Author Topic: 80s absolute bop of the day but it has to have a funny vid & preferably synth (Read 13136 times)

Brock Landers · « **Reply #75 on:** October 28, 2021, 01:49:02 PM »

Quote from: fatdamon on October 28, 2021, 01:36:27 PM

GREAT call with the Yazoo. If aliens came down from another galaxy and were like “hay fd we’ve never heard 80s music and we can only stay for like 4 minutes can you plz play us one song that encapsulates the entire 80s sound” I’d be like “sure thing here ya go” and play them Only You by Yazoo.

I still have no idea if I'm supposed to call them Yaz or Yazoo? Anyway here's a bop featuring synth from them that I thought of when I first saw the thread:

DQ12 · « **Reply #76 on:** October 28, 2021, 02:58:49 PM »

Quote from: fatdamon on October 28, 2021, 01:36:27 PM

GREAT call with the Yazoo. If aliens came down from another galaxy and were like “hay fd we’ve never heard 80s music and we can only stay for like 4 minutes can you plz play us one song that encapsulates the entire 80s sound” I’d be like “sure thing here ya go” and play them Only You by Yazoo.

Yeah -- it's an earworm, that's for sure. first time i ever heard it was in an episode of the Americans, and it stuck.

mocat · « **Reply #77 on:** October 28, 2021, 03:24:28 PM »

Quote from: DQ12 on October 28, 2021, 09:30:19 AM

Really really like this little song

this is fantastic. also the chorus progression sounds exactly like pretty woman by roy orbison

passranch · « **Reply #78 on:** October 28, 2021, 04:18:27 PM »

80's - Check
Absolute Bop - Check
Funny Video - Check
Preferably Synth - Check

Spracne · « **Reply #79 on:** October 28, 2021, 04:43:11 PM »

Talking Heads is (are?) fantastic.

fatdamon · « **Reply #80 on:** October 28, 2021, 06:22:28 PM »

ok imma go on an 80s chick-rock bender for the next 10 bops

chick bop 1: Belinda Carlisle’s heaven is a place on earth. And you know where that place is? At the key change @3:23. Absolute heaven.

BIG APPLE CAT · « **Reply #81 on:** October 28, 2021, 07:57:18 PM »

lita is so aggressive i love it

Spracne · « **Reply #82 on:** October 28, 2021, 07:58:48 PM »

I have a feeling Dave Chappelle hates Lita's guts.

DQ12 · « **Reply #83 on:** October 29, 2021, 11:34:47 AM »

While we're talkin' talkin' heads to our talking heads.

BTW @SkinnyBenny I discovered this song via Guster on Ice.

KST8FAN · « **Reply #84 on:** October 29, 2021, 08:29:45 PM »

Ef, wanted to post Heart of Glass by Blondie, but came out in 79.

Tom

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KST8FAN · « **Reply #85 on:** October 29, 2021, 08:35:55 PM »

Tom

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fatdamon · « **Reply #86 on:** October 29, 2021, 10:21:59 PM »

chick bop 2: let’s hear it for the boy

XocolateThundarr · « **Reply #87 on:** October 29, 2021, 11:04:06 PM »

XocolateThundarr · « **Reply #88 on:** October 29, 2021, 11:10:14 PM »

BIG APPLE CAT · « **Reply #89 on:** October 30, 2021, 01:37:00 AM »

Quote from: KST8FAN on October 29, 2021, 08:29:45 PM

Ef, wanted to post Heart of Glass by Blondie, but came out in 79.

Tom

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Perhaps this tasty alternative from 81:

As I recall from listening to the big 80s on 8, one of the guys from sugar hill gang was supposed to do the rap but on the day they were recording he didn’t show up so Debbie Harry just kinda winged it, which is pretty neat

slackcat · « **Reply #90 on:** October 30, 2021, 06:27:07 AM »

Peter Gabriel had some of the most interesting videos and lyrics. Not bop but worthy of mention:

slackcat · « **Reply #91 on:** October 30, 2021, 06:28:35 AM »

OK, pure bop 80's:

XocolateThundarr · « **Reply #92 on:** October 30, 2021, 09:52:27 AM »

fatdamon · « **Reply #93 on:** October 30, 2021, 10:50:11 AM »

no cheating: you have to watch the first 0:56 of this amazing latin chick bop video without skipping ahead until the horns drop. No cheating

chick bop 3: Conga by gloria estefan & the miami sound machine

edit: upon further review, there is absolutely nothing else that gloria could've named her band other than "the miami sound machine"

XocolateThundarr · « **Reply #94 on:** October 30, 2021, 11:02:27 AM »

DaBigTrain · « **Reply #95 on:** October 30, 2021, 11:28:53 AM »

Guys most of these came out before I was even born.

fatdamon · « **Reply #96 on:** October 30, 2021, 12:23:49 PM »

Quote from: DaBigTrain on October 30, 2021, 11:28:53 AM

Guys most of these came out before I was even born.

man, you missed it. it was rad.

fatdamon · « **Reply #97 on:** October 30, 2021, 12:27:21 PM »

DBT-this one’s from November of ‘89…maybe the latest possible bop to jog your memory

Chick bop 4: escapade by janet jackson

passranch · « **Reply #98 on:** October 30, 2021, 12:55:52 PM »

Hope I'm not stepping on any chick bop toes here but this one is the epitome of 80's synth chick bop:

SkinnyBenny · « **Reply #99 on:** October 30, 2021, 02:49:53 PM »

Quote from: DQ12 on October 29, 2021, 11:34:47 AM

While we're talkin' talkin' heads to our talking heads.

BTW @SkinnyBenny I discovered this song via Guster on Ice.

Same. The only more memorable Talking Heads intro for a young SB was Foxtrot, when Peter Fox listened to Burnin' Down The House thumpa thumpa thumpa thumpa thumpa thumpa