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Subject: What Differentiates 80s Music from Other Decades
I have been giving it much thought, but really cannot answer this, nor do I know where to go. People often speak about 80s music. But how is 80s music characterized? How is it different from 70s music? What were the "improvements" to 80s music from 70s music. Also, how would one distinguish 80s music from 90s music. What are stereotypes of 80s music which really separates it from the rest.
Do others have ideas? Any internet sites which would give reference to this?
--Popper
Subject: Re: What Differentiates 80s Music from Other Decad
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I have been giving it much thought, but really cannot answer this, nor do I know where to go. People often speak about 80s music. But how is 80s music characterized? How is it different from 70s music? What were the "improvements" to 80s music from 70s music. Also, how would one distinguish 80s music from 90s music. What are stereotypes of 80s music which really separates it from the rest.
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Interesting question. Synthesisers dominated the early eighties with bands like Depeche Mode and New Order. It became mainstream around 84/85.
Stadium Rock involved showmanship in the 80s with bands like Van Halen, Europe, Bon Jovi and Kiss (Crazy Crazy Nights is a wonderful example).
Manufactured Pop entered the Media spotlight with Stock Aitken and Waterman's 'Hit Factory'. Famous for knocking out hits in days!
To distinguish an 80s to a 90s song could depend on the beat. Funk and soul influences were rife in the 80s and were more 'tinny'. I loved them though. We had harder rock influences in the 90s like Nirvana with Grunge and pop started it's lean towards hip-hop and Ibiza sounds.
There will probably be others that will dissagree with my synopsis but it's my perception of what you are asking for.
Subject: Re: What Differentiates 80s Music from Other Decad
early 70s pioneer techno bands like can and kraftwerk and artists such as vangelis and jean-michel jarre, made electronic music from a curious sound to the mainstream in a few short years. there was a definite split in musical taste amongst fans at the time. they saw newwave bands as commercial robots, their sound lacked originality. regular rock acts, ironically followed suit, adopting sythesizers and the "look" of newwave.
whatever makes the 80s sound as they do, i'm glad it did. a mixture of new tech, mixed in with post 70s glam and decadence mixed with the superficiality of the "reagan 80s" and with the artists that became the first true generation of rock (kids born in the late 50s) made a very cool sound that will never be duplicated.
Subject: Re: What Differentiates 80s Music from Other Decad
Quoting:whatever makes the 80s sound as they do, i'm glad it did. a mixture of new tech, mixed in with post 70s glam and decadence mixed with the superficiality of the "reagan 80s" and with the artists that became the first true generation of rock (kids born in the late 50s) made a very cool sound that will never be duplicated.
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When you mentioned people born in the 1950s, especially the people born in say the late 50s, that is something I have always wondered about myself. Those guys were probably really the generation that actually "created" the 1980s.
I know people born in the mid and late 60s like to take credit for the 80s, but they were generally just a bunch of high school kids or older teenagers at that time. They had the power to influence record sales and what gets played on the radio as all high school kids and teens do, but for the most part, they weren't actually creating the music or pop culture of the time. A lot of people born in the 60s were responsible for the decade they hate the most---the 90s. Kurt Cobain was born in 1967 and Eddie Vedder was born around 1965.