I'd say it has something to do with digital effects. Not just synth programming, but gated reverb, chorus, compression on all the analog instruments too. The 80's was a time when the technology was there, and it was used, because...it was there. Re: Lady Gaga - she must be tone deaf. She kept singing "A" at the top of her lungs, but she didn't ever sing an A. /musicnerd
In the words of Kitty Forman, you shut your dirty mouth. The 70's had hippies, the 90's had grunge. Every decade has good and bad. The 80's was the decade of coke, big hair and buttrock dude. COME ON.
Shit, girl. You and I are the same age. You remember it as well as I do. Full body hair on men was considered sexy. "Other" hair on women was jungled-out and blacker than a million midnights. Happy pants. Depeche Mode. The Fiero. Daisy Duke shorts and half-shirts ON MEN. Not to mention if a woman had her ass grabbed at work, tough shit. I'm sure lots of black people could chime in how how the 80's were just lovely for them. It wasn't lost, though. The 80's gave us some good stuff too like She Sells Sanctuary.
70's coke killed the 60's hippies and grunge fucking rocked. Im with Crown on this one the 80's has by far the most embarrassing music and pop culture trends than any comparable decade. I never understood how people could hate on disco so hard and completely look past the down right shitacular new wave synth pop downer bullshit of the 80's.
I still don't know how to respond to Crown's... vitriol? toward the 80s, but for the record the song that prompted me to make that post is Every Breath You Take.
The Police are my favourite band from that decade. Truth. Sorry, guys. I know you all probably hate Sting.
The Police were great and Stewart Copeland is an amazing drummer. I have to agree that the synth-pop in the '80's was crap, but for every Men Without Hats there was an Iron Maiden.
I agree with both of you (something an ex-girlfreind claimed would label me as a wishy-washy liberal). Like all eras, the 80s had the good and bad. But most of the both good and bad were very specific in sound to that decade. This is, after all, the decade that gave us the genre-crossing synthesized drums. Synthesized drums, for fuck's sake! Why anyone thought those were necessary still baffles me, but there they were - in metal, new wave, and straight up rock. For the record, I was a metal head, and in that microcsm alone the music ranged from unlistenable (Warrant, Poison) to good (Ozzy, Iron Maiden, Priest). If only I had my hearing back and could still listen to some of that.
You sit there bitching about the 80s, yet swing off Sting's 7 hour dick. The Police are one of those perplexing bands where they aren't necessarily "claw your eyes out Event Horizon style" but in no way do they sound like they should be a timeless, let alone popular, band. I hope one day Sting wakes up in bed, covered in mulch, to pull back his sheets and find a rare Brazilian tree decapitated next to him. You know what I'm OK with? Van Halen. as I get older I love the shit out of VH more and more. Especially the Roth years because no one in the history of the world can get away with talking about panty hose, leg, and dick innuendos in a song's breakdown and not be beaten with a burlap bag of cocks.
I spent ages 7 to 17 in the 1980s and therefore I am contractually required to believe it is the greatest decade that ever existed, so sayeth my Inner Child.
I spent ages 0-1.08 in the 80s. I love 80s music. And 70s, and 60s. There's good shit everywhere. When I am blasting pandora el husband walks past grumbling about 80s gay bar music. Whatever! My taste in music is spectacular. oh and edit: I loove love how a lot of the hipster and pop music is taking elements from a lot of older music from disco to 80s to motown. I like a lot more stuff on the radio today than stuff from the late 90s/early 00's.
Roth? Yes. Haggar years were shit except for a couple songs. I liked The Cult, Husker Du, Metallica, RUN DMC.... But this is the decade with The Fixx. Rick Astley. The Cure. Music so gay it should come with neckerchiefs and a lisp. I liked the Police's mash of punk, reggae and yes some new wave, but people are welcome to hate Sting. Stuart Copeland used to arrange his drums on stage so he didn't have to look at him, how awesome is that?
I spy with my little eye.... A GODDAMNED MUSIC VIDEO IN THE DRUNK THREAD. SHEGIRL, BRING THE PAIN!! I have a new client. Her name is Rainbow. Rainbow Dong.
You know what? Even though the 80s gave us this video: Spoiler Spoilered because it gives the chance for people to mentally guess what I posted because most of them will be exactly right. Nothing will ever top this 70s music video for pure, unintentional, homeroticism: Spoiler
Oh, you want 80s gay? Family Guy got to it first, but they were right. They was RIGHT. Spoiler Bad dancing? Mullets? Neon clothes? Baggy trench coats? Eyeliner? Goddammit, Mick. I bet Keith Richards laughed his ass off for a solid year (mainly because all that horse kept making him forget he saw it already).