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Post by Drew Franklin on May 24, 2012 10:20:18 GMT -5
My Mother bee-bopped around the house listening to doo wop and old classic soul when I was a kid. I was a teen in the 70s and heard the best of classic rock when it was all relatively new. Then the 80s came around and being in my 20s the entire decade I had the time of my life. Especially when this new sound of music came around called New Wave.
I walked in my friends apartment one day and they were watching music videos on the boob tube. I asked them what is was and he told me MTV. What ? MTV. We sat down and watched music videos all day long. Remember this is before the mighty internet. It was what we all had been waiting for. Instead of just listening to the radio we could now see music. I could rumble on and on about how much I loved the 80s, but I won't. The simple fact is you had to be there in your prime to fully understand. Back when Madonna was the sexiest pop diva around, Fast Times at Ridgemont High was the coolest movie around, and Valley Girls were gagging each other with a spoon.
The Split Enz - I Got You - 80s New Wave Music Video
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Post by Gene Emerick on May 24, 2012 12:17:18 GMT -5
"The 1980s, for the first time, saw long-sought chart success from all-female bands and female-fronted rock bands. On the Billboard Hot 100 year-end chart for 1982[4] Joan Jett's I Love Rock 'n' Roll at #3 and the Go-Go's We Got the Beat at #25 sent a strong message out to many industry heads that females who could play could bring in money. While Joan Jett played "no-frills, glam-rock anthems, sung with her tough-as-nails snarl and sneer",[5] the Go-Go's were seen as playful girls,[6] an image that even Rolling Stone magazine poked fun at when they put the band on their cover in their underwear along with the caption "Go-Go's Put out!".[7][8] However musician magazines were starting to show respect to female musicians, putting Bonnie Raitt[9][10] and Tina Weymouth[11] on their covers. While The Go-Go's and The Bangles, both from the LA club scene, were the first all-female rock bands to find sustained success, individual musicians paved the way for the industry to seek out bands that had female musicians and allow them to be part of the recording process.
While the 1980s helped pave the way for female musicians to get taken more seriously it was still considered a novelty of sorts for several years, and it was very much a male-dominated world.[12] In 1984 when film maker Dave Markey, along with Jeff and Steve McDonald from Redd Kross,[13] put together the mocumentary Desperate Teenage Lovedolls, a comically punky version of Beyond the Valley of the Dolls,[14] it also spawned a real band.[15] While the Lovedolls could barely play at first, because of the film, and because they were an "all-female band", they received press and gigs."en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All-female_bandHere some information I pulled of Wiki about charts - for woman bands of the 80s.
You must have a decade on me because I was in my teens, being born in 1968. I don't ever remember my mother bee bopping around over the 80s music, but I know me and my sister had our own taste of music during that time. I would have been more of Joan Jet kinda fan. Where my sisters would have been Cyndi Lauper and Madonna. It's been a turn of century and I still enjoy the memories of these old songs!
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Post by Drew Franklin on May 24, 2012 13:26:50 GMT -5
Exactly a decade. No she was bee-boppin around in the 60s and early 70s. Cyndi Lauper has the #1 video on VH1 classics now for many many years in a row. True Colors if my memory serves me correctly, which isn't always the case.
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Post by Gene Emerick on May 25, 2012 10:00:36 GMT -5
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