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Drunk tonight and been hearing some 80s stuff.Is it just me or were these guys quite a good band.I thought Tears for fears was pop sh*te when i was 12 but now i realise they were very good and could play as well.

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TFF are amazing songwriters. Their stuff has stood the test of time very well, despite the rather cheesy 80's-style production and tacky clothes/haircuts/Roland Orzabal's weird dancing. A lot of it was also surprisingly dark. So much good music was coming out of the UK back then.

That's the big difference between pop today and pop back then - today's pop stars are products of producers and songwriters. Pop stars back then, more often than not, were also the songwriters and producers. Even the bands who got classed as "boy bands" back then (Duran Duran, etc) could sing, play instruments, and wrote their own stuff.

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I thought the same from their early stuff but saw them live during their 'Songs from the big chair' tour. Amazing. 'Everybody wants to Rule The World' won the Ivor Novello award that year, I believe. That and 'Head Over Heels' are stonking tunes. Great drummer.

IMHO they went a bit up their backsides after then, mind you.

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Generally, I dislike 80s music immensely. Horribly plastic stuff. Having said that I thought that Tears for Fears were WAY above most others. The songs were great, the production amazing and RO's voice was really interesting - you could always tell it was him and no-one else.

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[quote name='Crazykiwi' post='585557' date='Aug 31 2009, 05:50 AM']Midge Ure was preciously talented but never really got the critical acclaim he deserved.[/quote]

And he was in Thin Lizzy for a while. That's all the cool any man needs.

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[quote name='geoffbyrne' post='585633' date='Aug 31 2009, 10:06 AM']I didn't know that!!!!!!! Or maybe I've forgotten (I'm old :) )!!

Any Youtube?

G.[/quote]


[url="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBWQVHRy83I"]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBWQVHRy83I[/url]

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There's also this but it's audio only - [url="http://www.casttv.com/video/1iu34e/thin-lizzy-whiskey-in-the-jar-live-1980-video"]http://www.casttv.com/video/1iu34e/thin-li...live-1980-video[/url]

and supposedly this - [url="http://sagool.tv/detail/4488792228109382143/"]http://sagool.tv/detail/4488792228109382143/[/url] - but it wouldn't run for me.

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[quote name='Alien' post='585629' date='Aug 31 2009, 09:57 AM']And he was in Thin Lizzy for a while. That's all the cool any man needs.

A[/quote]


Slik were where it was at when i was a kid....he was pretty good in the Rich kids too and his uncle Eck delivered bread to the Tesco i once worked in, Midge now looks very like his Uncle Alec.

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Our drummer did the Seeds Of Love tour, he could tell a few stories.
They were certainly the more acceptable side of 80s pop.

[quote]Even the bands who got classed as "boy bands" back then (Duran Duran, etc) could sing,[/quote]
Remember Wild Boys?...has to rank as one of the most excruciating vocal performances of the 80s. Only surpassed by Marc Almond and Jimmy Sommerville's I Feel Love. :)

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Slik? Nothing more than a second-rate Bay City Rollers. Midge Ure has managed to ruin every band he's been in except Rich Kids and unfortunately their music hasn't dated particularly well.

For interesting 80s bands try:

Com-Sat Angels (but only the first 3 albums)
Danse Society
Freur
Furniture

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[quote name='foal30' post='585607' date='Aug 31 2009, 08:26 AM']is it Raoul or the King of Spain in your avatar You-Ma?

Shout is poptastic stuff
Status and Pick goodness IIRC

that Black single was lovely CK
top vocals for sure

Mark E. Smith was never a fan of Tears for Fears though[/quote]

Ha ha, like it. I've never heard the big JK called The King of Spain. Now there's a career that went downhill overnight.

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[quote name='EssentialTension' post='585747' date='Aug 31 2009, 01:24 PM']More 70s than 80s but I never liked ELO at the time but have now come to think they were a rather great band.[/quote]

ELO were my first 'favourite band' as a kid, and Out of the Blue was the first album I ever bought. It's full of classic songs!

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[quote name='Golchen' post='586030' date='Aug 31 2009, 08:24 PM']ELO were my first 'favourite band' as a kid, and Out of the Blue was the first album I ever bought. It's full of classic songs![/quote]

plus the one.

i think i spent [i]days[/i] listening to 'out of the blue' when i was about 8 or 9...over and over again !

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+1 on TFFs..

RO was one of the best songwriters of the decade by far. 'Mad World' and 3 or 4 tunes from 'Songs from the Big Chair' are superb!

I've always thought that someone should go back and re-mix all the great songs from the 80s and bring them to life without all that dreaful over-worked, synthetic production..

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