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What music released in 1980 would you have been listening to as that year approached its end forty years ago?

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@fmf said
What music released in 1980 would you have been listening to as that year approached its end forty years ago?
“Sexual Healing”



Marvin Gaye

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The Correct Use Of Soap by Magazine.

Released 1980.

Summer of my O Levels and then Sixth Form in the Autumn.

Post-punk or new wave. Never sure what the difference is.

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@great-big-stees said
“Sexual Healing”



Marvin Gaye
Released 1982.

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Well I was a baby 40 years ago so I imagine it was 🎶 "old McDonald had a farm...eee i eee i oh!" 🎶

Another song was "dammit I wish that baby would shut up!"

I didn't like that song 😒

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In no particular order would say Hotter Than July by Stevie Wonder, Back In Black by ACDC, Making Movies by Dire Straits and The River by Springsteen.

And like lots of other people I listened to Double Fantasy by John Lennon (and Yoko) a lot after Dec 8th

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Remain in Light.



I so much wanted to like it because I had liked Fear of Music so much. I listened to it a lot in the closing months of 1980 but didn't end up really liking it until later in life.

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@fmf said
Released 1982.
Still listened to it in 1989.

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@great-big-stees said
Still listened to it in 1989.
The thread is about music released in 1980.

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@fmf said
The thread is about music released in 1980.
I apologize. I misread your initial post. 😢

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@great-big-stees said
I apologize. I misread your initial post. 😢
Good to hear that's the reason. I thought perhaps you were just being a dick, for which I apologize.

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@fmf said
What music released in 1980 would you have been listening to as that year approached its end forty years ago?
I think that was the year of the two tone tour with The Specials, The Selector and Madness all touring together. Great memory, superb live acts in those days.

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@fmf said
Good to hear that's the reason. I thought perhaps you were just being a dick, for which I apologize.
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Here's my "new/appropriate 1980 release" : Turn Me Loose - Loverboy

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@fmf said
What music released in 1980 would you have been listening to as that year approached its end forty years ago?
I have strong memories of listing to:

Pink Floyd - The Wall
David Bowie - Scary Monsters
Queen - The Game

I loved the 1980s.

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