Those were the days

Ian D · House on Fire

Those were the days

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

Thank god the eighties have gone. I still don't have an iPad.

Mark L · Loudmouth

No i-pad round here either

Easy to forget the bad memories when nostalgiasizing

suss · In the Long Grass

All good memories for me; naff or not everything reminds me of very happy days. Like the guy wrote at the end - it was a great era to grow up in.

Does the instant gratification nowadays really make people happier? I'm far from convinced.

And there were some funking great bands around late 70s early 80s

suss · In the Long Grass

p.s. Personally I have no iPad, never had an iPod and my mobile is not even smart enough to have a camera.

Luddite? - yes. Content? - definitely

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

suss wrote:
All good memories for me; naff or not everything reminds me of very happy days. Like the guy wrote at the end - it was a great era to grow up in.
Does the instant gratification nowadays really make people happier? I'm far from convinced.
And there were some funking great bands around late 70s early 80s

The very early 1980s and the very late 1980s were fine, it was the filling that wasn't so good. Too few guitars and too many synths. Now the 1990s, that was something else!

noelindublin · Loudmouth

Apart from the Rats my band of the eighties was Echo and the Bunnymen. We also had Pixies, Rem, The Wedding Present. I used to get NME, Melody Maker in the late eighties and there were lots of good indie acts around. The indie scene was quite big, so we didn't have to worry about Dire Straight or Madonna or any chart rubbish.

The lesson I learned in the eighties which still holds true today is that there is lots of good music around, you just have to go looking and then you will find. For all their faults the NME, Melody Maker were usually on the ball. They pointed you in the right direction and it was up to you to decide. Other good late eighties favs were Jesus and Mary Chain, The Wonderstuff, Mekons, 10,000 Maniacs, felt, The Fall, Momus, Teardrop Explodes, the Cure. XTC released loads of classic albums like Skylarking and Oranges and Lemons and Psonic Sunspot.

The middle part of the decade was bad, apart from Echo and the Bunnymen. Even the so called C86 indie scene was a bit naff, but there always seemed to be good singles by lots of oddball indie acts, mostly fondly now forgotten. It was also a good time for the goth scene. Despite its bad reputation there seemed to be a lot of creativity in indie circles- that was in the days befor ipads and tech obsession so I'm afraid we well never get those times back. Overall the alternative rock scene was pretty good.There was a big music press, and people actually bought albums and talked about music.

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-- Edited by noelindublin on Thursday 21st of March 2013 02:41:41 PM

suss · In the Long Grass

Probably drifting into 'other stuff' a bit but tend to agree that mid-80s seemed to be all powerpop and pointless, but still had Smiths and Pogues in their prime, not to mention In The Long Grass. Wasn't all bad

ArrGee · Back To Boomtown

suss wrote:
Probably drifting into 'other stuff' a bit but tend to agree that mid-80s seemed to be all powerpop and pointless, but still had Smiths and Pogues in their prime, not to mention In The Long Grass. Wasn't all bad

In the world according to wikipedia, none of the above happened...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980s_in_music

Wikipedia is sh!t