No wonder most 80's music sucked. It mostly sounded alike!

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19. The PBS story says "Computer scientists prove 80s pop music is boring"

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/updates/computer-scientists-prove-80s-music-boring/

But these sounds and styles of the Reagan era flooded the music scene, pushing out genres like country and folk to the point that mid-to-late 1980s became most homogenous period in music over the last 50 years, based on the team’s computer analysis.

This theme doesn’t mean music from this era was bad, but rather it suggests “a small number of styles were very catchy and therefore dominated,” Pagel said. This catchiness may linger to this day and explain why themes from the 1980s have bounced back over the last decade.

more at the link

And here's the study...http://rsos.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/2/5/150081