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Favorite 80's Duos

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Favorite 80's Duos

Postby InvisibleMan » Sun Dec 12, 2010 12:54 am

there have been some mighty fine duos in the 80's. What are your favorites?

This thread is a tribute to all of them and the music they've brought [:D]

Roxette
Eurythmics
Modern Talking
Pet Shop Boys
Lili & Sussie
Erasure
Hall & Oates
Rene & Angela
Wham
Mel & Kim
Milli Vanilli ... heh heh yeah I know [;)]
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Postby TragicMagic » Sun Dec 12, 2010 11:13 am

Would we maybe also put Yazoo in this category?
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Postby coop41 » Sun Dec 12, 2010 12:49 pm

I'm pretty sure Hall & Oates would kick Rene and Angela's ass
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Postby Frau_Blucher » Sun Dec 12, 2010 1:02 pm

[quote][i]Originally posted by coop41[/i]
<br>I'm pretty sure Hall & Oates would kick Rene and Angela's ass
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How 'bout Salt n Pepa holmes?
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Postby InvisibleMan » Sun Dec 12, 2010 2:18 pm

[quote][i]Originally posted by coop41[/i]
<br>I'm pretty sure Hall & Oates would kick Rene and Angela's ass
[/quote]

maybe according to Mel Gibson [:D]

anyone remember One to One (Angel in my pocket)? The girl was very cute and some fine 80s pop music [8D]

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

also Humpe & Humpe (Careless Love), another wonderful duo
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Postby toyah » Mon Dec 13, 2010 2:05 am

HAYZI FANTAZEE
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Postby schwenko » Mon Dec 13, 2010 2:57 am

Sparks
Suicide
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Postby SonicBoom » Mon Dec 13, 2010 4:23 am

Soft Cell
Blancmange
Nu Shooz
Yello
Ebn/Ozn
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Postby toyah » Mon Dec 13, 2010 4:25 am

i'm right there with you on both, Sparks and especially Max's Kansas City faves Suicide.... I didn't list them cos I regard them both as 70s duos who carried over in the following decades...but both are superb and way ahead of their time
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Postby Panorama » Mon Dec 13, 2010 5:00 pm

Naked Eyes

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Postby InvisibleMan » Tue Dec 14, 2010 7:38 am

Also Red Flag is another wonderful duo
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Postby eLeMeNOhPeaQ » Tue Dec 14, 2010 9:38 am

How about Tears For Fears?
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Postby avcool4u » Sat Jan 01, 2011 5:24 am

I have to go with
Erasure and
Blancmange
as my favorites.
Lots of other duos have great music too

Anyone mention Go West?


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Postby Spectre General » Sat Jan 01, 2011 10:31 am

[quote][i]Originally posted by InvisibleMan[/i]
<br>
anyone remember One to One (Angel in my pocket)? The girl was very cute and some fine 80s pop music [8D]

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


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YES! One to One were awesome.

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Postby oldnewwaver » Sun Jan 02, 2011 1:40 pm

here are some more

Slow Children
Rank and File
Arcadia
The Proclaimers
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