[discostu]

Well the 80s is what gave birth to a real underground music scene, because the frontline of music blew chunks. When the frontline consists of primarily bad Stones, crappy flock of Seagulls "dance music", and Enya there's nothing to do but go underground. There was some pretty good stuff in the 80s, mostly in that funky African beat crowd (not the Paul Simon junk, the real African beat crowd like Talking Heads and Oingo Boingo), but overall it was a pretty crappy decade filled with largely synthetic sterile boring "music".

[Alberta's Child]

I thought Tom Petty's "Southern Accents" was a very good 1980s record. And Don Henley's "Boys of Summer" was a classic hit, too.

Ironically, I think the music for this song was originally written by Tom Petty but he didn't like it. Henley heard Petty's original song and decided that it would sound much better with the chords played backwards. The rest is history.