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I feel sorry for the '90s, because it was never able to be anything much more than the hangover to the party that was the '80s.

— Simon Le Bon

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The '80s were fabulous. The '90s sucked, and the '70s were just a sad, sad time in human history. Go 1980s! There's something that's just so cute about that time. And not just yellow nail polish and 'I'm a loner.'

— Jennifer Sky

I noticed in the late 1990s that my friends and I were already nostalgic for the 1980s, and by the turn of the century, VH1's 'I Love the '80s' gave all of us an accelerated nostalgia for our generation.

— Ernest Cline

I feel like I sort of missed the eighties. At the time, we didn't know we were having fun, which is probably the way it always is.

— Tama Janowitz

I was too young to ever have fun in the '90s, so I'm always trying to relive what I wasn't a part of.

— Chelsea Leyland

I remember the '80s being about the Cold War and Reagan and the homeless problem and AIDS. To me, it was kind of a dark, depressing time.

— John Cusack

I graduated in '91, so the '90s for me were very much the first years out of school, so I can't really look at that decade as independent of my own experience of my 20s, really.

— Noah Baumbach

I didn't like the '80s at all; it was a vulgar moment of fashion.

— Valentino Garavani

✗Opposing Perspectives

The '90s were a time of building for me. Building a life that was sober, drained of harmful, wasteful excess and manufacturing in its place a family of my own.

— Rob Lowe

I can't remember too much about the '80s, to be honest with you... I wish that weren't true, but it is.

— Colin Hay

If you remember the '90s, you weren't there.

— Al Jourgensen