need a fix of 80's tunes?

(personally its pretty much :puke: to me)

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kxci/ppr/index.shtml

Join us Thursday, May 17th for a "very special episode" of the Music Mix, 9am-3pm, when KXCI Community Radio celebrates great music from the 80s.

Yes, there was some - and we've found it and are ready to share it with the world.

Music Mixers Amber and Ginger will be joined by Bob Girth, host of The Hub, for this "awesome" look at the 80s that will have you "chillin' in your crib" for six hours.

The special Music Mix promises to be "gnarly" "mint" "fly" "fresh" and "to the max" with great music, trivia, and more.

See you Thursday, dudes.
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This Bola Tie Is Not Ironic!

Bob Girth breaks out his boombox and spins some of the forgotten gems of the Reagan Era this Thursday 11:00am—1:00pm. It’s the first annual Totally Awesome, Majorly Not Lame, Humongously Gnarly, Bodaciously Righteous Acid-washed Parachute Pants 80’s Music For Sure Fest. Get on your thinking Kongol for 80’s trivia and win valuable swag.

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kxci/ppr/index.shtml

who that is! :rofl:

The Replacements
World Party
Joy Division
The Jesus & Mary Chain
The Jam
The Specials
Lloyd Cole and The Commotions
The Stone Roses (well, maybe they're more early 90s)
The Church
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numerous others...

... There were many great bands and great songs from the 80s. The decade's music gets a bad rap, IMO...

Ian Curtis killed himself in 1980. They released one album in the 80's (Closer - 1980), and it wasn't an 80's album. New Order, now THEY were an 80's band, though they continued on through 90 and 2000.

Sorry I just never get why people classify JD as 80s.

think of them as 80s because they first heard them in the early 80s. Also, their sound was ahead of its time.

:)

freakishly so. :hi:

The Waterboys
Three O'Clock
Dream Syndicate
Jason & the Scorchers
Lone Justice
English Beat
The Alarm
Firetown
Neighborhoods
Guadalcanal Diary
Red Rockers
Sidewinders

as the 70s was to those of us who grew up then. But, I have to admit, I have heard of only two bands who are listed on this thread. Jesus and Mary Chain (though I can't identify one of their songs) and Peter Gabriel (who I don't really associate with the 80s). By the way, I think Modern Love came out in 1977. My favorite band from the 80s is Pearl Jam and I am glad that there music has stood the test of time.

They got big after the grunge thing hit in 1991.

The JAMC are total 80s. Their first record came out in 1985, IIRC. Their second, "Darklands" was the soundtrack to my early college years (87-91).

Plenty of great stuff from the 80's, most of it on indie labels often run by the artists themselves: Greg Ginn of Black Flag at SST records, Ian Macaye (sp) of Minor Threat at Dischord records, Jello Biafra of Dead Kennedys at Alternative Tenacles etc. Plus, most of the great bands of the 90's started on indie labels in the 80's: Nirvana, Soundgarden,RHCPs, Janes Addiction, Sonic Youth, Uncle Tupelo etc

The major record labels realized that they could package 'alternative' or 'grunge' in the 90's the same way they did hair metal in the 80's.

Love and Rockets, 80s REM, Talking Heads, Cowboy Junkies, Squeeze, and Oingo Boingo.

More specifically, pre Scott Litt REM.

REM had a tendency to assume the personality of the producer. Chronic Town, Reckoning, and Murmur had Mitch Easter's southern jangle-pop fingerprints all over them; Fables of the Reconstruction had a folkier, almost Southern gothic feel, thanks to Joe Boyd; and Life's Rich Pageant, produced by Don Gehman, moved into a harder roots-rock territory.

Litt never seemed to get what made REM special. He cleaned up the sound, made them more of a conventional act, and squeezed a lot of the personality out of the band. I'll take "Wolves, Lower" over "Stand", thank you.

Culture Club - The War Song

Paul Simon - Call Me Al

INXS - What You Need

Romeo Void - Never Say Never (I might like you better if we slept together...)

The Motels - Only the Lonely

Checkout the soundtrack to the movie "200 Cigarettes." I think I lived through that night once. I know I was listening to most of those songs.