*chuckles* There's a lot better and a lot worse . . . a lot of the music was great (except for the Backstreet Boys ), but the fashions were atrocious. I mean . . . come ON, Legwarmers over jeans so tight you can't sit down? Pastel and Neon at the same time, in different colors? High crimped hair with so much hairspray you're in danger of catching fire? (and, yes, I was guilty of all of that and more ) And lets not get into the fact that "Valley Talk" started in the 80's . . .

Oh . . . and there was the constant paranoia of being nuked because the cold war was still in full swing

There's good and bad in every era, the thing you have to remember is only the good survives, so you're seeing all of the good stuff and very little of the bad

--
"There was an old coddle so molly,
He talked in a glot that was poly,
His gaws were so gew
That his laps became dew,
And he only ate pops that were lolly"

-The Thirteen Clocks by James Thurber