The '80s were the time when cassette culture, extreme metal and electronic dance music really came into their own. And let's not forget the great renaissance in anime.
not really. people think of 80s music as cheesy guilty pleasures
it's the music from earlier and later decades that gets the Real Respect
Who even remembers early '90s pop music? It's really the worst of '80s cheese, and all the best alternative stuff was underground even during the grunge explosion.
i mean there are tings i fondly remember from when i was younger but those are all things i found personally, not really broad, anchored pop culture things
i mean there are tings i fondly remember from when i was younger but those are all things i found personally, not really broad, anchored pop culture things
even in the 90s, though, you could claim a few bands as being well-regarded...Nirvana, Pearl Jam, whoever.
ultimately, though, it's the 60s-70s stuff that makes all the Knowledgeable Critics squee
In the '80s you have a tonne of respectable (or notable) bands, many of whom started out in the previous decade or got big in the next one but were most active—or the most consistent—in the 1980s. Talking Heads, The Smiths, New Order, Pixies, Meat Puppets, Hüsker Dü, The Cure, Judas Priest, Sonic Youth, Slayer, Godflesh, Associates, Coil, Depeche Mode, My Bloody Valentine... the list goes on.
trufax: regarding pop music, the 1980s didn't end until, like, 1993. Nirvana was the death knell for hair metal, but it took a while for everything else to change.
Pearl Jam? i thought they were like the lame sell-out grunge band or w/e.
Not quite. Their later stuff is... strange. I'm not that familiar with it, but some of it is downright experimental in between the more straightforward, ballad-as-character-study stuff.
Dangerous and Too Legit to Quit came out right after Nirvana hit it big, and still sold well. Mr. Big was a hair band in the old style and had a hit in early 1992. We were really not out of this until "Informer" dropped (and went away)...and I missed the tail end of it because DC didn't have a pop station at the time. :P
In the '80s you have a tonne of respectable (or notable) bands, many of whom started out in the previous decade or got big in the next one but were most active—or the most consistent—in the 1980s. Talking Heads, The Smiths, New Order, Pixies, Meat Puppets, Hüsker Dü, The Cure, Judas Priest, Sonic Youth, Slayer, Godflesh, Associates, Coil, Depeche Mode, My Bloody Valentine... the list goes on.
none of whom are what people generally think of as "80s music"
I knew who the Talking Heads were back then, but I didn't really know about Depeche Mode until Violator, and I think the only Cure song I knew for years was probably "Lovesong" until "Friday I'm in Love" came out of nowhere in 1992.
cobalt, watain, gojira, behemoth, the dillinger escape plan, nile, deathspell omega, converge, anaal nakrath, isis, blut aus nord, agoraphobic nosebleed, the red chord, mastodon, the human abstract, the contortionist (maybe, i still need to chew on their debut more), whitechapel, wold, sunn O))), genghis tron, mayhem, sleepytime gorilla museum, sigh
In the '80s you have a tonne of respectable (or notable) bands, many of whom started out in the previous decade or got big in the next one but were most active—or the most consistent—in the 1980s. Talking Heads, The Smiths, New Order, Pixies, Meat Puppets, Hüsker Dü, The Cure, Judas Priest, Sonic Youth, Slayer, Godflesh, Associates, Coil, Depeche Mode, My Bloody Valentine... the list goes on.
none of whom are what people generally think of as "80s music"
i think this would be more indicative of bad taste than anything else
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It's funny. As much as I adore that film, I've never thought of just how much emphasis it has on female characters. It's just something I never even noticed.
(Despite all appearances, that quote comes from a post praising the film.)
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ultimately, though, it's the 60s-70s stuff that makes all the Knowledgeable Critics squee
also i'd take the musical output of the 80s over the musical output of the 60s and 70s any damn day
Personally, I think it significant that the 80s were when, for me at least, almost all the good music went underground.
it's really not a big deal
the 2000s were pretty good for metal i think
I'm just talking about the perception of that decade by the average human being.
Now, it may be that the average human being has bad taste, but that's a whole other can o' worms
those are my opinions on Pearl Jam
also why does everyone here like hate half of all music
Breaking the fuckers in.
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I don't usually even pay attention to those things, but since the penciled-in remark doesn't seem to have anything to do with the strip I'm just kinda going ??? hereNotes: White out where panel borders were removed, pasted-in correction in the first panel. Penciled in the top margin: “Let all the poisons that lurk in the mud hatch out.”
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and it almost fit
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(Despite all appearances, that quote comes from a post praising the film.)