Next Week's Music: 1980s

2/12/2012

Enjoy the snippets of 80 1980s songs below and decide you would like to dance to.

Think about the rhythm which would be good to count in 4s to; perhaps you could find out something about one of the artists for Tuesday's lesson!

Your teachers might have a favourite they remember from the good ol' days......

6 Comments

Miss Ruskin

2/12/2012 01:43:23 pm

Wow, loving the 80s music, you're going to have a great time dancing to this music, although maybe not quite as good as Abba ;-)
I think my favourites would be Wham, Footloose (love dancing to that!), Belinda Carlisle and Rick Astley although there's loads of good ones in there, however (good connective) where are Jason and Kylie???
You definitely need to do some air guitar and head banging to Bon Jovi, Whitesnake and Def Leppard - I'm sure Mr Temple will demonstrate! :-D
Have a great time
Miss Ruskin

Mr Temple

3/12/2012 10:25:28 am

For me, it has to be the rock of Eye of the Tiger (made famous in the Rocky film) and the Final Countdown by Europe. I once taught at a school where the Final Countdown chorus was the bell to come in after break!

However, I think you need a good synthesiser beat for a dance therefore I'd choose Beat It by Michael Jackson (30 seconds) or Bronski Beat at 1 min 10 seconds.

Niall

3/12/2012 11:16:50 am

Never gonna give you up
Eye of the tiger
Final Countdown

Mark Temple

3/12/2012 12:53:13 pm

Thanks Niall; Mr Patterson would be proud of your taste for Rock!

Room 2 Burnham School, Christchurch New Zeadland link

3/12/2012 01:59:23 pm

Kia Ora,

Our teacher Mr Thurlow started raving about the 80’s music!!! He lets us have Friday disco but he controls the music!!! When only here music that he likes....

We hope your teacher doesn’t have the same taste of music as Mr Thurlow

Room 2, Burnham School, New Zealand

Mr Temple

3/12/2012 02:04:33 pm

Great to hear from you. We love comments from other schools in other countries. Do you have a class/school website?

I don't get a chance to control the disco (although we have one on a Friday afternoon), but I'm sure my tastes would get the same response as Mr Thurlow!

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