80’s Power Rock

Love 80's rock music. The songs mentioned are cool.

 

as far as 80's bands go, queen is by far my favorite. we will rock you, we are the champions, another one bites the dust, some of my favorite songs

 

They were cool. Still not my fav 80's band. But they were VERY popular werent they? Really catchy tunes.

 

Huey Lewis & The News - The Power Of Love (long but great clip + DeLorean )

http://youtube.com/watch?v=NJkV9D7v3Zk

 

they were without a doubt one of the biggest 80's bands.

 

Come on Feel the Noise was big. I also liked "Voices" by Russ Ballard.

 

Seventeen by Winger had a good opening guitar riff, and the outro was kinda cool as well..song was catchy, but terriable.

Round and round by R.A.T.T good guitar work there as well..but again lousy song over all.

Will agree on Dire Straights..wicked song all the way through.

Van Halens Hot for Teacher with break downs in the first second and third sections of the song..."ahh wow man...wait a second...Whadaya think the teacher is gonna look like this year?"

So many of them..

 

How about the springy intro to Haircut 100's Love plus One?

 

more of a metal fan here, How did you all forget Ozzy's "Crazy Train"?

 

Today's rock doesn't even compare to that of the '80s! I watched four hours of VH1 Classic's "Metal Mania" show and it's amazing how much better and less generic rock was back then...

 

Another bad but great song was Loverboys ' Turn me Loose' .. really memorable , yet simple, guitar riff.

Bon Jovi also came up with tons of great songs/riffs that are instantly recognizable

AC/DC ? Just about everything on Back In Black was amazing.

Motely Crue and Poison... tons of unforgetable riffs.

Ah those were the good old days

 

Wow, too many to choose...

Billy Idol – Eyes Without a Face and Rebel Yell
Digital Underground – The Humpty Dance
Romeo Void - Never Say Never
M/A/R/R/S- Pump Up the Volume
Living Colour - Cult Of Personality
Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls
PM Dawn - I'd Die Without You
Boys Don’t Cry - I Wanna Be A Cowboy
Tom Tom Club - Genious of Love
ABC - Look Of Love
Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian (don’t pay attention to the lyrics)

And barely making the list (one of my favorites)
Malcolm McLaren - Something's Jumping In Your Shirt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n2wZFkCvkr4

 

Power Rock - confusing....are we going Hard, as in Heavy Metal?
Def Leppard/Winger/White Lion/Dio/Cinderella/Ratt/WhiteSnake/Bulletboys

Or more 'pop' oriented like Asia, Sammy Hagar, Night Ranger, Kim Mitchell, The Tubes, Smithereens, The Knack, Eddie Money, Billy Squier, Power Station, Foreigner....etc.

 

Yeah, power rock may be somewhat confusing especially if you consider the diversity of 80's music.

 

That's all we can come up with....?


Rock You Like a Hurricane - Scorpions.........HUGE Guitar and Drum opening, classic 80's power rock.

 

Yep. They sure were.

 

beat me to it.

 

Black Sabbeth, Bark at the Moon comes to mind.

 

Damn you guys. I had to change channels to Sirius 80s.

 

Sampled:

Billy Idol – Eyes Without a Face

Billy Idol – Rebel Yell

Digital Underground – The Humpty Dance

Romeo Void - Never Say Never

M/A/R/R/S- Pump Up the Volume

Living Colour - Cult Of Personality

Pet Shop Boys - West End Girls

PM Dawn - I'd Die Without You

Boys Don’t Cry - I Wanna Be A Cowboy

Tom Tom Club - Genious of Love

ABC - Look Of Love

Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian (don’t pay attention to the lyrics)

 

70's

 

I loved that show. I'm only 25, so during the '80's I never really paid that close attention to music. Although I remember being in 2nd or 3rd grade and singing Welcome to the Jungle while walking to class. It still amazes me that I remember that, let alone still love GNR.

I'm more into underground rock for todays music, but still love a lot of 80s rock and the early 90's grunge.

 

That's Ozzy by himself not Sabbath.

 

My guilty pleasure for an amazing (to me) intro by a bunch of '80s hair farmers would be Cinderella's Gypsy Road