X2So you even admit that the pop 80's music sucked. That's the whole point, popular culture of the 80's was shit. The 70's was great, the 90's wasn't perfect but there was enough there to say it was a time worth living. A band like tool, wouldn't exist in the 80's. The whole point of the 90's was to bring as ascetic to things that were clearly lacking in the 80's.
The 80's was the defintion of lacking taste. The 90's wasn't even that great, but it wasn't tasteless.
The 80's is severely dated, while the 70's/60's is still relevant 40 years later. Because they had a balance in their music that was clearly missing in the 80's.
I'm not saying that anyone alive in the 80's was living under the ussr or some shit any decade sucks/rocks depending on how your doing personally , but the 80's isn't an era with the greatest pop culture.
I've said this many times here.
ALL pop culture sucks, regardless of the decade. It's intrinsic to it's nature. Pop culture becomes popular and then feeds that popularity by pandering to the lowest common denominator regardless of artistic value or integrity. Pop culture is about money, nothing more.
You may want to look into the huge resurgence of 80's music in the last 5 years, whilst grunge and nu-metal, both horrible 90's genres, are long dead or dying. The major 80's bands are currently selling out arenas and stadiums around the world.
Metallica, Megadeth, Slayer, Anthrax (and offshoots) influenced vrtually every rock/metal band around today. These bands were also considered to be counter-culture at the time, and as far away from pop culture as one could get. Hence the attraction for so many youths of that time period.
*Congrats on the job btw.
