Why did people start having shit taste in music at the 80s?

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Im not a dadrocker who claims all music after the 80s is shit.
But if u look at best selling albums before and after the 80s,you ll get my point

The 80s had no better or worse music than any other decade, but the bad music was noticeably louder and more in-your-face than most other decades.

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the hippie movement

TELEVISION

>the 80s

The 80s was the decade that gave us the Pixies, Sonic Youth, U2, Madonna, the Replacements, the Cure, and more. Yet, there are still those who act like Ratt and Twisted Sister were the entirety of 80s music.

it died in the 80s

Because it's the music our parents liked.

Ratt was awesome, Bono is a raging faggot and Madonna... Are you shitting me?

Reminder that Candy Girl, a song by a fictional band, was the best selling single of 69.

Best selling albums are shit in every era

B-but muh Elvis and Beatles!

MTV

Appetite for Destruction

Elvis was shit

Glam Rock

>The Smiths
>Metallica
>Dire Straits
>Sonic Youth
>Megadeth
>Slayer
>Testament
>The Stone Roses
>Van Halen
>New Order
>Black Flag
>Suicidal Tendencies
>Guns N' Roses
>Faith No More
>Soundgarden
>Jane's Addiction
>INXS
>Talking Heads
>Stevie Ray Vaughan
>David Bowie
>The Police

wew the 80s sure were shit

Well you only posted 7 good bands so yeah

>80s Bowie

Technically, Van Halen are a 70s band but w/e.

GNR isn't glam man, Poison is a good example of glam.

read again dickhead

Also Talking Heads are a 70s band.

Because music started becoming more accessible to the masses. Not saying that is a bad thing, but more people who didn't really care that much about music started consuming it, and thus many creators started pandering to them

A lot of 60s-70s artists went down the shitter in a massive way during the Reagan years. 80s Bowie was embarrassing but it's hard to sink much lower than Bob Dylan and Neil Young during that time.

80s Dylan was like the ultimate meme decades before the rest of the world knew what memes were.

>he doesn't like let's dance

they released their best album in 1981

It wasn't the best time for folk/blues shitters. Did you expect Bob Dylan to put on a giant wig and leather pants and sing about jailbait?

The 80s were a harsh time for the royalty of 60s-70s rock. If we boiled it down to sound, the ultimate such album is Neil Young's "Trans", while if we go with image, it would be the cover of "Dirty Work". For aging artists who continually pushed the envelope, the Reagan years were a time when fashion and musical styles turned against them in a big way. Some made it work, for example David Bowie's transition to a pop icon.

Funk/soul/R&B singers did better in the 80s than rockers did; Aretha Franklin, James Brown, Tina Turner, Kool and the Gang, and Stevie Wonder all matched or exceeded their output during the previous 15-20 years.

But for the most part, the albums put out by hippie-era icons during the 80s were nothing short of painful. Among other problems, rock stars had never been this old before and there was no road map for them.

Bob Dylan's 80s albums are if nothing else the flailings of a lost, directionless artist disconnected from everything happening in the age of MTV. In his 2004 memoirs, "Chronicles Volume One", he uses an assortment of colorful metaphors to describe his career arc during those years. "Fictitious head of state from a country nobody's ever heard of", "old washed up actor rooting around in the trash cans behind a theater", "empty burned-out wreck".

That's what you hear on albums like Empire Burlesque, a guy who fully knew he'd outlasted his cultural and artistic relevance, but who couldn't find a way out. Dylan was bad in the 80s because to be anything else would have been dishonest.

Dylan's career was resurrected by two albums, produced by Dan Lanois--Oh Mercy and Time Out of Mind. Lanois was at that time most famous for his work with U2 and Peter Gabriel, and he's still the most producer-y producer Dylan ever hired. Even people who like Mercy and Mind will occasionally demur over Lanois’s heavy-handed affectations; the sound is the real story on those records, too, with their highly stylized updates of the earthy instrumentation and doomy atmospherics of Elvis Presley’s Sun Records period. In Chronicles, Dylan writes about butting heads with Lanois during the making of Oh Mercy, in part because Lanois did his job and pushed Dylan to write better songs and record better (or at least multiple) takes. But Dylan also complains about the sound Lanois was striving for.

“The voice on the record was never going to be the voice of the martyred man of sorrow, and I think in the beginning, Danny had to come to terms with that,” Dylan writes, “and when he gave that notion up, that’s when things started to work.” Perhaps Dylan sensed that Lanois was cajoling him into a retreat of sorts, away from the outside world and into the safer, shadowy confines of a noir caricature.

For the truth is that as bad as Dylan's 80s albums were, they were still an effort to remain contemporary and relevant. Dan Lanois effectively removed him from the modern world and turned him into a cariacture of the weary, aging gunslinger.

Dylan wrote in Chronicles that, much to Lanois's surprise, he was still very much interested in current music, especially hip-hop artists such as Ice-T and Public Enemy, which he felt were the "new" voice of political protest among the young people of the 90s. Yet Lanois chose instead to guide him away from the modern world. In doing so, he restored Dylan's artistic cred, but it became impossible to relate him to any young artists of the present day.