Personally I think the 80s was the best era for music but I can't tell if that is because it was or I am just being nostalgic.

If you were born after the 80s does it sound good to you or out dated? 70s music seems outdated to me.

I can't help but think that most of the music from the 90s and 00s will be forgotten while 80s music will live on forever.

90s music will live, at least some of it. Not sure about 00s. Not after that top 10 list of best sellers I saw. Peter Kay, Shayne Ward, Hear Say...

An excellent era, particularly the first half of the decade.

The trouble with some of the music in the 80' is that people cant see past the make up and dodgy hair cuts that some of the blokes had.

Duran, Duran
Spandau Ballet
Erasure
Flock of seagulls
Style council

to name a few

These bands had some fantastic music, hardly cutting edge I give you but still some excellent foot tapping pop songs.

If you add

The Smiths
Stone Roses
Guns n Roses
Madness
The Jam
The Clash

Again to name a few, I think the 80's was an excellent decade for music

Lovely decade for music.

American hardcore punk and thrash metal gave birth to some of the objectively greatest albums ever recorded.

There was also Wham! so it had its fair share of shitters.

As I said in another post on a similar thread some of Duran Duran's records from their first two albums that WEREN'T singles were excellent. Just have a quick look at these tracks from DD's first two albums. They weren't ever released as singles but if they were I think DD would have a slightly different reputation. The synths on these are so weird sounding but good. The first one is like a short movie. It's like something out of a horror film.
What do you think to these?.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAlvx...eature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5GplgfugYfQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktXDQhw9FfE

i love the 80's music just been downloading loads of songs on itunes. so many good bands around then

There was a load of really good music in the beginning to mid 80's with the tail end of Punk & the rise of the New Romantic/New wave scene. Unfortunately there was also some truly awful *music* too. I know, I lived through it...

at the time it was good but, now i look back it was pretty dire so although i still like some of the stuff its purely from a nostalgic point of view.

Half and half for me, a lot of it is great, some of it can be quite terrible. I'm not a big fan of Wham! or Rick Astley and others my parents have 'made' me listen to over this decade. But for me 80's music is miles better than the manufactured gruel made these days. It was when greats like Peter Gabriel, UB40, Duran Duran, Pet Shop Boys were at the best. A sign of the greatness from the 80's I think is how many of it's artists are still around today. Half of artists from the 00's have vanished and stayed in the small era they lasted.

Just dug up Yazoo Upstairs at Eric's and I have to say definitely good!

no difference between 80's and other decades, if you liked it regardless of it being 'good', it has nostalgia value. you get this in all decades. so yes, some of it was good and will stand the test of time, other tracks will be liked for nostalgia value,, and from my perspective this has always been the case from the 60's onwards.

The 80s was the last decade in which ''pop'' music as we know it was actually decent and most of the artists actually wrote their own songs and played instruments.

early eighties was very good, apart from some trash like Antmusic mid eighties the Smiths arrived so how bad, late 80s was a bit pony but at least you had Acid House, the last great youth movement.

In all, a good decade but with plenty of rubbish as well.

I'm not having that! Granted ,they got a bit silly with Stand and Deliver, Prince Charming etc, but I loved some of their earlier stuff like Dog eat Dog and King's of the Wild Frontier. I was eight in 1980, if you want to take that into the equation...

I agree about the Acid House scene though. Sitting in the back of a rust-ridden Transit at the side of the A3, with ten other sweaty teenagers, trying to get a connection to the phone number on a flyer advertising a rave on one of those brief-case sized mobiles at 3am. Happy days!

I'm a teenager, and there is some music that I like from the 80s, and I can see myself listening to such music when I'm older, but I do think the 90s and 00s have had better music overall.

nah... antmusic was classic pop... nonsense singalong pop music.

Sorry but I think that's rubbish.
How can you say it's dire?. The music from the 80s is so much better than todays garbage. Most of the songs in that era had great memorable melodies which is the very reason why it's still so popular today.

I know people say that there was good music and bad music in every decade but the good music of the 80s outweighed the bad by so much.
I was a teenager in the 80s so I remember it well. At the time I didn't think to myself 'Oh don't we live in a wonderful decade for music' because nobody knew any different, it was just music but if I could have looked 20 years into the future I would have had much more appreciation for music then. Id have gone back to my mates and said 'We better enjoy this while it lasts because this music is fantastic compared to what's coming'.

I like a lot of 80's synth and techno pop music, stuff like

Yello
Art of noise
Kraftwerk

and I like some of the ska and two tone music like

madness
bad manners
specials

or does ska and two tone count as 70's?

Through my adolescence in the 90's I hated the 80's... I now love a lot of 80's music!

... so for me it's definitely not nostalgia as I enjoy it now for it's quality songwriting.

My mp3 player is virtually ALL 80's music

My daughter loves 80s pop & electro but hates most current stuff, particularly RnB. She's 12, so no nostalgia involved.

Is that where the 'flock of seagulls' haircut came from?

The 80's were a good decade because all the bands and singers looked different from each other. Fast forward to 2000's and the only artist stepping out her comfort zone is lady gaga. She would have been huge in the 80's.

All these other bands today are like clones of each other. Sugababes. atomic kitten, JLS etc

She would have been regarded as a poor man's Madonna or Cyndi Lauper.

Which she is.