One of the many things that annoy me about my generation is the idea that things were somehow better in the past than they are now. This seems to stem from an inability to recognise the difference between something that is “Classic” (ie something that is brilliant, important, ground-breaking and timeless), and something that was merely around during our youth and somehow given cult status simply by being there at a time that we consider “happier”. The 80′s music revival is the most obvious example of this. Why my peers have such a fascination with this era, I have no idea. The 1980′s was the age of Reagan, Thatcher, Muldoon, high unemployment, mounting national debt, brown brick buildings, the Berlin Wall, shoulder pads, the Iron Curtain, and more relevantly a period of low artistic creativity, cocaine, excess, over-production and musical irrelevance. Almost every musician who made a name for themselves … Read more →