1979-80

[Teazer]

Next there was the move into Electronic music going on based on the advances in that technology combined with some of the German imports like Kraftwerk but turned by some into more dark and sombre stuff leading to Goth and a bunch of later stuff like Moby, Red hot Chili Peppers etc. Others went in the synth-pop direction leading to the second British invasion through the rest of the 80's.

Tubeway Army / Gary Numan
- Are 'friends' electric?

- Cars
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ldyx3KHOFXw&feature=related
- Down In The Park
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fofzrDD8IG8&feature=related

Joy Division
- Love will tear us apart

- Transmission
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rdf9gxp-_4A&feature=related
- Ceremony
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LaiOgToofBo

The Cure:
- Boys Don't Cry

Jumping Someone Else's Train
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8JRfnP6NTI

Duran Duran
- Girls On Film

- Planet Earth
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_YSWY0sEug&feature=related

Heaven 17 & Human League were also early contributors to the electronic genre and were performing at that time but really didn't find national success till a year or two later:
- Don't You Want Me (1981)

[Teazer]

Then there was Metal \m/ and the transition to thrash.
Diamond Head (From whom Metallica got some great covers years later)
- Am I Evil

- Lightning to the Nations
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QmQRhCLtXU&feature=related

Motorhead
- Ace of Spades


iron maiden
-- Transylvania

- Prowler
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWr-HtpTOyI&feature=related

and an honourable mention to the early hair/glam metal bands starting out then, as well as hard rock and other genre of metal at the time like Def Leppard, Van Halen, Judas Priest etc.
- Overture
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v8836v6jcA

Whereas elsewhere in the world.....
Patti Smith
- Dancing Barefoot


Off the top of my head, that was most of what was going on!

[chud]

Wow, helluva thread.
Steve, I was transfixed when I saw you'd posted the video for M's Pop Muzik. I hadn't seen that since I was in 7th grade, watching Pop Clips on a crappy old 13-channel TV I had in my room.

I must confess I also enjoyed the videos you posted for Rock With You (Michael Jackson's best song IMO), Sailing (yes, I like Christopher Cross), and What a Fool Believes (yes, I like some Michael McDonald).

Teazer, as much as I disagree with you on banking and finance, I must thank you for bringing up the early Paul Di'anno era Iron Maiden. I used to own Killers on vinyl, I love that album.

[Teazer]

and how could I forget..... Dexy's long forgotten better song

[Andy_S]

Dexy's Midnight Runners? Crivens. Whatever happened to Kevin Roland?

I still think Iron Maiden's first two albums were the best work they ever did.

But this thread has not changed the opinion that I first formed in middle school - ie that Gary Numan is shite. He still is (or rather, was).

[Steve James]

thanks for the clips and links. Of what them, I like and remember "Cars", Duran Duran and the Clash. I didn't place them in this period, though. Ska and Rock Steady were already pretty familiar to me before that period, but I understand how they were especially influential in the UK --in ways they weren't in the States. The big-ger influence here was Dub (since, as you know, DJ Kool Herc (from Jamaica) is considered the founder of DJ-ing (one of the pillars of hip hop)).
What is really interesting to me, from a cultural pov, was the difference in political content. Mostly all of the stuff in this period, even when musically interesting, is almost socially unconscious, maybe even conservative. Well, it was the beginning of the Reagan-Thatcher era.

Anywho, una reggae ting, ya mi'wan chekout


And this one just for fun

[Teazer]

What is really interesting to me, from a cultural pov, was the difference in political content. Mostly all of the stuff in this period, even when musically interesting, is almost socially unconscious, maybe even conservative. Well, it was the beginning of the Reagan-Thatcher era.

Back in the UK, they'd just ended a decade of the labour government pretty much running the country into the ground - back in the day when they knew the meaning of 'left wing'
It wasn't till the mid 80's that music went seriously political with Billy Bragg as well as the red wedge groups etc just prior to the next general election. Not that it did much good.