herongrrrl, you assumed correctly. :) I have that Christmas album too, on vinyl though. Need to get it ripped, along with the Phil Spector Christmas, and Elvis' Christmas on clear green vinyl...

Yaz! Hopey, I knew I liked you. (Of course, the 80's were also the time of the Love and Rockets comics, from which I assume you took your username...I was a huge fan.) I was just listening to the original "A Very Special Christmas" album, which includes Allison Moyet's version of the Coventry Carol...

And KYYX! How long it has been since I've even heard a reference to that station...and after they went away, there was the dearly departed KJET, which you can still listen to here, sort of:
http://www.live365.com/stations/bleekswinney

Yaz.

awesome, Gen Hill One. :) I still want Terri Nun's hair from "The Metro" video.

JanS, the video for that song was great, too.

Come On Eileen...great song...

Yesss, ellenator, thank you - Missing Persons and Berlin (BEFORE Top Gun!)...KYYX, Baby :)

Dexy's. Midnight. Runners.

and Flock of Seagulls.

also MIssing Persons.

Oh please! The 80's didn't produce ANY soul/dance artist that could rival Bootsy Collins or George Clinton. Even Prince's first couple (or three, DOI) albums came out in the 70's.
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The British soul/dance movement was a pale interpretation of the American original, as usual (see: the blues).

Did Modern English ever produce anything else but "Melt With You"?

Roy Orbison didn't hit his stride until the 60s:)

IMHO, the only decade that rivals the 80's for fab music is the 50's. The 60's trail a bit behind, then the 70's, with the 90's and 00's falling far behind. To velonut's list I would add Psychedelic Furs, OMD, and Modern English. It's a long list, so I'll end there!

See HMC_Rich, the political right and the left can find middle ground with Judas Priest - "Breakin' the Law".... Now that is classic :-)

i turned off the radio during the 80s ... that could have been because my kids were full of teen angst..

but i still enjoy the oldies more..
why do you think the luna cafe is our date night choice?

At least half of you see the humor in this thread.

To young to know better? I snuck out to see the Delicate Sound of Thunder tour just a few years later.

Culture Club was trash euro beat!

Meanwhile, THESE bands were pumping out REAL music in the 80's!

Oingo Boingo
Violent Femmes
Talking Heads
Eurythmics
Queen
Cheap Trick
Clash
Kim Wilde
Billy Idol
Henry Rollins

I just liked countingcoup's Judas Priest lyrics. All hail Rob Halford, the Metal God.

Regardless of whether or not I liked the Culture Club, I really enjoyed being wasted or hung over watching MTV in those years.

Video didn't kill the radio star but reality TV or the iPod may have. Times have changed and still I can go see Cheap Trick or Slayer live. Life can truly be good.

Uhh... I WAS there, as though that should matter, and rather agree w/velo nut. (Please refer to earlier comment). But to each their own.

velo_nut

you get a pass
to young to know better:)

My musical knowledge would blow your mind...

(by the way... it came out in 82 so that would have made me 7)

Big music connoisseur when you where 8, velo?

There was worse music than Culture Club produced in the 80's but not much.

Awful band. No soul and terrible lyrics.

"he is currently on probation for assault and false imprisonment of a male escort."

http://newsroom.mtv.com/2009/12/23/boy-george-big-brother/

they are so out to get him.
imagine not wanting him to benefit publicly from living in a house full of captive men.

Breaking the law, breaking the law, breaking the law ~ Doh and yet another genre!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=psTUiQzNoxw

He fought the law and the law won. Ooops, different genre!

Apparently, British law really wants to hurt him.

That's not cool.

I know your really referring to the music and not the artist but:

http://newsroom.mtv.com/2009/12/23/boy-george-big-brother/

Don't let it get in the way of the music :-)

There's a loving in your eyes all the way.

Nothing brings on the nostalgia like Christmas. I'll Tumble 4 Ya.

There is nothing to get. I simply enjoy Culture Club.

They put out some of the best 80s music.

Listen and enjoy.

what? i don't get it.

I do now.

Ahhh suck it up! Girly man :P

OF COURSE NOT!
SINCERELY,
KARMA CHAMELEON

Do you really want to make me cry?

I love Culture Club.