4 reasons why no other decade will ever top the 80's for music

[DdBob]

in no particular oder....

1)....




2)
(this is one reason despite the fact that there is two entries for it )




3)



4)

 

[bsman]

I was expecting a tableau of Christopher Cross songs...

 

[VoidTerraFirma]

 

[rickenvox]

hmmmm, I like all of those bands, but wouldn't be my picks to prove why that decade is the best musically. Some of the more popular bands rose to the top because their music was heads and tails above the others. I love the Replacements, but I do think that REM rightly dominated the airwaves right up to Document. I'm not crazy about their music after that and Reckoning is my favorite album. I also think Depeche Mode, The Cure, The Pet Shop Boys, and Talking Heads are all popular choices. But just saying that doesn't really describe some of the genius of their music. And, their memories have been stained in recent years by the airplay of later albums, past their peak, that are inferior. Anything by the Cure after Disintegration or Depeche Mode after Music for the Masses is vastly inferior to the core of their work in the 80s. And XTC is a consistently underrated band from the 80s.

However I am glad that New Order finally made pleasant music after Joy Division. Yes I was into Joy Division for a short time, but it's music with extreme limitations (as was much punk and post punk). Guys who were just learning to play their instruments and write songs. New Order was a document of their improvement.

 

[mongooz]

the 70's were best.

 

[smurfco]

60s

 

[dodgechargerfan]

The 20s will have been the best.

 

[Chad]

hmmmm, I like all of those bands, but wouldn't be my picks to prove why that decade is the best musically. Some of the more popular bands rose to the top because their music was heads and tails above the others. I love the Replacements, but I do think that REM rightly dominated the airwaves right up to Document. I'm not crazy about their music after that and Reckoning is my favorite album. I also think Depeche Mode, The Cure, The Pet Shop Boys, and Talking Heads are all popular choices. But just saying that doesn't really describe some of the genius of their music. And, their memories have been stained in recent years by the airplay of later albums, past their peak, that are inferior. Anything by the Cure after Disintegration or Depeche Mode after Music for the Masses is vastly inferior to the core of their work in the 80s. And XTC is a consistently underrated band from the 80s.

However I am glad that New Order finally made pleasant music after Joy Division. Yes I was into Joy Division for a short time, but it's music with extreme limitations (as was much punk and post punk). Guys who were just learning to play their instruments and write songs. New Order was a document of their improvement.

I’ll take Violater over the first 3 Depeche Mode albums every time. It’s a solid album despite having some over played singles.

 

[OGG]

I’ll take Violater over the first 3 Depeche Mode albums every time. It’s a solid album despite having some over played singles.

Violator was definitely great, no doubt...

But it was released on March 19th of 1990.

If I were to give my own four examples, they'd be very different, but the OP's choices are pretty solid.

More pedals than the Tour De France

 

[Kerouac]

1967 was the greatest year of modern music.

 

[Chad]

Violator was definitely great, no doubt...

But it was released on March 19th of 1990.

If I were to give my own four examples, they'd be very different, but the OP's choices are pretty solid.

More pedals than the Tour De France

I was referring to the statement that anything after Music for the Masses was vastly inferior. Violater was after MFTM and kicks ass.

 

[rickenvox]

I was referring to the statement that anything after Music for the Masses was vastly inferior. Violater was after MFTM and kicks ass.

I think that was a great album, but the beginning of slightly less brilliant songwriting and more album filler. Although if you bought the CD remix of Enjoy the Silence back then (two song CD), that shit was brilliant. DM totally lost their sound when Alan Wilder left.

 

[smorgdonkey]

I loved the 1980s and none of those 4 reasons would even register for me.

 

[jp_nyc]

Prince did his best work in the 80s. The definitely works in the decade’s favor. Even if he did forget to turn up the bass knob until 1991.

 

[DdBob]

I loved the 1980s and none of those 4 reasons would even register for me.

not everything can be Guns and Roses or Metallica

 

[shoeless]

Thank you 80s.

 

[B Valley]

 

[OGG]

Thank you 80s.

I'll see your Milli Vanilli, and raise you a an NSYNC, AND a Backstreet Boys!

More pedals than the Tour De France

 

[Bones McHorror]

Here's four reasons it might not have been: Michael Bolton, Phil Collins, Peter Cetera, and Richard Marx.

 

[DdBob]

Here's four reasons it might not have been: Michael Bolton, Phil Collins, Peter Cetera, and Richard Marx.

Phil Collins made some good 1980's Genesis Music