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starry skies above
Aug 23, 2015

by zen death robot
Is any modern (inclusive of the last 15 years) pop song as touching and moving as this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raNGeq3_DtM

The 1980s: a decade that wasn't afraid of the feels which the coolly detached kids of subsequent decades still can't handle.

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Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020
starry skies above, how can you enjoy a song that encourages the male mother need?

what kind of a MGTOW are you?

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020
Relating to the thread topic

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OBwS66EBUcY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9jK-NcRmVcw

wiffle ball bat
Oct 2, 2015

by Shine
talking heads dudes. talking heads.

whoflungpoop
Sep 9, 2004

With you and the constellations
op cant get a girlfriend lol

whoflungpoop
Sep 9, 2004

With you and the constellations
listen i played u bad music and told u how jews control the media now touch my peener u ugly whore this is how love work

Happy Bear Suit
Jul 21, 2004

heres a good 80s song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahvSgFHzJIc

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-up8ebz06yA

Kuato
Feb 25, 2005

"I CAN'T BELIEVE I ATE THE WHOLE THING"
Buglord
Was a good decade for music imo.

Alec Bald Snatch
Sep 12, 2012

by exmarx
more importantly the 80s were the last time you could be ugly or over 25 and still get your first hit record






also glamtera best pantera

Horniest Manticore
Nov 23, 2013

Hello, you!
Lipstick Apathy
I WANT TO KNOW WHAT LOVE IS

I WANT YOU TO BLOW ME

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98AJUj-qxHI

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
Too bad napster isn't around any more or I'd be done with this little project already

80s Songs

1. One night in bangkok murray head
2. Mexican radio
3. Once in a lifetime talking heads
4. psycho killer talking heads
5. this must be the place talking heads
6. road to nowhere talking heads
7. and she was talking heads
8. life during warimte talking heads
9. heaven talking heads
10. wild wild life talking heads
11. devil inside inxs
12. need you tonight inxs
13. spin your right round
14. jessie's girl rick springfield
15. whip it good devo
16. money for nothing dire straights
17. don't you want me human league
18. jack and diane john mellencamp
19. who can it be now men at work
20. land down under men at work
21. Maneater hall and oates
22. africa toto
23. come on eileen dexys midnight runners
24. lets dance david bowie
25. sweet dreams eurythmics
26. here comes the rain again eurythmics
27. owner of a lonely heart yes
28. jump van halen
29. against all odds phil collins
30. time after time cyndi lauper
31. missing you john waite
32. I want to know what love is foreigner
33. i can't fight this feeling REO speedwagon
34. don't you forget about me simple minds
35. everybody wants to rule the world tears for fears
36. heaven bryan adams
37. shout tears for fears
38. st elmo's fire john parr
39. take on me a-ha
40. we built this city starship
41. sara starship
42. broken wings mr. Mister
43. kyrie mr. Mister
44. sledgehammer peter gabriel
45. invisible touch genesis
46. mama genesis?
47. take my breah away berlin
48. i just died in your arms cutting crew
49. alone heart
50. these dreams heart
51. cradle of love billy idol
52. eyes without a face billy idol
53. heaven is a place on earth belinda carlisle
54. kokomo beach boys
55. electric avenue eddy grant
56. dancing in the dark springsteen
57. don't stand so close to me police
58. every breath you take police
59. invisiblel sun police
60. king of pain police
61. fortress around your heart sting
62. goodbye horses q lazzarus
63. i ran a flock of seagulls
64. space age love song flock of seagulls
65. 500 miles proclaimers
66. the living years mike and the mechanics
67. love will tear us apart joy division
68. ultravox vienna
69. moody blues your wildest dreams
70. obsession animotion
71. situation yaz
72. polariod ruth
73. pretenders back on the chain gang
74. blue monday new order
75. little lies fleetwood mac
76. go your own way fleetwood mac
77. can't hardly wait replacements
78. red skies the fixx
79. your love frankie knuckles
80. baltimora tarzan boy
81. i can't wait nu shooz
82. love my way psychedelic furs
83. send me an angel real life
84. hungry like the wolf duran duran
85. siouxsie and the banshees arabian knights
86. mr roboto styx
87. lifes been good joe walsh
88. its my life talk talk

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pW68T84RLHw

raton
Jul 28, 2003

by FactsAreUseless
credposting

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3DuCIGvsbMA

whoflungpoop posted:

listen i played u bad music and told u how jews control the media now touch my peener u ugly whore this is how love work

You said you'd take that ot your grave :mad:

Genesplicer
Oct 19, 2002

I give your invention the worst grade imaginable: An A-minus-minus!

Total Clam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914

or the literal version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HE9OQ4FnkQ

SEGA Ass Fisting
Feb 15, 2012

KEEP IT TIGHT!
Oingo loving Boingo

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

Wet Drops

a hole-y ghost
May 10, 2010

That's th e best. Wet Drops. Anyone other songs in this thread is invalid.

Infidel Castro
Jun 8, 2010

Again and again
Your face reminds me of a bleak future
Despite the absence of hope
I give you this sacrifice




a hole-y ghost posted:

That's th e best. Wet Drops. Anyone other songs in this thread is invalid.

gently caress that, it's True Faith and I will loving fight you.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfI1S0PKJR8

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020
Fun fact: Bonnie Tyler's "Total Eclipse of the Heart" was originally composed for a musical version of Nosferatu. It's original title was "Vampires in Love."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcOxhH8N3Bo

Panamaniac
Jun 18, 2007

HEROES NEVER DIE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAQSZhazYk8

ded
Oct 27, 2005

Kooler than Jesus
here is the best 80s song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CU7NkQSxV0


smdftb

Isaac
Aug 3, 2006

Fun Shoe
Whahehekekekrv5v5vtvrv4rrr4rrttrrrerrrr

Zeluth
May 12, 2001

by Fluffdaddy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FTQbiNvZqaY

Pththya-lyi
Nov 8, 2009

THUNDERDOME LOSER 2020

The best simile in all of 80s music

"As sure as [A Mountain] rises like [A Different Mountain]"

mind the walrus
Sep 22, 2006

I'm on mobile so posting this is more trouble than its worth. Can someone post that commercial for an 80s compilation called "punk"?

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

whoflungpoop posted:

op cant get a girlfriend lol

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe
OP "wants to know what love is" lol

Listening to africa by toto and then gonna put on safety dance thanks to this thread though.

safety dance!

The Saurus
Dec 3, 2006

by Smythe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wNnQTaX4iLw

starry skies above
Aug 23, 2015

by zen death robot

The Saurus posted:

OP "wants to know what love is" lol

Listening to africa by toto and then gonna put on safety dance thanks to this thread though.

safety dance!

I too have seen many episodes of "Scrubs"

Saint Isaias Boner
Jan 17, 2007

hi how are you

album of the 80s imho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmBawBVBRLw

still gives me a lot of satisfaction

Michael Bayleaf
Jun 4, 2006

Tortured By Flan
it's really impressive how bad all of this is

spud
Aug 27, 2003

by LITERALLY AN ADMIN
This is entirely my poo poo....all the ones that popped into my head have been posted but hoping to find some that I am not so familiar with.

Love will tear us apart is amazing but it's 1990 so misses out by one year :(

Lord Binky posted:

it's really impressive how bad all of this is

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uPudE8nDog0

spud fucked around with this message at 11:46 on Oct 30, 2015

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

Blondie's "Parallel Lines" is one of the best albums of the decade and I don't know why people don't talk about it more.

Vincent Van Goatse
Nov 8, 2006

Enjoy every sandwich.

Smellrose

FactsAreUseless posted:

Blondie's "Parallel Lines" is one of the best albums of the decade and I don't know why people don't talk about it more.

people who don't like it should Just Go Away

FactsAreUseless
Feb 16, 2011

ALL-PRO SEXMAN posted:

people who don't like it should Just Go Away
I've never met anyone who doesn't like it, but people just seem to forget about Blondie.

FlimFlam Imam
Mar 1, 2007

Standing on a hill in my mountain of dreams
For those that like the song Mexican Radio you should get Wall of Voodoo: Call of the West, the whole album is great.

Fender Anarchist
May 20, 2009

Fender Anarchist

i too like heartfelt emotional songs from the 1980s

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K6_zsJ8KPP0

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Genesplicer
Oct 19, 2002

I give your invention the worst grade imaginable: An A-minus-minus!

Total Clam

Gilganixon posted:

album of the 80s imho https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LmBawBVBRLw

still gives me a lot of satisfaction

This entire album is on my playlist at school. It confuses the students any time one of these songs comes up. It is completely worth it, in my humble opinion.

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