80's Music Meme

[rj_anderson]

From the music of the 80's, name...

5 popular songs that you still aren't tired of hearing yet:

"One Thing Leads To Another" by the Fixx

"Promises, Promises" by Naked Eyes

"True" by Spandau Ballet

"It's My Life" by Talk Talk

"Is There Something I Should Know?" by Duran Duran

5 popular songs you never want to hear again as long as you live:

"Born in the USA" by Bruce Springsteen

"Jack and Diane" by John Cougar Mellencamp

"The Greatest Love of All" by Whitney Houston

"Like a Virgin" by Madonna

"Girls Just Wanna Have Fun" by Cyndi Lauper

5 songs that made you jump in front of the mirror and sing to your hairbrush:

"The Reflex" by Duran Duran

"Sweet Fire of Love" by Robbie Robertson and U2

"Reflected (on my side)" by Lone Justice

"Date Stamp" by ABC

"The Blood That Moves The Body" by a-ha

5 ballads that made you ache with their beauty:

"In a Lifetime" by Clannad (with Bono)

"Hunting High and Low" by a-ha

"I Will" by the Fixx

"The Promise" by Arcadia

"Is Your Love Strong Enough" by Bryan Ferry

5 bands you really miss:

Talk Talk

Crowded House

The Fixx

Cock Robin

Wild Swans

5 bands you don't miss even a teeny tiny bit:

REO Speedwagon (sorry, jerie!)

Journey

Honeymoon Suite

Loverboy

Chicago

5 songs that bring back vivid memories (and, if it's not too personal, which ones):

"Let's Tango" by Lisa Dal Bello and "Magic Dance" by David Bowie (goofing off with my best friend MJ)

"How Will I Know" by Whitney Houston (my first, painfully unrequited, crush)

"Hold The Heart" by Big Country (my second crush, also unrequited)

"The Chauffeur" by Duran Duran (sitting in the darkness with my brother's big padded headphones on, drowning in a wave of sound)

5 songs you're pretty sure nobody else remembers:

"Happy Now I Know" by Breeding Ground and Molly Johnson

"This Mourning" by Chalk Circle

"Voices in the Bush" by K

"Lie Down in the Grass" by Charlie Peacock

"Waterfall" by Wendy and Lisa

That was fun. Now we'll see how far it spreads...

Comments

[jalara.livejournal.com]

5 bands you don't miss even a teeny tiny bit:

REO Speedwagon (sorry, jerie!)

No worries, RJ! Except for the original "Ridin' the Storm Out," I don't miss them either. That one still makes me want to play air guitar and air drums (which would have been a good category, too)

[sff-corgi.livejournal.com]

Ah, now... :( My problem...s with this one is... um, are, that I never remember songs with years attached, and I'd be lucky to remember the titles on some of them. Or remember them without hearing them.

My memory just doesn't suit this meme. :(

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I never remember songs with years attached either, but I can at least manage the decade. :)

It also helps that I had a very large MP3 playlist with which to refresh my memory...

[shellebelle93.livejournal.com]

"Lie Down in the Grass" by Charlie Peacock

I LOVE THIS SONG!

I also like 'Big Man's Hat' and "Experience". Charlie Peacock rulez!

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

Those are my favorite Peacock tunes too! How cool are you?

I've managed to track down a version of "Big Man's Hat", but I've never yet got my hands on "Experience"... I know it's on "The Secret of Time", which I used to own and (like most of my cassettes) wore out, but I've not found it on Kazaa yet.

[shellebelle93.livejournal.com]

Hubby snagged West Coast Diaries 1&2 on CD in college. One of the only good things about the Bible College (hereafter called 'That Place') was that there was a really good Christian Bookstore that sold music for cheap! Oh, and here's what he's doing now: http://www.charliepeacock.com/html/news.html

Don't know if you have that link or not. I try to keep up with all my old faves online!

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

No, I didn't have that link -- thanks! Interesting to see what he's been up to.

hmm...

[(Anonymous)]

I could do this meme, but I just have this feeling that it's slightly more directed towards those eighties fans who actually lived in the eighties, as opposed to those of us who rejected nineties music in our teens in favour of synthesized sound. ;)

On a related note, I have found the resident coordinator here with the stash of 80s music -- she was playing The Smiths at the bar last night and we had a discussion about how we should have been born about 10 or 12 years earlier than we actually were. Heh.

Teri

Re: hmm...

[rj-anderson.livejournal.com]

I could do this meme, but I just have this feeling that it's slightly more directed towards those eighties fans who actually lived in the eighties

Slightly, but by no means exclusively. I'm quite sure you're qualified to answer it, or feel free to adjust the meme to fit. :)

Am absolutely loving your descriptions of Italy BTW. It sounds gorgeous.