Craving to be posting on this subject, cause there's a stone laying upon my breast on...the worst thing about the 80's.
How explosive the late 70's and beginning of the 80's were, so implosive and bad were the later 80's.
Bands like Cabaret Voltaire ('85), PIL ('85), DEVO ('84). DAF ('83), Heaven 17 ('83/'84), Human League ('83/'84) to name a few, got completely lost in their musicmaking. Why did they lost it, is the big question ever since. It's like a stone rain has stopped their feeling for making good music.