So was I, when I lived in the chlorine-rich waters of the West Coast.
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I have 2 Vehicles one is a 1946 Studebaker truck 3 speed on the column
And the other one is a Subaru outback Also a standard sad part it cost me extra order it
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80s: Metal, flammable hair, Christian Rock (Stryper anyone? lol)
âŚhic!
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Finding the gears, a column shift can be a real adventure.
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To be sure, there are others; I didnât include Motown, Modal Jazz, etc.
I was thinking more âdefiningâ in the sense of âWhen you think of pop music from that era, what comes to mind?â
Metal was never really pop music, but pseudo-metal and ballad bands were.
Oooh, la, la, Sassoon.
80âs, Punk music⌠most of which I despised⌠they were punksâŚ
Yeah, I listed Punk/Rap as the defining ânewâ genres of the 80s.
TFW your first car was a used 08 VW rabbit and you grew up listening to rush, led zepplin, and the like.
Its fun to be born at the tail end of gen x and live in a major city.
Thatâs where that music comes from! Itâs one of the tunes that plays in my head whenever Iâm about to do something I know is stupid and reckless.
Youâre killing me, kid.
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So, you did, I was recalling what were called âHair Bandsâ from the early 80âs?
And âNew Waveâ? from the late 90âs? Idano.
I did a drastic relocation about 1990. The most popular music in the new locale seemed to be "Young Country ".
first two I ever bought
First record I ever owned as a gift was a chicken little story where it ended with the fox having eaten the cast. Got it when I was like in grade 2 or something
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new wave was early 80âs (first was cars by Gary Numan in 1980)
Ironically you can make a case for the band The Cars for inspiring new wave synth in the late 70âs
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Alternative rock/pop rock/symphonic metal to some extent
I guess also visual kei and other non american music movements had a mainstream revival
The 2000s were amazing in that we had muchmoremusic videos and youtube and a ton of free streaming websites which made it so much easier to discover music from around the world 
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LOL, I gotta remember that one. Hope you donât mind.
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You mean â3 on the Treeâ
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Hmm⌠I had a friend, who had me listening to The Cars and things like Kraftwerkâs âAuto-Bahnâ? in the early 70âs⌠and Dr. Demento, Cheech&Chong, early Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, Jimmy Hendrix, Blue Oyster Cult, Pink Floyd and My favorite band, Led Zeppelin.
Things changed somewhat when I got my own place and own âsound systemâ, lol.
âThe Callâ is the newest Band I can recall, but for the most part, ânewâ music for me is actually old music, things I missed, like early Motown, Specterâs âWall of Soundâ The Beach Boys, Bluegrass, Folk Music, all the way back to âGreensleevesâ.
Eclectic, I like to think, but without truly new music coming in, its not really so.
You know you are old when all your new music is really old musicâŚ
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You know you are old when the phone you used to get the operator to send the police took the 0 longer to get back around then for the police to actually get there.
You know you are old when you can remember stepping on and getting cut by old soda can pull tabs. You know you are old when you saw half of the shows TVLand when they were first originally broadcasted on network tv.
You know you are old when you remember you were your dadâs original tv remote and the tv was black and white.
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Letâs see.
If your recall Electra Woman and Dyna Girl.
Rotary phones.
Long distance was the town next to you.
The first space shuttle launch
Skylab
Gasoline shortages
Seeing Star Wars before it was called âA new hopeâ.
The exorcist caused panic
Dungeons and Dragons had super religious people claiming it would lead to suicide and you performed actual spells.
The good, the bad and the ugly
Pink panther (both the cartoon and the movies)
Having real chicken pox.
I think thatâs enough for now.
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Wow, what a blast from the past!
I was going to grow up and marry him or Leif Garrett. Then Andy Gibbs came along and stole my heart from them both!
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