The Music Of The 80s - Favorites, Classics And Rarities

[hitman531ph]

Forming in 1980, this duo would become one the early influences in the Synthpop movement. Attending the University at Bath, Rob Fisher met Pete Byrne and the two shared an affinity for music. They wrote prolifically, recorded demos and secured a publishing deal shortly after. Unlike their Synthpop contemporaries, whose sound was often very detached and cold, Naked Eyes had a warmth and sophistication to their sound. Their debut release Naked Eyes (self-titled in the U.S.) and Burning Bridges (in the U.K.) was released in 1983. Utilizing studio musicians to round out a lush sound, Fisher played over eight electronic keyboards and a grand piano to achieve their sound. Their first single was a majestic, synthesized version of the famous Burt Bacharach/Hal David song "Always Something There To Remind Me." Topping the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, the duo released a second single "Promises Promises," which was also quickly became a hit. A third single "When The Lgiths Go Out" was a minor hit, entering the US Hot 100 but not reaching the Top 40. In 1984, Naked Eyes released their second album "Fuel For The Fire," which didn't have the same success as their debut. Their single "(What) In The Name of Love" barely charted in the Top 40, although full-fledged New Wavers can still remember that song

 

The band broke up shortly after with Rob Fisher reappearing as one half of the pop duo Climie Fisher which had one US & UK hit "Love Changes Everything" in 1988.

 

Rob Fisher passed away on August 25, 1999, from complications following stomach surgery

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THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ONE-HIT WONDERS OF THE 80s (A-

 

Abbott, Gregory

"Shake You Down"

1986

 

After the Fire

"Der Kommissar"

1983

 

Aldo Nova

"Fantasy"

1982

 

Al B. Sure!

"Nite and Day"

1988

 

Astley, Jon

"Jane's Getting Serious"

1987

 

Bardeaux

"When We Kiss"

1986

 

Baltimora

"Tarzan Boy"

1986

 

Belle Stars

"Iko Iko"

1989

 

Bonham

"Wait For You"

1989

 

Boomtown Rats

"I Don't Like Mondays"

1980

 

Bourgeois Tagg

"I Don't Mind At All"

1987

 

Bow Wow Wow

"I Want Candy"

1982

 

Boys Don't Cry

"I Wanna be a Cowboy"

1986

 

Buckner and Garcia

"Pac-Man Fever"

1982

 

Burnette, Rocky

"Tired of Toein' the Line"

1980

 

Bus Boys

"The Boys are Back in Town"

1982

[hitman531ph]

THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ONE-HIT WONDERS OF THE 1980s (C-G)

 

Charlene

"I've Never Been to Me"

1982

 

Christopher, Gavin

"One Step Closer to You"

1986

 

Climie Fisher

"Love Changes (Everything)"

1988

 

Club Nouveau

"Lean on Me"

1987

 

Company B

"Fascinated"

1987

 

Damian, Michael

"Rock On"

1989

 

David & David

"Welcome to the Boomtown"

1986

 

Davis, Jimmy & Junction

"Kick the Wall"

1987

 

Dexy's Midnight Runners

"Come on Eileen"

1983

 

Diesel

"Sausalito Summernight"

1981

 

Doctor & the Medics

"Spirit in the Sky"

1986

 

Dore, Charlie

"Pilot of the Airwaves"

1980

 

Double

"The Captain of Her Heart"

1986

 

Elmo & Patsy

"Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer"

1984

 

Georgia Satellites

"Keep Your Hands to Yourself"

1986

 

Giuffria

"Call to the Heart"

1985

 

Godfathers

"Birth, School, Work, Death"

1988

 

Gorky Park

"Bang"

1989

 

GTR

"When the Heart Rules the Mind"

1986

[irishgirl]

MADNESS:

 

This band basically had only UK hits in most of its existence except twice in 1983.  Madness was already known for Baggy Trousers which was adapted into a Colgate commercial.  Their 1982 album, Rise and Fall, released a single called Our House which went to #8 in the US and Top 5 in UK.  A single It Must Be Love peaked at #34 in the US but went Top 10 in the UK.  Madness released another album which churned out UK hits Michael Caine and Uncle Sam

 

By 1987, Madness disappeared from the UK charts and never to return

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lolz... oi meron ako nito old school ska yeah!!!! ganda ganda ganda... hanggang ngaun fave ko to... fave ko since bata pako 10 cguro ako non lolz....

[hitman531ph]

THE ALPHABETICAL LIST OF ONE-HIT WONDERS IN THE 1980s (H-L)

 

Haircut 100

"Love Plus One"

1982

 

Hammer, Jan

Miami Vice Theme

1985

 

Hardcastle, Paul

"19"

1985

 

Higgins, Bertie

"Key Largo"

1982

 

Hipsway

"The Honeythief"

1987

 

Hooked On Classics

"Royal Philharmonic Orchestra"

1982

 

Icicle Works

"Whisper to a Scream (Birds Fly)"

1984

 

Johnson, Don

"Heartbeat"

1986

 

Jones, Oran "Juice"

"The Rain"

1986

 

Jump in the Saddle Band

"Curly Shuffle"

1983

 

Kane Gang

"Motortown"

1987

 

Kershaw, Nik

"Wouldn't It Be Good"

1984

 

Kingdom Come

"Get It On"

1988

 

Kings,

The Beat Goes On / Switchin' To Glide

1980

 

Kix

"Don't Close Your Eyes"

1989

 

Kon Kan

"I Beg Your Pardon"

1989

 

Korgis

"Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime"

1980

 

L. A. Guns

"The Ballad of Jayne"

1989

 

Laid Back

"White Horse"

1984

 

Levert

"Cassanova"

1987

 

Lipps, Inc.

"Funkytown"

1980

 

L'Trimm

"Cars with the Boom"

1988

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Mardones, Benny

"Into the Night"

1980

 

Mary Jane Girls

"In My House"

1985

 

M/A/R/R/S

"Pump up the Volume"

1988

 

McFerrin , Bobby

"Don't Worry, Be Happy"

1988

 

 

Moving Pictures

"What About Me"

1983

 

Musical Youth

"Pass the Dutchie"

1983

 

Myles, Allanah

"Black Velvet"

1989

 

Nena

"99 Luftballoons" ("99 Red Balloons")

1984

 

Nu Shooz

"I Can't Wait"

1986

 

Numan, Gary

"Cars"

1980

 

Ollie & Jerry

"Breakin... There's No Stopping Us"

1984

 

Opus

"Live is Life"

1986

 

Oxo

"Whirly Girl"

1983

 

Poindexter, Buster

"Hot, Hot, Hot"

1988?

 

Pretty Poison

"Catch Me (I'm Falling)"

1987

 

Re-Flex

"The Politics of Dancing"

1984

 

Red Rider

"Lunatic Fringe"

1981

 

Rockwell

"Somebody's Watching Me"

1984

 

Rossington-Collins Band

"Don't Misunderstand Me"

1980

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Saga

"On the Loose"

1983

 

Scarbury, Joey

"Believe It or Not"

1981

 

Scarlet & Black

"You Don't Know"

1988

 

Schilling, Peter

"Major Tom (Coming Home)"

1983

 

Shannon

"Let the Music Play"

1983

 

Sheriff

"When I'm With You"

1989

 

Sly Fox

"Let's Go All the Way"

1986

 

Stacey Q

"Two of Hearts"

1986

 

Stallone, Frank

"Far From Over"

1983

 

Steinman, Jim

"Rock and Roll Dreams Come Through"

1981

 

Sugar Hill Gang

"Rapper's Delight"

1980

 

Swayze, Patrick

"She's Like the Wind"

1988

 

Swing Out Sister

"Breakout"

1987

 

Taco

"Puttin' on the Ritz"

1983

 

Til Tuesday

"Voices Carry"

1985

 

Timbuk 3

"The Future's So Bright, I Gotta Wear Shades"

1986

 

Timex Social Club

"Rumors"

1986

 

Tommy Tutone

"867-5309/Jenny"

1982

 

T'Pau

"Heart and Soul"

1987

 

Tripping Daisy

"I Got a Girl"

1985

 

Ullman, Tracey

"They Don't Know"

1984

 

Vapors

"Turning Japanese"

1980

 

Wagner, Jack

"All I Need"

1984

 

Waitresses

"I Know What Boys Like"

1982

 

Wall of Voodoo

"Mexican Radio"

1982

 

When in Rome

"The Promise"

1988

 

Wilder, Matthew

"Break My Stride"

1983

 

Young MC

"Bust a Move"

1989

[irishgirl]

hmmm..

 

irishgirl, I don't have any memory of such a song in the 80s...

 

Meanwhile, The Wallflowers is a band that formed in 1990 and had its first release in 1992 and hit it big in 1996.  Therefore, The Wallflowers is not a band that had hits in the 80s

 

Perhaps the artist name is wrong and also, i can't find any title that matches your query in the title either...

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lolz... their record label or manager was the same as the smiths and uhhmmm before they can release their album the label or manager had some trouble or something... not the wallflowers (dylan) ... they was an earlier UK group called the wallflowers... blushing girl nervous smile was the single they had released... can u check on the song title, maybe u can find it by that ... i heard NU play this one a long time ago....

[Guest Dobermaxx]

FINALLY!!!! Its about time someone started a glam rock/hair metal thread.

 

I grew up on this stuff in the late eighties and early 90's. Some of the stuff I still have is

 

Poison

Motley Crue

Def Leppard

Cinderella

Thunder

Dokken

Great White

Extreme

Guns n Roses

LA Guns

Tyketto

Lion

Steelheart

 

and so much more. My MP3 player is crammed with the stuff and these days a lot of it is hard to find. I even remember buying mags like Circus, Metal Edge etc... boy...those were the days. Now if i could only forget the mullet i had

[Dr.Love]

Trip ko din glam. Those were the days!

 

Faith No More is not a glam metal band. Hard rock lang sila.

[Cradle of Filth]

NAGDAAN DIN AKO DYAN, I WAS IN HIGHSCHOOL DURING THE EARLY 90'S.HERE IS THE LIST OF MY ALL TIME FAVORITES

 

GUNS N ROSES

SKID ROW

TESLA

MOTLEY CRUE

WARRANT

TWISTED SISTER

QUIET RIOT

VAN HALEN

DEF LEPPARD

POISON

 

HERE IS A BIT OF HISTORY

Hair metal is a type of heavy metal music that arose in the late 1970s, in the United States, and was a strong force in popular music throughout the 1980s and early 1990s.

 

>1978, with the release of the hard rock band Van Halen's ground-breaking debut,Guitarist Eddie Van Halen's innovative tapping technique, and vocalist David Lee Roth's mock-carnal presence provided the template for what would become hair metal. Countless bands relocated to Los Angeles to follow their example, and formed a colorful scene centering around the Sunset Strip.

 

>Hair metal was aggressive, with lyrics often focusing on girls, drinking, drug use, and the occult. Musically, hair metal songs often featured distorted guitar riffs, "hammer-on" solos, anthemic choruses, frenzied drumming, and complimentary bass. Hair metal performers became infamous for their debauched lifestyles, their long, teased hair, and effeminate use of make-up, clothing, and accessories

 

>By the mid-1980s, hair metal was drawing inspiration from other sources, such as the romantic rock of the late-1970s. Bands like Boston, Journey, and Foreigner, influenced Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, and Poison, among others, to record power ballads. Despite hair metal's popularity at the time, many began to consider it unimportant or derisory, due to a common perception that the bands were more focused on their make-up, clothing (usually spandex), lyrics, and stage shows, than on their music. By the mid-1980s, a discernible formula developed in which a hair band had two hits--one a power ballad, one a hard-rocking anthem

 

>In 1987, Guns N' Roses completly changed the meaning of hair metal. They incorporated sound of trash metal, blues and punk to the music, while keeping some of the images of glam rock. However, Guns N' Roses' next releases went into another musical directions. Therefore, many music critics do not consider Guns N' Roses a hair metal band.

 

>By the early 1990s, hair metal had become widely ridiculed (the 1984 film This is Spinal Tap is a satire of the genre), and increasingly formulaic, (for example, the music of Firehouse, Vixen, and Slaughter.) In 1991, the surge in popularity of grunge music, such as that performed by Alice In Chains, Nirvana, and Pearl Jam, led to a decline in hair metal's popularity

[cruesome]

i'm such a sucker for these music, lalo pag medyo ngongo na sa alak

 

to the point that i buy dvds from amazon.com. mp3? hundreds of gigs.

 

so far eto orig na dvds ko (glam) from amazon

 

poison's greatest video hits

motley crue - lewd crued and tattoed

motley crue - greatest video hits

def leppard - historia / in the round, in your face

def leppard - visualize / video archive

 

then a handful from bittorrent

 

high school ba kayo nun? parang matanda na ako ah

[Tom Babauta]

I'm sure their cds are still available in Tower or at Music 1.

Just check out the jazz section.

P.S. I miss City Lite 88.3FM

[hitman531ph]

THE ROMANTICS

 

Formed on the east side of Detroit during 1977, the Romantics' original lineup consisted of singer/guitarist Wally Palmar, singer/drummer Jimmy Marinos, guitarist Mike Skill, and bassist Richie Cole.

Building a local following with their live show, the Romantics issued a single on their own (via Spider Records) -- "Little White Lies" b/w "I Can't Tell You Anything" -- while a spirited performance in Toronto led to a brief union with the renowned punk/power pop indie label Bomp!, which issued another single shortly thereafter with "Tell It to Carrie" b/w "First in Line." Both singles helped bring the quartet to the attention of several other labels and the Romantics inked a deal with the Nemperor/Epic label in 1979. The band's self-titled full-length debut surfaced a year later (recorded in just three weeks) and is often considered to be the quartet's best due to the inclusion of such gems as "When I Look in Your Eyes," a cover of Ray Davies' "She's Got Everything," and one of the Romantics' best-known tracks: the power pop gem "That's What I Like About You." Although the latter track peaked at only number 49 when originally released as a single, it later became an early MTV favorite and classic rock radio standard and in the '90s, was used in several commercials.

 

A sophomore effort was issued the same year, National Breakout, which saw the band expand their sound to include such other styles as surf and classic Motown and was supported by an extensive world tour (including the Romantics' inaugural visits to both Europe and Australia). Also issued around this time via the Quark label (a subsidiary of Bomp!) was a compilation credited to Romantics & Friends, entitled Midwest Pop Explosion!, which featured several early tracks. Strictly Personal in 1981 signaled the Romantics' first lineup change with Coz Canler replacing Skill, and while the group's audience continued to grow, the album failed to break the band commercially, something that would be corrected on their next release.

 

In Heat (1983) would become the Romantics' best-selling album (going gold shortly after its release) on the strength of such Top Ten hit singles as "Talking in Your Sleep" and "One in a Million" and the quartet shed its early raw energy in favor of more streamlined songwriting. Although they had finally obtained breakthrough success, problems between the band and their management became an issue, leading to Marinos' departure. The Romantics decided to soldier on with a new drummer, Dave Petratos, resulting in 1985's Rhythm Romance, an album that saw the group move even further away from their power pop roots and embrace more mainstream rock (both musically and, judging from the album's cover, visually). Rhythm Romance would also prove to be the Romantics' last studio album issued via Nemperor/Epic as a complete falling out between the band and its management led to a lawsuit that prevented the group from touring or recording on a regular basis, leading many to assume that the group had split up. During this period of downtime, a ten-track best-of set was issued, 1990's What I Like About You (& Other Romantic Hits).

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