Mfw people unironically think the 80's was a bad decade for music

>synths bad
>technology bad
Go back to the Steve Hoffman forum, boomer.

>prefab sprout
kino

best 80s album came out in 1990

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You have no idea what you're talking about if you think grunge isn't firmly rooted in the 80s

I was born in the 80's and everything was terrible except The Melvins and Metallica. Prince and Tom Waits started in the 70's so I don't count them.

Y'all niggaz ain't even mentioning swoon doe

>outright rejection of glorious disco because its what black people and "the gays" were listening to

The eighties heralded in Hip-Hop as a mainstream music powerhouse, you tard. LL Cool J, Slick Rick, Run-D.M.C, KRS-One, De La, Queen Latifah, and Tribe all got their starts in the eighties and black music underwent a golden period.

Stop sourcing your music history from tumblr posts written by bicurious white girls

Based Sprout

Prefab Sprout are sophisti-pop, not new wave.

Holy fucking cringe

Sorry, me again, I actually can't get over how retarded your post is. I hope it was a bait, if so well done.

House, Detroit Techno, Alternative Rock, Gothic rock, all the fundamentals of extreme metal - speed, black, thrash, Michael Jackson and contemporary R&B in pop music, City Pop in Japan, la Nueva canción protest song movement, all find their origins in the 80s.

The meme that the 80s is nothing but a bad decade for music is exhibited by people who over expose themselves to mainstream radio shit and nothing else - which any, and every, decade has in abundance.

Congratulations on having the whitest, most ignorant, take I've heard in quite some time.

New Order

>an outright rejection of glorious disco because its what black people and "the gays" were listening to

I'd agree that the New Romantic movement was pretty reactionary as a whole, but New Wave music was very queer-friendly. That's why the response to New Wave in the U.S. was hyper-masculine Heartland Rock.

Also many sub-genres of New Wave had jazz influences, which is what black people were listening to as well. Not to mention the Talking Heads, probably the preeminent New Wave band, were most influenced by music straight from Africa.

Synthpop was extremely based, synth funk was incredible, house, detroit techno, acid house, new age ambient, italo-disco, jangle pop and 4AD at their peak, all the new metal genres, etc.

britpop is awful, grunge had like 5 decent bands, both genres were conservative as fuck
the 90s were amazing but not because of the any of what you said

so you never heard of the post-punk scene which included but is not limited to
>Gothic Rock (Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy)
>Industrial (Throbbing Gristle, Clock DVA)
>Synthpop/Synthpunk (DEVO, Suicide)
>New Wave (B-52's, XTC)
>No Wave (James Chance, DNA)
>Jangle Pop (The Smiths, The Soft Boys)
and don't forget Talking Heads, Public Image, The Fall, The Pop Group, The Chameleons, Killing Joke, The Cure, ETC ETC.

TL;DR kill yourself

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Cringe. Stop obsessing over niggers and everything they like. It isn't interesting history.

Only retards think this. And a lot of Americans because they weren't exposed to new wave post punk etc bands only hair metal and cheesy synthpop trash

>Bauhaus
sad shit for idiots who wear difficult glasses and black shirts
>sisters of mercy
over the top cringy shit, riddled with aidsy synths, anybody who likes this band needs to die of cancer
>throbbing gristle
dilate
>clock dna
don't know it so must be shit
>devo
mongoloids
>suicide
gay and homosexual - btw, how is this synthpop? duran utang is synthpop, not this gloomy aids shit
>b52's
lmao yeah las ketchup of the 80s
>xtc
one good song
>james chance
zzzz
>dna
zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
>smiths
based
>soft boys
boring
>talking heads
based
>the fall
not an eighties band, as such musically entirely seprate from this decade of shit
>the pop group
cringe at this token fucking unlistenable meme band
>chameleons
alright
>killing joke
faggots
>the cure
at least new how to write a good pop song, but very gay nonetheless
>ETC ETC
underrated

failed to mention the three most redeeming bands of the decade, namely Felt, Jesus and Mary Chain and the Pale Fountains

furthermore, a thoroughly horrid decade, 95% of the music made then was either kitschy faggoty new romanticism, featuring overacting homos, and gloomy fucking synth riddled bullshit "rock", or fucking worse, hair metal, or lowest tier pop like micheal jackson or prince. what a fucking pile of shite

U2 unironically were a great band, especially in the 80s, you clueless mong

>Pale Fountains
whom, I should have added, piss all over Prefab Spunk

I'm about to finish going through Prefab's discography. Yes, I have listened to Trawl. Once finished, where do I go from here? What are some lesser known artists you'd recommend?

Post 80s albums you listen to then.

>The Fall
>Not an 80's band
what

prefab is truly the best, but my other similar favorites:
Danny Wilson - Meet Danny Wilson
Danny Wilson - Bebop Moptop
Deacon Blue - Raintown
Deacon Blue - When the World Knows Your Name
Swing Out Sister - It's Better to Travel

a lot of sophisti-pop artists are more on the jangly side, but i prefer the smoothness of prefab and the above albums

>Once finished, where do I go from here

If you want more sophisti-pop then you can't go wrong with The Blue Nile.