Van Halen - 1984, Van Halen 1, Women & Children First
AC/DC - Back in Black, Flip the Switch, For Those About to Rock
Stones - Hot Rocks
Yes - 90812 (don't really liket this anymore, though)

zz top
police
vh
yes
ac/dc
pretenders
genesis
nugent

dylan, lotsa blues, costello, srv...the 80's just wasn't much of a decade for music.....

Undercover was released in November 83, so I would have still been listening to my 3 favorite albums of that year: Synchronicity by The Police, War by U2 and The Final Cut by Pink Floyd. I had looked forward to Pipes Of Peace by Paul McCartney, which came out 1 week before Undercover, but it was one of his weakest albums, so I gave up on it pretty quickly.

Shortly after in Janaury 84, along with Undercover, I was listening to Learning To Craw by The Pretenders and Milk And Honey by John Lennon and Yoko Ono, both of which were released that month. The summer of 84 brought in 2 albums I played a lot: Born In The U.S.A. by Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band and Purple Rain by Prince and The Revolution.

"Infidels" by Bob Dylan which came out the same week - bought them both on the same day!

I was only 2 years then.
The first album (or tape) I bought was "Dirty Work" in 1986. I had 2 tapes that year: "Dirty Work" and a tape of not "The Muppet Show", but something a lot like it. They were called "Fragglene" here in Norway.

The 80s not much of a decade for music? Thats BS! The thing about the 80s is those older folks dismiss everything as 'not as good as when I was young'.

I was a teenager of the 80s, the LAST TRUE DECADE OF SEX, DRUGS & ROCK-N-ROLL!
When AIDS was just a gay mans disease and the only thing one had to worry about was pregnancy.

A decade when you could go to school REAKING of weed and the teacher would crack a joke about it.

Keep your labels. For example Motley Crue is NOT a HAIR band. They are a Rock-n-Roll band... and one that was ALWAYS ahead of the pack in look and sound. But to anyone over 45 or younger than 32 they get labeled as a hair band.

The 80s RAWKED!

G-n-R
CRUE
Metallica
Tatoo You
Undercover
Every Ramones Album of the decade
Springsteen
Hanoi Rocks
Greatful Dead Shows
The Stray Cats

there are 10 great moments of 80s rock
Not to mention it was a darn good decade for SRV, ZZ Top, ACDC and live concerts in general.

If you believe the 80s were a bad decade for Rock and Rock, I must disagree.

I love all eras and genres of popular music. Every era has crap and every decade has gems.

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> "Infidels" by Bob Dylan which came out the same
> week - bought them both on the same day!


same thing happened with Tattoo You and Shot of Love if memory serves....

f**K me! An inspired idea for a thread!

I was 13 at the time, and I remember the single and the album coming out, but I wasn't (really) a Stones fan back then.

Casting my mind back to late '83, I was probably listening to these albums/bands... (think i was more of a 45s man in those days though)

Paul Young, No Parlez

Wham!, Fantastic!

UB40, Labour of Love

Big Country, Big Country?

Culture Club, Kissing To Be Clever & Colour By Numbers

Don't think I've listneed to any of thosew for a while, since 1983 in fact!

I actually wasn't even into the Stones at the time but here's what I listened to as a 13 year old:

In Heat by The Romantics
Standing In The Dark by Platinum Blonde
Seven And The Ragged Tiger by Duran Duran
and LOTS of David Bowie!

&A Wrote:
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> Gazza Wrote:
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> > "Infidels" by Bob Dylan which came out the
> same
> > week - bought them both on the same day!
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> same thing happened with Tattoo You and Shot of
> Love if memory serves....


not to mention Saved/Emotional Rescue and Time out of Mind/Bridges To Babylon
...and I think Street Legal/Some Girls were about a week apart too!

Like some of you ahead of me, I was listening to Dylan, Elvis C., and going to concerts of the Tubes (remember those guys), Allman Brothers, and Neil Young, just to name a few.

Bowie's "Serious Moonlight" tour - his first in 5 years - was the big tour that year

Gazza, I had forgotten Bowie's Let's Dance. I was playing that a lot in 83, but unfortunately missed the tour. I had to wait until 1987 to see Bowie for the first time.

Like others here, I bought Infidels the same day, along with Elton John's Too Low for Zero which I'd just started to get into.

I too remember seeing Bowie in June of that year at the NEC on the Serious Moonlight tour. Wasn't impressed. I recall bumping into promoter Harvey Goldsmith after the gig and asking him when Dylan was coming over (to the UK) again. "Next year with outdoor gigs, I promise you my son!". He wasn't lying either.

AAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhhhhhh Big Country. Now THERE is a debut album of the highest order. I listened to it pretty much non stop for months. Those bagpipes...no wait....they're guitars!!!! A fantastic record.

From then on thou, for Big Country, a quick spiral to oblivion!

Rgds
Rod

Not really...they were still opening for the Stones in Europe in 1995 and (I think) 1998, so they obviously still had a considerable amount of work as a touring band

Interesting question... I don't think I had yet started my own collection, which for years was cassette dubs of older people's LPs. My favorite bands were the Stones, Beatles, the Who, and the Doors. I stopped listening to the Doors before the end of junior high school and have pretty much stopped putting on the Who, the Beatles more so. I loathed Van Halen, etc. Still do, for the most part.

The Stones. And Top 40 radio. But I think the only other specific band than the Stones that I liked at the time was the Police. Wait - and "Weird" Al Yankovic, too.

Hey, I was 11.

U2... And most of the stuff I post about here.
Will think of it... Soon, and return.
Will take a ½ week to mention a third.

Great music, I would say!

Stones, of course: mainly Still Life.
AC/DC
prince!!!!!!!!!!!
The Cure: yes, those early albums were great.
Brian ferry
Police: loved them and still do
Talking Heads: great band at the time
Iron Maiden: yes, I am into HM too.
Bob Marley: his 1980 concert in Milano was so BIG that EVERYBODY was into reggea
Bowie: It all started with this old Lp of my mother - Pin-Ups - simply great!
then came let's dance, and after let's dance SRV ...
Queen
VH
dire straits

plus some great italians

old mina, lucio dalla, bennato ...

C

What else were you listening to when Undercover came out?

A couple of neighbours yellin' at me to turn it down....



ROCKMAN

Was listening to U2,Clapton (live at the Budokan)but mostly Stones stuff .Early 80's was the moment I started to buy Stones boots(Bedspring,Leeds Stones,F""ing and Sucking,Hot lips...) on vinyl and cassettes and I turned absolutely banana playing them all day long.Thanks to my wife for enduring so easily that period ,must have been a nightmare for her (and she likes the Stones!).

Mainly Prince actually.
And my own band back then. rehearsal tapes LOL!
I was listening to the radio a whole lot I can recall. Lots of British acts. Frankie Goes To Hollywood
Scritti Politti
Gun Club
Mission of Burma
James Blood Ulmer
And for some reason the Broadstreet album by McCartney. To this day I LOVE that song about "Lonely Nights"

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

Status Quo - Back To Back (still great!)

Was not following the Stones too closely at the time. I was in the 11th grade. My girlfriend had the Undercover 12"--she would play it all scratched up on her little kid record player--the song sounded very contemporary, cutting edge too me, but I wasn't into it. Also saw She Was Hot video on Mtv and thought it sucked--the lady looked 50 years old to my friends and I. Was into Stones a couple years previously w/ Hot Rocks and Emotional Rescue. A couple years later got into 70s Stones-Goats Head Soup, Sticky Fingers and Some Girls.

I was into:
Metal/Punk/Hardcore
Metallica
AC/DC
Mercyful Fate
Venom
Motorhead
Dead Kennedys
Discharge
GBH etc, blah blah blah...

Tattoo You
Still Life
Van Halen
Talking Heads
Bowie
Stray Cats
Police
Seger
Bruce

Loved and still love the sound of electric guitars.

Also, listened to most of the Top 40 crap of that era.

Hmmm, can't remember too well....seems like a hundred years ago....23 years is good chunk of a quarter of a century.

I listened to the radio alot and it was mostly pop. Alot of new wave bands from the late 70's had sold out and were having pop hits. But I won't bitch....at least it was infinitely more listenable than anything on the pop charts today.

JOAN JETT !!!

i was listening to my ex-girlfriend say: "When are you gonna get a job, you good-for-nothin' bum!...........then i put on the Ramones