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Some Of My Favorite Albums(only 1980-89)

Priest - British Steel, Screaming For Vengeance
Rush - Permanent Waves,Moving Pictures, Exit Stage Left, Signals, Grace Under Pressure, Power Windows, Hold Your Fire & Presto
Van Halen - Women & Children First, Fair Warning, 1984 & 5150
AC/DC - Back In Black & For Those About To Rock
Scorpions - Blackout & Love At First Sting
Ozzy - Blizzard Of Oz & Diary Of a Madman
Def Leppard - High 'n' Dry & Pyromania
DIO - Holy Diver & The Last In Line
Billy Squire - Don't Say No
Tears For Fears - Songs From The Big Chair
Howard Jones - Dream Into Action
Iron Maiden - Number Of The Beast, Piece Of Mind & powerslave
Guns & Roses - Appetite For Destruction
Motley Crue - Shout At The Devil & Dr Feelgood
Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet & New Jersey
Journey - Escape, Frontiers
Cult - Electric
Queen - The Game
Sting - The Dream Of The Blue Turtles & Nothing Like The Sun
Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
Black Sabbath- Heaven & Hell
Triumph - Allied Forces
Prince - 1999, Purple Rain, Around The World In A Day & Sign 'O' The Times
George Michael - Faith
Michael Jackson - Thriller
Metallica - Ride The Lightning & Master Of Puppets
Ratt - Out Of The Cellar & Invasion Of Your Privacy
Whitesnake - Whitesnake
Cinderella - Long Cold Winter
Dokken - Under Lock & Key
Level 42 - World Machine
Reo Speedwagon - Hi Infidelity
Men At Work - Business As Usual
Pet Shop Boys - Please
Foreigner - 4
Joe Satriani - Surfing With The Alien
Police - Zenyatta Mondatta, Ghost In The Machine & Synchronicity
 
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Don't know if I can think of 7, but here are some just off the top of my head...

I grew up in a very conservative muslim country before coming to Australia in the 80's, and when I saw 'The Angels' perform on local TV, I had to find out more about this 'Rock Music' thing... This was one of the first guitar solos (at 2:26) I ever tried to learn:



Unfortunately, Doc Neeson, the lead singer here is currently fighting brain cancer - hope he makes it through OK.


Cold Chisel was another band that influenced me. Loved Ian Moss' playing which was outside your standard rock/blues pentatonic thing...




I was also struck by the multiple guitar riffs of Aussie Crawl...



Still can't understand a WORD that James Reyne sings... :D



I also liked the sultry rock of Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons...




There you go - a bit of a peek into Aussie rock of the 70's and 80's... ;)
 
CyberFerret said:
There you go - a bit of a peek into Aussie rock of the 70's and 80's... ;)
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And you didn't even get to the big, commercial Aussie success stories: The Church, Men At Work/Colin Hays, Midnight Oil...

A whole lot of great music came out of Australia in the 80s!
 
I spent the majority of the 80's on the road. So here are 7 favorite tracks because they got me the most girls.
In descending order.

1. Addicted to Love. Robert Palmer
2. Sledgehammer. Peter Gabriel
3. Every Rose Has its Thorn. Poison
4. Living on a Prayer. Bon Jovi
5. Heaven. Warrant
6. Mony Mony. Billie Idol
7. Need You Tonight. INXS

Ah the good old days. Our priorities in picking songs were.

1. Get us laid
2. Pack the dance floor
3. Get us laid.
4. Stay popular enough to keep working and get us laid.
 
iaresee said:
And you didn't even get to the big, commercial Aussie success stories: The Church, Men At Work/Colin Hays, Midnight Oil...

A whole lot of great music came out of Australia in the 80s!
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Haha - I wanted to highlight some of the 'underground' bands that were very popular locally, but not so widely known in the US and other parts of the world - although Cold Chisel became quite widely known in the late 80's...

I agree though, the bands you highlighted were fantastic. I actually caught a Colin Hay concert last year which I really loved. Going to see him again in a couple of months.

My son's band got to perform for Peter Garret (former Oils front man) last year too... pretty cool.


Here's more... Rose Tattoo lead me to AC/DC...




And who could forget Chrissie Amphlett - the first 'rock chick' I had a crush on... RIP dear soul...

 
I was a kid in the 80s so all top 40 for me

Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
AC/DC - Shook Me All Night Long
Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf
Scorpions - Rock You Like a Hurricane
AH-Ha - Take On Me
Rush - Limelight
Billy Squier - Lonely is the Night
The Cars - Magic
Queensryche - Eyes of a Stranger
Def Leppard - Animal
Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly
Guns N Roses - Sweet Child
Journey - Stone in Love
Prince - Raspberry Beret
Robert Plant - Tall Cool One
The Tubes - She's a Beauty
Van Halen - everything :)
 
I'll have to pick the most influential artists I can think of right now:

Def Leppard (High N Dry)
Peter Gabriel (So and Us)
Judas Priest (You've got another thing coming, Electric Eye)
Tears for Fears (great songs and killer production)
Journey (great songs that still hold their own)
Michael Hedges (my first exposure to his style of aggressive acoustic guitar, especially Aerial Boundaries album)
George Winston (solo piano stuff, especially the Autumn album)
Chameleon (local Minneapolis band)
The Cure (Disintegration)
Bon Jovi
Bruce Hornsby
Guns and Roses
Tom Petty
 
Hope they're all kinda 80ies.
Picked some of these up by listening to Dutch radio with Alfred Lagarde's (RIP) "Betonuur"(?) that got me into the classic bands.

ACDC - Whole Lotta Rosie
Jeff Beck - whole There And Back album
Joe Satriani - whole Surfing With The Alien album
Larry Carlton - whole Sleepwalk album
Pat Metheny Group - Are You Going With Me
Pat Travers - Snortin' Whiskey ( ! ! ! )
Van Halen - Running With The Devil
...
Aerosmith - Rocks (1976, but I discovered it in the 80ies)
Def Leppard - On Through the Night album (recorded in the 80ies ;) )
Anything Toto
I was a hardcore KISS fan too for some years...
 
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The cure a forest
Simple minds new gold dream
Sisters of mercy marian
Frankie goes to hollywood relax
The cult she sells sanctuary
Killing joke love like blood
INXS new sensation
The mission deliverance
Visage fade to grey
U2 pride
 
what? no susannh hoffs fans?
i recall wanting to do things to her back in the 80s...:-|

the 80s had so much tacky yet memorable stuff.
aerobics, breakdancing, poofy shoulder pads...

if i had to choose tracks to represent the 80s, the theme from miami vice sits highly at the top
come to think of it, all the 80s tv themes would be at the top.
 
I guess it's just me.... moar Metal plz!

Metallica - Battery / Master of Puppets
Megadeth - Hook in Mouth / In my Darkest Hour / Peace Sells
Slayer - Angel of Death / Raining Blood
Anthrax - Among the Living / Caught in a Mosh
Iron Maiden - Hallowed be thy Name / Powerslave / Wasted Years
David Lee Roth - Tobacco Road / Big Trouble
Ozzy - Bloodbath in Paradise / Tattooed Dancer / Demon Alcohol
 
CyberFerret said:
Don't know if I can think of 7, but here are some just off the top of my head...

I grew up in a very conservative muslim country before coming to Australia in the 80's, and when I saw 'The Angels' perform on local TV, I had to find out more about this 'Rock Music' thing... This was one of the first guitar solos (at 2:26) I ever tried to learn:

Unfortunately, Doc Neeson, the lead singer here is currently fighting brain cancer - hope he makes it through OK.


Cold Chisel was another band that influenced me. Loved Ian Moss' playing which was outside your standard rock/blues pentatonic thing...


I was also struck by the multiple guitar riffs of Aussie Crawl...


Still can't understand a WORD that James Reyne sings... :D


I also liked the sultry rock of Jo Jo Zep & the Falcons...


There you go - a bit of a peek into Aussie rock of the 70's and 80's... ;)
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I moved to Australia 10 years ago and just recently joined a band here just over a year ago. I've lost count the amount of times that the other guys wanted to play some Aussie "classic" cover from the 80s and be shocked that I hadn't heard about it. Latest cover that we learned and played at a gig was "The Nips are getting bigger" - case in point.

And I've managed to see the Brewster brothers (from the Angels) and met Ian Moss a couple of times - he played with a good mate of mine, so my knowledge of old Australian rock had greatly improved in the last year :)
 
CyberFerret said:
Haha - I wanted to highlight some of the 'underground' bands that were very popular locally, but not so widely known in the US and other parts of the world - although Cold Chisel became quite widely known in the late 80's...

I agree though, the bands you highlighted were fantastic. I actually caught a Colin Hay concert last year which I really loved. Going to see him again in a couple of months.
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I'll have to spend some time back filling my Australian 80's music knowledge. Those lesser known songs you posted were great.

Wasn't Big Country from Australia too? The Crossing was another favourite album from the 80's for me.
 
iaresee said:
Wasn't Big Country from Australia too? The Crossing was another favourite album from the 80's for me.
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I think the staunch Scotsman that is Stuart Adamson might tend to disagree...

;)


Saw Big Country supporting Queen in '86... which turned out to be Freddie's last live show with Queen, although no one knew that at the time of course! Both were awesome, as were Status Quo to their 'three-chord-trick' credit. Can't quite say the same about Belouis Some though :?
 
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