'80s music

If you don't get what I'm saying, listen to this as a good example (I know it's a kind of experimental pick for an 80s song, but bear with me here):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V-_O7nl0Ii0

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>>72539507
I get what you're saying, but imo honestly I think it just has to do with the limited technology available at the time more than anything. The best way to make a catchy tune was to make a dance tune, even back then, and that's how dance songs were written.

>>72539600
That's true, but I think there's more to it. Post-punk, and the way that influenced music making, how that interacted with dance music, probably has to do with it as well.
Part of me wonders if Krautrock (and the motorik beat in particular) had influenced the drum-machine "'80s" groove at all.

>>72539507
The introduction of digital reverb might have an influence. Most 80s music has the same aura.

>>72539507
I discovered this album yesterday, more like this one please? They still sound kind of like Joy Division here

>>72541598
The Cure - The Head on the Door

>>72541598
Listen to Movement and the singles and b-sides they released 1981-1982.

>>72539507
A lot of 80s songs used the original patches that came with the Yamaha DX7 because it was tedious to create new ones, and most of the originals already had pretty good sounds. A lot of the pop songs also fell into the New Wave, New Romantic and Synthpop genres.

>>72539507
>>72541493
This also, most 80s songs used a shitload of reverb.