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Eye Know - De La Soul
Night of the Living Baseheads - Public Enemy
Transvision Vamp - Baby I Don't Care
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
Ivan Meets GI Joe - The Clash
Bankrobber - The Clash
Mirror in the Bathroom - The Beat
Racist Friend - The Specials
I'm sulking.
Rock the Casbah - The Clash
[s]Eton Rifles - The Jam
Down in the Tube Station at Midnight - The Jam[/s] Dammit. 70s.
Blue Monday - New Order
New Year's Day - U2
Going to stop now...
Lots of not '80s stuff in this thread.
Laura Brannigan - Self Control
Mike Hornsby and the Range - That's Just The Way It Is
Van Halen - Why Can't This Be Love?
Win - You've Got The Power
Then Jericho - The Motive
Mental As Anything - Live It Up
I'm sulking.
Who sang that? 😆
I'm sulking.Who sang that?
Morrisey? Sounds like one of his.
or Mike Hornsby. 😉
Then Jericho - Big Area
Do you want to know which ones I've got so you can remove them from the playlist? 😛
I hope Slackboy is keeping up 🙂
or Mike Hornsby.
Now wondering who he was and how he supplanted Bruce in my memory.
Maybe he was the model trains guy.
Bruce and the Mechanics - Over my Shoulder
Anything by Motorloaf or Meathead.
Brucey! by Toni Basil
Yello: The race
Pat Banatar: Love is a battlefield
Chris Rea: Road to hell
Pet Shop Boys: Suburbia
Eurythmics: Angel
Genesis: Tonight, tonight, tonight
The Police: Syncronicity II
Roll Me Away - Bob Seger and The Silver Bullet Band, surely the epitome of an 80's driving song
Dire Straits - Telegraph Road
Meat Loaf - Bat out of Hell
Passed my test in 1980. This one is what I used. 1600cc Corrina with suspension stiffness of French proportions. Happily upgraded to Carlos Fandango Mini 8)
I hope Slackboy is keeping up
collaborative playlist - anyone can join the fun...
Disturbed - Down with the sickness. 'OH WA HA HA HA'
you like driving fast yeah?
Joe Jackson - 'Steppin Out' ?
I remember 1983 fresh out of school driving around Birmingham City Centre after dark on way to a club in a friend's metallic green Fiat X1-9 with this playing on the tape machine. Stellar flashback!
Oh, and surely GTA Vice City OST?!
Tight Fit - The Lion Sleeps Tonight
In a slighty off-topic kind of way, we went to the MotoGP at the weekend and stumbled across a Mexican eighties cover band, and they were FANTASTIC. There's no eighties music like Mariachi eighties music. 😀
Depeche mode everything counts
Violent femmes Blister in the Sun
The Cure Close to me
Duran Duran Hungry like the wolf
Robert Palmer Addicted to love
David Bowie Lets Dance
Phil Colins Sussudio
Jan Hammer Crockets Theme
Well having endured a trip to Switzerland with two U2 fans, I can tell you what I would leave off.
For those of us over-biked and under-pedalled:
Weak in the Presence of Beauty by Alison Moyet
Oh, its a long time since I saw you
Well you know how time can fly
It seems like yesterday we were lovers
Now we pass each other by
But if we're left alone tonight, don't ask me to hold you tight
I go weak
I go weak
I go weak
I go weak, weak in the presence of beauty
Love Missile F1-11 - Sigue Sigue Sputnik
I think that long drives - especially late night ones, are great for concept albums
eg: Captain Lockheed and the Starfighters -
Jump by van Helen
(Ch)easy lover by Phil Collins and Philip bailey
Playlist all up to date. I'm going off shift now, don't forget you can add your own
Heres the link to that playlist again
[url= https://open.spotify.com/user/mslack/playlist/0hZncc9Xfj63Ggsmc0uj6J ]Playlist[/url]
[url=spotify:user:mslack:playlist:0hZncc9Xfj63Ggsmc0uj6J]spotify app link[/url]
Crash by The Primitives
IHN - Member
Then Jericho - Big Area
Oh bravo... Well played
I'm going to counter dire straits telegraph road and suggest tunnel of love instead.
Republica ready to go. (Not 80s though)
Def Leppard photograph
Iron Maiden run to the hills
As the sun is setting on this endless dad drive..Bon Jovi, wanted dead or alive,
Definitely mainstream me:
Paul Simon - Diamonds on the Soles of Her Shoes
Frankie - Two Tribes
Michael Jackson - Billie Jean
Stone Roses - Waterfall
Oakey and Moroder - Together in Electric Dreams
Phil Collins - You can't Hurry Love
James Brown - Living in America
Talking of Spotify playlists, [url= https://open.spotify.com/user/1127330414/playlist/3nfKRIu9vl4T3qy4AqyQwN ]Here's the STW Metal/Rock[/url] one. Still going strong after the best part of two years
I'm now off to add to the 80's one
Ohhhh that metal/rock one is amazing!!
80s? Driving?
Obvious choice;
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And, a little Art of Noise as well, perhaps.
Rob Base, DJ EZ Rock - It Takes Two
soul 2 soul - back to life
eric b & rakim - paid in full
steve Arrington - dancing in the key of life
alexander o neil - fake
Hyperactive - Thomas Dolby
Temptation - Heaven 17
Shout - Tears for fears
That's what I get - Nine inch Nails
Oakley and Moroder - Together in Electric Dreams
Incidentally, I adore this - I think it's one of the best things to come of of the eighties (a decade that I was glad to see the back of)
But in the spirit of the thread I'd like to add
Bon Jovi - You give love a bad name
Europe - The final countdown
Nena - 99 red balloons
Bryan Adams - Summer of '69
Kraftwerk - The model
Big Audio Dynamite - E=MC2
Prince - Kiss
Timbuk3 - Future's so bright I gotta wear shades
Age of Chance - Kiss
Visage - Fade to grey
Yazoo - Don't go
Talking Heads - Road to nowhere
Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
Dead or alive - you spin me right round
New order - Blue Monday
INXS - Need you tonight
Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F
FIne Young Cannibals - She drives me crazy
And the theme from Ghostbusters.
Or the Grosse Point Blank soundtrack.
Hmm, maybe the eighties weren't so bad...
The Teardrop Explodes - Reward
the cure - primary
the cure - killing an arab
Oh dear, think I got carried away a bit, but was having fun (quite a few guilty pleasure's in there too!) Steered away from hair metal for a change, but I may flood it later...
Steered away from hair metal for a change, but I may flood it later...
I shall march in to battle alongside you, brother! To arms!
Was there anything other than hair metal in the 80s?
And for quite an embarrassing chunk of the 90s as well 8)