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The eighties, the best pop music decade?
Just watched a programme claiming this to be case - i would have said no chance until I started to question my very unflattering opinion of the decade quite recently. I’m still far from convinced it’s the best decade ever, but whenever I listen to my favourite playlist, I’m struck by how many of my favourite songs come from those ten years.
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that's because the 80s was full of quality music, from the likes of bauhaus and the cure in the early 80s (from the late 70s), post punk new order, chameleons etc the house music explosion in the mid to late 80s and the best album that could ever be released being gifted to us by the gods in 1989, the 80s was class.
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80’s was ok but only a few decent bands such as OMD , Tears forFears etc. 60’s and 70’s is where it all happened for me.
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1965 - 1976 - Motown, Stax, british rock, glam rock, punk & funk…and let’s not forget the Beatles.
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BLUETIT
60’s definitely
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Although must be said 70’s & 80’s we’re excellent decades with some fabulous music.
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think this always boils down to an age thing
for my age group i would say yes the years between 1976 to 1988 were laden with fabulous music ranging from punk , new wave , goth , indie , the rebirth of rockabilly and rock , n roll and skins , 2 tone , disco , metal bands , electro synth and Abba ! but the beauty of that era was the sub cultures and fashions that come with the music
would love to have been a teenager in the 1950's when rockabilly and rock.n roll was sweeping the nation
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Not only is it a matter of personal taste but also about what music was around in our most formative years. I think TOBW may be a little unusual as, knowing his age and hoping he doesn't mind me saying, his default decade should be the 70s.
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Music is like religion.
Isn't it funny how 99% of people who grow up in a religious household find the only God there is is the same 1 their parents follow.
Music normally follows with the era you grew up in.
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Ivortheengine
80’s was ok but only a few decent bands such as OMD , Tears forFears etc. 60’s and 70’s is where it all happened for me.
How weird we must be twins. 60s and 70s for me too but the 2 bands you mentioned in the 80s also did it for me. Still into OMD and looking forward to seeing them in the motorpoint next month. My current favourites are the killers, seen them twice, would love to make it a third.
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It's to do with youth for a lot of people. I think that it also depends on what was going on at the time both politically and socially.
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Go in any pub with a jukebox and it’ll be playing 60’s music :thumbup:
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Tuerto
It's to do with youth for a lot of people. I think that it also depends on what was going on at the time both politically and socially.
I think thats right.
I was a teenager in the 80s but the 90s would edge it for me.
I couldnt sit down for the afternoon listening to 60s and shit like the Monkees. Id rather listen to rap or drill.
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Great bands in the 60s , 70s , 80s , 90s and the two decades since
It's good to be able to dip
Not just decades but between rock , metal , soul , blues , funk , punk etc
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Taunton Blue Genie
Not only is it a matter of personal taste but also about what music was around in our most formative years. I think TOBW may be a little unusual as, knowing his age and hoping he doesn't mind me saying, his default decade should be the 70s.
I’d agree with you there, but I thought the period of, say, 1970/75 was boring musically - I was never really into prog rock and felt too old for the glam rock thing, I probably should have been going up to Wigan every weekend, but no one I knew was into Northern Soul. Punk/New Wave was a Godsend to me, but I tended to be about five years older than the average age at the gigs I went to in the late seventies.
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The 80s was a great decade for music, especially when you compare to the rubbish that’s been around this century.
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the other bob wilson
I’d agree with you there, but I thought the period of, say, 1970/75 was boring musically - I was never really into prog rock and felt too old for the glam rock thing, I probably should have been going up to Wigan every weekend, but no one I knew was into Northern Soul. Punk/New Wave was a Godsend to me, but I tended to be about five years older than the average age at the gigs I went to in the late seventies.
Chart music in the 70s was shite, all that teeny stuff, Osmonds, Bay City Rollers, don't start me on feckin' disco.
The album chart was where the good stuff was to be heard.
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the other bob wilson
I’d agree with you there, but I thought the period of, say, 1970/75 was boring musically - I was never really into prog rock and felt too old for the glam rock thing, I probably should have been going up to Wigan every weekend, but no one I knew was into Northern Soul. Punk/New Wave was a Godsend to me, but I tended to be about five years older than the average age at the gigs I went to in the late seventies.
Well some of us were into prog rock but it has to be said regarding your musical taste that Yours Is No Disgrace. Not being Lazy, you obviously discovered your own Fanfare For the Common Man via a different route so it's not a case of Us and Them or you just Counting Out Time. Being a Twentieth Century Schizoid Man it couldn't have been easy for you though.
For my part, having had a strict father who wouldn't let us change the dial on the radio, I went from having to listen to the soporific sounds of the Mike Sammes singers and Max Jaffa (on Radio 2) straight to Deep Purple, Man and Pink Floyd - and without passing through pop.
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We generally believe that the music we were brought up with, particularly during our teenage years, is the best. Not always, but often.
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Taunton Blue Genie
Well some of us were into prog rock but it has to be said regarding your musical taste that Yours Is No Disgrace. Not being Lazy, you obviously discovered your own Fanfare For the Common Man via a different route so it's not a case of Us and Them or you just Counting Out Time. Being a Twentieth Century Schizoid Man it couldn't have been easy for you though.
For my part, having had a strict father who wouldn't let us change the dial on the radio, I went from having to listen to the soporific sounds of the Mike Sammes singers and Max Jaffa (on Radio 2) straight to Deep Purple, Man and Pink Floyd - and without passing through pop.
:hehe: I saw Yes at the Capitol on the day West Ham beat Fulham in 1975 Cup Final - got Us and Them and Twenty First Century Schizoid Man on that playlist I mentioned. I went through a mercifully short Mike Sammes Singers and Max Jaffa phase as well and, sadly, my old man, who did get me into Johnny Cash to be fair, was a huge fan of Roger Whittaker and his bloody whistling through much of my teens as well.
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60s for me, I’m amazed how I know the words to even relatively obscure 60s stuff if it comes on the wireless.
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the other bob wilson
:hehe: I saw Yes at the Capitol on the day West Ham beat Fulham in 1975 Cup Final - got Us and Them and Twenty First Century Schizoid Man on that playlist I mentioned. I went through a mercifully short Mike Sammes Singers and Max Jaffa phase as well and, sadly, my old man, who did get me into Johnny Cash to be fair, was a huge fan of Roger Whittaker and his bloody whistling through much of my teens as well.
What about the singing nun? :hehe:
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splott parker
60s for me, I’m amazed how I know the words to even relatively obscure 60s stuff if it comes on the wireless.
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Taunton Blue Genie
What about the singing nun? :hehe:
Oh please, no more :hehe:
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Taunton Blue Genie
Well some of us were into prog rock but it has to be said regarding your musical taste that Yours Is No Disgrace. Not being Lazy, you obviously discovered your own Fanfare For the Common Man via a different route so it's not a case of Us and Them or you just Counting Out Time. Being a Twentieth Century Schizoid Man it couldn't have been easy for you though.
For my part, having had a strict father who wouldn't let us change the dial on the radio, I went from having to listen to the soporific sounds of the Mike Sammes singers and Max Jaffa (on Radio 2) straight to Deep Purple, Man and Pink Floyd - and without passing through pop.
The Yes Album
Still great after all these years
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the other bob wilson
Just watched a programme claiming this to be case - i would have said no chance until I started to question my very unflattering opinion of the decade quite recently. I’m still far from convinced it’s the best decade ever, but whenever I listen to my favourite playlist, I’m struck by how many of my favourite songs come from those ten years.
Nowhere near the talent around that was around in 60s and early 70s. And thisis from someone who was 16 in 1980. The new romantic scene was pretty shit, preferred the punk and ska era (i accept the ska era did creep into early 80s) of late 70s to the so called new stuff of the 80s. Still some older bands around in the 80, such as dire straits, moody blues, pink floyd etc. But overall the 80s was not that good at all, and certainly not the best decade.
Spedger
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Definitely music of today
Nikki Minaj, Lil Naz X, Doja Cat, Arianna Grande, The genius of Ed Sheeran and the 40 other blokes like Lewis Capaldi with guitars telling me how sorry they are and how much they love their partner.
Not forgetting the plethora of drill artists who have a lot of money, weapons and ladies they talk about very quickly in an accent I can't quite make out bless them but I'm sure it's very tough and interesting
Drake makes fantastic nursery rhymes for the mentally under 10s
Plus the the amazing BTS. Such talent - my favourite is the one with blue hair.
What a time to be alive
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Mario Miethig
The 80s was a great decade for music, especially when you compare to the rubbish that’s been around this century.
behave, there is some real quality around at the moment, never mind this century.
Document
Royal Blood
WH Lung
Working Men's Club
Fontaines DC
The Murder Capital
The OCs
Billy no mates
Black Honey
Porridge Radio
Odd Morris
there's loads, I could be here all day
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binman
Definitely music of today
Nikki Minaj, Lil Naz X, Doja Cat, Arianna Grande, The genius of Ed Sheeran and the 40 other blokes like Lewis Capaldi with guitars telling me how sorry they are and how much they love their partner.
Not forgetting the plethora of drill artists who have a lot of money, weapons and ladies they talk about very quickly in an accent I can't quite make out bless them but I'm sure it's very tough and interesting
Drake makes fantastic nursery rhymes for the mentally under 10s
Plus the the amazing BTS. Such talent - my favourite is the one with blue hair.
What a time to be alive
as above, music has never been so accessible and yet here you are in the wilderness.
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Feedback
behave, there is some real quality around at the moment, never mind this century.
Document
Royal Blood
WH Lung
Working Men's Club
Fontaines DC
The Murder Capital
The OCs
Billy no mates
Black Honey
Porridge Radio
Odd Morris
there's loads, I could be here all day
Some top bands there, off to see Porridge Radio at Clwb in the new year :thumbup:
I'd add Cardiff's own Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard to that list, a few of my mates went to Greenman and they blew them away.
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worst when i comes to the progression of metal and certain areas of production. At the end of the eighties sampling become relatively
cheaper and the 90's saw a boom in independent club and warehouse music.
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Tuerto
It's to do with youth for a lot of people. I think that it also depends on what was going on at the time both politically and socially.
Yep. Like I view the late 2010s as the best as it was the era of my late teens and some of my early 20s. But I find that I am listening to less new music since the pandemic, whereas just before the pandemic, I was widening my tastes.
So my case seems to match your hypothesis.
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The 80's had so many more independent bands and sounds appear, quite a decade.
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Feedback
behave, there is some real quality around at the moment, never mind this century.
Document
Royal Blood
WH Lung
Working Men's Club
Fontaines DC
The Murder Capital
The OCs
Billy no mates
Black Honey
Porridge Radio
Odd Morris
there's loads, I could be here all day
please go on there are some interesting sounds going on there even if some of them are a homage to bands of the past . Joy fall cure etc
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life on mars
The 80's had so many more independent bands and sounds appear, quite a decade.
with all respect i was 20 something up in London trying to become a rock star...there was a very small independent scene that i can remember. albeit early 80's
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Tuerto
It's to do with youth for a lot of people. I think that it also depends on what was going on at the time both politically and socially.
Exactly. It's whatever era we were in when you were a teenager, basically. It's why mid-90s had the best music and my favourite time to be a city fan was 1992-1999. Nothing to do with the actual quality of the music (and certainly not the football) but all to do with how much I enjoyed it anyway
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the other bob wilson
:hehe: I saw Yes at the Capitol on the day West Ham beat Fulham in 1975 Cup Final - got Us and Them and Twenty First Century Schizoid Man on that playlist I mentioned. I went through a mercifully short Mike Sammes Singers and Max Jaffa phase as well and, sadly, my old man, who did get me into Johnny Cash to be fair, was a huge fan of Roger Whittaker and his bloody whistling through much of my teens as well.
My friend Ben has a photo when he was about 5 of him holding up the FA cup….his uncle brought it home straight after the 1975 final and they played for it in the back garden.
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Baloo
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Nothing wrong with calling a wireless a wireless. A television is still a television, a record player is still a record player. It’s the cat’s whiskers:hehe:
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the other bob wilson
Oh please, no more :hehe:
I’d have loved her singing ‘Ave yer gorra loight boy’ & The Singing Postman having a go at Dominica :hehe:
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Whisperer
My friend Ben has a photo when he was about 5 of him holding up the FA cup….his uncle brought it home straight after the 1975 final and they played for it in the back garden.
That’s great, did he win it?