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PrintableI was about to give a resounding, "I don't" until I stopped and thought about what pop music I was listening to.
Some of them... 
The Nightfly - Donald Fagen 
Gaucho - Steely Dan 
***Private Dancer - Tina Turner 
Panorama - The Cars 
Controversy - Prince 
Avalon - Roxy Music 
I Feel For You - Chaka Kahn 
Gap Band IV - The Gap Band 
The Golden Age of Wireless - Thomas Dolby 
Ice Cream Castle - The Time 
Ghosts In The Machine - The Police 
Promise - Sade 
Reach The Beach - The Fixx 
Spring Session M - Missing Persons 
Control - Janet Jackson 
The Secret of Association - Paul Young 
Back In Black - AC/DC 
Thriller - Michael Jackson 
Cosmic Thing - The B-52's 
Introducing the Hardline - Terence Trent D'Arby 
The Completion Backward Principle - The Tubes 
Vivid - Living Colour 
Back In The High Life - Steve Winwood 
***Who's Zoomin' Who? - Aretha Franklin 
Utopia - Utopia 
Zapp - Zapp 
Forever Your Girl - Paula Abdul It's not that I yearn for this period, if it was up to me it would be a couple of decades earlier. However those records weren't bad. *** The return of Tina Turner and Aretha Franklin to the charts were major standouts. tA  Tribal Disorder
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suzysue said: i wasn't even a teen in the 80's, but i miss the era. i just think it was more fun then. i grew up in the 90's and don't think it was cool then.
I am 22 years old and about half of my collection is from the 80's says alot. It was a vast experimental time, new beats were out, different style teqniques of R&B, Breakbeat came about, Electro, House, Rap..everything was 'coming together' instead of just being manufactured like it is now. I know damn well I should be like, "Well that is so old" and all that junk but when I hear some stuff like "Bad Times I Cant Stand It" by Captain Rapp and "This Is My Night" by Chaka (12 Inch version) it is just undeniably funky and u just cant help but 2 dance. Music today hasnt done that alot for me and I miss that. The last songs I remember enjoyin dancing to that is new would probably be "Lose My Breath" and "1,2, Step" and 1,2, Step sounds like it was made in the 80's. And the love Im having for Gwen Stefani's new CD is just 80's -licious. Im young and I LOVE THE 80's!!! Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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vainandy said: The 1980s was the last decade where uptempo, funky, dance jams ruled the airwaves, with the exception of the very short lived dance/house era in the very early 1990s. From the 1990s till the present, practically everything is either a midtempo song or a ballad. It's rediculous, music is going backwards instead of forwards. My generation is not the one that's behind the times, it's the new generation. I have never seen a generation that has lost it's will to party and shake ass like this generation has. I guess they will keep getting slower until they return to the dull days of classical music.
The 1980s was also the last decade for individuality. Everyone had their own look back then. Stars looked liked stars, not everyday people. Stars stood out from the crowd and wore custom made clothes that no one else had. They didn't wear jeans and sports jerseys. Today's stars look like they have been shopping at Wal-Mart. It's not that I miss the 1980s, I miss good, real music, made by musicians and singers, rather than thugged out, juvenille delinquint, common, ordinary "poetry readers". "I look clean in my WHITE TEE"  How more plain and dull can we get?
c come on..a white t-shirt? come on now..come on. And it seems like there arent really no fast songs on the radio u are right. I LONG FOR THAT. Everything is so midtempo in R&B it is rediculous. That Destiny Child CD proved that. EVERYTHING IS MIDTEMPO 
But when I heard Basement Jaxx's "Oh My Gosh" I returned to  for a little bit, but I wonder how long it will last before   again.Straight Jacket Funk Affair
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The world sucks now, it was slightly better than, the 21st century has sucked major ass...here's hoping we live another decade... | |
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Another thing I miss from the 1980s was the presence of live DJs on the radio. In the 1990s, most stations became automated. The DJs would come in, program their music in the computer, record their voice, and go home. DJs, these days, are only on the air live in the drive time before and after work.
There is nothing like the presence of a live DJ to keep you company and entertain you when you are bored or lonely at work. Especially if you have to work nights and weekends sometimes. It makes you feel like you are not alone and you are not the only person out there working these hours. It really trips me out when the automated stations screw up on the weekends or at night when no one is in the station to correct the problem. The DJ will announce a completely different song than the one playing or they may say it is a bright sunshiny day while it is raining cats and dogs outside.  Andy is a four letter word. | |
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I miss the 80s because they were fun, the music was great, and there was a sort of innocense about it. Stars were actually stars, and had talent or a sort of uniqueness about them. Now its all about how expensive your jewelry is, who your sleeping with, and what designer your rockin. I live as if its still the 80s most of the time and dont pay attention to most of the BS that goes on in music these days. Did you order a pizza ma'am? Prince- UTCM | |
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All right, y'all are making me miss the 80s just a little bit.
Here's one reason to miss the 80's: Being in college and discovering The Smiths, The Cure, and REM with everyone else in the dormitory at the same time. (We all kind of liked Billy Bragg too) Looking back at that scene, I can hardly complain. | |
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Also, the movies were great. Teen movies with Winona Ryder were campy, sarcastic and wierd. The Independent film scene was born. We're talking David Lynch, Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Richard Linklater, Martin Scorcese etc etc etc  That was before everyone and their mother had a digital movie camera and before they called movies starring Julia Roberts "independent". [Edited 1/30/05 11:57am] | |
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heartbeatocean said: Also, the movies were great. Teen movies with Winona Ryder were campy, sarcastic and wierd. The Independent film scene was born. We're talking David Lynch, Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Richard Linklater, Martin Scorcese etc etc etc
That was before everyone and their mother had a digital movie camera and before they called movies starring Julia Roberts "independent".
[Edited 1/30/05 11:57am] i agree. the teen movies were more grounded and the humor came from the ackwardness of being a teen. gross humor wasn't prevelant and wasn't the basis for the movies. back then it was a major controversy for film makers just trying to make it while making a point about issues. i still find myself watching Sixteen Candles and Heathers. My kitty wants to play... | |
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heartbeatocean said: Also, the movies were great. Teen movies with Winona Ryder were campy, sarcastic and wierd. The Independent film scene was born. We're talking David Lynch, Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Richard Linklater, Martin Scorcese etc etc etc
That was before everyone and their mother had a digital movie camera and before they called movies starring Julia Roberts "independent".
[Edited 1/30/05 11:57am] Well, I do agree with many people about the music. I stopped following the charts around 1995. It's the age, that's right, but looking backwards the 80's were so much more original. But as I said, I was a kid then, and I only listened to dad's jazzrecords at that time... I enjoy 80's and also 90's music much more than what is out today. But we should give ourself a break. This is the postmodern area, in which so many artistic ways have been tried before. It's the time of recycling, and what can we do to be original? (genetic manipulation, plastic surgery = the revival of eugenetica, that's what we have)  I mean 
Politics were shit in the 80's, as was the fashion. But yeah, politics is even worse now, and the fashion almost the same again. I'll never feel myself at ease in a materialistic, right-winged climate I guess. In this viewpoint the nineties were so much better, at least were I live.
But last but not least? How can we possibly say the filmindustry was so much better in the 80's? In Europe it wasn't, IMHO. The examples are plenty, let's take the Lars Von Trier movies for instance.  | |
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MarieLouise said: heartbeatocean said: Also, the movies were great. Teen movies with Winona Ryder were campy, sarcastic and wierd. The Independent film scene was born. We're talking David Lynch, Spike Lee, Jim Jarmusch, Richard Linklater, Martin Scorcese etc etc etc
That was before everyone and their mother had a digital movie camera and before they called movies starring Julia Roberts "independent".
[Edited 1/30/05 11:57am] But last but not least? How can we possibly say the filmindustry was so much better in the 80's? In Europe it wasn't, IMHO. The examples are plenty, let's take the Lars Von Trier movies for instance. I'm not saying the movies were better on the whole. But I miss the whole vibe of independent filmmaking breaking out against the industry, and the ones doing it were true pioneers. I'm mostly talking about American cinema in this context. I should have clarified that. | |
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MrTation said: Most people are usually nostalgic for the time when they were young and the music that they listened to while growing up.Personally , I think the late 60s and most of the 70s were better eras for popular music.Alot of music from the 80s that I enjoyed at the time, now sounds more dated and plasticky.I think it's because of the (then hot) cheezy synthesizers and production techniques.
I agree.70s music means so much more to me.Don't get me wrong,there are alot of songs from the 80s that I love but these days,I rarely listen to 'em.I don't think alot of 80s music (particularly stuff that came out after 1985) has aged well,and as you pointed out,it has alot to do with all the cheesy synthesizers,drum machines and the production techniques of that era. | |
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I was born in 86 and it pisses me off.....It seems to me all the best stuff came out then. The whole 80´s "vibe" attracts to me. =) "We unify in the universe to arrive in the everafter" | |
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CinisterCee said: As if the `90s were even that bad by comparison??? I don't get it.
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