All I remember of the 80s music was 'hair bands'. It seemed like so much fluff and very little substance. It was more about how it looked in a video then anything else.
I was in my 20s then and just married and starting a family. My son as he got older started listening to stuff that I'd written off at the time.
I guess the stuff I liked the most the second time around as my son found it was some of the stuff off "Appetite for Destruction" by Guns and Roses
Sweet Child of Mine
Paradise City
Welcome to the Jungle
While they imploded later, at the time they were anything but a hair band.