Pretty much every single one. They stopped making good music after 1979. Even my favorite bands from the 70s became 80s artists, sigh...
Buffet wrote and performed his best stuff in the 80s.
He is coasting now.
The 50s & 60s were the prime music years for me, but I remember Dire Straits from the early 80s. The rest, not so much.
The 70s had good music? Okay, yeah, Bowie, The Police, etc, but “Brand New Key”? 99.44% of disco? Streisand? Roberta Flack? Carole King (should have stuck to writing...)? Lots of other stuff I’ve managed to forget about hearing.
This might be an exception, though ...
Probably the most underrated tune of the 1980s -- with a fantastic set of guitar lines for any era:
Maybe the most iconic song of its generation ... distinctively American, and brings me right back to my long road trips through what is now "Trump Country" ... and even became a fixture in one of the best ad campaigns in history for Chevy trucks:
Best slide guitar from anyone not affiliated with the Allman Brothers, in my humble opinion. :-)
Eagles Hotel California and Fleetwood Mac Rumors was about the end it.
Hardly. There is much great music in the 80s and the 90s were a brilliant era, comparable to the 60s.
Anyone that says good music stopped before the 80s or 90s is just a fuddy duddy.
“Girls just want to have fun”- Cyndi Lauper and anything by Madonna couldn’t suck too much.
>> They stopped making good music after 1979. <<
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That’s right. Stones last great album, “It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll” was 1974.
Zeppelin crashed after 1976 (literally, Plant in wreck).
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