The dark ages of Popular music (1985-1991)

[Duderonomy]

I was just a kid during most of it but damn that was some crap. All the hair metal bands and the adult easy listening white blues fad I'm in love with you babe, higher love, Richard Marx,etc. Kids that complain about music nowadays didnt live through how bad that time was. Thank god there was Faith No More the best band of that period IMHO. Also does anyone remember the na na na

[Heavincent]

Metallica's black album came out in 91 :confusedshrug:

[shaq2000]

?!

Depeche Mode

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/9/94/Depeche_Mode_-_Violator.jpg

Steve Winwood

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/8/83/Back_in_the_High_Life.jpg

Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy

Simply Red

Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam

Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

C+C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)

[BurningHammer]

It was at the peak of synthpop though.

Just as mentioned above, Depeche Mode. Also, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Tears for Fears, OMD, Eurythmics, Duran Duran, etc.

[Guy Dudebro]

What???

Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Metallica's best work, U2's best work, REM's best work, much of the shit we hear on 'First Wave' in the car.

I will get back to this later, but that era pwns this entire millennium.

I think you meant (1975-1981)

Yeah Buddy!

[LJJ]

Still not as bad as the 90s and the 00s and right now.

[JohnFreeman]

It was at the peak of synthpop though.

Just as mentioned above, Depeche Mode. Also, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Tears for Fears, OMD, Eurythmics, Duran Duran, etc.

Incredible underrated band. Wild boys is such an awesome song!

[dr.hee]

What???I think you meant (1975-1981)


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[Nick Young]

dawg so much sick music came out during that time, theres never been a dark ages of music.

http://www.deep-music.net/images/chroniques/67a4e7d0cdb5c7b0625a18e9d6c9c2447c4c2b96.jpg

http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID5745/images/doolittle.jpg

http://eil.com/images/main/Janes%2BAddiction%2B-%2BRitual%2BDe%2BLo%2BHabitual%2B-%2BCD%2BALBUM-4453.jpg

http://www.virginmedia.com/images/sexalbum-surfer-rosa-590x350.jpg

[embersyc]

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41JQDC303VL.jpg

[embersyc]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/N.W.A.StraightOuttaComptonalbumcover.jpg

[the mesiah]

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/d/d2/N.W.A.StraightOuttaComptonalbumcover.jpg
Don't listen too much to the new"rap" that's out today,I still bump this everyday tho.

[Dresta]

And what is it now exactly?

[Nick Young]

I can't think of any new bands I really like besides Arcade Fire, and theyre not that new, and also their third and fourth album I though sucked.

I like new electronic dance music but in terms of rock bands, there's probably great ones out there, I just don't know about them.

Strokes, White Stripes, Arcade Fire, those were the last great bands for me.

Muse for example just sounds like bootleg radiohead ripoff shit but I know loads of people call them the best band in the world right now. I just dont get it.

I like Dragonforce, they still put out good records, but yeah I can't really think of anything else new that is that great other then EDM and trance music.

Electric music and trance are really good now though, its not a dark age of music, just a dark age of commercial rock music.

[Duderonomy]

It was at the peak of synthpop though.
Just as mentioned above, Depeche Mode. Also, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Tears for Fears, OMD, Eurythmics, Duran Duran, etc.
Factory records peak years aswell New Order and Happy Mondays being their two biggest acts. In retrospect there were some hidden gems from that period but 95% of the mainstream acts were dreadful. Never was a fan of The black album although I did buy it, that was when Metallica changed their musical direction (sold-out) nobody has mentioned Stone Roses. yet, huge band at that time. http://thegigblog.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2012/10/stone_roses.jpeg

[Jackass18]

There's plenty of good music from that era. It's a rather nostalgic period for me. Open up your mind and try to enjoy life.

'Til Tuesday - Voices Carry (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uejh-bHa4To)
Dire Straits - Money for Nothing (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lAD6Obi7Cag)
The Power Station - Some Like It Hot (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rgYqIvnPvqQ)
Kate Bush - Running Up that Hill (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wp43OdtAAkM)
Simple Minds - Don't You (Forget About Me) (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdqoNKCCt7A)
A-ha - Take on Me (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djV11Xbc914)
Midnight Oil - The Dead Heart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16bFBzx7I_0)
Tears for Fears - Head over Heels (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NYx8IHJ9dWE)
XTC - Dear God (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hk41Gbjljfo)
Swing Out Sister - Breakout (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uX71jonS3Pc)
Crowded House - Don't Dream It's Over (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9gKyRmic20)
Talking Heads - Wild Wild Life (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bWP07YgUWig)
OMD - If You Leave (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPmTGFg06zA)
Genesis - Land of Confusion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zU9lv_WqK6k)
INXS - Never Tear Us Apart (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyZU4iNRdsM)
Pet Shop Boys - What Have I Done to Deserve This? (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wn9E5i7l-Eg)
U2 - With or Without You (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XmSdTa9kaiQ)
The La's - There She Goes (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eu2iv-vMKT8)
When in Rome - The Promise (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HI_xFQWiYU)
Neneh Cherry - Buffalo Stance (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWsRz3TJDEY)
Tom Petty - Free Fallin' (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lWJXDG2i0A)
The Lightning Seeds - Pure (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6myNbk15sMs)
The Cure - Lovesong (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hXCKLJGLENs)
Depeche Mode - Enjoy the Silence (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m0AKJMGxwpE)
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xwtdhWltSIg) - I generally don't care for REM, but that was a good song
Wolfsheim - The Sparrows and the Nightingales (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aQUDGl7JR7Y)
DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince - Summertime (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr0tTbTbmVA)
Massive Attack - Unfinished Sympathy (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZWmrfgj0MZI)
My Bloody Valentine - When You Sleep (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxfHTISJlfw)

There's a lot more of that, there's also Prince, Michael Jackson, Madonna (I'm not a big fan, but she had some alright stuff), plenty of heavier stuff and other genres.

[The Iron Fist]

I can't think of any new bands I really like besides Arcade Fire, and theyre not that new, and also their third and fourth album I though sucked.

I like new electronic dance music but in terms of rock bands, there's probably great ones out there, I just don't know about them.

Strokes, White Stripes, Arcade Fire, those were the last great bands for me.

Muse for example just sounds like bootleg radiohead ripoff shit but I know loads of people call them the best band in the world right now. I just dont get it.

I like Dragonforce, they still put out good records, but yeah I can't really think of anything else new that is that great other then EDM and trance music.

Electric music and trance are really good now though, its not a dark age of music, just a dark age of commercial rock music.
Sounds like you need some Black Keys or Arctic Monkeys, maybe even Toro Y Moi.

[KevinNYC]

dawg so much sick music came out during that time, theres never been a dark ages of music.

http://www.deep-music.net/images/chroniques/67a4e7d0cdb5c7b0625a18e9d6c9c2447c4c2b96.jpg

http://www.examiner.com/images/blog/EXID5745/images/doolittle.jpg

http://eil.com/images/main/Janes%2BAddiction%2B-%2BRitual%2BDe%2BLo%2BHabitual%2B-%2BCD%2BALBUM-4453.jpg

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I don't know what your definition of popular music is, but there's no way it hell it's wide enough to include The Jesus and Mary Chain in 1985-1986, particularly in America. That was why college radio and "Alternative" rock was invented. This music was not getting airplay. The primary outlet for this music in the US was MTV and they devoted 2 hours a week to it.

[KevinNYC]

I remember when the Jesus and Mary first played live on American TV, it was 1992 and Letterman had to explain who they were. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NsuGek8WNUs)

[fsvr54]

De La Soul, tribe Called quest, epmd, kool g rap, eric b and rakim, public enemy, big daddy kane, masta ace, ice cube, ice t, geto boys, ultramagnetic mcs

right...

[Duderonomy]

What???


I think you meant (1975-1981)

Yeah Buddy!
Are you crazy?
1975
Fleetwood Mac- Dreams
http://youtu.be/7RgT8Vm9_Eg
The Four Seasons - December, 1963 (Oh, What a Night)
http://youtu.be/7RgT8Vm9_Eg
Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
http://youtu.be/f3t9SfrfDZM
1976
Blue

[-p.tiddy-]

:bowdown: hair metal


love me some Motley Crue

[chosen_one6]

The music now is wayyy worse. It's like we're in a creative block right now.