Author Topic: help me with the Eighties  (Read 1940 times)

help me with the Eighties
« on: 09 September, 2008, 09:29:54 pm »
I'm racking my brain here...I'm a child of the 60s and 70s and apart from Joy Division came late to realising that there were great bands in the eighties as well. I don't mean the late eighties shoe-gazy stuff but the earlier mostly Manchester (?) bands (The Smiths, The Fall etc) Now there was a great track which I think Mark Radcliffe played on his/Maconie's show a few weeks ago. I don't think it was New Order but that kind of portentous synthy sound.  But what/who was it? It's slipped just below my memory so there's not a shred of tune or lyric left...just a feeling a vibe. And no it wasn't Soft Cell either. Human League perhaps?

Help me out here people by listing some faves from the 80s

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Re: help me with the Eighties
« Reply #1 on: 09 September, 2008, 09:36:24 pm »
That's a bit broad.

Early Ultravox (John Foxx era)? Human League (Sheffield, not Manchester), and the other remnant of the BEF, Heaven 17?  Gary Numan?  Was it Funky? - Shriekback?  was it OMD?  Does the show have an online playlist?

Give us a clue...
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Re: help me with the Eighties
« Reply #2 on: 09 September, 2008, 09:45:44 pm »
Lotus Eaters 
The Psychedelic Furs 
Furniture 
The Icicle Works 
Dream Academy 
Prefab Sprout 
The Passions 
The Blow Monkeys 
Bauhaus 
Big Audio Dynamite 
The Primitives 
The Fall 
Tubeway Army 
The Cult 
Echo & The Bunnymen 
The Cure 
The Associates 
Spear Of Destiny 
The Teardrop Explodes 
Fiction Factory 
Cocteau Twins 
The The 
Blancmange 
Lloyd Cole And The Commotions 
Depeche Mode
Sisters Of Mercy
The Mission
The Jesus & Mary Chain
Killing Joke
Fields Of The Nephilim
New Model Army
Pixies
Wedding Present
House of Love
All About Eve
Talking Heads
Talk Talk
Wonderstuff
House of Love
Visage
Landscape
Japan
XTC
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Re: help me with the Eighties
« Reply #3 on: 09 September, 2008, 09:52:09 pm »
If it involved the aforementioned dream team wobbling on saying that the song was about taking heroin then I believe it was "True Faith" by Manc Monsters of Mung, New Order.

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Re: help me with the Eighties
« Reply #4 on: 09 September, 2008, 09:54:14 pm »
Kirst that looks like the playlist I had to delete from one of our work servers!  Turned out we'd hired a new goth nurse on the night-shift...
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Re: help me with the Eighties
« Reply #5 on: 09 September, 2008, 09:54:38 pm »
Are we talking stuff with credibility, or anything?

Duran Duran (they started with credibility)
Frankie Goes To Hollywood (believe me, they had credibility)
Furniture
Happy Mondays
Joy Division
New Order
Stone Roses

etc etc

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Re: help me with the Eighties
« Reply #6 on: 09 September, 2008, 09:55:02 pm »
Kirst that looks like the playlist I had to delete from one of our work servers!  Turned out we'd hired a new goth nurse on the night-shift...

So?  Did you?  :D
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Re: help me with the Eighties
« Reply #7 on: 09 September, 2008, 09:59:29 pm »
Kirst that looks like the playlist I had to delete from one of our work servers! 

Why did you delete it?  :D
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Re: help me with the Eighties
« Reply #8 on: 09 September, 2008, 10:22:12 pm »
I needed those umpty-gig of storage for, y'know, medical stuff.  And I am, alas, the Fun Police - there's all sorts of dull copyright reasons why we can't allow it. 
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Re: help me with the Eighties
« Reply #9 on: 09 September, 2008, 10:41:43 pm »
yeah...
That's a bit broad.

Early Ultravox (John Foxx era)? Human League (Sheffield, not Manchester), and the other remnant of the BEF, Heaven 17?  Gary Numan?  Was it Funky? - Shriekback?  was it OMD?  Does the show have an online playlist?

Give us a clue...


Not Ultravox I just don't have the Midge Ure gene somehow (I sometimes admire but can't like his stuff)

and RZ  has his finger on it credibility - yes! But it wasn't Duran Duran or FGTH and it was early/mid 80s so pre-Madchester.

Kirst - what a list! but it's definitely UK and almost certainly from the North. With that synth thing so maybe Depeche Mode, The Teardrop Explodes or HL.

I think I'm going to have to comb the catalogues/youtube etc
Thanks for pointers.

And the lads don't appear to keep their playlists for more than a week. Oh where's John Peel when you need him? Grumble Grumble

 

Re: help me with the Eighties
« Reply #10 on: 09 September, 2008, 10:47:01 pm »
The Blue Nile?

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Re: help me with the Eighties
« Reply #11 on: 09 September, 2008, 10:50:12 pm »
Kirst that looks like the playlist I had to delete from one of our work servers! 

Why did you delete it?  :D

...So there I am in the Tech Maintenance workshop, chatting with the engineers over some broken bit of kit, when one of them takes a phone call from one of the editors working in Post Production.  His Final Cut Pro system has stopped functioning correctly.  Now, this kind of software setup can be delicate - if you don't have exactly the right versions of QuickTime / codecs / Avid Transfer Manager, or whatever, things can go horribly horrible.  Supporting that kind of stuff can be a nightmare.  Doubly so if people put random bits of software on the system which interfere.

So, I'm looking at the guy, while he's taking the notes, and suddenly, he looks me in the eye with 'that look'* and I hear him ask "...So, just tell me again, why you put i-Tunes on it?"   ::-)




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Re: help me with the Eighties
« Reply #12 on: 09 September, 2008, 10:57:38 pm »
If it involved the aforementioned dream team wobbling on saying that the song was about taking heroin then I believe it was "True Faith" by Manc Monsters of Mung, New Order.

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Oh and I looked at that - it had the feeling almost but it's not the one. Cut from the same cloth pretty well though. Any other offers?

Re: help me with the Eighties
« Reply #13 on: 09 September, 2008, 11:09:58 pm »
what a shame the listing doesn't go back that far
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Re: help me with the Eighties
« Reply #14 on: 09 September, 2008, 11:15:51 pm »

Talk Talk


Kirst you're a genius - the tune is... <a href="http://www.youtube.com/v/vvAVJTQeFiQ&rel=1" target="_blank">http://www.youtube.com/v/vvAVJTQeFiQ&rel=1</a>

OK they're from London, I know, still:  they could be honorary Northerners....

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Re: help me with the Eighties
« Reply #15 on: 10 September, 2008, 08:16:26 am »
Yay for people with too many 80s compilations!  ;D
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