British single of the eighties

[Sun Stonehouse]

In my humble opinion it has to be "West End Girls" by Pet Shop Boys at least in this country anyway. So maybe i should have titled this particular thread "British single of the eighties", done! . The eighties was my active decade should I say, I was too skint in the seventies because of living in London, always only one step ahead of sleeping on the streets almost!. It was only by returning to my home city of Plymouth that I really could start enjoying life and I most certainly did. Happy days, anyway what say the rest of you, its up to you to suggest a song that summed up the eighties. Oh by the way sorry to anyone born since then, you missed out on one hellava good time!!!.

 

[mervyn]

In my humble opinion it has to be "West End Girls" by Pet Shop Boys at least in this country anyway. So maybe i should have titled this particular thread "British single of the eighties", done! . The eighties was my active decade should I say, I was too skint in the seventies because of living in London, always one step ahead of sleeping on the streets almost!. It was only by returning to my home city of Plymouth that I really could start enjoying life and I most certainly did. Happy days, anyway what say the rest of you, its up to you to suggest a song that summed up the eighties. Oh by the way sorry to anyone born since then, you missed out on one hellava good time!!!.

Spotify say that their most streamed 80s song is The Police ‘Every breath you take’. Didn’t seem so big at the time, but one of those timeless tracks that lasts over decades.

 

[Clare Spencer]

New romantics - Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet

Hungry Like the Wolf, Reflex

Gold & True

Youngsters don't know what they are missing

 

[Andrew Owen]

OMD - Enola Gay.

I only remember the late eighties, when the charts were full of god-awful poodle-haired bands like Def Leppard, or the latest offcuts from the Stock Aitken & Waterman conveyor belt.

 

[Sun Stonehouse]

Funnily enough apart from the Oasis Blur songs I can hardly recall any songs of the nineties. Maybe as I was married by then my partying fun days were over!!.

 

[Shadowknight]

For me it's when you hear a song from the era, and you realise your music taste wasn't mature enough to appreciate it at the time.

Inspiral Carpets - This is how it feels.

I hear it this week and thought Ah, now I get it.

 

[Peter Ryan]

Spotify say that their most streamed 80s song is The Police ‘Every breath you take’. Didn’t seem so big at the time, but one of those timeless tracks that lasts over decades.

A song about stalking a woman!

 

[Terry Fowler]

“Never Going To Give You Up”

 

[Forest of Dean Green]

Just because it was always played in every club and disco, Blue Monday

 

[Lousy Pint]

New romantics - Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet

Hungry Like the Wolf, Reflex

Gold & True

Youngsters don't know what they are missing

Oldies know they didn't miss a thing!

What a dreadful decade

 

[Sun Stonehouse]

Oldies know they didn't miss a thing!

What a dreadful decade

Hang your head in shame young sir, dreadful decade!!!. Fantastic variety of music, most of it British, fantastic variety of fashion, even a fantastic variety of hair cuts!, a reaction to the scruffy, spit, punk rock era of the mid late seventies. Now the nineties was a dreadfully dull decade of nothing in particular, music wise, and I include Oasis and Blur in that analysis. Blur were a remake of the Small Faces of the sixties, cheeky chappy cockerney sound and Oasis a very very poor imitation of a fantastic Northern band of the sixties. I won, t even name the particular band as it would be insulting to them. That, s how full of themselves the Gallagher brothers were to even infer or suggest that!! There, that's that off my chest!. Oh and I, m guessing Lousy Pint that you weren't one for a bottle of Sol with a piece of lime in the top,crucial to the times!.It was a fun frivolous decade of indulgence and why not!!.

 

[Lousy Pint]

Sorry Sun, no I wasn't a bottle of Sol man, a pint or 6 of real ale was more me.
Loved the late 60s and the 70s, for me the finest period of British rock, blues, pop, prog etc.
I mean 'Gold' FFS!!!

 

[Sun Stonehouse]

I was born in the late fifties and do accept that the sixties was a monumental decade for music in this country, styles of which are still relevant to music today. I was also a big fan of prog rock but could understand it's limited appeal as basically it was album driven because most of the tracks of music went on for twenty minutes or so!. It all got a bit self indulgent and thank God for Bowie showing us a different way. I can understand that the music and fashion basis of the eighties probably would not be your thing and that is fair enough. I personally enjoyed the self indulgence of it all and it's excesses. And that was just me!!.

 

[Since I Was 33]

Could never single out just one particular single as there are so many that I bought during that era. Also my musical taste was so wide all throughout that time as well. I liked 'West End Girls' as a single but then again I was also at the same time listening to hardcore / anarcho punk, indie, electro and thrash metal too

Recently I've been listening more to classic rock from the 60s and 70s plus a lot of blues rock. Its a whole planet load of music for me to discover

 

[mervyn]

I find it interesting as an oldie that I’m enjoying music from periods that simply passed me by at the time. Most eighties music I just didn’t listen to, no reason, but now discovering some great stuff that would be old hat to people like Sun Stonehouse. I’m even enjoying some heavy metal, a genre I used to despise.