Yet you will have the nostalgia colouring your view later on- perhaps the 90's and 00's music will become nostalgic to you, and so we could apply your argument to yourself

good point...we often get nostalgic about things that at the time we were ambivolent too...

I've got a number of music videos that I've gotten a hold of on the internet. A quick glance and the majority of them are from the 80s;

Swing Out Sister - Breakout
Starship - Nothin's Gonna Stop Us Now
Billy Joel - Uptown Girl
The Buggles - Video Killed the Radio Star
OMD - Souvenir
OMD - Enola Gay
Pet Shop Boys - Suburbia
John Parr - St Elmo's Fire

The 60s and 70s were much, much better.

Corrected that for you.

A strong whiff? More like a pungent stench. That's one of the reasons why I like her, even though I wasn't even born until 1991.

Don't forget all those that crossed over (I dont mean died );

Paul McCartney [Pipes of Peace, Tug of War, Flowers in the Dirt, McCartney II, etc]

The Kinks [State of Confusion, etc]

The Rolling Stones [Can't remember any off the top of my head]

The Jam

Etc.

SOME 80s music will last forever, but there was a lot of dross around then too, as in every decade.

Queen, Elton John, Eagles, Bowie, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac and others did some of their best stuff in the 70s and there was the whole punk thing as well as the growing popularity of reggae/ska in the mainstream.

We got Radiohead, Nirvana, REM, Green Day, Rammstein, Oasis, Blur and the Britpop scene in the 90s as well as rave/dance music, and rap and hiphop came into the mainstream.

The 2000's gave us Muse, Coldplay (though it pains me to say it!) Eminem, The Killers, Kings of Leon and some great hiphop crossover.

U2, Kylie, Madonna and a few other giants have spanned the decades too.
The 80s were great, but not necessarily the greatest.

Then bookmark this page, and in twenty years if I make a thread declaring modern music to be awful and looking back to the music of the noughties with my rose-tinted glasses on, you are well within your right to turn my argument back on me.

As it is, back to the present day and dealing with the thread in hand... I wasn't saying wallowing in nostalgia was a bad thing, it's just the reason that seems most clear to me when people (not necessarily anyone posting on this thread) rubbish the music that is around today because they look to the top 40 and don't like what it's filled with, but don't actively seek out any non-chart music from the present day which they may like more. They just take to the forums and complain that music just isn't as good as it was in their day - whether that's true or not is subjective.

I think a lot of people have difficulty in differentiating between a 'favourite' song/band/album whatever, and a 'good' one.

My teenage years spanned the 70s and early 80s and I have many 'favourite' tracks from those times that I associate with people, places and events, but they're not all 'good' songs by any means!
I've maintained a keen interest in all sorts of music and I think the last decade has been exciting beyond belief, mainly because of internet making it so damn easy for me to browse around even the most obscure bands and genres and 'try before I buy'.

The 80s were about American hardcore punk and thrash metal.

The general charts were terrible.

Massive 80's fan here

Love Adam and the ants (all time fave band)
Blondie
Gary Numan (seen 79 times in concert)
Kajagoogoo (saw them 14 times on the uk tour last year)
Thompson Twins (wish they would reform)
Japan
Duran Duran
Dead or Alive
Freeez
ABC
Altered Images
Tears for fears
Marth and the muffins (new album coming soon)
Yazoo
Depeche Mode
A Flock of Seagulls

80's was by far the best, I was born in 77, my very first memory was seeing the Prince Charming Video by Adam and the Ants on TOTP and crying my eyes out

You had no need to correct it.

The statement was correct as first stated.

As for Adam and the Ants - mind boggingly bad.

You may not have liked them which is fair enough but they are and were not a crap band. They had a unique sound which I've not heard before or since and tracks like Kings of the Wild Frontier, Dog eat Dog and Zerox are class.

I absolutely love the music from the 1980's. I grown up in this era and my older brother would frequently play the likes of Depeche Mode, Human League, Erasure, OMD etc in our house and it has stuck with me ever since.

I've got tons of 80's compilation CD's as well including all of the 'Fantastic 80's series of CD's which came out in the 1990's and 'The Best 80's CD in the World Ever' CD to name a few.

For me, the 60's and the 80's where the best periods in music, although I also think the 90's was quite a good era as well. But for me the 80's will always be the era I listen to the most

totally agree

Love Magnificent 5, Don't Be Square

Even the rushed Prince Charming album has some non singles classics on it

Scorpios, Picasso, That Voodoo

I just hope the Prince Charming Revuew gets a full dvd release, incl Ant rap at the start and end of the gig, Cartrouble and Stand and deliver

Rather than the edited version on the video

I can definitely agree with that.

The songs I liked at the start of my teenage years I thought were great at the time - now, not so much

I liked some embarrassingly bad music, but I can still listen to it with a fondness for the memories it provokes, rather than how good or bad it actually is musically. I just don't think of them as the greatest songs in the world anymore, because now I've expanded my record collection (ie. iTunes) I know that brilliant music came from all decades, and the one I was born in or grew up in is not necessarily the best just because I think so or because I have the most memories from it.

Pump Up The Volume and 500 miles is just some of my favourites

I totally agree! Phil Collins music was one of the best!

I still do!