# 80s music appreciation thread **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 28, 2004, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-music-appreciation-thread/271726 "2004-10-28T20:38:16Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![MsRobyn](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/90ced4/32.png) [@MsRobyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MsRobyn)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-music-appreciation-thread/271726/61 "2004-10-30T01:46:27Z")
A completely unnecessary and shameless plug: I’m doing three hours of 80s music starting in, oh, about ten minutes. I do this every Friday night. You can listen to me [here](http://www.wsyc.org/webcast.html). You don’t need Winamp to listen; any program that’ll work with streaming media will do. And my [website](http://www.the80scheesefactory.com). Robin, who is wearing black and red and who is the embodiment of the Bowling for Soup song “1985”. ---
**Author:** ![ultrafilter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/3d9bf3/32.png) [@ultrafilter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ultrafilter)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-music-appreciation-thread/271726/62 "2004-10-30T01:56:57Z")
> [@t-keela](#): > > Try [this cite](http://www.pitchforkmedia.com/top/80s/) guys and see what ya think. 😉 Didn’t somebody already post that in this thread? I’m not sure what exactly what criteria that list is based on, but any list of big-name 80s albums that leaves out Metallica’s _Master Of Puppets_ is incomplete. ---
**Author:** ![t-keela](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a3d4f5/32.png) [@t-keela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/t-keela)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 2:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-music-appreciation-thread/271726/63 "2004-10-30T02:15:41Z")
> [@ultrafilter](#): > > Didn’t somebody already post that in this thread? > > I’m not sure what exactly what criteria that list is based on, but any list of big-name 80s albums that leaves out Metallica’s _Master Of Puppets_ is incomplete. Did they? Well, I guess I missed it. This just looked like something they might find interesting. I had two other links to post but my goddamned computer is showing its ass today. Got a bug from somewhere and it keeps tyrying to load someshit I don’t even know what it is. Can’t get rid of it and it just pops up outta the blue. anyway I had this top 100 link…a top 100 pop… and a top 100 metal and I thought I’d compare the three to see what they had in common (if anything) I didn’t see anything right off but like I said my PC is fucked right now and I’m late for a gig…so ima book…later…y’all have fun. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Talon\_Karrde](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c5a1d2/32.png) [@Talon\_Karrde](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Talon_Karrde)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-music-appreciation-thread/271726/64 "2004-10-30T05:49:50Z")
I love 80’s music. Some stuff that’s not been mentioned: Echo and the Bunnymen, Bauhaus, Peter Murphy, The Psychedelic Furs, Tones on Tail, Toad the Wet Sprocket, Felt, Billy Bragg, The Violent Femmes, I could go on but I’ll stop now. ---
**Author:** ![An\_Arky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/87869e/32.png) [@An\_Arky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/An_Arky)\ **Post date:** [October 30, 2004, 10:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-music-appreciation-thread/271726/65 "2004-10-30T10:08:50Z")
Hey, though I did advocate for the “alternative” side of things earlier, it doesn’t mean I don’t like metal…au contraire…I think AC/DC was one of the greatest bands EVAH! There was some pretty good metal going on the 80s, though much of it was overshadowed by the lightweight spandex-poodle hair bands. I don’t diss these bands because they were metal, but because they were watered-down copies of better (metal) bands, and their songs sounded like beer commercials. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/80s-music-appreciation-thread/271726.md?page=3)