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The 80s sucked. Discuss.
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ricky nadir
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Re: The 80s sucked. Discuss.
Feb 23, 2020, 10:54
The golden age of „rock’n’roll“ went on from 1966 to 1981. Surely there was good music for young people before and after but this timeframe set the benchmark.

There are several reasons for the decline of popular music after 1981:
Countercultural movements collapsed worldwide. Hedonism took over.
MTV appeared. Looks and image were suddenly more important than music.
Technical progress brought us cheap synthesizers and drum machines and new production methods.

Howard Jones, Kajagoogoo, Thompson Twins, Wham!, Nik Kershaw, Wang Chung and to a lesser degree Eurythmics, Culture Club, Adam Ant, Duran Duran are examples of what went wrong with popular music in the early eighties.
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