I Love the 80's

[esteban]

Violator.

Hell yes.

Obviously, I'll go ahead and add Dare! to the list of Zeta's "Excellent Albums"

*ducks*

I don't care. I love that album.

Plus, it's imperfections are part of its charm.

Don't hate the Human League because you heard one song played too often on the radio.

Great band. Great albums. Many flaws. Charming flaws.

Except for that one shite album that even I can't stomach—Crash.

God awful shite. I loathe Crash.

[MrBroadway]

Yeah, Hysteria, their greatest one.

Photography and Rock of Ages alone I think put Pyromania above Hysteria, and then the rest just puts it into a new league.

Violator is actually 1990, though I guess from a pedant's point of view, the "1980s" technically is from 1981-1990.

[Jibbajaba]

There's a YouTube channel called "Generic Male DJs" that has a shitload of 80's new wave mix tapes.  Pretty good shit, IMO.

[technozombie]

I was born in 81 so I wasn't exactly a musical connoisseur during the decade but there was a lot of great music. I love the Cure, The Church, Echo and the Bunnymen, Cocteau Twins, and others I can't think of because I'm posting at 2:30 a.m.

[Mathius]

I miss the 80s so bad. I lived in the country so it was all riding my bike for miles, 4-wheelin', playing hide and seek with my 3 dogs, staying inside on a hot day during the drought of '88 to play Metroid, and of course the music. That music! Every time I turn on VH1 Classic (which is everyday) my main program is the one that shows nothing but 80s music vids. I nearly tear up during every video for the reasons stated above.

For me heaven will be the 80s and 90s running continuously in a loop. ....with quick jumps to the late 60s to hit some concerts.

[MrBroadway]

I miss the 80s so bad. I lived in the country so it was all riding my bike for miles, 4-wheelin', playing hide and seek with my 3 dogs, staying inside on a hot day during the drought of '88 to play Metroid, and of course the music. That music! Every time I turn on VH1 Classic (which is everyday) my main program is the one that shows nothing but 80s music vids. I nearly tear up during every video for the reasons stated above.

For me heaven will be the 80s and 90s running continuously in a loop. ....with quick jumps to the late 60s to hit some concerts.

No 70s? No Floyd, Zeppelin, Bowie, Queen? And you'll offend poor Fibbaflabber if you don't like disco, too!

[Mathius]

I miss the 80s so bad. I lived in the country so it was all riding my bike for miles, 4-wheelin', playing hide and seek with my 3 dogs, staying inside on a hot day during the drought of '88 to play Metroid, and of course the music. That music! Every time I turn on VH1 Classic (which is everyday) my main program is the one that shows nothing but 80s music vids. I nearly tear up during every video for the reasons stated above.

For me heaven will be the 80s and 90s running continuously in a loop. ....with quick jumps to the late 60s to hit some concerts.

No 70s? No Floyd, Zeppelin, Bowie, Queen? And you'll offend poor Fibbaflabber if you don't like disco, too!

Yeah I guess you're right. I couldn't bear to be without Floyd and Zeppelin.

[RyuHayabusa]

80s music rocks. Even when it's bad, and it often is, it's still good. There's an unseriousness about it that makes it better than bad music of the 90s or 00s (or today). Listening to Def Leppard's Pyromania now. Such a good, good album.

You need to get out more. Most of my favorite records are from the 80s too, but great stuff is being released every single week. And Def f*cking Leppard? That shit is the opposite of timeless. The production is dated, the lyrics completely vapid and corny, and the musicianship is about 8th grade level most of the time.

Should have said Number of the Beast, Disintegration, Power Corruption and Lies, Thriller, Keeper of the Seven Keys, Actually, It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back, 1987 - What the f*ck Is Going On?, In 3D, Violator,  Mummer, Purple Rain, Back to Basics, The Queen is Dead, Closer, Licensed to Ill, ...and Justice for All, Operation Mindcrime, etc etc etc. Def Leppard was easily one of the worst bands of the 80s, better only than the ten thousand clone bands that came after them.

Sorry but I have to take issue with this. Def Leppard's first 2 albums, On Through The Night and High and Dry are classics that I still listen to today. There's a raw quality to those albums that is lost in their later albums, especially Hysteria which was way too over-produced. I f*cking love Rock Brigade and Overture from their first album, the former a straight ahead kickass rock song and latter being a 7 minute plus epic. Don't get me wrong, I love Queensryche, Maiden, early Metallica, etc. My taste is very diverse when it comes to rock and metal. I just had to speak up for Def Leppard because of my love for their first 2 albums.

[NightWolve]

Def Leppard's first 2 albums, On Through The Night and High and Dry are classics that I still listen to today.

Huh, never heard of 'em. I'll keep it in mind some time though and maybe look 'em up.

[RyuHayabusa]

Def Leppard's first 2 albums, On Through The Night and High and Dry are classics that I still listen to today.

Huh, never heard of 'em. I'll keep it in mind some time though and maybe look 'em up.

[GreatBlueSwirlof99]

I hate being born 2 decades too late  I personally like 80's music (it's better than the stuff we had horrible early '00s music) missed all the good classics and the world was better then than now !

[SignOfZeta]

Violator.

Hell yes.

Obviously, I'll go ahead and add Dare! to the list of Zeta's "Excellent Albums"

*ducks*

I don't care. I love that album.

Plus, it's imperfections are part of its charm.

Don't hate the Human League because you heard one song played too often on the radio.

Great band. Great albums. Many flaws. Charming flaws.

Except for that one shite album that even I can't stomach—Crash.

God awful shite. I loathe Crash.

I love Human League, but Dare? That's like saying Peter Gabriel's best album was So.

[technozombie]

Violator.

Hell yes.

Obviously, I'll go ahead and add Dare! to the list of Zeta's "Excellent Albums"

*ducks*

I don't care. I love that album.

Plus, it's imperfections are part of its charm.

Don't hate the Human League because you heard one song played too often on the radio.

Great band. Great albums. Many flaws. Charming flaws.

Except for that one shite album that even I can't stomach—Crash.

God awful shite. I loathe Crash.

I love Human League, but Dare? That's like saying Peter Gabriel's best album was So.

I have Human League: Travelogue that I picked up from a flea market. I really like it even though I haven't got to spend much time with it. I also picked up Thomas Dolby, she blinded we with science is the weakest song on the album. Some songs are very Bowie like.

[SignOfZeta]

Human League gets better the further back you go, preferably before the ladies came on. At the beginning it was closer to Suicide than the sort of catchy but totally forgettable synth pop they are famous for. There are late period Human League songs I love, same with Peter Gabirel, but there is a time when even the greatest bands on Earth just start...kinda sucking...it doesn't mean you can't still love the new crap (I payed $120 to see New Order in 2012) but it's kinda over regardless.

Just to be clear, the only avant-garde electronic act who's work I knew in 1979 was the BBC Radiophonic Workshop because I was five! I'm one of the "older" guys here, but not that old. However, we have the Internet now. It's time to slab your Poison tapes and dive head first into the human music experience in its totality.

You'll never be the same after 32,000 hours of Negativeland!

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[Opethian]

its da muhfuggin po-lice muhfuggin copeland