re: Better overall decade, 80's or 90's?

80's.

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80's music is overrated IMO

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80s

1980's, not even close.

The 80s because of two words -Ronald Reagan

80's had better music and movies. And gratuitous nudity

Easy, 80s. The only stain on the 80s are AIDS and the war on drugs.

90's... this is not close.

Grunge
gangster rap
best years for low cut shorts
booming economy
internet

80's had some good music thats it, but even that wasnt better than 90's. and While Ronald Reagan was our best president, not everyone loved him during the 80s'. His policies helped boom the 90's though.

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1982 is so different from 1988. Same with comparing 1990 to 1998. It’s too big of a spectrum. IMO 1985 to 1995 was peak greatness, but it might depend on where you were in life.

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Fair enough... I'll give you that

80's

imo the 90s were just a more refined 80s with better economy for the most part. Both great decades but also very very violent decades and the cities were pretty terrible for the most part. Wasnt until late 90s and early 2000s that the cities started really getting cleaned up and violence way down

9/11 is pretty much what changed everything. Gave birth to gov over reach, made the country feel very vulnerable, gave birth to 24 hour news...the internet was ramping up, cell phones becoming more and more popular etc

but life remained fairly unchanged until 9/11

both have pro and cons. Im more partial to 90s as i was born in 82. very very similar decades. I think 90s was more commercialized but also because of MTV had some amazing things like spring break, woodstock 99 etc.

they both had the per 9/11 freedom but 80s always had the threat of nuclear war with the soviets hanging over.

i guess i could sum it up like this...80s gave birth to the hope for more freedom, better economy, fall of the soviet union....the 90s was the realization of that.