A Very Special song growing up in the 80's.

[BigRedX]

Like any decade what we think is good or bad is simply down to individual taste.

I personally don't care for the song in the OP but that doesn't mean that all music from the decade was awful. In fact I bet that every single forum member could find at least one record they like from the decade made by an artist that was at at their creative peak then.

[Cosmo Valdemar]

[quote name='Jecklin' timestamp='1443606866' post='2876093']
From my earlier post:

[media]http://youtu.be/ja8WduMfv5I[/media]
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I'm no Hucknall fan, but that is a wonderful bit of song placement there. Suits the scene perfectly.

Incidentally, the only time I've really enjoyed Simply Red was the time I was having an ingrowing toenail removed in hospital. I had some sedative or other running in the back of my hand so I was fully away in happy land, and what 'Stars' came on the radio I started hallucinating to the music. I can remember singing along too, in my confused state. Lord knows what the surgeon thought.

[Dad3353]

[quote name='Happy Jack' timestamp='1443613191' post='2876195']
Well it's a bit rich to claim that album for the 80s.

In that case, can I have Abbey Road?
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Well, I caught up with it in the eighties (or rather, my thirties...). When was Schubert released..? [i]That [/i]made the seventies (or rather, my twenties...) for me much more liveable.
Abbey Road was pretty good, too.

Edited September 30, 2015 by Dad3353

[Dropzone]

I did like If you don't know me by now and Fairground but other than that I feel Simply Red are like listening to paint dry... Did someone say SLAYER!!!!!!

[KevB]

I've done some thinking for the 80's and I've come up with Marillion and It Bites so I'm going to leave it there before I talk myself out of it.

[Guest Jecklin]

[quote name='Cosmo Valdemar' timestamp='1443615618' post='2876235']


I'm no Hucknall fan, but that is a wonderful bit of song placement there. Suits the scene perfectly.

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It certainly had an effect on my nine year old self

[Dandelion]

That was my goffik era. The Mission and stuff.

[xgsjx]

I didn't mind that song. Not a lover or hater of Simply Red, but they do have some good grooves & Fugly bloke is a great singist.

My 80s were more stuff like Talking Heads, Jean Michel Jarre, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, The Cure & Marillion.

[paul_5]

I don't mind Simply Red. I don't own any, but it's not unlistenable. My '80s were filled with Marillion, A-HA and then Anthrax and Megadeth. Good days.

[bartelby]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1443615414' post='2876229']
Like any decade what we think is good or bad is simply down to individual taste.

I personally don't care for the song in the OP but that doesn't mean that all music from the decade was awful. In fact I bet that every single forum member could find at least one record they like from the decade made by an artist that was at at their creative peak then.
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Damned right BRX.
The 80s had fantastic music, just none of it ever got in the charts.

[cybertect]

[quote name='bartelby' timestamp='1443626677' post='2876394']
Damned right BRX.
The 80s had fantastic music, just none of it ever got in the charts.
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I beg to differ. XTC's [i]Senses Working Overtime[/i] made it to No. 5. in 1982.

[BigRedX]

[quote name='cybertect' timestamp='1443628374' post='2876419']
I beg to differ. XTC's [i]Senses Working Overtime[/i] made it to No. 5. in 1982.
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I have to say that I agree - the early 80s with post-punk and the late 80s with acid house was where innovative non-mainstream music was able to make it into the charts.

[lojo]

I love the 80s and my 80s band , but simply red doesn't do it for me

Talented guy for sure, but him and Elton John are in the same box in my head , don't really know why.

[miles'tone]

[quote name='Jecklin' timestamp='1443601161' post='2876010']
Used to good effect in an only fools and horses episode.
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Damn straight. Brilliant episode that one!

[ambient]

It's a typical well produced pop song, and typical 80s production.

Nothing wrong with it, certainly more listenable to than some of the dismal sounding 'classic rock' that seems to be so popular.

[boom boom]

I was 17 in 1984 and music from your teens is often engraved in your memory, this was never a favourite of mine, but the girls liked it. Happy memories of slow dances to this.

[Bigwan]

I was 7. Music meant absolutely nothing to me then - my folks were listening to Irish Country music mostly, which was, without exception, awful! Only really took an interest in music later in the 80's when "Appetite for Destruction" appeared.

Special tune from the early 80's that stuck out for me was probably Paul Young "Wherever I Lay My Hat"... born bass player me... Couldn't have told you what was making "that" sound at the time though!

Not a huge fan of Simply Red but my wife's mad about good old Mick. I was forced to watch them live from Montreaux on Sky Arts a few weeks ago (she's a Rugby widow at the minute so I wasn't too put out). Some of the "tunes" are just directionless dirge. A few highlights like "Stars" (to which my wife always cries cos it reminds her of the Richard E. Grant flick Jack and Sarah), but on the whole a pretty dreary affair. Tune in question isn't the worst by a LONG way...

[gary mac]

Not a song that I like but I would like to have written it.

[lowdown]

As a song, it was ok and nor certainly something I hated.
Although playing it in function bands, was a boring experience.
A tune that just didn't go anywhere, especially at the end of a long evening,
when it was hard to keep your eyes open.
But on the other hand - Just stand there and think of the cheque.

[Twigman]

My personal favourite band from the 80s (apart from us ) was the Cocteau Twins

Simply Red were never on my radar

[cybertect]

[quote name='Twigman' timestamp='1443692453' post='2876887']
My personal favourite band from the 80s (apart from us ) was the Cocteau Twins

Simply Red were never on my radar
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Though, curiously, Chris Joyce and Tony Bowers of Simply Red were both previously members of The Durutti Column, who are often compared to the Cocteaus.

[BigRedX]

[quote name='cybertect' timestamp='1443695328' post='2876907']
Though, curiously, Chris Joyce and Tony Bowers of Simply Red were both previously members of The Durutti Column, who are often compared to the Cocteaus.
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Let's face it though. None of the members of the Durutti Column other than Vini Reilly were really important.

[cybertect]

[quote name='BigRedX' timestamp='1443696620' post='2876921']
Let's face it though. None of the members of the Durutti Column other than Vini Reilly were really important.
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A good point, well made

[Twigman]

[quote name='cybertect' timestamp='1443695328' post='2876907']
The Durutti Column, who are often compared to the Cocteaus.
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by people who are tone deaf, I'd imagine....

[Geek99]

Wasn't my cup of tea (I was 14) but I liked it lyrically and vocally

Maggie o Neill was very hot indeed too