Do any of you like 80s music or Bruce Springsteen?

Question

80s music rules!

Answer 1

I have to say I love the music of the eighty's. Though I don't consider myself to be stuck in a rut. I love music from most all generations. I just love music. It's not our fault if music was just better back then. As for Bruce Springsteen, yes I do listen to him still.

Answer 2

Like nearly every other decade the real mainstream music was far from the best, in the 80's I guess mainstream was overproduced sterile lifeless synth-pop. That kind of annoys me. But there of course were good mainstream bands, just not too many great ones in my opinion. Bands I like from the 80's: Agent Orange Forgotten Rebels Descendents Bad Religion Teenage Head Angry Samoans Black Flag Circle Jerks Dead Kennedys (first LP mainly) Minor Threat A little Misfits Operation Ivy Ozzy Osbourne had some good stuff in the 80's. I guess that's all I can think of right now. Not much in the way of rock 'n' roll, but there were a few good hardcore punk bands and I've been getting into some 80's post punk (Echo & The Bunnymen, The Fall etc.). Really though the problem with the 80's was that real rock 'n' roll had faded away. It had been taken over by the big record companies and the teenagers playing around in their garage having fun couldn't get their music out like in the 60's and to a much lesser extent the 70's. The 60's saw bursts of garage bands that made great music for the fun of it (and the girls of course) and was rock's golden age for it, money was hardly a factor. But then progressive rock came, and with it Led Zeppelin and the other ego maniacs that wanted the attention and the money and the excess and having fun and having any actual connection with the audience was gone. And by the 80's everyone was more interested in how many crazy sound effects you could throw in and how long you could extend a redundant guitar solo for instead of dancing and having fun. The youthful exuberance was gone and you were left with "rock without the roll". I realize this was entirely too long and if one person takes the time to read the whole thing I'd be surprised. And of course this is just my opinion so no one get offended, just what I think.

Answer 3

I'm not sure that Bruce Springsteen really characterised 80's music, but regardless i am quite a fan of the boss. Here's a guy that puts 100% into every song and every performance he performs. One of the great songwriters of all time. My favourite album is Nebraska, the forgotten Springsteen album, but of course he will be remembered for Born in the USA, which i guess is fine by me. As for Wham, Duran Duran, Michael Jackson, Madonna, etc.., well let's just say pop hasn't ever been my thing. I don't think you can afford to group music into decades, i'm more of a genre person.

Answer 4

It is so sad that the majority of people stop listening to new music after a certain age and start to live in the past. Is this indicative that you are stuck in a rut?

I was born in the fifties, but would say the last ten years has seen some of the best music ever made. Bands like The morning Stars, Guster, The Fratellis, Larrikin Love etc are so much better than the homogenised music we listened to back in the 80's

Except, of course, for Dexy's Midnight Runners, most 80s music is so ...... 80s!

Answer 5

I love the 80s, as I was in my 20s. But honestly, I don't think music has improved at all since then. I particularly loved (and still love) UK 80s bands, everything from Spandau Ballet to Yazoo, from Eurythmics to New Order, from Dead or Alive to Frankie Goes to Hollywood, not to mention Kate Bush, Kim Wilde, Howard Jones, Nick Kershaw and loads I can't remember offhand. I've never been a great Springsteen fan (apart from a few songs); my favourite American artists included Prince, Blondie, Cindy Lauper and early Madonna. AND I'M NOT ASHAMED!!!

Answer 6

I'm also a child of the 80's, and I still love the music. I was a huge fan of the Boss and his music back then. Man, I would have killed to be the girl in the Dancing in the Dark video who got pulled up onstage to dance with him! And Tunnel of Love is one of my all-time favorite albums, especially the cuts Brilliant Disguise and All that Heaven Will Allow.

Answer 7

Yes but not Bruce Springsteen! Electro and Goth rule!!

Answer 8

Im a 80s child. fantastic music era, for the youth of today that say music now is better they are wrong, music of today is 80's songs remixed! The Boss was and is a good singer, i was more of a new romantic with duran duran and spandau ballet, wham and soft cell. Great question, made me think back to my teens :-)

Answer 9

i love 80s music, but not Bruce. I prefer electronic stuff.

Answer 10

80's Great Bruce not a lot