I can't even pick one. Nothing much I want to hear from the 80's.
I'm sure I listen to more 80s than you do, but unlike some others here, I can understand and even appreciate the above sentiment. Going back to the 60s, the 80s is actually my musically least favorite decade. I know I am an oddity for my age because the 80s was late elementary through high school for me. Don't get me wrong. I liked the 80s
back in the 80s. But my taste in music began to evolve in 88, and in the 90s I was in college and no longer into most of the 80s artists I had liked. I instead got into different artists and 60s & 70s music. The 80's is still dark time for music. A lot of my favorite classic rock bands got bad in the 80s.
Over the past 6 years, I have gotten married, became a father, and entered middle age. I think these things induced a wave of nostalgia for the latter half of my own childhood that lead me to finally let go of my early 90s rebellion against the 80s. I'm not listening to 80s pop radio or anything that drastic, but I have reconnected with the elite best of the 80s (so I'm a little less of an 80s snob now).
Liking relatively little 80s is why this is the
only decade that I could even consider a
single favorite album. Without further ado...
Like so many yang things, this fish still has a yin eye, namely Sweet Child Of Mine. I despise that song, but my hatred has probably been intensified by it being so popular. Other than that one song, Appetite For Destruction is a rock masterpiece.
And on the album cover, the top skull represents my favorite modern solo artist, Izzy Stradlin.