[Closed] Non naff 80s music for a party night.

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Prodigy

Prodigy 80s eh?

Jo...lots...are you saying you are too young to remembe? New Romantics for starters, and of course, Level 42.

The ministry of sound "alternative 80s" CDs are very good indeed.

The The - Infected
The Clash - London Calling (Dec 1979 but close enough)
REM - Document

Depeche Mode
Human League
Spandau Ballet
Duran Duran
FGTH
New Order

Lots of.ska too.

The Smiths
Early Happy Mondays, The Beastie Boys and The Sone Roses
The Pet Shop Boys - It's a Sin
Tears for Fears

I'm well old enough to remember,.. just wondered what others would put.

I'd have had The Smiths (actually very dancy even though everyone thinks they're miserable), The Cure, The Eurythmics, even some Bananarama and Dexy's for more mainstream. No Come on Eileen FFS, what kind of 80s party is that?!! No Adam Ant, No Cyndi Lauper.

I'd have had the 12" of Blue Monday just to wind people up... 🙂

Proclaimers?

Bladerunner OST although would probably go down like a lead balloon.
The Police and The Jam

Spandau Ballet.
Soft cell.
Thompson Twins.
China Crisis.
Haircut 100 (Only joking).
Duran Duran.
OMD.
Teardrop Explodes.
Echo and the Bunnymen.
Depeche Mode.
Cabaret Voltaire.
The Cure.
Visage.
Ultravox.
Southern Death Cult.

I'm sorry.

ok i'll gi'yer that 'al' - Prodigy are the nineties. 😳

Roxy Music - if the party didn't finish to Avalon, someone needs a good slap!

SDC? Bit obscure for an 80s theme party. The Cult maybe, everyone knows Rain and She Sells Sanctuary.

Echo Beach; anything by Pretenders; Cocteau Twins. Goth it up with Sisters of Mercy, Fields of the Nephilim.bring it back to commercial with Billy Idol. Siouxsie and the Banshees

Heaven 17, moroder, sparks, lots of 80s funk and disco comps around.

Bauhaus.
Frankie goes to Hollywood.
Bros (only joking).
Spear of Destiny.

Something cool in French for when the guests are arriving:

An Italian slow for the end of the night:

FFS no one has mentioned Wings?

For starters:

And a bit of RunRig and Big Country (or was is only in Fort William that they were dancey?)

Are those serious suggestions for duran duran as being non naff? I mean really they epitomise naffness.

However I did have a twang of nostalgia for Aztec camera and have just purchased high land hard rain on itunes.

However I did have a twang of nostalgia for Aztec camera and have just purchased high land hard rain on itunes.

And you need to play this one turned up to 11 on a ghetto blaster while practising your body popping
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God Stuart! I'm having flashbacks to the Golf Club discos with all the 6th yr boys jumping about in a circle with their arms over each other's shoulders to Fields of Fire and Loch Lomond (the one that ends with the Gaelic bit).
I'm amazed no one was mown down walking back to town along that road...

Duran Duran: first album actually not too naff

God Stuart! I'm having flashbacks to the Golf Club discos with all the 6th yr boys jumping about in a circle with their arms over each other's shoulders to Fields of Fire and Loch Lomond (the one that ends with the Gaelic bit).
I'm amazed no one was mown down walking back to town along that road...

Indeed, particularly since all the drivers would have been pished too.

Nous étions jeunes et insouciants!

Dead Kennedys - Too Drunk to ****

REM
Pop will eat itself
The Wedding Present

What about some Hip Hop

Run DMC
Public Enemy
Boogie Down Productions
Eric B and Rakim
dj ez rock + rob bass
Grandmaster Melle Mel

Here we go - Dunfermline's finest:

Bauhaus
This mortal coil
Specials
Blondie
Softcell
Modern English
Wolfgang press
Dub syndicate
Dead can dance
Gary numan
Kate bush
Berlin
Roxy music
Tackhead

To be honest, this is the music that got me all a flutter in the 80s... I was a lefty wee teen girl.

Thanks for Party Fears Two , Ton - one of my faves.

Oh, what about Japan?

I included Japan in with new romantics.

Associates were great too.

80s party fodder thats not completely w@nk?

try this...

http://www.collins303.com/mixes/full-flava-behaviour-iii-a-kick-up-the-80s

01> INTRO – Ansaphone D
02> MICHAEL JACKSON – Lady In My Life
03> THE CARS – Drive
04> EUGENE WILDE – Gotta Get You Home Tonight
05> MICHAEL JACKSON – Human Nature
06> JOYCE SIMS – Come Into My Life
07> KOOL & THE GANG – Lets Go Dancing
08> SPANDAU BALLET – True
09> SLY FOX – Lets Go All The Way
10> TEARS FOR FEARS – Shout
11> MR MISTER – Broken Wings
12> TERENCE TRENT D’ARBY – If You Let Me Stay
13> HUMAN LEAGUE – Human
14> BOBBY BROWN – Don’t Be Cruel
15> NU SHOOZ – I Can’t Wait
16> FATBACK BAND – I Found Lovin
17> THE BLOW MONKEYS – Diggin Your Scene (remix)
18> QUEEN – Flash
19> HOT CHOCOLATE – Everyone’s a Winner
20> LEVEL 42 – Something ABout You (remix)
21> GRACE JONES – Pull Up To The Bumper (remix)
22> TEDDY PENDERGRASS – Joy
23> FIRST CIRCLE – Working Up a Sweat
24> IMAGINATION – Flashback (dub)
25> LIONEL RICHIE – All Night Long
26> INXS – Need You Tonight
27> HALL & OATES – I Can’t Go For That
28> LUTHER VANDROSS – Never Too Much
29> CURIOSITY KILLED THE CAT – Down To Earth
30> CAMEO – Back & Forth (remix)
31> DEPECHE MODE – Enjoy The Silence
32> SWING OUT SISTER – Breakout (remix)
33> COLONEL ABRAHAMS – Trapped (remix)
34> THE WHISPERS – And The Beat Goes On
35> JANET JACKSON – When I Think of You
36> MICHAEL JACKSON – Billie Jean
37> 3D – Once More You Hear The Dope Stuff
38> FOREIGNER – I Want To Know What Love Is
39> A-HA – The Sun Always Shines on TV
40> THE DAMNED – Alone Again Or

saw China Crisis last night @ a charity gig - Gary & Eddy still amazing - choose them!!!!!

Glad they provided the lyrics to that one 😆

jojoA1 - Member
To be honest, this is the music that got me all a flutter in the 80s... I was a lefty wee teen girl.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=y76kIDbOcYQ

🙂 Can just picture it heh!

Has to be The Damned.

80s music "naff" tag is undeserved IMHO...

Some good stuff ^^

Now, how to suggest some non-naff stuff 😳

Husker Du
Pixies
Pogues

Ok, trying too hard..

No 80s disco complete without...

Simple Minds - Ghostdancing / Alive & Kicking / Don't You...
Billy Ocean - When the Going Gets Tough
Jam - A town Called Malice

and soooo much more 😳

This thread is nothing without a bit of purple pretention

*ands it's a royal PITA to get the video embedding to work on android.