prince was the music critic's favourite artist of the eighties by far. since then nothing has made much of an impact, not even "the gold experience" which was his best nineties album.
...
...i wonder if prince will ever win over the critic's again?
...
...
here is the top ten music critic's favs of the last 3 decades.
...
... The Top 10 Artists of the 80s


1 Prince

2 The Smiths

3 U2

4 R.E.M.

5 Bruce Springsteen

6 Public Enemy

7 Talking Heads

8 Michael Jackson

9 New Order

10 Elvis Costello


...The Top 10 Artists of the 90s


1 Nirvana

2 R.E.M.

3 Radiohead

4 Beck

5 Oasis

6 Massive Attack

7 Blur

8 Pavement

9 P J Harvey

10 Beastie Boys

...The Top 10 Artists of the 00s


1 OutKast

2 The Strokes

3 The White Stripes

4 Eminem

5 Radiohead

6 Missy Misdemeanor Elliott

7 Queens of the Stone Age

8 Coldplay

9 The Streets

10 The Flaming Lips

here is the link to the website with the above information.
http://hem.bredband.net/a...-89art.htm

blackboab said:

The link doesn't really tell you anything much - the 'information' requires some context for it to be understood:

How was this list compiled? What was the question, if any, asked? Who was asked? When were they asked? Who asked the question and why?

the info you require is at http://www.acclaimedmusic.net/

blackboab said:

Thanks - the Q and A was illuminating!

blackboab said:

and how many other artists that are in the first list appear in the last?

None.

Music moves on.

Marrk said:

true. radiohead is the only group to appear twice on either of the lists.

Scrapluv said:

REM.

I dont know how REM managed to ascend in the ratings , the 90s, I am quite a fan of the band , but they have been in major decline starting with Out of Time. Sure, Losing My Religion is fine, the rest is trendy and junk, Automatic
4 the People was Pablum, Monster was a tad silly, HiFi was dull and they completely lost my interest when the drummer left, singles I have heard are astonishing bad. Any Rem fans here, agree, disagree? High point was Life's Rich Pageant, but you cannot lose with any of the early records and Document.