Early 80s: golden age of music on par with the 1960s circa The Beatles?

[Mr. Analog]

Anyway, my thought on the matter of "good music" is that as we get older we spend less time looking for good music while at the same time becoming more jaded (having "heard it all before"), therefore we naturally tend to think that music from x years ago was better than it is these days.

I dunno, recently I found a box from about the year 2000 or so (when I moved into Lazy's old place) anyway, I found a bunch of music that I was listening to back in those days. A lot of techno/technopop/Europop stuff... a couple CDs were pop-compilations from the day and MAN do they SUCK!

I can't believe I listened to some of that stuff and actually enjoyed it...

Not all music will live forever, some of it is meant to fade away, sadly some bands SHOULD be destroyed (but limp on like the shambling undead they are).

Uhh anyway, the 80s again!

I needed to insert some bouncy, 80s anime music just the other day while I was working on fan art from a mid-80s anime and man! There's 80s music and then there's JAPANESE 80s music which, if you are me gets into your head real, real bad. I'll be on a Japanese 80s pop kick for a while...

(and I was on a 60s psychedelic fuzz streak all last week... talk about shifting gears!)

P.S. I am also ashamed to say that on occasion I will listen to stuff like Girls Aloud and enjoy it... GAAAA MANLY MAN! MUST. LISTEN. TO. HEAVY. METAL!!!

[Darren Dirt]

P.S. I am also ashamed to say that on occasion I will listen to stuff like Girls Aloud and enjoy it... GAAAA MANLY MAN! MUST. LISTEN. TO. HEAVY. METAL!!!

Easy cure here. Also, presumably here (on my shopping list, I love the show, love the Barney character, so over the top almost like "Jack" from Will & Grace, but not gay... oh, wait... irony...)

[Mags]

P.S. I am also ashamed to say that on occasion I will listen to stuff like Girls Aloud and enjoy it... GAAAA MANLY MAN! MUST. LISTEN. TO. HEAVY. METAL!!!

You can't kill the metal
The metal will live on
Punk-Rock tried to kill the metal
But they failed, as they were smite to the ground
New-wave tried to kill the metal
But they failed, as they were stricken down to the ground
Grunge tried to kill the metal Ha,hahahahaha
They failed, as they were thrown to the ground
Aargh! yaow! [x2]

[Singing]

No-one can destroy the metal
The metal will strike you down with a vicious blow
We are the vanquished foes of the metal
We tried to win for why we do not know

New-wave tried to destroy the metal, but the metal had its way
Grunge then tried to dethrone the metal, but metal was in the way
Punk-rock tried to destroy the metal, but metal was much too strong
Techno tried to defile the metal, but techno was proven wrong
Yea!

Metal!
It comes from hell!

- Tenacious D

Amen 

[Mr. Analog]

P.S. I am also ashamed to say that on occasion I will listen to stuff like Girls Aloud and enjoy it... GAAAA MANLY MAN! MUST. LISTEN. TO. HEAVY. METAL!!!

You can't kill the metal
The metal will live on
Punk-Rock tried to kill the metal
But they failed, as they were smite to the ground
New-wave tried to kill the metal
But they failed, as they were stricken down to the ground
Grunge tried to kill the metal Ha,hahahahaha
They failed, as they were thrown to the ground
Aargh! yaow! [x2]

[Singing]

No-one can destroy the metal
The metal will strike you down with a vicious blow
We are the vanquished foes of the metal
We tried to win for why we do not know

New-wave tried to destroy the metal, but the metal had its way
Grunge then tried to dethrone the metal, but metal was in the way
Punk-rock tried to destroy the metal, but metal was much too strong
Techno tried to defile the metal, but techno was proven wrong
Yea!

Metal!
It comes from hell!

- Tenacious D

Amen 

Cheers to dat brotha!

[Thorin]

I now have downloaded both Lily Allen albums and am listening to them.  It's definitely bouncy pop music with, at times, rather jarring lyrics.  Not at all what I'd normally listen to, but catchy and with mostly interesting little stories in the lyrics.

There's this track on the first album called "Nan, You're A Window Shopper".  It's subject matter doesn't seem to fit with the rest of the album very well, so I was wondering why she wrote it and put it on the album.  Then I found out that she Weird Al'd 50 Cent's track "Window Shopper".  And what I find impressive about that is that she's listed as having written the song (with two other people)...  Weird Alling a song isn't that easy and she pulled it off quite well.  Not bad for a singer/songwriter that most of the Internet claims is "vapid".  And yet another example of music that gets played in one area of the world but not in another...

[Mr. Analog]

@%&# there's another forum with pretty much the same thing though it's covering some early-80s stuff a lot of people missed completely or just haven't really heard that often.

I'll dig up the list later!

[Darren Dirt]

Must be spring cleaning of the spirit or something ... or that "Vanilla Ice Apologizes" viral marketing thing that Virgin Records did a few months ago -- where "Ice Ice Baby" was acknowledged for what it was by the guy who used its success as a stepping stone to a fulltime Reality TV career (but then you visit the website and discover a well-designed Flash site filled with memories of songs long forgotten, in most cases gladly.)



PS: Ice was determined "not guilty"    ...and as a "time capsule" of BAD MUSIC, I share with you this screen shot (PPS: congrats Jonas Brothers! We knew you had it in you!)