Why Are 80's Music Hits so Timeless?

As a child of the 1980's, I grew up loving such musical groups and performers as INXS, Robert Palmer and U2, and I still find myself listening to a lot of their songs. That got me to wondering the other day why 80's music hits are so timeless. It is not just that way for me or people from my generation, either.

One of my favorite 80's music hits was Need You Tonight by INXS. I was just a little kid and remember listening to it over and over again. I thought it had the coolest music of any song that I had ever heard. Even to this day, when I hear it on the radio, I have to listen to it and sing along with all of the lyrics.

Robert Palmer was another great artist of the 1980's whose song Addicted to Love was my brother's favorite. We would be in our room hanging out, and he would play that song over and over again, and the truth of the matter is that I really didn't mind. I loved it probably as much as he did.

As an American of Irish ancestry and a music lover as well, one of my favorite rock groups of all time is U2, and the 1980's was when I was first introduced to them. The group had a lot of 80's music hits, as that was the decade of the album The Joshua Tree. That particular album featured such songs as Where the Streets Have No Name, With or Without You and I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For.

I remember playing that cassette so much that it actually wore the tape out completely. I eventually bought it on CD, and I'll pop it in from time to time just to sort of take me back to my youth.

I also had my first big crush in the 1980's, and that was on the pop singer Debbie Gibson. When I first laid eyes on her, I fell deeply in love, and still find myself blushing a little when I see pictures of her today.

She had a couple of 80's music hits, such as Shake Your Love and Only in My Dreams. I got a tape of hers for my birthday one year, and needless to say, it was my favorite present.

I have often wondered why 80's music hits are so timeless for me. Perhaps it is because it takes me back to my childhood when I first developed my passion for music, and perhaps it is just that the music of the 1980's was really that good.

I have a number of younger cousins who are also great music fans, and they love the music of the 1980's, even though they were not even born yet. I'll ask them why they like it, and they say that the music is cool, and in many instances, meaningful.

Whatever the reason, 80's music hits still stand out to me as some of the best music ever produced and I feel fortunate to have come up during that decade in music.