The dark ages of Popular music (1985-1991)

[Duderonomy]

I was just a kid during most of it but damn that was some crap. All the hair metal bands and the adult easy listening white blues fad I'm in love with you babe, higher love, Richard Marx,etc. Kids that complain about music nowadays didnt live through how bad that time was. Thank god there was Faith No More the best band of that period IMHO. Also does anyone remember the na na na

[Heavincent]

Metallica's black album came out in 91

[shaq2000]

?!

Depeche Mode



Steve Winwood



Wang Chung - Everybody Have Fun Tonight

Rick Astley - Never Gonna Give You Up

Fine Young Cannibals - She Drives Me Crazy

Simply Red

Technotronic - Pump Up The Jam

Vanilla Ice - Ice Ice Baby

C+C Music Factory - Gonna Make You Sweat (Everybody Dance Now)

[BurningHammer]

It was at the peak of synthpop though.

Just as mentioned above, Depeche Mode. Also, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Tears for Fears, OMD, Eurythmics, Duran Duran, etc.

[Guy Dudebro]

What???

Guns n Roses - Appetite for Destruction

Metallica's best work, U2's best work, REM's best work, much of the shit we hear on 'First Wave' in the car.

I will get back to this later, but that era pwns this entire millennium.

I think you meant (1975-1981)

Yeah Buddy!

[LJJ]

Still not as bad as the 90s and the 00s and right now.

[JohnFreeman]

It was at the peak of synthpop though.

Just as mentioned above, Depeche Mode. Also, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Tears for Fears, OMD, Eurythmics, Duran Duran, etc.

Incredible underrated band. Wild boys is such an awesome song!

[dr.hee]

What???I think you meant (1975-1981)

[Nick Young]

dawg so much sick music came out during that time, theres never been a dark ages of music.

[embersyc]

[embersyc]

[the mesiah]

Don't listen too much to the new"rap" that's out today,I still bump this everyday tho.

[Dresta]

And what is it now exactly?

[Nick Young]

I can't think of any new bands I really like besides Arcade Fire, and theyre not that new, and also their third and fourth album I though sucked.

I like new electronic dance music but in terms of rock bands, there's probably great ones out there, I just don't know about them.

Strokes, White Stripes, Arcade Fire, those were the last great bands for me.

Muse for example just sounds like bootleg radiohead ripoff shit but I know loads of people call them the best band in the world right now. I just dont get it.

I like Dragonforce, they still put out good records, but yeah I can't really think of anything else new that is that great other then EDM and trance music.

Electric music and trance are really good now though, its not a dark age of music, just a dark age of commercial rock music.

[Duderonomy]

It was at the peak of synthpop though.
Just as mentioned above, Depeche Mode. Also, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Erasure, Tears for Fears, OMD, Eurythmics, Duran Duran, etc.

Factory records peak years aswell New Order and Happy Mondays being their two biggest acts. In retrospect there were some hidden gems from that period but 95% of the mainstream acts were dreadful. Never was a fan of The black album although I did buy it, that was when Metallica changed their musical direction (sold-out) nobody has mentioned Stone Roses. yet, huge band at that time.