80's hits vs today's music.
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I'm in early twenties and I can't stand today's music (or many other things associated with my generation). I love the 80s. My parents were young in the '80s and grew up listening to it so I grew up with it and like it. I also like oldies, classic rock and older country.
vacerator
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The 80's
had lot's of good music. Also lot's of one hit wonders too, like "The Promise" by When in Rome.
Back then I never listened to classical either, but my taste in music was quite diverse.
Duran Duran, Steely Dan, Wham, Billy Idol, Pet Shop Boys, Smith's, even Phylis Hyman just to name some.
There is music of today that I don't detest.
Winners of the world have names, the rest want a name when thy lose. Learned to work the saxaphone, they play what they feel. Call them deacon blues.
had lot's of good music. Also lot's of one hit wonders too, like "The Promise" by When in Rome.
Back then I never listened to classical either, but my taste in music was quite diverse.
Duran Duran, Steely Dan, Wham, Billy Idol, Pet Shop Boys, Smith's, even Phylis Hyman just to name some.
There is music of today that I don't detest.
Winners of the world have names, the rest want a name when thy lose. Learned to work the saxaphone, they play what they feel. Call them deacon blues.
none of the above.
Cannot think of anything, '80's I like, but:
'80's was the last good decade, before the '90's nose-dive...
My mainly nothing-later-than-Late-'70's, at least stops around '82...
There's at least one radio station here that touts itself on "The '80's-til-now", but don't get me started on the endless replays of same stuff by Cyndi Lauper and Rick Springfield, and although Prince, Michael Jackson & Madonna are more preferred, it's often too many repetitious renditions of THEIR same stuff... Ditto for "more variety" being the occasional Duran, Duran--it's too often Naked Eyes, and Modern English, and a "You Know What", by either/both of 'em...
-- Dave
'80's was the last good decade, before the '90's nose-dive...
My mainly nothing-later-than-Late-'70's, at least stops around '82...
There's at least one radio station here that touts itself on "The '80's-til-now", but don't get me started on the endless replays of same stuff by Cyndi Lauper and Rick Springfield, and although Prince, Michael Jackson & Madonna are more preferred, it's often too many repetitious renditions of THEIR same stuff... Ditto for "more variety" being the occasional Duran, Duran--it's too often Naked Eyes, and Modern English, and a "You Know What", by either/both of 'em...
-- Dave
I love 70's and 90's, but not a huge fan of the 80's, except for some songs...
It's difficult to find something good after 2000. Maybe 2 or 3 songs from 2000 to 2017 are OK... but just OK...
It's difficult to find something good after 2000. Maybe 2 or 3 songs from 2000 to 2017 are OK... but just OK...
gusherb
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I listen to the best of every decade. I agree there's not a whole lot I like after 2000 though.
Some 70's, most 80's (loved me some George Michael)
While my heart belongs to music of the early 1970s, I continue to listen to the music of many favorites of the '80s.
These bands were my 1980s: (in no particular order)
XTC
The Psychedelic Furs
Cocteau Twins
Prefab Sprout
Husker Du
The Replacements
The Smiths
The Pixies
Echo & The Bunnymen
The Pretenders
REM
New Order
Wire
The Cure
Siouxsie & The Banshees
The Go-Betweens
The Jesus & Mary Chain
Prefab Sprout
Simple Minds
These bands were my 1980s: (in no particular order)
XTC
The Psychedelic Furs
Cocteau Twins
Prefab Sprout
Husker Du
The Replacements
The Smiths
The Pixies
Echo & The Bunnymen
The Pretenders
REM
New Order
Wire
The Cure
Siouxsie & The Banshees
The Go-Betweens
The Jesus & Mary Chain
Prefab Sprout
Simple Minds
vacerator
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Wow, yeah!
All those also.
Too weird George Michael is gone. Younger than myself. George O'dowd still here, and older than I.
How about Pat Benatar? She also sings opera. Bashia? They never did classify her as strictly pop, vocal jazz, or blue eyed soul.
B-52's? Debbie Harry?
I can't deny, I do like Adell.
All those also.
Too weird George Michael is gone. Younger than myself. George O'dowd still here, and older than I.
How about Pat Benatar? She also sings opera. Bashia? They never did classify her as strictly pop, vocal jazz, or blue eyed soul.
B-52's? Debbie Harry?
I can't deny, I do like Adell.
George Michael/Wham! Yeh, "same thing", plenty of that 'round here still plays...!
-- Dave
-- Dave
I love 60s, 70s, and especially 80s music. The 90s for me offered very little, and today's music just doesn't cut it for me. I also like the older country music that my parents listened to such as Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Charlie Rich, Marty Robbins...you get the picture.
My husband loves Sam Smith but there is something about the sound of his voice that I find irritating. I wish I could describe the way it sounds to me. It seems clipped, like he is trying hard to not to let the words come out, almost as if he were gagging. As I said before, I can't really describe how it sounds to me and I don't want to be offensive to others who may like Sam Smith.
My husband loves Sam Smith but there is something about the sound of his voice that I find irritating. I wish I could describe the way it sounds to me. It seems clipped, like he is trying hard to not to let the words come out, almost as if he were gagging. As I said before, I can't really describe how it sounds to me and I don't want to be offensive to others who may like Sam Smith.
firedome
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1956 - 1975, and very little else...
Michael Jackson--to the point of where there is no need, really, to invest in the THRILLER album (& hear the best bits from OFF THE WALL)...
-- Dave
-- Dave
cfz2882
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'80s
mostly '80s all the way-especially 1981-85,a lot of bands began to tend towards overproduced albums around mid decade-VanHalen 5150(1986) for example...In the early '80s I had new music streaming into the fort/C.P.(my main listening area)from about 5 sources:Mtv,Nite tracks,local FM,Late night AM,and a record store was nearby
Also one day in'82,making my dumpster check rounds,discovered a dumpster half full of LP records(all ~1975-82 rock/pop)got most of them,but a teenager seen what I was doing and got a few too I still have a few left this grab.playlist depends some on which car or building I am in or jukebox-'76 AMI jukebox naturally plays a lot of ~mid '70s selections.some selections only play at night others day only.Some delightfully weird stuff with the right ambience would play down in the ultraviolet lit mushroom tunnels under the fort/C.P. facility.I like a lot of ~1955-2000 rock/pop as well
mostly '80s all the way-especially 1981-85,a lot of bands began to tend towards overproduced albums around mid decade-VanHalen 5150(1986) for example...In the early '80s I had new music streaming into the fort/C.P.(my main listening area)from about 5 sources:Mtv,Nite tracks,local FM,Late night AM,and a record store was nearby
Also one day in'82,making my dumpster check rounds,discovered a dumpster half full of LP records(all ~1975-82 rock/pop)got most of them,but a teenager seen what I was doing and got a few too I still have a few left this grab.playlist depends some on which car or building I am in or jukebox-'76 AMI jukebox naturally plays a lot of ~mid '70s selections.some selections only play at night others day only.Some delightfully weird stuff with the right ambience would play down in the ultraviolet lit mushroom tunnels under the fort/C.P. facility.I like a lot of ~1955-2000 rock/pop as well
I listen to a variety of music. Country I'll listen anything on up to the early 2000s. After that it just got pop. Rock, anything into the 80s. I also like jazz and swing music. I also will listen to Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra type music as well. I'm happy listening to Patsy Cline, ZZ Top, Engelbert Humperdink, Johnny Mathis, Wham!, George Strait, Hank Williams, or Reba McEntire.
Like in my initial post, "on the radio", there's OMD (more to 'em than "If You Leave") and Whitesnake (more than just "Here I Go Again", which is played on all four of my car radio's four presets), that pretty much sums up my '80's listening...
But there's also Prince, a pretty much routine song selection, & who knows if he were alive today what great songs he (& along w/ M.J., they) could be doing right now?
-- Dave
But there's also Prince, a pretty much routine song selection, & who knows if he were alive today what great songs he (& along w/ M.J., they) could be doing right now?
-- Dave
ptcruiser51
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50s/60s are @ home
at my house in SoFlo. I stopped buying music circa 1980. I enjoy playing all my vinyl and do that often. From time to time I do like to hear Madonna, George Michael, Blondie and occasional disco oldies. Ixnay on Prince, M. Jackson, Wings, and especially later Stones. We have a radio station here that plays a nice mix, but in any 20-minute set they must MUST play something by Prince or Jackson. Instant pushbutton activation in the car...
at my house in SoFlo. I stopped buying music circa 1980. I enjoy playing all my vinyl and do that often. From time to time I do like to hear Madonna, George Michael, Blondie and occasional disco oldies. Ixnay on Prince, M. Jackson, Wings, and especially later Stones. We have a radio station here that plays a nice mix, but in any 20-minute set they must MUST play something by Prince or Jackson. Instant pushbutton activation in the car...
fan-of-fans
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I like some music from many eras, but don't like most of today's music at all, though I don't pay much attention to the new stuff. I stopped liking current music around 2012 or so and even then I mostly only liked new music that wasn't mainstream. Most of my favorite bands have disbanded in the last couple of years. Would like to find more of the same sound but not easy to find.
