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The big live versions of Eighties Classic Songs thread

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Saiyaman

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I guess we all know the stables of eighties CD collections or of radio stations that lay eighties music, there are always the ones you cannot escape.

Now finding actual live performances of those songs is rather tricky because of it being customary for bands to mime on TV (and even on the prestegious Montreux festival, they had the biggest artists there who never played a note.) But search harder and you'll succeed.

So here's my blast of the past, LIVE.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o052O-IKBR0
King "Love and pride"
All hail Paul King, one of the forgotten voices of the eighties, this was their biggest hit and boy can they deliver.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LIswSyeca5I
Talk-Talk "Such a shame"
Easily one of my personal all time favorite eighties songs, Mark Hollis was a genious.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wMP_r6E71w
Fine Young Cannibals "Johnny Come home"
I could have gone for the more obvious one "She drives me crazy" but I like this song so much more.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2841aWp6vuQ
Roachford "Family man" and the song I was after "Cuddly toy"
Andrew Roachford, another fogotten eighties voice, I still love that song after all those years.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JNcHjGQ6QlA
Tears for fears "Shout"
Love the typically eighties Steinberger bass that Curt Smith is playing here. The thing I hate about this footage is that the interview interrupts the song and they cut the guitar solo out.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnQeTb20oOE
Wang chung "Dance hall days"
Live at the 1984 Pinkpop, this song screams "eighties" with its sheer sound of synth drums and polyphonic keyboards and they mananged to portray it live pretty well.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ztYSlNazJno
Nena "99 Luft ballons"
Fuck the english version Deutsch is the way this song should be sung.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZTU9n61-4o
Simple minds "Alive and kicking"
I already named the Steinberger bass and the Sythn drums as typically eighties, this song features yet another typically eighties instrument: the Yamaha CP 70 stage piano. It looked like a cross between a flight case and a grand piano and had a very typical sound, in those days you would find it everywhere.

And because I KNOW people will post it, here it is...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c9BA5e2Of_U
 
TE999 said:
Here's a trio of 80's songs done live that rock out:

ZZTop 'Sharp Dressed Man' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0_EFdod4YDo
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Yeah but that wasn't footage from the eighties.


TE999 said:
The Who 'Pinball Wizard' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOUqRZkR8dE&ob=av3n
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"Pinball Wizard" came out in 1969, it's not an eighties song and the footage itself is from their 1970 performance at The Isle of Wright so the footage isn't from the eighties either.


TE999 said:
ELO 'Roll Over Beethoven' http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HgcKhqlFz4Q
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Their version of that song came out in 1973 again it's not an eighties song and that performance was taped in the mid nineties.

Sorry to be picky but you didn't really understood what kind of thread I was trying to get going or you don't really have that much knowledge of the music from the eighties.
 
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I am an 80's alternative music fanatic!

But to post only live versions... nahh.
 
I love the idea of this thread except I've been having a ton of fun finding current live recordings of great eighties bands - Wang Chung, The Outfield, Asia and more...great bands who are still playing together and touring now thirty years later.
 
litfan10 said:
I love the idea of this thread except I've been having a ton of fun finding current live recordings of great eighties bands - Wang Chung, The Outfield, Asia and more...great bands who are still playing together and touring now thirty years later.
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That can be fun, but most of them don't look as good as they did back then. But few of us do, eh? ;)

Just over two months until my Marillion concert! Woo hoo!
 
PennLady said:
That can be fun, but most of them don't look as good as they did back then. But few of us do, eh? ;)

Just over two months until my Marillion concert! Woo hoo!
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True but I find some sound even better now for example Jack Hues of Wang Chung sings every bit as strong now and plays even better guitar now, and Tears for Fears...well stunningly amazing then and now live!

and thanks for the Marillion - LOVE Kayleigh!
 
I've been listening to the Celtic Women sing. I don't think the music could get any better. Their voices are so pure. The DVD's are from the 2000's but the music has been written over the years.
 
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