[PHOTO: Rouserouse, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons] Thanks to The Beatles’ being formed in 1960 and breaking up in 1970, the 60s are a neatly defined decade in popular music history. The other great decade of UK pop music dominance—and, I would argue, of pop music creativity and genre development—the 1980s fits rather less well into its (vulgar) calendar definition. I'd say what we think of now as 80s music started in about 1978 and was pretty much over by 1987. As a result, there are a bunch of 80s-sounding records that not only evoke that decade and were influential on its characteristic musical genres, but whose creation predates 1980. I recently posted a Twitter poll:
Tracks made in the 1970s that define the 1980s
Tracks made in the 1970s that define the…
Tracks made in the 1970s that define the 1980s
[PHOTO: Rouserouse, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons] Thanks to The Beatles’ being formed in 1960 and breaking up in 1970, the 60s are a neatly defined decade in popular music history. The other great decade of UK pop music dominance—and, I would argue, of pop music creativity and genre development—the 1980s fits rather less well into its (vulgar) calendar definition. I'd say what we think of now as 80s music started in about 1978 and was pretty much over by 1987. As a result, there are a bunch of 80s-sounding records that not only evoke that decade and were influential on its characteristic musical genres, but whose creation predates 1980. I recently posted a Twitter poll: