With the benefit of hindsight, it seems pretty clear that the worst decade in rock history was the eighties. In fact, I've been trying to avoid the subject, because, as I hope you've noticed, I was very much influenced by something Auden once wrote and I've been trying to apply it to this blog. It was something along the lines of there being so much good work that goes unnoticed or unappreciated, that there isn't (or shouldn't be) enough time to write about the things one doesn't like. He was writing about poetry at the time, but I think it's fair to apply the concept to music as well. OK, that being said, I'm going to stay positive about the eighties, and tomorrow I'm going to write about the decade's best band.