Is it me or were the 80s completely ****ed music wise

[The Mask]

right, so you have your party bands, like van halen and those kind of guys, the whole hair band thing... then you have the hair bands that did all weird love ballads and stuff.. but with really weird depressing synth stuff... van halen are guilty of this on stuff like ou812 as well, but i don't mean them. stuff like journey or FM, that kind of thing.

THEN, you have your stupidly depressing bands, like the cure (:love: ) and tears for fears, stuff like that.

I think the really depressing stuff was more an english scene at the time, but it fu</>cks with my head how different all the popular stuff at the time was :mad:

I think the only reason some of the music gets to me is cause it was like... the very first songs I ever heard as a kid, on tv and the radio and stuff.

I wish I was young again :(

Also, I think synth is probably the most cold sounding depressing instrument ever, thus I want to use it more whenever I get a band going.

ALSO, what was with the snare in 80s type stuff... it's like they put the most weird effect on it, all windy sounding and shit. like it was reversed, but not quite.

anyway, yeah :mad:

[Triple A]

lol what

Synth is a mad happy instrument.

[The Mask]

maybe in your gayass nugaypunkemogay style of music with atom and his homosexual fu</>ckbuddies, i'm talking about the hardcore "shit we're all going to die" 80s, you f</>uck. :mad:

[Joeleosis]

Synth is seriously the man. I'm definately gonna invest in all sorts of Roland keyboards and synthesizers and shit down the line. :mad: Like I hooked my flange and my wah pedal up to my old Casio keyboard with the synth on through the PA system, IT RULES. Makes me wish I had some keyboarding skills.

[born angry]

yeah but out of the flames rose OASIS NIRVANA etc so it all serves a purpose

80's bands that rock

stone roses
happy mondays
u2

u2

[The Mask]

my dad used to be fiends with the keyboard player from happy mondays

[#1-norm-fan]

I NEVER come to the music forum but I have to say this...

80's music fu</>cking kicks ass!!!

[born angry]

I NEVER come to the music forum but I have to say this...

80's music fu</>cking kicks ass!!!

elaborate?

[The Destroyer]

my dad used to be fiends with the keyboard player from happy mondays
He was no Bez. :(

[asphyXy]

<font color=969696>What the fu</>ck are you talking about?

80s bands:

Iron Maiden
Dio
Bathory
Celtic Frost
Megadeth
Venom
Kreator
Napalm Death
Sodom
Death Angel
Sepultura
Testament
Slayer
Dark Angel
Exodus
Carcass
Anthrax
etc.</font>

[Silent]

Rush. Although I sort of prefer their 70's stuff.

[Kane Knight]

Hey, remember the 80s?

[#1-norm-fan]

Does anyone remember... President Reagan?

[The Mask]

<font color=969696>What the fu</>ck are you talking about?

80s bands:

Iron Maiden
Dio
Bathory
Celtic Frost
Megadeth
Venom
Kreator
Napalm Death
Sodom
Death Angel
Sepultura
Testament
Slayer
Dark Angel
Exodus
Carcass
Anthrax
etc.</font>

yeah yeah, i know there was that going on as well, but you know :mad:

[The Mask]

also i'm talking more popular type stuff. only about 4 of the bands you listed there were mainstream popular :mad:

[asphyXy]

<font color=969696>Van Halen
Bon Jovi
Whitesnake
Scorpions
Guns N' Roses
Judas Priest
King Diamond
<s>Ozzy Osbourne</s> Randy Rhoads
WASP
etc.

They were popular.</font>

[Tranny]

I have a soft spot for Poison. :$

[asphyXy]

<font color=969696>Poison were a great band. So were Motley Crue.</font>

[Blitz]

Any decade that produced a song featuring an old guy shouting "SCIENCE!!!" is alright by me.

[Good News Gertie]

Ozzy :love:

[John la Rock]

From the Wedding Singer...

"Take off my Van Halen T-Shirt before you jinx the band and they break up." :lol:

Also U2 and Run DMC were the shit