JCC The Delayed "We LOVE 80s Pop Music" Thread

These fall into the category of massive boyhood crushes, for whom I'd walk away from my life, Roy Neary-into-the-mothership style, in a heartbeat.

RIP - Kirsty MacColl (writer- They Don't Know)

 

wayyy under the radar but

 

also i found this a while ago and it is sooooo the ****:

 

"There are two types of people in this world: Those who like Neil Diamond and those who don't."--Bob Wiley

 

I don't think this has been posted yet:


And I'm sure this hasn't been posted yet:

 

Novelty hit time; 7th/8th grade me spent a lot of time in arcades like Electric Carousel dumping his weekly allowance into video games.

 

Three great tunes from the time before Vince left, taking all the happy synths with him.






One of the best, strangest singles of the 1980s.

 

Excellent rebound from the dreck that was Emotional Rescue.

 

Quite different from what I've been posting . . . .

 

One of my favourite pop songs came from the Duran Duran spin off band Arcadia, although I wasn't much for their one album to be honest. It also produced one of my favourite Top of the Pops performances from Simon le Bon here:

 

I loaned my copy of Vital Idol to the security guard to listen to when I worked at the Amtrak station back in 2000/2001. Of course the guy gets reassigned to a new location and I never did get my cd back.

 

The theme one of my local stations liked to use laud high school graduates for years.

 

@Juliet316 Crazy factoid: Elton didn't score a solo number one in the 70s or the 80s!

First chart topper was Sacrifice in 1990.

 

Urban Cowboy time!