80's music

80's Music

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music genres in the 80's

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Pop

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Rock

New wave

EDM

One-hit wonders

Metal

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Electronic Dance Music (EDM)

It was inspired by the 70's music genre, disco, since it grabbed a lot of different characteristics from it like the instruments. It could be also known as EDM or Electronic Dance Music and it comprehends many subgenres like the house, techno, trance, dubstep, euro-dance, hard-dance and dance pop, but in the 80's the most common ones were the techno and the trance. This kind of music was principally characterized by the facts that it was made to dance and it used synthesized sounds which were prerecorded inside a studio. There's no pretty well known artists of it from the 80's but we can mention some from the 90's and 20's as Daft Punk, Leftfield, Paul Van Dyk, David Guetta, Gigi D'agostino, etc.

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New wave

What is it?

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music genre that Included pop styles from the late 1970s and the 1980s. It was originally used as a term for the various styles of music that emerged after punk rock, including punk itself. it involved many popular music styles of the era, including power pop, synth-pop, ska revival, and more specific forms of punk rock that were less aggressive. new wave music had a comical and peculiar style, and used electronic sounds. In the early 1980s, virtually every new pop/rock act – and particularly those that employed synthesizers – were tagged as "new wave".

Metal

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It is sometimes considered as a rock music branch but, due to its great set of subgenres, it can be considered as a unique genre as well. It started it developing in 1960's and 1970's, however its prime moment took scene in 1980's and 1990's by the emerging of cents of bands in all the continents. Its sound is characterized by distorted guitars, long extended guitar solos, loudness and a mixture of both simple and progressive rythms in the drums. Glam metal, Groove metal, Trash metal, Death metal, Black metal, Nu metal and Power metal are some of its subgenres and each one contains differences and varieties that make them unique. During this decade, some of its main representatives are Metallica, Bon Jovi, Motley Crue, Megadeth, Pantera.

One hit wonders

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A one-hit wonder is any entity that achieves mainstream popularity, often for only one piece of work, and becomes known among the general public solely for that momentary success. The term is most commonly used in regard to music performers with only one hit single that overshadows their other work. Some artists dubbed "one-hit wonders" in a particular country have had great success in other countries.