[boxmonster]

I find 80s alternative quite interesting, gives me a vibe similar to early 90s alternative.

A Beatles cover, but still.

[Sanjeem]

This is quite a tune i must say.

[gta3kuruma]

Why is there no duran duran yet?

Duran Duran - Rio
Simple Minds - Don't you forget about me

[bleedthysoul]

Nik Kershaw-Wouldn't It Be Good
Giorgio Moroder and Philip Oakey-Together In Electric Dreams
Proclaimers-500 Miles
Bryan Adams-Summer of '69
Heart-These Dreams
Phil Collins-Another Day In Paradise
John O'banion-Satomi Hakken
Joey Scarbury-Believe It Or Not
Tina Turner-We Don't Need Another Hero
Alphaville-Forever Young

Favorite 80's metal album: Ride the Lightning

What I love about 80s music is that in most of the songs, the backgrounds have echoes (especially drums) which gives more depth to the music. A couple years ago Dream Theater released a best of, with earlier tracks such as Pull Me Under, remastered into a more "modern" sound. The result to me is really bland and actually makes the songs less epic.
(Yes I know Pull Me Under is from 90s but you get the idea)

Also, synth rock band The Birthday Massacre's latest album has a strong 80's vibe.

[Mr Vice City]

I love 80's music. The best decade for music in my opinion. Some many great and memorable tunes. I don't know what is but nothing before or after the 80's comes close for me. I remember the first time I heard 80's music was playing Vice City and I was blown away. I have so many favourite tracks and albums it would be impossible to name them all but a top 10 would like this:

Scorpions - Rock You Like A Hurricane
Toto - Africa
a-ha- Take On Me
Jermaine Stewart - We Don't Have To Take Our Cloths Off
Michael Jackson - Smooth Criminal
Stan Bush - The Touch
Scandel - The Warrior
The Human League - Don't You Want Me
Spandu Ballet - To Cut A Long Story Short
Frankie Goes To Hollywood - Relax

[*MURDOC*]

Wow, no Talking Heads?

Great song, from one of my favourite live albums ever!

[The Killa]

My name is The Killa and this is the greatest thread on GTAforums.com, or your money back. Actually just give me your money.

80's will forever remain the best music period of all time. Ever, forever. I love it so deeply, it's just beyond anything I could describe.

Everyone has linked my favorite ones, so I'll do another one mine:

And yes, Vice City is my favorite game.

[Tyler]

Really? No Cars??? This song is 80's.

[BeyondRage]

[Marco.]

I love many 80s songs, lot's that can be found in many 80s films and some on this topic, I could list many, here's the most recent one I saw at the end of this good film:

[BeyondRage]

Cant believe i forgot to post this one! Epic 80s song, Pat was so fierce











This post has been edited by BeyondRage on Friday, Dec 31 2010, 15:46

[Tommy-Vercetti19]

QUOTE (gta3kuruma @ Dec 29 2010, 20:25)

Simple Minds - Don't you forget about me

[trip]

QUOTE (The Killa @ Dec 31 2010, 08:24)

My name is The Killa and this is the greatest thread on GTAforums.com, or your money back. Actually just give me your money. 80's will forever remain the best music period of all time. Ever, forever. I love it so deeply, it's just beyond anything I could describe. Everyone has linked my favorite ones, so I'll do another one mine: And yes, Vice City is my favorite game. [youtube]Loverboy - working for the weekend[youtube]

Thanks to my attractive sister and step sister I ended up spending a week getting totally f*cked up with Loverboy, during the height of that album

Gotta add a little Tommy Tutone to the mix.


Edit:
because this picture just showed up on the front of Yahoo.


So let's pay tribute to the man from the 80s before he changed away from his stage name.


This post has been edited by tripmills on Friday, Dec 31 2010, 20:28

[Tyler]

ooh Mellencamp. You know how to please the ears Tripmills.

[Sanjeem]

Glad to see loads of people who love this music, this is a great song i think, it was what made Hot rod the film great for me!

[LanceVanceDance07]

80s music was a great period of music, f*ck anybody else who says it isn't.

My fav song is "Don't You Want Me Baby" by the Human League but that song was already posted, so I'll just put up some Duran Duran

[Indi]

...and Sanjeem, I'll add this:

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This post has been edited by Indi. on Monday, Jan 3 2011, 17:03

[Sanjeem]

originally i can see eye of a tiger being a really good song, but the shear amount of times it has been used in actioned packed intro's i have lost all taste for it.

[trip]

Just for the record; I spent a lot of time in the 80s

[d0mm2k8]

This is THE best thread, ever.

I love this song, my favourite from Duran Duran but I get the feeling it's underrated:


Also, gotta love some Hall & Oats:


And f*cking love me some New Order:


By the way, I find it sickening that the sh*tty Uniting Nations remix of Out of Touch is the most viewed version on Youtube.
I mean, it's just a bunch of okay looking women shaking their camel toes at a card table with the songs chorus playing in the background (yes, I watched it ); that's the modern music industry for ya.

This post has been edited by d0mm2k8 on Thursday, Jan 6 2011, 05:53