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Jun 19, 2006View in Crawl 4
You noticed that too? What is it about 20 years that makes people seemingly more nostalgic than say 10 years or 30 years? But really the 80's were a pretty boring time culturally compared to other decades. Maybe it was just a more conservative time--it was the Regan years after all.
I remember when, in the 80s, people felt that any music made with synthesizers was not "real music". People were sure this music would die a quick death and would be replaced by rock and roll.To some extent, they were right. The whole synth-pop thing never really caught in in the USA; it was a brief trend during the 80s, when even top 40 music would use a Linn Drum (drum machine) instead of a real drummer, and would have at least one synthesizer in the song. This was replaced by pseudo-punk and hip-hop in the 90s. Everywhere else in the world, synth pop never went away and is nothing more than a new kind of music that came out in the 80s (late 70s, actually).Except for a wave of 80s nostalgia, synth-pop just is not popular in the USA. For example, the recent synth-pop song "Dragostea din Tei" (a.k.a. the "Numa Numa" song) charted pretty much everywhere except the USA; the only radio stations that played it stateside were the Spanish-language stations catering to Mexican-Americans. Today's Hip-Hop is more likely to be forgotten, since the general demographic that listens to that kind of music doesn't have a long memory for older songs. 80s Pioneers for this kind of music like Run-DMC are basically forgotten by today's hip-hop crowd.
Closed AccountJun 20, 2006
Pee Wee's Playhouse is coming back to TV:<a class="user" href="http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/zap-adultswim-peeweesplayhouse,1,3264792.story?coll=chi-entertainmentfront-hed">http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/zap-adultswim-peeweesplayhouse,1,3264792.story?coll=chi-entertainmentfront-hed</a>It will reappear on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim.
rabiddogmaJun 20, 2006
You noticed that too? What is it about 20 years that makes people seemingly more nostalgic than say 10 years or 30 years? But really the 80's were a pretty boring time culturally compared to other decades. Maybe it was just a more conservative time--it was the Regan years after all.
santeJun 20, 2006
Chuck Norris roundhouse kicks submitter into the next solar system for dissing Megadeth.
tylerdurden0Jun 20, 2006
And the rest of the guys, girls...
tylerdurden0Jun 20, 2006
I was only kidding, dude. Don't let it keep you up at night. Damn, you've been watching this thread closer than I have!!
samboyJun 20, 2006
I remember when, in the 80s, people felt that any music made with synthesizers was not "real music". People were sure this music would die a quick death and would be replaced by rock and roll.To some extent, they were right. The whole synth-pop thing never really caught in in the USA; it was a brief trend during the 80s, when even top 40 music would use a Linn Drum (drum machine) instead of a real drummer, and would have at least one synthesizer in the song. This was replaced by pseudo-punk and hip-hop in the 90s. Everywhere else in the world, synth pop never went away and is nothing more than a new kind of music that came out in the 80s (late 70s, actually).Except for a wave of 80s nostalgia, synth-pop just is not popular in the USA. For example, the recent synth-pop song "Dragostea din Tei" (a.k.a. the "Numa Numa" song) charted pretty much everywhere except the USA; the only radio stations that played it stateside were the Spanish-language stations catering to Mexican-Americans. Today's Hip-Hop is more likely to be forgotten, since the general demographic that listens to that kind of music doesn't have a long memory for older songs. 80s Pioneers for this kind of music like Run-DMC are basically forgotten by today's hip-hop crowd.