There's no way in hell that 80s music is superior to the music of the 70s, 90s, or today, but I have been enjoying it more these days. A lot of it has a very eerie quality to it: the synths and drum machines used were still rudimentary, and the overwhelming "fakness" in the music sounds rather spooky at times. It's hard to explain exactly, but listen to the early Talk Talk albums and you'll sort of catch my drift. It sounds ghostly. I find this noisy/creepy element charming, and the pop music of today cannot recreate the sound, no matter how hard some bands try.

The 80s was also where noise and industrial music really took off. There was Throbbing Gristle in the 70s, but we saw Nurse with Wound, Current 93, Hanatarash, Coil, Merzbow, Whitehouse, etc during the following decade. Though a lot of their best albums were released during the 90s...

So yeah, the 80s was pretty awesome. I need to explore it further.