I have such a wide taste in music. I was a wee tot listening to 50's ballad singer on the radio. When I was about nine or ten I loved The Beatles and Cliff and as a teenager loving The Kinks The Who but totally adored all things Motown. Still do.
In my late teens it was the 1970's and that to me was my time. My day if you like. Went out to discos etc loved the clothes back then. The music was just the best ever.
When 1980 came in I started to notice things in general changing and this continued right into the 80's decade. I liked some of the music but it wasn't my favourite decade for music.
It wasn't until the mid nineties that I thought the music went really good. But again soul from the eighties was still getting played and thats my favourite kind of music.
But there was a lot of rubbish in music in the 80's decade as well. Hated the clothes back then too,
No to me the 70's was the best decade the times the music and fashion.
I still say it started to go to downhill when 1980 came in. Not "the awesome eighties." "The awful eighties" I'm afraid as far as I am concerned.

nonsense I'll give you, we didn't need nonsense in them days though as the charts was full of real 'classic pop' by the Jam, Blondie, Abba, Madness etc

thats harsh..i prefer gaga in many ways.


blondie lost it for me when they went disco, madness were superb, granted, but were they really that much different to adam?... nonsense, quirky, good time, fun music.


i hated 70's fashion until punk came in... i dont think you can judge a decade though as all the same, imho early 80's = great both music and fashion, late 80's = rubbish both music and fashion (most chart music anyway).

I think 80s music was the era of the best music, and its not nostalgia because i was born in 85 lol I prefer it to music now by far and listen to it alot

I listen to a lot of 80's music I wouldn't have heard in the 80's, so I wouldn't say it is just nostalgia- though maybe it reminds me of other similar songs from that time?

Still, the same could be said for modern music, ie, that it has elements in it that remind people of older, nostalgic songs- hence why they like it.

I think people probably develop musical taste fairly early on in life, so nostalgia probably plays it's part in a lot of the music people listen to, whether it is old or new.

Also, even new songs can be nostalgic to me because of what they remind me of- sometimes more so than older music.