80s music

The 80s were chockful of New Wave power ballads, synthesizers, drum machines, and no shortage of Madonna and Michael Jackson.

Bon Jovi's "Livin' On A Prayer"
'Livin' On A Prayer' is my all time Go-To Anthem... it paradoxically revs me up, as tears spring unbidden to my eyes! Obviously, I have excellent taste in this instance, as this track off Bon Jovi's 1986 "Slippery When Wet" album topped the charts in early 1987; later won an MTV Video Music Award for Best Stage Performance in a Video and has become the band's signature song.
By Angie the Archivist 📚🪶3 years ago in Beat
World Turned Upside Down - Incredible Words From Leon Rosselson
Introduction Sometime in the past I first heard this song, either by Billy Bragg or Dick Gaughan. These versions conveyed the anger at the Hateful spite of the privileged classes toward the less fortunate.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Beat
A Sixth Selection Of Ten Essential UK & Irish Folk Music Songs From 1960s-1980s
Introduction I need to be a little more careful in my song selections as I repeated one in Episode Five (Link at the end of this article) but I have to be thankful for the suggestions from the members of UK & Irish Folk Music 60s-80s for their suggestions of artists who have slipped my mind and artists I have never heard of. I had been particularly remiss in my lack of coverage of Welsh Folk.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Beat
A Fifth Selection Of Ten Essential UK & Irish Folk Music Songs From 1960s-1980s
Introduction This is the fifth installment in this series taking it up to fifty songs for you to enjoy. I am trying not to repeat artists but the more I share the more difficult that is to do.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Beat
A Fourth Selection Of Ten Essential UK & Irish Folk Music Songs From 1960s-1980s
Introduction This is the fourth episode in this series and I am trying to not repeat myself and to include artists that have not appeared in previous ones. I don't think I will have any problem with that, and I am lucky enough to start this off with someone that I have met a corresponded with.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Beat
A Third Selection Of Ten Essential UK & Irish Folk Music Songs From 1960s-1980s
Introduction This is the third selection that I have created to share in UK & Irish Folk Music 60s-80s and you can visit them here to discover even more musical treasures.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Beat
Merzbow - Material Action 2
A heaping dollop of noisiness from the long-time Japanoise king, Masami Akita, a.k.a. "Merzbow," who has been going since 1978 and has a hundred and forty million albums of this stuff. Here, we have a heavy collage of bang and clang, intercut with high, piercing, synth whistling but it never does in any way get dull. The feeling is that one is inside the bowls of some great, futuristic tin horn beast from a demonic bestiary located somewhere south of Chiba City and somewhere north of the Sprawl. Strings are plucked behind the wall of noise, there is always the sensation of movement...movement...movement forward in sound, a process of progression.
By Tom Baker3 years ago in Beat
A Second Selection Of Ten Essential UK & Irish Folk Music Songs From 1960s-1980s
Introduction Peter Guy said this in a comment on the story below: It’s ascribed to various blues singers I think, that “all music is folk music, at least I never heard a horse sing” or words to that effect.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Beat
Rate-O-Rama: (There's No Place Like) Home For The Holidays
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By Rick Henry Christopher 3 years ago in Beat
Underrated Albums: Discovering Musical Gems
The following ten albums are all, in their own right, underrated by the general music-listening public and are deserving of a closer look.
By Rick Henry Christopher 3 years ago in Beat
Ghosts of Christmas Past
Christmas — the best time of the year. I’ve always loved Christmas but it became extra special to me when I became a mother.
By Colleen Millsteed 3 years ago in Beat
A Playlist For A Rainy Day
Introduction Today's weather is dreich and dark and rainy. It is also cold, so hardly inspirational, but there is a lot of music that addresses rain, so I thought I might share a few favourites of mine that will brighten anyone's day, even days like this.
By Mike Singleton 💜 Mikeydred 3 years ago in Beat