to want to ask about music in the 80's/

[SynysterGates]

im watching TOTPS in the 80's
oh its good....dear prudence..
where ever I lay my hat
moon light shadow
and now True
I want to be young again lol
does anyone else remember those days(MUSIC WISE)

I love 80s music. I was a proper music nerd as a teenager in the 80s and when it all suddenly started being revived around the Friends Reunited/School Disco thing I was so happy to hear all those songs again. The other day, my radio alarm clock woke me up with Belle Stars 'Sign of the Times' and I ended up singing it all day.

What song do you think is the epitome of 80s music?

I love watching old TOTP. I hope you shouted along with Bonnie on that best of 83 programme.

Difficult to say what was the epitome because there were so many scenes in the 80s - the tail end of punk, two tone, new wave, new romantic, goth, indie, hair metal, dance, rap, as well as the continuation of disco and funk and pop. And of course shit for the oldies like bloody Rene and Renate. That's why it was so awesome.

'72 baby & huge George Michael fan here

As well as wham! (Obviously) I also loved

Spandau ballet
Depeche mode
Abc
Adam & the ants
Madonna
Cyndi lauper
A-ha
Bon jovi
Eurythmics
Johnny hates jazz
Hue & cry
The bangles
Fairground attraction
Deacon blue...

3 words

Absolute 80's radio

Thank me later

'The Reflex' has just turned up on my shuffling i-pod Singing along silently so as not to wake DH!

I still have that on 7 inch vinyl!

I'm watching too for the second time I loved Boy George

I've still got all my 80s vinyl too . I-pod now playing Nick Kamen Loving you is sweeter than ever.

Boy George looked like a man at peace with the world in that performance - he was so happy to be there, you could totally tell. He actually was one of the wannabes earlier in 1983 - you know how people could just turn up and get themselves on telly by dancing in the audience? Well, we clocked him doing that maybe a couple of months before he was on singing. It was definitely him because he had all his patchwork gear on.

Mid to late 80s was my growing up music years!
Huge Madonna fan, loved Kylie and Jason too.....
Then there was all the Stock Aitken and Waterman hits such as Sinitta etc that everyone pretended to hate but bet they loved like me really
Bros
Yazz and The Plastic Population
Martika

I was born in 79, child of the 80's, loved the pop stuff but by the late 80's was thoroughly in the alternative camp. Smiths, Stone roses etc. I always smile when I hear Boy George, I agree with the idea he was so carefree sounding.

i-pod now on Enya, Orinoco Flow. I always think that's an 80s hit that sounds like it should have charted in the 90s.

I think there was an awful lot of shit about in the 80's but, there was some good stuff to.

Sisters of Mercy
New Order
Depeche Mode
ABC
Stone Roses
Happy Mondays
The Sugarcubes
House Music from 86-89
were all brilliant however.....

Bucks Fizz
Sinitta
Fuzzbox
Sigue Sigue Sputnik
Chris de Burgh
Nick Berry etc, were all pony!

John Peel on late night radio, turned down really low so as not to wake my parents. I went from pop to Indie and backwards into punk thanks to John Peel.
In his memory:
Half Man, Half Biscuit
Bogshed
The Very Things
We've Got A Fuzzbox and We're Going To Use It
Sugarcubes
The Fall
The Pixies
The Subhumans
Dead Kennedys
The Damned - phantasmagoria era
Gee Mr Tracey
BMX Bandits

Never having enough money to buy all the records I wanted...

Absolute 80s had a poll for fave song, Vienna by Ultravox won!

Early 80's - best music known to mankind. Late 80's - mostly Stock Aitken Waterman shite. My early teenage self adored it but now I realise it was terrible! I was really too young to have been into the early 80's stuff when it was first released, so it was in later years I really discovered it, though I do remember most songs from first time round (just didn't clock how awesome they were). 1974 baby.

I am not an 80's baby, I was born in 91, but I love 80's music, it trumps pretty much all of the shit music that you here these days.

hear not here, damn typos!

Bands I saw in the eighties:
The Specials
Culture Club
The Pretenders
Siouxsie and The Banshees
Japan
Bauhaus
Haircut 100
Thomson Twins
Belle Stars
Elvis Costello
Aswad

Happy days!

SexandDrugs Kids From Fame fan here too.

I had the album of the series and pored over it. It was double gatefold and had Coco doing an arabesque in the middle, being held aloft by all the other kids.

I used to make up dance routines in my friend's back garden to the songs.

I had a burgundy Fame sweater suit, with a little skater skirt in burgundy, to be worn with ankle-warmers.

I scour Sky and Netflix for re-runs, but no luck so far.

I remember getting my first personal stereo, Christmas 1984. I got Wham's Make It Big on cassette to go with it.

It was the bollocks.

i thought that totp last night was one of the worst episodes ever. really exceptionally bland.

I was born in 69. As well as all the above I loved rock music and also Motown. I never liked The Smiths but a few years ago I went to see Morrissey play and when he did his little wiggle dance I thought Oh my God it's Morrissey! And nearly swooned.

MumBod - oh yes! Why don't they show it? I would love to watch it again. I remember getting the Official Kids from Fame annual in my stocking one Christmas, and waking up at about 4am to pull it out. I think I'd already read it cover to cover before my parents even woke up. . I loved Doris, thought she was the greatest singer ever.

1970 baby - first album (if you ignore the Black Beauty album in 1973) was Never Forever by Kate Bush

I loved a lot of the music but not the 'typical 80's' stuff that goes on every 'hits of' album

in fact the 90's is more my thing - that's when I was young and hip!