Originally Posted by jpv

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...