It was in the year 1980

Hello and welcome to another special edition of the PB podcast. Today we travel back to the year 1980. The podcast will feature songs from that year. 1980 was not only 35 years ago, but was an important year for me. I was finishing my 2nd year in college and started my 3rd year in 1980. More importantly, music really began to split during the early 1980’s. Punk had died out, but post-punk bands began to proliferate, and many radio stations were confused – this music didn’t sound enough like the classic rock music they liked playing, so playlists started to get tightened up and many of the “new wave” acts got pushed aside. College radio stations started filling in the gaps by featuring the newer bands, and alternative radio (and new commercial stations) grew from that.

In 1980 there wasn’t a lot of traditional rock acts that released new music. It was mostly the newer bands, and so that is mostly what we will feature here today. Many of the acts have become “classic” that were new wave back then: Talking Heads, the Clash, U2 (debut album) and Devo. Instead of listing the artists, just listen to the music. You’ll probably now many of these tunes.

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