All Songs At 15: Were The '80s Really That Bad? — npr.org

Every Thursday this year, we're celebrating All Songs Considered's 15th birthday with personal memories and highlights from the show's decade and a half online and on the air. If you have a personal memory about the show you'd like to share, drop us an email: allsongs@npr.org. The impressively hirsute Mötley Crüe in 1983. Gary Leonard/Corbis hide caption This week, we look back at the first episode of All Songs Considered that Carrie Brownstein, Bob Boilen, Stephen Thompson and I all recorded together. The year was 2008. The topic? How bad was pop music in the 1980s? Before the taping, we ran a listener poll that asked people to tell us their favorite decade for music, and almost nobody picked the '80s. (The 1960s came in first.)

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