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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.
I can't think of another decade which spawned so many new genres of music: hardcore punk, noise rock, thrash metal, death metal, rap/hip-hop, techno/house/trance, goth, industrial, synthpop, shoegaze, etc
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
The biggest artists of the 80s were Michael Jackson, Prince, Madonna, Bruce Springsteen, George Michael, Phil Collins, Bryan Adams, The Police, Sting, Huey Lewis, U2, AC/DC, Guns N Roses, Bon Jovi, Def Leppard, Dire Straits, Simple Minds, and here in Oz: Men At Work, INXS, Cold Chisel and Midnight Oil
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.
But the 80s was so much more than that. Think of all the amazing alternative music which most of the 90s bands just copied. Think of all the new genres of music I listed above which started in the 80s. You probably turn your nose up at most of that stuff, but you've grown up with it always being there. You don't know what it was like BEFORE all that and to experience the birth of all these different scenes and watch them take off. It was all new and fresh. EXCITING. Not the boring, stale rehashes which occurred over the next 20 years. A lot of that pop punk & alt-rock which charted in the 90's, I just laughed at - 2nd rate copies of underground 80's alternative/punk. A lot of bands which get nominated in this thread - just blatant ripoffs of older bands from the 80s
Electronic music has exploded in the last 10-15 years - not the popular stuff, I mean, but kids with laptops doing their own weird shit and posting it online. This is the only interesting development in music, but I'm old and struggle to get into a lot of it - some of it is okay. At least that's new.
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