― Patrick, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Ally, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― ethan, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Very close, but I'll say 70s. These days, when I listen to music that's new to me from the 70s, I usually like it more than stuff new to me from the 80s. I like 70s R&B better than 80s R&B. Then you got your Krautrock. Also, I like disco more than most hip-hop until around 1986. Yup, 70s it is.
― Mark, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Sean Carruthers, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Eighties. More gloss.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 2 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
BTW, Chuck Eddy fans (and everyone else, really) should look for Phil Dellio and Scott Woods' book, I Wanna Be Sedated - it's freakin' hilarious, and sometimes oddly touching, and explores such 70s phenomena as double live albums, K-Tel records and Abba.
― Patrick, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Dr. C, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Ally C, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Still: 80s...House Music, clinches it all.
― Omar, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Jeff, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
80's: Power Metal Ballads, Bangles, The Final Countdown, lots of pop
4-4! It's a draw...no extra time, no golden goal, no penalty shoot outs.
― james e l, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― AP, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Ally, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Clarke B., Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
the beach boys in their most peculiar and possibly most satisfying decade, david bowie when he was good, al green before jesus took him from us, disco and the proto-disco of philly international, broooooooce when he was still rockin', abba, stooges, dolls, james brown at his funkiest, p-funk, roxy, t. rex, big star, led zep, cheap trick, the two elvises: both at their most extreme, stevie wonder, waits when he was a boozehound, etc.
the 80s suffer because i lived through them and therefore can recall with first-hand experience all of the crap. sure, i know about the crap from the 70s, but i didn't have to live with it.
― fred solinger, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― mark s, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 3 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Destroy : free-jam wankerama
Other eras: not relevant to question. Though, yeah, 50s rock'n'roll, 50s crooners, 30s blues, all sound more "homogenized" (as musical genres) than an amorphous category of "80s music".
― AP, Saturday, 5 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
Matter of fact, I'd take the Seventies over the Sixties too. Partly because all the bad shit associated with the Seventies -- crap clothes, double- and triple-albums of pseudo-cosmic wank, Ronald Reagan -- were all born in the Sixties (though they grew up in the Seventies). Plus the Seventies had all the sex, drugs, rock 'n' roll and fun that the Sixties did but without getting drafted to go to Vietnam and without all the hippie bullshit.
― Tadeusz Suchodolski, Tuesday, 22 May 2001 00:00 (twenty-four years ago)
― Lord Custos, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― dave q, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― dleone, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Nick, Wednesday, 31 October 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― DeRayMi, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― ALly, Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Dan I., Tuesday, 6 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ally, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Arthur, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Sterling Clover, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 7 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
But yeah, that VH1 show was like propeganda for dad rock. Ramon got all mad, he's like all, "They wanna talk about disco and new wave being short lived fads! Look at grunge! It was like 3 years! And who sounds like that now besides fucking Staind! This is the most objectionable show ever!" And quite frankly, I agreed with him. So we turned off the Ibiza show and watched David Letterman instead. And why was Shannen Doherty hosting that '80s show?!?!?!
That Ibiza show was horrible, it was all about this guy walking around rubbing lotion on not very attractive naked foreign hippie chicks, what the hell?
― Somalia Gullette, Thursday, 15 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Ally, Friday, 16 November 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)
― Mark, Wednesday, 3 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Josh, Thursday, 4 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)
I'm curious about the ideas behind decades, the media-image of what a decade becomes, I guess, usurping what people's actual experiences were. The 80s as I lived it are crystal-clear in my mind, and now that the 80s are emerging as a pop culture trend, its interesting to compare the contemporary version of the 80s with my memories of the "real thing." Though my memories of the 70s are fuzzier (turned ten in 1979) something similar happened there. So someone who has almost no true memories of the 70s or 80s would approach both on equal footing, evaluating each solely on the basis of the media they come into contact with. And it seems like that could lead to soemthing interesting.
― Mark, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)
I can't help but think this might be typical for listeners with a certain kind of history: people who grew up on classic rock who haven't taken the time to load up on postpunk, hardcore, alternative, etc. from the 80s.
― Josh, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)
a lot of those records are jazz records, which I barely know anything about in the 80s. but I notice that it's only in the 90s and 57-67 that I start caring more about the time period, and that makes sense to me, because I mostly prefer (have always preferred) contemporary rock and pop, and jazz after bop hit.
I've noticed for the 70's people mention mostly genres: "70's hands down. Glam, punk, and disco!", while the 80's are more revered for specific artists: "'80s win because the '80s had Poison"
This is why I immediately want to pick the 80's. The favorites really jump out. Stepping back and really examining the facts, tho, the "objectivity" only makes it harder to judge. I can't pick between Sly and Prince!
Results: inconclusive (but if you forced me I'd say 80's damnit)
― Keiko, Friday, 5 July 2002 00:00 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Sunday, 6 April 2003 23:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:07 (twenty-two years ago)
― Jody Beth Rosen (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:14 (twenty-two years ago)
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:15 (twenty-two years ago)
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:16 (twenty-two years ago)
― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:24 (twenty-two years ago)
Generally, I think the best eras for music so far have been:63-67 (Merseybeat/beat followed by the summer of 67 and a lot of great psychedelic pop)72-76 (Golden age of prog and "pomp pop")81-84 (New Romantics, Synthpop)94-97 (Britpop)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:26 (twenty-two years ago)
(Springsteen = 80s?)
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:28 (twenty-two years ago)
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:29 (twenty-two years ago)
― sundar subramanian (sundar), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:32 (twenty-two years ago)
― Geir Hongro (GeirHong), Monday, 7 April 2003 01:38 (twenty-two years ago)
― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 7 April 2003 02:23 (twenty-two years ago)
― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Monday, 7 April 2003 05:09 (twenty-two years ago)
― SplendidMullet (iamamonkey), Monday, 7 April 2003 05:13 (twenty-two years ago)
― rex jr, Monday, 7 April 2003 07:10 (twenty-two years ago)