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[–] Teeder ago 

Music has sucked for a long time. Accepting nostalgia the mid 70's is when good music ended. There's been and continues to be good bands and it's far easier to find them these days but having lived through the 80's it's a long downward spiral. Once music companies decided the buck could be made with pretty people instead of good musicians it was over

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[–] Whitemail [S] ago 

The 80s produced Michael Jackson and Madonna, who were really interesting pop artists.

Iron Maiden, Guns N Roses, Metallica, and Megadeth all got started in the 80s and are all household names now.

I was old enough to start liking real music around 1990, so I really like the 90s rock style. The grunge bands and Silverchair. I like what Silverchair became. Live is considered post-grunge rock.

One thing that has happened, though, is a lot of good musicians that like edgy, intense music have gone into metal. There are types of metal that can't be pop metal like 90s Metallica stuff.

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[–] Teeder ago 

I'm not saying there weren't good bands in the 80's, but that the mainstream radio and top 40 was flooding with crap. Until Whitesnake's Still of the Night, and Metallica's One the hardest rocking music you'd hear was Sammy Hagers Van Halen, which wasn't. As far as Michael Jackson was concerned he was a household name in the 70's already. Iron Maiden produced 4 of the best metal albums of all time in the 80's yet unless you were into metal you had no idea who they were, and that included The trooper being on a year end best of album. Pink Floyd was still selling out everywhere and nada on mainstream radio.