The '80's also had the terrific sit com, Square Pegs. It was like Sex in the City but about High School, and it had great bands on it. We had New Wave, and other great bands. Remember without Husker Du or the Pixies there would never have been a Nirvana. I can't think of a band from the 90's or even presently that could hold a candle to the Clash. Bob Finn might have the music angle with the 60's though.
my favorite time period was the early 90s, probably b/c i was in my teen years and the most important thing in my life at that time was playing basketball and football with my friends everyday... I was a child of the 80s, but the music and TV of the early 90s (1990-1993) was my fave!
Even though I was born in 1979, I don't really remember much of the 80's besides The Challenger, The Berlink Wall falling, tiananmen square and the invasion of Panama. Oh and I remember seeing Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Nightmare on Elm Street. Of course I remember all of the Superbowls starting in 1985 and I remember the 1988 election with Bush and Dukakus. And mostly SNL! Not too much for a whole 10 years though. But now that I am older I really enjoy watching anything from the 80's, especially movies and tv. Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Back to the Future trilogies, Sixteen Candles, Red Dawn, Rocky, National Lampoon's Vacation, The Gremlins, ET, Terminator, etc. I also like to watch anything about Reagan negotiating with Gorbachev over missle treaties. I am a 90's kid though, that is definitely when I grew up. I remember almost anything from the 90's. From the Gulf War to the Internet Stock Boom and Bust to the Y2K bug. What a decade... I used to watch MTV so religiously and now it just sucks... Good Times.
I was born in 82 and I can remember the florescent clothing, George Micheal, Cindy Lauper, cheesy B movies, that "where's the beef" lady, and I can honestly say that 80's pop culture was an acquired taste.
Over the last 35 to 40 years, the decade of the 80's has to be the worst musical decade. Maybe the worst musical decade of all time...JMHO of course...
80's.... Anytime a band named Kajagoogoo can have a hit....it has to be a great decade !!! Shy to shy, hush hush.... DaDakota
I was born in 87. It kind of seems weird, cause I didn't get to experience the 80s, and by the time I started middle school, the 90s were basically over. I guess that the 00s will be my decade.
I was born in 1980, and I feel I strongly identify with the ideals largely held in the 1920's. Lousy prohibition.
Actually, it's... Too shy, shy Hush, hush Eye to eye. The only reason to listen to that band was the bass player, Tony Franklin, who later played with The Firm (with Jimmy Page and Paul Rogers) and Blue Murder (with John Sykes - formerly of Whitesnake and Thin Lizzy). Tony rocked.
Proof that the 80s had the great music is that most major markets have a radio station dedicated to 80s music, and dance clubs that play 80s music.
Amen my brother!! Testify!! I was born a looong time ago...so I feel good about 2 decades...I remember the 70's with great fondness....the music in particular... the 70's gets a bad rep for music because disco was the most prominant style...but that totally overlooks the great rock and heavy metal which was goin on back then...(Zep, Purple, Sabbath, UFO, Thin Lizzy..etc...) but the 80's were when I really came of age...(I turned 15 in 80)..and when Heavy Metal really became the dominant style of music...ahhh great days.. Night Court!! yes! I loved that show....Markie Post!! finger lickin good!! anyway..to stay more directly on-topic...don't worry about it yet ...you have to be alive during more than one decade before you can decide which one you relate more to.
It's scary how obsessed I am with the 80s. I was born in '83...so I really don't remember anything about them. The music was the best. I listen to 106.9 the point all day. The movies were great (breakfast club, 16 candles, fast times). Heck, I'm even fascinated by the periods of world conflict in the 80s....(tiananmen square and berlin wall). My favorite band of all time isn't the Backstreet Boys or 'n sync, it's The Police. I'm like psychotic, I have like dreams going to high school when The Breakfast Club came out and talking to people about it. I need help. I have 80s-infuego. I would kill to have been born in like 1972 or something. argh!
There are stations in every market dedicated to music of the 50's and 60's as well as classic rock of the 60's and 70's. It's not an exclusive club. Besides, 80's music is still popular because teens from the 80's were the first generation to really embrace digital music and CD's, so they still spend money on them. If you look at any marketing demographics from the record industry, their biggest sales come from 14-24 year-olds, not surprisingly. However, the 30-35 market is also significant even though the 35+ drops off dramatically. In fact, only the country music industry actively markets to people over 35. Pop, R&B and others do not when it comes to CD sales because there is just no market for them. That group just doesn't buy CD's on a regular basis. The main reason is that most of those who grew up as teens in the 70's didn't really latch onto the digital changes in music. They still go to concerts as evidenced by the crowds that still go to see Elton John, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Steely Dan, hell, even Foghat because that was the first real era of live rock music. Look at all the live albums released in the 70's that went on to HUGE sales - Frampton Comes Alive is still one of the most-played records on classic radio. A big part of that was because technology in the studio was equal to or worse than technolgy for live sound production unlike today when comparing the studios in the homes of amateur musicians against the big recording studios of the 70's is like comparing a DVD to an 8-track. Back then, the bands really had to be good live to earn a living so records took a week to make and cost about $5,000. Today, they take an average of three months and cost an average of $250,000. In addition, FM radio really didn't become popular until the mid-70's. Music on the radio, as a business, was in its infancy. People relied on concerts and radio broadcasts later in the 70's to hear great music, not records. Finally, it wasn't until the early 80's that the music business began actively marketing itself on a massive scale. Up until then, it was mostly an outlaw business, not the button-down corporate industry we know today. There were record companies that were VERY successful that were run out of studio apartments and spare bedrooms in the 70's. Not so by 1985. The 80's was the first era of really, truly target marketed music for the express purpose of SELLING RECORDS. It was then that they saw the true potential of record sales and, eventually, CD sales. Those who grew up as teens in the 80's like myself got the first full-on hard sell to buy records, which is why we still buy that music like crazy. We were the first generation to trade out our records for CD's unlike music fans from the 70's, many of whom still guard their vinyl like it was sacred. Marketing of 80's radio stations (that also happen to play music from the 90's that just fits the style of music being played) are popular because we are still in their heavy sales demographic. It has little to do with the quality of the music.
