If we're on a roll posting 80s stuff, seeming I mentioned Robert Palmer you can't go past this for a quintessentially 80s song. Palmer with some of Duran Duran + a guy from Chic.

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lol i must admit i didnt really like that song till the wanderers started using it as a chant and then now i very much enjoy it, i dont care what people say i like my fair share of embarrassing songs i was technically born in the 80's but by a few days so its not like i remember much of it:lol: but i grew up with this kind of music thanks to family

here is another great 80's song

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Ha ha don't worry I do remember it and remember dancing around singing this song like a loon

Absolutely LOVE that track, always been one of my faves
The way the verse sort of "slides" into the chorus is just perfect
Genuinely great song

My first cassette I ever bought was Robert Palmer. I'm relatively happy with that choice (I'll save my first CD purchase for another time as that's a bit more embarrassing) :lol:
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The official video is iconic but I can't find it on youtube :cry:

I often thought this guy was a bit of a poser, albeit a good-looking one->



Adam and the Ants, sexy warrior bravado kings wild frontier

Do yourself a favour and check out this track->

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As embarrassing as it (probably) is, that video and "leave a light on" were also two of my faves and in fact about a month ago I saw her live ha ha ha I'm not even ashamed

For the record I'm only just 34 so I was like 5-8 when I say I loved these songs. I just happened to be probably unhealthily into rock/pop music for a 6 year old aha

brutal planet is a 2000's song i think its a industrial rock song so not at all like his older stuff, i think i like only woman bleed too i was lucky while i almost missed the 80's i grew up with a lot of 60's 70's and 80's music while listening to the modern music i like now so the best of both worlds

sadly i cant post any good Pantera in here since its a few months too late

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Ha ha sure but pop music has always been about you just add a hint of nostalgia to the ones from your own day. I mean bananarama were around when I was a kid aha

It also depends on how young you became aware of music, what you were exposed to in those years and how keen a student of music you are. My parents always had music on and often really quite loud so by the time I was like 6 I knew all the words to every Beatles song!!! I started playing the piano around that time too and music was just "in me". My grandfather was a musician too and when he came here in the 50s he lived off that money while he sent his factory paycheques back to the family in Italy so they could join him here.

Some parents never have music on in the house for various reasons and so the kids don't get into music till they hear what's "in" from the playground.

My best mate loves all the same music I do but he never played it to his kids. The 12 year old girl now loves Taylor Swift aha Still, young girls are always far more susceptible to those trends I think. My sister loves old music like me and newer cool bands but I know she liked things like NSync and all that crap for a while too when she was about 12.

Ha ha I'm no real Alice Cooper fan and if you swap out brutal planet (that i can't think of right now) for Only Women Bleed you'd have the 3 songs I like but I really loved that one as a kid

The funny thing is Radiohead fans are driving their kids to soccer practice in their 4wds

But the kids want to listen to Taylor Swift, Bieber, One Direction instead \:d/

lol its a good song honestly i only like a couple of alice cooper songs that, bed of nails and brutal planet

Ahahaa oh man that was my favourite song when I was a kid and used to get up and watch Rage.

Used to tape songs by putting my little yellow plastic cassette player up against the shitty tv speaker ha ha simpler times.

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Totally agree
I grew up with and am still in love with music my parents were into. In a lot of cases I am a bigger fan than they ever were of bands like Zeppelin, The Beatles, The Doors, Frank Zappa, Cream, Sabbath, Floyd etc etc etc

The gap between my teenage bands of Nirvana, Pearl Jam blah blah and those is really quite small compared to the gap between say Zeppelin and Sinatra or Garland for their respective generations.

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Edited by swarth: 26/5/2016 04:43:09 PM

I want to agree w/this more than you can imagine, but the fact that Taylor Swift & co. have been a BIG thing for the last 6-7+ years, for instance, can't help but prevent me from doing so wholeheartedly.

That said...

I take heart in the fact that the 3D-gen GTA games' use of licensed songs in their in-game radio playlists have introduced kids to 'old' music they might otherwise have not come into contact with. That can't be understated.

Edited by BA81: 23/5/2016 04:14:07 PM

Its possible that Radiohead fans dont see themselves as old because of the ubiquitous nature of their music, kind of like how Bowie kept going in the business 40-45 years after he stopped being "relevant" and gained a new audience (the 80s and 90s).

With regards to Radiohead they started out in the nirvana crowd, most of their prime fanbase have kids and mortgages now

Conversely, U2 are definitely an oldies act now :( and before they checked out: Prince and Michael Jackson slipped out of the frame to be "glamorous oldies" acts

Tbh I think the 'oldies' is a bit of a dated concept in itself. I think it comes from bygone eras where a generation would have "their" music and everything before that was considered "oldies" music. It was the music of their parents are therefore didn't represent them.

That's changed. Kids who wern't even born when Nevermind came out feel like Cobian speaks to them. Go to a Radiohead concert and you'll see more 18 year olds than people in their 40s. Not all, but a lot of old music is intergenerational.

Anyway thats my view.

This album is fifty years old!->

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My dad never liked the beach boys, he found them to be negative and depressing, they hid depressing lyrics under upbeat sounding soundscapes. Sloop John B, Wouldnt it Be Nice, im waiting for the day, god only knows

Pfft, you want scary get a load of this guy


He sang the theme song to the walking dead season 1->
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He became this, a scary old man who sings the stuff of nightmares->
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Oh and theres always this->

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Still remember the first time dad showed me Brain Salad Surgery
Managed to borrow his vinyl of it and not return it to date
Never listens to his records but is still funny about me taking them aha

Pfft... if you want results make them listen to Slayers Christ Illusion on repeat. That's one of the darkest albums ever made :lol:

Every Bieber/1D/Taylor Swift fan should be strapped to chairs Clockwork Orange-style and forced to listen to 'Trout Mask Replica' on loop till they are saved.

That or TISM's entire back-catalogue, either should do the trick.

god this album still slays me. My all time favourite.

Weird music was around before people were around->

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BTW: How do people feel about Radiohead being termed an 'oldies' act*? Theyve been a band for 31 years, if thats not termed "oldies" Im not sure what is

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This is actually a classic album, Weezer unknowingly spawned an entire new genre of music, Emo

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^ This track is everything everyone loved - and derided about prog rock in the one track ;)

The band I've been getting into a lot recently from that era is Gentle Giant. I only discovered them last year, but a real gem of a progressive rock band from the 70's. Some wild and whacky sounds, but great song writing and musos.

Its strange that I never associate the term 'old school' to glam rock in particular this song->

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