I love the 80's

[Hobie-wan]

I don't miss the tiger striped neon, but I too have fond memories of many things in the 80s. My obsession with music started in 1988 and there are a ton of albums that came out between 87 and 89 that really drew me into the madness.

Front 242 - Front by Front, Official Version
Siouxsie and the Banshees - Peepshow
Skinny Puppy - VIVIsectVI, Cleanse Fold and Manipulate, Mind: The Perpetual Intercourse
Meat Beat Manifesto - Storm the Studio
Ministry - The Land of Rape and Honey
Greater Then One - London
Information Society
Jane's Addiction - Nothing's Shocking
KMFDM - Don't Blow Your Top
Lard - Power of Lard
Love and Rockets - Earth Sun Moon
The Cure - Kiss Me, Kiss Me, Kiss Me
New Order - Substance
Nine Inch Nails - Pretty Hate Machine
The Weathermen - The Black Album According to the Weathermen
Foetus Interruptus - Thaw
Cabaret Voltaire - Code

And many more that just didn't immediately spring to mind.

[Hatta]

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!

Clash - punk sucks
AC/DC - metal sucks
B-52s - OK, but it all sounds the same
Boston - you have got to be kidding me.

I'll take 70s punk, 60s psychedelia, 50s rock n roll, 40s cool jazz & bluegrass, 30s swing & blues, and early 20th century classical music (Stravinsky, Bartok) over anything from the 80s. The 1980s were hands down the worst period in the history of recorded music. But that's just my opinion.

[YoshiEgg25]

The 1980s were hands down the worst period in the history of recorded music. But that's just my opinion.

*points to the 2000s*

Taylor Swift, Lady Gaga, Kanye West, and Justin Beaver. Seriously? None of the bands I mentioned are better than these?

[Hatta]

Ah, but the 2000s have been fantastic for the jam scene. Bands like STS9, YMSB, Raq, Beneveneto Russo, Phil Lesh and Friends, etc. have been tearing it up in the past decade. If you like seeing live music and boogying your ass off, there's been no shortage of opportunities.

[Jrecee]

Never heard of any of those.

I think the argument needs to be POP music from the 80s is better than pop music from the 2000s. The 80s brought nearly every huge michael jackson hit there was.

[final fight cd]

Lady Gaga

you disrespect lady gaga, you disrespect me. and you don't want to get on my bad side.

[Gamerforlife]

Bah! Lady Gaga's a joke

Michael Jackson was awesome

[RCBH928]

How can you say 80's music was bad?!
When there is some one like Michael Jackson in the 80's!
You know what?
the 70's and the 90's are awesome just because they were close to 80's where MJ reached his career's climax , how about that?
Yes I am a fan boy.

In all honesty, people will always have different tastes and nostalgia plays a role a huge role , everyone will remember his childhood as a better time but what people don't understand is that life all together was simpler in the 80's , and simpler was better.

For real, I rather wait a month to get quality news in a magazine than get updates by the second with stuff like:
"Call of Duty changed its cover art from brown to dark brown"
"People with iphones more likely to go out than people with Andriod"
"facebook reached 1,000,000 fans for the group 'People with mohawk but hate metal music' "

If you look back at everything, it just had passion and taste, sure bad things existed but lets look at it in general. Today everything is capitalist, money is the main aim. Do you think we will miss the reality shows in the future? to hell with it, it sucks!
anything that will make money will be done, maximum profit is the aim.
Remember in the 80's when Nintendo had a limit of released games each year for each publisher to assure quality? thats the kind of difference I am talking about.

Life was simpler, and quality was over quantity.
Also the period of transition was really cool, computers were just showing up, and it was in balance of being fun and not eating your life away. Now we have internet addicts.

You really had to be there to understand why the 80's were so much fun. In reality I think the 80's era stretches all the way up to mid to late 90's . things were about the same up just to around '97(when the internet started to spread!).

Sure we have cooler stuff now than the 80's, like you can make super hero movies that look perfect thanks to cgi, online gameplay is great.

Some stuff used to really suck in the 80's especially lack of information. I for one couldn't decide on buying a game, because I don't know any reviews , and I can't "google" it. I can't ask if I should buy what because there are no place I can get reviews from.
If you liked an actor and wanted to know what other movies he made, where would you look?
If its not for the internet, I can't buy retro console or find products I want I had to search on foot!

but all in all, simpler times were better times.
We used to get the stuff and love it, we watched a movie a bazillion times and we licked it EACH time.
Now we get a bazillion movies each week and we care about none, its just all of the same thing over and over again.

[hashiriya1]

I remember when I was a kid in the 80s, my dad kept telling me how much better the 60s were. As for me, a child of the 80s, I am not trading my interwebs for aqua net! The great thing is, everything I enjoyed about the 80s, I can enjoy now. The games, music, movies, etc. The best of both worlds. Fire up Netflix or my Sega Master System, and voila, I am back in 1987.

[Specineff]

We used to get the stuff and love it, we watched a movie a bazillion times and we licked it EACH time.

But VHS tape tastes so nasty.