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Loudmouth

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Just looking at Fun Boy Three on YouTube I am reminded that there were lots of really good bands and singles around despite the decade having a bad reputation for music, particularly the mid decade when bands like Duran Duran and Spandau Ballet and Wham dominated the charts.

Does anyone have any 'lost gems' from that period? Songs like Dream Academy's Life In a Northern Town or Colourfield (Terry Hall's band) Thinking Of You spring to mind.

With bands like Echo and the Bunnymen, Smiths, Pixies, Lloyd Cole and the Commotions, The Wedding Present, Prefab Sprout, 10,000 Maniacs to name but a few the music scene really wasn't that bad. The late 1980's saw the emergence of the Indie scene as a challenge to the somewhat bloated charts of the time and spawned quite a few great bands.

My lost gem nomination is Echo and the Bunnymens song Silver from 1984, containing the great line 'Man has to be his own saviour'.

NB SORRY, THIS POST WAS MISTAKENLY POSTED IN BG  RATHER THAN OTHER STUFF- HAVE TRIED TO DELETE AND MOVE POST.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H6RmfJZcq-c



-- Edited by noelindublin on Tuesday 11th of October 2011 03:26:59 PM



-- Edited by noelindublin on Tuesday 11th of October 2011 03:28:45 PM

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noelindublin wrote:

...despite the decade having a bad reputation for music...

... the music scene really wasn't that bad. The late 1980s saw the emergence of the Indie scene as a challenge to the somewhat bloated charts of the time and spawned quite a few great bands.


The start of the eighties was OK, and so was the end, but I think it all pretty poor from 1981-1988 bar some exceptions such as Adam & The Ants, Killing Joke, Guns 'n' Roses and The House of Love.    Only when The Stone Roses and Happy Mondays came along right at the end of the decade did things get really interesting.

Looking back to me it is the decade of Spandau Ballet, Duran Duran, Boy George, Madonna, Prince, Wacko Jacko, Bon Jovi and Phil Collins.  No decade has spawned so much dross.



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http://youtu.be/uMXz3TQOS_c

http://youtu.be/5xsj66S6Xuw

http://youtu.be/TpOW4LLRRTA

http://youtu.be/jpkGvk1rQBI

http://youtu.be/UA5MtAmT24g

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BTR you seem to be well into your synth music. Re synth music I've always liked Soft Cell and Marc Almond has produced some really good solo albums over the years.

I also love Associates and Billy Mckenzie was a bit of a musical outsider who always produced good songs.

Mckenzie released a really good song in the nineties called Winter Acamemy- its got a very haunting Bowie quality to it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C0nTuMxe99w



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