Charts Wise the 70s were better than the 80s by a Long Way

No obviously not all 80s songs were particularly those that spilled out of the late 70s as you have listed. As the decade advanced so the commercial chart music scene started to decay in quality overall With Stock Aitken and Waterman started their factory jumping on the bandwagon.

Its all about musical taste and how old you are and it’s a debate for fun really.
I wouldn't disagree with that statement but your initial point seemed to write the whole of the Eighties off when clearly there was a lot of good music throughout the decade but yes it did get worse towards the end of the decade as DJ's and producers became more prominent and tried to cash in on everything.

That said there was a lot of dross in the Seventies as well!
 
I wouldn't disagree with that statement but your initial point seemed to write the whole of the Eighties off when clearly there was a lot of good music throughout the decade but yes it did get worse towards the end of the decade as DJ's and producers became more prominent and tried to cash in on everything.

That said there was a lot of dross in the Seventies as well!
Agreed but for every dross 70s chart number I’ll give you 5 80s ear assaulters.
 
I tend to think that the early to mid 70s as generally poor with odd gems such as Bowie, Lennon etc

On Saturday night I saw a music of 1974 show on TV and the number 1 for the year was Tie a Yellow Ribbon, close behind was Welcome Home by Peters & Lee.

80s had some rubbish too such as Jive Bunny.

Ref Synthesised music - some of it was very good and some very bad - Erasure produced some very good music with Synthesiser that to me has stood the test of time such as:

 
There is good (and bad) music in every decade if you limit yourself to what other people like (the charts) then sometimes you will agree with them and other times not. I was down a "funk rabbit hole" on YouTube and the algorithm took me to this...
A Korean "Indie" band led by a young lady called Lulileela.

Good music is everywhere you just need to find it
 
I tend to think that the early to mid 70s as generally poor with odd gems such as Bowie, Lennon etc

On Saturday night I saw a music of 1974 show on TV and the number 1 for the year was Tie a Yellow Ribbon, close behind was Welcome Home by Peters & Lee.

80s had some rubbish too such as Jive Bunny.

Ref Synthesised music - some of it was very good and some very bad - Erasure produced some very good music with Synthesiser that to me has stood the test of time such as:

Blue Savannah was a 90s song although agree it is one of the better ones as it has a catchy melody that can be sung without the synth.

But it also demonstrated another fail about the commercial scene prevalent in the 80s. The intro of the music video. Some artists spent more time promoing the songs rather than concentrating on the quality of the song. That video for example. A man walking about with a pole and a washing up glove on the end of it.
 
Pretty much stopped listening to chart stuff about 86/87 time. Anything post then doesn't take my interest.
77-83 were my musical golden years.

Same here, but I didn't think that till relatively recently - would always champion the 80s as the golden decade but then the more I listened to 'older' stuff I realised that it actually was the late 70s that formed the best period, 1979 seeming to be the pinnacle of it. Loads of bands I later loved springing up about then, moving out of punk into all the electro stuff. Once you got to 1983 (with a few exceptions) it was going downwards to the hideous Stock/Aitken/Waterman period, and its derivatives, along with pubs full of chrome handrails and bad beer.
 
Good music in every decade. Saw some great bands this year and just as excited to see what next year brings. The charts have never been relevant for years and Payola is worse now than whe Alan Freed was on the go. In the pub I go in we have a list to request songs for the jukebox but everyweek the guy comes and puts on dozens of songs that most have not even heard of. Sometimes whole albums by artists they are trying to push. For example the full Cam Cole album a couple of weeks ago. Last week 10 track each but two artists I had never heard of and I like to think I listen to a bit of music.
 
There is good (and bad) music in every decade if you limit yourself to what other people like (the charts) then sometimes you will agree with them and other times not. I was down a "funk rabbit hole" on YouTube and the algorithm took me to this...
A Korean "Indie" band led by a young lady called Lulileela.

Good music is everywhere you just need to find it
This is what we want. More Korean shoegazing! My current favourite band
 
By this very statement you can tell your age, i was a young child in the 70's, hated most of the music & hated the fashion, whereas i LOVED the eighties....

That's all it is....
No defending what passes for 99.9% of music nowadays though....
 
Blue Savannah was a 90s song although agree it is one of the better ones as it has a catchy melody that can be sung without the synth.

But it also demonstrated another fail about the commercial scene prevalent in the 80s. The intro of the music video. Some artists spent more time promoing the songs rather than concentrating on the quality of the song. That video for example. A man walking about with a pole and a washing up glove on the end of it.
Cardiff Daffs - 26th Feb 1990 for Blue Savannah - you are technically correct its the 1990s by 8 weeks. Some of Erasure electro hits were in the 1980s such as Sometimes. I managed to pick out a 1990 one :rolleyes:

To others I was trying to point out Erasure were producing a quality style of music that really wasn't produced in the 1970s. Some posters were saying the 1980s was poorer - to me there was bad and good music in both decades.
 
Discovered the John Peel show around 78 and pretty much didn't care after that. It was good to see something come in from the left field and surprise people now and again, but generally, meh!
 
Discovered the John Peel show around 78 and pretty much didn't care after that. It was good to see something come in from the left field and surprise people now and again, but generally, meh!
I discovered the JPS around 1978 too. It didn't rule my musical life but it was a significant influence. I saw John Cooper Clarke a couple of weeks ago and I remember hearing his poetry for the first time in 1978 on JPS and thinking what was that and went ot and bought "I married a monster from outer space" on a (vinyl single)
 
Definitely an age thing this taste malarky, but having seen OMD at Birmingham last Friday I'm sure pop stars in the 70s, 80s and some 90s, the arts school boys, were so much cleverer than the current or later bunch?....I couldn't imagine Harry Styles or the lad from Donny would have heard of Joan of Arc or Enola Gay let alone thought to write songs about them :ROFLMAO:
 
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