Your 1980s music guilty pleasure

[tboo]

Party All The Time by Eddie Murphy:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bDbpzjbXUZI

 

[cheezy321]

Anything by Hall & Oates. I sport their entire record collection

I cant go for that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccenFp_3kq8

Private Eyes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anLfoy2XsFw

Maneater:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRYFKcMa_Ek

You make my dreams come true:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_I4wtNPv5w

Not a guilty pleasure at all.

 

[jhansman]

Well, my 80s playlist is too long to pick just one. Probably a toss up between "One Thing Leads to Another" (The Fixx) and "Rebel Yell" (Billy Idol).

 

[darkswordsman17]

Who the hell thinks 1980's is a guilty pleasure. Some of the best metal albums ever came out in the 80's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUzpf3mMsxA

That it did.

I really like a lot of 80s music. The pop was over the top cheesy but unique, you had a lot of different and good metal, you had hip-hop getting a footing (and before rap shit all over it), and yet things still sounded fairly decent (people actually sang their stuff and played instruments, things weren't compressed to hell yet, even the electronic effects seem to be much less annoying than today). There was plenty of cheesy fad stuff (keyboards in everything!) but even that wasn't as insufferable as disco or the dance fad songs of the 90s (Macarena, that one country song, several others I'm forgetting).

 

[RaistlinZ]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTkHwUocbA0&list=FLuBvtewfe694sw7p3ITlsng&index=17


Still makes me feel like a hero.

 

[KeithTalent]

Who the hell thinks 1980's is a guilty pleasure. Some of the best metal albums ever came out in the 80's.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUzpf3mMsxA

I don't think you understand how this works.

KT

 

[Gibsons]

Anything by Hall & Oates. I sport their entire record collection

I cant go for that:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccenFp_3kq8

Private Eyes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anLfoy2XsFw

Maneater:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yRYFKcMa_Ek

You make my dreams come true:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_I4wtNPv5w

Not a guilty pleasure at all.

So... why posting in this thread?

 

[MayorOfAmerica]

Queensryche - Queen Of The Reich

This song was not only awesome for the way it starts and end, but for the music video as well.

 

[Dedpuhl]

Beds are Burning:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ejorQVy3m8E

 

[amdhunter]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JmcA9LIIXWw

Wow, I guess I was too young back then to see how flaming he was back then. One of my favorite songs too.

 

[DaveSimmons]

T'Pau - "Heart and Soul" - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SwrYMWoqg5w

I still like the way the different singing / speaking styles are woven together.

 

[Robert Munch]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9dZW1C3neao Oran "Juice" Jones - The Rain

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oVDfyc2lh4Q LL Cool J - I'm Bad

 

[glenn1]

depeche mode or kate bush for me.

 

[wirednuts]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lL2uFRKNYsE

oops, i still listen to this stuff and i dont feel guilty about it.

 

[lxskllr]

Wow, I guess I was too young back then to see how flaming he was back then. One of my favorite songs too.

Well, in your defense, dudes looking like chicks was a thing. I look through my old guitar magazines which heavily featured hair band guitarists, and think "Wow!". I was always aware of it, and never liked the look, but it looks really out of place today, and you gotta wonder how looking like a girl became cool :^D

 

[Nemesis 1]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SHCsbrc8xKA

 

[Childs]

I was looking at my main music playlist, and there are actually five more songs which probably fit:

Cyndi Lauper's Good Enough Old guys might remember it from The Goonies.

The Go Go's Head Over Heals.

Nena's 99 Luftballoons As heard in Gross Point Blank.

The Bangles's Walk Like and Egyptian and Manic Monday.

Whats funny is I didnt really listen to this kind music in the 80's, but I associate them with movies. That, and I had for the lady singers. lol

 

[blankslate]

The Outfield - Your Love

Supposedly people would call radio stations and have them play this song dedicated to their girlfriends... probably without completely listening to the lyrics first.

 

[Ricochet]

Link

Really, that is my guilty pleasure and don't want to be caught listening to it.

 

[pmv]

Everything I thought of posting I then decided 'nah, I don't feel guilty about liking that' - in fact I've still got the cd (or even vinyl).

Pretty much all the '80s pop I liked at the time I still like. And the stuff I didn't I still don't.

If I had to come up with something, maybe this one

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Uxc9eFcZyM

The only Duran Duran song I actually didn't mind. Still makes me nostalgic (largely because I've never listened to it since - ironic that music you didn't really love is better at bringing back memories than stuff you do, precisely because you haven't listened to it much in the intervening years, whereas the stuff you really like has lost all association with a particular time - or is that just me?).

 

[twinrider1]

Haircut 100 and ABC would come the closest.

 

[Childs]

The Outfield - Your Love

Such a great opening though...I used to hear it all the time when they used to advertise compilation tapes on TV. I think your link was the first time I heard it all the way through.

I'm stuck in a Youtube 80's vortex...

Starship - Nothing Gonna Stop Us Now

 

[SpunkyJones]

Lord help me, but I still have these albums in my basement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RxBHRZpIdg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzzZkkiJMv8

 

[Fingolfin269]

The entire Purple Rain album.

This.

 

[Fingolfin269]

Lord help me, but I still have these albums in my basement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RxBHRZpIdg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzzZkkiJMv8

I love that Stray Cats song.

Heck most of the songs in this thread are on my list. I recently went on an 80s spotify spree and picked up a bunch of the New Wave stuff.