Agreed! I love the 80's! Best damn decade for music ever! My mom and I listen to 80's music all the time. Now can you tell me any other parent that likes their sons music decade?
80s music is better than any of the shit that's coming out now.
Which is why I said "Depending on how you look at it".The 80s didn't start as an era with 1980. There's always lag with the transition of the defining culture of a decade. The "80s" didn't start until 82 or 83.
Some not well known music that I like of that decade.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=664rKNjdYC8
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6jhpaX7fNQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1C_fVnE3xHY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbUW2EY4KE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZQL22xOmUM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AWtCittJyr0
Because the 80s were terrible. There were certainly gems in there, but on the whole the music sucked. Feeble and thin, with the overuse of electronics.
Which is why I said "Depending on how you look at it".
As far as music is concerned, I would consider it more of an overlap as opposed to a lag. You can hear 80's sounding music beginning to surface in music in the late 70's. Just as you can hear the 90's alternative sound beginning to surface in the late 80s with bands like REM.
R.E.M. - Orange Crush
LOL, like there's less electronics in use today.
Today's music is impossible to reproduce live. Overlays, overdubs, samples, auto-tune.....bands/singers can't go out and just play their records live. They have to bring all sorts of pre-recorded tracks to play along with them, or they'll sound like crap.
At least the 80's artists, when you heard them it was THEM.
LOL, like there's less electronics in use today.
Today's music is impossible to reproduce live. Overlays, overdubs, samples, auto-tune.....bands/singers can't go out and just play their records live. They have to bring all sorts of pre-recorded tracks to play along with them, or they'll sound like crap.
At least the 80's artists, when you heard them it was THEM.
none of which were being played in the 80s.Maybe it's just me, but I think alot of bands and artist wrote some their best stuff in that decade.
For example.
Van Halen, Metallica, Rush, Iron Maiden, Dio, Ozzy Osbourne, Guns n Roses, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, The Traveling Wilburys, AC/DC, David Lee Roth, Pink Floyd, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Megadeth, Slayer, Aerosmith along with others that I just can't think of.
none of which were being played in the 80s.
not that they didn't *exist*, they were being boycotted by MTV and the whole FCC bunch.
So instead we got Boy George, Duran Duran, Spandau Ballet, that guy singing Caravan of Love, Europe, George Michael and Wham!, and basically more gayness you can shake a Freddy Mercury at.
80s music is better than any of the shit that's coming out now.
While I agree that MTV focused on the bands above, they also had Headbanger's Ball, and several of the bands you say weren't being played still got quit a bit of air time (Ozzy, Tom Petty, AC/DC and especially Aerosmith).
MTV started in 81. Aerosmith was pretty much non-existence from the early 80s until 87 when they did their first video Walk this Way with Run DMC. Stephen Tyler was one of the most outspoken about it wasn't his job to make music and a mini movie explaining what the song meant to him or the listeners interpretation. He quickly change his mind after the Walk this Way video saved/revived his career. Headbangers ball started in 87 also. The first five or six years of MTV was utter bullshit with a few exceptions.