80s thread, best of the 80s
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Hogan's leg drop IS the 1980s.
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Maybe I missed it, but I don't recall seeing much love for Dire Straits in this thread:
Mark Knopfler solo doing soundtrack work for the film "Local Hero", itself a great slice of 80's:
Mark Knopfler solo doing soundtrack work for the film "Local Hero", itself a great slice of 80's:
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There's much better Rush material than that. Their 80's output is considered weak by their fans. Try Moving Pictures, 2112 and Hemispheres.
Such a ground soundtrack for that movie. The original trailer had a great tune from The Cars that wasn't featured on the soundtrack -
This tune is so beautiful. I don't think modern artists have the depth of soul to come up with something like this. I helped a friend come down from a bad acid trip using this song.
Far and away my favourite Rush song is Subdivisions.
Funnily enough, it's a YouTube guy called AstroTama who gave me a greater appreciation for Peart's work: he's an astrophysicist dude who's hobby was to recreate Peart's drum kit and play along to Rush songs. For some reason I really dig watching him go:
I never paid attention to the drumming before because the lyrics are so good that I focused on them instead. Good video, the drum work is pretty amazing.
If anybody is wondering, the woman in the video is the singer from 'Til Tuesday. The song is about wanting time to slow down--things are moving too fast. And that was sung nearly 25 years ago. Ouch.
Agreed that the earlier stuff is better--some of the later '80's stuff was not that great, although Presto is pretty good in my opinion. Would add Signals to the list of their good, earlier albums. Everything after the 80's was not very good in my opinion, especially when their drummer/songwriter drifted into angry-atheist mode.
On Moving Pictures Red Barchetta is an especially good song, it is set in a dystopian future but has a happy ending.
Story goes, The Waterboys were recording an album in rural Galway around '87 and word got out as they had a song in the UK charts at the time. They were invited to pop in to a local school to play for the kids
Something about this touches me. The kids just seem so joyful and unaffected, the teachers so easygoing about the whole thing
Something about this touches me. The kids just seem so joyful and unaffected, the teachers so easygoing about the whole thing