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Discussion on: Music Monday — What are you listening to? (80's Edition)

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Chris Greening

Three of some of my alltime fave songs :~)

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Chris Greening

and my 80s playlist to go along with it

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Michael Tharrington

You rock! Forget deep diving into New Order today, maybe I'll just let your list here take me on a ride, haha.

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Michael Tharrington

Chris, I just want ya to know that I put on Spotify for the first time in a long time (as you probs know, I'm a YouTube guy) and I see your awesome playlists populating my sidebar.

I've got eighties baybee, vaguely ominous, and just added not quite summer yet from above (though it is summer now, haha).

Anyway, had to come find ya here on DEV and tell ya that I appreciate the heck outta ya sharing so many good tunes with me. Been a minute since I've seen ya and I hope you're doing well. 🙂

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Chris Greening

Truly thank you Michael! I'm super late responding to this but absolutely made me smile lol last quarter messed me up good at work and I'm slowly easing off the brink of burnout, took a break from social media/internet for a while!

I've been lurking on the music discussions each week tho 👀 was very tempted last week to comment on the chill edition but missed the opportunity so was waiting for this week to jump back in!

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Michael Tharrington

Woot!! I'm glad to hear this message hit you square in the feels. 💚

You seriously have shared so many good tunes with me... I really love all your playlists and as I can see from your response in the fresh MM, you're still out there making'em and giving them crazy good titles as always, haha! 🙌

Good on ya for recognizing the burnout before it got to be too bad and taking the time to recharge. Takin a pause on social media/the internet is something that more of us should do more often. All that said, I'm so glad to catch up with ya and hear that you're doing well... and selfishly to have you feed me more great tunage!! 😀

As for the chill edition, you can count on that one to make it back into rotation one of these days. Hold your cards! 🃏

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Michael Tharrington

Oh wow, I'm digging all these.

And while I know the band titles, I really haven't gotten into any of these bands before... I particulalry liked the New Order song + looked up the lyrics and it's deep. I think I might have to deep dive into some of their stuff today.

Would you say these bands fit in the same genre? Feels kinda new wavey, post punky... but this is relatively new territory for me, so def correct me if you think it's something entirely different.

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Chris Greening

Lol yeah I am definitely a new wavy type fellow, love me some 80s synth - I think new wave is prob the most appropriate catch-all definition but New Order is the second iteration of Joy Division which is one of the quintessential postpunk bands so they definitely have that heavy influence

Another shameless playlist self promo but I do have another playlist (which I think I shared on one of these threads months ago?) which is more of a post-punk playlist heavily centered around the 80s (Bauhaus, The Cure, Siouxsie and the Banshees, etc.)

These days I've been on a completely different music kick but this is motivating me to get back to exploring/building out these playlists :~) thank you!