Music Appreciation
In reply to the discussion: Of these... What's your favorite decade for music? [View all]Shermann
(7,456 posts)...although I probably listen to more 90's music today (hard rock and heavy metal mostly).
The 80's decade was an awesome melting pot. MTV changed the rules of the game and helped bring on the rise of the hair bands. The old school 70's rockers had to adapt to this, and it was great to see them reinvent themselves. This includes David Coverdale and Ozzy and Judas Priest. Some 70's bands just kept doing their thing like Iron Maiden and Journey, and this was cool too. Even bands that did the "me too" thing like KISS were cool. The young gun LA bands were very green, but were ready-made for video and the early 80's captured their authentic, raw music scene on tape before it became processed to death in a few years.
Contrast that with the 90's. Record labels started chasing the grunge fad and dropping the 80's bands left and right. It was no longer a melting pot of old and new. That really wasn't cool. But there was a lot of killer new music that was created out of that transition.