Wow.

I have alot of different music that some people, but thats just means that I'm more easily amused ^^

They play it at my gym. I'm force-fed it.

And the music is everywhere. You'd have to be living under a rock to miss it. I don't have cable TV, and I don't listen to anything but NPR, but mainstream music somehow filters in.

Quoth hey_mr_crow:
That's a shit answer, and kind of proves the point.

You know it would be a cool song if KISS did it.

...I want the eighties back -_-

I commend the girl, way to spark a controversy. She probably only wanted us to flame on and look like idiots.

also: I like head automatica. i must be mtv.

Fuck the 80s. Seriously, I'm so goddamn tired of this 80s retro-revival meme. First off, most of the people propagating it barely remember the 80s. I'm 27 and I was 12 when the 80s ended. Twelve years old! I was hardly even aware that pop culture existed at that age. Yet I see people who are younger than me pining for that lost decade of their youth. Here's a hint, dimwits: if you were born in the 80s, then the 80s are probably not the formative decade of your growing consciousness. You're a child of the 90s; may as well admit it.

Second, from what I do remember of the 80s, they pretty much sucked. Reagan was President. People had terrible fashion sense. The only good thing on the radio was U2.

Fuck. The. Eighties.

Quoth hey_mr_crow:
So we're not allowed to appreciate / like any music that we haven't experienced first hand eh? I'd better get rid of all that shit from the 60s, 70s 80s, oh, and listening to the majority of classical music would be completely ridiculous.... I agree that obviously it's stupid to try and have some sort of false reminiscence about it, but I like some of the stuff that came out of the decade, that's all....

Plus you used the word 'meme'.

Oh, I wasn't talking to you specifically. Lots of -- well, some -- good music came out in the 80s and there's nothing wrong with liking it. I've just had this anti-80s revival thing growing in my chest and when I saw the word '80s' in your post the pressure finally overcame me and it exploded all over the forums.

It just seems like lately everyone keeps talking about how great the 80s were and it's driving me a little bonkers.

Hmmm interesting...

Quoth ratnerstar:
exploded all over the forums
Aaargh.

I don't have any Nostalgia for any of the stuff I heard on the radio, as I never heard it. I merely want to go back in time and live through the hey-day of goth and heavy metal, when there was a remote chance of hearing Iron Maiden or some decent synth-pop on the radio, and at least a proportion of the predominant aesthetic was much more in keeping with my sensibilities than absolutely anything that comes towards the mainstream today. I absolutely fucking loathe almost all modern mainstream culture, music, movies, music etc. I just can't stand it. Tears For Fears, Judas Priest, Gary Numan, Twisted Sister, The Human League, Dio, Culture Club, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, The Sisters of Mercy, The Cure...TAKE ME BACK BEFORE MY BIRTH!!!

Actually, same goes for the seventies, or pretty much any time before computerised pop production and the popularisation of rap music, but after the invention of rock 'n roll.

Oh jeez, I would have loved to have grown up through the Summer of Hate.


What KISS should do is combine glam rock with folk and cover Are you going to Scarborough Fair...

I'm racking my brains, but the closest I can think of is Come on Eileen (Dexy's Midnight Runners Cover).

Quoth ratnerstar:
Fuck the 80s. Seriously, I'm so goddamn tired of this 80s retro-revival meme. First off, most of the people propagating it barely remember the 80s. I'm 27 and I was 12 when the 80s ended. Twelve years old! I was hardly even aware that pop culture existed at that age. Yet I see people who are younger than me pining for that lost decade of their youth. Here's a hint, dimwits: if you were born in the 80s, then the 80s are probably not the formative decade of your growing consciousness. You're a child of the 90s; may as well admit it.

Second, from what I do remember of the 80s, they pretty much sucked. Reagan was President. People had terrible fashion sense. The only good thing on the radio was U2.

Fuck. The. Eighties.


amen!

Actually, it's greatly different from the 70s with the Happy Days 50s music nostalgia. Pop culture has sped up and is crashing in on itself. Consider music trends that happened recently and/or are currently happening. We had the swing revival, rockabilly/roots rock is hanging on as well, punk (albeit bastardized) is there, the 60s, 70s, and 80s are represented in a variety of genres.

In other words, the 70s had their flirtation with 50s nostalgia, but in this decade we have many nostalgia waves crashing the shores simultaneously. A lot of it is marketed with cynicism. A lot of it is marketed with a nostalgia that it perhaps doesn't warrant. Still, the market has without a doubt fractured and some gems always rise from the ashes while others get lost.

You have to remember all those decades had their crap too. The 70's weren't all KISS - there was also Bread.

Of course, I love all the pure shite from the 70's... "We made love in my Chevy Van, and that's all right with me."

Quoth dv8or70:
We had the swing revival ...

The swing revival was actually karmic retribution for our failure to intervene in Rwanda.