04-25-2007, 06:33 PM
There are songs from the 80s that evoke strong memories for me, but I wouldn't refer to them as cheesy. I remember songs like "I Will Follow" and "Out of Control" by U2, "How Soon is Now?" from the Smiths, "Just Like Heaven" and "Faith" from The Cure, just about anything from REM's "Murmur" LP, Depeche Mode, New Order, etc.
MTV really opened my musical horizons back then. They played stuff you wouldn't hear on the local Rock or Top 40 stations. I used to stay up to watch "120 Minutes". I was 16 back in 1981 when we got MTV and until then I had been a fan of what would be referred to now as "Classic Rock". By the time I hit college, I couldn't even listen to that stuff anymore. It's only been recently that I've started to listen to Classic Rock again.
MTV really opened my musical horizons back then. They played stuff you wouldn't hear on the local Rock or Top 40 stations. I used to stay up to watch "120 Minutes". I was 16 back in 1981 when we got MTV and until then I had been a fan of what would be referred to now as "Classic Rock". By the time I hit college, I couldn't even listen to that stuff anymore. It's only been recently that I've started to listen to Classic Rock again.