Well if you're not into pop I can see where you're coming from. I'm pretty much a fan of all types of music except country and rap. As a whole the 80's were a pretty stellar time in the music business. Michael Jackson's Thriller (somewhat pop, best selling record), Bad, Madonna (as much as I don't care for her) put out some pretty good stuff in the 80's, I could go on and on. Plus 80's rock was killer too, I've come across A LOT of 80's rock bands I never knew existed that have some pretty good stuff.
I've been selling off my CD collection and most of it is 90's-2000's stuff which I don't plan on buying again on vinyl, instead I've been going 80's and older and International. Most of the 90's and newer stuff began to bore me, that's why I stopped buying music a few years back, and why I haven't listened to my CD's in forever. I'd be hard pressed to name as many good artists in another decade older or newer, and while I was born in the mid 80's I didn't listen to any of this stuff so it's not reminiscing for me. If I was into New Kids On the Block (cringe) then maybe. My decade of teen hood is boy bands and synthesized pop princesses and gangster rap, I have a hard time believing that's going to hold up as well as stuff from the 80's and the old Jazz singers of the 50's-70's have. You have to admit the quality of music has greatly tanked in the last couple of decades, we may disagree when that started and why, but it's happened to some degree. And I know it's partially a generation thing, most generations don't like their parents stuff and my generation won't appreciate the new generation of stuff, but in my case I actually appreciate the music I wasn't initially alive to experience first hand than the stuff I grew up with, so maybe that just makes me odd, which I'm cool with, I've never been much of a trend follower, and I tend to be interested more stuff of the eras I wasn't apart of. So if I'm lucky enough to live to 50 or older I'll reminisce about how mostly crappy the music was in the 90's...
