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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,135 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Reagan really was a piece of work, intentional goading of the soviets to justify the hypocritical Reagan Doctrine turned the nuclear threat knob up to 11.

    Actually when he found out that the USSR thought that the Able Archer wargames were a prelude to a pre-emptive strike, and feared the US capabilities - he became much more conciliatory. Which led to the summits with Gorbachev and the end of the Cold War. He really was a piece of work - in a good way. We are fortunate such a man came to lead America in the 1980s.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,423 ✭✭✭✭Outlaw Pete


    Roseanna Davidson was conceived.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    I was born in the mid-70's, so the music of the early/mid-80's for me has an enormous amount of nostalgia. I was very young, the summer holidays were long and hot, the music was great (and most of those tunes still stand well today against 'modderen' music), and everytime I hear most of the songs on the OP's list I'm transported back to that time.

    Music really is an amazing thing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,477 ✭✭✭✭Thelonious Monk


    DoozerT6 wrote: »
    I was born in the mid-70's, so the music of the early/mid-80's for me has an enormous amount of nostalgia. I was very young, the summer holidays were long and hot, the music was great (and most of those tunes still stand well today against 'modderen' music), and everytime I hear most of the songs on the OP's list I'm transported back to that time.

    Music really is an amazing thing.

    I remember watching the Take on me video with my brother when it had just came out, it was one of the Saturday morning shows. And the one with George Harrison and all the Grandfather clocks and sh*t start dancing, I've got my mind set on you. We thought this was all amazing.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,589 ✭✭✭DoozerT6


    I remember watching the Take on me video with my brother when it had just came out, it was one of the Saturday morning shows. And the one with George Harrison and all the Grandfather clocks and sh*t start dancing, I've got my mind set on you. We thought this was all amazing.

    It was, at the time! I remember absolutely loving that George Harrison song, (still do!) and only found out last year that it was a cover!! And remember, kids today who are 8, 9, 10 years old will look back in 35 years with great nostalgia to the songs of Ariana Grande, Little Mix, Cardi B, Drake etc, who will all be dinosaurs by then! Swings and roundabouts.... :D


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,819 ✭✭✭✭peasant



    ...and the song that went with the nuclear Armageddon theme



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    The utter outrage in the press when she displayed her unshaven armpits!


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    Sardonicat wrote: »
    The utter outrage in the press when she displayed her unshaven armpits!

    And rightly so, fúcking yeti:mad:


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 38,247 ✭✭✭✭Guy:Incognito


    Oops! wrote: »
    Did'nt Boyzone murder a cover of it many a moon later?

    No. Different word. :)


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  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 17,288 ✭✭✭✭gammygils


    YFlyer wrote: »
    Three years after Ian Curtis passing away?
    The song was a hit in June 1980. But was re-released in 83 possibly a 12" version


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,546 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    And rightly so, fúcking yeti:mad:

    OK SpongeBob, we know you have GMDD, but there's no need for that.


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,980 ✭✭✭Lucy8080


    The Phoenix park race-course had a concert in august that year. £10.50 for a ticket.

    This was the line-up- U.2. - Simple Minds- Eurythmics-Big Country-Steel Pulse-Perfect Crime. Great value for money as gigs go.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,017 ✭✭✭SharpshooterTom


    The early 80s was pretty good for pop music though there were many exceptions. An episode of Top of the Pops from 1983 would usually have at least one or two really good songs on it. Pop music really fell off a cliff towards the end of the decade though. If you watch the old Top of the Pops on BBC 4 over the weekends the early 80s ones were decent but the ones they are showing now, from 1987 I think, are diabolical. Everything sounds the same with the same over produced sound and drum samples.

    Would people in Ireland have access to BBC4?

    I live in the north so just curious.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,135 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Would people in Ireland have access to BBC4?

    I live in the north so just curious.

    Not on Saorview aerial. Yes if you have Sky or Virgin Media package or satellite dish.

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,408 ✭✭✭✭Sardonicat


    odyssey06 wrote: »
    Would people in Ireland have access to BBC4?

    I live in the north so just curious.

    Not on Saorview aerial. Yes if you have Sky or Virgin Media package or satellite dish.
    Eir TV also


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  • Registered Users Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    Would people in Ireland have access to BBC4?

    I live in the north so just curious.

    Yes; Add FreeSat & Free to Air to the providers already mentioned that beam all of the BBCs (including BBC4) across Britain & Ireland (in 2019) courtesy of the Astra satellite.....


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,135 ✭✭✭✭odyssey06


    Would people in Ireland have access to BBC4?

    I live in the north so just curious.

    On second thoughts I am ruling this question out of order as in 1983 BBC4 is a radio station!

    "To follow knowledge like a sinking star..." (Tennyson's Ulysses)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,194 ✭✭✭Andrewf20


    The now! Music compilations started in 1983 also. My brother has has all the early ones.

    Best year in the 80s for music? 1984, then 1985.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,278 ✭✭✭Hamsterchops


    BBC radio 4 was available all over Ireland back in 1983 (on Long Wave), although if you had a proper roof aerial you could pick up the FM signal from either up North or from Wales, depending in where you lived. Nowadays it's easy to pick up anywhere thanks to the internet.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,812 ✭✭✭✭sbsquarepants


    OK SpongeBob, we know you have GMDD, but there's no need for that.

    What's GMDD? :confused:


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  • Registered Users Posts: 1,570 ✭✭✭vriesmays


    Lucy8080 wrote: »
    The Phoenix park race-course had a concert in august that year. £10.50 for a ticket.

    This was the line-up- U.2. - Simple Minds- Eurythmics-Big Country-Steel Pulse-Perfect Crime. Great value for money as gigs go.
    Heard of Perfect Crime, what happened to the rest.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    gammygils wrote: »
    The song was a hit in June 1980. But was re-released in 83 possibly a 12" version


    Reached #13 in 1980, #19 in 1983
    7" and 12" formats both times.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    Andrewf20 wrote: »
    The now! Music compilations started in 1983 also. My brother has has all the early ones.

    Best year in the 80s for music? 1984, then 1985.


    I have a complete run Now 1-102 plus all the spin-offs, Now dance etc.

    1983 and 1984 are my favourite years for pop.

    Now really got going with the second volume. I actually prefer some other late 1983 compilations like Chart Hits '83 or Chart Trek to the first Now.


  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 14,546 ✭✭✭✭Poor Uncle Tom


    What's GMDD? :confused:

    Good Music Deficit Disorder


  • Registered Users Posts: 596 ✭✭✭bigar


    vriesmays wrote: »

    I don't think so



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 12,641 ✭✭✭✭bodhrandude


    the last single to feature a Roger Waters and David Gilmour vocal in Pink Floyd, before Live 8 anyway.

    If you want to get into it, you got to get out of it. (Hawkwind 1982)



  • Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,960 ✭✭✭NewbridgeIR


    bigar wrote: »
    I don't think so



    Released November 1983 but took ages to go up the chart - didn't reach top 40 until June 1984 and peaked at #7 in July 1984.


  • Closed Accounts Posts: 2,888 ✭✭✭Atoms for Peace


    The whole eighties thing really seems to be back in the zeitgeist.


  • Registered Users Posts: 494 ✭✭LordBasil


    The whole eighties thing really seems to be back in the zeitgeist.

    I actually think nowadays feels more like the 90s;

    A womanizer is US President
    The Spice Girls, Take That and Westlife are having sell out tours
    Aladdin, The Lion King, Beauty and the Beast and Toy Story are in cinemas
    Mick McCarthy is Republic of Ireland manager.

    Regarding 1983, musically the 80s hit peak in late 82 with so many memorable hits like Fame, Eye of the Tiger, Come on Eileen and Michael Jackson released his Thriller album and this exceptional period continued throughout 83, 84 and culminated in Live Aid in 85.


  • Registered Users Posts: 96 ✭✭Jim 77


    Yeah, I was the same. I was 10 at the time but couldn't recall his name at all.



    I was just watching a German TV chart show and they were talking about F.R. David. He's French and was in the US but couldn't speak English very well and said to himself "words don't come easy to me" which became the basis of his '83 hit "Words".
    He actually did a live performance of the song and it sounded as good as the original, and he certainly didn't look 36 years older


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  • Closed Accounts Posts: 8,474 ✭✭✭Obvious Desperate Breakfasts


    bigar wrote: »
    I was 16 then so it falls in my formative years for music, as they say.

    Some more songs from that year, that most will know:

    Young Guns - Wham
    Our House - Madness
    1999 - Prince
    Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
    Fame - Irene Cara
    Is There Something I should Know - Duran Duran
    Blue Monday - New Order
    I'm Stil Standing - Elton John
    Tell Her About It - Billy Joel
    The Safety Dance - Men Without Hats
    Burning Down The House - Talking Heads
    Cruel Summer - Bananarama
    Nobody's Diary - Yazoo
    New Year's Day - U2

    I love The Safety Dance so much.

    And Down Under.

    By different bands who I thought were the same band for a long time.

    And, OMG, Cruel Summer. <3


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