I love the 80's

[jfrost]

I wouldn't give up the internet or cell phones for the predominance of any music genre, ever. Everything was difficult in the past. I even remember the Seinfeld episode in which they can't get together to watch a movie. Watching it recently, I noticed how something so trivial was hard for them to put together without cell phones. And that was the 90s.

[Flake]

I wouldn't give up the internet or cell phones for the predominance of any music genre, ever. Everything was difficult in the past. I even remember the Seinfeld episode in which they can't get together to watch a movie. Watching it recently, I noticed how something so trivial was hard for them to put together without cell phones. And that was the 90s.

I'd totally be okay with losing cell phones. Cell phones make it so no one focuses on where they are right now, what they are doing right now. That and I'm tired of almost getting sideswiped by jerks who find texting 'lol g2g fma' to pay attention to their 2 ton vehicle of potential doom.

Giving up the internet would be a little more difficult. I guess in the 80's racketboy would take the form of a niche magazine where we all wrote / responded to letters about how Sega and Nintendo have it all wrong and are ruining the games industry.

[Hatta]

The music

Really? Man, 80s music is awful, just awful. I can only think of exactly one 80s band that produced anything that stood the test of time. I'm referring to the Talking Heads.

It was a great time for film and computing(BBSs!), but musically it was a vast wasteland. Even The Dead sucked in the 80s.

[jp1]

The music

Really? Man, 80s music is awful, just awful. I can only think of exactly one 80s band that produced anything that stood the test of time. I'm referring to the Talking Heads.

It was a great time for film and computing(BBSs!), but musically it was a vast wasteland. Even The Dead sucked in the 80s.

Blasphemy.

[YoshiEgg25]

The music

Really? Man, 80s music is awful, just awful. I can only think of exactly one 80s band that produced anything that stood the test of time. I'm referring to the Talking Heads.

It was a great time for film and computing(BBSs!), but musically it was a vast wasteland. Even The Dead sucked in the 80s.

I agree with the T-Heads, but what about The Clash? AC/DC? The B-52s? Boston?

There was a lot of great music out there. Maybe not as much as the '60s or '70s, but hey, of course it wouldn't!

[jfrost]

Giving up the internet would be a little more difficult.

Oh, yes. I got a job recently collecting statistics on jobs, unemployment, income, etc, for the Brazilian equivalent of the Census Bureau. Since I don't have a GPS (and a car), I always look up the places where I'm supposed to go on Google Maps and the buses intineraries. Doing this with paper maps would be a nightmare (since I have to go to a million places a week), and this city is pretty big. The internet is far too important to me to give up to some music trends.

Now, thinking about it, probably the only thing of the 2000s I would give up in exchange of anything of the 80s would be the zombie apocalypse fad. But that's because I would give it up in exchange for nothing anyway.

[jp1]

Giving up the internet would be a little more difficult.

Oh, yes. I got a job recently collecting statistics on jobs, unemployment, income, etc, for the Brazilian equivalent of the Census Bureau. Since I don't have a GPS (and a car), I always look up the places where I'm supposed to go on Google Maps and the buses intineraries. Doing this with paper maps would be a nightmare (since I have to go to a million places a week), and this city is pretty big. The internet is far too important to me to give up to some music trends.

Now, thinking about it, probably the only thing of the 2000s I would give up in exchange of anything of the 80s would be the zombie apocalypse fad. But that's because I would give it up in exchange for nothing anyway.

It isn't just the music trends I'm talking about. It is the entire pre-internet culture. So much is done online and through the use of pc that we have lost some of the human element. I wouldn't go without internet these days but if I could go back before anyone had internet and the world was equipped to handle life without it then I would. Also "trends" isn't quite were I am going with the music...I don't think you could classify today's "music" with what we had before 2000 or so.

[Quiet Flight]

most of 80s are horrible, esp fashion and most music

the movies on the other hand are gold

[Fickieboy]

Worst music ever, worst music production ever...

Not so fast:

Hip hop is the only genre coming to my mind that sounded better in the 80's

[Fickieboy]

Worst music ever, worst music production ever...

Not so fast:

This is one of the most false statements ever made. I can understand if you don't like the genres, but production? Ever since digital compression came out the production of music has gone to shit. Everything is now over-processed midrange bullshit. Analog anyday (and this is not because of nostalgia).










etc..i'm sure everyone has countless examples of music they like.

Those are minor examples of what the 80s were, I meant "the general idea of what 80's and its mainstream music" sucked, not specific examples. Plus mostly would have sounded better in the early 90's, even in the late (specially devo).

Snares with reverb? hihats all over the place? etc