most people brush off the 80s as unimportant. but it was easily one of the most important decades.
why? just LOOK at it. visually even.
so much of the 70s was discarded, a very new, very loud, very bombastic thing was the 80s. it seemed like a time of purging. there was a big loud, confused, but powerful force that seemed to erase everything before it.
and things slowly started to change.
music is completely cyclical. everything moves and changes, but it goes in a predictable forula. to find out what's coming next, simply look to the past.
i had to sound like a snob or some "i heard them first" kinda person, but for the last 2-3 years, i've been almost bang on with the bands that get popular. i'll push and push a band to my friends and such, see them in tiny clubs and bars, and boom. big money. maybe i shouldbe a record exec.
but i grow weary of all these nu-wave "indie" bands (*independent means on an independent label!*) with all this 'retro' throwback.
i really detest mainstream music, but on that note, i detest people who say there is no good modern music.
go out, go to a club, a bar, listen to college radio, start exchanging mix tapes/cds, the best music has always come from people who are willing to make it, despite money, fame or labels.
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