08-06-2010, 21:00
Well, I am a youngen, but I grew up with the greatness of the 70s and 80s and I'm not kidding. It was great to grow up listening to a lot of the stuff my dad has (most notably a original Led Zeppelin IV vinyl) but also to the greatness of Lou Reed, Bowie (I know it spans over 2 decades but I do actually like his latter stuff more; hard to understand right?) and Husker Du and some other of that hardcore punk and moving into the alternative rock scene - moreso with stuff like Faith No More and Jane's Addiction.
IMO nothing really happened to the 80s but maybe the obvious misconception that the 80s was about new wave, glam rock and disco (which is actually a great style of music; but not musically obviously, more like it's the only type of music in which we can get a room full of people from around the world and they'd have no problem jiving to some disco. Anyway, it was the birth of post-punk and new wave as well as alternative rock and goth rock, and I still value Robert Smith's The Cure as the representation of my 80s experience especially with records like Disintegration and Wish.
There's my 2c.
IMO nothing really happened to the 80s but maybe the obvious misconception that the 80s was about new wave, glam rock and disco (which is actually a great style of music; but not musically obviously, more like it's the only type of music in which we can get a room full of people from around the world and they'd have no problem jiving to some disco. Anyway, it was the birth of post-punk and new wave as well as alternative rock and goth rock, and I still value Robert Smith's The Cure as the representation of my 80s experience especially with records like Disintegration and Wish.
There's my 2c.
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