Where don't shit outside the pot, though. The opening of your review is a bit sad. Maybe you were born in the '70s and lived through the '80s, so I’ll keep quiet (there are people here who have this idea). If you didn’t experience the '80s, you missed a thousand nuances and, judging by how you perceive them, a billion bands. What kind of sound mood would the '80s have? Perhaps you base that on what certain radio stations play, meaning extracts from collections like "80' Voglia Disco Party" (I love that title) or "'80 forever." If that mood hadn’t existed, there wouldn’t have been a ton of bands and sounds that stemmed from the '80s. Do you realize that '90s/'00s and even '10s bands are drawing immensely from the '80s? Regarding MTV, everyone immediately vomited their disdain onto it, seeing it as the Devil for the purity of music. In reality, at least in the beginning, MTV introduced millions of people to Depeche Mode, Prince, Police, REM, U2, Guns and Roses, the Cure, Dire Straits, Queen, AC/DC... I personally remember that The Clash, Dinosaur Jr, Genesis, Aerosmith, Lou Reed, among others, passed through there. The first ones I recall. And then there was a ton of exceptional music: Husker Du, Butthole Surfers, Minutemen, America Music Club, Nick Cave, Peter Gabriel's SO, Dream Syndicate, Springsteen's The River and Nebraska, Pixies, Steve Roach, Sonic Youth, Cocteau Twins, Flaming Lips, Talking Heads, Talk Talk, Bad Religion, a brilliant Tom Waits, Tom Petty making the best stuff, but also Henry Rollins, Meat Puppets, XTC, Paul Simon's Graceland, Suzanne Vega, Van Morrison, Swans, and many others. So much good pop.
In the '80s, there was an epoch-making change in music, and even after many years, I don’t understand those like you who stand up and say: I hate the '80s. What the hell? And why, above all? Maybe you hate the image they’ve given you. But we from the '80s, for example, had neither YouTube to listen to music, nor the internet to download it, nor even a damn iPod to listen to it: we only had MTV and some radio stations, and then the record store. Period.
Today, after decades, I have to be honest with myself; I also didn’t look favorably on MTV, it aired a lot of crap, but now and then a gem would pop up that made it worth enduring. I still remember, for example, the first time I heard (and saw) With or Without You by U2 or the black and white video for Atlantic City by Springsteen, Personal Jesus by Depeche Mode, Close to Me by the Cure, Everybody Hurts by REM, or even Welcome to the Jungle by Guns. "The first time" means as soon as the records came out.
So how can you hate 10 years of music? Realize that and repent, then redeem yourself.
