Everyone that loves music, loves it for different reasons. But, one thing that is undeniable, is how we all associate music with certain periods in our lives. And how the songs we first heard during those formative years still resonate with us. In a way they couldn't if we those songs for the first time today. Their is something about the way our memories and emotions work, that makes the older songs sound so much better. It happens to every generation without fail. The eighties were one of my formative decades. I had just graduated high school, and was making my way into the adult world. The songs and artists discussed in this blog, are the ones that had the most impact on me during those interesting times.
Much of the music from the 80s was characterized by the synthesizer, a device, usually in the form of a