How do you young people percieve music/videos from the 1980s?

I assume there are a few posters in RAT and ASG that are teens through
early 20s.
So for you and for parents reading this it would be interesting to ask
your kids "how do you percieve the music and videos of the 1980s?"

fooey...

It's funny (at least for me) that you bring this up.

Monday afternoon, driving my 14 year old back from school, I commented
that everybody goofed on 80's music back in the day but now that's all
you hear in on many stations, commercials, etc. (I was old then - 27

-L....

First time I heard a Talking Heads song on a commerical, I about
fainted.

when MTV was born in 1981. I enjoy the stuff now more than I did then.)

She replied, from what she's seen the 80's music videos, she likes them
best.

Why I am asking. I go to the YMCA a lot to exercise and the music being
piped in almost 90 percent 1980s music.

It got me thinking. I am 40 and graduated high school in 1984 and I
think when one is a teen the music of those years are personal. Its

videonovels...

As one grows older, one should be able to expand beyond that narrow
10-year "band" of music, and learn to appreciate other style, both

-L....

It's a matter of taste. I will never, ever appreciate country music,
for example. It grates on my nerves. OTOH I love all classical and
always have, despite liking and preferring late 70's-early 80's music.

before and after your high school years. I still enjoy the 80s/90, but
I can also appreciate modern 2000s-era music of today's youth, and also
pre-1960s music... all the way back to the 20s.

You shouldn't confine yourself to just one narrow 10-year span of
music.

-L....

Yes - very much so.

thought of as your generations music. I assume those who were teens in
the 1960s that the 60s music were their generations music.

When I was in my teens I loved the power ballads and the quirky videos
of that time.
I thought the Cars videos were so awesome. I still do actually. But

-L....

I was class of '81 and am currently 43. I was first-gen punk and new
wave, and still totally dig that sort of music from the late 70's/early
80's. Most of what was "progressive" was actually produced in the
late 70's - about 1976 on out.

music from the 1960s I loved and still love to me that was probably the
greatest era of 20th century music - best lyricist and truly became of
the voice of that generation.

Yet when I was a teen in high school I couldn't quite connect with the
60s music.
I thought of it as a previous generations music not my generations
music. My perception at the time was 1960s music was awesome but quaint.

-L....

I liked some 60's music but found much of it old and stale. I
appreciate it *so* much more now that I am in my 40's.

I percieved the 1950s music as music I couldn't even relate to and
exceedingly quaint. The 1940s not only as quaint but very old something

-L....

I hated anything from the 50's and still do.

I couldn't stand listening to - the vocal music.

-L....

I hated and still hate big band type stuff and almost everything
pre-1960.

I am wondering how the teens today percieve 80s music as well as 60s
music.
I wonder if the teens today relate to 60s music as I related to 60s
music. And it teens relate to 60s music like I related to 40s music.

jjenniferlyon...

My sister (class of 1988) works in a place where she has to supervise a
number of high school and college kids. She says they're all very much
into 1980s music and they're continually asking her about different

videonovels...

.

That is so weird. I'm an 80s child (graduated 1991), and back then the
Teens I hung around with called Van Halen, David Lee Roth, etcetera
'trash'. They prefered to listen to Alternative music like R.E.M. and
other bands I'd never heard of (the college stations). ----- So to
hear today's teens saying they LIKE that type of music is a surprise.

Me:
Since I didn't have Cable TV, I didn't see MTV in the 80s. Even later
in the 90s with college cable access, I watched MTV but never really
saw the appeal of videos. It was fun to see the faces behind the radio
speaker, but it was the *music* I cared about. A band could have the
greatest videos in the world, but if their music is lousy, forget it.

.

My own preference is to just listen to whatever's on the radio. I
enjoy the songs by Avril Lavigne and other 'fun' pop artists...
something to make the 1-hour-long commute go faster (or, I'll listen to
books-on-tape).

As for BUYING music, I find the 60s to be tragically depressing and the
70s to be shallow. I prefer the big-band sounds of the 20s, 30s, and
40s. Also classical pre-1900 orchestra music. From time-to-time I'll
buy a "greatest hits" album of 80s or 90s music, mainly for nostalgia.

bands or hair/clothing styles from that era. If there's not much going
on at work, she'll go on YouTube and find "new" 1980s videos that the
kids haven't heard about-- for example, they know and like Van Halen,
but they weren't familiar with David Lee Roth's solo albums (or the
videos, which are hilarious).

Just today, I was watching some videos on YouTube from the late 1980s
and early 1990s by British groups like New Order, the Stone Roses, and
the Happy Mondays. I noticed that a lot of the positive comments came
from younger people who were just discovering these bands and wanted to
find more music like this. And based on the number of Pink Floyd
T-shirts I've been seeing around town lately, I'd say they're quite
popular among the Generation Y kids.

I remember liking 1960s music when I was a teenager in the 1980s. The
1960s were cool then, but with a few exceptions (Aerosmith, Led
Zeppelin) anything from the 1970s was very out. I imagine today's kids
probably feel the same way about the 1990s.

-L....

My only experience is with my friend's daughter who is 21. She was
raised on her mom's 80's music and still likes it to this day. She is
also into newer genres like "emo" and listens primarily to new bands
and alternative music. She also likes some 60's music but tends to
listen to 80's and post-80's alternative stuff - HATES stuff from the
early 70's. But she's exceedingly liberal, educated, self-motivated,
an activist/feminist and world-traveled. She's not your "normal" 21
year old.