I wish I could have been a 60s kid and then a 70s teenager...most of the stuff I like comes from these two time periods. I would have been such a hippy kid...and then a weird musical elitist douchbag prog-rocker in the 70s.

Being born in the 70s would do it for me.

So, basically, you want my life. :laughing:

It's a joke. It's what people always say!

and mine as well

I would want to be born in the early 50's so I can really live through the late 60's an early 70's. Then go to sleep near the end of 1979 and wake up in 1992.
Either that, or be born in 1984. Which I am. Music is good nowadays.

i would like to be in the 20s, and a MGM megastar

you'll be dead by now.

Waking up to grunge would make me cranky.

Well at least these horrible eighties are over (sorry peepz, I don't like synths or disco)

Disco wasn't really an 80s thing though, you'd mostly want to skip the 70s if you want to avoid it. Plus its not like synths were the only thing happening in the 80s.

at least I lived in the 20s, if not a MGM star, at least a compatriot of Fritz Lang in weimar Germany

i love the 80s, i love disco, i love synth-pop

Still having a hard time making a list of bands that arose in the 80's

OMD, Human League, Duran Duran, a-ha, Howard Jones, Nik Kershaw, DeBarge, Klymaxx, Atlantic Starr etc etc

love each and every one of them

I have no record of any of those bands in my record cabinet
But even then
Human league 1977
OMD 1978
Duran Duran 1978
DeBarge 1979
Klymax 1979
Atlantic Starr 1979.

Leaves us with A-HA, HOward Jones and Nik Kershaw.
Well I obviousy don't know much about this music, but would you reckon these bands/artists have made good albums you would actually own/love to own and play from begnning to end?

you said "arose" not "formed"

obviously they only got popular in the 80s

i like most of the British acts, i have to say their singles are far better than the other songs on their full-length albums, but they're not without their charms

Here's a little list of some bands I like that were formed in the 80s:

Pixies
Ween
Primus
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Los Fabulosos Cadillacs
Godflesh
Faith No More
Alien Sex Fiend
Metallica
Slayer
They Might Be Giants
Sepultura
Skinny Puppy
Ministry
Mr. Bungle
Rocket from the Crypt
Neurosis
Earth
Testament
7 Seconds
Danzig
Butthole Surfers
Scratch Acid
The Jesus Lizard
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult
Unsane
The Smiths
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Meshuggah
KMFDM
The Flaming Lips
Death
The Sugarcubes
Sisters of Mercy
A Tribe Called Quest
Ultramagnetic MCs
The Beastie Boys
Gorilla Biscuits
Fugazi
Minor Threat
Revolting Cocks
Nirvana
Jane's Addiction
The Melvins
N.W.A.
Public Enemy
Ultra Vivid Scene
The Jesus and Mary Chain
The Happy Mondays
My Bloody Valentine
Sonic Youth
The Notwist
Daisy Chainsaw
Minor Threat
Bolt Thrower
Naked City
Painkiller
The Legendary Pink Dots
The Cult
Coil
Nine Inch Nails

Fair enough but at least 3/4 of those bands peaked in the 90s.

He was talking about bands that arose in the 80s so that's what I gave him. I could just as easily do bands that peaked in the 80s, many of which would have arisen in the 70s.

Oh. Good job.

thats actually a pretty damn good list there. :beer:

Agreed. late 80s-early 90s is the time almost all of my favorite music was recorded.

@ Janszoon: Dayum!

I used to think that about the eighties, too (except the part about disco - that was a 70s thing). Once I got into the experimental/avant-garde, industrial (kind of goes with the previous genre), punk rock, post-punk, and the indie/alternative areas of that decade then I reconsidered.

Most interesting avant-garde/post/punk bands are from the late 70's.
Yes they flourished in the 80's, but they origin from the 70's.

Whitehouse, Minutemen, Galaxie 500, Pixies, Idiot Flesh, Thinking Plague, Sonic Youth, Mnemonists (although technically formed in 1979 under 'Biota'). Just to name a few off the top of my head. Although, both the Pixies and Galaxie 500 is more aimed at my original post when I made a reference to indie and alternative bands.

Plus, I thought it was more important when they started to make albums and create an impact on music. Most of the industrial and no wave musicians were formed in the late seventies, but didn't even release an album until the early eighties, but they're usually considered to be musicians from the eighties.

I really only know the pixies and sonic youth...
I always thought SY was a 90's band.

Sonic Youth formed in 1981. And there's loads more, Dinosuar Jr., OAR, nearly everything in the hardcore punk vein... You even have 80s in your collection. REM, The Bangles, Giant Sand, Gipsy Kings, more or less Joe Jackson, Level 42, erc... there's good stuff among the bad, like any decade.

Joe Jackson definitely 70's. After that he didn't make that much good music if you ask me :D.
You got me on Giant Sand, altough I mostly like their later work.

Haha well then... good thing you weren't born in the 70s! :p: I imagine it would be hellish for you being a teenager through the 80s.

I lived my first six year through the eighties and I can't help but thinking that the nineties were crap too :D. But the music was nice. Well nog the top 40 music obviously, but there are some great nineties bands I really adore now.

I'd rather not be born 50 years ago since all of the music I like was made either in the 80's, 90's, or 00's.

And to all the people that dream about going back in time so you can listen to the music from the 60's in your teens - twenties think twice. In your younger years you are going to have to grow up with music from the 50's. Do you really want that?

Jazz and blues-wise, yes. But I'm happy with the decade I was born in.

Django Reinhardt, Davis, Coltrane, some Brubeck. I wouldn't mind.
And what about the creation of Ska.

Bebop, hard bop, free jazz, calypso, mento, rockabilly, zydeco, R&B, rock 'n roll, bluegrass, space age pop, lounge music? Sure, sounds nice to me.

me 2

How did you have in mind for "space age pop" Joe Meeks or Delia Derbyshire?

nice list broder.

who cares what generation you jones for if youre alive?

I was born in Sweden in 1954. I lived in the USA from 1959 through the first half of 1970. Then I moved back to Sweden.

So I grew up in America during the 1960s. I experienced Beatlemania, the Summer of Love, read about Woodstock in the newspapers (I did not attend the Woodstock festival, but I was aware of it).

I would say that, despite the racism and other ills in America at the time, the culture of the states during the 1960s was *much* healthier than the culture of today.

The baby-boomers did more harm than good with their contemptible, nihilistic "counterculture". America and the rest of the west (including my own current place of residence, Sweden) have gone downhill an awful lot since the 1960s.

Kant has been winning, unfortunately - and the antidote, Ayn Rand, has been largely ignored.