I Love the 80's

[NightWolve]

its da muhfuggin po-lice muhfuggin copeland

The Stinger! Great, obvious addition to the thread!!!!

Own The Police "Best of" CD, and I used to enjoy singing along to "Walking on the Moon" with the track blasted in the car, am not ashamed to say.

Speaking of which, looks like a great rendition by a fan on that America's Got Talent show.

[esteban]

Human League gets better the further back you go, preferably before the ladies came on. At the beginning it was closer to Suicide than the sort of catchy but totally forgettable synth pop they are famous for. There are late period Human League songs I love, same with Peter Gabirel, but there is a time when even the greatest bands on Earth just start...kinda sucking...it doesn't mean you can't still love the new crap (I payed $120 to see New Order in 2012) but it's kinda over regardless.

Just to be clear, the only avant-garde electronic act who's work I knew in 1979 was the BBC Radiophonic Workshop because I was five! I'm one of the "older" guys here, but not that old. However, we have the Internet now. It's time to slab your Poison tapes and dive head first into the human music experience in its totality.

You'll never be the same after 32,000 hours of Negativeland!

https://archive.org/details/ote

I know of Negativeland because they were usually covered in punk fanzines back in the day.

But I love Dare! because that's the pure pop album I had as a kid.

Later I picked up the older albums.

@Travelogue:  I leaned what "Krugerrands" and "Tarmac" was from that album. Thank god for printed lyrics.

Someone told me about Heaven 17 in college. I had no idea about the connection to early Human League. Ha!

For Peter Gabriel, I loved Shock the Monkey, so you can see where this is going. That album (I forget the name) had Rhythm of the Heat on it. Loved that LP. 

Only later did I pick up older albums (the "melty face" album and some other one....can't remember the cover).

Such greatness...but guess what?

I still loved that whole damn "Shock the Monkey" album.

BOTTOM LINE: radio helped me find albums.

[MrBroadway]

Alphaville's Forever Young > Human League's Dare.

[TheOldMan]

The Police?

Sally/Be My Girl, from the first album.Of course, you never hear Sally on the radio....
Of course, I liked the J Giels band, too...

( You're really old if you know this line: "That Bowling Ball! It's my wife!" )

[Jibbajaba]

Way better than "I Ran".

[Mathius]

The Police?

Sally/Be My Girl, from the first album.Of course, you never hear Sally on the radio....
Of course, I liked the J Giels band, too...

( You're really old if you know this line: "That Bowling Ball! It's my wife!" )

Stewart Copeland is in my top 5 drummers of all time along with Keith Moon, Ginger Baker, and Mitch Mitchell. They had such a great sound The Police did.

[NightWolve]

Way better than "I Ran".

Eeehhh, gonna have to say no to that, still liking "I Ran" much better.

[MrBroadway]

Way better than "I Ran".

Eeehhh, gonna have to say no to that, still liking "I Ran" much better.

I ran is nothing without the music video, though:

[esteban]

Alphaville's Forever Young > Human League's Dare.

That album by Alphaville is fantastic. Every song (save for one?) could have been a single.

However, the first two A-ha albums are even stronger. EVERY FRIGGIN' SONG IS FANTASTIC. Utterly heavenly. I love those first two A-ha albums.

But I could also say the same of OVERKILL or DAG NASTY or TEARS FOR FEARS—first two albums for each of these bands were amazing, then, downhill.

 There's something wonderful about Dare! that just didn't happen on any other album. I think it's the production, synths used, the lyrics, the arrangements....its just a unique product.

I love Alphaville Forever Young, though, so I won't begrudge anyone who places it over Dare!.

Personally, I think Human League went way downhill after Dare!, but I digress. Hysteria is flawed, step backwards from Dare!, but I still like it. Then...ouch.

Now, the first two Dag Nasty albums are really great, even if the vocals are strained/atonal/something askew. It doesn't matter.

[Mathius]

Sounds like I need to go shopping for some A-ha Cds

[MrBroadway]

That album by Alphaville is fantastic. Every song (save for one?) could have been a single.

However, the first two A-ha albums are even stronger. EVERY FRIGGIN' SONG IS FANTASTIC. Utterly heavenly. I love those first two A-ha albums.

But I could also say the same of OVERKILL or DAG NASTY or TEARS FOR FEARS—first two albums for each of these bands were amazing, then, downhill.

 There's something wonderful about Dare! that just didn't happen on any other album. I think it's the production, synths used, the lyrics, the arrangements....its just a unique product.

I love Alphaville Forever Young, though, so I won't begrudge anyone who places it over Dare!.

Personally, I think Human League went way downhill after Dare!, but I digress. Hysteria is flawed, step backwards from Dare!, but I still like it. Then...ouch.

Now, the first two Dag Nasty albums are really great, even if the vocals are strained/atonal/something askew. It doesn't matter.

I think I like Hunting High and Low better than Dare, but I haven't formed an opinion on Scoundrel Days in comparison to the three aforementioned albums. Perhaps I should.

Alphaville also went downhill. It's not a bad album, but Afternoons in Utopia doesn't come close to the original.

[wildfruit]

Danger mouse
Count duckula
Trap door. Don't you open that trap door cos there's something down there.
A surprise hurricane.
Living in a shitty small house.
Such memories.

[esteban]

Danger mouse
Count duckula
Trap door. Don't you open that trap door cos there's something down there.
A surprise hurricane.
Living in a shitty small house.
Such memories.

I love how you reminisced. Scary even—trapdoor?!

[esteban]

POLICE: I love La Polizie. Even that song PEANUTS! is awesome. Such a great band. I learned who Nabakov was from that big hit song. I still remember taking songs off the radio and trying to figure out the lyrics. King of Pain, specifically. This was before I bought the records.


SCOUNDREL DAYS: A great album. "We're looking for the Whales" is a personal fave of mine. I always skipped "Cry Wolf" because that song was corny as hell, even when I was 10-11 years old. Still, not the worst song. Just not nearly as great as the rest of the album.

AFTERNOONS IN UTOPIA: agreed, not nearly as strong. Damn.

FLOCK OF SEAGULLS: they actually have a bunch of really great songs. Seriously. Even some b-sides are really great. I still have a bunch of singles....interesting b-sides.

[wildfruit]

Danger mouse
Count duckula
Trap door. Don't you open that trap door cos there's something down there.
A surprise hurricane.
Living in a shitty small house.
Such memories.

I love how you reminisced. Scary even—trapdoor?!