Can't go with you there. Van Halen dropped off big time when David Lee Roth left the band. No, "Jump!" wasn't my favorite VH hit. It was "House of Pain".
VH was great, but not as good as MÖTLEY CRÜE.
Posted on 03/04/2005 3:18:53 PM PST by qam1
Parts of it were still pretty rural, although Stuart was 'town' and Palm City was country. The beach was heaven back then. Now its all one big slab of concrete.
I enjoyed Nixon kicking McGovern.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Aside from 90 and 91, which were pretty good years, the rest of the decade became progressively lame and tiresome.
I wasn't but a gleam in my dad's eye, being born in '76 and all.
As opposed to the '00s, which have been severely depressing so far.
Man, I bet you were a cool kid. (Just kidding)
They've been pretty good for me so far, personally. It's been especially wonderful since spring of '03, when my little one was born.
I thought most all of it sucked. MTV ruined music because everyone was writing videos instead of songs.
Good song writing went away and was replaced with pop crap even in rock.
But then again I was in a funk because there was no new Led Zeppelin. ;-)
Can't go with you there. Van Halen dropped off big time when David Lee Roth left the band. No, "Jump!" wasn't my favorite VH hit. It was "House of Pain".
VH was great, but not as good as MÖTLEY CRÜE.
I agree with you. To me, the 80s was a musical void. I can not name one decent pop/rock act that came out of the 80s.
The new Judas Priest CD is amazing!!
Hey, the Seventies were the "most ridiculous decade" champs forever it seemed like and even they finally receded into the past enough to become cute. Why not the 80s?
The Seventies finished the party that they Sixties started. The 80s were a bit more subdued, true, but it was a needed correction. Thank goodness we had it or with the violent lurch to the left of the Nineties, we'd all probably be saying "Da, Komrade" by now.
I wasn't aware that the new Tears for Fears album was out yet. When was it released?
It seems that there has been a concerted attempt at bringing back 80s nostalgia for some time now. It catches on slightly for awhile then fizzles. I guess the powers that be thought that the 70s 'nostalgia' of the 90s could be replicated with the 80s. I guess not. The grunge music of the 90s was somewhat a throwback to Black Sabbath (early 70s) and then 70s fashion started to hit around the mid 90s into the early 00s. Whereas "That 70s Show" was/is popular, the attempt at "That 80s Show" was a quick flop. Maybe people just aren't ready for an 80s revival yet. The article mentions "The Big 80s", but that show has been around for almost 10 years, hasn't it? If it's still on, it would be reruns, I think.
When I lived in California in the mid 90s, I remember there was an article in the Orange County Register talking about the emergence of 80s nostalgia much earlier than one would expect; sort of an instant nostalgia for a time that hadn't been gone all that long. The article mentioned the "The Big 80s" and did a small interview with Julie Brown (the redheaded comedienne VJ on MTV). It was a pretty long article and I recall thinking that they were right. There did seem to be some nostalgia for the old 80s videos and some of the pop culture. So, one could argue that this has been going on for a while.
Personally, I wasn't a huge fan of 80s music. I was still a Led Zeppelin guy and thought that the early 80s synth pop stuff was too wimpy. Now I have more of an appreciation of some of the more adventureous music of the 80s, as the rock/hard rock scene today is boring. The same guitar sound abounds in each song and the singing is off key much of the time. One thing you can say is that the music of the 80s was more fun as opposed to today.
Remember "Strange Brew"? We've been looking for it recently for the kids. That was a funny movie!
Believe me, the times we are in right now are just as interesting as the ones we were in back then... probably even more interesting.
The biggest problem I see is that each demographic cohort seems to feel it has to outdo the one before in terms of outrageousness. I don't see how that competition can continue indefinitely.
What movie?
Nostalgia will lead people to buy tix to see a band, if only in the club venue. I don't think it will motivate to buy an album.
Santana was a marked departure from the rest as he came blowing back out of the gate with a fresh, clean sound and captured another generation. The latino thing helped too. Good for him.
Give me a break. These idiots that wrote the article and those who are quoted in the article are still on a "Reagan was evil incarnate during the decade of greed" kick.
They admit that 80's nostalgia is big but lament the fact that revived groups are not. I liked Tears for Fears the first time. If they are back together and playing NEW music, I don't consider that 80's nostalgia. Duh!
I want to listen to the original Billy Idol, not a 50 year old Billy Idol.
What a ridculous premise for an article!
Yep. Today's music is either full of violence and obscenity, weird sounds like somebody playing with a shortwave, trite ideological statements or a combination.
Oddly, I've heard contemporary popular musicians whining about the lack of interest in their music and blaming it on file sharing software. The truth is that this decade has so far produced some really DISMAL music.
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