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80's music makes this worth watching. best decade for music...period

posted 15 years ago by VirginOnPromNight
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this is worth watching if only to hear "i ran" by a flock of seagulls. the 80's is obviously the best decade for music. i say this because there have been a lot of movies featuring 80's soundtracks over the past 10-15 years, meanwhile, where are the movies featuring an all 60's, 70's, or 90's soundtrack??? they havent been made. today music SUCKS ARSE. there will never again be a radio song as cool as "I RAN" by A FLOCK OF SEAGULLS. it is just not possible

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[–] weiler97 15 years ago

The best thing about this movie IS the soundtrack. Liked 7RAY too - not familiar with them so need to check out. It would be very cool to go back to 83 and catch a live show. Early 80s rule. New wave. Not so much later 80s with over-produced copy cats. For 90s- what about grunge which tried to kill syntho-pop?

[–] michael-kovacs 15 years ago

although that song sucks, the eighties were the best decade for music.

[–] nitestar95 15 years ago

Everyone has their own 'best decade for music'. I you asked my granddad, he'd have said it was the '20's, with the expansion of recorded music being available. My dad would say the 50's, with both jazz hitting it's stride, and the invention of rock'n'roll, which became the mainstay of music. I would say the 60's, where FM radio started expanding us beyond top ten formats, and got us listening to whole albums on a regular basis. So, it's kind of generational.

[–] cubicledweller 15 years ago

Well, '80s music is the music I grew up with, so I still have a fondness for it...not to mention the Ray Ban Wayfarers seen throughout the movie (I've worn them off and on for 25 years)>

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[–] debdav1 15 years ago

The 80's were when music began to slide downhill, & only people ignorant of music history would disagree with that!

[–] sized-2 10 years ago

Hilarious.

[–] filmbuff1974 12 years ago

The eighties may prove the most creative and productive music period of the twentieth century. I appreciate that they didn't go heavy handed with the music selection, just enough to anchor the viewer back to the eighties without making it seem nostalgic. Perfect balance.

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[–] Falconeer 11 years ago

Partially true; but more specifically the music from the EARLY 80's was great. By the mid 80's so many good bands had sold out to the MTV style, and their music became too mainstream and pop. Bands like Duran Duran (their first 2 albums are fine examples of New Wave, but their later records were really awful, pop crap) and The Cars ( first few albums, the first dating back to the late 70's i believe were great, but then they turned to garbage too.) And listen to the first couple albums from Human League; really cutting edge stuff. It's hard to believe that their later stuff is now used in a car insurance commercial. i have a lot of respect for the 80's bands that never sold out. Bands like Kraftwerk, and Einsturzande Neubauten never went mainstream. The 80's had it's fine moments, but a lot of it was really trash.

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[–] hairmetalmusic 8 years ago

Did you ever notice that people that have to state "period" at the end of their points almost never had a triple-digit IQ. Sure, every once in awhile you might run into one who has a 101 or 102 IQ, but generally speaking, maybe 99.4% of them are in the double-digits.