I am watching the movie, "Wedding Singer". It has some great music from the 80's. I was a young man in the 80's and i remember listening to groups like the thompson twins, van halen, boston, ect.. Now we have rap. Rap has been around longer than disco was. But personally I do not care for it.

What has happened to music?

There is still two other kinds of music.Country and Western.

Rap.....I just call that a way of making money if you can't sing.

I love Black music and well remember the "all nighters" but just don't call "rap" music

I love 80's music thats what i grew up with!
I was mostly into the hair bands myself

Hair bands. Let's see.... Motley Crue, Poison, Warrent, Ratt.

I loved all the hair bands. There was usually some gorgeous guy as lead singer. The music was good too.

I have dvd's full of vids from the hairband of the 80's and my kids always tease me and say who's that girl?...lol

80's music really is the best, but time change and so does music.

time=times

Rock music is still very popular, I'm not sure why the older generations believe that the only music these days is rap...

being born and raised during the 80s i have loved all the groups that came out of that decade. anything from Aha to ZZ top was the best.

I agree, though the style of mainstream rock has changed (just as it changed in the 90s as well) there are alot of rock and metal bands still kicking hard.

I, too, grew up in the late 70's and love the old hair bands and what I now refer to as real music. "Rap crap" as I call that nasty, ghetto violence related garbage is not music, nor will it ever be. The music we listened to had lyrics and made a person feel good, unlike the garbage that's supposedly "music" to some today. And, as a divorced person, country isn't something I generally listen to since it's far too depressing.

You'd be amazed at what's out there musically. In the 80s I was into what was considered "college radio", and caught on to early REM, the Replacements, Husker Du, and other bands of that ilk. Go to a good streaming music site, type in the stuff that you like, and you'll find a lot of new bands with that sound or something close. I always recommend pandora.com because they have introduced me to dozens of great bands I wouldn't have ever heard otherwise, because they don't have a contract with a big lable. There is LOTS of great music out there, you just gotta look a little for it.
As far as Rap goes, "Me, Myself, and I" by De La Soul is an all time favorite. It isn't all "gangsta".

hmmm--led zeppelin is making the tours after 30 yrs--still rockin'--

the 80's was the best era for music. and there will NEVER EVER be another era like the 80's. and todays music is crap. all the rap singers do is swear, and use guns in their videos. and its seems like its all about violence now. the rap (crap) has no heart at all. to me the music in the 80's had heart and not only did the songs have heart, you could actually understand what the artist is singing.

That would be '70s music! I was awakened from a dead sleep to Robert Plant screaming the other night, as I had fallen asleep with VH1 Classic on the TV. I have to be in the right mood for the right LZ song, and that wsn't it. After a feverish 30 second search for the remote I turned the TV off and returned to my slumber.

It's troubling to see so many rap bashers, the history of hip hop culture is a beautiful thing and rap music has provided new positive outlets for troubled youth who were counted out by "society". They say "what has happened to music" every generation, Elvis insulted black people and the Beatles at once by calling the Beatles "jungle music". Rock & Roll was the "not real" music of the 60's, sort of the same with funk in the 70's, and the same as hair metal and rap in the 80's. Next few generations parents will say "whatever happened to real music like rap?". All a matter of personal taste, I'm just dissapointed to hear people insult the hip hop community with phrases like "not real music", I'm sure their parents said the same about their preferred genre, and that's tabernacle;^]

exactly. You metalheads out there ever hear Anthrax and Public Enemy's redo of "Bring the Noise"? One of the best songs ever, even if it eventually led to bands like Limp Bizket.

That was definatly an award worthy production. Many others like it too, most famously RUN DMC & Aerosmiths rendition of "Walk This Way". One of personal favs, though it was early 90's was Dinosaur JR and Del "The Funky Homospaian"s collab track "The Missing Link", from the soundtrack of the motion picture "Judgement Night";^]