1985 music

1985 was a funny year for music. Basically, every band I ever liked made shit music in 1985. Maybe there's an exception but I can't think of it. It forced me to be less lazy about it though and move on and find new things. I even stopped bothering with Bowie by 1986.

It was like my musical baptism by fire.

This might have been the most important album I bought in 1985 - yeah, another sampler.

Mainstream music List
Music to be classed as follows -

1. Liked at the time but not so bothered now
2. Music I felt I had to like because peer pressure
3. Music I liked but suppressed because peer pressure and ego
4. music I liked then and like now
5. music i like more now than then & didn't really like a lot back then

5. & 3.

My sister liked Madonna and despite being a trans girl, I was in denial and in the closet so I refused to like what my sister liked; especially Madonna. Later, I feel Madonna lost it big time and became corporate, derivative and ultimately very safe - but this has a nostalgia thing going for it now. That mid 80s sound. I could listen to stuff like this for, maybe, a whole hour and be happy before i felt the need to cleanse myself with some, say, Fall, or Bowie, or something. I don't think I felt much empathy for Madonna, unlike I often did with female artists, just because there seemed to be nothing of her in her music; and all that material girl stuff was in direct oppostion to what I was bout - I was quite spiritual even at that age.

Can't make my mind up about this. It has the 80s synth sound which to me is nostalgiac, its associated with one of my favourite fims and works in that context too. But it's the last gasp of one of my then favourite bands before they headed into hopeless corporatism and commercialism. It also doesn't relly sound like Simple Minds much. But sometimes I like it and sometimes I don't. It's not much of a song to be honest so it has to work on a purely emotional level or not at all. 

Somewhere between 1, 3 and 4. Very strange.