80's Rock

AH! i forgot Jurassic 5.  TRUE hip-hop.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZmQIGLNxBs

the best.

and the musical Swingset.  very good if you like the music of the 20’s.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2oPI7nGveA

Jurrassic 5 and ATCQ are both awesome.

Disturbed does indeed suck.

This is a better cover of Take On Me. Not being ska makes it instantly better: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5_xUlC3f_k

@Der:

Here’s a few more: Slayer, Guns n roses, The Smiths, The Pixies, The Clash, Kiss, Dead kennedy’s, The Ramones, Red Hot Chili’s…

Yeah, sounds good, but I kind of feel like some of those are on the cusp of the 80’s (GNR, Pixies, RHCP, etc.)

@U-505:

Take the skinheads bowling, in your…… bitchin’ camaro.

Maybe you’ll find a cute punk rock girl, but most likely will just hang out with your friend Stuart.

@Cobert:

Good rap has existed since its creation (See: GZA and the rest of Wu-Tang, The Coup, Ded Prez, Mos Def, The Fugees, The Roots, Busdriver, Talib Kweli), it’s just not played on radio stations.

I hope you aren’t saying those peeps were at the creation.  Very good either way.  The GZA is just a musical genius, yet many people won’t even recognize it because they will never give him a chance.  RIP ODB/Dirt McGirt/Big Baby Jesus.  :lol:

Have to agree with balung on Tribe, probably the best hip hop group I’ve ever heard.  Also, the Pharcyde, De La Soul, Digable Planets, etc.

What no Motorhead?

And if we are going to bring up Punk, Fear and the Plasmatics are missing as well. Black Flag got mentioned but I will bring them up again.

Krocus did some good stuff in the '80s. Accept also did some of their best stuff then as well. And least I forget Hawkwind had some good LPs in the '80s but I have yet to hear a bad one from them.

ahh shes skanky… looks like Blair from facts of life TV show.

Now this is much more refined. You wont find them in the trailer park.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJc64xncBt4

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MR5xv3pt7KI

@Jermofoot:

I hope you aren’t saying those peeps were at the creation.  Very good either way.  The GZA is just a musical genius, yet many people won’t even recognize it because they will never give him a chance.  RIP ODB/Dirt McGirt/Big Baby Jesus.  :lol:

Have to agree with balung on Tribe, probably the best hip hop group I’ve ever heard.  Also, the Pharcyde, De La Soul, Digable Planets, etc.

No, i was just listing some generally good hip-hop.

There has not been good rap since Grand Master Flash and The Furious 5.

This just confirms that you havent listened to much rap, haha.

And while we’re including punk…

POISON IDEA: http://www.myspace.com/pickyourking  (in the late 80’s they slowed down but still made great songs)
NEGATIVE FX:  http://www.myspace.com/negativefx  (from Boston, predecessor to grind/powerviolence bands of today)

SS DECONTROL: http://www.myspace.com/societysystemdecontrol (Boston has made some truly great hardcore, unfortunately this band dropped all of their punk roots and made bad hair metal after a few years)

FUGAZI: http://www.myspace.com/fugazidischord (technically ‘post-hardcore’ and probably closer to indie, but I dont know if you guys are going to knitpick over punk subgenres, and just on the edge of the 90’s)

And what about the founders of actual emo (not bad pop-punk that is mislabeled as such)?

RITES OF SPRING: http://www.myspace.com/ritesofspringmusic  (For Want Of is one of the most powerful songs I’ve ever heard)
EMBRACE: http://www.myspace.com/embracetribute  (Might i suggest “Dance of Days”?)

MOSS ICON: http://www.myspace.com/mossiconemo (“I’m Back Sleeping or F***ing of Something” is only allowed to be played at maximum volume on one’s speakers, song has some intense vocals later on, this band is probably my favorite of all of these emo forefathers)

@Imperious:

you forgot Blue oyster cult, and Emerson, Lake, and palmer

Ah Blue Oyster Cult - love that Godzilla song.  I used to crank that so loud the widows vibrated… Go Go Godzilla!

@U-505:

You also forgot Styx, REO Speedwagon, Guns N’ Roses, Don Henley, John Fogerty, Genesis, and it’s offshoots Phil Collins and Peter Gabriel (arguably the most talented singer/songwriter in the 80’s).

I agree with your list with a few notable exceptions, fish.

AC/DC, Floyd, and Rush did their best work in the 70’s, by far.

And Ozzy sucked after he left Sabbath. It irritates me to no end that such a genius could so completely roll over and pump out cookie cutter garbage after being in one of the most defining rock bands of all time. The drug binges definitely took their toll.

Here’s a love song for you. Ties in with another thread currently being discussed. UP THE IRONS!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YC4JLyAakf8

To be honest most of that was from memory, so The AC/DC Floyd and Rush as well as Sabath were probably old stuff that I was just listening to in the 80s.  For that matter I listened to a lot of the same songs in the 90s.  For example I don’t think I listend to very much at all that Motley Crue did after 90.

Also, Guns and Roses had some good songs but I could never stand Axl Rose :roll:  Also I never got into Phil Collins, but Peter Gabriel made M-TV watchable :-D

@Der:

Nice List DF,
I’ll add a few more nice list.

Here’s a few more: Slayer, Guns n roses, The Smiths, The Pixies, The Clash, Kiss, Dead kennedy’s, The Ramones, Red Hot Chili’s…

Red Hot Chilli’s, lmao, that brings back some memories, more 90s for me though.

@ncscswitch:

Speaking for myself…

Rap would be the biggest detriment to modern music.  Modern R&B has NOTHING to do with classic R&B.

And Pop has again been dragged into oblivion, perhaps even more severely than it was during Disco.

There are a few groups out there doing some half decent stuff (Hoobastank mentioned above, I also like a couple of White Stripes tunes…) but by-and-large the only folks BUYING music today are buying trash; and the labels are controlled by either Disney “artists” or gang-bangers.

Music is on a cusp again, like it was circa 1981.  The current era has done all that it can, and each “new” song is only a rehash of what went before.  EVERYONE is waiting for the next Van Halen so that music can “run with the devil” again for a while and grow into something other than the current TRASH.

And you know… it is really SAD that the most trite Hair Bands of the late 80’s had more originality and more SKILL than anything currently aired on Top 40 stations today.  It is enough to make me ALMOST long for a return to Bow Wow Wow…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNHcaIJETZo

At LEAST they had a good hook…

I tell you what, I could go for a piece of candy about now :-D  80s chicks were so friggen hot…

and they had real boobs in all the movies.

but is orion by metalica the best song of the 80’s?  and probably ever?

@balungaloaf:

but is orion by metalica the best song of the 80’s?  and probably ever?

No