[StarSupernova]

I'm 22 and most of the stuff I listen to is from the 80s. I don't mind some of today's music but it doesn't come close to the music of the 80s in my opinion. There may well be good modern music but not in the charts.

I think a lot of chart music these days isn't made for the same reasons and you have people who shouldn't be allowed anywhere near a microphone releasing albums.

The 80s is definitely my favourite era of music.

[AdamDowds]

Originally Posted by Multimedia81

I was very impressed this morning when Tameside Radio on their all-hit jukebox played my fave song of 1985 and 1986 within 1/2 an hour of eachother! These were Talking Heads' Road to Nowhere and the Bangles' Walk Like an Egyptian.

Two great songs I've loved since primary school.

[bbclassics]

I love 80s music too Most of the music on my ipod consists of The Cure, New Order, and various electro 80s type songs. I'm 19 but just prefer the music from back then. I can't think of the last song in the charts that I downloaded it's been that long ago.

[21stCenturyBoy]

I'm 20 and absolutely obsessed with 60's and 70's rock!

I'd love to have been there experiencing it the first time around.

[Cadiva]

Originally Posted by boysforpele

dont worry about it OP ... it shows good musical taste to be able to appreciate music restrosepctively.... for the qualtiy of the song itself.....its strange looking back because the 90s were seen as poor but I absolutely love the dance songs from the 90s ... to my mind the 00s are the weakest decade in a while.... but maybe because its the most recent and currently lacks identity.

The early 90s had some great dance tracks and early forays with Brit Pop. I think things only started on a downward slide towards the end of the decade to be honest. There's songs from the 90s I love just as much as all my 80s teenage years hits.

[SamMcK]

I'm 18 and I am fixated on 50's, 60's and 70's music. Beatles, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, Pink Floyd, Beach Boys, (particularly 65-73) Elvis, Motown etc. I do like stuff from the 80's and 90's though but like very little of todays music besides the music the older artists are releasing.

[DaveNightingale]

Q The 80's is a cracking listen on Sunday nights and Thursday Nights at 6. Full of the good stuff.. and the stuff you just don't hear anymore,presented by a bloke who cares what goes into it,Matthew Rudd.

Check out Q Radio's website or click on their logo on RadioPlayer,and take a look at the blog for the playlist of the latest show...

http://qthe80sblog.blogspot.co.uk/

[mrblank]

hi im fixated on the music il never hear

[KieranDS]

I love 80's and 90's music. But I still like modern music just as much. There's good and bad in all genres/era's etc

[harveybest]

The 80's also gave us Stock Aitken and Waterman........So there were downsides

[mushymanrob]

Originally Posted by mgvsmith

Yes, there is some great music around nowadays but in the 80s a lot of that music would make the top of the charts and there was much greater diversity in the charts. There were also important genres like Rap, House, ElectroPop, Stadium Rock that reached their high points in the 80s. As I have said elsewhere, there have been no great movements or genres to emerge in 00s music but that doesn't mean an end to great pop just a slowdown.

exactly....

its all well and good people going on about 'theres good music today if you look for it'... but in the past you didnt have to look for it, and it was original, there was diversity.

i blame pete waterman and his mob (ironically in the 80's), because they popularised unashamed manufactured pop, made the complete production line acceptable and took creativity away from the younger generation and gave it to them instead all pre packaged and sameish.

pre s/a/w managers backed acts they thought had a new sound, a new look, their own ideas and identity, the music was created by the youth of the day. post s/a/w pre packaged pop became the norm with cowell, fuller, walsh, etc etc .. old men creating music for the youth but who were controling the material for fiscal gain.

this is why the charts over the last 20 years have deteriorated into an unimaginative mush of similar sounding retro re-hash, generic dance pop or cheesy boy/girl band pop.

the youth of the last decade or so have no identity.

[harveybest]

Yes see my post above, but couldn't be bothered to waste time writing about SAW, but thanks for doing so.

[MissDexter]

Originally Posted by zx50

Some of the music from the '80s is great! For instance:

Culture Club — Karma Chameleon
M/A/R/R/S — Pump up the Volume
Madonna — Get into the Groove
Sheena Easton — The Lover in Me
Paula Abdul — Opposites Attract
Aha — Take on Me
Aha — The Sun Always Shines on TV
Whitney Houston — I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Billy Joel — Uptown Girl

Just some of the '80s tracks that I love.

Into The Groove
&

1990

The 80s were great for good fun pop music - i love everything from Scritti Politti to Duran Duran to S/A/W.

I recently compiled all my thousands of 80s tracks into their respective years to create an almost "timeline" of the 80s charts and how they developed.
Love listening to them.

[Mallaha]

Originally Posted by mushymanrob

exactly....

its all well and good people going on about 'theres good music today if you look for it'... but in the past you didnt have to look for it, and it was original, there was diversity.

Yes you did. You had to read NME or Melody Maker, and pester record shop assistants for 7" singles that hadn't been released yet, if you wanted to listen to the most cutting-edge, interesting stuff.
Either that, or listen to John Peel or a dodgy pirate radio station that was mostly static.

[TH14]

It was the best. MJ, Madonna, Prince all in their prime. It was when rock music was at its best IMO and rap as we know it was starting to emerge.

[Mrscee]

I always think it's nice to see young people listening to more music than what is in the charts at the time..my own teenage daughter has always listened to music from all different decades

[JohnnyForget]

Originally Posted by SamMcK

I'm 18 and I am fixated on 50's, 60's and 70's music. Beatles, Bob Dylan, Frank Sinatra, Pink Floyd, Beach Boys, (particularly 65-73) Elvis, Motown etc. I do like stuff from the 80's and 90's though but like very little of todays music besides the music the older artists are releasing.

I've got to say I also prefer the music of the fifties, sixties and seventies to the eighties. I can't agree with you about Elvis. I love fifties Elvis, but am not at all keen on the period of his career that you seem to like, but each to his own.

I always find the eighties a decade of two halves, or to be more precise, a decade of one-third and two-thirds. Some of the music from the first third of the eighties is for me as good as anything from those preceding decades, but I find the overwhelming majority of the music from the last two-thirds of the decade to be utterly dire, although to be fair not quite as dire as what we've so far had to endure in this millennium.

[newplanet]

Originally Posted by MissDexter

The 80s were great for good fun pop music - i love everything from Scritti Politti to Duran Duran to S/A/W.

I recently compiled all my thousands of 80s tracks into their respective years to create an almost "timeline" of the 80s charts and how they developed.
Love listening to them.

The 80s were great because there was an obvious evolution. I simplify, of course, but we started with Abba & Blondie and we ended with Inner City & D-Mob. Has pop music in any other decade changed so radically since? Don't think so...

The 90s maybe... again I simplify... it started with house music, went on an excursion to Brit Pop and ended with a resurgence of bubblegum. But I still don't think music changed to the extent it did in the 80s.

The 00s start and end the same for me.

[RaptureRider]

Originally Posted by MissDexter

Into The Groove
&

1990

.

"Opposites Attract" was released as a single in 1989. It did, however, hit number one at the beginning of 1990.

[Rooftopcowboy]

Originally Posted by lmddawson

As much as I love all different types of music, I'm tired of people completely writing off modern music. There is a lot of incredible music hidden under the manufactured chart rubbish.
Literally off the top of my head.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4L_DQKCDgeM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dX3k_QDnzHE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BLQaGEI5D2Q
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8ccDb6n5Wg&ob=av3n
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vE2Urfcrfbw
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JI-o25K6B-E&ob=av3n
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a28s_wyqkyc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGMabBGydC0&ob=av3n
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAsTlnjvetI&ob=av3e
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EqWLpTKBFcU&ob=av3e
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6CJ96LGGP6w
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhHKfSFGdUI



Say what you will about modern music, but there are still some absolute gems out there.

The other thing is that people look back at previous decades with the misty eye of nostalgia, they remember the big songs, the big performances, the songs they danced to at their prom, the song that was no1 when they left school, when they graduated etc...and forget the remaining 90% of dross songs on the radio.

the 90s revival that is gathering pace now for example is paying homage to some of the great early 90s dance europop songs, but for every good europop song there was 2/3 awful ones clogging up the radio.

If we look back at 2012 in 20 years time I'm sure a big, unique hit like Goyte's 'Somebody That I Used To Know' will be remembered, but I doubt many will be requesting the DJ play Chris Brown's 'Turn Up The Music' that was no1 not long after.

[scrilla]

Originally Posted by newplanet

The 80s were great because there was an obvious evolution. I simplify, of course, but we started with Abba & Blondie and we ended with Inner City & D-Mob. Has pop music in any other decade changed so radically since? Don't think so...

Definitely. You could site a couple of acts who were popular at the start of other decades and contrast them with obviously very different acts popular at the end. Proves nothing. All decades are about multiple genres and plenty happens in the field of popular music over the course of ten years.

Originally Posted by newplanet

The 90s maybe... again I simplify... it started with house music, went on an excursion to Brit Pop and ended with a resurgence of bubblegum. But I still don't think music changed to the extent it did in the 80s.

Yes, it is a massive over-simplification of the situation. You could say that the 60's started off with doo-wop and ended up with psychedelia but where does (e.g.) Bob Dylan or Otis Redding or Johnny Cash fit into this supposed evolution?

Or that the 70's began with prog-rock and closed with new wave but Donna Summer or Bob Marley or the Sugarhill Gang don't fit the jigsaw.

There are always a multitude of styles existing side-by-side and sometimes with little if anything to connect them together.

[scrilla]

Originally Posted by Rooftopcowboy

The other thing is that people look back at previous decades with the misty eye of nostalgia, they remember the big songs, the big performances, the songs they danced to at their prom, the song that was no1 when they left school, when they graduated etc...and forget the remaining 90% of dross songs on the radio.

Another thing that helps people have a skewed view of the music of the past is the output of daytime radio shows. Shows that would tend to play a lot of chart oldies / 80's chart music only play certain songs regularly, if at all. Much of what was then well-known singles chart material is now neglected or ignored.

[cnbcwatcher]

Originally Posted by zx50

Some of the music from the '80s is great! For instance:

Culture Club — Karma Chameleon
M/A/R/R/S — Pump up the Volume
Madonna — Get into the Groove
Sheena Easton — The Lover in Me
Paula Abdul — Opposites Attract
Aha — Take on Me
Aha — The Sun Always Shines on TV
Whitney Houston — I Wanna Dance With Somebody
Billy Joel — Uptown Girl

Just some of the '80s tracks that I love.

I love all those songs. I've been meaning to download I Wanna Dance With Somebody, Don't You Want Me, Material Girl and a few other 80s songs.

Originally Posted by Cadiva

The early 90s had some great dance tracks and early forays with Brit Pop. I think things only started on a downward slide towards the end of the decade to be honest. There's songs from the 90s I love just as much as all my 80s teenage years hits.

90s dance music is great. I only discovered it a couple of years ago. I was a kid in the 90s so I mostly listened to cheesy pop (stuff like S Club 7, Aqua etc) but I've grown out of that now so I can listen to anything that takes my fancy.

Originally Posted by mrblank

hi im fixated on the music il never hear

[RetroMusicFan]

The 80s is the best decade for music IMO and I love PSB, Madonna (80s version) Depeche and Duran too.

It had such diverse styles too.

[Orangemaid]

Originally Posted by BBaddict212

The 80's revolutinised music back then and still does today, to this day recent artists and recreating 80's songs

In the 80's we had Duran Duran, Foriegner, Madonna (at her best) , George Michael, STarship upon many other amazing artists.

Now we have LMAFAO, Nicki Minaj, Jedward and Rihanna (who wears next to nothing to get attention)

What a difference 30 years makes

Relax by Frankie goes to hollywood was great 80's..I had their album on vinyl , then they banned it, and couldnt figure out why back then