80's Nostalgia

[Markbnj]

No, I don't.

Did you actually live in the last half of the seventies?

 

[IronWing]

Did you actually live in the last half of the seventies?

Show me a single 80's group that can compete with The Andrea True Connection.

 

[Sonikku]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdQiSGb4Luw

 

[BurnItDwn]

Damn good live though. Joey DeMaio rocks that bass!



Also...NWOBHM

Yes, They were fvcking awesome to see live. The energy of the show was quite intense.

 

[Markbnj]

Show me a single 80's group that can compete with The Andrea True Connection.

Oh, we're just talking music? I thought it was the whole gestalt. Remember, the last half of the seventies was disco time. Nothing was ever worse than disco.

 

[exdeath]

NES. That is all.

 

[lxskllr]

Nothing was ever worse than disco.

I can't pull anything out atm, but I'm pretty sure there's been stuff worse than disco since the 70s. If you close one eye, and squint a little, disco sometimes looks like groovy funk. I think modern R&B comes up short in comparison.

 

[IronWing]

Nothing was ever worse than disco.

Rap, Christian Country, all the rest of Country, Christian Rock, death metal, French Rap, John Mayer, all the whiney emo white guy singing that ever was, Mariah Cary, and Creed.

<Off to put on my boogie woogie shoes>

 

[darkswordsman17]

I didn't like the 80s when I was there, and they haven't improved with age.

The 80s sucked, and there's a lot to hate about it, but I also think there's a lot to like.

Personally, the 80s is my favorite decade for music. It had lots of eclectic rock (stuff that puts the indie craze going on now to shame in my honest opinion), it had probably the best metal, and I think it was the pinnacle of pop.

And that's not meant as a slight to other decades. I love a lot of 60s, 70s, 90s, and maybe 50s music, but to me the 80s just, it was basically the best of a lot of different things. Much better synth stuff than today's shit (which is stupid since today's synth tech is leaps and bounds better so there's no reason it shouldn't just trounce all over it), paired with actual instruments and a lot of experimenting. Say what you want about the styles and stuff but generally people still had to be competent musicians back then on top of whatever else they wanted to do. That's not to say there aren't any talented ones from now (for instance I'd say Lady Gaga trumps Madonna in musical talent while offering very similar other aspects).

I actually feel that there are a lot of parallels between the past say 5 years and the 80s. In many ways pop culture is desperately trying to just redo the 80s while having this total shitty asshole arrogance that is very much unwarranted.

Now if you want to argue that the 80s basically doomed the music as it started a lot of the shit that is just awful, I can accept that. I can even accept you not liking the 80s (there's plenty of artists that I think are way overrated, like I love Bowie but his music was really overrated in my opinion, there's quite a few others I feel that way about as well). I can definitely understand hating glam rock and keyboard synth on everything, and lots of other stuff too. And while I love grunge I personally don't feel that it was any sort of messiah for music, it just hurled everything in the opposite direction while not really actually being all that much different when it came down to it.

 

[stargazr]

Did you actually live in the last half of the seventies?

Yes, graduated HS in '78. Check out this list from that year

http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/bg_hits/bg_hits_78.html

 

[KK]

80s had the best porn.

 

[Iron Woode]

Show me a single 80's group that can compete with The Andrea True Connection.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=opkzgLMH5MA

 

[Sheik Yerbouti]

Oh, we're just talking music? I thought it was the whole gestalt. Remember, the last half of the seventies was disco time. Nothing was ever worse than disco.

Bullshit.

The last half of the 70's was the emergence of the punk scene (Sex Pistols, Iggy & The Stooges, The Clash, Bad Brains, JFA, etc) and while most new wave sucked, you got The Police, Elvis Costello. Don't forget about a little band out of LA called Van Halen.
IMO, the 70's were the best decade for rock, the most diverse, eclectic and complete.

and for the record

 

[stargazr]

The last half of the 70's was the emergence of the punk scene (Sex Pistols, Iggy & The Stooges, The Clash, Bad Brains, JFA, etc) and while most new wave sucked, you got The Police, Elvis Costello. Don't forget about a little band out of LA called Van Halen.

Yup. And the Pretenders too.

 

[HeXen]

There is a number of things I loved about the 80's, however much of the music was certainly not it.
Only things I loved were Arcades, far less processed foods, Movies, GIjoe/Transformers and no one had cell phones in their faces to ignore you with. However the music really sucked, especially the screaming heavy metal music, made me wonder what a man had to do to his groin to achieve such high pitched vocals. Vinnie Vincent anyone?