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Best 80's Solo POP Artist (4 choices!)

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Best 80's Solo POP Artist (4 choices!)

Postby FreeWave » Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:48 am

Only the 4 heavyweights are listed [:D]

Can't think of anyone who got in the same league as these guys...

Why can't we have good pop artists like these anymore? [}:)]
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Postby i_like_lectric_motors » Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:50 am

Definitely Prince.
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Postby FreeWave » Fri Apr 15, 2005 8:57 am

I'd have to give them all credit actually. They've all had remarkable careers and some great albums.

Michael J's - Thriller is just that, although I think Bad is rather poor myself.

Madonna's always had good tracks and some of the cuts off her fi
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Postby Grunch » Fri Apr 15, 2005 2:57 pm

We have always had and continue to have artists with GREAT music that never gets attention. These 4, for me, wouldn;t even make my Top 100. That's just me. If I defined my 80s 'pop' by these 4 as the best, IMO, my collection would be pretty shitty. Not th
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Postby middlesexnj » Fri Apr 15, 2005 7:27 pm

All big, but no one can touch Madonna. I know Michael was the "King of Pop" and was huge in the early 80s, but much of his stuff seems dated and his musical portfolio has dried up. I still like the old songs and musically are classics, but they don't seem
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Postby Frayo » Fri Apr 15, 2005 11:32 pm

I dont know.. I just really really like Michael Jackson.
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Postby i_like_lectric_motors » Sat Apr 16, 2005 4:57 am

Prince has more talent in the fingernail of his pinky that the rest of these people combined.
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