Why is 80s music objectively superior to modern music of today?

Why is 80s music objectively superior to modern music of today?

I've done up mixes of one hit wonders of the 80s on usb for sound systems at parties, and 100s of people of all ages love the music more than modern music.

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is that pauline hanson?

is this an excuse to post new wave?

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back then it was an honor to be skilled in crafts

genx was the last such generation

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Never forget

Of course

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Based Pauline is much prettier.

i'd lube up her asshole and stick a few fingers in

I fucking hate 80s music. It sounds goofy with all that synth. All the singer's sound like they are high on pain pills. 60s and 70s were much better. Unless by 80s you mean 1780s, yeah I like Beethoven too.

Go to Sup Forums, bruv. Polite sahgey.

Also, it's because
1. they didn't compress the shit out of the master track for max obnoxiousness
2. they didn't mix and compress the voice to the forefront nearly as much as modern music, which allowed other instruments like synths and drums room to breath and allowed for liberal use of reverb and other kinds of texture building
3. they actually had novel melodic ideas back then, nowadays everything is heavily derived from American Idol showy nigger vocals because that's impressive for some reason

>tfw I'll never live in the based late 80's-early 90's

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doesn't get much better than rolling stones in the 80's

People cared about their craft, took the time to write good catchy pop hooks, work on melody, harmony, arrangement, lyrics etc.

You still get that today but it's rarer.

The music of today isn't much of a standard to surpass. That said its not that the 80s was a particularly grand time for music, but rather it reminds us of a time when much of the bullshit we experience today would be unthinkable.

there was some kind of sense of creativity and happiness.

Also we were still running off of the 50's. the 50's defined the rest of the 20th century, and for good reason considering the Greatest generation was in power until the end of the century, and the 50's is what they knew, and Boomers grew up with. And Reagan was all about that "traditional American values" thing.

Then Boomers took over government. And that includes the worst of them, the hippies, the activists, the whole lot.

The more efficient the company, the greater its audience. Since the average, middle class white girl now has similar morals and tastes to those of a ghetto rat, it's not hard to guess why modern music is trash tbqh

Not that pop music was ever particularly artistic, but there is certainly a drop in quality from 80s shit to "Fuck I like to fuck I gotta fucking problem."

we had better taste back then

in fact i'd say the current industry is more shallow

>all 80's music was pop

You must be at least 18 to browse this board

Also, let's post 80s shit famalam

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This always gets me SO PUMPED

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youngfags can't understand 80s

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>Why is 80s music objectively superior to modern music of today?

DIVERSITY.

So shove that up your tight, squeaky asses, Sup Forums.

Rolling Stones are like the Beatles. Extremely mediocre with only a few good songs

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We're talking about the 80s grandpa, not the fucking 50s

might be nostalgia, i don't know

i do open mic nights with acoustic covers/mashups of 80's/90's/00's pop and i consistently get better crowds than the often more telented people who come in and cover Drake's latest musical abortion.

80s music thread?

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100% classic

It was just before record labels started controlling what was being produced and pushed to the masses.

I agree though, 80s music is actually my favorite era of music. 70s is close behind though.

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Thank God for Synthwave today.

Based A-ha

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They sounded high because people were actually happy that decade. Something shift at the end of the 80s, being cynical and morose became popular for some perverse reason.

My party mix pic related, my one and only post on Sup Forums I posted this, I shit you not they gave me 10/10 for it.

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>Thinking he's worthy of Pauline's pooper...

Come on fags, get it right.

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Modern music is too commercialized, and millennials are way too fast paced and have ADHD. They can't appreciate proper song writing, instrumentals, and having a really good overall melody to a song. Musical technology is the most cutting edge it's ever been, however people haven't truly caught up to the level of the technology I believe.

But it's all good, I firmly believe everyone will stop having shit taste and we'll have another amazing decade of music that will actually beat out the 70s, 80s, and 90s. It's just a matter of time and taste.

This guy has a big part of it.

Before the radio stations and dj's controlled what was popular musically, and every city had different popular music. Then something happened and every radio station plays the same music all over the country. It's like a uniformity

Music was better because it was able to develop in a kind of vacuum, so you had tons of originality. Now everything is modeled on everything else

Who /SistersOfMercy/ here?

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True Black people actually made good music then

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It just sounds like cheap porn music to me most of the time. Don't get me wrong I don't like modern music myself, but the decline of music started way before the 80s I would say it started with the romantic post classical.

The 80s was diverse

But the minorities of the 80s had a standard to act white

Those black new wave artists weren't enabling nigger and ghetto culture

The black guy in Miami Vice was white washed as fuck

>using VLC
>getting 10/10 from Sup Forums
yeah, sure

pretty good for a nostalgia playlist even though i can't imagine anyone under 40 dancing in earnest to lenny kravitz in 2016

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>Not posting Freedom of Choice.

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Even the rappers back then were civilized. Rap was all about partying and breakdancing. The whole thug thing was unheard of

At that time, electronic instruments appeared.

Those who made music were trained in playing acoustic instruments, they had a theorical background (like scales, chords).

So it was people who knew musicology who made songs.

Now, anyone can start putting some random notes and stop whenever it sounds good.

Now, the good songs are not that better, modern composers are as good as 80s composers, as they share the same knowledge.

But with much more mediocre production, the average music quality has decreased.

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>haven't caught up to that technology

Wrong. Mozart wrote an opera I believe at 4 years of age. The real problem is people are becoming dumber and technology is ruining us. The ideas were shit compared to the 1780s, seriously. This decline in music has been steadily accelerating since the classical age.

Ahhh that makes sense, thank you for explaining that frog.

who 80s goth here

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the 80's had quite a lot of 50's influence. It was only 30 years earlier. The distance between right now and the 80's we are so idolizing today

the 80's had a fair bit of influence from the 50's and 60's. or at least, their imagery was really present a lot.

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the 70's had been kind of shitty, and so in 'recovering" from them, we looked back to before the 70's.

Diversity is what we have now. The 80s were whiter. The US was 80% white. Most of the iconic popstars were white and there were many of them.

Music from 1920-1950 is even better than the 80s. You plebs don't even know.

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Yeah

I don't mind black people being famous and being a part of American culture as long as they just quit the whole ghetto nigger thug act

Ayyy

Anyone here like Batcave?

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KISS KISS BANG BANG

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also music was only really on the radio and TV, if you watched MTV, back when it was actually about music- and if you liked it you bought the record or tape.

now, there's the internet too. much like it's done with culture and clothing trends, it has globalized music.

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I disagree strongly with you. To me 80's is a proper example of people properly utilizing musical technology. 80's was like the boom of all that electronic, keyboard shit. Musicians of the 80's didn't let the tech run them, they fully controlled it and styled with it.

The issue isn't the tech, people just need to get better and learn how to properly use it.

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I feel so extraordinary

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M8. I'm a pretentious wanker but that was the douchiest thing I've read.

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I think people felt a little more secure in expressing themselves. The demons were at bay. Reagan and Bush had secured our parents future... and the Clinton's sold it.

Simply put, things were less red pilled, and more optimistic for truth. We had red pilled leaders who weren't afraid of protecting us from scum.

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You just aren't looking in the right places user. Plenty of great modern bands in the underground.

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this too. I noticed this recently. up till the 90's, music was definitely whiter. nowdays, pretty much all the major popular artists are black or generally nonwhite, which leads to less pop, less rock, and more hiphop, R&B, and rap. Also black music in general has declined. I blame the rise of rap, really.

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I know this feel. Also awesome song from a good movie called hardware.

Last Rights was a great one. It epitomizes the early 90's for me.

Their 80s work was legendary.

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>Not posting Through Being Cool.

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Nigger rap and electro music is in fashion thats why. They are basically the two least musical genres of music
In the 80s it was power ballads and funk
Even the 90s had r&b which was decent.

Get on my level, son...

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It's less known but I feel this song was better than Everybody wants to rule the world

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Because 80s pop music was inspired by based innovative New Wave musicians such as The Cure, Blondie, Siouxsie and The Banshees, etc.

I've been listening to nothing but trevor something for weeks. Its an addiction.

>objectively superior

80's songs are still about being beta cucks,
'let me into your heart'
'ooooh i love you so much'

today its all about being niggers, taking drugs
shooting cops and raping dem white bitches.

Not sure it has really become better

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0:52 ;)

Specifically my post ead directed at this statement specifically
>people have not truly caught up tot the technology

This statement seems to imply that only if we caught up to the tech music would be great again. However, would you really say that 80s musicians were as capable as classical era composers? I think it's ludicrous to suggest that we simply haven't caught up to the technology and that is why modern music is shit. Obviously this is a cultural issue and not a technological one (though as you pointed out technology plays it's hand at rendering millenials into distracted lemmings.) This is why I say modern technology is ruining us. People are dumber today than they were in the classical age.

Believe me I want to, that song's pretty damn good. Using this thread to put together some summer driving music.

Probably the best song and video to come out o0f the 80's.

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Damn, I did not know that was Tears for Fears.

Ok listen to Schoenberg and then listen to Bach. You will see music has become increasingly dissonant.

What do you think they meant by that?

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Any Fad Gadget fans?

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gay

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illuminati

They sounded high because they were fucking high. 80s was THE era for shooting cocaine, speed and and heroin up your veins.

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That's the problem through, it shouldn't be in the underground. Just like all the good music from decades prior to 2000 had amazing music all throughout the mainstream. We need a decade were even the mainstream casual shit is good, and I believe we will once everyone gets a better hold of the musical technology and properly learn from those who came before them.

Yep, I love this song.

>Listening to the song on JewTube
If that's what you've been doing I feel sorry m8
As much of a piece of shit it is, the quality of the song on iTunes is fuckin great

>not mentioning billy idol

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FUCK OFF WE'RE FULL