Author Topic: The 80s - The Best Decade Ever? (Read 13939 times)

donovan.x · « **Reply #15 on:** May 21, 2006, 05:45:02 PM »

Muse and QOTSA early 90's?????

blue · « **Reply #16 on:** May 21, 2006, 05:49:32 PM »

Quote from: willo

Plus, Passion and Warfare ---> 1993 :)

er, 1990, which i like to think of as nineteen eighty ten :?

willo · « **Reply #17 on:** May 21, 2006, 06:00:26 PM »

Quote from: donovanx

Muse and QOTSA early 90's?????

nah, I was just going for good bands from the whole of the 90's at that stage.

RE: P& W, my bad, I think that 93 might have been the CD release?

Searcher · « **Reply #18 on:** May 21, 2006, 06:44:46 PM »

The 80s was the best decade ever! Well, the 60s was cool, too, but I'm not old enough to properly appreciate the 60s. The 70s just sucked, no matter when you were born.

Since the 80s music has gone downhill terribly. I'm not a metal fan, but all the best songwriters in the 80s absoultely kill the current ones. You just can't compare U2, Dire Straits, The Police to anyone these days. (Yeah, I know they all hit the scene in the late 70s, but they are still known as 80s bands, really).

At least it's getting cool to know how to play your instrument again. The 90s grunge thing made it cool to know nothing at all--just strum a few chords, any chords. It was like 60s protest songs with overdrive.

badgermark · « **Reply #19 on:** May 21, 2006, 07:37:00 PM »

The whole point of grunge was about the songs. 90% of the bands about appreciated the Beatles and other 60s and 70s pop bands.

I couldn't hum any of the songs by any of the bands you guys mentioned, ask me about a Nirvana or Smashing Pumpkins song and I could sing a whole albums worth back to you

dave_mc · « **Reply #20 on:** May 21, 2006, 08:44:35 PM »

Quote from: badgermark

The whole point of grunge was about the songs. 90% of the bands about appreciated the Beatles and other 60s and 70s pop bands.

I couldn't hum any of the songs by any of the bands you guys mentioned, ask me about a Nirvana or Smashing Pumpkins song and I could sing a whole albums worth back to you

so you like pop music then?

indysmith · « **Reply #21 on:** May 21, 2006, 08:52:16 PM »

owned.
The 80's were king - long live spandex. second to the 50's. Cars with fins, rock'n'roll dancing, buddy holly... don't even try to argue.

Bainzy · « **Reply #22 on:** May 21, 2006, 09:19:12 PM »

HTH AMPS · « **Reply #23 on:** May 21, 2006, 09:28:22 PM »

we still got alot of good stuff in the 90s...

* Pantera
* Down
* Sepultura
* PJ Harvey
* RATM
* SOAD
* Primal Scream
* Black Crowes
* Green Day
* Pearl Jam

and thats just for starters (whats wrong with pop music btw? - are we all musical neanderthals on this board?).

:twisted:

dave_mc · « **Reply #24 on:** May 21, 2006, 10:09:07 PM »

Quote from: indysmith

owned.
The 80's were king - long live spandex. second to the 50's. Cars with fins, rock'n'roll dancing, buddy holly... don't even try to argue.

agreed.

chuck berry too.

:D

willo · « **Reply #25 on:** May 21, 2006, 10:45:05 PM »

Quote from: Searcher

all the best songwriters in the 80s absoultely kill the current ones. You just can't compare U2, Dire Straits, The Police to anyone these days.

Hmmm...I think there were/are some very good songwriters in the 90's:

anything involving Stephen Merrit (Magnetic Fields, etc)
Blind Melon
Cat Power
Coldplay....even though I do dislike them
Radiohead
The Flaming Lips
Jeff Buckley
Lauryn Hill
Red Hot Chili Peppers (in their current incarnation)
Wilco

Now, admittedly, not many of those artists achieved the success of the bands you listed, and some of them focus on a deliberately 'lo-fi' sound as opposed to the more expansive sound of someone like U2, but I still think any of that list wrote some great songs.

Anyway, I appreciate the 90's; it's given us new sounds and textures which aren't necessarily guitar-oriented but it has made some interesting music possible. I like hip-hop, dance, ambient, all that stuff...maybe it would be in the minority to like that kind of thing on a guitar forum, maybe. But beyond those artists listed above, I can think of countless great albums produced in the '90's. Just not metal albums, thats all.

badgermark · « **Reply #26 on:** May 21, 2006, 11:58:47 PM »

Quote from: dave_mc

Quote from: badgermark
The whole point of grunge was about the songs. 90% of the bands about appreciated the Beatles and other 60s and 70s pop bands.

I couldn't hum any of the songs by any of the bands you guys mentioned, ask me about a Nirvana or Smashing Pumpkins song and I could sing a whole albums worth back to you

so you like pop music then?

Yep, yep I do love pop music. That a bad thing? Every board on the internet has it's own little clique. Harmony Central is filled with Classic rock cover bands, and 90% of you guys are metal heads.

Lets live in harmony people, music is music.

But music in the 80s fooking sucked... Cmon its just embarrasing...
:D

jt · « **Reply #27 on:** May 22, 2006, 01:14:19 AM »

Quote from: badgermark

The whole point of grunge was about the songs. 90% of the bands about appreciated the Beatles and other 60s and 70s pop bands.

I couldn't hum any of the songs by any of the bands you guys mentioned, ask me about a Nirvana or Smashing Pumpkins song and I could sing a whole albums worth back to you

:D Right On Dude !!!

I`m a metal fan & Thrash sucks bigtime of all the bands mentioned non of `em with the exseption of Motorhead [ Who are still the best Thrash type band ] ever wrote descent songs.

They all copied Motorhead but missed Motorheads biggest asset there songs where actually singable. Mettalica are beyond doubt the most overated band ever ! 1 descent album in there entire caerer is an appaling return !!!! & the only reason anybody talks about the black album is it`s the only album they did with any descent songs !!!

Outside of Anthrax`s Medusa [ There best song ] The rest of that 80`s Thrash list is utter cr@p !! not a descent tune amongst any of `em !! Lots of noise & fast tempos but nothing actually worth listening to !!! :twisted:

:D 8)

PS The Police, U2, Big Country, Cure, ABC [ Lexicon Of Love ] all good :D

Afghan Dave · « **Reply #28 on:** May 22, 2006, 01:53:45 AM »

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PS The Police, U2, Big Country, Cure, ABC [ Lexicon Of Love ] all good

All 80s... My point exactly..

BTW - Miami Vice also got the record for longest No1 TV soundtrack album!

and.... Co-Stars included - Sheena Easton! .... Frank Zappa! ... James Brown! and ... PHIL Bloody COLLINS!!!!!!!!!

I mean Phil Collins wrote the goddam book on songcraft and don'tcha ever forget that you young 'uns.....

But Seriously...(see what I did there?)

Phil Collins was in it... discussion over... Miami Vice was brilliant.. I WIN... The 80s Rule!!!!

Phil Collins = "The love that dare not speak its name"

Muso · « **Reply #29 on:** May 22, 2006, 08:24:27 AM »

The new movie looks wicked and I am looking forward to more than the other summer blockbusters. I'm currently watching series 1 of "robbin of sherwood" another classic 80s show. Soundtrack by clannad rooooobbiin, roooooobin the hooded man!