I don't really see people talking about the 70s and 80s much around here, so I decided to make this topic. It's no secret this is basically one of my favorite times in music as i was basically raised on this stuff.

I'm just gonna name off some artists/songs/music videos, and we can go from there. 8)

Alice Cooper:

Alice Cooper is notable for besides being 60 and still rocking hard, but also for refining and defining the Shock Rock genre in the mid 60s.

Notable songs include "Welcome to my Nightmare", "Schools out", "No More Mr. Nice Guy", and a lot more. Spanning 25 studio albums, 4 live albums, and 27 singles, Alice Cooper has a pretty huge lineup of music. My favorite album is Trash (came out in 1989), which besides being his biggest hit album since pretty much ~1977, but includes pretty much one of my most favorite songs of all time from Alice Cooper, Poison, which was also his first top ten single at the time since You & Me.

Alice Cooper's "Poison" music video.
The NSFW Version of the above

Billy Idol:

W...who is this handsome devil??

Billy Idol is a Brit hard rock singer, who is fairly popular in the US actually!! He's had a lot of ups and downs, and shit. I'll admit, there's quite a lot of his music I don't like, but what I do like I absolutely adore. He was also a guest star in the Wedding Singer with Adam Sandler too. He's pretty notable for having peroxide hair and being uber sex to women everywhere during his prime.

He has 14 albums and 16 singles so far.

I don't really have a favorite album from him, actually. It's just kinda like, no one album really sticks out to me. However, there are a lot of his singles that I absolutely adore. Namely, "Dancing With Myself", "Rebel Yell", "White Wedding", "Eyes Without a Face", "Cradle of Love".

Rebel Yell, pretty good song imo.

Not only is Dancing with Myself a good song but it has the most ridiculous premise for a music video ever. The song is (metaphorically) about masturbation, and yet the music video has Billy Idol electrocuting himself to destroy zombies.

ok then.

Journey

The 2002 lineup for Journey.

However, I am specifically talking about the Steve Perry (read: only good Journey) Journey. Journey is an American rock band, and well, they just freaking kick asssss. If you don't know who Journey is, then you can like, go away or something. Seriously!! They have CRAZY HAIRSTYLES and Steve Perrys voice is love.

With a lineup consisting of 8 albums during the Steve Perry times, achieving lots of Platinums, these guys rock. I wish I could tell you my favorite album, but they basically all rule. My favorite songs include "Wheel in the Sky" from Infinity, "Anyway you Want It" and "Walks Like a Lady" from Departure, "Don't Stop Believing" from Escape, and "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" from Frontiers.

Separate Ways (Worlds Apart) music vid.

LOOK AT THE HAIR, FUCKING EPIC HAIR. (Wheel in the Sky)

There's a couple of other bands I really really like and want to talk about from this era, namely KISS, and such, but I have to get ready to head out so I'm just gonna leave with some epic music vids (they really were crazy during this time)

This is the best music video in the history of music videos. Just the beginning. WHAT IS THAT???I KNOW WHAT THAT IS THAT'S MUSIC!!!!


What bands/songs/albums do you enjoy from the 70s/80s? Even if this stuff is old now-and-days it has a style and just a feeling to it that I really enjoy.

Well, I tend to avoid most of the typical 80s material, though it's sometimes alright for mindless fun (playing vidcons like GTA: VC). I kind of like 99 Luftballons (Nena) though, and have sung along to (Keep Feeling) Fasciantion (by Human League).

If I'm going to listen to 80s music, it's usually Dead Kennedys or sometimes Black Flag. I love Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables (DKs); it gets lots of plays on my computer.
Otherwise, I enjoy some of the Cure's material--I liked em a lot more once, but don't listen so much now (they still rule I saw em live whhooooaaaahhhh).
Tom Waits has some great 80s releases--classics like Rain Dogs and the other Frank albums.
Beastie Boys are also great--only had 2 albums in the era, but they're classics.

So yeah! Not the "defining" music of the 80s, but excellent all the same.

Frank Zappa


Fugazi


Pixies


13th Floor Elevators


Funkadelic


Tom Waits


RHCP


Dinosaur Jr


Jane's Addiction



EDIT: more bands:

R.E.M.


Television


My Bloody Valentine


Spacemen 3


Gang of Four


The Jesus Lizard


Pink Floyd


Led Zeppelin


Wire


Minutemen


The Replacements


The Pop Group


The Clash


Talking Heads


Black Flag


Bad Brains

Man, DJ Soup, please tell me you don't seriously think fucking Pink Floyd are anywhere near as good as bands like the Minutemen or Fugazi!
Also I'm actually working on an article on 80s music that I like, so hopefully I'll be able to post it later on tonight. It's pretty much like Soup's list, anyway.

Eurhythmics is like the only good 80's music

and Devo lol

Edit: Wtf http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devo_2.0

i dunno catamites maybe he likes pink floyds music in the 80s as well as the minute men and fugazi???? I do

it's a trite thing lots of hardcore music enthusaists/music bloggers like to say. I was going to keep myself from posting anything about it but since you asked!!

no one said Joy Division yet. curtis died in 1980 but some of their biggest stuff came out during that decade. talking heads is the other one I listen to a lot from that decade, and gw's fav Tom Waits of course. there are probably some more, but I can't think of them so I guess they're not that important.

edit: heres a cool joy division pic

I'm not a huge fan of Pink Floyd (I do like them though) and I haven't listened to that much Fugazi but tell me, what makes you say this? Do you think Pink Floyd is bad or?? I'm not even looking for an argument here because I seriously am not a huge Pink Floyd fan and personally I think there are a ton of better bands out there but I'm just interested what you meant by this.

To be honest I've been drinking all night, so I wouldn't look to closely into it or whatever! I just find it very weird that someone could listen to them at the same time as the other stuff he mentioned... I know that people's tastes vary enormously and stuff but it still feels kind of odd in the context of those other bands, like if someone were to say they liked Linkin Park as well as Talking Heads or whatever.
So yeah, it wasn't really meant as a 'calling you out' kinda thing but it just seemed like a pretty weird choice to me and I was wondering if it was just some ironic thing or what.

EDIT: In retrospect it was still kind of a douchey thing to say, though, so... Sorry!

Man, DJ Soup, please tell me you don't seriously think fucking Pink Floyd are anywhere near as good as bands like the Minutemen or Fugazi!
Also I'm actually working on an article on 80s music that I like, so hopefully I'll be able to post it later on tonight. It's pretty much like Soup's list, anyway.

To be honest, I hardly ever listen to Pink Floyd. Not because I don't like them, I do think they are fantastic, it is just that I usually forget they are there. Same for Led Z, Queen, Black Sabbath (always meant to check em and never did).
But in response to your second post, uh yeah, I have a very wide taste. Probably the only genre that I don't like as a whole is metal, and I don't consider Led Z to be metal, mind you. They are just as metal as Fugazi and Rites of Spring are emo to me: none at all.

besides your anallogy is a bad one, you're saying it is just as if I'd like Linkin Park(bad band) with Talking Heads(good band). And I think Pink Floyd is a good band indeed.

Regardless, I do agree, Minutemen and Fugazi are miles better than Pink Floyd, to me.


Edit: man yeah, Joy Division

Yeah, I guess a better analogy would be... The Grateful Dead and Talking Heads, or something.
It just seemed weird skimming through it and seeing Pink Floyd alongside Gang of Four and guys like that!

well, I can answer this way: WIRE

Wire's gone from Pink Flag in their first record to Pink Floyd in their third record
I mean, in a matter of 2 years they've gone from English Minutemen with Pink Flag, to Spacey Rock with 154. All in the 70s.

Don't blame me. Blame Wire.




@ Von Woofen
yeah I was thinking Bowie, but I don't really dig him.
I was also thinking T. Rex but to my surprise they're from the 60s.
And then there's Roxy Music to round up the glam/glitter group, but I still haven't heard em.

I'd almost say Faith No More, but they only had one good album in the 80s. The first 2 still had Mosley as singer, and they got much better with Patton on 1989's The Real Thing.

The only band I can really think of that hasn't already been mentioned is David Bowie, but I don't think anyone else on GW is a big Bowie fan.

Bowie fucking roxxxxx. Been a fan ever since I saw Labyrinth.

agihaertngoiaehrtoiaert fuck, I had this huge post written out about electro that I had worked on for like an hour but I accidentally closed my browser and I'm not going to type that shit out again. Here are some electro videos.

Fresh 3 MCs - Fresh


Man Parrish - Hip Hop Be Bop


Model 500 - Future

Cybotron - Industrial Lies

Twilight 22 - Electric Kingdom


Afrika Bambaataa - Planet Rock


Unknown DJ and Three D - Beatronic


Freestyle - Don't Stop the Rock

Hashim - Al-Naafiysh (The Soul)

So yeah, electro rules, I've got a lot more if you like this, and I'm pissed off that my browser closed!