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Originally Posted by Blarobbarg
Although this was a resurrected thread, I might as well post in it while it's on the front page.
To all you who said "I wish the 80's never happened."
...WHAT.
Sooooo many good bands! I mean, of COURSE the mainstream stuff sucked!
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Mainstream did not suck, particularly in the
first half of the 80s. Anyone who ignores the pop-dance stuff, which most of the pop stuff was then, is ignoring most of the 80s. I know rock critics do that but they have their own agenda.
The 2000s I think was more about indie and ambient by the end, with an emphasis on smooth sounding music in vocals and production.
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Originally Posted by Schizotypic
I have no idea what the 00's will be defined as. Honestly I'm starting to think an era isn't defined by what actually goes on in the decade in question as much as what happens in the next decade. I think if we were to have a total collapse of all pop music and there was a huge surge of underground music being given away for free, for example, then this era would be defined as the pop era- because there was a lot of popular pop and then there wasn't. On the other hand, if pop music gets more popular and underground music all becomes mainstream and cheesy, then this decade would be defined as the underground era before the big pop movement.
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True. For me the 60s and 80s are much brighter music eras full of pop music. The 70s and 90s were darker and even more serious, the 70s far superior I think with much variety. The 2000s is more a return again towards pop (though people now call it indie).