Anyone out there like the 80s.

Personally I think the music from that era is fantastic and will live forever - far longer than todays music. If you think of bands like Depeche Mode, The Specials, Shalamar, Imagination, Madness, Adam and the Ants, Level 42, China Crisis, The Cure, Toyah, Pretenders, Altered Images (I could go on forever), they all made some really great memorable records.

Musically it had so much going for it. It started with the back end of punk/New wave, it had pop, rock, soul, synth pop, disco, heavy metal, dance, early rap (when rap was half listenable). Also it didn't have half the manufactured rubbish we have to put up with nowadays.
I'm sure that in 20 years time people won't look back on the 00's with as much fondness as they do the 80s.

Anyone remember this one hit wonder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JeEXP717T0

I agree..the 80s was the era where real musicianship met with new technology and it worked well.

The Cure's music still sounds fresh today. My favourite band.

indeed the post punk era was possibly the most creative era in british music, arguably more so (just) then the 60's.

im not so sure though about it 'lasting forever', ive heard that be said about every musical style since the 50's! im sure that in 20-30 years time todays indie fans will be eulagising about how 'good' their era was....

What amazes me about the 80s is how dominant British acts were in America. Nothing like that now.

80's music will live through La Roux

In the 80's the metal scene was dominated by hair bands, which progressively went from decent to terrible with all the power ballads and bands selling out. Iron Maiden were hitting their stride and released their best albums in the 80's, while bands like Queen moved into more pop territory and the material they released wasn't really as good as their 70's output. You could say there was Metallica and Megadeth, but they were considered underground back then.

I wouldn't know about the charts/pop music scene in the 80's, but I'm sure there was just as much cheesy/terrible songs then as there are now, with plenty of gems as well.

It's interesting that, whenever folk talk about the music scene in 80's Britain, no-one mentions the rise of House music (and its variants) and the rave scene surrounding it. Maybe I'm a bit nostalgic because I was a part of it, but there was some great British talent in that genre, the scene felt fresh and brought people of different colours and classes together, and got up the noses of the government and the right-wing press. All good things in my book.

For anyone like-minded, or curious, check this vid out...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kKcah...89AC0&index=16

what makes you so sure?

i like 80s music, but having only been alive for 14 days of the decade i don't have the nostalgic element colouring my view.

personally, i'll remember the 00s with much more fondness than the 80s, as i don't have any memories linked to certain bands/songs from that time like i will when i look back on the 00s in years to come.

i'd consider bands such as the smiths, the cure, psychadelic furs among my favourites, but the same goes for some bands from this decade. you can't honestly be implying that there are no bands from the current era worth remembering, in decades to come?

I was sitting in traffic this morning.No music on.All of a sudden this song started playing in my head.
It was The Sound Of The Crowd by The Human League.You never hear it played on the radio and i haven't heard it for years.But there it was,i even remembered some of the words.
I wonder if some of todays X Factor songs will be remembered the same way?.

maybe not x factor winners' songs, but that's not the only music around.

To be fair there are only 6 X Factor songs in total, and I haven't heard 5 of them since so they are pretty disposable. But let's not look back at the 80's with rose-tinted spectacles, there were plenty of really naff records back then just as there are now.

LOVE sound of the crowd, my fav track from 81 and i still love it today!


true, people refer to the early 80's when they eulogise about the 80's... i wasnt part of the rave/house scene but it was huge and those that were there loved it.. maybe it just wasnt as commercial as early 80's material.

I like the 80's music least but ,of course, there were some good artists who came to prominence. I would say the 80's had a awful lot of rubbish but then I realised that the above statement is true.
So either Britsh acts were good or the USA were really in trouble.

The song playing in my head this morning was 'By the Time I get to Phoenix'. This may not be the place for me.

I'm 19 but I love listening to 80s music. Some of it is brilliant and much better than that X Factor tripe in the charts today.

Absolutely.

My quick-fire early 80's selection! [and yes I was there!!!!!]
Too Much Too Young - The Specials
I Ran - flock of seagulls
A Forest - The Cure
Christine - Siouxsie and the Banshees
Europe after the Rain - John Foxx
Talk Talk - Talk Talk

You have to remember in the 80's every year [even every month!]had a different 'feel' to it! You cannot group 80's music into a simple catergory of '80's music'! The 80's started by coming out of the punk era with ska music prominent and electronica/new wave just beginning. And ended with the birth of brit pot. With tons in between. Probably one of the most diverse decades ever for british music?

...but so did the 60's and 70's... divercity per month wasnt exclusive to the (early) 80's.

Depeche Mode one of the few bands from 80's and still going always reinventing themselves

if you believe UK media they still stuck in 80's pop music.

I think there was a lot of really atmospheric music in the 80's.

We seem to have lost a lot of that recently in my opinion. Or perhaps it's just my nostalgia clouding my judgement...

Well maybe age has got something to do with it but I just think that 80s music appeals to a far wider audience than a lot of todays music because so many 80s records had great catchy melodies. The whole 80s pop culture was more fun than it is today. That's why I think it will be remembered with more fondness that todays music.

and through GaGa. There is more than a strong whiff of the 80s to her music.

Seeing this thread has 'inspired' me to look through my iTunes playlist to search for all the 80's stuff I have.

A-ha - Take On Me
ABBA - The Visitors album (1981)
The Bill Theme Tune (1984)
Aztec Camera - Somewhere In My Heart & Oblivious
Casualty Theme Tune (1986)
Bonnie Tyler - Holding Out For A Hero
The Christians - Harvest For the World
Daryl Hall & John Oates - Maneater
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round (Like A Record)
Don Henley - Boys of Summer
Duran Duran - Hungry Like the Wolf, Rio, The Reflex, Wild Boys, Save A Prayer, Girls on Film
Eddy Grant - Electric Avenue
Europe - The Final Countdown
Frankie Goes to Hollywood - Relax
George Michael - Careless Whispers
Imagination - Bodytalk (I think this was 80's, not sure)
John Lennon - Woman & Imagine
Johnny Hates Jazz - I Don't Want to Be A Hero & Heart of Gold
Kajagoogoo - Too Shy
KC & the Sunshine Band - Give It Up
Men At Work - Down Under
Opus - Live is Life
Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark - Electricity & Souvenir
Paul Young - Love of the Common People
Pet Shop Boys - Too many to list! Their 80's period is one of my favourite parts of their career
Peter Gabriel - Red Rain, Sledgehammer, That Voice Again, In Your Eyes
Red Box - For America
Robert Palmer - Addicted to Love
Simple Minds - (Don't You) Forget About Me
Spitting Image - The Chicken Song
Stan Ridgway - Camouflage
Survivor - Burning Heart
Swing Out Sister - Breakout
Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere
Tears for Fears - Sowing the Seeds of Love, Everybody Wants to Rule the World, Shout
Thompson Twins - Hold Me Now & Lay Your Hands On Me
Toto - Hold the Line & Africa
Traveling Wilburys - End of the Line
UB40 - One In Ten, Red Red Wine, I Got You Babe, Watchdogs, Rat In Mi Kitchen, Kingston Town
Ultravox - Vienna

All of those from the 80's, and I'm 16!

Yes, the eighties definitely had some stonking songs. Some are good to listen to for nostalgia - and others - they're good to listen to because they're good full-stop. A few examples of songs that are good full-stop are:

A-ha - Take On Me
Dead or Alive - You Spin Me Round [like a record]
Europe - The Final Countdown
A-ha - The Sun Always Shines On TV
Berlin - Take My Breath Away
Foreigner - I Want To Know What Love Is

There might be more, but for this post, that's all I can remember without going looking through my eighties CDs.