80’s music just the best and most enduring?
Discussion
I absolutely love 80’s music in all its shapes and colours. I thought that was just because of my age etc.
My eight year old granddaughter has just put the animated film Trolls on the TV.
Absolutely filled with 80’s music. Lionel Ritchie, Donna Summer, Cool and the gang, Cindi Lauper etc etc.
I cannot for the life of me believe that in 20 to 30 years time there will be the use of the current crap excuse for pop music on soundtracks. So boring, mundane and unimaginative.
My eight year old granddaughter has just put the animated film Trolls on the TV.
Absolutely filled with 80’s music. Lionel Ritchie, Donna Summer, Cool and the gang, Cindi Lauper etc etc.
I cannot for the life of me believe that in 20 to 30 years time there will be the use of the current crap excuse for pop music on soundtracks. So boring, mundane and unimaginative.
Edited by Bright Halo on Friday 16th February 19:38
Yep - another 80s fan here. I'd say it was the most diverse and pioneering decade in musical terms.
We still had the remnants of Disco and mowtown, but also had some brilliant hard rock, soft rock, punk, snyth, glam, pop, new wave, rap, R&B etc
It was also the hey day of the music video............
We still had the remnants of Disco and mowtown, but also had some brilliant hard rock, soft rock, punk, snyth, glam, pop, new wave, rap, R&B etc
It was also the hey day of the music video............
Bright Halo said:
I cannot for the life of me believe that in 20 to 30 years time there will be the use of the current crap excuse for pop music on soundtracks. So boring, mundane and unimaginative.
Said by every generation about every other later generations music since time immemorialEdited by anonymous-user on Friday 16th February 19:38
Moonhawk said:
Yep - another 80s fan here. I'd say it was the most diverse and pioneering decade in musical terms.
We still had the remnants of Disco and mowtown, but also had some brilliant hard rock, soft rock, punk, snyth, glam, pop, new wave, rap, R&B etc
It was also the hey day of the music
video............
I think you're correct in that 80's music was the most diverse,no 1 genre defines the 80'sWe still had the remnants of Disco and mowtown, but also had some brilliant hard rock, soft rock, punk, snyth, glam, pop, new wave, rap, R&B etc
It was also the hey day of the music
video............
Looking through my 80's playlist it's clearly not my favourite decade but there are a few stand out tunes I always go back to. Here's one of them 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lb3MTlIrC4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Lb3MTlIrC4
I'm afraid I think once you get to 82/83 it was when music started to decline, some of them nasty sounds from people like Yazoo, Kik Kershaw, Howard Jones etc time has not been kind to their nasty cheap keyboard sound.
I was in my late teens when the 80s came along but not my favourite era for music especially when you had just left what is considered to be the best era the mid to late 70s. Rumours, Hotel California, Aja,Silk Degrees, Kick Inside etc the list is endless.
I was in my late teens when the 80s came along but not my favourite era for music especially when you had just left what is considered to be the best era the mid to late 70s. Rumours, Hotel California, Aja,Silk Degrees, Kick Inside etc the list is endless.
Was just having a dance with my 5 yo. We had:
Walk like an Egyptian
Ghostbusters
Walk the dinosaur
Opposites attract (why is this never on radio?)
Form 90s we had:
Berry sunshine after the rain
Seb sugar shack
Grid roller-coaster
2 bjorks quiet and bt sensuality
Groove in heart
Blue Monday (had to force her to listen to that one but she must learn!)
Anyway. Dunno what my point was with that. It just seemed topical to me as I just sat down with a g&t!
I think as a mid 40 yo, the surprising thing for me is that at the time I really genuinely thought 80s music was the worst Eva!!! I remember stating as fact that there was nothing good about any of it ( was very into zappa who floyd for majority of that decade sliding into house at the end).
Now I have constant battles to get radio 1 off the car stereo and absolute 80s on. However perhaps it's because I might occasionally win, whereas I have next to no chance getting Willie The Pimp on during the next shopping trip....
Walk like an Egyptian
Ghostbusters
Walk the dinosaur
Opposites attract (why is this never on radio?)
Form 90s we had:
Berry sunshine after the rain
Seb sugar shack
Grid roller-coaster
2 bjorks quiet and bt sensuality
Groove in heart
Blue Monday (had to force her to listen to that one but she must learn!)
Anyway. Dunno what my point was with that. It just seemed topical to me as I just sat down with a g&t!
I think as a mid 40 yo, the surprising thing for me is that at the time I really genuinely thought 80s music was the worst Eva!!! I remember stating as fact that there was nothing good about any of it ( was very into zappa who floyd for majority of that decade sliding into house at the end).
Now I have constant battles to get radio 1 off the car stereo and absolute 80s on. However perhaps it's because I might occasionally win, whereas I have next to no chance getting Willie The Pimp on during the next shopping trip....
Chimune said:
Form 90s we had:
Berry sunshine after the rain
Seb sugar shack
Grid roller-coaster
2 bjorks quiet and bt sensuality
Groove in heart
Blue Monday (had to force her to listen to that one but she must learn!)
Last one was released in '83 (sorry, but these things are somehow of utmost importance on a Friday night! Berry sunshine after the rain
Seb sugar shack
Grid roller-coaster
2 bjorks quiet and bt sensuality
Groove in heart
Blue Monday (had to force her to listen to that one but she must learn!)
)Chimune said:
Groove in heart.
Bloody marvellous tune (and video)As a teenager in the 80's, I found the prevailing music pretty good. Queen were on top form, Marillion were writing really good stuff, I loved Numan's work in the early 80's, and I was a huge Frankie Goes to Hollywood fan. Looking back, there was other great stuff from the 80's like (off the top of my head) Depeche Mode / Whitesnake / Phil Collins / Chris Rea / Duran Duran / Spandau Ballet and such like. You may not have liked the tunes themselves, but they were well written (IMO)
As for the 90's (off topic), I discovered Underworld, which led to trance tunes, which led to "chemically enhanced" evenings at clubs dotted around the country.
Anyway:-
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzoEK545j64
cherryowen said:
Watch out! Girl said that she was "very cool"..
One other thing is I keep hearing tunes on adverts etc and think what's that? It's fab!
So I shazam it and find its by some 80 artist I'd always dismissed at the time.
Last ime it happened it was a track called Music for chamelions by Gary numan. Sounds perfect today bit I'm pretty sure I would not have 'got' it at the time.
So I shazam it and find its by some 80 artist I'd always dismissed at the time.
Last ime it happened it was a track called Music for chamelions by Gary numan. Sounds perfect today bit I'm pretty sure I would not have 'got' it at the time.
I've always had a theory about music, bare with me here:
Music played on the radio that had real variation took off in the 50's, as it progressed it got better, it continued to get better and better over the years as tastes diversified; by the 1980's it peaked with an absolutely astounding library of songs, anything from New Wave with the Thompson Twins, to Rock with Guns N Roses, after the late 80's it started to decline, 90's music as absolutely amazing as it was (My favourite era for music is the 90's) it was never as good as the 80's, then we get into the 2000's, I love music from the 00's because that's my nostalgia, stuff like Nelly and Gorillaz is the stuff I grew up listening to and I love it, but it's not as good a decade for music as the 90's, which weren't as good as the 80's. Now here we are, music over this decade has been getting worse and worse, pretty soon we're going to hit rock bottom, then we'll start to go back up in quality again.
Think there was a study that actually backed that up too, not sure though.
Music played on the radio that had real variation took off in the 50's, as it progressed it got better, it continued to get better and better over the years as tastes diversified; by the 1980's it peaked with an absolutely astounding library of songs, anything from New Wave with the Thompson Twins, to Rock with Guns N Roses, after the late 80's it started to decline, 90's music as absolutely amazing as it was (My favourite era for music is the 90's) it was never as good as the 80's, then we get into the 2000's, I love music from the 00's because that's my nostalgia, stuff like Nelly and Gorillaz is the stuff I grew up listening to and I love it, but it's not as good a decade for music as the 90's, which weren't as good as the 80's. Now here we are, music over this decade has been getting worse and worse, pretty soon we're going to hit rock bottom, then we'll start to go back up in quality again.
Think there was a study that actually backed that up too, not sure though.
Love '80s music. I was five as the '80s started and 15 as they came to a close, so formative years for me during which the things I heard etched themselves in my psyche. I have many enduring memories of family parties at the local working men's club and all that synth pop blasting out ... Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Ultravox, Duran Duran, Thompson Twins, OMD, Gary Numan, Depeche Mode, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, early Madonna, etc ... tables around the edge of the dance floor with space invader games built into them ... a giant Ferrari Testarossa poster on my bedroom wall ... the opening chords of West End Girls on the little radio that I kept hidden in bed with me late at night. Definitely my favourite decade for music, though I love a lot of the stuff that's come out in the last few years too. My love of melodic synth music inevitably led me to trance and as a lot of producers working on current pop acts are featuring trance-influenced synth sounds in their work it's a good time for me.
Edited by MitchT on Friday 16th February 23:55
I'm in my late 40s and thought the 80's were great musically up to '85, then they took a real dive in 86/87/88 (Stock, Aitkin & Waterman to blame mainly from '87 onwards). Those three years were awful, with some terrible one hit wonders (Owen Paul anyone?)
Thank f
k for the indie scene sweeping all that crap out at the end of the decade!
Thank f
k for the indie scene sweeping all that crap out at the end of the decade!Edited by Front bottom on Saturday 17th February 11:42
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