Videos de musica de los 80 en español

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4. Massive Attack, ‘Unfinished sympathy’ (1991)’Unfinished sympathy’, third single in the history of Massive Attack including the foundational ‘Blue lines’ (1991), is a cornerstone of trip hop, with an influence that reaches up to the present day. With Shara Nelson’s soulful voice, hip-hop beat and a symphonic orchestra as its most distinctive features, the piece immerses us in a kind of disquieting epic that grabs us and won’t let go. To avoid radio censorship when promoting the ‘single’ -it was the time of the Gulf War- the group changed its name to just Massive, without the Attack.

Advertising7. Pulp, ‘Common people’ (1995)For a long time, they were the great cover boys of Britpop. Jarvis Cocker and his band had founded the group in Sheffield in 1978 and had made their debut album in 1983, but until ‘Different class’ (1995), their fifth album, they didn’t achieve the success they deserved. Much of the blame lies with this song, an ironic, danceable and irresistible monument to class struggle, about a rich girl who wants to live and feel like “normal people”. Jarvis tells her, “Sure?”.

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And yet the cracking of this whip produced some surprising results in 1984. The soundtrack for the film ‘Purple rain’ was thought to be complete, but the director needed a power ballad for a scene of domestic discord. Prince gave birth to two songs overnight, winning ‘When doves cry’. With so little time, he didn’t even bother to put a bass line on it.

The arrangements on the second album, ‘The raw & the cooked’, are sober and pompous at the same time. On this opener, washed out, sloppy distorted guitar sounds crash over a stiff drum machine, while Roland Gift lifts it skyward with his helium falsetto. -Brent DiCrescenzoPhoto credit: Mercury Records24. ‘Come on Eileen,’ Dexys Midnight RunnersMay not be surprising coming from a band named after an amphetamine, but Kevin Rowland’s Celtic soul group drives the shuddering rhythms of their classic 1982 single like a dynamo, powering through tempo changes as it speeds up for the big finish.

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Just a small town girl, livin’ in a lonely world… This rock anthem had not aged too well and people considered it a bit trashy. But its appearance in the finale of The Sopranos has catapulted this epic tune to a second fame. As a curious fact, its greatest success in the charts was achieved with the version of the song made by the guys from the series Glee.listen to Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’ here.

This key piece of the existentialism punk patriotism is one of many great songs of the band from Vigo that could have been included in this list. But this one is specifically good for SEO issues with its lyrics. Look: What are black holes? Are we alone in the galaxy? Is carbon 14 reliable? The catchiest way to ask the most burning questions in the history of mankind: Who are we? Where do we come from? Where are we going? by Siniestro Total here.

Named after the U.S. plane that dropped the atomic bomb on Hiroshima, Enola Gay used Andy McCluskey’s voice and OMD’s brilliant synthesizers and programmed rhythms to create a pop classic. Along with Depeche Mode, the band helped fly the flag for avant-garde British electro pop in the 1980s.Listen to Enola Gay from Orchestral manoeuvres in the dark here.