Mykesbass Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 2 minutes ago, GlamBass74 said: I would've been "treated" to "No Jacket Required" at great volume and at great speed during any journey in Father's Escort XR3i Miss you dad x 'Now! That's what I call 1985' 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
franzbassist Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 (edited) 1 hour ago, Rich said: Oh good choice sir. Always loved a bit of the Tzuke. That album has some awesome playing by John Giblin on it. Edited September 8, 2023 by franzbassist 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Riva Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 56 minutes ago, JellyKnees said: I was gonna say Language Barrier. I would probably also have Little Creatures by Talking Heads. Have to say though, I thought it was a lean time after the splendour of the early 80s post punk new wave period. I was really into Language Barrier. Obviously the tracks and the playing were great, but I thought the idea for the project and the production were out of this world. It reminded me of World Destruction by Afrika Bambaata and John Lydon from the year before, which I loved. Ditto stuff like the AAA Sun City project/album. Funnily enough, Little Creatures was the first Talking Heads album I didn’t really get on with! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
miles'tone Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 I only had 2 tapes in 1985 - Brothers In Arms and the Ghostbusters soundtrack. Loved them both. I got my first Walkman (well, "personal stereo" because a Sony was too expensive) that year and it was amazing! Now I didn't have to be at home to listen to music...I could listen to it anywhere! Far out! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cetera Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 54 minutes ago, hiram.k.hackenbacker said: Was Live After Death ‘85? I can’t remember. If so, that would have been on heavy rotation. Oct 85 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
40hz Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 Flaunt The Imperfection - China Crisis. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rushbo Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 2 minutes ago, 40hz said: Flaunt The Imperfection - China Crisis. Oh, yes indeed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tony_m Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 I'd probably have been listening to "Crusader" and "Innocence Is No Excuse", while dreaming wistfully of a return to the glory days of "Wheels of Steel", "Strong Arm of the Law" and "Denim And Leather"... 🤨 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Reggaebass Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 I was trying to think back and I had a compilation cassette that had Axel F Everybody wants to rule the world and 19 by Paul hardcastle , this was the Top 40 best-selling songs of 1985, a few good ones in there 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lozz196 Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 Hanoi Rocks - All Those Wasted Years 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snorkie635 Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 Although released earlier, I played Joe Cocker's 'Sheffield Steel' a lot in '85. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddo Soqable Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 Hmm 1985, I was likely listening to Cocteau Twins (and other 4AD type bands).. Longpig ( ie "of love & addiction".. not the other similarly named band) That kind of thing. I was personally being a bit of a painter (as in oil paintings) at that point too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
snorkie635 Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 3 minutes ago, Waddo Soqable said: Hmm 1985, I was likely listening to Cocteau Twins (and other 4AD type bands).. Longpig ( ie "of love & addiction".. not the other similarly named band) That kind of thing. I was personally being a bit of a painter (as in oil paintings) at that point too. Vincent Transit van Squabble - highly collectable by those in the know I'm told. 👍😎 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gazhowe Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 (edited) Mainly this… Edited September 8, 2023 by gazhowe 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kickass Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 Joni Mitchell, Dog Eat Dog or The Untouchables, Wild Child But more likely a mix tape with dub reggae from earlier years. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Waddo Soqable Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 20 minutes ago, snorkie635 said: Vincent Transit van Squabble - highly collectable by those in the know I'm told. 👍😎 Still got both ears too 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bassassin Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 55 minutes ago, gazhowe said: Mainly this… Bloody hell - another one I completely forgot! Being old really f*cks with your memory. Also this - one of the greatest should-have-been bands of the decade. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cliff Edge Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 I know where I was working that year and the car tape player had two of Warren Zevon’s finest on permanent play. Excitable Boy and the eponymous first album Warren Zevon. Volume up and let’s have a singalong. Some pop and rock royalty on those albums alongside Zevon. . 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hellzero Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 I was 20 years old in 1985, so for sure Yello Stella on one side and Uzeb Between the Lines on the other side. And another cassette with Joe Jackson Big World on one side and The Pogues Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash on the other and singing (more certainly yelling) like a mad man in the car when Dirty Old Town was playing. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misdee Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 5 hours ago, Heathy said: In 1985 I was mostly listening to Iron Maiden. I had Saxon’s Crusader album on cassette, and the first two Marillion albums, but that was about it. Mid-1980s Saxon. Wow. The unacceptable use of spandex, lycra and hairspray by men who were way too old and way too northern for it to be legal. It's still not too late for the culprits to be brought to justice. 1 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Velarian Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 (edited) 1985 was very much a transition period for me. Having spent the late 70s listening to the Clash, The Stranglers, Stiff little fingers and the like, by 85 I was listening to stuff like:- Prefab Sprout - Steve McQueen Pat Metheny Group - Travels, First Circle Andreas Vollenweider - Caverna Magica, White Winds I remember having a couple of cool cassettes (Teac I think) which had faux aluminium spools, that looked like a reel to reel set up. Edited September 8, 2023 by Velarian 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misdee Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 Back in 1985 I was listening to Sting, Thomas Dolby, the Smiths, Prefab Sprout, Tears For Fears and whatever else was in the charts and on Radio 1. That's all there was in those days. I was also listening to a lot of old music from the 1960s and 1970s, it has to be said. Like Robert Palmer, Joni Mitchell, Steve Hillage, Frank Zappa, Mahavishnu Orchestra and Stanley Clarke. I've always had very middle-aged taste, looking back now. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LowB_FTW Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 In 1985 I was 14. No interest in music at that age, and didn't have a Walkman. I did have a battered and beaten BMX Banana (one of the ones with the plastic spoke wheels) that I spent the vast majority of my time on with my mates on their bikes cycling anywhere and everywhere we could. Mark Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SH73 Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 Would be Live After Death until the tape stretches. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Misdee Posted September 8, 2023 Share Posted September 8, 2023 1985 was significant for rock music because Live Aid heralded end of that music being anti-establishment. After 1985 everything to do with popular music was coopted into the mainstream. I remember the 1980's as if it was yesterday. It was great, but crap at the same time. Lots of great music, lots of great bass playing on chart records but lots of crap food in the supermarket. Like Findus French Bread Pizzas. It was like eating partially burnt polystyrene topped with molten plastic and raw courgette.😟 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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