Favourite '80s bands and songs?

[Naki Rat]

Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere


ZZ Top - Legs


Dire Straits - Skateaway


Rolling Stones - Start Me Up

Anybody else noticed that music quality went downhill as the 80s progressed?

[Big Dave]

Anybody else noticed that music quality went downhill as the 80s progressed?

I'll try and refute that later.

[Naki Rat]

Anybody else noticed that music quality went downhill as the 80s progressed?

Guess the 70s was a pretty tough act to follow

[Swoop]

I forgot to add:

Midnight Oil.
Van Halen.
Level 42.
ZZ Top.
Crowded House.
Yazoo.
Madness (how could I forget them?)

[Big Dave]

[Big Dave]

[Big Dave]

[Big Dave]

1989:

[MisterD]

Striving for the Mr Eclectic award:

Feargal Sharkey before he sold out 1980:


Bob Smith & Co 1982:


JaMC 1985:


SF's Metal God's '86:

[MsKABC]

Dire Straits, "Telegraph Road" - my all-time favourite song. Best listened to on a good stereo, really loud! 14-odd minutes of absolute bliss

[Big Dave]

I beat you to the cure one.
Fergal sharkey was a maybe.

Eclecticism?

I would let Jimmy Nail play me when they make the movie.

[Big Dave]

[Usarka]

Room that echo's ahhhhh.....

but don't forget:

[Big Dave]

Room that echo's ahhhhh.....rse biscuit?.....cuit?.....cuitttt

[MisterD]

I beat you to the cure one.

I withdraw and apologise...as a token of my esteem, allow me to help refute that earlier assertion that music deteriorated through the decade. These from '89, yes really, it was that long ago.