Originally Posted by UGLY  Plain and simple the eighties was one of the worst era's for popular music followed by the early 90's. Aside some of the great punk music of that era and a few great metal and rock bands the music sucked. The majority of one hit wonders I can think of come from the eighties. So there we have it the eighties almost a completely worthless decade for fashion and music. |
I will have to disagree, in part, with that statement. The 80s and the 90s gave us some wonderful music, although some of it might not be construed as "popular":
80s (to name but a few):
* Pixies
* U2
* REM
* Joy Division
* Metallica
* Police
90s:
* Nirvana
* Blur
* A Tribe Called Quest
* Radiohead
* Wilco
* Dr. Dre/Snoop Dogg
As for the "one-hit wonders" of those decades, we'll see where Jermaine Dupree,
Chris Brown, Tokio Hotel, any
American Idol product, Pussycat Dolls, Avril Lavigne, Lil Wayne, Rihanna, Timbaland and any number of the modern crap is in 20 years...