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Ali Thomson: Take a Little Rhythm
Al Stewart: Midnight Rocks
Franke & the Knockouts: Sweetheart
Marty Balin: Hearts
John O'Banion: Love You Like I Never Loved Before
America: The Border
Photoglo: We Were Meant to be Lovers
I'm a big fan of the soft rock classics of the early 1980s, I thought the early 1980s was the last great era of the soft rock hits.
Blancmange - "Living on the Ceiling"
Modern English - "Ink and Paper"
Cactus World News - "Years Later"
World Party - "Ship of Fools"
Boomtown Rats - "The Elephant's Graveyard"
The Silencers - "I See Red"
Barbie and the Kens - "Just a Gigolo"
999 - "Homicide"
Classix Noveaux - "Guilty"
The The - "Uncertain Smile"
Howard Devoto - "Rainy Season"
The Call - "Walls Came Down"
David & David - "Welcome to the Boomtown"
Hunters and Collectors - "Back on the Breadline"
Guadalcanal Diary - "Watusi Rodeo"
Living Colour - "Glamour Boys"
Dave Edmunds - "Slipping Away"
The Bongos - "Barbarella"
Red Flag - "Broken Heart"
Camouflage - "The Great Commandment"
Beat Rodeo - "Just Friends"
Sam Phillips - "Holding on to the Earth"
'Til Tuesday - "(Believed You Were) Lucky"
Indigo Girls - "Closer to Fine"
MARRS - "Pump up the Volume"
Concrete Blonde - "God is a Bullet"
Wall of Voodoo - "Far Side of Crazy"
Frida - "I Know There's Something Going On"
Peter Gabriel - "Games Without Frontiers"
Ultravox - "Vienna"
Love and Money - "Candybar Express"
The Clash - "Charlie Don't Surf"
Ali Thomson: Take a Little Rhythm
Al Stewart: Midnight Rocks
Franke & the Knockouts: Sweetheart
Marty Balin: Hearts
John O'Banion: Love You Like I Never Loved Before
America: The Border
Photoglo: We Were Meant to be Lovers
I'm a big fan of the soft rock classics of the early 1980s, I thought the early 1980s was the last great era of the soft rock hits.
Great picks. I wish that Ali Thomson album would be released on cd.
World Party - "Ship of Fools"
Boomtown Rats - "The Elephant's Graveyard"
The Call - "Walls Came Down"
Dave Edmunds - "Slipping Away"
Frida - "I Know There's Something Going On"
The Clash - "Charlie Don't Surf"
Didn't Robert Plant do a Ship of Fools also? I remember some of his other stuff from the 80s also such as 'Big Log'.
Another one from Boomtown Rats was 'Up All Nite'...as did Talking Heads also.
I can't believe anyone else remembered the Dave Edmunds one,I was just listening to that the other day.
That Frida Lynstad one was cool also,with Phil Collins on drums.
Also 'Radio Clash' by The Clash.
How about Power Station?...
Wow. I've not heard their version of the song. That could be interesting.
And while we're on the subject, "Blue Line" by Let's Active is one of the rockin'est songs ever.
I really liked a California band called Wednesday Week -- their album What We Had had some great songs on it: "Why," "Missionary" (the video got some late-night play on MTV -- remember when MTV played videos?) and "All That Again."
And early Bangles: "Hero Takes a Fall," "Restless," "Tell Me" from All Over the Place.
"Take the Skinheads Bowling" by Camper Van Beethoven.
"Last Perfect Thing" and "Chamber of Hellos" by Wire Train.
StuckPa I remember Robert Plant had two moderate hits in the early 80s..
Big Log and Pledge pin?(Could be wrong on that one).
Then 88-89ish He had Hits with Tall Cool one,Ship of Fools,Heaven Knows?
Im suprised i have found some kinda obscure 80s stuff on Youtube.
Im suprised i have found some kinda obscure 80s stuff on Youtube.
Well MTV used to play their classic stuff,now it's just not hip enough
Heck I thought that's why there was MTV2 & VH1 but those too have gone 'hip'.
VH1 Classic has potential,but who knows what the future holds.
So it's good that there's still a place for classic stuff via the internet.
I even saw a site online that has classic TV shows,unlike what TV Land was supposed to be also.
Whats happened to MTV is really Pathetic.
I was Probably 5 or 6 when Mtv Launched.There was no commercials or reality shows
Seems like no Cable Channel plays Music Videos lol VH1,Flipping through Channels..
I have never seen a Country Video on CMT.
Would be kinda cool if there was a channel for everything 80s!I would watch it.
Not sure how long a channel like that would last though.
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