If you add in the late 70's and early 90's, it gets even better. Maybe I'm being partial but I didn't grow up in the West and I was 9 when the 80's ended so I doubt it. Even movies had great music back then : Terminator , The Thing, Back to the Future...Avengers theme is pretty sweet but it's a rarity these days. The only things I think got better with the 90's were TV shows and cartoon movies, those are definitely better. You can still find good indy music and shows because of youtube and the internet in general (Netflix, Amazon), but everything else mainstream is low quality AF. And don't even get me started with all the shit remakes...