The era that good music forgot?
Despite needing to build an extension to my house to provide storage for my CD and vinyl collection, very little of it dates from the 1980s. My friend pointed this out to me when she asked if she could borrow some of my stuff for an 80s party she was throwing. After she’d spent an hour raking through everything and come out with just one Human League album, one by Heaven 17 and a collection of 80s electronica, I started wondering why the 1980s had failed to have an impact on my musical taste…
It’s not because I don’t like music from the 1980s. I’ve been to a fair few 80s parties or club nights myself, and you can’t get me off the dance floor. Whether it’s the avant garden electronic stuff or early Kylie, or even the poodle rock of Bon Jovi and Europe, I can happily bop away for hours.
I guess part of the problem is the lack of serious artistes in the 1980s. Looking back from a distance of 30 years, it all just seems a bit silly and flippant, doesn’t it? I mean, Adam Ant and and his crazy Prince Charming dance, the Bros-inspired craze to have Grolsch bottle tops on your shoes and Bucks Fizz and their torn off skirts? You wouldn’t get that in the serious noughties or even the cooler than cool 90s.
I’ve decided to start checking out the local charity shops and bargain buckets to see if I can’t increase my 80s collection. After all, music is supposed to be fun and no decade has emphasised that more than the 1980s. Even the 70s with their (now) ridiculous clothes and hairdos took themselves seriously at the time. Even the artistes themselves approached 80s music with their tongues firmly lodged in their cheeks. How else can you explain So Macho by Sinitta?
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