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70s acts that were big in the 80s
People tend to associate acts with particular decades but thinking back there were many acts from the seventies which continued to have success in the eighties. I have thought of a few here (some even started in the sixties) but I'm sure more could be added.
Michael Jackson Queen David Bowie ABBA Elton John Dire Straits The Police Genesis Peter Gabriel Bruce Springsteen Madness Prince OMD Kate Bush Hall and Oates The Jam The Bee Gees Status Quo Kiss Joy Division/New Order The Cars The Pretenders The Cure Van Halen Billy Joel Talking Heads Lionel Ritchie Billy Ocean Roxy Music Aerosmith Who have I missed? |
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Hundreds. Just about every band that was big in the 1970s was just as big in the 1980s - except when they weren't affected by drug overdoses. Which still leaves one or two.
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cant really see the point of this tbh.... music acts dont begin and end with a decade, the successful ones will span more then one decade especially if they start late in a decade.
i dont regard those acts as 70's artists, just artists who had a long enough run that happend to span one decade into the next. (even longer in some cases) |
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plus you could say that any of the new wave acts that started in 79 and had a hit in 80 would qualify for this.... oo look madness, first hit late 79... most in the 80's. see?..
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People tend to associate acts with particular decades but thinking back there were many acts from the seventies which continued to have success in the eighties. I have thought of a few here (some even started in the sixties) but I'm sure more could be added.
Michael Jackson Queen David Bowie ABBA Elton John Dire Straits The Police Genesis Peter Gabriel Bruce Springsteen Madness Prince OMD Kate Bush Hall and Oates The Jam The Bee Gees Status Quo Kiss Joy Division/New Order The Cars The Pretenders The Cure Van Halen Billy Joel Talking Heads Lionel Ritchie Billy Ocean Roxy Music Aerosmith Who have I missed?
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cant really see the point of this tbh.... music acts dont begin and end with a decade, the successful ones will span more then one decade especially if they start late in a decade.
i dont regard those acts as 70's artists, just artists who had a long enough run that happend to span one decade into the next. (even longer in some cases) I was thinking glam rock/glitter pop bands, mainly the British ones like Slade, Mud, Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Smokey etc. Some glam acts like Bowie and Roxy had longevity because they changed with the times. Funk was popular in the 70s, so bands like Parliament, War, Funkadelic didn't do so well in the 80s although they didn't disappear just because one decade ended. Disco artists like KC and the Sunshine Band, Chic, Barry White, O'Jays, Harold Melvin weren't as successful in the 80s. But disco music had relatively short lived success in the 70s before it was re embraced later as the building block of dance music. Maybe Prog rock artists like Focus, King Crimson, Yes, Can, Tangerine Dream, Mike Oldfield? The Prog rock era was again somewhat cut short with the arrival of punk and new wave. And then some North American bands like Steely Dan, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Blue Oyster Cult, Doobie Bros, Boston, etc. were successful in the 70s but less so in the 80s. One reason might be the advent of video and MTV and a visuality which some of these bands failed to embrace. Most of these artists were 70s artists who helped define the decade but didn't really outlast it. |
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i reckon bowie and roxy made it in the 80's because their style appealed to the new romantics, whether bowie/ferry changed to suit the latest fashion or whether they inspired it is open for debate i guess.
wasnt funk big in the 80's?... jazz funk certainly was and many pop songs had a jazz element, well brass anyway in a jazz funk stylee. |
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cant really see the point of this tbh.... music acts dont begin and end with a decade, the successful ones will span more then one decade especially if they start late in a decade.
i dont regard those acts as 70's artists, just artists who had a long enough run that happend to span one decade into the next. (even longer in some cases) |
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Kraftwerk and The Wombles (didn't have any hits but were still on TV in the '80s so were technically still popular).
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Kraftwerk and The Wombles (didn't have any hits but were still on TV in the '80s so were technically still popular).
And their "Tour De France" single charted more than once, in the mid to late '80s. . |
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The Clash, The B-52's and Public Image Limited.
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bib: They had a UK number 1 with "The Model/Computer Love" in 1982.
And their "Tour De France" single charted more than once, in the mid to late '80s. . |
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Judas Priest
Scorpions Rainbow Black Sabbath Meatloaf AC/DC Slade Motorhead David Essex UFO Ramones Tom Petty Neil Young Thin Lizzy Alice Cooper Actually a lot of these are still going strong today. |
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Well I suppose Heart are a good example. Their first taste of mainstream success was in the seventies with the folky rock of that era and then they re-emerged with big shoulderpads delivering big eighties power ballads.
And most the 70s diva's, Donna Summer, Patti Labelle, Diana Ross, Chaka Khan etc. |
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plus you could say that any of the new wave acts that started in 79 and had a hit in 80 would qualify for this.... oo look madness, first hit late 79... most in the 80's. see?..
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Yes, it might be more interesting to consider artists who were first successful in the 70s and not so in the 80s. Not so much the one hit wonders or the short-lived artists but music categories or genres like glam rock, funk, jazz-funk or disco which were popular in the 70s but didn't last into the 80s in a big way.
I was thinking glam rock/glitter pop bands, mainly the British ones like Slade, Mud, Sweet, Suzi Quatro, Smokey etc. Some glam acts like Bowie and Roxy had longevity because they changed with the times. Quote:
Funk was popular in the 70s, so bands like Parliament, War, Funkadelic didn't do so well in the 80s although they didn't disappear just because one decade ended.
Disco artists like KC and the Sunshine Band, Chic, Barry White, O'Jays, Harold Melvin weren't as successful in the 80s. But disco music had relatively short lived success in the 70s before it was re embraced later as the building block of dance music. Maybe Prog rock artists like Focus, King Crimson, Yes, Can, Tangerine Dream, Mike Oldfield? The Prog rock era was again somewhat cut short with the arrival of punk and new wave. And then some North American bands like Steely Dan, Bachman-Turner Overdrive, Blue Oyster Cult, Doobie Bros, Boston, etc. were successful in the 70s but less so in the 80s. One reason might be the advent of video and MTV and a visuality which some of these bands failed to embrace. Most of these artists were 70s artists who helped define the decade but didn't really outlast it. ![]() Prog continued in to the 1980s and still continues today. |
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Demis Roussos - he was big in any decade
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Tangerine Dream did a lot of film soundtracks in the 80s.
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Slade continued to be successful in the 1980s.
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I can't believe that in 2014 people are still regurgitating the myth that punk and new wave "killed" prog....
![]() Prog continued in to the 1980s and still continues today. I do recognise that prog persists I'm currently listening to The Devin Townsend Project's 'Epicloud' which sounds like good prog rock to me, a bit heavier, much less indulgent yet highly conceptional. |
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Despite the Waters-Gilmour rift Pink Floyd were still massive in the 80's. And 90's.
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I can't believe that in 2014 people are still regurgitating the myth that punk and new wave "killed" prog.... ![]() Prog continued in to the 1980s and still continues today. though god knows why.... i detested prog almost as much as philly. of course after the initial explosion punk too went out of fashion, but still survives today. |
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... but hardly at the level it did before punk. the point is that prog went out of fashion to a new younger audience and punk became the new style that appealled. i dont believe prog fans became punk, although some might. some embraced both whilst die hard prog fans kept on liking it.
though god knows why.... i detested prog almost as much as philly. of course after the initial explosion punk too went out of fashion, but still survives today. Musical taste is subjective, what appeals to one doesn't appeal to another. I am sure there is plenty of music you like that I couldn't abide.
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Tangerine Dream did a lot of film soundtracks in the 80s.
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... but hardly at the level it did before punk. the point is that prog went out of fashion to a new younger audience and punk became the new style that appealled. i dont believe prog fans became punk, although some might. some embraced both whilst die hard prog fans kept on liking it.
though god knows why.... i detested prog almost as much as philly. of course after the initial explosion punk too went out of fashion, but still survives today. Quote:
It could be argued that the likes of Pink floyd and Genesis were far more successful in terms of commercial success the 1980s and '90s than they were in the 1970s.
Pink Floyd's music has its roots in psychedelic and prog rock but they transcend both genres for me. However, I wouldn't argue if they were described as a prog rock band who were successful throughout their career. |
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It could be argued that the likes of Pink floyd and Genesis were far more successful in terms of commercial success the 1980s and '90s than they were in the 1970s.
Musical taste is subjective, what appeals to one doesn't appeal to another. I am sure there is plenty of music you like that I couldn't abide. ![]() ![]() ![]() Quote:
Yes, that's better put. There probably weren't many prog to punk converts (although I was one, a 70s Yes fan). My friends seemed to embrace Rush and then Marillion I remember. I must admit to occasionally listening to Rush.
I would suggest that Genesis did repackage the sound writing shorter, more pop oriented songs to complement the longer works. But it did work for them. I think Yes did the same but less successfully. Pink Floyd's music has its roots in psychedelic and prog rock but they transcend both genres for me. However, I wouldn't argue if they were described as a prog rock band who were successful throughout their career. ![]()
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