[EricT.]

I graduated 1987. The music of my youth was Hairy Metal like Motley Crue, Ratt, Poison, Van Halen, AC/DC and progressed to Metallica (who probably has more talent than all the other bands combined). I also owned every Led Zeppelin album, but that is about the only 70's music I enjoy.
I recently put together a CD of 80's pop music (Blondie, Men at Work, Berlin, The Bangles, Yaz, Madness, Psychedelic Furs, Missing Persons, etc..)that I secretly liked from several internet sources. Most of that stuff is really upbeat and fun. My kids enjoy that music, too.
The problem is that from an entire decade of music, you can fit all the good stuff in MP3 format on a single CDROM. There is a radio station down in Chattanooga that is an all 80's format. You can listen to it all day and only hear a handful of songs that are worth listening to.

[MplsSteve]

We have the same problem up here in the Twin Cities.

We have an 80's station too and they seem stuck on the same old playlist.

There was a voluminous amount of music that came out in that decade and I'd like to see some of these 80's stations start digging a little deeper.

The 80's produced a lot of hit music other than Billy Idol's "Mony Mony" and Berlin's "Take My Breath Aaway".