Did something I don't normaly do this morning. Turned on the TV, was nothing else on, so I flipped on VH1 Classic. From 6am to 7 they have 80's videos on. Man am I glad that decade is gone! Big hair and spandex, not a pretty sight. The top 40/ pop music was pretty laim too. I'm sure glad I swayed away from it. I was more into, SRV, Eric Johnson, Zappa....

While all that 80's stuff - mostly drivel in MY opinion - was goin' on, I was hidin' out at Grateful Dead & Hot Tuna shows & playin' in Blues bands.  I certainly was not a man of my era...
 
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BTW: I forgot to mention that after the 80's video segment went off was VH1 Classic's all request hour and it started with Bob Weir and Ratdog. So it wasn't a total waste of TV viewing.

Hey don't forget though ... the 80's were also a big time for Level 42 (Mark King) And Stanley did pretty good in the 80's too! It wasn't a TOTAL loss. POPULAR music is USUALLY based on the fads of the times. You need to look behind the fads and you'll always find something worth while! Like Flock of Seaguls! .... hehehehe (just kidding!)

What's the saying?  The good thing about popular music is that it doesn't stay popular for long...  (Something like that)

Well, just shoot me . . . I loved a bunch of it. Every time I hear 'The Reflex' or 'Don't You Forget About Me' or 'Everybody Wants to Rule the World' or 'Live to Tell', I just turn it UP.  Sure it looks silly now, but I had a lot of fun to those tunes, and there's a lot to be said for fun.  
 
J o e y

Music like beauty TRULY is in the eye of the beholder! I love bands like King Crimson and Gentle Giant from the 80s. Generally bands people say WHO? about! Or when they hear them say WHAT?? .... or YUCK! :-) To each their own! ;-)

To each his own.  I agree.  It was during the 80's that I was in high school and starting to really discover music.  There were tons of very creative bassists and guitarists.  Despite of what they may have looked like, I look back on that decade as my favorite kind of music.

To all here, I tip my hat and agree. ALL music is enjoyable to someone. I too agree that there is a lot of good music that came out the 80's. While I may not have liked the main stream music of the era others did and I was wrong to suggest that it was laim. If a song makes even only one person smile and tap their foot it is a good thing.  
I'll take my 40 lashes now.

I think 80's music was great as well as 70's/60's/50's,,,,yesterdays music is related to all of todays music!.what i really dont care for is all this sampling thats going on in todays music,what are people forgetting how to write music these days?

I remember the 80's.  One of my favorite bands that I saw many times throughout that decade ........................... the good ole Grateful Dead!!!!
 
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I too am a Dead Head but they weren't exactly Top 40 either. One of my favorite artist came out of the 80's too, SRV. Stevie certaintly wasn't Top  40 but I do recal hearing his guitar on Bowies Let's Dance which was most definitely Top 40....
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Ohh man..I read this post and drew a blank ! It must have been all that cough medicine.
Then it started to slowly come back..Police, Steely Dan, Toto, Asia..Huey Lewis (well ok). Disco finally died. So it wasnt a complete loss.
I'll have to go along with Keavin about the use of todays technology instead of imagination etc..but,to each their own.
I can remember playing for hours with a sampler..mangling sounds.
   
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King Crimson!  Midnight Oil!  The 80's were good, and good to me.  I even liked A Flock of Seagulls.  Anybody remember AEIOU and Sometimes Y from college radio?
 
John