80's cd prop bet

[Tonji]

We need 10 polls!

was tenpole tudor in the 80s!

[Pelham Boy]

We need 10 polls!

was tenpole tudor in the 80s!

Classic! Swords Of A 1000 men,1981 i believe.

[Claw75]

Ok here's mine (and I've had to agree with Kin on one of them!)

80 Going Underground - Jam
81 Prince Charming - Adam and the Ants
82 Jack and Diane - John Cougar Mellencamp
83 This Charming Man - Smiths
84 Do they know it's Christmas - Band Aid
85 You Spin Me Round - Dead or Alive
86 Always the Sun - Stranglers
87 It's the end of the world as we know it - REM
88 Fast Car - Tracy Chapman
89 Here comes your man - Pixies


hmm not sure about dead or alive - probably come back and edit later!

sigh.  you think you've got problems with Kev Jane.  Matt's just looked at my list and he doesn't even know my 82, 83, 86, 88 or 89 songs!!!!

[thetank]

Try him on the theme from the Um Bongo TV ads.

[Ginger]

LOL I just know he has better taste in music than the rubbish he listed, ok it's not all rubbish but a great 80's list it isn't. I liked the tracks but it was nothing exceptional!

Jack and Diane I actually love (one of my first singles I bought myself) good pick IMO 

[Claw75]

Matt's just had 15 minute music lesson via the medium of youtube.  he think the pixies are ok coz they did a song about a monkey

[matt674]

i cant help it if i missed most of the early 80's living abroad - then only remembering vagues bits about the rest of the decade. So my musical tastes are a little off track!

having listened to them on youtube still dont know 82, the smiths are 83 and as soon as i hear his voice i want to throw myself off a cliff lemming style. i wish i'd never heard 84, i now vaguely remember the chorus of 86. Still think 88 is sung by a bloke even though Claire put the video on youtube and dont recognize 89 either (though now i get the reference on the thread about having a pixies song being played when i visit the big jungle under the ground!)

and yes i can sing the whole of the Um Bongo TV ad..........

[Maxriddles]

Can't believe how few posts have the Stone Roses for 1989, they are an absolute must.

she bangs the drums looks like a banker for the 1989 slot

 

[kinboshi]

Can't believe how few posts have the Stone Roses for 1989, they are an absolute must.

she bangs the drums looks like a banker for the 1989 slot

 

Fools Gold

[ShatnerPants]

Complete a CD of 12 track from the 1980's

have no more than one artist/group on any song

have a song from each year of the 80's

we will hand the cd's out to randoms and ask to jusge the best cd (11 cd's each)

All that and you don't want anything too 'poppy'

Well, I've held my breath, and seen the good, the bad, and the bloody rediculous posted, so here's my tuppence worth.

Again, I'm not putting down my faves,, and I've tried not to copy too many of other peoples ideas, but hopefully something that might help go ftw.

It can be changed about 4 times over depending on personal taste, but I hope you like a few of them anyway......

Too much too young - Specials - 1980.
Fascist Groove Thang - Heaven 17 - 1981
Town Called Malice - Jam  - 1982
Earth Dies Screaming - UB40 - 1980
This is Not a Love Song - PIL - 1983
E=MC2 - BAD -  1986
What Difference - Smiths - 1984
Shout - Tears for Fears - 1985
With or Without You - U2 - 1987
Need You Tonight - INXS - 1988
Poison - Alice Cooper - 1989
Fools Gold - Stone Roses - 1989

I'm happy with it up until What Difference, but then it all went a bit fuzzy until fools Gold.  They're all good tracks though, but I'm not sure how they'd gel on a cd together.

Still........