What Song Most Encapsulates the 1980s?

rajncajn said
When I was a young teen there was a youth social every weekend at the base youth gym near my house. Now, I was definitely not the "youth social" type of kid, but where better to brush up and show off my breaking skills than a basketball gym full of young AF brats?

saintmdterps said
If we were picking bands to encapsulate the 80’s I’d go with Dire Straits. The anecdotal story telling on Making Movies to the societal post-punk stagflation on Love Over Gold to the satirical Money for Nothing on Brothers in Arms

But I’ll leave the 80’s figuratively the way I left it literally..

Interesting bit of musical history as it relates to Dire Straits, one of the biggest UK/US commercially-successful acts of the 1980's, and that's their first, biggest hit "Sultans of Swing" was released and became a #1 cross-Atlantic hit in the summer of 1979.