the 80's--long may they wave...

[glatt]

Is it nostalgia that makes the 80s music so good, or is it just that the current music is crap?

I was a huge Nena fan. I had most of her albums. I was in Germany when 99 Luftballoons came out, and I LOVED it. When I got back home a few months later, it was just being introduced to the US. I couldn't believe it when I heard it on the US radio. And then it climbed up the charts to #1.

I loved the Eurythmics. Still buy all their stuff. They have mellowed out along with me, so it's been a good ride together.

Dire Straits were awesome too, although they didn't really have the 80s synthesizer sound going for them that much.

Pat Benetar.

There were tons of bads I listened to in the 80s who I don't think of as 80s bands. Paul Simon, the Boss, etc. They didn't have that distinctive 80s eurosynthesizer sound going for them.