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How The 1980's Redifined Popular Music Culture And My Haircut
I even put together a little 80's style crappy track thing too, sounds like it was recorded on a Tascam Portastudio, but its Cubasis, oh happy days
http://www.thesoundtestroom.com/four-essential-apps-80s-sound/
I have decided to rename this thread
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Nice one Doug! I need to spend some time with DXi, I've had for it awhile but haven't really dug into yet.
I too Doug are a massive 80s fan and I think you got these spot on what's your favourites mine are yazoo gary Numan the human league and ultravox
You need a big spade, a very clear head, actually TF7 is a much better FM Synth, but for pure nostalgia the DXi is on the DX7 money
@Synthmaniac said:
Ultravox, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran (still brilliant) OMD, Human League, Nick Kershaw, Howard Jones, Cocteau Twins, Thompson Twins, Thomas Dolby, John Fox, Flock O Seagulls, Frankie, oh man the list goes on and on, the halcyon days for me :-)
Good video as always. I almost bought the CMI Pro today. I also watched thesoundtestroom's walkthrough video about it earlier. Guess this video clinches it for me.
Yep I forgot to mention guys like howard Jones and I completly forgot about depeche mode blasphemy I think this calls for a night of 80s music to get my head in the 80s again btw I was never in the 80s or even 90s just love the brilliant music
I feel blessed to have grown up then, it really was a great time for music, I was sixteen in 1980 so we had experienced punk, which was brilliant, that shuck everything up and paved the way, and I was in Liverpool then, which was an amazing place to be at that time, I used to work at Hessy's Music Store, above that was OMD's Gramaphone Suite recording studio, they were always in the store trying the synths and stuff, I went to school with half of Frankie, Mark And Brian, and Frank Maudsley from Flock of Seagulls, Julian Cope was always in Liverpool then too, man it was something else back then, mega
One of my favourite Ultravox tracks, also a few more sprang to mind, Tears For Fears, Icehouse, The Police, although they had their roots in the 70's, they cganged the game in the 80's and we should not forget Simple Minds
I happen to love the cheesy 80s music too, and in the mid/late 80s and I was blown away by the likes of Laser Dance and Koto and some other 'Italo' artists. I still get chills down my spine when i hear classic tracks like 'Dragons Legend' or 'Jabdah' to name a few.(But nothing makes me 'freeze' like the classic or new SID-Tunes). And well, i get spasms in my feet every time i hear 'Buffalo Stance' by Nenneh Cherry...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FwG5j9KdHWk
(Enjoy and have a laugh).
Ha awesome, and I almost forgot about YMO and Logic System
@thesoundtestroom said:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MFu66ye6YWM
I'd add the Finn brothers.
Newcleus, Mantronix, Jonzun Crew, Africa Bambaataa & the Soulsonic Force, Davey DMX, ManParrish and Cybotron.
And some of my other favorite 80's music: Black Flag, Circle Jerks, DKs, Bad Brains, Minor Threat, G.I. and The CroMags.
XTC, Elvis Costello
@funjunkie27 said:
Yeah, I saw Split Enz twice in the eighties, brilliant, at the Royal Court theater in liverpool, I use to help me mate out with his Laser Show thing he had, and he'd done a few bands there so he always got the heads up on new ticket sales and stuff, and the managers girlfriend was managing the band I was in at the time
Just rumours, really.
DM, Yaz(oo), Erasure, New Order, OMD, Ultravox, Blanc Mange... loved all that action. I didn't find out about Tubeway Army until years (decades) later. Sofa king good! Also took me until the 2000s to realize that "Space Age Love Song" was the actual Flock of Seagulls masterpiece, not I Ran.
@thesoundtestroom I just pulled out my slightly moldy 'Welcome to the Pleasuredome' LP to play for my girlfriend last week. I hadn't listened to it for years and years. Turns out, it's real good! Reading up a bit about how it was made, it was mostly a Trevor Horn and Friends record but whatever—it's got a lot of good stuff on it. Also, +10 on the semi-unrelated but very incredible Cocteau Twins. Talk about leading the pack.
I know this thread is about the 80s but I still get a little sad about Alan Wilder leaving Depeche Mode in the early 90s. They'd just put out Songs of Faith and Devotion which, to me anyway, was an OK record. But the thing about it that made it special was that they spent all of this time in the studio turning their years and years of sampling chops on themselves instead of sounds found in the outside world. They basically jammed like a "proper" band and sampled from the jams to make those songs (around the same time the Beastie Boys did the same with Check Your Head). In my mind, it didn't quite work but if they'd done it once more they might have had a game changer/mind blower on their hands. I still marvel at the sounds they came up with win I listen through their back catalog, a lot of which was Alan's doing.
@thesoundtestroom said:
Very cool. I saw Crowded House in Atlanta a couple of years ago, and it was one of the best performances and sounds I've heard.
@MrNezumi said:
As a young black kid in DC, Bad Brains quite literally changed my life.
If you like this stuff, please go and find the record from another DC band called 'One Last Wish'. They were short lived and only put out a single record (which I didn't know anything about at the time) but the members were a DC hardcore super group before they knew it (dudes from MT, rites of spring, Happy Go Licky...). Yet another 80s thing I didn't stumble across until the 2000s. SO GOOD.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/One_Last_Wish
The Minutemen. Dammit.
I got a few I need to check out. Thanks all.
@syrupcore - One Last Wish is also on the State Of The Union compilation album (Dischord) doing "burning In The Undertow".
@MrNezumi That's how I heard them I think (it was some Dischord comp). The whole record is just great.
"Nostalgia With Doug!" needs a really smashing pink and aqua blue graphic. Something with, oh my god what is that, arbitrary angular collections of overlapping lines.
I'm a big 80s synth pop fan as well. The Buggles, Landscape, New Musik, Nik Kershaw, Howard Jones, Rupert Hine and Level 42. All brilliant.
This was 79 I think but Making Plans For Nigel is when semi punk began to get semi pop, and XTC went on to be much bigger and a lot more mainstream in the 80's, clever clever band, odd fact about Plans For Nigel, it was sung by the bass player, Colin Moulding, whereas nearly all the following hits where sang by Andy Partridge who suffered from almost crippling stage fright
Metalica, Slick Rick, Elvis Costello!
Lol this thread really brings back the memories...all the wrong ones ;-p
Guess I was getting too old even then...
Did like Talking Heads, though, and some OMD.
Come to think of it, '73 was the beginning of the end for me already...disco...that was even worse...
This thread brings back a few memories...
My first band was with an electronic outfit when I was 17, after saving up my wages for a year and buying a new MS20 (which I still have). Four of us with MS20's and a few other analogues, a rhythm machine and no sequencers (everything triggered by hand, very nerve racking!).
A week before we were due to play our first gig at a nearby venue called Crocs which had an electronic night, our singer left the band. Deciding against playing an instrumental set it was suggested our slot was passed on to another new young Basildon electronic band called Depeche Mode. The rest, as they say is history.
Funny old days, I used to see Alison Moyet in the pubs and Vince Clarke in the local record shops on a regular basis. He might spot me perusing a Krautock album (not easy to find in 1980's Basildon) and occasionally nab it after I wandered off to look at something else. And I'm almost certain they bought our Boss Dr. Rhythm...the one he showed off in the BBC4 Synth documentary.
Just think, we could have been as famous as Depeche Mode, if we hadn't been crap, and ugly...
@syrupcore said:
One of my favourite bands, love Liz Fraser's voice.