I'm stuck in the 80's Decade

I gave up on Sirius/XM when they cancelled a few stations I liked and started the single-band channel stuff for bands I did not like.
Pandora with a carefully cultivated seed has done wonders for my outlook on current music, and digging into the Pandora results gives a huge spectrum outside of Pandora.

Nauga,
who loves the whole DIY scene
 
Sirius 6, 7, and 32.

As for the kids fighting you over the music, kick 'em out and let 'em walk if they don't like it. When they make the payments, they can choose the music.

Rich
 
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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You need to get off the FM dial; there's lots of excellent musicianship out there, just not on the 'pop' stations.
 
Let's see, what does Arrow like from that era:

Saga
Yello
Erasure
Bronski Beat
Pet Shop Boys
Flock of Seagulls
Depeche Mode
Scorpions
Front 242

I'm not stuck in the 80s 90s though, I like some stuff starting about the mid 70's, and then from then on, and newer music that isn't top 40. What I listen too just depends on my mood. I could be listening to gansta rap, non mainstream pop, or techno dance mix. Not heavily in to rock, but I do like groups like Linkin Park, Metallica and Alice in Chains.
 
I cancelled Sirius.
I have had it on 3 different radios, and I feel like the quality is complete crap.

It is so compressed that you hear a lot of artifacts in the sound.
It is fine for talk but I can't listen to music on it.

It is not quite ready for go live IMO
 
SixPapaCharlie said:
I cancelled Sirius.
I have had it on 3 different radios, and I feel like the quality is complete crap.

It is so compressed that you hear a lot of artifacts in the sound.
It is fine for talk but I can't listen to music on it.

It is not quite ready for go live IMO
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That's because you're trying to listen to it sober.

Rich
 
I'm a 1983 model, but I listen to 60s and 70's and a little 80's rock most of the time. Overall, I think the 80's is the weakest decade for music, but a few of my favorite songs come from that era. There was definitely some good stuff from the 90s and 00s as well, but the 60s and 70s are the best music years by a very wide margin.

I'm with the OP on the choice of music in my car. The only thing we differ on is that in my car, there is no "fight" over the music. When you strap into my ride, it's Chicago, Three Dog Night, CCR, Steve Miller Band, Styx, Rush, Aerosmith, Queen, Supertramp, etc., and that's all there is to it.
 
You guys are just getting old. :D

I remember my parents making fun of my grand parents because they had frozen their music taste at a certain point and would not like anything newer. Well, my parents are now exactly the same. Actually, I feel that they have recently even rolled their taste a few year back in time...
 
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Sorry, I'm not reading three pages here . . .

Sorry again, I didn't like 80s music in the 80s, don't care much for it now. But I do still like Garth (he's from the 90s though).
 
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Dr. Demento
 
I graduated from high school in 1980. My favorite decade of them all. Worked in a musical instrument retail store during college and learned to play guitar to my favorite 80's rock bands. Even used to have the hair to match... but unfortunately not so much anymore. :redface:
 
Zac Brown has to be on someone's list. Live, they are just incredibly talented.

Went from their own stuff, to Zeppelin, to playing Charlie Daniels stuff faster than Charlie plays it.

Their albums don't even hint at what a treat you're in for at a live show.

They even did Queen. Heh.
 
denverpilot said:
Zac Brown has to be on someone's list. Live, they are just incredibly talented.

Went from their own stuff, to Zeppelin, to playing Charlie Daniels stuff faster than Charlie plays it.

Their albums don't even hint at what a treat you're in for at a live show.

They even did Queen. Heh.
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I'd like Zac Brown Band more if half of their songs didn't sound like the same song. Very talented group, though, but I've never seen them live.
 
OkieFlyer said:
I'm a 1983 model, but I listen to 60s and 70's and a little 80's rock most of the time. Overall, I think the 80's is the weakest decade for music, but a few of my favorite songs come from that era. There was definitely some good stuff from the 90s and 00s as well, but the 60s and 70s are the best music years by a very wide margin.

I'm with the OP on the choice of music in my car. The only thing we differ on is that in my car, there is no "fight" over the music. When you strap into my ride, it's Chicago, Three Dog Night, CCR, Steve Miller Band, Styx, Rush, Aerosmith, Queen, Supertramp, etc., and that's all there is to it.
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An Okie, and born in the correct year ('83)?! We need to meet up for a beer, lol.
 
frfly172 said:
The seventies,as I'm old.
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I'm 62 and like the music of the '70s and '80s. The 1770s and 1780s, that is. Mozart's time, the beginning of the Romantic era of classical music.

I was into rock way back in the late '60s, and encountered classical during music training and when working with a guy who had some. Found I liked it far better, as it had real structure and wasn't filled with inane repetition. It actually took more than ten minutes to write it, and real skill to play or sing it, unlike the current crop of trash we hear now.

Not all classical is old. This dates from 1940: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXjZAwZoj1g

Dan
 
I was a child of the 80's. Those were the years I was in high school and college.

I have a complete set of "Living in Oblivion" CDs with 80's music, and about all I listen to on Sirius in the car is the 80's on 8 channel.

Who can forget Kajagoogoo???

 
My teenage years was in the 60s, and brought up living close to Liverpool in the UK so I was well into the Beatles, Rolling Stones music era. I kind of got into the 70s sound as well, 80s too busy bringing up a family to worry too much about music fads.

But I have a confession to make, these days half my year is spent in Florida and I have Country music stations tuned in on my car radio .....is there any help out there for me or am I doomed....:confused:
 
Xscaliber said:
But I have a confession to make, these days half my year is spent in Florida and I have Country music stations tuned in on my car radio .....is there any help out there for me or am I doomed....:confused:
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Modern Country is just old / southern Rock at this point. So you're probably fine. :)
 
Henning said:
The sad thing about synthesizers is they pretty much replaced horn sections.
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Not in any decent 3rd-wave ska band :D

In the '80's we used to joke that you knew a band was on its way out when it picked up a horn section for the tour.

Nauga,
from when Madness changed everything ;)
 
nauga said:
In the '80's we used to joke that you knew a band was on its way out when it picked up a horn section for the tour.
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Horn section worked pretty well for Tom Petty on the Southern Accents tour (1985).
 
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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I recorded Coachella and Firefly on AXS TV. Only about 1/4 of the bands were DJ's or rappers. A couple of the DJ's had live singers that didn't sound processed at all.
There's plenty of good stuff today. You just have to look for it.
 
Dan Thomas said:
I'm 62 and like the music of the '70s and '80s. The 1770s and 1780s, that is. Mozart's time, the beginning of the Romantic era of classical music.

I was into rock way back in the late '60s, and encountered classical during music training and when working with a guy who had some. Found I liked it far better, as it had real structure and wasn't filled with inane repetition. It actually took more than ten minutes to write it, and real skill to play or sing it, unlike the current crop of trash we hear now.

Not all classical is old. This dates from 1940: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXjZAwZoj1g

Dan
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That's talent there and I watched that longer than that Rush video
 
If it makes you feel any better, I was born in 95 and I'd say a majority of what I listen to is 80's music. It's actually pretty popular among college students, it's easily the best party theme and if you go into any college bar on any night you'll hear quite a few 80 songs being played with the whole place singing along.
 
CollegePilot said:
If it makes you feel any better, I was born in 95 and I'd say a majority of what I listen to is 80's music. It's actually pretty popular among college students, it's easily the best party theme and if you go into any college bar on any night you'll hear quite a few 80 songs being played with the whole place singing along.
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cr@p. Young enough to be my youngest kid.

That's it - I'm done with POA ...
 
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