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

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80's music is overrated IMO

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You just lost all credibility

90’s, not close

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80's had way to much bush.

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Bush wasn't formed until 1992 baw.

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Sarah Michelle Gellar

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Legit top-5 in her prime.

While I was mostly too young to truly appreciate the 80s as they were happening, that decade. The 90s did have some greatness; however, the 80s gave us:

Ronald Reagan, the OG MAGA President, spearheading the crumble of the USSR
Prime Joe Montana, Roger Craig and Ronnie Lott and the first half of Prime Jerry Rice
Prime Lawrence Taylor
Rocky III & IV
Top Gun
Monster Ballad Rock
Peak Hank Williams, Jr.
Prime Rickey Henderson
Carl Lewis, which I think was the last of Men's Olympic athletes gold medaling in separate running and field events
That US Hockey team taking down the POS Commie Soviets

Overall, the 1980s brought back alot of pride in America from many of its citizens, that seemed to be reeling from Vietnam, JFK Assassination, POS Lyndon Johnson, Nixon resigning from Watergate, and the failure of the Peanut Farmer. The movies and pop culture at the time seemed to reflect that since of renewed pride, like the movies mentioned above, and TV shows like Night Rider and the A-Team.

I wish I could experience it now at the age I am. Sure, there were still LOTS of challenges and scares, but looking back, it seemed to be a very positive turning point for our country as a whole.

80s

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While I was mostly too young to truly appreciate the 80s as they were happening, that decade. The 90s did have some greatness; however, the 80s gave us:

Ronald Reagan, the OG MAGA President, spearheading the crumble of the USSR
Prime Joe Montana, Roger Craig and Ronnie Lott and the first half of Prime Jerry Rice
Prime Lawrence Taylor
Rocky III & IV
Top Gun
Monster Ballad Rock
Peak Hank Williams, Jr.
Prime Rickey Henderson
Carl Lewis, which I think was the last of Men's Olympic athletes gold medaling in separate running and field events
That US Hockey team taking down the POS Commie Soviets

Overall, the 1980s brought back alot of pride in America from many of its citizens, that seemed to be reeling from Vietnam, JFK Assassination, POS Lyndon Johnson, Nixon resigning from Watergate, and the failure of the Peanut Farmer. The movies and pop culture at the time seemed to reflect that since of renewed pride, like the movies mentioned above, and TV shows like Night Rider and the A-Team.

I wish I could experience it now at the age I am. Sure, there were still LOTS of challenges and scares, but looking back, it seemed to be a very positive turning point for our country as a whole.

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agreed 100%, i was young but this is what I remember most. felt like it a renewed sense of pride and then the 90s came and we kicked arse in the gulf war and the economy started going ape shite and the tech boom and the music and mtv and it was just kind of the realization of the 80s manifested.

and it stayed that away until 9/11 fricked everything up and people grasped for safety over freedom.

country has never recovered because as soon as we started to, the great recession happened, then covid and the liberal craziness and blm and all the bull shite of today.

85-95 Peak Music Years
And being young with hardly any responsibilities. Except 94 that year sucked personally

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turned 18 in September of 1986 and could legally drink, buy alcohol and go to bars. Law changed to 21 on January 1st 1987 and those in between were not grandfathered in so I became illegal again.

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Similarly situated but remember different.

I was at LSU in 1987, under the age of 21 and was not required to have a guardian when going to bars or buying alcohol at a store.

An article about this says the law passed in 1986 but wasn’t enforced until 1995.

From an google-

Louisiana changed its drinking age to 21 in 1986. This was in response to the National Minimum Drinking Age Act, which required states to raise their drinking age to 21 to receive full federal highway funding. While the state legislature raised the drinking age in 1986, a loophole in the law allowed businesses to continue selling alcohol to 18-year-olds until 1995, according to College Media Network. In 1996, the Louisiana Supreme Court temporarily lowered the drinking age to 18, but later reversed its decision and raised it back to 21.

60’s over 90’s