Why 80s music is the best

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You have entered an incorrect email address! Great Posts. Mar 8, Mar 2, May 24, If someone wanted the copy of a song, he would have to sit by his tape deck, waiting for the song he wanted to hear. Some people would even call radio stations and request their favourite songs and then record them.

Then came the dual cassette tape deck, with which one could copy tapes and put together his own mixes. With a collection of cassettes, one could make his compilation, and the mixtapes were born. The mixtapes soon became a gesture of love. People put together all the meaningful songs and give them to the people they loved.

The thing that made mixtapes special was the effort put into making them. The Walkman changed music listening forever. It helped people to listen to their favourite music on the go. Portable music and transistor radios have existed for years, but people could only listen to radio stations. With the Walkman, people could listen to the music of their liking even on the move. Sony invented the Walkman in Sony estimated to sell around 5, units a month.

But in the first 2 months, they sold 50, units. Damned straight. While the 70s and 60s would probably come in second and third for any musical contest, no generation beats the 80s for Pure raw music Talent and Exposition. You might have focused a bit more on the punk rock explosion that really got its team in the early to mid 80s, and the musical offerings from Gen-X and Transvision Vamp, for example, followed by solo Acts from Billy Idol and Joan Jett after they came into their own, but the 80s had so much to offer, one article could never possibly cover it all.

It was truly a cornucopia of musical goodness. I was unbelievably lucky to live through such an era, especially when you compare it to such lackluster, talentless, over-vocalized, and recycled music offerings from the 90s forward with few exceptions and for such stodgy offerings overall prior to the sixties.

Thanks Michael. I agree with all of that…except the bit about Transvision Vamp! But seriously, I could definitely have added a bit more on post-punk, AOR and metal. I left school in The only radio stations that we listen to in our home are 80s station. The kids are now grown up at 18 and 22 and they too listen to a lot of 80s music. None of the music these days seems to chime with them like the music that we listened to as kids. You are commenting using your WordPress.

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