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Originally Posted by sarramkrop
Both you and Glice make excellent points.
I was just thinking specifically at how I'd compile a list of 80's records 'cause that would be the hardest, since much of what I used to listen to then is a mixture of older brother record collection made up mostly of mid-to-late 70's punk and 'classic rock', my own pop music 7'' singles, the obsession of my sister for Duran Duran, and then more weird - at that time at least - bands that I suddenly got to know. It makes it even more difficult 'cause a band like Husker Du, which I'm a big fan of, I didn't even get to own a record by until they had already split up, and it ended up in my hands in the early 90's, therefore effectively making themselves 'felt' in another decade other than the one they were making music in.
A different criteria applies to Sonic Youth, which I already knew in 1989. If I'd follow my heart, Terence Trent D'Arby's 'Introducing...' would be number one because that's the first lp I went to the shop to buy for myself, but even though it has some good songs on it, I'd hardly define it as the best that came out in that decade. And so forth.
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I agree with a lot of this. The 80s was a period when I was finding my way whereas by the time I got to listening back to 70s stuff, my taste was already quite defined. As such a list of key 80s albums for me would include a hodge-podge of styles, from indie, rap, flat-out pop, soul, etc whereas a list for the 70s would be far more narrow and 'knowing' and as such very boring - in that 'I know what I like' kind of a way.