re: To the whippersnapper asking about 80s music a couple days ago...

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Yeah. If your musical tastes run towards pop punk and crap like My Chemical Romance

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Pop punk is my guilty pleasure. It’s nostalgic music for me because it’s what I listened to when I was in middle school/hs. It reminds me of school dances, first crushes, the first girl who broke my heart, etc.

What I actually listen to a lot more is late 60’s-70’s hard rock. I’m a big fan of Zeppelin, Hendrix, Black Sabbath, Van Halen. I hate a lot of 80’s music for several reasons:
1. I abhor synthesizers and drum machines
2. I cannot stand the sound of gated reverb snare drums
3. I can’t stand def leppard and duran duran while Bon Jovi and Journey have been run into the ground
4. So much of 80’s rock is cheesy and corny, but they’re taking themselves seriously. At least when pop punk was goofy, it was mostly in on the joke

There’s a fair amount of 80’s music I do like:
Van Halen (even Van Hagar to a lesser extent)
Metallica
Iron Maiden
GNR
ACDC
SRV

I even enjoy some Motley Crue on occasion.

However, the overall sound of the decade was just awful. All of the trademarks that make a song sound like it’s from the 80’s are all bad in my opinion.

I just literally never hear anyone talk about REM outside of this board. What songs should I listen to? They can’t be as bad as their “hits” like End of the World, Losing my religion, The One I Love. That’s some boring arse music that makes Gin Blossoms sound high energy.

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Tears For Fears

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Not a fan. Lots of synthesizer and gated reverb

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Men At Work

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Meh

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The Smiths, Joy Division

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Pretentious

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Blondie

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Lame

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Hall and Oates

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Even lamer

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The Police

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They’ve got a couple good songs

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Kenny Loggins

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Straight corny

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Prince, Michael Jackson

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Excellent songwriters and performers, but I really don’t care for synthesizers and drum machines

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Huey Lewis and the News

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Literally the lamest band on the planet

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Foreigner

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I cannot stand their hits as classic rock radio has driven them into the ground

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Genesis

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I hate Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins with the fire of 1000 suns for inventing gated reverb. I also hare Phil Collins’s voice

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David Bowie

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I hate his voice

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Billy Idol

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Cheesy but fun

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Billy Joel

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Prefer 70’s Joel

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INXS

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Cheesy but good

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A Flock of Seagulls

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Super lame

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Lionel Richie, Madonna, Cyndi Lauper, Culture Club, Wham, Duran Duran

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Lionel is alright, but are these supposed to be selling points? These are examples I would site for why the 80’s is lame.

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The Scorpions

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Cheesy but fun

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The Bangles

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Corny chick rock band

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Toto

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Their best stuff wasn’t made in the 80’s

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John Cougar Mellencamp

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Lame, and his cover of Wild Nights was an abomination

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Joan Jett

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Simple but solid

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The Cure

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Their best songs were in the 90’s

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The Cult, Eurythmics, U2

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You’re joking right?

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Bruce Springsteen, Rush

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Their best music was in the 70’s

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Iron Maiden, AC/DC, Judas Priest

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I do love these groups

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Talking Heads, Loverboy

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Super lame

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Tina Turner

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Crazy talented, but not my cup of tea

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The Beastie Boys, Run DMC

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Cheesy but fun. DMC’s best songs were in the 90’s

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Grandmaster Flash

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Lame

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Public Enemy

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Best songs were in the 90’s

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Pat Benatar, Bryan Adams, Rick Springfield

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Yawn

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Tom Petty

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Great songwriter, terrible vocalist

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The Cars

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Cheesy but fun

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Depeche Mode, Pixies

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I will never understand what people see in these bands

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Bon Jovi

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Classic rock radio has driven his catalog into the ground

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Motley Crue

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Cheesy but fun

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Fleetwood Mac

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Boring

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Kool and the Gang

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Not bad, but I prefer 70’s funk. I listen to a lot of Tower of Power.

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What songs should I listen to? They can’t be as bad as their “hits” like End of the World, Losing my religion, The One I Love.

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The IRS years. Eponymous has a lot of their best. And just stop with the this board thing. It's makes you look really ignorant.

Give me My Chemical Romance over 95% of the bands/artists on that list.

I know, I’m so cringe listening to Pearl Jam, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Van Halen, Nirvana, Allman Brothers, Cream, Weather Report, Tower of Power, Tool, the who, Incubus, Iron Maiden, Metallica, Alter Bridge, Gaslight Anthem, Aerosmith, black keys, black crowes, Black Sabbath, black berry smoke, ACDC, Boston, The Doors, foghat, hendrix, kiss, skynyrd, sly, james brown, wilson pickett, otis redding, audioslave, soundgarden, rage against the machine, bob seger, deep purple, foo fighters, jet…

I mostly talk about pop punk on here only because all of you old fogies reflexively trash it like kids playing on your lawn (like the silly corny music that was popular when you were a teen is all perfect). It’s not near as bad as y’all make it out to be, so I’m stuck defending it like anti-BR threads on the OT.

Fall Out Boy’s first album, Under the Cork Tree, was great. Not a fan of their later stuff. MCR’s “Welcome to the Black Parade” is a fantastic album, one of the best of the 2000’s. I never could get into Panic! At the Disco.

Hawthorne Heights is one band that I feel like I shouldn’t like, but do, especially their first album. I guess I was just at the right age for it when it came out.

Yellowcard is probably my favorite from that era, but Sum 41 had a couple great albums too with Chuck and Does This Look Infected. Sum 41 did a great job of maturing and evolving over time to the point that they’re now almost a respected metal band.

Green Day’s American Idiot is probably their only album worth writing home about after the 90’s, but it’s a good one.

Everything blink touches is magic. It’s a real shame how Travis Barker nearly died in that plane crash. It basically killed the band. Tom went on to do Angels & Airwaves, which is kinda cool, but very different. When they tried bringing Blink back without Tom, it was pretty boring.

Pretty bad list as far as defending yourself against what you posted above.

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I mostly talk about pop punk on here only because all of you old fogies reflexively trash it like kids playing on your lawn

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Now you're just full of shite. Not only full of shite, but really angry about your terrible taste

Yes, I’ll really take seriously the opinions on taste from someone who tries to pass off Def Leppard as an example of “good” taste.

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your taste in music is abysmal.

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I probably dislike 75% of Kingbob’s list.
I’m not likely to take his recommendations because we don’t line up.

But these types of statements are pretty dumb.

People like what they like. Taste is personal. It is really not possible for someone to have horrible taste.

On the other hand statements like “that band/artist is terrible” is equally as dumb.