Taking sides: the music of the 80s vs. the music of the 90s

should prb lay off the molly ringwald joeks tbh

aero i dont know how to tell you this but teenagers did drugs in the 90s too

I don't count E as a drug it's more like eating extra cookies

sadly i have no way of knowing if our coke was better or worse than in the 80s

i have a feeling our heroin was better

on IPad so not gonna link but we need some 90s Woodstock gifs to round the picture out

also thread should auto play "Pets"

this sounds sad and terrible, just like i imagine being an 80s teen would be

you are fronting, you know you picture me fixing in the direct flight from LA to PDX and you think "man that underrated aerosmith is one awesome teen"

I shot coke just to watch him die

mmm cookies

i have a feeling our heroin was better

wait which is "our"? in the mid-eighties the shift from brown powder to black tar took place and the strength skyrocketed, though whether this is "better" is kind of like "is weed better now" because the black tar just knocks you flat out and you get addicted about 5x faster, kinda like we have discussed re: weed here...it's stronger, but you kinda have to trade in your life to do it regularly now

here is a list of 90s albums i think are really good, probably better than r.e.m. at least:

nachtstrom - 17 songs after midnight (mego/1999)
the notorious b.i.g. - life after death (bad boy/1997)
the geto boys - s/t (def american/1990)
morcheeba - big calm (sire/1998)
sweet exorcist - spirit guide to low-tech (touch/1994)
plastikman - sheet one (novamute/1993)
the weakerthans - fallow (G7 welcoming committee/1997)
the throwing muses - the real ramona (4AD/1991)
pharcyde - bizarre ride II the pharycde (delicious vinyl/1992)
sonic youth - washing machine (dgc/1995)

because the self-seriousness of a lot of 80s shit & its pretentions - I use "pretentions" here with malice aforethought - renders even some of its best music a fucking chore. I like 80s Bryan Ferry albums precisely because I believe in their earnestness - the concluding verse of "Slave to Love" - give me that vibe over wit & 'tude all day

We're arguing from two different points of views -- especially since I'm a guy who likes eighties Ferry albums -- but let's talk about shooting coke.

80s

steve t can you do a letter grade rundown of those ten 90s albums i want to get yr take

anyways in the 90s i was taught that drugs were for losers

The eighties boasted GREAT anti-drug commercials, and this:

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_llzq1pAJQm1qearaqo1_500.jpg

Mr T looks baked

he's concentrating on not getting a stiffy

gettin' high on the crack of Nancy's ass.

here is a list of 90s albums i have owned:

aqua - aquarium
merzbow - pulse demon
chris gaines - in the life of chris gaines
nurse with wound - thunder perfect mind
venga boys - up and down: the party album!
cryptopsy - none so vile

chris gaines - in the life of chris gaines

easily a better Bowie album than Tonight.

Alfred otm

for me '90s = Transient Random Noise Bursts, Chocolate Synthesizer, Dopesmoker

6. R.E.M. - Murmur

don't care

go to hell

"murble wurble when they ermmfuh drumfah drummm...I'm sorry! duh nuh nuh nuh...I'm sorry!"

oh wait that's Reckoning, OTOH who gives a shit

lool

Not a big fan of the 80s. I voted for the 80s.

voted 90s b/c I am in the middle of an intense tastemaking campaign to make the 90s the new 60s, and the 70s the new 80s

aqua - aquarium

good singles but too much filler 6/10

merzbow - pulse demon

i liked the anime better 4/10

chris gaines - in the life of chris gaines

never heard this

nurse with wound - thunder perfect mind

never heard this

venga boys - up and down: the party album!

up and down indeed v inconsistent but the highs are p incredible 8/10

cryptopsy - none so vile

used to play this at the gas station where i worked all the time 6/10

If this thread were TS: all of the music of the '90s vs. Hall and Oates I would honestly have to think long and hard about my answer.

(xpost to self) also because you can still hear a lot of 80s music from the 90s on [via sampling]

hall and oates

yeah, i guess r.e.m. never shot heroin on an airplane in the 80's, while having sex with a stewardess, who was also a prostitute, you're right, they suck.

Not a big fan of music, but I love music.

It's true that R.E.M. never covered "Say It Isn't So" or "Out of Touch," but Peter Buck did get high on pills on a plane.

i'm pretty sure everyone in America has gotten high on pills, we can't all be shooting coke and listening to radiohead like captain "Mile High" aero

mixing coke and Radiohead is like mixing gin and Dr. Pepper, fool.

alfred you can mix gin with ANYTHING

i've spent the last 15 years testing this theory so dont even

tbh I dread hard drugs now but if it were between listening to Murmur or trying to smuggle dope through the security checkpoint I'd have to flip a coin

I mean seriously y'all it's been twenty years we can admit that shit is bogus now right

alfred you can mix gin with ANYTHING

^^^ smoking too much Boyz II Men

you go mr que!

This poll comes down to whether we prefer nineties Tom Petty to eighties.

shit just got real

i still love Murmur and Reckoning, and Chronic Town what can i say

all i'm saying is that you could put gin in a glass of milk that had been left out overnight and i'd probably drink it

the 80s were so much better IMO. I mean the early 80s were still first wave punk bands in mid-streak, also reforming as new bands like fckn new order.

90s were lame. I mean there is indie and post- music, and some cool punk bands yeah, but I like way more 80s bands etc.

thank god we got post-music

stand up que

who is tom petty

^^ sub-markers

yes where would we be without punk