Why is 80s music so well liked

[MadSquabbles500]

I remember when everyone used to hate 80's music.

In the Mid 90s, the powers that be tried to convince everyone the 80s was corny. And it was working for a bit especially with Gen Y. But one even as powerful as they can only repress the truth for so long.

 

[mrbaapt]

Because it's the backbone of 90s music and beyond.

 

[astrozician]

Electronic musical instruments from Japan. The 808 comes to mind.

 

[Reyesnuthugr]

It's because we have all the technology and resources they had (and more), yet we suck so much worse than them now. Even the pop songs were (and ARE) creative and legendary to the point of inspiring-- when's the last time that happened?

 

[Philo-Publius]

I read on a Wikipedia article that in a poll taken on which decade had the best music the 1980s came in first
Place. In numerous conversations ive had with different people about music many of them revered 80s music. Why do you think 80s music is so well liked?

Here are 100 reasons...

http://www.nme.com/list/100-best-songs-of-the-1980s-1161

I wish they would bring back the 70's/80's themed night club Polly Esther's.

All of them went out of business.

 

[Plissken]

A lot of different styles got a time in the limelight either in popular culture of big subculture followings. You had diversity, more ways for music to be heard by people, tapes becoming mainstream, MTV, college radio becoming a big thing; then you had punk and related genres of the late 70's and 80's giving a rise in hope to those without a bunch of money (for the first time since garage rock) after a lot of big production works in the 70's (a lot of filmmakers also got starts with low budget works after the film school auteur boom of the early to mid 70's as well). The 80's was just a huge pop culture explosion in a lot of different ways.

 

[TuBB]

The best Depeche Mode stuff is from the 90s tho.

Violator may best their masterpiece but their 80s stuff is still their best overall decade of work.

Are you just talking about Violator or you including or you including Songs of Faith & Devotion and Ultra? SOFAD was really one of their worse albums

A hell of a lot better than Exciter. No hits on that.

I remember when everyone used to hate 80's music.

If you were born the in 80s you grew to love it. I was at a hall and oates/tears for fears concert a few months back and was sitting next to a couple of high school kids. I don't know if that was aberration or what lol

Going to see DM for the first time next week btw. One of my favorite bands. The 80s were the goat music decade with what all was out there. It had it all.

 

[moreorless87]

It's funny, because in the 90s everyone trashed 80s music. A big part of the Seattle rock scene was the rejection of the hair metal shit in the 80s.

Then you got to the 00s and every indie band was trying to sound like Depeche Mode or The Cure.

Honestly its a pretty typical trend across the whole of society isn't it? any kind of movement in art/style/design is likely to be a reaction against the previous movement so it will be viewed negativity. The movement before the previous movement on the other hand will very often end up as a source of inspiration.

Look at say architecture, modernism rejected art deco style designs yet post modernism brought them a lot of that kind of ornamentation, most obviously skyscrapers with pointy tops to them.

 

[TeTe]

I don't know about the best lol. I mean some of the pop music was catchy. In fact, I think overall it's more appealing compared to current pop music.

With the except of some Slayer, Ozzy, Iron Maiden..... the rock music isn't as good as 60s, 70s and 90s.

 

[moreorless87]

One obvious difference as well is that the alternative scene was still largely based on smaller lables in the 80's before becoming commercialised much more in the 90's and 00's.

 

[Seano]

I read on a Wikipedia article that in a poll taken on which decade had the best music the 1980s came in first
Place. In numerous conversations ive had with different people about music many of them revered 80s music. Why do you think 80s music is so well liked?

Because the music from the 80s was so varied.
Not only that but production values and arrangements were better. Music was fun and not about attitude.

 

[Seano]

I don't about the best lol. I mean some of the pop music was catchy. In fact, I think overall it's more appealing compared to current pop music.

With the except of some Slayer, Ozzy, Iron Maiden..... the rock music isn't as good as 60s, 70s and 90s.

Stomps on the 90s. The 90s ruined music.

 

[The Diplomat]

Trends move in circles. I remember everyone being crazy about 70's rock back in the early 2000's (Remember Jet and the Strokes?), and a good deal of 90's alt-rock (Oasis, Stone Roses, etc.) was heavily rooted in 60's rock and experimentation (the sounds of the Beetles in particular); not to mention the James Dean and Marilyn Monroe fetishists from the 80's.

Expect the 90's to become the prevailing nostalgic trend as we move closer to the end of the decade. The boy bands will rise again!

Here's to hoping actual rock music makes a nostalgic comeback here soon.

 

[Crimson Glory]

Cuz it's fucking awesome.

 

[moreorless87]

Beyond everything else of course its music that suits depressing geopolitics...







Pass the hairspray and the eye shadow for tomorrow were radioactive dust, etc

 

[Crimson Glory]

The pop music of the 80's was just great imo.

Rock was still on top, Hip Hop was just getting started, Metal had a huge presence.

The thing about the 80's for me was, it was the pinnacle of the electric guitar as an instrument, everyone used it. You could find it everywhere.

Alot of my favorite music came from that era, across multiple genres.

 

[Crimson Glory]

Stomps on the 90s. The 90s ruined music.

Dunno if I agree that it ruined music, but it was the beginning of the end.

 

[moreorless87]

Dunno if I agree that it ruined music, but it was the beginning of the end.

I think it was definitely the beginning of serious problems with the whole industry becoming commercialised leaving less room for more interesting stuff outside of the mainstream. By the 00's so called "indie rock" was just another aspect of mainstream pop and really not pushing it very often musically.

 

[Seano]

Dunno if I agree that it ruined music, but it was the beginning of the end.

The 90s was anti talent, anti fun. All about angst and shittiness.

 

[burningspear]

40somethings are inclined to give opinions on their formative years and their experiences thereof.

80s music was terrible.