OFF: now 90s v. 80s

[K Henderson]

Alex gets off the point with...

>>I thought '99 produced a great number of really good albums, if you searched
>>long and hard enough.  And the 90s have been spectacular, at least in
>>comparison to the absolutely dismal 80s.
>
>Duran Duran over Backstreet Boys
>(*feels sick at the mention of BB*). The 90's have struck me as particularly
>bland and tasteless (again, I'm talking mainstream).

I was never talking mainstream, and never will I again here (except perhaps
to criticize it mercilessly), and I *thought* I made that clear, as below.

>>(Who would waste their time wondering if Culture Club was better or worse
>>than Matchbox 20?)

BTW, FWIW, I have said here before that I thought Duran Duran was the worst
band I'd ever heard.  (I'm sure there are worse that I've never heard.)  And
amazingly, took heat for it!

>Obviously, if you go digging underground, you're gonna find some pearls. All
>decades have them. I just think they were buried deeper in the 90's.

That's ok.  But I only found five in the 80s, and hundreds in the 90s.

>>Surely, my thoughts aren't unique?!
>
>Likely not. I even share some of them - though I do disagree about the 80's :-)

Disagree?  How?  We're not talking about the same thing.  'New wave' and
'hair metal' vs. 'alterna-hipsters' and 'girl power/boy bands' is totally
irrelevant (to me).  All of it is vile, so what?  The question is...beyond
this rubbish, is there anything to listen to?  In the 80s, hardly (that's
why I listened to (some) metal)...in the 90s, absolutely!

>Also (and I wonder if anyone else has noticed this) it seems to me that the
>90's were a lot more darker. Like the singers and bands out there were more
>depressed or something. The 80's were more joyful, cheerful. It shows in the
>videos too. Nowadays, all the videos are really dark and gloomy, at least
>the vast majority.

Videos?  I haven't seen a video since Mark Goodman (probably DD's "Rio").
:) Now I understand where you're coming from.  :)

Keith H. (FAA), revisionist youth at 35 (owns no CDs recorded before my
birth, except maybe 1...B.B. King)