any one watching the 80`s thing on bbc2..brilliant..the smiths.. great frankie goes to hollywood durran durran..far better than the utter dross of today...

My era..... SO LESS OF THE OLD!!!!!!!

Totally agree, loved it!

I wasn't around until '88 but I love 80s music and it's far superior to the drivel these days bar the odd one or two good songs.

More into the rock scene in the 80s but can now appreciate some decent tunes from the pop, new romance era of the 80s. The Rock Band programme on Saturday nights have been good viewing



Do you remember the Hitman and her from Mr Smiths on a sat night? Mates used to tape it and look out for themselves

Michaela Strachan........ hubba hubba

nowadays its all bout N-Dubz and Chipmunk

Ashes to Ashes is my favourite programme on TV @ the moment. Loads of good tunes & none of this politically correct garbage we get now!

who??? never heard of em

Frankie? Duran Duran? Never liked these new fangled bands!!. Give me Yes, Crimson and Genesis anytime. Anyone seen me zimmer?

and wearing your jeans half way down your ar$e cheeks....!
that was nearly a "moony" in the 80's


back on the music though I was recently Watching the SKids play "the saints are coming" circa 1979 on you tube, and wondered if any other 18 year old kids are able to form a band play guitars and write their own stuff to such standards and be a reasonable success or do you have to wear said slack ar$ed jeans look like a pretty boy and be able to warble out notes like you have some throat problem.... and then get Simon Cowells approval...!!

Arctic Monkeys did OK, so I guess yes.

Ee, nostalgia's not what it was...

I remember the Hit Man and Her dancers coming to Leigh Double Hubba Hubba!!

This is surely a wind-up. 80's music was total pants. Full of pretty boys wearing big jumpers, trousers with tinsel woven in, playing ASDA background music and believing they were some sort of gods with their girlie bumflap haircuts. For example see that pair of self anal explorers last night-Nick Rhodes and Gary Kemp. What a couple of jerkoffs- 'I'm considerably richer than yow' attitudes.

LOL. Whilst those you mention were indeed gash and top-hats, there was plenty of decent music about in the 80's.

My personal favourites - Adam and the Ants, Police, Style Council to name just 3..

<puts wasp on>

The 80s were dark days indeed for rock and metal. Utter rubbish with the hair metal outfits until GNR came and showed you could still rock hard and be popular.

All three of which were really late 70s artists who re-emerged or developed in the 80s.

The 80's what a load of cr@p.

60's was when we had real music, Stones, Small Faces, Spencer Davies etc.

And whats more, many pubs, yes pubs, wouldnt let you in unless you wore £10 Topman trousers.

I think U2, one of the most successful bands in the history of music will disagree with you.

I think when you look back at an era gone by, you remember the bands who had lasting appeal (hence why you remember them) and forget about the throwaway pop bands that existed at the time.

Someone earlier mentioned N-Dubz and Chipmunks. Do you honestly think they'll be remembered in 20 years time when people look back?

Every era has had good bands and on the trail of them good bands are crap bands with less talent but manufactured to have instant appeal and shift lots of units over a short period of time.

I think your favourite era is whatever you are into in your teens.
That is how it was for me anyway.
I like lots of stuff that comes out these days (not chart stuff) but because I have less time to listen to it and the fact I get a lot more music nowadays (thanks to downloading), I listen to an album, enjoy it and then move on to the next one.

Back in the early 90's when I was a teenager, I was a massive Guns N Roses fan and still to this day know every single lyric to every song on all of their albums.
I don't think I know the lyrics to any songs that I like these days.

Good choice re Genesis MKC. Never really got Yes (apart from the Yes Album).
Slightly o/t re Rock Band on a Saturday Night. Old Slap 'ead Collins must win best drummer (with Moon a close second). Always thought Bonzo Bonham was a bit over rated. There's more to drumming than smacking them as hard as you can. Cue the Zep fans backlash

That was before they invented sat navs they would never have intentionally gone to Leigh

No finer drummer than PC in my book. Soured his fine reputation with his slushy solo stuff imo but Genesis live with him and Chester Thompson were fantastic. Was lucky enough to see them when Steve Hackett was still with them (77) their finest hour for me.