Why Did 70's Music Age So Much Better Than 80's Music?

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

I know disco was the direct precursor and influence to house and electronic forms of music but it was also disposable.

'White' people thought that way and that's why disco died in the late 70's.

Black people were still listening to/making disco records into the mid-/late-80's.​

 

[Oceanicpuppy]

'White' people thought that way and that's why disco died in the late 70's.

Black people were still listening to/making disco records into the mid-/late-80's.​

Was the attack on Disco racially motivated? I think that deserves its own thread.

 

[Regine Hunter]

actual instruments were used...incorporation of synths and special effects came in the late 70s though.
Harmonies crafted and used in the 60s were brought too in some of the slow cuts.


perfect example.


Fact: y'all know Heatwave was the band Rod Temperton was in before he was writing cuts for the GOAT and the gawd George Benson

 

[The Amerikkkan Idol]

Alot of 80's music sounds too manufactured and soulless. That's when the transition to a more electronic sound started. 80s music fell off across all genres. There was some classics produced during that time but music took a huge nosedive from the 70s.

Agreed, there was some dope shyt in the '80s, but most of it was gawd awful bullshyt like this:

Spoiler: 80s Bullshyt

Ever since the 80's ended... music groups and producers have been trying to recapture that 80's sound... even still today(2017).

Let's just say that If I was on a road trip and had to listen to nothing but music from the 60's, 70's or 80's... for 10 hours straight. The 80's would easily win.

Which is why pop music in 2017 sucks so bad.

Imagine if theywere trying to be like Stevie's mid'70s run or The Beatles or Parliament.

But instead we got a bunch of motherfukkers sounding like Rick Astley & Milli Vanilli

There's some great '80s music, but most of it was made by artists from the '70s.

shyt didn't get dope in the '80s until the late '80s when PE and BDP and NWA started bring the sounds of the '60s and '70s back through sampling

The current, official black family gathering anthem came out in 1981.

I think you mean

Spoiler

People hate on the 80s because I believe this is when technology began to replace the "musician". IMO 1985-1995 is probably one of the best stretches of music as it was the perfect blend, after 95 everything became super Sample focused, which wasn't bad per say but many would argue music moved from pure artistry to 100% commercial. Yeah the 80s and early 90s had a ton of 1 hit wonders, but listen to the one hit ones from that period and compare them to the one hit wonders of modern times and I`d argue the quality was still more superior.

Actually, sampling has gone down dramatically since all those lawsuits from Biz Markie & The Beastie Boys in the early '90s.

Yeah i agree the 60's/70's are better than the 80s but...

1980 - 1987 >>>>>> 2010 - 2017.

Who's saying anything different?

This is what I'm saying. You could play music from that decade, from any of these artists, today and it'll still sound fantastic. Even hip hop from the late 80's still gets spins. This thread premise was poorly researched or made by someone with no knowledge of musical history.

Wrong.

He didn't say that there was no good music from the '80s, just that it's not as good as the '70s, which is true.

Was the attack on Disco racially motivated? I think that deserves its own thread.

Partially, but a lot of dudes like George Clinton & Weldon Irvine hated disco too.

 

[RTF]

Every major black musician who hit their zenith in the 70's had some type of social commentary in their music. nikkas was disillusioned after the Civil Rights "era" but had not fully sold out. Motown sound was coming to an end but all the talent was still there.

Also the technology was "just" right.

Finally, the art of making albums was perfected in the 70's. The 80's brought MTV and singles increased in relevance in the 70's you had to make great albums.

Album for album the 70's kills any era...

Classic work off the top:
Marley - Catch a Fire, Exodus and killer work throughout the decade
Mayfield - Curtis, Superfly
Michael Jackson - Off The Wall
Stevie - Innervisions, Talking Book, Songs in the Key + more killer throughout the decade... Stevie BODIED the decade
Funkadelic & Parliament PRIME
Marvin
Al Green
EWF
Sly
Prince best work was in the 80's but the Prince album was very good
Bowie

C'mon 70's is unfukkwittable. 80's isn't close.

 

[Kyle C. Barker]

Agreed, there was some dope shyt in the '80s, but most of it was gawd awful bullshyt like this:

Spoiler: 80s Bullshyt

Which is why pop music in 2017 sucks so bad.

Imagine if theywere trying to be like Stevie's mid'70s run or The Beatles or Parliament.

But instead we got a bunch of motherfukkers sounding like Rick Astley & Milli Vanilli

There's some great '80s music, but most of it was made by artists from the '70s.

shyt didn't get dope in the '80s until the late '80s when PE and BDP and NWA started bring the sounds of the '60s and '70s back through sampling



I think you mean

Spoiler

Actually, sampling has gone down dramatically since all those lawsuits from Biz Markie & The Beastie Boys in the early '90s.



Who's saying anything different?



Wrong.

He didn't say that there was no good music from the '80s, just that it's not as good as the '70s, which is true.



Partially, but a lot of dudes like George Clinton & Weldon Irvine hated disco too.

People ITT were saying 80s music was soulless, dated, manufactured, robotic, and all kinds of other shyt

 

[RTF]

70's the GOAT man... just a lil something for you... 80's was great too

Spoiler

 

[Family Man]

80s music is high key trash...

That's where mass commercialisation of music occured and the use of synths and drum machines was used to cut down on price.

Also the 80s was the creation of the pop star...another trash development of music...

70s had the the Meters, Parliament, EW&F, Ohio Players, Slave, Sly and the Family Stone, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, Queen, Bee Gees, The Eagles

Then on the solo side you had Stevie Wonder, Elton John, David Bowie.....

70s was the best era...

You listen to 80s music, shyt is all loud and clanky...and dead...

70s music was smooth...and full of life

80s music makes you feel old like when you listen to early to mid 2000 music...they both got that annoying loudness and clankiness...

Not to mention the shyt that was going on with reggae music during the '70s

Rock music too

Disco music too..

Soul music

The Blaxsploitation shyt

The beginnings of hip hop music
Man fukk outta here to anybody saying the 80s was better than the 70s.
Ain't no era fukking with the 70s. Period.
Music was at its peak across all genres during that time.
nikkas in here only focusing on RnB.

 

[Family Man]

People hate on the 80s because I believe this is when technology began to replace the "musician". IMO 1985-1995 is probably one of the best stretches of music as it was the perfect blend, after 95 everything became super Sample focused, which wasn't bad per say but many would argue music moved from pure artistry to 100% commercial. Yeah the 80s and early 90s had a ton of 1 hit wonders, but listen to the one hit ones from that period and compare them to the one hit wonders of modern times and I`d argue the quality was still more superior.

They were sampling shyt from the 70's.

 

[Jack Skellington]

Outside of - the 80s is one of the WOAT era for music.

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

i would say the music was more organic..
80's become heavily influenced by electronic and synths..which play a part in creativity/

 

[ℒℴѵℯJay ELECTUA]

Outside of - the 80s is one of the WOAT era for music.

fukk outa here!!!
Prince shyts on MJ AS A MUSICIAN!!!

 

[RTF]

I love Prince.

He's not seeing Marley though. I like him more than Stevie but Stevie catalogue is stronger. As a raw musician Stevie's probably better too

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

80s music is high key trash...

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That's where mass commercialisation of music occured and the use of synths and drum machines was used to cut down on price.

False. Synths and drum machines were used because they existed and were popularized by musicians who used them back in the 70's.
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Also the 80s was the creation of the pop star...another trash development of music...

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You listen to 80s music, shyt is all loud and clanky...and dead...

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80s music makes you feel old like when you listen to early to mid 2000 music...they both got that annoying loudness and clankiness...

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[The Amerikkkan Idol]

People ITT were saying 80s music was soulless, dated, manufactured, robotic, and all kinds of other shyt

Yeah, IN COMPARISON to music from the '70s.

I don't think anybody is claiming that today's music is better than that of the '80s