80s music - still a thing?

[Cletus Van Damme]

Just got a turntable for my daughter, she's 16 and prefers 80's popular music to the stuff that is around now. Have to agree the vast majority of modern pop music is pretty sh1te. Plenty of that in the 80's, but also decent stuff., loads of different genres going on. Daughter mainly likes the Goth stuff, like The Sisters Of Mercy, The Cure, The Cult, The Cramps, but also likes the new wave stuff and Billy Idol (whom was a mix of multiple genres), also really likes The Smiths, New Order and Joy Division. So I went to a local used record place that a retired man and wife run out of a storage container and got several used ones for a bargain really. Had all of these, except Blondie (I'm not a fan really, and is possibly 70's). Waiting for a couple of used ones off ebay to arrive, Billy Idol - Vital Idol and The Sisters Of Mercy - Floodland.

It's been great fun and as an 80's teenager it brings it all back. Might even get a turntable, it's a lot of hassle, but there's something good about the artwork, looking after the media, listening to a full LP, instead of selecting tracks like I tend to do with digital formats.

Have to admit I quite liked the 80's, a lot of young people do also, which says something really.

 

[FrankCrank]

Funny thing music. I was born in '61, but have very little recollection of sixties music. My awakening came with glam rock, and then into punk era, but the eighties is what I think of as my music decade as regards nostalgia. As already mentioned, shed load of dross, but also loads of good stuff, and so many great memories.
Phil Collins mentioned some time back he feels partly responsible for many people thinking the eighties was a naff decade musically, but I think he's forgiven now, what with the passage of time.
Watched a Xmas TOTP from 1973 the other day - that really was cringeworthy, mostly down to Tony Blackburn and his, er, 'jokes'

 

[Richard A Thackeray]

@Cletus Van Damme

I saw The Sisters Of Mercy a couple of times back in the 80s, & The Cult too
(or Southern Death Clut, as they might have been back then?)

Still have my Cramps vinyl (never saw them though)

Saw The Meteors/King Kurt a couple of times, preferred Restless (far more accomplished musicians)