Pictures Of You - The Cure

The Cure ~ A Forest (circa 1980)
http://youtu.be/WIMlPygBV2o

Ha ah... Similar tastes, like it

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Shame on the moon - bob seger

The Who - You Better You Bet -1981

Ah, bliss
Electronic System ~ Skylab http://youtu.be/cIwDLN2X6Rs (circa 1974)

Where is Delightfulillusions when you need her?

I like how the late 1970s paved the way in new wave into the 1980s. The late 1970s was interesting in music with both synthesizer and guitar music.

Some of the most influential late 1970s new wave music I can think of that grew in the 1980s was songs like:

Dream Weaver by Gary Wright from December 1975.

Radio activity by Kraftwerk from October 1975.

Both ends burning by Roxy Music 1975.

Oxygene 4 by Jean Michel Jarre 1976.

X Offender by Blondie 1976.

Hiroshima Mon Amour by Ultravox. 1977.

Star dance by John Forde 1977.

Super nature by Cerrone 1977.

I feel Love by Donna Summer 1977.

Are friends electric by Tubeway Army 1979.

Empire state human by Human League,,first release October 1979.

There was so many fantastic songs that came out of the 70's and 80's. These songs spring to mind when thinking of my favourites.

Superstar - The Carpenters.
Golden Years - David Bowie.
Wuthering Heights - Kate Bush.
Is This Love - Bob Marley.
Baker Street - Gerry Rafferty.
Warm Ride - Graham Bonnet.
So Long - Fischer-Z.
I Ran - A Flock Of Seagulls.
Harden My Heart - Quarterflash.
Mexican Radio - Wall Of Voodoo.
Run To You - Bryan Adams.
Sunglasses At Night - Corey Hart.

When it comes to Kate Bush, I think her 2 best songs are

Hounds of Love
Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)


But despite how much some may love the music of the '80s, let's be honest -- compared to other decades, there was A LOT of music worth forgetting as well. Which is how I feel about some Millennial music also.

For instance, I used to love Survivor until I started listening to entire albums. That's when I realized they really weren't that great. The band simply would get lucky with a couple songs.

Loverboy was another popular band with a lot of bad songs. You just had to listen to the entire albums. And there are a lot of bands like this. That's why a "good" album was one which had at least 3 good songs on it, which considering most albums had 10 songs, is a 30% success ratio. Not exactly awe-inspiring.

But then came Guns n Roses, with something like 8 hits from just 1 album. That marked the beginning of a shift in music. After them, bands might still only have 1 - 3 hits from an album, but they would tend to increase the overall quality of their albums by putting out better, more musically mature songs to fill the rest of the album.

One has to remember that the '80s were a time of musical experimentation, largely because of synthesizers but also guitars. Much of the bad music of the '80s were results of that experimentation. When musicians began taking a more mature approach that was more solidly rooted in music theory and the fundamentals, that kind of experimentation stopped.