellent! Kinda Post Village- People, pre Dire- Straits. Good, you will receive extra credit for that.

I pose, for your approval, a number of the 80;s that I consider NOT CRAPPY, in fact DAMN GOOD. (achieving the NC/DG award for an otherwise barren decade)



Prhaps I should have selected "gooder music of the 80's". It woulda been a shorter but more uplifting list, not capable of inducing projectile vomit

In that vein here's the brilliant Cardiacs, a band who never got the recognition they deserved. I first saw them supporting Here and Now. I might even have been at this gig, I did see them quite a lot.

And this is the band I used to hang out with.

I think I better change direction on this thread. This is my choice for the best song OF THE DECADE of the 80's

"the bomb in the baby carriage
was wired to the radio. "

These are the days of miracles and wonsder
this is a loo-ong distance call

mea culpa, I forgot about Graceland . Its one of the best albums of ALL TIME





PS, I had a baad connection to that Flik Spatula disc so I couldnt listen

This song kind of defined the angst of living in the 80's for me.

It's a hybrid of two musical genres of the 80's, Punk Rock and New Wave.

This was the album I kept listening to.

The Psychedelic Furs were pretty good too.

Are you only interested in 80's pop/rock, or is 80's metal also good?

I can make good selections either way, but I don't want to put metal in your thread if it's not what you're looking for.

anything 'll do.
1It must be baaad, or else so good it needs calling out. Early Metallica would certainly be acceptabe. Im a fan of a good shredder.

I would certainly put those psychadelic furs in the mediocre bin. Ive never heard of them so I dont have any bad memories of socieal events (like Chais "team building workshops" which always had wine and cheese socials and then barroom dancing later. Really suuuucked if you lived through the 80's as an employee.
I was teaching and also working and both of the endeavors had the really dumb "tream building", "Interdisciplanary research goals" "Meyers Briggs Bullshit" and frequent income analyses brainstormings that required us to go away to places like Atlantic City, or Orlando.
The music was a constant ear worming torture that defined the times. Sitting at a gas station listening to "Dont woorry be happy" for the 10 billionth time or some inane Village People or the BAngles "Manic Monday" diddy introduced by overcoffeed dj's on AM radio.
It was the decade that Howard Stern began to collect radiohead zombies.

An we still had to worry about the Soviet Union because our president was already senile and would threaten to bomb them .

I'm not sure that I'm capable of discerning either.

Top albums of the 80's:
http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?include_archival=t&include_live=t&year=1980s

Top singles of the 80's:
http://rateyourmusic.com/customchart?include_archival=t&include_live=t&type=single&year=1980s

Not rated by the pop charts of the day, but rather rated based on how they've stood the test of time.

If you want music that was popular at the time but which is now best forgotten, these lists are the opposite of what you want. But you might find some ideas regarding songs so good that they need calling out.

I saw the Furs play Glastonbury, they were brilliant. I would put Paul Simon in the mediocre bubble. My enduring memory of that song was from a programme called Company that was shown on ITV before the channel shut down, (back in the day when channels shut down.) It was a godsquad programme with three holy rollers sat down talking god stuff, one was a nun.

Once they all sat down listening to Boy in the Bubble on a crappy cassette player and then they had a conversation about it in which they concluded that not all pop music was the Devil's music, although the nun wasn't too sure.

Culture Club - Karma Chameleon

yak yak yaak 'plop'

WOW < I DONT REMEMBER EATIN THAT!

Im afraid that you toss "brilliant" around like e toss AWESOME!

Has no meaning any longer.
I recall James May who used the term judiciously to escribe changes mqde to keep the Rover from being a complete POS