re: You hate 80's music, but these are the good exceptions

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My personal favorite is King of Pain.

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Wow, such a good one, thx

tGOAT 80s tune #2.
Little Red Corvette

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My personal favorite is King of Pain.



Wow, such a good one, thx

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I wish I hadn't read this thread. Now I'm about to go on a buying spree on Amazon to pick up all these great tunes again.

I miss the 80s darn it.

Time After Time

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I'll have those upvotes now baw

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I tend to gravitate to the pop stuff though because it is just so dang optimistic sounding. It's like once the "cold war" ended everything became happy go lucky. Then the 90s rolled around and we were all jaded all of a sudden with music like Nirvana and Alice in Chains. (Which all that stuff is great too, don't get me wrong)

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I miss optimistic music about having a good time. Even the heavy metal from the 80s tended to center around getting drunk, having wild sex, and enjoying life.

Modern music tends to either be rap, which I'm not a fan of, or depressing stuff about how miserable the singer is. If want to be depressed I'll go read Politico.

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I tend to gravitate to the pop stuff

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I came of age in the 80's, and while I don't mind some of the pop stuff for the nostalgia, the "alternative" stuff from the 80's is one of my favorite genres of music. A lot of that alternative stuff had mainstream crossover appeal though, so the lines are often blurred. Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel is my favorite 80's song and it fits that bill. That song was HUGE on mainstream radio summer of 86.

That alternative stuff still holds up today, while the hair metal that took it over in the latter part of the decade is just putrid today, though I still listen to it some for nostalgia. It's really not good music though.

here's a throwback to the 80's

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Tesla was/is killer IMO. The 80s had plenty of good music in all genres. You don’t know what you’re talking about.

I knew it before I clicked it, but that was a great leadup