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Post by pieter on Apr 29, 2021 13:17:20 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Apr 29, 2021 13:21:34 GMT -7
We continental European teenager kids loved Black music from the UK, the USA, Canada and Jamaica.
Real skinheads loved the Black Jamaican Ska music, this British skingirl is dancing on West Indies Jamaican Ska music
We ecclectic kids of the eighties listened to Chuck Berry, Little Richard, Donna Summer, Diana Ross/the Supremes, the Pointer Sisters, Sister Sledge, Michael Jackson, Marvin Gay, Gil Scott-Heron, Earth, Wind & Fire, Prince, Bob Marley, James Brown, Jimmy Hendrix, the Sugarhill Gang, Rockwell (Somebody's Watching Me), next to David Bowie, Roxy Music, the Police, U2, Kim Wilde, UB40, level 42, the Scorpions, Nena, Nina Hagen, our Dutch Doemaar and het Goede Doel bands and Herman Brood and His Wildromance. We continental Europan teenage kids were addicted to Anglo-Saxon British, American, Canadian, Australian and Jamaican music and some Irish bands as well. What was from abroad and from overseas was more exiting than our own Continental European bands and music, but we had some good bands of our own as well.
German Pop music
Austrian pop music
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Post by pieter on Apr 29, 2021 13:42:04 GMT -7
This is one of the best and most profound pop songs I know. This is part of my personal top 10 from the throusands of good pop songs that are around today. This song touches my soul in a deeper level. It also is a symbol of the connection Afro-American music made with white European and white American people. Black African music played an incredible romantic, emotional and soul level in the lives of a lot of European, American, Canadian and also White New Zealand, Australian and South-African people. In the same time white Western pop music played a role in the lives of Black young people who loved David Bowie, Roxy Music, Madonna or the Rolling Stones. Music merged and crossed racial and cultural barriers and that is the greatness of music. Music has no borders and travels thousands of miles and is played all over the world simultaniously.
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Post by pieter on Apr 29, 2021 13:45:16 GMT -7
Level 42 are an English jazz-funk band formed on the Isle of Wight in 1979. They had a number of UK and worldwide hits during the 1980s and 1990s.
Their highest-charting single in the UK was "Lessons in Love", which reached number three on the UK Singles Chart, and number 12 on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, upon its release in 1986. An earlier single, "Something About You", was their most successful chart-wise in the United States, reaching number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
After much success as a live and studio band in the 1980s, Level 42's commercial profile diminished during the early 1990s following a series of personnel changes and musical shifts. Disbanding in 1994, the band reformed in 2001.
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Post by pieter on Apr 29, 2021 13:59:01 GMT -7
Dutch eighties bands
The song 'One Night alone' of the Dutch Reggea band Doemaar (Just do it)
Klein Orkest (Little Orchestra) - Over de muur (Over the wall) (1984)
A critcal song about communism and capitalism
Translation: "over de muur"
Over the Wall
East-Berlin, Unter den Linden Some People walk along flags and standards Lenin and Marx stil have their statue there And everybody works, Hammers and sickles While in goose-step the Guards are Changed 40 years socialism, a lot has been achieved in that time
But what's that ideal state when it's surrounded by walls? If you must handle your opinion fearfully and carefully But what's that ideal state Tell me what is it worth Being labeled crazy if you are differant
And only the birds fly from East- to West-Berlin Aren't called back, nor get they shot Over the wall, over the Iron Curtain Because they sometimes in the West, sometimes also want to be in the East Because they sometimes in the West, sometimes also want to be in the East
West-Berlin, the Kurfuerstendamm People walk along porno- en peepshow Mercedes and Cola stil have their statue there And the neonadds who tease wit their glitter Come dance, come eat, come drinking, come gambling That's 40 years of freedom a lot has been achieved in that time
But what is this freedom presently without a house, without a job That many Turks in Kreuzberg who can hardly exist Well! You are allowed to demonstrate, but with your back against the wall And only with money the freedom is affordable
And the birds fly from West- to East-Berlin Aren't called back, nor get they shot Over the wall, over the Iron Curtain Because they sometimes in the East, sometimes also want to be in the West Because sometimes there is lying bread at the Gedaechtniskirche, sometimes at the Alexandersquare...
Diesel is a Dutch pop/rock group that became one of the relatively few Dutch acts to chart in the U.S. when their song "Sausalito Summernight" entered the U.S. Top 40 in 1981.
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Post by pieter on Apr 29, 2021 14:15:23 GMT -7
I love this Human Leage song - This is prototype eighties music
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Post by pieter on Apr 29, 2021 14:23:25 GMT -7
This is a 1979 Pop song which already has an eighties vibe and style
On this song synthesyzers, the great voice of Freddy Mercury and the chorus of Queen merges well. For me as a teenage kid this was a magic song and quite melancholic.
"Radio Ga Ga" is a 1984 song performed and recorded by the British rock band Queen, written by their drummer Roger Taylor. It was released as a single with "I Go Crazy" by Brian May as the B-side. It was included on the album The Works and is also featured on the band's compilation albums Greatest Hits II and Classic Queen.
The single was a worldwide success for the band, reaching number one in 19 countries, number two on the UK Singles Chart and the Australian Kent Music Report and number 16 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The band performed the song at every concert from 1984 to their last concert with lead singer Freddie Mercury in 1986, including their performance at Live Aid in 1985.
The music video for the song uses footage from the 1927 silent science fiction film Metropolis. It received heavy rotation on music channels and was nominated for an MTV Video Music Award in 1984.
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Post by pieter on Apr 29, 2021 14:44:26 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Apr 29, 2021 14:50:29 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Apr 29, 2021 14:57:51 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Apr 29, 2021 15:03:34 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Apr 29, 2021 15:25:51 GMT -7
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Post by pieter on Apr 29, 2021 16:09:18 GMT -7
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Post by karl on Apr 29, 2021 20:00:29 GMT -7
Pieter
Many of those artist and their music are good,,still my favourite is Falco, Nina and David Bowie. Although I do enjoy most of his music {Bowie} as long as it is not so wild, he is every thing my self am not. He has class, dresses with great style with a very nice demeanor.
Nina and their 99 Luftballons certainly brings back a great many memories of those days...
Karl
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Post by pieter on Apr 30, 2021 11:39:45 GMT -7
Eighties Italo disco. Italian and Polish versions. ItalianRoberto FerranteItalian composer, arranger, producer (Naples, March 28th, 1965), founder of Planet Records (8) with European headquarters in Naples and American ones in Miami, Florida, releasing music from all genres, but specialized in recent years in Latin American genre. He was the young author and producer of Come On Closer by Pineapples feat. Douglas Roop, the Italo-Disco song distributed by Best Record in 1983, which also was played at the legendary Chicago Radio Station WBMX by the legendary D.J.'s, Hot Mix 5, such a classic of early Chicago house and still today very sought after by collectors and fans who consider it one of the best and more clear example of proto-house. Polish
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