Thread 5945678

Veteran of the Psychic Wars - Blue Oyster Cult

Alan Parsons - _Games People Play

Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy

Siouxsie And The Banshees - Happy House - 1980

>>5946330
This one is cut off.

>>5947846
Cool video

>>5945683
banger.

>>5946276
underrated.

>>5945683
I like this song less now that I see her style.

>>5948292
RIP
Gwen McCrae - All this Love (Live Baltic Soul Weekender 5, Baltic Soul Ochestra 2011)
https://youtu.be/LGm7AQUDrvs?t=39

A lot of interesting stuff ITT.

80s already had deep commercialization and corporate 'taste making' of course, but it felt like the last decade where experimentation and genre-unspecific styles where approved. I mean today anyone can pirate a DAW and start building tracks that are far higher in technical fidelity, but in the 80s you had to really invest yourself in the craft to make any effort in music. That alone worked like a filter.

I'm also noticing that a lot of these artists look very normal, as in: 'not a star', like some artificial person. Even when styled flamboyantly, they still appear imperfect, like blue collar folk.

Digital technology has made life more convenient and music accessible, but it has greatly diminished authenticity and passion.

Some Kraftwerk: first "Computer Love" (German version: "Computerliebe") from their 1981 album Computerwelt / Computer World. The album track is too long for 4chan at over 7 minutes, so webmrel is a shorter live version.

>>5950248
Computer Love was released as a single with the B-side a re-release of their 1978 Das Modell (The Model) - later re-released as a double A-side.

From Kraftwerk's 1981 Computerwelt, track Nummern (Numbers).

Kraftwerk's Pocket Calculator ("Taschenrechner")

>>5950266
Japanese version of "Pocket Calculator", "Dentaku"

>>5950271
Do you like Yellow Magic Orchestra?

>>5950277
>Yellow Magic Orchestra
Never heard of them until now; a Japanese Kraftwerk? I just listened to Computer Game (rather bland), and Technopolis (much more interesting). I guess they never got much airplay in the UK and rest of Europe.
webmrel is Thomas Dolby - She Blinded Me With Science

>>5950297
Hyperactive! released on 9 January 1984

>>5950297
(first attempt failed to upload) Hyperactive! released on 9 January 1984

>>5950297
> Japanese Kraftwerk
Yeah, it's what first came to my mind.
I think Rydeen is their best known track.
>>5950297
>Thomas Dolby
I think his "The Flat Earth" album is great.

>>5950297
"This Wreckage" by Gary Numan. It was featured as the opening track on from the 1980 LP Telekon.

>>5950325
>Gary Numan's Telekon
live recording of I Die: You Die

The Human League - Don't You Want Me, from the 1981 album Dare.

>>5950400
>Human League
Mirror Man (TOTP 1982)

>>5948213
>>5948320
I think this might be my favorite The Pixies song, lol.

>>5946330
>>5946370

>>5953944
Nice. Only other Yello track I heard is Rubberbandman ('90s).

There's some good stuff here, but this thread makes me realize what people mean about the '80s being a downturn for music.

>>5955317
You have to have heard Oh Yeah

>>5955851
There ain't no hole deep enough on this earth for someone with a TV not to have heard that.

>>5955710

People saying that are out to lunch. The 80s had its own unique style and musical explorations. It was a good time for ballads as well.

>>5955710
Dude, it was anything but a down turn. The 80's gave birth to so many great styles of music and a lot of experimentation. Even today you can find many bands that are influenced by that era