The Great Eighties Playlist Project in Now Complete.

Well, it seemed to take forever but I'm finally finished with my Eighties playlist project. These things take time, OK? Perfection can't be hurried.

You can check out the full skinny on the 1987 playlist here, as that was a year both very near and dear to my heart. It's good to flex those old rock crit/reviewer muscles now and then. 

Just like the good old days.



I'll probably do a video selection post on the others, since there are a lot more tunes to cover. And even though I love all of them, not all have the same emotional tug that the 1987 songs do, simply because that was just a more pivotal year in my life.

1988 wasn't chopped liver either, though I do remember the weather was terrible for most of it. Or at least seemed to be.



1989 has a pretty powerful tug on my soul as well, and in many ways I see it as the peak year for alternative rock. Into the Nineties we had the slurry of dickless Nirvana clones and bad Grank Funk Railroad revivalists labeled "alternative" because they'd don flannel or eyeliner. Or whatever.

Don't get me wrong, I loved the Nineties and Nineties rock. But none of it had the freshness, excitement and adventure of the Eighties. How could it? There's only so much you can do with a musical form like rock, and the Nineties more were about consolidation and retooling than innovation. 

Or as I like to say, the Nineties were an Eighties remix of the Eighties.

Still, I lost interest in mainstream rock and pop for the most part after 1986, as everything started getting very slick and vapid. It's that 1987-1991 period that people are really talking about when they trash the Eighties; the synthpop sludge, hair metal, boy bands, creatively-tapped Boomer bands, Taylor Dayne.

That was also the period when the industry really got its death-grip on the creative process, and that in turn led to a huge backlash with grunge and gangster rap etc. An extreme overcorrection, in my opinion, but that's how it goes.

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