80s music or 90s music?

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It's hard for me to choose. Some days it's totally 80s music for me when I think of Tears For Fears and The Smiths and then other days it's 90s music when I think of the Cranberries and Nirvana. I'm so torn.

Curmudgeon · Accepted Answer

Having been a teenager and then a twentysomething in the 1980s and 1990s respectively, I can say I enjoyed both, but definitely a shift happened as the music became much more depressing and despairing. Now this started in the 1980s in the UK, think Morrissey as Exhibit A, but also reached the USA with depressing "Grunge" in the 1990s. An interesting video essay on this from 2017, right after Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and later Audioslave fame, hung himself, titled "The Voices of My Generation Are All Dead." The first 6 minutes and 50 seconds are samples of depressing grunge music, so skip ahead if you want to get to the point of it:

CubaPirate · Accepted Answer

80s for me and I'm luckily enough to have seen The Smith's live

CrimsonAngel09 · Accepted Answer

I love both equally. I can't choose one over the other.

ShesRad80 · Accepted Answer

80s  ..

Miristheiss · Answer

Damn, that is a hard choice. They are both so good and so different in style from each other. I love 70's music too. All of those true "rock bands" with great, rich guitar riffs and melodies. Led Zepplin, Lynyrd Skynyrd, The Eagles, Van Halen, Boston, Bad Company, Foreigner, Wings, Little River Band, Funk and Mo-town, Electric Light Orchestra, Supertramp, KISS, AC/DC, Pink Floyd.

Anyway, I love the 70s, 80s, 90s, don't get me started on music.

Between the 2 choices you gave me I'm going to give a slight nod to the 90s.

BoopBoopBeep · Answer

Mid to late 80s its an easy question for me. 80-82 I'm less excited about, whereas 90-94ish was pretty good. Really depends on my mood at the time and what I'm doing.

LiamJHayden · Answer

Between the two I'd have to take the 1980's because of stuff like this and other shredderific tunes. :

AviatorTom · Answer

I prefer the 70s but if the two decades in the poll, I'll take the 80s. People could still sing then, and the lyrics made sense.

Constatine · Answer

80... for easy listening.. .  My ♥️ goes out to... cinematic /movie trailer music.

KostasKouvalis · Answer

80s, but rock and metal. None of that disco shit

loveslongnails · Answer

There's good and bad from both! Enjoy it all.

Alex-Snow · Answer

Neither... I'm only 18 and go for some newer stuff... but not rap. I do like some of the older classic rock however as do some kids my age... go figure!

exitseven · Answer

IU said 80s but it is really the 70s.

whereismyjohnny · Answer

I can't choose. I love both. 🥹

Anonymous · Answer

The early 80s were good, but the rest of the decade sucked for music. The 90s were even worse and now, well don't even bother.

Jerre · Answer

I prefer to 80’s

FunkyMonkee · Answer

Early `80's and late `90's.

tfan1 · Answer

80’s definitely 👍🙂

msc545 · Answer

70's and 80's music please!

catarecute · Answer

60s definitely

Paige90 · Answer

80s music

Fireguy17 · Answer

50s/60s

TravelingMaaike · Answer

90s for me.

Iron_Man · Answer

Both

80s music or 90s music?

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