Dave Kinzer grew up in the ’80s, so it’s a no-brainer that music from the decade remains his favorite.
And he still feels that way – even after listening to every Top 100 hit from the decade. Yup. Every. Single. One. Four thousand one hundred seventy-two.
Why did he do that, you ask?
Well, Kinzer is a music teacher at a K-8 school in Springfield, Ill., and he was shocked and dismayed when he discovered that his students were pretty much incapable of listening to songs and identifying the instruments, even when they were standing alone in a solo.
“I’d play a trumpet and they’d say ‘violin,'” he says. “It was that bad.”