The team behind Batfink (an alternative night) are starting an 80s night called Notorious at Aqua this Friday so we've been taking web requests from our usual crowd of customers.

I've been astounded at people I'd normally think of as cool and gothic going mad for stuff like 'Flashdance' and 'Captain Beaky' so I thought I'd cast the net a bit wider and ask you lot to see if the results are any more mind-boggling.

So, what is your 80s favourite?

EDIT: Oh and is it anything like the stuff you normally listen to?

personally my fave single of the 80s is get it on by powerstation

or

flashdance by irene cara ( 12inch version)

I have loads of 80s stuff in my MP3 collection, in fact I prefer oldies like stuff from the 70s, 80s and 90s to a lot of the new stuff, at least in those days they didn't have tripe like Crazy ****ing Frog! And people did their own music instead of regurgitating or bastardising other people's stuff with lame cover versions...

I was mad on Madness circa 1982 when I was about 6... Embarrassment and Baggy Trousers are classics IMO!

Originally posted by Rich
at least in those days they didn't have tripe like Crazy ****ing Frog! And people did their own music instead of regurgitating or bastardising other people's stuff with lame cover versions...


So Rich, what is your fave 80's song :roll:

Im choosing between Robert Palmer - Addicted to love & Europe - Final Countdown..

Reward - Teardrop Explodes

Einstein a go-go - Landscape

She Blinded me with Sceince - Thomas Dolby

Planet Earth - Duran Duran

Dog eat Dog - Adam and the Ants

Any Smiths
Any Housemartins

oooh theres loads...

Originally posted by D2J
So Rich, what is your fave 80's song :roll:

Im choosing between Robert Palmer - Addicted to love & Europe - Final Countdown..

Um, I don't have a distinct overall favourite, but I did cite 2 of my favourites in my post.. Namely the 2 Madness songs :D

Or didn't you read that far into the post? ;)

Sledgehammer - Peter Gabriel (I'm assuming that was 80's and I'm not deluding myself about how old I am and it was released in 1992 or something)

Originally posted by Rich
Or didn't you read that far into the post? ;)

Probably not mate :P

Im suprised Meatload ain't in there thats all :)

Originally posted by BoroughGal
Einstein a go-go - Landscape

Any Smiths
Any Housemartins

oooh theres loads...

Landscape! Lordy it's ages since I've heard that and I used to listen to it all the time when it was in the charts.

Housemartins were 80s? How time flies!

Originally posted by D2J
Probably not mate :P

Im suprised Meatload ain't in there thats all :)

Meatload? You mean Meatloaf?! Oh yeah he RAWKS! Bat out of Hell was late 70s though, as were a lot of his early classics, mostly circa late 70s/early 80s.

Originally posted by Rich
Meatload? You mean Meatloaf?! Oh yeah he RAWKS! Bat out of Hell was late 70s though, as were a lot of his early classics, mostly circa late 70s/early 80s.

Meatload/Meatloaf... same thing, just got me words fuddled up..

Im going through my 80's archive as we speak :blush:

Difficult question. I could name a favourite from each year.

Overall? God, maybe a Kate Bush classic like 'Running Up That Hill'.

Yes. Kate Bush is on top for me.:D

1. Thriller, MJ
2. Come on Eileen, Dexys Midnight Runners.
3. Eye of the Tiger, Survivor
4. Money for Nothing, Dire Straits
5. Living on a Prayer, Von Jon Bogey.
6. Save a prayer - Duran Duran
7. Just like a Prayer - Madonna
8. Say a Little Prayer - Aretha Franklin



I'll add more as I think of em!

Tiffany - I Think We're Alone Now (1987)

Reminds me of Primary School........

Originally posted by Lestat

2. Come on Eileen, Dexys Midnight Runners.


Lestat I agree with 'Thriller' as being one of the best, but for me 'Come on Eileen' has leeched too much. It seemed to be an endless 'last song' at student nights throughout the 90's.

In fact I heard it more in that decade than in the 80's!!!

I loved lots of 80's music. One of my favourites was Planet Earth-Duran Duran. I liked soft cell's Tainted love and lots of Erasure. Really too many to list

please someone remember THE SMITHS!such an ace band and so clever!classic guitar with johnny marr and brilliantly ironic lyrics from morrisseY!
i loved them 2 death!:headbang: but early REM was good too!
driver 8 and fall on me!
am i losing my mind or do u agree??!!

80s faves in no particular order...

Specials - To much to young
Soft cell - Tainted love
Doctor & the medics - Spirit in the sky
Frankie goes to hollywood - Two tribes
Stevie wonder - Master blaster
and There's no one quite like grandma

I lied about one of those.

kenny loggins - danger zone

bon jovi - living on a prayer

michael jackson - *

Some top tunes there (aside from the Grandma song) and it really does look like people had broader tastes in music than now.

Or was it just that the charts were so full of good songs that it was impossible to choose?

Cars - Gary Newman

Are Friends Electric - Tubeway Army

+ :rolleyes: thinks... hard

Broken Land by The Adventures

Girlfriend in a Coma - The Smiths

Say Hello, Wave Goodbye - Soft Cell

Alone - Heart

what about D-Days by Hazel O'Connor - c'mon 'ratataratat ratata ratata!!!' (only kidding)

Closest Thing to Heaven - Kane Gang

Baby Can I Hold You - Tracy Chapman

Sunshine on Leith - Proclaimers

Keeping the Dream Alive - Freiheit

how long have I got?

Originally posted by Jozafeen
I've been astounded at people I'd normally think of as cool and gothic going mad for stuff like 'Flashdance' and 'Captain Beaky' so I thought I'd cast the net a bit wider and ask you lot to see if the results are any more mind-boggling.


Finally someone else who remembers "the bravest animals in the land".

Yeah way too many to list. Really anything that I had a dance routine to with my Sisters. You know, secret hair brush microphone divas in your bedroom.

Is it just me or is this something you don't grow out of?

:D

errrr... please tell me it isn't just me? :suspect:

Originally posted by sugarnspice
errrr... please tell me it isn't just me? :suspect:

Its just you dear :P

:shakes:

Oooooh no. How humiliating. :(

I'll jump to your defence, sugarnspice.

I still do it and I'm a fella.

Only difference is it isn't in my bedroom and singing into a hairbrush, it's usually at The Sheffield (formerly the Shiny Sheff) on a Thursday evening where I make a bit of a plonker of myself.

It's karaoke and it's a great opportunity to blast them 70s and 80s hits out with the added bonus of a pint or nine!

Originally posted by Ousetunes
I'll jump to your defence, sugarnspice.

I still do it and I'm a fella.

Only difference is it isn't in my bedroom and singing into a hairbrush, it's usually at The Sheffield (formerly the Shiny Sheff) on a Thursday evening where I make a bit of a plonker of myself.

It's karaoke and it's a great opportunity to blast them 70s and 80s hits out with the added bonus of a pint or nine!


Oh thank the lord. Thanks for that ouse, much appreciated. I still think I'm a disco diva when nobody else is in the house. Hehehehe. :hihi:

And after a few drinks I am Beyonce (in my head obviously......).

x

Originally posted by nick2
Finally someone else who remembers "the bravest animals in the land".


Are Captain Beaky and his band..
That's Timmy Toad, Reckless Rat, Artful Owl and Batty BAT !!!

Top song...Nick2. I shall sing it all Friday now.


But as for 'proper pop songs' can I add:

Nik Kershaw 'Wouldn't it be Good...'

Blue Monday - New Order
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Head Like a Hole - NIN (just!)

and of course The Chicken Song from the spitting image team!

Originally posted by marshy
please someone remember THE SMITHS!such an ace band and so clever!classic guitar with johnny marr and brilliantly ironic lyrics from morrisseY!

Anything by the Smiths;
The Wolfhounds;
McCarthy;
Most of the Clash's "Sandinista"

Other than that:

Waterboys "The Whole of the Moon"
Jesus and Mary Chain "Some Candy Talking"
Echo and the Bunnymen "People are Strange"
New Order "Blue Monday"
Frankie Goes to Hollywood "The Power of Love"
Midnight Oil "Beds are Burning"

That about wraps it up for the 80s! :D

StarSparkle

Originally posted by evildrneil
Blue Monday - New Order
Tainted Love - Soft Cell
Head Like a Hole - NIN (just!)

and of course The Chicken Song from the spitting image team!

Strangely enough, I spent most of yesterday digging the Chicken Song out from my record collection and turning into a CD along with Captain Beaky, Star Trekkin', Nineteen and other such gems!

Anything by Madness :clap:
On my radio & 3 minute hero - the selector
Too much too young & Gangsters - the specials
Echo Beech - Martha & The Muffins
Heat Is On - Glen Fry

oooo and pretty much everything else released between 1980 - 90

call me a square, but i always reckoned "take on me" and other a-ha stuff was good, and the band most underrated due to their image problem was KAJAGOOGOO! too shy and that ooh to be ah one were both well weird.

I STILL like Hunting High and Low by Aha....

And just thought of Torch by Soft Cell.

I was partialled to a bit of Bronski Beat back in the day too....

Originally posted by BoroughGal
I STILL like Hunting High and Low by Aha....

And just thought of Torch by Soft Cell.

I was partialled to a bit of Bronski Beat back in the day too....

Oh yeah, Torch rocks.. I have a save on my Xbox of me singing it Karaoke style..

didn't like tainted love, but liked bedsitter and say hello wave goodbye....WELL moody!

that first bronski beat single (runaway?) was good but i didn't like them after that.

hairs-on-back-of-neck stuff!

Originally posted by pete_fcs
didn't like tainted love, but liked bedsitter and say hello wave goodbye....WELL moody!

that first bronski beat single (runaway?) was good but i didn't like them after that.

hairs-on-back-of-neck stuff!

My only problem with Bronski Beat was that I wanted to know why in hell did Jimmy Sommerville sing like a woman with that high pitched voice?

'cos he looked like a potato.

you only noticed this when he wasn't singing.

Originally posted by pete_fcs
that first bronski beat single (runaway?) was good but i didn't like them after that.

hairs-on-back-of-neck stuff!

The song was Smalltown Boy, a hit in the summer of 1984. They went to have further hits with Why? and a great cover version, incidentally with Marc Almond of Soft Cell of I Feel Love/Johnny Remember Me/Love To Love You Baby.

As for why Jimmy Sommerville 'sung like a woman' (Rich), well, so did Barry Gibb of the Bee Gees, so does Justin Hawkins from the Darkness...

so what?

....and geddy lee from RUSH!

....and john anderson from YES!

....and the blokes who sing songs by PURCELL!

howabout a "blokes who sing like a girl" thread:)

'Broken Wings' Mr Mister is my fave song ever! You can't really play that in the club though.

How about 'Obsession' by Animotion, or 'Bring on the dancing horses' by Jesus and Mary Chain.

Ouse...I used to LOVE The Adventures...got ALL their LP's. Their music is fantastic.

Does anyone remember The Associates? AND what did that group Paisey Fantaisie sing??? Is that their name? Who remembers that crap singer called Sheila B Devotion? Christ..how awful was she?

Originally posted by Babooshka
...

Does anyone remember The Assosiates? ...

yes, didn't they do "country club", plus another that ended up as the theme tune for radio 4's bad comedy show "weekending"?

Classix Nouveaux - Is it a dream
Depeche Mode - New Life
Human League - Sound of the Crowd
The Damned - Elouise
Hue and Cry - Labour of Love

and anything by Duran Duran

Sound of the Crowd IS without a doubt the best Human League song EVER!

i thought most of the human league songs from around then were their best ever. lesson: sack the musicians and just get a good producer!

and that video of "love action", with the moody films of what looks like the old flats on duke street before demolition, is great.

Fools Gold by The Stone Roses!! :clap:

"Fight the Power" by Public Enemy

Word!!

ACK i just found this thread ! Im 80s mad - I went to Notorious and it was fantastic ! AND they played *loads of stuff from this list - i hope you were all there ????


*that does include the chicken song..........................

I could never say I had a particular favourite but I liked Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Flock of Seagulls, Spandau Ballet, Visage, Soft Cell all the 'new romantic' early 80's stuff!!

The music at the back end of the 80's was drivel for me...all that house music rubbish and the 'manufactured' boy and girl bands started to make their appearances.... :gag:

I really like Dead or Alive, You Spin me right round and Soft Cell -Tainted Love...but they always seem to get played anyway! I like most of Depeche Mode's stuff and The Cure. I would like to hear Joy Divison, Transmission!

Originally posted by Katsz1179
I really like Dead or Alive

Me too, I had the 12" of "Something In My House", it was a douple sleeve with a pop-up haunted mansion and spooky looking Pete Burns inside, you can't do that with a CD.

I'm suprised DOA are still going, but I'm not suprised that Pete now looks like a woman.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/media/images/38769000/jpg/_38769483_burns.jpg

That picture was quite amusing, i saw the video on VH1 a couple of weeks ago, i'd not seen it in a while!

Never liked DOA - especially as they kept 'King' with "Love and Pride" off of no1!! ;)

dubious claim to fame number 101:

when i lived in liverpool i knew pete burns' old boss, geoff from probe records:thumbsup:

Originally posted by Pauline BHG
ACK i just found this thread ! Im 80s mad - I went to Notorious and it was fantastic ! AND they played *loads of stuff from this list - i hope you were all there ????


*that does include the chicken song..........................

Glad you enjoyed it!

It was going to be a regular event but I had a meeting on Monday to confirm that Aqua will be closing and being turned into a comedy club so our contract is cancelled.

We have two of our regular Batfink nights there and then both Batfink and Notorious are homeless and Sheffield is terrible for finding new venues.

Most 80s music is great bur my particular faves are:

Waiting For A Star to Fall - Boy Meets Girl
Neverending Love and The Look - Roxette
Everything Fuzzbox did
Got to Be Certain - Kylie
How Soon is Now - The Smiths
Lullaby - The Cure
Everything Counts - Depeche Mode
Into the Groove - Madonna
KArma Chameleon - Culture Club

I'm dissapointed to hear that Batfink and Notorious are being made homeless, I have only been to a few Batfink nights but really enjoyed them and we went to Notorious on Friday that was a good night!

I hope you manage to find a home!

Originally posted by Katsz1179
I'm dissapointed to hear that Batfink and Notorious are being made homeless, I have only been to a few Batfink nights but really enjoyed them and we went to Notorious on Friday that was a good night!

I hope you manage to find a home!

Aw thank you!

Last Batfinks are 2nd September and 7th October - we're intent on making them partytastic.

Originally posted by Babooshka


Does anyone remember The Associates? AND what did that group Paisey Fantaisie sing???

The Associates. Party Fears 2 was a classic, shame Billy McKenzie had to go and top himself. And Hazey Fantazie sang John Wayne Is Big Leggy, featuring Jeremy Healy before he went on to be a superstar DJ

Originally posted by Jozafeen
Last Batfinks are 2nd September and 7th October - we're intent on making them partytastic.

Gutted I'm in London on Sept 2nd, but I will def be at the last one in October :D

It's a damn shame this venue is closing, i think it's a fantastic place to have club nights. And an even bigger shame about Batfink/Notorious :( Not much on in Sheffy for those of us who like this music.............


Is the October one in AQUA ?

Originally posted by Pauline BHG

Is the October one in AQUA ?

It certainly is but it'll be just the main room for that and it'll probably be a straight mix of our two nights.

I'm hoping that we'll be able to announce a new venue by then so both Batfink and Notorious will be back with a vengeance!

What an excellent topic! Wow...I'm having major nostalgia for the 80s right now (the music anyway) - getting Smash Hits and Record Mirror and spending a fortune on 7" singles!

Some 80's faves right now:

Love Action - Human league
Dr Mabuse - Propaganda
You Spin me Round - Dead Or Alive
Love Like Blood - Killing Joke
Temptation - Heaven 17
This Charming Man - the Smiths

Though most music from the 80s I love right now! bet I'll think of more in a few minutes...

The other Haysi Fantaysee one was Shiny Shiny.
:thumbsup:

Just has to be White Lines by Grand Master and melimel(positive thats not spelt write )
:banana: :banana::banana:

I'm hoping that we'll be able to announce a new venue by then so both Batfink and Notorious will be back with a vengeance! [/B]


I hope so!! :clap:

Originally posted by jayjay
Just has to be White Lines by Grand Master and melimel(positive thats not spelt write )
:banana: :banana::banana:

That reminds me of the waltzers when we were little and the fair came to visit. They used to play that as we were whizzed round really quick.

Africa by Toto
Gold by Spandau Ballet
Our House by Madness
Feels like Heaven by Fiction Factory
Rio by Duran Duran
This Charming Man by The Smiths
Run to You by Bryan Adams
Rock the Casbah by The Clash

....and geddy lee from RUSH!

....and john anderson from YES!

....and the blokes who sing songs by PURCELL!

howabout a "blokes who sing like a girl" thread:)

Blokes who sing like a girl? Jimmy Sommerville anyone? :D

Prince anyone? :D

So Macho-Sinitta
You drive me crazy-Shakin Stevens

I loved Shakin Stevens,used to go and see him at the City Hall.My Mum just found my old shaky badges,I felt quite emotional when I saw them again:love:

I like Spandua's True and the theme from MASH.

like most 80s hits, some wild har styles and clothes, but i kinda wish the 80s could be relived:cool:

Difficult to narrow it down, though I might go for 'A Question of Lust' by Depeche Mode, or perhaps 'Labour of Love' by Hue and Cry. Then there's 'Kiss Me' by Stephen TinTin Duffy and 'Imagination' by Belouis Some. I'm also rather partial to 'Sometimes' by Erasure, 'Manic Monday' by The Bangles and 'Marlene on the Wall' by Suzanne Vega.

"There Is A Light That Never Goes Out" - the Smiths.....and "Billy Jean" by Michael Jackson or "All Night Long" by Lionel Ritchie, because they got me in to numerous situations where I could help a pretty lass shed her undies.

Sweet Cherry Pie :headbang:

Nik Kershaw 'Wouldn't it be Good...'

I agree there!

also:

Don't you forget about me - Simple Minds
Respect - Erasure
N N N N N N N N N N Nineteen - Paul Hardcastle

Empire State Human, Sound of the Crowd, and The model.

talk talk- life's what you make it - simply one of the finest early 80s tunes.

mister mister - broken wings - a power ballad tour de force.

I agree there!

also:

Don't you forget about me - Simple Minds
Respect - Erasure
N N N N N N N N N N Nineteen - Paul Hardcastle

The Erasure version of Respect was crap IMO, but then again nothing compares to the Abba original.

The Erasure version of Respect was crap IMO, but then again nothing compares to the Abba original.
I think Deebles is referring to 'A Little Respect' by Erasure, which is a Vince Clarke original. Erasure did cover ABBA's 'Take a Chance On Me' though, which was a bit rubbish.

I think Deebles is referring to 'A Little Respect' by Erasure, which is a Vince Clarke original. Erasure did cover ABBA's 'Take a Chance On Me' though, which was a bit rubbish.

They also covered "A little respect" as well, which I was on about.

They also covered "A little respect" as well, which I was on about.
Who covered 'A Little Respect? Erasure? That was their song, written by Vince Clarke of Erasure. Wheatus made a passable attempt at covering it a few years ago though.

Love will tear us apart by Joy Division
Dont only listen to 80s stuff am well into some of todays stuff but always smile when i hear it