The decade was filled with great music. But the second half of the decade was the source of my favorites. Sure, some of it isn't for mass consumption, but that's what was great about the 80s: a very wide and diverse range of popular musical styles.
-MG
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To me good music seems to skip a decade. 60s was great, 70s not so much, and 80s was great!
White Wedding by Billy Idol, Addicted to Love by Robert Palmer, Under Pressure by ZZ Top and so many other great songs. All of them accentuated by MTV!
egregore posted one from the Smithereens above; I always think of this band as kinda paired with them. They’re contemporaries and have (I think) a similar style of music.
One of my favorites of the 80s. A one-hit wonder for me, but I understand he had longevity in the UK. That B-3 and Leslie is almost as haunting as “A Whiter Shade of Pale,” from an earlier decade.
And from one of the great albums of the 80s
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