Because that was the peak of prog rock

Because that was the peak of prog jazz

because that was the peak of roots reggae

Because that was the peak of prog dream funk

only because of the Ramones

>>64338643

Because drugs

fuckin boomers.

>>64338730
.. we have better drugs now tho.

minus the cocain i guess

>>64338643
>implying the alternative rock and old skool/early golden age hip hop of the 80s wasn't the most glorious point in modern music

I'd say it was demographics. The giant boomer population meant that there was a ton of money in the music industry so production on records got more elaborate than ever before and there was lots of experimentation. Also this was the last generation to have a close personal connection to America's traditional/roots music. Boomers came up when Delta bluesmen were still alive and kicking, prewar folk and country artists and other such stuff. By the 80s-90s those guys had all died off.

A lot of people hated the 80s because music became much slicker and more synthetic feeling; it lacked the more warm, folksy feel that was still present in much of 70s music.

>>64338845
Bob Dylan certainly hated it anyway.

except it was the 90s

The 90s sort of dropped the slick 80s aesthetic, but there was really no going back to the 60s-70s at that point.

I notice by the 80s you virtually see blues sounds disappear from music when it had been de-rigeur in the 70s.

>>64338919
this is true, music peaked with breakbeat hardcore in 1991

>>64339034
'Cept for Stevie Ray Vaughn.