I'm stuck in the 80's Decade

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evapilotaz

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I'm stuck in the 80's decade with it comes to music. I cannot stand most of todays top 40 music. When I have my kids in the car with me its a fight over the radio. I say to them "Its my car my music"

Who is with me on this?
 
70s/80s did put out some good stuff. Even kids today like a lot of the music from the 80s.

I don't listen to music hardly at all anymore. But there's still a lot of good music being made today.
 
Yeah, a guilty pleasure. Most of the stuff I listen to is from that era.

True story, while doing the annual on the Cherokee one of the mechanics asked for a good radio station so we could listen to tunes. I recommended my favorite, and my airplane partner asked if it wasn't an oldies station (played a lot of stuff from the eighties and nineties). I said I guessed so, I must be a bit of an oldie.
 
Define good music being made today. Its all auto tune and computer remixed.
Does anyone play an actual instrument today when recording music.
 
Most of the older rock stations all have the same Clearchannel playlist. Lot of good stuff not played on the radio. Luckily I have it on my iPad/iPhone. The Synch system in the Ford is pretty nice. I'd just toss my iPad in the car and it would pick up where it left off. There's a handful of decent independent broadcast stations left around the country.
 
evapilotaz said:
Define good music being made today. Its all auto tune and computer remixed.
Does anyone play an actual instrument today when recording music.
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The biggest beef I have with today's "music" is the lack of any talent among the "singers". Every idiot and his brother can produce (and reproduce) nowadays thanks to the digital era.
If they at least got some education in proper use of one's voice, if they took some singing lessons, if they could hold a pitch, not breathe into the microphone, maybe, just maybe I could tolerate them.
But I won't tolerate a dilettante.

Yes, there was some bad music made in the 70's and 80's as well but not on such large scale. 90's opened the door wide to talentless hacks and it went all downhill from there.

Now who remembers KLF? :D
 
Sirius Ch. 90 here.

When I have to listen to music, its usually Radio Disney or LMFAO, because the kids like it. Music was great when I was in a rock band. As soon as I stopped, music died.
 
SkyHog said:
Sirius Ch. 90 here.

When I have to listen to music, its usually Radio Disney or LMFAO, because the kids like it. Music was great when I was in a rock band. As soon as I stopped, music died.
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Love Sirius....Usually either 80's, 90's or channel 15/16. Couldn't go back to regular radio after having satellite for the last 8 years.
 
I think Viacom could make a boatload if they produced an early MTV box set of DVDs -- complete with veejays and interviews. (mmmm Martha Quin....)
 
Meh, I'll skip most of the 80's stuff. 60's/70's? Sure, sans Disco stuff. The 90's stuff is hit/miss, but there are some decent modern/alt rock bands out there still. I'm usually on Sirius 36, but I bounce around between a lot of different genres. For 60's, I wish someone would strangle "Cousin Brucie", as he talks constantly about who he met 50 years ago and some mundane details . . . just play the f'in music!
 
Some of today's stuff actually reminds of of 80s music depending on what you listen to. There *is* some talent out there, but the problem with today's music is I can hear the same song 3 times between 8a and 5p.
 
I'm the opposite only music I really like is newer stuff. Granted I generally hate top 40 stuff but there is so much good music out there from big but non radio airtime bands.
 
falconkidding said:
I'm the opposite only music I really like is newer stuff. Granted I generally hate top 40 stuff but there is so much good music out there from big but non radio airtime bands.
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Drop some names for us, I've been in a music drought for at least a year probably, haha. (before flight training started consuming my brain waves)
 
evapilotaz said:
Define good music being made today. Its all auto tune and computer remixed..
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In all fairness, don't forget the heavy use of synthesizers in the 80s.

evapilotaz said:
Does anyone play an actual instrument today when recording music.
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These guys still do...
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IMHO the 80's was the worst decade for music. Well, until the 90's, 00's and 10's came along :D
 
evapilotaz said:
I'm stuck in the 80's decade with it comes to music. I cannot stand most of todays top 40 music. When I have my kids in the car with me its a fight over the radio. I say to them "Its my car my music"

Who is with me on this?
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There are some new-ish bands still sort of carrying the 80's torch, some names spring to mind: Killers, Strokes, Spoon...

New within the last few years, ???
 
jimbilly said:
Drop some names for us, I've been in a music drought for at least a year probably, haha. (before flight training started consuming my brain waves)
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Manchester Orchestra, the Black Keys (now the Arcs), Royal Blood, White Denim, Cage the Elephant, Elle King, Metric, Foo Fighters still going strong . . .
 
evapilotaz said:
I'm stuck in the 80's decade with it comes to music. I cannot stand most of todays top 40 music. When I have my kids in the car with me its a fight over the radio. I say to them "Its my car my music"

Who is with me on this?
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It's official. You're old.
 
I don't care at all what decade it's from. A good pop song is a good pop song. (I define "pop music" as anything popular that people listen too. Not just AM radio music.) I listen to all decades from the '40s up to today. I'm getting into Country too. Can't stand jazz, hip hop, rap, traditional R&B and whinny folk music. I used to write and play a lot of pop music, tight, well crafted, 3 minute pop song is totally my thing and people have been doing that well for centuries. People have been doing it crappy for centuries. Today is no better or no worse.

BTW, I have tons of 80s music in my collection. Love it, but that ain't all there is to music.
 
I still like, and listen to "The Clash". (The only band that matters)
 
Flymeariver said:
If listening to 80's makes him old....then the guy listening to the 60's must be from the stone age :rofl::lol:
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It isn't listening to the 80s music, it's being unable to relate to young music. Once you're certain the younger generation has no musical taste, you've entered curmudgeon territory for certain.
 
evapilotaz said:
I cannot stand most of todays top 40 music.
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I'm with you there, but I can't stand pretty much any recent decade's top 40 music.

evapilotaz said:
Its all auto tune and computer remixed.
Does anyone play an actual instrument today when recording music.
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You need to get out more. ;)

Nauga,
who has no trouble finding decent live music
 
Its great that some of the 80's musicians are still touring. In my small town of Petaluma, Glenn Tillbrook of Squeeze came and did a show. And Dave Wanklyn's version of the English Beat have been around a few times.
 
I love 50's, 60's, some 70's, then it's outta here, because it all sounds the same. If you can scream, rub your crotch, and say stupid things, you too can be a 90 day wonder.
 
Almost always Sirius in the car, mostly Hair Nation, Classic Rewind, 80s on 8, First Wave, NFL Radio but occasionally some Boneyard, Faction, 90s on 9, Alt Nation, Pulse or Lithium.

I do listen to a fair amount of new music, but it's gotta be music made by musicians playing instruments. Love me some Foo Fighters, but couldn't care less about Kanye West or whatever.
 
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