Is it possible the 80's were this bad?

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TheAdvocate

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Originally posted by: jdini76
Maybe some of the music artists of today should take on poison's motivation. Cause some of poison's songs still hold up today. I mean what do we have to listen to today thats any better?

How about everything besides boy bands, celine dion, teen sluts and rap.

If you think Poison songs are good, then you need to get out more.
 

Pacfanweb

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Jan 2, 2000
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Originally posted by: TheAdvocate
Originally posted by: Pacfanweb
Overall, the music in the 80's was FAR better than the crap we have now, across the board.

No, the absolute crap you listen to on ClearChannel radio stations is worse than the crap they played in the 80's.

Great music is played daily on my Sirus player, and by independent stations around the nation.

Of course, anyone who really love dthe 80s probably likes hair bands. If so, your opinion is worthless. It doesn't get much crappier than Poison.
You are welcome to your opinion of hair bands, no matter how wrong it may be.

Poison wasn't the only hair band. And most of the hair bands could play rings around the lame musicians that make up "metal" today. Not to mention they could sing, and not just growl.
Don't just look at the biggest two or three hair bands. Look at them all. There were some top shelf, and even legendary musicians in some of those bands.

How many of today's "bands" will be thought of the same way 10-15-20 years from now?
Very few.
 

bunnyfubbles

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Originally posted by: LS20
Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles


full of crap

there are plenty of genres and what not that didn't even exist back then

uh... one would hope that that is the case

quality of 80s popular music > 00s popular music

Right, but you couldn't defend the original statement so you left it out?

Saying 80s popular music > 00s popular music is still opinion but you could at least somewhat back it up, but to saying that music in the 80s was better than anything we have today...as I said before, full of crap.
 

Pacfanweb

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Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles
Originally posted by: LS20
Originally posted by: bunnyfubbles


full of crap

there are plenty of genres and what not that didn't even exist back then

uh... one would hope that that is the case

quality of 80s popular music > 00s popular music

Right, but you couldn't defend the original statement so you left it out?

Saying 80s popular music > 00s popular music is still opinion but you could at least somewhat back it up, but to saying that music in the 80s was better than anything we have today...as I said before, full of crap.
I'm the one that said it, and what you're saying is NOT what I said.

I said that 80's music across the board was better. That means that when you consider the entire musical spectrum of the 80's vs. now, the 80's were better overall.

Personally, I like rock, pop, metal, and I guess if you want to divide them up that much, hard rock.
Hard rock....80's was better
Pop.............80's was better
Metal..........80's was way better...today's growling crap just sucks..let me hear a guy singing high any day over just yelling or growling, regardless of his hairdo.
Rock..........80's was better.

So in all the categories that I listen to now, the 80's were better.
 

Pepsi90919

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Originally posted by: Soviet
Is it the video or the song you dont like? The songs frickin good! The 80's overall has much better music that the 90's and today put together.

no it doesn't
 

glenn1

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Jeez, if Rick Astley is the best you can come up with for bad 80s videos, you obviously weren't very old in the 80s.

Sigue Sigue Sputnik

Aztec Camera

Bauhas

And I don't even want to get into the suckage that was videos from Peter Cetera, Journey, and lots of other bands of the 80s.......