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

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

like djed? xps

well hold the phone I'm listening to Catastrophe Ballet now and the 80s are getting some late-innings relief

The eighties ended when followup singles from Hall & Oates' oooh yeah! record stiffed.

it was like October '29.

don't drag gene garber into this

thank god we got post-music

he was talking about post- music

no!

I'm not sure how and why, but the space seems somehow important

Also, it's easy enough to sit and blithely mock R.E.M. but let us not forget this thing from the '90s called Neutral Milk Hotel.

woah man—you can't just walk in here and score cheap cool points by taking down the sacred cows of meaningfulcore

lso, it's easy enough to sit and blithely mock R.E.M. but let us not forget this thing from the '90s called Neutral Milk Hotel.

i want nothing more than to forget the 1 or 2 times i listened to that hideous bunch of fucked up monsters and their shitty music

R.E.M. only made one album called Monster iirc

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look Jeff made two albums and split, REM have been inflicting their horrible music on the world reliably every sixteen months or so since I was a coke-shooting teen

6. "Alone"

Heart's singular marriage of pop and rock is carried off so seamlessly here that I'd have to include this one on a short list of the finest singles of the decade. Its breadth of appeal is immense, pulling in soft rock listeners with an elegant piano opening and lovely, quiet verses but then fully satisfying the rock contingency with the thumping, catchy chorus. Ann Wilson's voice has lost none of its effortless passion over the years, and the finished products of songs like this certainly deserved the attention they got. Some might accuse certain '80s artists of selling out to the decade's edgeless accessibility, but I just don't think such a charge sticks in the special case of the Wilsons.

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Four proud 90s voters.

^^^ the problem of the nineties right there: guys with no asses.

instead most guys were asses

yeah yeah R.E.M. should have broken up three thousand albums ago but that doesn't make their music any less enjoyable, i mean they are complete assholes for even existing at this point as humans

man my problem in the 90s was decidedly not "lack of ass"

tbf they should have changed their name to r.e. when berry split

lol

I proposed something similar when Bono left U2.

Dumb and Dumber: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack is the original soundtrack to the film; the soundtrack was released by RCA Records on November 22, 1994.

"The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" by Crash Test Dummies (featuring Ellen Reid)
"New Age Girl (Mary Moon)" by Deadeye Dick
"Insomniac" by Echobelly
"If You Don't Love Me (I'll Kill Myself)" by Pete Droge
"Crash (The '95 Mix)" by The Primitives
"Whiney, Whiney (What Really Drives Me Crazy)" by Willi One Blood
"Where I Find My Heaven" by Gigolo Aunts
"Hurdy Gurdy Man" by Butthole Surfers
"Too Much of a Good Thing" by The Sons featuring Bret Reilly
"The Bear Song" by Green Jellÿ
"Take" by The Lupins
"You Sexy Thing" by Deee-Lite
"Get Ready" by The Proclaimers

When I was a teenager all I did was listen to REM and this movie and Road Movie. The only thing I listened to for years. Now I feel like no one likes them because they don't represent some single moment in time, they didn't self-destruct, they burst on the scene in dramatic fashion, all they did was consistently bring emotions out out people through pop music like no other band. They are not a HIP and predictable choice I guess. People are idiots.

people are idiots

"The Ballad of Peter Pumpkinhead" by Crash Test Dummies (featuring Ellen Reid)
"New Age Girl (Mary Moon)" by Deadeye Dick
"Insomniac" by Echobelly
"If You Don't Love Me (I'll Kill Myself)" by Pete Droge
"Crash (The '95 Mix)" by The Primitives
"Whiney, Whiney (What Really Drives Me Crazy)" by Willi One Blood
"Where I Find My Heaven" by Gigolo Aunts
"Hurdy Gurdy Man" by Butthole Surfers
"Too Much of a Good Thing" by The Sons featuring Bret Reilly
"The Bear Song" by Green Jellÿ
"Take" by The Lupins
"You Sexy Thing" by Deee-Lite
"Get Ready" by The Proclaimers

can we poll this

ofc ppl still listen r.e.m...you know what...

i hate all those coments about dislikes and what ather ppl do

if you dont want to judge you and your music

dont judge them either...peaple are not idiots just deferent to each ather

1 J. Nitzsche – Main Theme From "An Officer And A Gentleman" 1:41
2 Joe Cocker And Jennifer Warnes – Up Where We Belong 3:55
3 Van Morrison – Hungry For Your Love 3:40
4 ZZ Top – Tush 2:15
5 Pat Benatar – Treat Me Right 3:15
6 Sir Douglas Quintet, The – Be Real 2:35
7 Joe Cocker And Jennifer Warnes – Up Where We Belong 3:55
8 Lee Ritenour – Love Theme From "An Officer And A Gentleman" 5:19
9 Dire Straits – Tunnel Of Love 8:13
10 J. Nitzsche / Buffy Sainte-Marie – The Morning After Theme

tough to argue

Sorry if this has already been asked, the thread is quite long, but: does this mean "on balance, is the entirety of music released in the '80s or '90s better?" or is it more "which decade had the greatest highlights?"

"Which decade had the best Janet singles?"

"Which decade had the best airplanes?"

none of this is to be taken seriously, therefore you decide

the farrelly bros. secretly have pretty dope taste in music... one movie had a soundtrack of all steely dan covers and one featured jonathan richman as musical narrator/greek chorus. dumb & dumber sdtk not great supporting evidence for this claim, though.

Early nineties soundtracks were STRANGE creatures -- Frankenstein creations stitched from ideas inspired by eighties hangovers and "college rock."

I owned the Threesome sndtrk fer instance:

Tracklisting
1. New Star - Tears For Fears [4:28]
2. I'll Take You There - General Public [4:07]
3. Dancing Barefoot - U2 [4:45]
4. Like A Virgin - Teenage Fanclub [4:27]
5. Boom Shack-a-Lack - Apache Indian [4:32]
6. Is Your Love Strong Enough? - Bryan Ferry [4:45]
7. Bizarre Love Triangle - New Order [3:24]
8. Make Me Smile (Come Up And See Me) - Duran Duran [4:57]
9. He's My Best Friend - Jellyfish [3:45]
10. Buttercup - Brad [4:15]
11. What Does Sex Mean To Me? - Human Sexual Response [4:52]
12. That Was The Day - The The [3:57]

maybe it's time to revive the crow ost is the worst record i have ever heard

& "quirky" covers galore!

case in point xp!

it's always a good time to revive that thread

A few minutes ago I turned off OK Computer a third of the way through the fourth song and put on Mick Jagger's Wandering Spirit.