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Uh, I like good 80s music anyway

Some bands are better than others. It's hard to say I dislike or like an entire decade of music. That's ten years; more than fifty percent of my life

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Originally posted by Triceratopsoil

Uh, I like good 80s music anyway

This I guess.

I like what I like from ant decade. I can't really generalise about any one decade.

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In spite of the "80s stigma" (due mostly to lots of crappy/silly new romantic & hair metal bands, though there's always a grey area), that decade had/has tons of great music, especially when it comes to progressive-electronic.

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I don't like fads, but there is some great music from the 80's decade.

''80's music'' means Bananarama , China Crisis , Simple Minds, Duran Duran etc doesn't it?

if its '80's prog' then I like it. IQ are one of my favourite bands and Marillion made some very decent albums. Add Rush , Kate Bush , Eloy and Mike Oldfield and it adds up to a good decade.

Edited by richardh - November 17 2013 at 04:46

Having been born in the 50s, I lived through the 60s/70s and saw prog emerge, flourish, then largely either descend into pomposity or commercialism. What came after was either punk, neo-romanticism or the alternative art rock of bands like Talking Heads. My initial reaction was to label all 80s music as ****.

But slowly, some gems emerged, Nostell Priory 198(3) introduced me to a fledgling Marillion, who rapidly became firm favourites. Later, I discovered IQ, whose first two albums I think are actually even marginally better than Marillion's first two. Big Country emerged from the ashes of the Skids and released some quite brilliant albums - some have definite progressive traits. Dire Straits became much more complex and sophisticated and released three albums which are quite superb and flit round the fringes of prog. A Celtic Rock band called Runrig emerged from the Western Highlands and released their third album, an astonishing concept album (Recovery), which had half the songs in their native language (Gaelic). Their followed it up with Heartland (equally astonishing) and a series of excellent, commercially successful "song" albums and a live album of incredible energy which ranks up there with the very best.

One or two of the 70s acts kept the faith. Camel reversed their late 70s decline with the brilliant Nude and, after a blip with The Single Factor, bounced back with Stationary Traveller, an album which improves enormously with repeated listening. Jethro Tull released Crest of a Knave which I don't like much but many do ( does anyone else think that, at times, they sound a bit like Dire Straits clones on this?).

And there's Asia. I don't regard their first album as particularly progressive but, if it had been released by four musicians who had never been in a prog band, I'd have liked it a lot (and I do) because the songs are great. Most of the hate seems to be because it was recorded by prog heroes who were viewed as "selling out".

There are many more good albums from the 80s

However, there's a lot of utter dross too.

Edited by Hercules - November 17 2013 at 04:57

80's music ? Post Punk : Yes / Progressive Rock : :No.

when i was living in the 80s, i hated most of the music with a passion; now, i like hearing it, even tho i don't actively collect it.

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Plenty of reasons to love the 80s right there. So many more from where they came from, I just took some different albums from various underground scenes.

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