I really did not like 80's music growing up (outside of Van Halen) in fact my uncle gave me a cd for xmas, the Doors Greatest hits when I was 11 or 12 (can?t remember), I instantly latched on to the sound and sought out other classic rock bands and that carried me through the rest of the 80s- that is until the 90's music explosion. When I first heard Pearl Jam's ten and nirvana's bleach my mind was blown the **** away from that point on, I was hooked on alternative rock. I became enamored with all the Seattle grunge bands (Temple of the dog, Soundgarden, Alice in Chains, Screaming trees, Mad Season etc.) and other bands like the Smashing Pumpkins and early green day (punk). The grunge era churned out amazing music for a good 4 years then Cobain killed himself and that was the day Seattle grunge died. Sure, my favorite band (pearl jam) went on and is still going strong to this day (their live shows still rock (pre covid)), Cornell remained amazing until he tragically took his own life, but the music started changing in 1995 and beyond we started getting those fake grunge bands like Creed and Bush which I hated.
At that point I started listening to band like Phish, Dave Matthews, MXPX, Sublime, Jane?s Addiction Etc... When 2000 hit I just gave up on music, no nookie for me I couldn?t stand Fred durst or wet bisket, Lincoln Park was ok but other than that I pretty much stopped even seeking out new music completely- I pretty much stick to classic rock (pink floyd, Beattles, Zeppelin, the Who ect), those older alternative bands (mentioned above), punk, some reggae (Marley, Peter Tosh and Eek a mouse fan), some metal Metallica (older), Folk (Dylan), Neil Young, and country (Cash) these days.
In terms of Rap or Hip hop- Marshall Mathers first 2 albums, Dr Dre the chronic, NWA (the Beattles of rap bands), Tupac, Snoop dog's first album were my cup of tea. Honestly, I was never into east coast rap or hip hop in general but those west coast albums got a lot of play time for me- especially NWA and Run Dmc in the 80?s when there was nothing else good to my young ears.
For me it goes like this
80's movies were at the pinnacle but music was bad in general outside of Metallica & Guns in Roses, Van Halen, Sabbath (parents didn?t let me listen to Ozzy) and those early hip hop bands I mentioned above-
90's music was really good but movies took a **** big time- outside of Quinten Tarantino we didn?t get many memorable flicks at all- at least that my mind can think of as I type this. When I think of the 90s i think Pulp fiction, reservoir dogs, True romance (wrote screenplay), Natural Born Killers (wrote screenplay). Matrix was really good too
2000 to now Music Terrible, movies have been hit and miss- I enjoyed the **** out of the early superhero run (both dc and marvel), but that was before the dark times... before the "wokeness". lol
