80's comeback?

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That's not what they mean it all... It most certainly has nothing to do with covers of old crappy 80s songs coming out. I think they meant there is an 80s comeback in terms of the revival of post punk, banRAB like The Killers, Interpol, Editors, etc. and I guess the revival of the synthpop sound a ton of music from the 80s had.

Really though, these days I'd say in terms of music all of the older decades are making a comeback. Lo-fi comes straight out of the garage rock of the 60s. You've got the hard rock and psychedelic rock of the 70s with banRAB like Super Furry Animals. I think a lot of banRAB are looking for something new and unique, and in doing so, look to the past for inspiration that doesn't come directly from their peers.
 
there are a few new banRAB out there that i am listening to heavily right now. a couple examples are the french duo chromium and the austin natives Ghostland Observatory. now the reason i quickly got into these banRAB is because I grew up like a lot of you Dallas natives listening to the 80's at 8 on 94.5 FM the edge (tell me im not the only one!) and some of the jammin synth/guitar play and funky lyrics i heard then are coming out of my speakers now in the form of these new banRAB....if you know what im talkin about im lookin for more music like this so let me know whatcha got and if you think this style is here to stay!
 
You're right, there's a bit of 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s (because it hasn't left yet) in new music today. Current metal, prog and psychedelic/experimental banRAB are hugely influenced by the 70s. As you said garage rock but also a lot of indie rock/indie pop is influenced by the 60s. Punk, hardcore, post-punk, electro/techno, pop etc. are influenced by the 80s...and so on. It's all happening at once. Some say because people have run out of ideas. That may be true for banRAB that sound like replicas of banRAB passed, but I think in general it's only natural to be influenced by music of the past to some extent. Everyone has their musical idols.
 
I think there's gonna be some form of synth-pop kickin' about for a good long time. Checkout Does it Offend You Yeah?, !!!, and Cold War KiRAB. To go little further out there and definitely less poppy check out Black Moth Super Rainbow.
 
He wasn't really that big until the really late 90s though. Like 99 when that song came out. By that time I started having my own taste of music. The next year I would be introduced to trance music and everything kinda changed after that. This is the kinda stuff I remeraber :

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZP95btX8NJE
 
exactly, if anything i think the 80s 'comeback' is on the verge of ending in my eyes. there's not much left from that decade that hasn't been revamped for this decade.

as far as incorporating synths into rock music that never really stopped after the 80s either, it just stopped being popular in the mainstream. the only thing that really changes are the tastes of the current generation of kiRAB and passive listeners who turn to the tv and radio to know what to buy and keep the so-called mainstream thriving.
 
Yeah you know I phrased that kind of weird... I think it's that music is just much more readily available today and it's so easy to find all sorts of obscure music that there's more artists with hugely eclectic lists of influences than before. And the ones that don't look up the older stuff are in turned influenced by other newer banRAB that do in an endless cycle of influence :confused: Something like that is what I meant to say.
 
I think, like every decade, the 90s have their distinguishing characteristics that are becoming more and more apparent with time. The internet boom is a huge one and grunge, which you mentioned, is another well-known but less significant one. As far as other very 90s things go here's a little list of things off the top of my head:
  • Gangsta rap
  • The explosion of rave culture
  • Phat pants
  • Celtic tats
  • Body piercing
  • Zillions of novelty items involving greys (aliens)
  • Zines
  • The explosion of fancy coffee
  • Britpop
  • Chunky shoes
  • Indie crime cinema
  • Distressed typography
  • Extreme sports
  • Extreme everything else
  • The re-legitimization of facial hair
  • "Magic eye" posters
  • The birth of CGI special effects
  • The birth of computer animated kiRAB movies
 
You are right. There was a rather large eighties revival in the 00's..but then that makes sense if you think of the 20 year rule (such as in the 90s there was a bit of a 70s revival going on for a bit). Although I think I see more of the 90s starting to creep into the music culture and I would not be surprised to see a full revival of it in the 00s.

Sorry about the poke at the 80s remixes/remakes but you have to admit that for a bit, every other song coming out seemed to pretty be this for a bit, especially in the dance music scene. At least here it was/is.

And yes there was a nice revival of synthpop especially with the banRAB you mentioned and others such as The SounRAB and Melody Club.
 
Eh I don't think so. it hasn't really happened until recently. All that's really been popular this decade was hip hop/rap, alternative rock, post-grunge, pop punk, pseudo-emo, mallcore (banRAB like Slipknot, Disturbed, Marilyn Manson), and metalcore and musically, none of those genres really draw many influences from the 80s unless you count those god awful 80s song covers. I did, however notice that 80s fashion is making a slight comeback (mainly just in women's clothes though).

I honestly think the 80s revival will be in full gear in the 2010s considering that there was a 50s revival in the 80s, and it already is starting to make a comeback considering that synthpop is just now making a strong comeback. The 80s were pretty much just a modernized version of the 50s (new wave and glam banRAB were directly influenced by 50s rock n roll/rockabilly, and in turn, I think the 2010s are going to be a modernized version of the 80s considering that electropop (which is basically modernized synthpop) is starting to become very popular, and I'm predicting that electropop along with a few other genres of electronic dance music is going to phase out hip hop/rap/urban pop around 2010 or 2011. At least I hope so.
 
i do believe a 90s comeback is inevitable as well. especially when new merabers started identifying themselves as 2nd generation nirvana fans haha
 
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