![]() ![]() Jazz and ambient were pushing their experimental borders, getting more cinematic and free. Rock was getting more ridiculous, with Aqua-Net to spare, but it was also paring back into the thoughtful nexus that would someday be called “indie rock”-or it was throwing up pentagrams, getting sludgier and meaner, and turning into metal. It was a time when disco and punk were in tatters, its artists rebuilding from the rubble with new innovations to birth hardcore and new wave. ![]() And when it comes to its music, well, that’s even more ubiquitous: The decade was one of great upheaval and innovation, and the seeds it planted continue to flourish. It’s arguably the defining throwback aesthetic of American culture today, from the TV series we reboot to the prints we wear. Sometimes it feels like the neon thumbprint of the 1980s never went away.
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