Why did the 80's Music, Cars, and Dress suck, compared to the 70's ?

Born in 72

So was a child growing up in the bbn 70s remember some music

Green up as a teen I'm 80s and can say I preferred the 80s music to 70s

There are some songs from the 70s I like

As far as clothes, hell no, 80s clothes and style much better than 70s IMO

Bell bottoms never was my thing

I look back at pics of me in the 70s and the clothes were terrible and we wasmt poor so it had nothing to do with money just bad clothes in 70s

80s was probably the best decade ever IMO

THATS FUNNY!

Because, you see, I don't actually recall asking you to provide an opinion!

80's influence all around, it's making a comeback.

70's were garbage,

This thread lacks any sort of logical analysis.

Nothing before or since could match something like this...

ONLY in the 80s...


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It's actually just ECONOMICS and TECHNOLOGY.

The music of the 70's was great because selling music was a profitable business that benefited from just having achieved critical mass in music technology. They had guitars and amplifiers, and recording studios had finally gotten powerful enough to capture the sounds of great bands, so recorded music sounded better than ever. Great bands to record existed, because having a group of people playing together was the only way to produce music, and because there was plenty of ways to make money from it. Perhaps even BIG money, if you were lucky and had talent.

Then in the 80's, things started to change. Synths and samplers and sequencers meant that you could now make music without a band, and studio technology progressed so far that getting a cutting edge sound was more up to having a great producer who knew the new technology, than musical talent to record. And so the new acts tended to be lame posers propped up by technology, and the holdovers from the 70's often lost themselves in the new technology as well, making less amazing music than before.

After that, things progressively got worse and worse. The market for recorded music kept shrinking, and there were fewer venues for performing musicians too, especially up-and-coming bands with no name. People stopped playing in bands seriously, because there was no money in it short term, and no big break to hope for as a carrot to keep struggling. With no new bands, there were no new super bands either.

As the profit margins shrank, record labels stopped doing A&D altogether, focusing on marketing cheaply made shit and monetizing their old catalog.

The decline of music is 99 % down to economics and technological advancement making humans obsolete.

Because the seventies were about sincerity of romance and friendship.

I like 70s fashion but I think 80's music was better.

The eighties was about artifice and so it was mere gloss and shallow.

The nineties was about exploitation so hardly a basis for relationships.

The sixties was about freedom and unfortunantly experimentation.

Wild hippies in the sixties rejected their wildness and settled down by homesteading in the seventies. That was called the Back-to-Land movement. They married and had babies and embraced the land and rejected the artifice of suburbs.

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Lot of 80s tards round these parts.

70s > 80s

70s gave us Led Zeppelin, muscle cars, free sex and drugs.

80s gave us Madonna, Michael Jackson, Yuppies, and EDM.

End of argument.

The 70's sucked big time compared to the 60's. How you gonna compare that stupid heavy metal shit to the real thing, Hendrix?
The Stones were good in the 70's with Mick Taylor. The Grateful Dead were finally in tune in the 70's, after tuning machines were widely available. There was Ry Cooder and a few others making good music, but mostly it all sucked after they killed off the anti war musicians or shut them up in other ways.
Give me some Yardbirds any day. I was in high school in the 60's and I wouldn't give that up for anything. The music that came out in 1964 and 65 has never been surpassed imho.
I also remember the Buddy Holly, Eddie Cochran, Chuck Barry 50's, and the 80's were just a pale imitation of those guys.The whole 80's guitar thing was Eddie Cochran rehashed.

If you have a problem with car performance blame the democrats and all the mandatory emissions bull shit. Took the corvette from over 400 hp to about 150 hp to try to save the fucking whales. Absolutely destroyed performance for about 35 years.

The cars were worse, the music is debatable, I liked it, but the clothes were much better in the 80's. Some of the styles in the 70's were horrific, and for some reason they loved brown. No wonder the 80's had a lot of colour to it.

Both were better than what came after, the 90's was the start of massive political correctness and a souless society with no real style of their own. I could sense where it was going and that's why the modern era doesn't suprise me whatsoever. I'm just wondering what took them so long.

Uh... I was born in 62.

70s was:

Ugly dark green and brown colors.

Sweat - people dressed up in long sleeved shirts, sweaters and thick jeans even when it was hot and they always smelled of sweat (tried to cover it up with scents; see below).

Shaggy hair, beard, sideburns, body hair - lots of hair

Obscenely spicy scents used in excess to try to cover up nasty body odor

cocaine.

The 70's is awesome

The 80's is awesome..

its the 90's that totally sucks.

The best way to determine what era of music and style was "better" or the "best" is to go by the opinions of those who never experienced previous eras in real time. Meaning young people. And if you are in tune with the voice of today's youth, you will find that 80's music, style, and pop culture is BY FAR the most popular with the young people of today.

80's win!

wrong

I liked the 50s rock, 60s surfer music some 70s rock stuff like KISS, Meat Loaf and even some disco. I love 70s and 80s country music.
But 80s rock music for me is the best.

Cars early 70s muscle cars were great but mid 70s cars started going down hill with low power and front wheel drive.

Dress and style, I prefer the 80s

Wait OP, I thought this was your favorite

Things had to be sacrificed to kill disco.

The 80's was awesome in the UK.
Perhaps it just sucked in some parts of the USA?

One word...disco.

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