the bigger surprise is anyone admitting to being at a tina turner concert

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Well, to be fair, it depends on the year.

She was HOT then, and Mr Bowie must have thought so too if the stories are true as to how she got him to appear that night.

Just out of interest the concert had this "new type of floating camera" system installed to proffesionally film the show, its a pity the security wasn't too clever as a big girl managed to get on stage and nearly pull him over which you can see on the footage.

have never seen the attraction, visually or audibly, at any stage of her career. but hey, it was the eighties and i expect we all have similar embarrassing concert-going memories from that especially sucky decade

yes indeed, Glass Spider (though thankfully I avoided the '83 lets seriously dance moonlit gnome tour - choosing instead to road manage an embarrassingly so very 80's band) sucky is indeed the word for that decade, I blame us boundary pushers of the mid to late 70's for settling down in the early 80's thus taking our eye of the ball (and the kajal) - only to re-emerge in the 90's freshly freed and feeling inspired

Some of us a little younger actually loved the 80s.

Certainly some great music, but not from Bowie or Tina!

wow, three people on one thread defending the music of the '80s. amazing coincidence that you're all here at the same time!

Then I'm number four, lots of good music came out in the 80s, though, as you say, not from Bowie or Tina...
(Thomas Dolby, Japan, ABC, Heaven 17, Laurie Anderson, John Foxx, Bauhaus are just a few examples, it wasn't all fluff and hairspray you know )

And I guess I must pass for one of the older people here, I was out of my teens in the 80s

But I no longer own an LD player, although I did, and was was once a proud owner of the Singles Collection on PAL laser disc. Never knew Tin Machine was released though...

I only count three so far.
All the bands you mention, good ones too, had pretty much peaked by the early 80's (or in Japan's case, '79 whilst in my humble opinion Foxx's best work was on Ultravox's 'Systems of Romance' from 78) over the 10 year period I felt we took a step backwards, still it's not all bad news, The Stone Roses are back together.

Ok, so then I'm no.4!

It's turned into an episode of 'The Prisoner'

My guess would be that per capita (so to speak) the 80s was by far the worst decade for music.

But it's high points were stunningly high. The Jesus and Mary Chain (my favourite band), Pixies, The Smiths, Peter Gabriel, New Order, Husker Du, Sonic Youth, Iron Maiden, The Cure, Dead Kennedys and The Stone Roses for example.

The Jam, The Specials and The Beat, some of the UK's greatest singles bands, did their best work in the first couple of years of the decade on the back of Thatcher's election in '79.

But there was so so so much dross. And it was all so po-faced, well meaning and hypocritical too.

Don't do drugs, raise money for charity, try and get Lady Di at your stadium gigs. Horrid.

I think it was a shit decade all round and the music reflected that. Cinema too but that's for a different forum and a different smug soapbox.

The greed veneer and the rush to be famous that has polluted society ever since had its roots in the 80s.

The whole decade makes me angry as it has somehow come to represent pop music and 80s music is a genre now. When people say they like 80s music I say me too, the indie decade bookended by the death and birth of two great Manchester bands who released two of the finest records ever. Joy division's Closer and The Stone Roses debut.

It's a smartarse, know-it-all snob's response but I don't care on this one.

Live Aid smashed the heart out of music for a decade and it was only in the mid 90's when Britpop pushed back the tide of corporate grunge wannabes, that chart-topping music got some integrity back.

This is a very Anglocentric rant but that's where I am from so that's who I am.

nice to see some passion, but i'd like to go on record that i don't own a single note by one band listed in defence of the '80s on this thread. some of them would be among my exhibits in the case for the prosecution. the '80s account for about 5% of my record collection and it'll never get any higher. life's too short.

meanwhile, there's a question about some bowie footage on dvd in this thread somewhere... feel free to lock it down, maarten!

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