Even U2 was good in the 80s.
I loved the 80's too. I was in college, no mortgage, no job, no bills, great music, great President.
Exactly.
I graduated in '82 and I recall the music was great during that time.
It's not just nostalgia. I recall feeling that way back then.
Even up 'til 88 or so, the music was great.
But the prime years had to have been 1980-1985.
I'm always suspicious of "good ol' days" nostalgia, especially when it's my own, but I think they key thing was that crappy 80s pop is much better than crappy 00's pop.
You'd see creativity, whimsy, unusual, fun stuff Much more variety. . Top 40 now is nothing but vapid "R & B" ballads. Back then Thomas Dolby could crack the top 40 with "She Blinded Me With Science" etc.
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. ;-)
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.