{"id":682161,"date":"2026-06-03T16:38:10","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:38:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/682161\/"},"modified":"2026-06-03T16:38:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:38:10","slug":"3-songs-from-the-80s-that-indie-fans-still-put-on-their-playlists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/682161\/","title":{"rendered":"3 Songs From the 80s That Indie Fans Still Put on Their Playlists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Back in the 80s, if you weren\u2019t listening to mainstream hits by major players like <a href=\"https:\/\/americansongwriter.com\/how-crazy-for-you-displayed-another-side-of-madonnas-artistic-persona\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Madonna<\/a>, Michael Jackson, or Whitney Houston, it\u2019s possible you had some of these songs in your ears. Here are some indie staples that modern indie music fans still can\u2019t get enough of.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove Will Tear Us Apart\u201d by Joy Division<\/p>\n<p>This song is an indie staple. \u201cLove Will Tear Us Apart\u201d is dark and moody but also optimistic in a strange way. Ian Curtis, the group\u2019s frontman, spoke to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loudersound.com\/features\/the-story-behind-love-will-tear-us-apart-by-joy-division\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Louder<\/a> about the magic of making music during those days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cStrange as it may seem, there weren\u2019t tape recorders in those days, so everything was in your head,\u201d he shared. \u201cThat was one of the wonderful things about Joy Division: we didn\u2019t have tapes of us rehearsing the songs; they only existed when you put the four people together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn Between Days\u201d by The Cure<\/p>\n<p>This song was one of the first in a new era of The Cure\u2019s music, one that would see songs like \u201cJust Like Heaven\u201d and \u201cFriday I\u2019m In Love\u201d. When making \u201cInbetween Days\u201d, frontman Robert Smith had started to become open to exploration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cRealizing I had outgrown a lot of my musical prejudices was a big part of the change,\u201d Smith wrote in the sleeve notes of the reissue of\u00a0The Head On The Door. \u201cThe demo of \u2018Inbetween Days\u2019 is a good example of this. Up until then, I\u2019d always thought of the acoustic guitar as a bit of a hippy instrument, not really something The Cure should use\u2026 But now I was determined to explore every possibility.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThere Is A Light That Never Goes Out\u201d by The Smiths<\/p>\n<p>This song is undeniably one of the best indie rock songs of this decade. To this day, the track, originally from The Smiths\u2019 album, The Queen Is Dead, is one of the group\u2019s most enduring hits.<\/p>\n<p>Even Johnny Marr, the band\u2019s lead guitarist, commented on the unexpected impact of the song. \u201cI didn\u2019t realize that \u2018There Is A Light That Never Goes Out\u2019 was going to be an anthem,\u201d he told <a href=\"https:\/\/faroutmagazine.co.uk\/the-story-behind-the-smiths-song-there-is-a-light-that-never-goes-out\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Joe Taysom<\/a>. \u201cBut, when we first played it, I thought it was the best song I\u2019d ever heard.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Photo by: Steve Rapport\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Back in the 80s, if you weren\u2019t listening to mainstream hits by major players like Madonna, Michael Jackson,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":682162,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[20278,88,216,17172,2156],"class_list":["post-682161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-1980s","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-pop-music","tag-rock-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=682161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/682161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/682162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=682161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=682161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=682161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}