Song Contest Part VII, Host: Sepp Blatter, Theme: Ashes, Noms Due: Sunday 7:00pm ACDT

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I have got to say, this is the most bullshit Billy I've seen in quite some time when Karma Chameleon, It's My Life, and Cool For Cats are all there and absolutely horrid songs.
 

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5 - Flock of Seagulls - I Ran (So Far Away)
4 - Blondie - One Way Or Another
3 - Tubeway Army - Are Friends Electric?
2 - LCD Soundsystem - Emotional Haircut
1 - Pseudo Echo - Listen

In 24th place. LCD Soundsystem – Emotional Haircut@Chappyuk 6 votes 1 billy (14B1)

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You are wrong. Everything that was big in the 90's was done already in the 80's (it just hadn't gone mainstream)
Opinions are never wrong. There was nothing new about eighties music except the horrible sound of processed synth and fake ass drum sounds. The biggest artists of the eighties were vanilla as **** - Olivia Newton John, Bill Joel, Captain and Tenille, Bette Midler, Air Supply, Chris Cross, Diana Ross, KC and the Sunshine Band, Dr Hook, Kenny Rogers..... I reckon most people rave about the 80s purely out of nostalgia. 60s and 70s were way more creative musically. 90s stuff was generally much more real.
 

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Opinions are never wrong. There was nothing new about eighties music except the horrible sound of processed synth and fake ass drum sounds. The biggest artists of the eighties were vanilla as **** - Olivia Newton John, Bill Joel, Captain and Tenille, Bette Midler, Air Supply, Chris Cross, Diana Ross, KC and the Sunshine Band, Dr Hook, Kenny Rogers..... I reckon most people rave about the 80s purely out of nostalgia. 60s and 70s were way more creative musically. 90s stuff was generally much more real.
All the top 40 shit of every era is pretty shit, probably 90s are close to being an exception, but that might be my nostalgia. 80s New Wave broke into the top 40 but didn't dominate.
 

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5 Nik Kershaw - Wouldn't It Be Good
4 Blondie - One Way Or Another
3 Gary Numan - Are 'friends' electric?
2 Pseudo Echo - Listening
1 Dead Or Alive - You Spin Me Round
BM Heaven 17 - Penthouse And Pavement

Being an old metalhead, I absolutely loathed New Wave... Did have a couple of Ultravox albums, mainly because I liked Midge Ure.
 

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All the top 40 shit of every era is pretty shit, probably 90s are close to being an exception, but that might be my nostalgia. 80s New Wave broke into the top 40 but didn't dominate.
Which is exactly the point - 80s top 40 was never the realm of "artists". It was, like every other era, the realm of record company promoted stuff for the casual music listener.
 

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All the top 40 shit of every era is pretty shit, probably 90s are close to being an exception, but that might be my nostalgia. 80s New Wave broke into the top 40 but didn't dominate.
The 90s were extra shit as they tried to bridge that gap between the horribly manufactured electro pop sound and the more modern yet still very shitty electro pop fused with RnB that brings shame upon the originators of the genre. It was a decade of pop fence-sitting and a putrid avant garde movement towards cultural degeneration and mass commercialisation.

It's only redeeming feature can be found in the counter-cultural movement it inspired: grunge and underground rock.

The 90s were to music what Mick Malthouse was to Carlton: Not the hero we needed, but the one we deserved.
 
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