Yeah, the answer depends on what genre of music we are talking about. I love 80's pop and 80's hip hop but love the 90's rock era. I'm actually interested in some people's favorite albums/songs of both eras so I can hear music I forgot about.
The one thing the 90's got wrong looking back at it was the Spanish Pop introduction such as Ricky Martin and Jennifer Lopez.
I agree with treeth of these posts.I agree with both of these posts.
Hard to choose, but I'm biased toward the 90s since I was in high school during the early to mid 90s. That pocket between 90-94 will always be the goat for me
I voted 80's but you think the 90's botched Spanish Pop? Ricky Martin and J-Lo were huge stars and maybe it was only in SoCal but I remember a ton of other Spanish crossover stars going mainstream like Martika, Sa-Fire and this dude was pretty much Ecuadorian Vanilla Ice:
Hard to choose, but I'm biased toward the 90s since I was in high school during the early to mid 90s. That pocket between 90-94 will always be the goat for me
I will not stand here and and let you disrespect Rockwell like that.80s pop was corny as hell
I enjoy a melange of both decades, 80's had a great run of of bubblegum pop, the rise of hip hop and some solid RnB offerings plus Michael Jackson and Prince
90's had the emergence of West Coast gangsta rap and Bay Area Mobb Music, an amazing run of RnB acts and a nice selection of radio hip hop hits plus Prince
I say they botched Spanish Pop because looking back at a lot of Spanish Pop does not hold up in my opinion. Old Enrique Iglesias is okay and Selena is great but a lot of Spanish Pop especially once they crossed over to the big labels sucks. Ricky Martin, Jennifer Lopez, Marc Anthony, Shakira all had bad English language albums imo. It's disappointing to me because I thought the Spanish "Vuelve" album by Ricky Martin was good and Marc Anthony has some good Spanish salsa albums.
Maybe I just expected too much considering that other Spanish musicians before them had good records and albums such as Cypress Hill and Gloria Estefan and the Miami Sound Machine that crossed over into pop.
Some of the 80s pop hits corniness is charming, I can't lie. But it's like every single song from that era is just corny as hell.I will not stand here and and let you disrespect Rockwell like that.