[RJDG14]

I'm not 100% sure whether typical music from the 90s was more like the 2010s or 1980s. Much sounded fairly modern in the early 2000s, however recently it has begun to sound slightly more dated. Do the following people/bands sound to you more like the 80s or 2000s/2010s:

REM
The Connells
Sugar
Nirvana
Take That
Britney Spears
90s Kylie Minogue
Foo Fighters
Oasis
Bufallo Tom
And others...

Did most of these sound more like now or the 80s at the time? What were some more like now, and others like the 80s?

In addition, were there any 90s sounding bands from the 80s?

[diademgrove]

I would say that most of the bands/people you mention sound more 1960s, rather than the 80s or now.

Just my tuppence.

Keith

[PopTodd]

It was its own thing.

[Sing4me88]

I think 90's music had its own distinct vibe and sound that was neither 80's nor 2010's. It was different (although there wee admittedly some similarities) than 80's but also different than 2010's - less bite than the latter I think which gives it the dated feeling. IMHO is not a case of comparing like for like. Oddly enough I think there is actually more commonality between some 2010's music and 80's music - think CRJ 'I really like you', Daft Punk 'Lucky', Sam Smith 'Restart', Ellie Goulding 'Anything could happen'. Stuff from the 90's like 'Don't look back in anger' Oasis, 'Dance the night away' the Mavericks, 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' Deep Blue Something, 'Losing my religion' REM all have a distinctive 90's vibe that IMHO chimes neither with the 80's nor the 2010's - damn good songs though

[shadowfax]

Who cares..(if a song is good) what decade or genre it came from?..not me..
I have a few ''genre specific''friends who, to be frank, are just narrow minded, if they liked a song from the 80's they would never admit it because it wouldn't be ''cool''
the EDM gang tend to be in this category along with ''indie'' brigade...
to me a good song never dates..it is what it is !!

forgive me if I've gone of topic slightly...

best, Kevin

[RJDG14]

The first time I heard Get Lucky on the radio, I actually guessed it was a song released 20-30 years ago. Then I realised that it was released 2-3 months before.

[RJDG14]

Now that  I've discovered this, Husker Du were a 1980s punk band, but starting from 1985, new albums typically had material that resembled early 90s grunge stuff (take "Games" from their 1985 album).

There is also the odd other band that sounds a little like this from later in the 80s, but not that much (early Nirvana, Pixies). And Husker Du used virtually no artificial or digital equipment at this time (you need to wait until they became Sugar in the 90s).

Another slightly ahead album is the first Violent Femmes (1983) LP. I believe it's a little like some mid 90s Presidents of the United States material. Again, this had very little synth.

So 90s alternative stuff is probably more like 80s if you take away the synth, but most 80s music does have keyboard. As with 2010s.