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Title: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: Olly on October 08, 2019, 08:39:07 PM
Mine is Material Girl
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: BennyCake on October 08, 2019, 09:33:41 PM
Don't you mean "not afraid to admit to"?
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: RedHand88 on October 08, 2019, 11:34:36 PM
The Bangles - Eternal flame
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: markl121 on October 08, 2019, 11:49:26 PM
Kenny loggins, playing with the boys
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: quit yo jibbajabba on October 08, 2019, 11:54:58 PM
Tiffany think we're alone now

Prefer the updated version tho
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: JPGJOHNNYG on October 09, 2019, 12:01:20 AM
Quote from: quit yo jibbajabba on October 08, 2019, 11:54:58 PM
Tiffany think we're alone now

Prefer the updated version tho

The norn iron fans love it lol
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: quit yo jibbajabba on October 09, 2019, 12:05:31 AM
Quote from: JPGJOHNNYG on October 09, 2019, 12:01:20 AM
Quote from: quit yo jibbajabba on October 08, 2019, 11:54:58 PM
Tiffany think we're alone now

Prefer the updated version tho

The norn iron fans love it lol

I tell ye what...if i ever get married again....
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: Rufus T Firefly on October 09, 2019, 07:58:14 AM
That Was Yesterday, by Foreigner.   :-[
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: laoislad on October 09, 2019, 07:59:44 AM
Why would anyone be afraid to admit they like 80s music. Music peaked in the 80s. The greatest era of them all imo.

I could pick a hundred songs. I do like a bit of REO Speedwagon - Keep on loving you if I had to pick one.

Hard to bate an 80s Power ballad.
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: GetOverTheBar on October 09, 2019, 09:23:14 AM
Most of the Roxette songs would come under this category for me.

Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: Jim_Murphy_74 on October 09, 2019, 11:36:25 AM
Quote from: quit yo jibbajabba on October 08, 2019, 11:54:58 PM
Tiffany think we're alone now

Prefer the updated version tho

How do you feel about Catholics?

/Jim.
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: johnnycool on October 09, 2019, 11:42:03 AM
Simply the best.

Love the rousing chorus.
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: quit yo jibbajabba on October 09, 2019, 11:55:56 AM
Quote from: Jim_Murphy_74 on October 09, 2019, 11:36:25 AM
Quote from: quit yo jibbajabba on October 08, 2019, 11:54:58 PM
Tiffany think we're alone now

Prefer the updated version tho

How do you feel about Catholics?

/Jim.

Hate them. And its kathlics

/ jibbajabba
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: Taylor on October 09, 2019, 12:19:23 PM
Quote from: quit yo jibbajabba on October 09, 2019, 11:55:56 AM
Quote from: Jim_Murphy_74 on October 09, 2019, 11:36:25 AM
Quote from: quit yo jibbajabba on October 08, 2019, 11:54:58 PM
Tiffany think we're alone now

Prefer the updated version tho

How do you feel about Catholics?

/Jim.

Hate them. And its kathlics kaflicks

/ jibbajabba

Fixed that for you
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: BennyCake on October 09, 2019, 12:58:41 PM
Paul Young - Wherever I Lay My Hat
Madness - It Must Be Love
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: seafoid on October 09, 2019, 02:25:25 PM
Vienna - Ultravox
I could never take the place of your man- Prince
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: magpie seanie on October 09, 2019, 02:30:40 PM
Quote from: laoislad on October 09, 2019, 07:59:44 AM
Why would anyone be afraid to admit they like 80s music. Music peaked in the 80s. The greatest era of them all imo.

I could pick a hundred songs. I do like a bit of REO Speedwagon - Keep on loving you if I had to pick one.

Hard to bate an 80s Power ballad.

+1 from me to that. Always have Now 80's on the TV. Brilliant era for music.
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: RedHand88 on October 09, 2019, 03:02:35 PM
There's a monthly 80s night in McHughs I think it is in belfast. Shows the popularity of the era even today.
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: quit yo jibbajabba on October 09, 2019, 03:25:20 PM
Some of the TOTPs from the 80s are always worth tuning into

When they were bad they were woeful but yes a great era overall
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: BennyCake on October 09, 2019, 03:25:55 PM
Does Today FM still do their Friday night 80's?
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Post by: laoislad on October 09, 2019, 03:37:28 PM
Quote from: BennyCake on October 09, 2019, 03:25:55 PM
Does Today FM still do their Friday night 80's?
No they stopped it a long time ago I think. Before I was married I would go back home every friday night for the weekend from Dublin. Used to always have friday night 80s on as I drove home.
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: johnnycool on October 09, 2019, 04:46:01 PM
Quote from: RedHand88 on October 09, 2019, 03:02:35 PM
There's a monthly 80s night in McHughs I think it is in belfast. Shows the popularity of the era even today.

as long as they avoid that SAW formulaic dirge that would be a good night.

Stock
Aiken
Waterman

For you young lads.
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: armaghniac on October 09, 2019, 09:20:09 PM
Now this is 80s formulaic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pWZKuuFli2o
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: Armamike on October 09, 2019, 09:30:58 PM
The 80s had something for everybody.  Bands/tunes then that wouldn't have particularly stood out, sound great now.  For me, the peak of the 80s was the Live Aid era.  Some brilliant bands and musicians at their peak then. Simple Minds, Bowie, Queen, U2, the Cars etc. Great time.
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: Olly on October 09, 2019, 09:31:42 PM
One of the best 80s songs was Put Them Under Pressure for the 1990 championships in Italy
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: Eamonnca1 on October 09, 2019, 09:35:09 PM
Quote from: laoislad on October 09, 2019, 07:59:44 AM
Why would anyone be afraid to admit they like 80s music. Music peaked in the 80s. The greatest era of them all imo.

I could pick a hundred songs. I do like a bit of REO Speedwagon - Keep on loving you if I had to pick one.

Hard to bate an 80s Power ballad.

Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. There was plenty of dross in the 80s like any other decade, we only remember the good stuff. I sat and watched an old episode of Top of the Pops one time lately and wondered how I ever sat through that rubbish back in the day. For every Madonna singing Like a Virgin there's a dozen forgettable oh-please-god-is-it-nearly-over-yet abominations like Love Missile F-111 by Zigue Zigue Sputnik.
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: armaghniac on October 09, 2019, 09:43:04 PM
Quote from: Eamonnca1 on October 09, 2019, 09:35:09 PM
Nostalgia ain't what it used to be. There was plenty of dross in the 80s like any other decade, we only remember the good stuff. I sat and watched an old episode of Top of the Pops one time lately and wondered how I ever sat through that rubbish back in the day. For every Madonna singing Like a Virgin there's a dozen forgettable oh-please-god-is-it-nearly-over-yet abominations like Love Missile F-111 by Zigue Zigue Sputnik.

Perhaps it is just me, but watching the old Top of the Pops on BBC4 the later 80s shows a decline, but then there was some terrible crap 10 years before too. But Rick Astley and Kylie are not in the canon of all time great music.
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: GetOverTheBar on October 10, 2019, 12:55:56 PM
I don't know a man who can't admit George Michael had some great stuff in that period too.

Nearly time for his most famous of all too.....can't believe it's only a few months away.
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: Tony Baloney on October 10, 2019, 01:04:09 PM
Quote from: magpie seanie on October 09, 2019, 02:30:40 PM
Quote from: laoislad on October 09, 2019, 07:59:44 AM
Why would anyone be afraid to admit they like 80s music. Music peaked in the 80s. The greatest era of them all imo.

I could pick a hundred songs. I do like a bit of REO Speedwagon - Keep on loving you if I had to pick one.

Hard to bate an 80s Power ballad.

+1 from me to that. Always have Now 80's on the TV. Brilliant era for music.
LL is right for a change. Heard Pretty in Pink and I Ran (So Far Away) on the radio in the last few days and was reminded how good these songs are. I couldn't name you anything in the Top 10 today.
Title: Re: Favourite 80s song your're afraid to admit to
Post by: BennyCake on October 10, 2019, 02:39:32 PM
Quote from: GetOverTheBar on October 10, 2019, 12:55:56 PM
I don't know a man who can't admit George Michael had some great stuff in that period too.

Nearly time for his most famous of all too.....can't believe it's only a few months away.

Other than probably Careless Whisper, I wasn't really a big fan of any of his 80's stuff. He had a great voice though.