Welcome to the archived messages from In The 00s. This archive stretches back to 1998 in some instances, and contains a nearly complete record of all the messages posted to inthe00s.com. You will also find an archive of the messages from inthe70s.com, inthe80s.com, inthe90s.com and amiright.com before they were combined to form the inthe00s.com messageboard.
If you are looking for the active messages, please click here. Otherwise, use the links below or on the right hand side of the page to navigate the archives.
Subject: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
I NOTICED SOME BANDS AND SOLO ARTISTS HAVE NEVER BEEN MENTIONED ON THE BOARD......
1. HEART............These Dreams/What about Love/never
2. SHERIFF..........When i'm with you/Give me rock n' roll
3. THE POLICE......Don't stand so close to me
4. STREET HEART..What kind of love is this
5. MEN AT WORK...Who can it be now/Down under
6. BIG COUNTRY....In a big country
7. ERIC CARMEN....Make me lose control
8. THE JETS.........Make it real
9. TIFFANY..........I think we're alone now
10. JERMAINE STEWART...We don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time
11. DOCTOR & THE MEDICS...Spirit in the sky
12. ONE TO ONE...Angel in my pocket
13. TIMBUK 3...The futures so bright, i gotta wear shades
14. SIMPLY RED...Holding back the years
15. STACEY Q...Two of hearts
16. GENESIS...Illegal alien
17. ALDO NOVA...Ball and chain
18. SLADE.....Runrunaway
19. SPLIT ENZ....Six months in a leaky boat
20. DIRE STRAITS...Money for nothing
21. PAT BENATAR...Treat me right
SHOULD I NAME MORE......THEEEEERE ARE STILL MORE YA KNOW.......BUT I DON'T WANT TO BORE YA, HEEHEE! ;D ;D ;D
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
Fantasy by Aldo Nova
Just Between You & Me by April Wine
I Got You by Split Endz
I Could Be Good For You by 707
Sweetheart by Frankie & The Knockouts
Nichole by Point Blank
Breaking Away by Balance
Trouble & Go Insane by Lindsey Buckingham
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
Donald Fagen "I.G.Y."
Michael Mcdonald "sweet freedom"
Pointer sisters and Aretha Franklin had some BIG 80's hits, but noone ever starts a thread "whats your favorite Aretha franklin songs?"
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
Fairly popular artists which are hardly ever mentioned on this board:
The Jam
Blondie
The Bangles
Berlin (To an extent - as there was athread a while ago)
Heaven 17
OMD
Howard Jones
Nik Kershaw
Roxy Music
Elvis Costello
Yazoo/Yaz ( Also to an extent)
The Specials
Kim Wilde
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
Quoting:
Fairly popular artists which are hardly ever mentioned on this board:
Berlin (To an extent - as there was athread a while ago)
Heaven 17
OMD
Nik Kershaw
Roxy Music
Elvis Costello
Yazoo/Yaz ( Also to an extent)
The Specials
End Quote
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
Especially Roxy Music. I mean, how long have these guys been around? '74, I think, was when their debut album came out. Their 1982 album, Avalon, is a must for any fan of 80s music. Again, another breakthrough band that remains wholly ignored. It just makes me wonder: was I the only one listening to this stuff and supporting the career of these artists? And what exactly were clubs playing after the unceremonius death of Disco? (It would be hilarious to find out clubs and discotheques were playing Poison to American audiences... ::) )
Tarzan Boy
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
Quoting:
Thank you, thank you, thank you!
End Quote
You're very welcome, Tarzan Boy!
I do know exactly what you mean - some of those bands were fantastic and I'm not really into the whole soft rock that was very apparent in the early 80's, or the hair metal. It's new wave, synth pop mainly for me!! Also some alt stuff, like The Smiths, REM, Replacements - but thats another story :)
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
...and what about Icehouse, The Tubes, and Ultravox?
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
Quoting:
...and what about Icehouse
End Quote
I already had one but, thanks just the same ;)
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
Kudos to Banasy for mentioning Ultravox. Aaaaah, it's great to know I'm not alone in actually liking this stuff. Ultravox was awesome and is one of the few bands which, I think, used an actual theremin (for their song "Reap the Wild Wind"). Theremin users, I thought, were only minor up to that point, unless one counts cheapie sci-fi flix from the 50s and 60s. Not only that, but Midge Ure and another bandmate (forgot his name) also collaborated with model, turned vocalist, Steve Strange in a project called Visage (loved their music!).
On a similar note, I forgot to mention another very important New Wave band - Japan (!!!!!). God! How could I forget this great band? They came around the same time Ultravox! did (some time int he late 70s) and can truly be called New Wave - just listen to some of their early work: synthesizers with punk vocals! "Quiet Life" (from 1980) is probably their best representative song, IMO although their sound changed from their late 70s angsty to early 80s sultry (think of a strange mix of Roxy Music and Duran Duran). David Sylvan and Mick Karn went on to solo careers (much like M. Ure). Man! I could go rambling on about this. Well, at least there won't be any complaints about not mentioning certain bands (and this thread gives me the opportunity to do so).
Oh yeah, what about Sparks? How could I forget The Sparks brothers? Great band. Been around as long as Roxy Music too and, no, they have a whole bunch a good songs besides "Cool Places" and "Music That You Can Dance To."
I was watching part of a VH1 Behind The Music about Poison and it just proved my theory that the 80s went downhill as soon as these Fluff Rockers started selling albums around the mid-80s...go figure ::) They actually did play them at clubs. Sad, very sad, is all I have to say on that matter.
Tarzan Boy
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
Some bands/artist from the 80's rarely mentioned:
Portion Control ("The Great Divide")
Bill Nelson ("Empire of the Senses")
Peter Godwin ("Images of Heaven")
Bobby "O" ("I'm So Hot 4 U," "She Has A Way" and producer/mixer of the original version of PSB's "West End Girls")
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
Quoting:
Peter Godwin ("Images of Heaven")
End Quote
There's a best of comp available through Oglio Records - yup, the same company who released the Living in Oblivion series and the Richard Blade's Flashbacks. So everyone: git thee to record shoppe!
Tarzan Boy
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
Hmm, lets think of some more:
Boys Town Gang (Love the remake of 'Can't Take My Eyes Off You'!)
Kim Wilde
Irene Cara
Richard Marx
Tracy Chapman
T-Pau
Squeeze
Level 42
Communards
Talk Talk
Glen Medieros ( LOL - gotta love the song, however cheesy it is :). Actually had been mentioned a couple of times in thread for 80's love songs if i recall correctly!)
The Vapours
Expose
Aztec Camera ( Apart from Bobo - as I know he adores 'Somewhere In My Heart' ;) )
Frankie Goes To Hollywood ( How influential and provocative, yet rarely mentioned!?)
Billy Idol ( Yes, even Billy Idol!)
All I can think of for now :)
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
;D How about:
Nena-99 luft balloons
Talking Heads-Burning down the house
Zebra-Who's behind the door (Aewsome tune)
Tim RATT-n-ROLL
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
Living On Video by Trans X
So You Like What You See by Samuelle
Supersonic by JJ Fad
Nowhere Girls by B Movies
I Love Rock & Roll by Joan Jett & Blackhearts
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
Quoting:
...and what about Icehouse, The Tubes, and Ultravox?
End Quote
Banasy !
You mean as in the Australian Band Icehouse ? I'm impressed that they found their way to Indiana.
If so, they were one of THE oz bands of the 80s and early 90's. Their lead singer, Iva Davies, used to be criticised for sounding like David Bowie.
The quote at the bottom of all my posts, Great Southern Land, I think should replace Advance Australia Fair as our National Anthem. 8)
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
Quoting:
;D How about:
Nena-99 luft balloons
Talking Heads-Burning down the house
Zebra-Who's behind the door (Aewsome tune)
Tim RATT-n-ROLL
End Quote
Am at college, and I can't log in! :)
Talking Heads did some great stuff, especially 'Once In A Lifetime', 'Psycho Killer' amd 'And She was'. :)
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
I surprised no one mentioned the Monroes--"What do all the people know", perhaps one the best one hit wonders from the eighties. Also, Softcell's "Tainted Love".
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
I can think of some:
Northern Lights: Tears are not enough!
Northern Pikes: Teenland
That's all I can think of for now. ;)
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
Peter Shilling
Adam Ant (or And the Ants, depending)
Siouxsie & the Banshees
Lene Lovich
And Tony Carey's solo work...either as himself or with the Planet P Project
And what about the Culture Club? Boy George gets metioned a lot, but the rest of the band?
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
Good call on Yaz(oo)...heck, even in the 80's I had no clue who they were. Stations in So. Florida would play 'Situation' during late night re-mixes, and never announce who did the song or what it was called. We always called it 'The Move-Out Song'.
Only after I got to college did I hear the 'Upstairs at Eric's' CD, which a roommate owned (great cover, BTW). Loved it and got it through BMG :-).
Erasure is another little talked-about band whose music I really like. Their 'Pop! The first 20 hits' is one of my fave greatest hit CD's.
Lots o' rap/funk acts - Run DMC, Rick James, LL Cool J, The Time - don't get a lot of pub here, either.
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
Quoting:
Banasy !
You mean as in the Australian Band Icehouse ? I'm impressed that they found their way to Indiana.
If so, they were one of THE oz bands of the 80s and early 90's. Their lead singer, Iva Davies, used to be criticised for sounding like David Bowie.
The quote at the bottom of all my posts, Great Southern Land, I think should replace Advance Australia Fair as our National Anthem. 8)
End Quote
LOL! What, you think us Yanks never heard of Midnight Oil, Billy Thorpe, Mi-Sex, Flash and the Pan, Moving Pictures, The Sherbs (Sherbet), The Church, Divinyls, Mental as Anything, Cold Chisel, Mondo Rock, Real Life, The Models, The Sports, Eurogliders, Skyhooks, TMG, Angel City (The Angels), Choirboys, Wa Wa Nee, Pseudo Echo, etc., etc., etc.??? :) Believe it or not, most of these (including Icehouse) saw most or all of their albums come out here in the States, too, and landed at least one hit on the American charts. Aussies definitely made inroads here in the late '70s and throughout the '80s - and most of it was quite good! :)
BTW, "Great Southern Land" is probably my favorite Icehouse tune as well - even have the video... :)
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
Sending All My Love by Linear, or was that the early 90's?
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
Quoting:
LOL! What, you think us Yanks never heard of Midnight Oil, Billy Thorpe, Mi-Sex, Flash and the Pan, Moving Pictures, The Sherbs (Sherbet), The Church, Divinyls, Mental as Anything, Cold Chisel, Mondo Rock, Real Life, The Models, The Sports, Eurogliders, Skyhooks, TMG, Angel City (The Angels), Choirboys, Wa Wa Nee, Pseudo Echo, etc., etc., etc.??? :) Believe it or not, most of these (including Icehouse) saw most or all of their albums come out here in the States, too, and landed at least one hit on the American charts. Aussies definitely made inroads here in the late '70s and throughout the '80s - and most of it was quite good! :)
BTW, "Great Southern Land" is probably my favorite Icehouse tune as well - even have the video... :)
End Quote
Well no - it's - how you say ? It's a lot easier to notice what's coming over here than it is to know what's going over there, if you take my meaning.
I suggest that the period and the bands you mentioned though probably covers the best period/best bands.
Some of the stuff they produced was simply fantastic but with one or two exceptions it has really fallen away.
As a side note, in recent times the lead singers of both Mi-Sex and Skyhooks were killed in a car crash and helicopter crash respectively. Both very tragic .... :'(
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
Quoting:
As a side note, in recent times the lead singers of both Mi-Sex and Skyhooks were killed in a car crash and helicopter crash respectively. Both very tragic .... :'(
End Quote
Knew about Skyhooks, but not Mi-Sex. Also heard about the fairly recent passing of the lead singer of NZ band Dragon (Marc Hunter). Sad, indeed... :(
Subject: Re: 80'S BANDS/SOLO ARTISTS HARDLY EVER MENTIONED!
The The.