The 80s: The Decade That Made Us

Not for nothing but the 90's musically can't hold a candle to the mid to late 80's. Early 80's synth pop was a f*cking disgrace, but there were some great bands not even listed that, without their existence, the whole grunge thing doesn't even happen...

 
walksalone said:
Not for nothing but the 90's musically can't hold a candle to the mid to late 80's. Early 80's synth pop was a f*cking disgrace, but there were some great bands not even listed that, without their existence, the whole grunge thing doesn't even happen...
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The birth of Slayer, Flotsam&Jetsam, Prong and several other metal bands. It was a great era for metal music.

 
Honestly I like to give the 80's music a hard time, but all in all it was quite the decade. The early 80's was pretty rough, but it did have lots of bad a$$ bands.

 
Minneapolis was "Seattle" before grunge was popular...

Bands like Husker Du, the Replacements, and the early incarnations of Soul Asylum...

 
I've been watching. It's difficult to watch because it's filled with their sensationalism/marketing that "The 80s were INSTRUMENTAL in propelling our society into the modern age" or whatever...I mean, this random period of time (which our calendar system has arbitrarily defined as a 'decade') was no more or less involved in social progress than any other similar period of time that you can pick out in history. Guess what, civilization advanced 10 years during that 10 years time. Fantastic. Just tell me what the f#*k happened and quit trying to tell me how it was SOOOO IMPORTANT. Events happen. Things will always happen. Importance and significance are artificial creations by human beings.

 
80s bands that I liked included Pretenders, Outfield, Big Country and the Hooters.

Chicago completely changed their sound with the advent of MTV. Other older bands were guilty of doing so as well.

 
tschu, i agree. it is interesting, but stop trying to fabricate meaning. it is weird how decades get an identity after time passes and it all kind of melds together. certain events and trends seem to define it and make it a cohesive era.

i think about music. 60's music all seems like the same style, but obviously it is not. but only certain hits have survived and have melded together to form its own genre. i bet in 20 years, most people will not be able to tell a 90s rock ballad from a 90s rap anthem.

it is just weird how we perceive history and how it forms an identity we can not really see until we can distance ourselves from it.

 
strigori said:
The music alone would be a reason to never watch it. Worst decade for music since the advent of Rock n'Roll
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You are either 25 years old and grew up on rap music and autotuners or 60 and love the Greatful Dead and Jefferson Airplane. Every era has good music and bad music. I happened to live right through the 80's as my formative years. I was fourteen in 1980. Some of the great bands of the 80's would be U2, REM, The Cure, The Replacements, Depech Mode, INXS plus some very good hair bands Motley Crue, G and R, Tesla.

I love music from many eras. I always tell my kids there is no such thing as old music only good and bad music.

Everyone has there own likes in music also. I don't like rap music. I don't understand it. I am not a poor, angry kid from the inner city. Why should I understand it.

 
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Are they over hyping the 80s? Maybe. But, for a decade that didn't have an actual war, it really is an amazing decade as to what all happened that is still affecting us today.

 
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