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Grouchy_Interview_95 OP t1_j28bjv5 wrote

Reply to comment by DeadEyeMetal in Is it an unpopular opinion to dislike 80's music? by Grouchy_Interview_95

I don't really like to generalise it, but maybe because my father used to only listen to 80's songs and praises them just for being "the golden era" while it all sounded so generic to me, it's the reason why I feel like the whole decade is souless and shallow.

Still, I do think there are gems that I do love to hear, like "Stay on these roads - Aha" and "I'm still standing - Elton John", but to me they look like exceptions in a sea of "We're gonna party, dance, all the time" 80's themes (And the reverbs)

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DeadEyeMetal t1_j28fpaa wrote

That's the problem with most decades, I think. What we are exposed to as passive listeners is the stuff that is declared fashionable. That's not always what many of us would consider best or most interesting but it's what we mostly hear unless we actively go hunting for new stuff.

Finding new music is easy now thanks to the net but in past decades opportunities were sometimes limited by whether one lived somewhere with a fresh music scene or whether one was aware of people like (in UK) John Peel, Andy Kershaw etc who would play stuff that was very far from fashionable and which didn't have a snowball in hell's chance of getting mainstream airtime.

The good music has always been there, but the salesmen have often been pushing other things.

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