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- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -5/+51There is a website dedicated to every subject imagineable. The mere existence of an 80s website does not indicate a trend, comeback, orphenomenon--let alone news.
- Sirocco, on 10/12/2007, -1/+16The question is... when 2024 rolls around, will anyone give a damn about today's hip-hop? Probably not.
- o0joshua0o, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15This is nothing new. I've known about the eighties for 26 years!
- beforeIforget, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15"Megadeath"
in the 80's, someone would have been calling submitter a "Poser" already and probably beating him up. - strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -3/+17Careless Whispers is the greatest song ever... mod me down, I don't care!
- GreenLantern33, on 10/12/2007, -1/+15When did the 80's ever go away? That's what I want to know.
- masamunecyrus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+16http://www.retrojunk.com/
For those of us who grew up in the eighties, as opposed to lived in it. - Nimras, on 10/12/2007, -1/+14While I'm not a big fan of a lot of the music that came from the '80's... it's better than the crap they're coming out with at the moment.
- Sirocco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+13When a problem comes along, you must whip it!
- dobesov, on 10/12/2007, -1/+11Keep in mind there were two sides of eighties music... Hair metal was not not really the only thing from that era. One could say the two popular music movements were diametrically opposed. Hair metal & megadeth vs depech mode, NIN and the cure. Maybe you hate it all, but i find that I love 80s music, its just that what everyone points out as 80s music is not what i remember from the era... it was the crap that got attention for being rediculously over the top and i dont think anyone really liked it back then either... it was just cool that your parents hated it.
Also, a good portion of the good 80s bands just continued on... like NIN or REM the foundation of 90s music. People forget that they were spawned in the 80s because they are too young to know that the album they are listening to wasnt released in 1995. :P - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10"To me GLAM stands for... Gay L.A. Metal" - Dave Mustaine
And its MEGADETH. - pagit, on 10/12/2007, -1/+10The author must have listened to Wham and Boy George when I was listening to
Megadeth (not Megadeath)
Must have been a slow news day at the Observer to report that there is now a site on the net devoted to 80's culture. - Sirocco, on 10/12/2007, -2/+11The interesting thing about pop music of the 80s is that at the time musicians were still focusing on melody and vocals rather than laying down a beat and talking or yelping over it. Even more interesting is to look at pop music over in Japan, where they are still completely obsessed with the musical styles of the 80s and early 90s.
I have no problem listening to tracks from the 50s up to the late 90s, but with several exceptions pop music has bored me to tears for the better part of the last decade. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+9I guess with X, Y, and Z taken, Our generation will have to be Generation "Murder Simulator"
- diggAddict, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10I am a GenX er (38) and the 80s FOR ME was the greatest time which produced some of the most awesome music - which is being rehashed in supposed 'new' music today as most artists just dont have a clue. Yes there were some bombs - but i think its about the age you were when you listened to it - I will never look back at the 80s as a bad time in my life - I loved it. The music was more adventurous than the rubbish of today which all seems the same formula to me.
You young guys who diss the 80''s music - wait 20 years and look back to your music and see if you still like it - thats the true test of good music - will it really last?
Go 80's!.. - Zaviticus, on 10/12/2007, -2/+10Good point. The 80's was a prolific period for music that had lasting power on the radio well into this decade. I don't even listen to much of today's music.
- Klarth, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10MegaDETH are a thrash metal band.
And they still exist today. They don't NEED an "internet comeback". - RexKwando, on 10/12/2007, -3/+10DigiDave = Dumbass.
You have incorrectly labeled one of the greatest metal bands of all time. Megadeth is NOT an 80's one-hit-wonder like the other bands you included. A formal apology is necessary - bubbagump, on 10/12/2007, -2/+9It still isn't as bad as the great disco crisis of the late 70's....
Two words: Disco Duck
Damn..now I've got that running through my head.... - Fett101, on 10/12/2007, -5/+11You're just not listening to the right music then. There's always a constant flow of crap and good stuff. Always has been. Always will be.
- RadiantBeing, on 10/12/2007, -4/+9It's only because you're listening to the creme of the crop. Time has filtered out 99% of music published in the 1980s.
- rynTAU, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6"Now" ?? The internet has ALWAYS been a place for nostalgia.
- KyleRayner, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6As a Transformers fan, I have to agree. Its hard to miss the eighties when they just wont leave. XD
(Oh, and Im adding you to Friendslist, fellow GL fan.) - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -3/+8I thought VH1 had enough 80ies coverage for just about anyone.
Or just buy GTA:Vice City and live inside it. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5VH1 still plays more music videos and has more music-related shows than MTV. They both kind of suck, but VH1 Classic totally rules. That is the closest thing we have to "MTV" these days.
- strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The official name for those of us born in the 80's is now "Millenials". At least among many marketers and advertising firms. It basically means that we've always had computers, lots of flashing lights and turning knobs, and have shorter attention spans.
- dWhisper, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5I picked up the GTA:VC 7-CD set for my wife, who loves 80s musics enough that she should probably be medicated.
Seriously though, I'm not sure 80s stuff needs to make a comeback. Listen to the radio, and you'll hear an 80s song once ever 30 minutes, minimum, on most pop/rock channels. - steponsnyder, on 10/12/2007, -2/+680s vibes are definately making a comeback in music these days - bands like The Cure, Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Joy Division, New Order, and Africa Bambaataa have modern day proteges. The bass lines and stiff synths of the 80s are definately seeing a comeback in bands like Interpol, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, The Rapture, etc....even current pop producers (Timbaland, for instance, in the new Nelly Furtado single) are heavily drawing upon 80s musical sensibilities. I think it's less about 80s direct mimickry (is anyone dressing up in pink and green spandex now?) and more about subtle influence from 80s styles.
- stonebear, on 10/12/2007, -2/+6It isn't so much that recent music is crap, plenty of good music is being composed. It's that the promotion and distribution system has become so corrupted by giant, multinational corporations and political interests that it pushes crap a lot more than it used to. The same thing is true with movies and non-premium television. Plenty of good movies and television shows are written that never see the light of day because they might offend some special political interest or part of the advertising base, or maybe the content would distract viewers too much from product placement.
- mrghost, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5Megadeth was awesome. In the 80's metal was king (http://www.vh1.com/shows/dyn/when_ruled_the_world/66691/episode.jhtml). The hair and makeup were a bit lame by today's standards, but the music was awesome. Megadeth, AC/DC, GnR, Van Halen (with and without David Lee Roth), Motley Crue, etc...
Additionally you had the underground music like Black Flag, The Accused (usually associated with the 90's but wrong), Metallica, Misfits, etc... - astrotrain, on 10/12/2007, -1/+5The 80s were fun, the golden age of video games, metal, etc.
- strictnein, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5VH1 plays music videos? They seem to have even less music than MTV. And now even MTV2 isn't playing music videos... it's ridiculous.
- jakeg, on 10/12/2007, -2/+5yep. any of you high-school or college aged kids who are whining about how much the 80s sucked better take a look around you, because chances are you'll see plenty of 80s fashion all around you. as a gen Xer, this baffles me. There was plenty of good music in the 80s--sure there was plenty--PLENTY--of bad music in the 80s, too, so at least there's something to salvage there. It is well known fact that there was absolutely no good fashion in the 80s, it was like a fashion sense dead zone. Seriously. Whoever told all the 19 year olds that 80s fashion was cool and should be in style now is the greatest con artist who ever lived...
- Zaviticus, on 10/12/2007, -4/+7I'm never gonna dance again...guiltless feet have got no rhythm...I loved that song!
- halleyscomet, on 10/12/2007, -3/+6Crap?
Did someone refer to 80's music as Crap?
In which case, you might like MY favorite podcast, Crap from the Past. It's a weekly Podcast of all the great Pop jems of the 70's and 80's. The host, Ron "BoogyMonster" Gerber, refers to it as a "Graduate Course in Pop Music."
It's a fascinating show complete with tidbits about the history of the music, the producers and the artists involved.
I highly recommend it.
http://www.crapfromthepast.com/ - DarthTurducken, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4The greatest song ever:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=f2iYGngPr5M&search=working%20for%20%20weekend - glc17, on 10/12/2007, -6/+9By far the best 80's song is "Cult of Personality" by Living Colour.
- MindTrigger, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4
Actually there is a trend in fashion right now where womens 80's style clothes are coming out again. I see it all over on the 20 something women out here in the Palm Springs area. - diggAddict, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4Well said ! I agree with you, today's music is less concerned with melody and thats where the 80's (and yes some of the 70's too) music shines.
I had a fantastic timewarp when I watched the recent release of the Live AID 1980's DVD box set, ok there are a few stinkers in there - but look at the quality of whats there compared to the recent LIVE AID a year or so ago - the original LIVEAID is much better.
If you have never seen it and you like 80's music - you have to witness the original LIVE AID concert on DVD - its a fantastic "message in a bottle" from the 80's. - oshu, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4A generation is defined by the years in which its members were born, so I am a little lost by what you are trying to say... Most Generation Xers would have been in their 20s in the '90s and would have spent their teens in the '80s.
- rabiddogma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Give him a break he was probably born in 1990.
- synthetic1688, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5"Megadeth and "music" don't really belong together, either."
megadeth pwns you.
actual good 80's music: megadeth, metallica, slayer, carcass, death, sabbath, sepultura, death angel
80's THRASH/DEATH was not hair metal.... go listen to napalm death you douchebags - samboy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2One of the things I find very ironic about 80s nostalgia is that "You Spin Me Round" by Dead or Alive is a lot more popular now than it was when it came out. In the 80s, "You Spin Me Round" was a really goofy song only wavers listened to (at least in the US; in the UK where New Wave/Mod music was mainstream, the single hit #1). These days, it's one of the first songs people play when they want to remember the 80s.
- XSforMe, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3"even less music than MTV"
Somehow I always hear the jingle "the day the music died" whenever I watch MTV (which is quite rare nowadays). - TylerDurden0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Any links to songs by the super band Electric Mayhem. Those guys are all gone now but I still have my memories.
Dr. Teeth baby... - phord, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Wake up kiddos. The 80's are coming back. Listen to the muzack in any chic gathering place or bar. All fashion and pop culture is on a 20-25 year cycle. We just relived the 70's (bell-bottoms, lime green and disco anyone?) and the 80's are fast approaching. Get used to it. In three years, you'll be loving it. Or your kids will, anyway.
- actorboy, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Interesting that no one here has mentioned The Police. Even as a huge Class-of-85 Rush, Maiden, Priest fan, I had to admit The Police were a great band.
- TylerDurden0, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I'm 30 and I loved that era. I still listen to 80's stations on Mike's Radio World
http://www.mikesradioworld.com/ft_80s.html
He may be an ***** with a worthless opinion but his age has nothing to do with it. - cyclotron, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Thats the lamest site design/organization ever. Where the hell is the music or band listings?
- TheWalkingDude, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3On a similar note, here's 101 free 80's mp3s (It got buried after awhile on the front page.):
http://digg.com/music/80_s_Music:_101_Free_MP3s -
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