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Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:05 pm
by TDub
Keith Whitley


Chris Ledoux
Dwight Yoakum

If we count in-betweeners

Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:18 pm
by jhawks99
Are we 6 pages into this thread an no one has mentioned The Ramones?

Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:18 pm
by shindig
TDub wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:05 pm Keith Whitley


Chris Ledoux
Dwight Yoakum

If we count in-betweeners
I listen to Dwight Yoakum a lot. Feel like he never gets enough credit.

And yes to The Clash, Echo & the Bunneymen and Queen (Three amazing British rock bands).

Anybody remember Flesh for Lulu? From the movie Some Kind of Wonderful.

Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:25 pm
by shindig
jhawks99 wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:18 pm Are we 6 pages into this thread an no one has mentioned The Ramones?
Love their music now but didn't know much about them until I was probably in high school.


Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:27 pm
by TDub
shindig wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:18 pm
TDub wrote: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:05 pm Keith Whitley


Chris Ledoux
Dwight Yoakum

If we count in-betweeners
I listen to Dwight Yoakum a lot. Feel like he never gets enough credit.

And yes to The Clash, Echo & the Bunneymen and Queen (Three amazing British rock bands).

Anybody remember Flesh for Lulu? From the movie Some Kind of Wonderful.
Dwight Yoakum may be the most underrated artist of that era.

Love his stuff

Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:39 pm
by shindig
His remake of Elvis' Suspicious Minds rocks! And I love the King.

Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Thu Jun 17, 2021 10:48 pm
by TDub
Yea thats good

Im partial to Streets of Bakersfield with Buck Owens....but he has a lot of good stuff out there and he is never mentioned with Alan Jackson or Randy Travis or even Travis Tritt....and i think he is every bit as good or better than them

Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Sat Jun 19, 2021 11:54 am
by LosCondorAzule
THIS SHIT ROCKS!
The Clash
Joy Division
New Order
Sepultura
Echo and the Bunnymen
KLF
Black Flag
Social Distortion
Beastie Boys
Sin City Disciplines
Homestead Grays

Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 12:55 pm
by Sparko
Branford Marsalis Quartet, plus his time with Sting.
Michael Brecker/Randy
Supersax

Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 3:44 pm
by defixione
Sparko wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 12:55 pm Branford Marsalis Quartet, plus his time with Sting.
Michael Brecker/Randy
Supersax
I'd add Lawrence's own Bobby Watson to this list. FWIW, I volunteered to shuttle musicians from the airport to the various venues during the 1994 Wichita Jazz Festival. Amongst those I had the pleasure to pick up we're the Brecker Brothers. Unlike the other musicians who were warm and conversational, the bros kept their noses buried in the NYT crossword for the entire trip. Dr. John and his close entourage were the most peculiar, Michael Stern is/was out of his mind crazy.

Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 4:17 pm
by JKLivin
Forgot Motley Crue on my list.

Watched Bohemian Rhapsody the other night with the wife. She was a toddler when I was in high school, so knew next to nothing about Queen. She’s been talking about them and asking questions ever since. Been kind of fun.

Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 4:26 pm
by shindig
JKLivin wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 4:17 pm Forgot Motley Crue on my list.

Watched Bohemian Rhapsody the other night with the wife. She was a toddler when I was in high school, so knew next to nothing about Queen. She’s been talking about them and asking questions ever since. Been kind of fun.
Yeah, same here. I knew of Queen but never really appreciated their music, or the extent of, until around the time Freddy died. Freddy Mercury had an amazing voice and their songs still resonate today.

And Motley Crue rocked. I was a huge fan of them along with Ratt, Quiet Riot and Billy Squier. Oh and Billy Idol.

Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 6:26 pm
by JKLivin
shindig wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 4:26 pm
JKLivin wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 4:17 pm Forgot Motley Crue on my list.

Watched Bohemian Rhapsody the other night with the wife. She was a toddler when I was in high school, so knew next to nothing about Queen. She’s been talking about them and asking questions ever since. Been kind of fun.
Yeah, same here. I knew of Queen but never really appreciated their music, or the extent of, until around the time Freddy died. Freddy Mercury had an amazing voice and their songs still resonate today.

And Motley Crue rocked. I was a huge fan of them along with Ratt, Quiet Riot and Billy Squier. Oh and Billy Idol.
LOl! I remember being an 8th grader, spiking up my hair, and standing in front of the mirror practicing my Billy Idol sneer.

Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 6:36 pm
by jhawks99
shindig wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 4:26 pm
JKLivin wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 4:17 pm Forgot Motley Crue on my list.

Watched Bohemian Rhapsody the other night with the wife. She was a toddler when I was in high school, so knew next to nothing about Queen. She’s been talking about them and asking questions ever since. Been kind of fun.
Yeah, same here. I knew of Queen but never really appreciated their music, or the extent of, until around the time Freddy died. Freddy Mercury had an amazing voice and their songs still resonate today.

And Motley Crue rocked. I was a huge fan of them along with Ratt, Quiet Riot and Billy Squier. Oh and Billy Idol.
More power to you shindig, but this is my nightmare. I can't say my musical taste was better or worse but that's a nightmare to me.

Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 7:00 pm
by JKLivin
jhawks99 wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 6:36 pm
shindig wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 4:26 pm
JKLivin wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 4:17 pm Forgot Motley Crue on my list.

Watched Bohemian Rhapsody the other night with the wife. She was a toddler when I was in high school, so knew next to nothing about Queen. She’s been talking about them and asking questions ever since. Been kind of fun.
Yeah, same here. I knew of Queen but never really appreciated their music, or the extent of, until around the time Freddy died. Freddy Mercury had an amazing voice and their songs still resonate today.

And Motley Crue rocked. I was a huge fan of them along with Ratt, Quiet Riot and Billy Squier. Oh and Billy Idol.
More power to you shindig, but this is my nightmare. I can't say my musical taste was better or worse but that's a nightmare to me.
There’s no accounting for taste. I think country music is an IQ-lowering aural parasite and that jazz is random noise pollution.

Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 7:18 pm
by pdub
My poor IQ suffers daily.

Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 7:44 pm
by TDub
Me 3

Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 8:08 pm
by Cascadia
Queen should be considered a 70’s band.

If you want to include them in the 80’s, then they’re easily #1. And it’s not close.

Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 9:11 pm
by JKLivin
Cascadia wrote: Sun Jun 20, 2021 8:08 pm Queen should be considered a 70’s band.

If you want to include them in the 80’s, then they’re easily #1. And it’s not close.
Truth.

Re: Favorite 80's bands

Posted: Sun Jun 20, 2021 9:53 pm
by jhawks99
Was just upstairs in the "Man Room" listening to some Miles Davis. Inspired by WRFL, the local version of KJHK, recently playing some jazz from 1961. The set included Davis, Coltrane, Monk and Hancock. All of it good stuff.