Some are balladic, some are nothing of the sort. Odd at first glance because we also remember the 80s as a decade of truly atrocious ballads and “power-ballads” produced by hair bands and past-their-prime types… I have gleefully ignored these as beneath contempt, and instead have largely eschewed the ballad for simple, straightforward songs. So many, in fact, that this list was very hard to write. The appropriate response to a Cold War world that was surely doomed.īut such music isn’t what you think of when you think “beautiful.” And yet… there were some beautiful songs in the 80s. So we chopped and moussed our hair into spikes and slashed shapes, adapted early late 50s/early 60s clothes to our needs, took on a cheesy, the-future-is-neon-bizarro attitude, put on our skinny ties and wayfairers, and went out to mock the world and DANCE.Īnd so our music became the soundtrack of a party… silly, upbeat, and ultimately disposable. I was 15 in 1980 and so had lived through my childhood and first half of adolescence in the 70s, a decade of malaise and atrocious fashions and godawful music (but not all bad, since the 70s had Bubblegum, Punk, and early New Wave) and so my generation was ready for a big change, OUR chance to overturn the flabby hippie aesthetic that had run for too long and was worn out, old, and charmless. ![]() Both the decade and the music are near to my heart, since I was there as an adult to appreciate it. Music with lots of synth and drum machines, jangly guitars and House beats. Everyone knows the 80s as the decade of greed and silly fashions, of Reaganites and Thatcherites… and above all, of the decade of New Wave and Post-Punk music.
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