“From folk to tribal to Cab Calloway, Cole Porter, Gershwin to the Rolling Stones, whose first record was all covers, to country-western, bebop, blues, and even the referencing in classic hip hop to cliched love ballads of the '80s or whatever - that is kinda gone, and that's just terrifying to me.” FirstsCountryGoneRecordsStonesWesternFolksHip HopHipsClassicHopsRolling80sRolling StonesCabBalladsGershwinBebopReferencingCountry Western Author:Cat Power
“In the '80s, the way radio was programmed, if you didn't have a hit record you weren't going to be able to make any more records. That was it, period.” IfsWayAbleRecordsPeriodsRadio80s Author:Huey Lewis
“I started buying records in the 80s. I listened to everything new wave, disco, funk synth-pop, rock, but in my house we were listening to bossa nova, tango, and folk.” HouseRecordsRocksListeningFolksWavePopsBuying80sDiscoFunkTangoNovas Author:Steven Sater
“Well, I think that there's a clear record, I worked with Ronald Reagan in the early '80s and his recovery program translated into today's population of about 25 million new jobs in a seven-year period. As Speaker of the House, I worked with President Clinton and he followed with a very similar plan. And we ended up with about 11 million new jobs in a four-year period.” ThinkingYearsWellsTodayJobsHousePresidentMillionsClearRecordsFourPlansPeriodsProgramClintonSevenPopulationRecoveryFour YearsSpeakers80sSeven YearsNew JobPresident Clinton Author:Newt Gingrich
“Starting in the mid-'80s, I played in a band called Meat Joy, and we made our own record, toured.” MadeJoyRecordsBandStartingMeat80s Author:John Hawkes
“You make decisions, and that's what separates art from some other pop music. It doesn't mean that you can't make an embarrassing amount of money, for a borderline Marxist, doing something that you love, but it does mean that this huge pool of money that was out there when I started making records in the '80s is gone.” MeanDoeArtDecisionGoneRecordsHugeAmountPopsPoolEmbarrassing80sPop MusicMarxistBorderline Author:Steve Earle
“I was in the generation of CDs, so when I moved to L.A., I think I probably brought my Shania Twain Come on Over CD. But if I lived in the '80s, I would definitely be the one going to the record stores.” IfsThinkingRecordsGenerationsMovedStores80sCdsRecord Stores Author:Julianne Hough
“When I first started in rock, I had a big guy's audience for my early records. I had a very straight image, particularly through the mid '80s.” FirstsBigsGuyAudienceRecordsRocks80sBig Guys Author:Bruce Springsteen