Hidden Treasures - Dont Look Now But Here Come the 80's

[Scott]

Lets go on a journey, a journey through the 80's to recall a great musical decade... friends with mullets, cranking tunes in the school parking lot, and the concerts, OH the concerts!!, and your mullett... A magical time indeed. So lets take our time and soak it all in, year by year. So as Dennis DeYoung once sang...

"Don't Look Now But Here Come the 80's!"

Hows this for a year in Rock and Roll?

• February 7 – Pink Floyd's The Wall Tour opens at the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.
• February 19 – Bon Scott, lead singer of AC/DC, dies in London. Although common folklore cites pulmonary aspiration of vomit as the cause of his death, the official cause is listed as "Acute alcohol poisoning" and "Death by Misadventure".
• April 1 – Brian Johnson is made the new lead singer of AC/DC.
• April 25 – Black Sabbath release Heaven and Hell, their first album to feature new vocalist Ronnie James Dio.
• June 25 – Kiss plays its first show with new drummer Eric Carr at the New York Palladium.
• July 25 – AC/DC release Back in Black which later becomes the highest selling album by any band to date.
• July 31 – The Eagles end their tour with a contentious show in Long Beach, California. They would not play together again until 1994.
• September 25 – John Bonham, drummer of Led Zeppelin, is found dead by bandmate John Paul Jones.
• December 4 – Led Zeppelin disbands following the death of drummer John Bonham.
• December 8 – Mark David Chapman buys a copy of The Catcher in the Rye and spends most of the day outside John Lennon's apartment building in New York City. Having obtained Lennon's autograph at about 5pm, he approaches the star again on his return at 10:50pm and shoots him dead. Lennon's single, "(Just Like) Starting Over", subsequently becomes a number one hit in many countries, including the United States, United Kingdom and Australia.
• December 14 – Over 100,000 mourners attend a public vigil for John Lennon in Central Park. 10 minutes of silence are observed at 2pm.

PLAYLIST --> http://www.podsnack.com/CA69EFD9E8C/a7higffi

	Genesis Duke 1 - Turn It On Again I first heard this song, correction, seen this song played live on either the Midnight Special or Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, I can't recall. What I do recall is going out and buying the album based off this one-time heard song. I didn't care for the album at the time, so I tried to take it back, claiming it had a scratch, but they would only exchange the album for the same album so I was stuck with it! Then the song "Misunderstanding" hit the radio and I gave it another spin, to only a bit more acceptance. Then I went to party at a friends house and noticed they were into Genesis - I have a bad habit of looking through others record collections (with permission of course) - anyway, I really liked these people and their musical tastes were top notch so, long story short I gave Duke yet another chance and ended really digging it. Ababcab followed what I thought would be a cool trend but then they went too poppy and any thoughts of getting into the back catalog were shelved for years and years, until you guys came along!
	Triumph Progressions of Power 2 - Woman In Love Released after their best ever album (Just A Game), I was high on this band and this album worked very nicely for me. The production wasn't as tight as Just A Game but this was heavier and at the time thats where I was headed. I wanted to rock! Bands like Triumph worked really well cruisin', at parties, and other occasions as well.
	Whitesnake Ready an' Willing 3 - Fool For Your Loving Seems, in America, this slipped right under our ears. But it wouldn't make it out of the 80's without becoming a massive hit, just a little rework is all it needed I guess. After discovering Whitesnakes back catalog relatively recently (which for me are the albums pre-Slide It In) I have had a great time spinning this one in particular.
	Journey Departure 4 - Precious Time Probably my favorite Journey hidden treasure ever! The band was really emerging as a Huge attraction and they were everywhere. Sometimes its hard to recall songs like this when Open Arms dominates what people think about them. So good... but it was also the last time we would hear this version of Journey as well. I have often wondered what directions Journey would have taken if Rollie stayed around. No doubt they would have still ended up at Raised On Radio with Perry asserting himself and all, but in-between Departure and Raised on Radio are two killer LP's that I think Rollie's influence would have been magical on.
	Rush Permanent Waves 5 - Entre Nous C'mon, after my December listening challenge this has to make a 1980's playlist. I'll try to be careful not include them in every 80's list I make but that will be hard. That said, Permanent Waves was musically life changing for every Rush fan. This albums rivals anything in their catalog IMO, and the cover is pretty darn cool as well...

PS: I would have posted something from Dire Straits Making Movies but Ive posted that whole album twice I think

[RJhog (Admin)]

According to Digital Dreamdoor, the Top 10 albums of 1980 are:

1. Back In Black - AC/DC
  2. Remain In Light - Talking Heads
  3. Closer - Joy Division
  4. Ace Of Spades - Motorhead
  5. Pretenders - Pretenders
  6. The River - Bruce Springsteen
  7. Dirty Mind - Prince
  8. Hi Infidelity - REO Speedwagon
  9. The Game - Queen
10. Fresh Fruit for Rotting Vegetables - Dead Kennedys

[Jon]

While besteveralbums.com says:

1. Talking Heads--Remain In Light

2. Joy Division--Closer

3. AC/DC--Back In Black

4. Dead Kennedys--Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables

5. Bruce Springsteen--The River

6. David Bowie--Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps)

7. Pretenders--Pretenders

8. The Clash--Sandinista!

9. Dire Straits--Making Movies

10. Rush--Permanent Waves

[Scott]

That Pretenders debut is really good!  So is the follow up!

[Jon]

So is Learning To Crawl!

[Scott]

yup, a good tri-fecta!!

[Jon]

First Genesis album I bought? Abacab

First Triumph album I bought? Thunder Seven

First Whitesnake album I bought? Slide It In

First Journey album I bought? Escape

First Rush album I bought? Moving Pictures

Out of these albums posted, I have 3.

On vinyl I had every Triumph studio album from "Allied Forces" onwards. They're gone. Now I only have AF and "Thunder Seven" on CD. They mostly bore me nowadays.

I think I have one pre-Slide It In disc. After SIN, they went completely downhill. They turned to crap until the recent resurgence. 

Other than the Triumph track, this was fine, fine music. Too bad you didn't include Dire Straits since that would have made this finer than fine.

[Gordon Williams]

Reading through all the posts, this brings back the memory of that horrible night. I can remember how I first heard about Lennon being killed. It was the night of December 8th, 1980, and I was in the kitchen eating a snack, watching Monday Night Football.

I remember how Howard Cosell announced to the nation about the terrible tragedy. And I attended the same high school (Columbia High in Decatur, GA.) that Mark David Chapman had graduated from. My older Sister was in the same graduating class as that cold blooded killer. I hope he never gets out of prison.