Favorite songs from the 80s

[Fixxxer]

 

[Buffalo Barbarian]

Great way to finish out the decade 1989

 

 

 

 

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

21 hours ago, row_33 said:

 

 

 

 

 

 

You must have spent a fair amount of the time listening to CFNY, back when it WAS the 'spirit of radio'.

[row_33]

41 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

You must have spent a fair amount of the time listening to CFNY, back when it WAS the 'spirit of radio'.

 

oh yes... from the days it started as heavy metal around 1978 right to present. and for a few years you could listen to Motorhead and pre-famous Iron Maiden along with The Teardrop Explodes and Ultravox...

 

for a few years in the late 80s a station in Woodstock, Ontario cropped up at 102.3 which interfered with London/Woodstock/Brantford enjoyment, fortunately i was in Hamilton for school and Toronto after that

 

one time i took a radio to a slave-type temp job at a factory and the other three students were quite happy i suggested CFNY, i didn't know if it would be a battle to the death over it...

 

 

and yerself?

 

 

Edited June 12, 2018 by row_33

[Ridgewaycynic2013]

13 minutes ago, row_33 said:

and yerself?

 

 

I find it odd and somewhat disconcerting that some of the music I once listened to I no longer enjoy.  Perhaps the death of my first wife in 2005 influenced that, met her at 14, married her at 21.  CFNY set the gold standard years ago, WZIR and WUWU came close in WNY until market forces blunted their 'edginess' into more mainstream crap.  Sad that there's a whole bunch of boomers and later generations that think 'Centerfold' is the high point of the J. Geils Band.  That high point was years earlier.  As I sit here on the high side of 60, I now have baroque on as background music often, used to drive coworkers in the hydraulic and mechanical shops crazy.  Still beats classic rock with mandatory Canadian content - how many Trooper songs can you endure?  I don't think Giant FM would know a Traffic album if it kicked them in the shins.  I also like many big band instrumentals, but find vocals of that era unlistenable.

 

[row_33]

13 minutes ago, Ridgewaycynic2013 said:

I find it odd and somewhat disconcerting that some of the music I once listened to I no longer enjoy.  Perhaps the death of my first wife in 2005 influenced that, met her at 14, married her at 21.  CFNY set the gold standard years ago, WZIR and WUWU came close in WNY until market forces blunted their 'edginess' into more mainstream crap.  Sad that there's a whole bunch of boomers and later generations that think 'Centerfold' is the high point of the J. Geils Band.  That high point was years earlier.  As I sit here on the high side of 60, I now have baroque on as background music often, used to drive coworkers in the hydraulic and mechanical shops crazy.  Still beats classic rock with mandatory Canadian content - how many Trooper songs can you endure?  I don't think Giant FM would know a Traffic album if it kicked them in the shins.  I also like many big band instrumentals, but find vocals of that era unlistenable.

 

 

Thanks Ridge!!!

 

Trooper was fun, memories of some heavy homebrew drinking and ad hoc camping trips, that's about all the good...

 

I owned most of the 12" 45s i have listed, they were stolen or discarded when having to move out to an apartment for work.

 

I"m in my early 50s, so high school and undergrad were the years for almost all the songs I've posted in this thread, makes a good playlist for future reference.

 

this site is a good one, providing a top 100 of CFNYish songs each year of the 1980s...

 

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2015/02/10/top-100-songs-of-1980/

 

 

 

[bbb]

Now I have Sirius in my car, but for a long time, I listened to your guy's Boom 97 or whatever it is.  I thought they played way better music than any Buffalo station.

[row_33]

14 minutes ago, bbb said:

Now I have Sirius in my car, but for a long time, I listened to your guy's Boom 97 or whatever it is.  I thought they played way better music than any Buffalo station.

 

1st Wave is the SiriusXM channel most like my listing here.

 

 

 

Jim Carroll Band's People Who Died is on right now, that belongs on here...