Best Decade Music Wise

[MysteryJKR]

Alright I know that music and dumb odd videos that ive found on the net are usually the subject of my threads, so I apologize. lol.

But here is another music thread.....


Just like the Sub says. What... in your opinion is/was the best decade musically? 60's, 80's, right now and why?

I ask why because I know there has to be differing opinions and I know that I for one think a few decades just plain suck! But some of you I know for a fact, love some of the music from those decades I think suck so I and maybe someone else would like to know why ya chose it. Capice?

So yea. Gets tuh steppin yo!

 

[bluntforcemama]

I really like the 70s, don't know why, exactly... but I do. And the 80s, too.... but everyone loves the 80s.

 

[alexander tzara]

I don't know if I can pick a winner.

I love the 60s 'cause of: The Velvet Underground, Beatles, Captain Beefheart, The Stones, The Who, Hendrix, Syd Barrett, The Kinks, Brian Wilson's 'Pet Sounds' / 'Good Vibrations', Miles Davis, Iggy and the Stooges, Burt Bacharac, King Crimson (21st Century Schizoid Man!), MC5 ("Kick Out The Jams Motherfucker!!!!"), Serge Gainsbourg (Jane Birkin faking orgasm on 'Je t'aime... moi non plus'), tabla and sitar noodling, Can (German experiMENTALists)and some Motown.

I love the 70s 'cause of Patti Smith, Roxy Music (the early Brian Eno albums are mad), Bob Marley (and lots of King Tubby / Lee "Scratch" Perry style dub reggae), The Sex Pistols, Lou Reed, New York Dolls, Frank Zappa, Bowie (in all his incarnations), The Stranglers, The Damned ("Neat Neat Neat!"), Iggy Pop in Berlin, Tom Waits, The Ramones, Eno's solo albums, John Cale (mad-Welshman / ex-Velvet Underground), Television, Abba, more Captain Beefheart, Lester Bangs writing about crazy rock music in 'Creem'

I love the 80s 'cause of Blondie, Talking Heads, more Tom Waits, less Lou Reed and what was going on in the underground: Sonic Youth, The Fall, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Pixies, Cocteau Twins, Joy Division and a bunch of indie bands that put out singles on tiny labels that only 50 people ever got to hear, listening to John Peel's eclectic night-time radio 1 show, the birth of hip-hop (my favourite era of hip-hop): De La Soul, Beasty Boys, Run DMC, Public Enemy, The Real Roxanne, Eric B and Rakim, 'My Philosophy', Salt 'n' Pepa etcetera *the board won't let me start a new paragraph here* I love the 90s 'cause of the number of women picking up guitars and making a trashy sound: especially PJ Harvey but also lots of riot grrrl bands including Courtney Love's Hole (if you'll pardon my Francais) plus Kim Deal (Pixies / Breeders /The Amps), Kim Gordon (Sonic Youth), Throwing Muses. Lots of good alternative / "indie" stuff like Pavement, Mogwai. Dance / rave-style electronica only got interesting for me in the '90s: Chemical Brothers, Tricky, Daft Punk, Air, The Prodigy, Portishead, Broadcast, Unkle. I guess some of the grunge bands were ok too. *********************** So far the 21st Century has just thrown up a mish-mash of what's gone before but I'm sure something innovative and exciting is gonna burst out of some backwater somewhere and terrify us into having a damn cool time. Or something.

 

[Mortto56]

I like music from the 60's and 70's as far as "Rock n Roll" goes.The 80's "R&R" left me little to be desired.So I started to listen to "Country Music".But the 90's Country is to commercialized.

That's why I bought 1600 CD's,and a Kenwood 200 CD player.Now I play what I want to play.

 

[Mistress]

80's!

And then the 70's

 

[Simply Me]

The 70's music to me was one of the best, Eagles, Foreigner, Journey, Boston, etc.. Have not really enjoyed music as much since. I do listen to Country music alot more now, but mostly 70s CD's.

 

[latefrost]

this one is saping up..

while off to a decidedly pop and trailer rock start (nsync, spears, kid rock, linkin) and despite the fact that punk kids can now seem to date cheerleaders....

... the up and coming music of this decade seems to be leaning in the direction of guitar rock and heavy concept music. i think it'll be some of the best music we've seen since Louis Armstrong.

 

[Andra_Jenny]

'64 to '72

Not exactly a decade,

but should some of the guesses be headed by numbers like 17 and 18, I mean a lot of the best music even today is on the classical stations.

 

[Weird Harold]

Re: '64 to '72

Not exactly a decade,

but should some of the guesses be headed by numbers like 17 and 18, I mean a lot of the best music even today is on the classical stations.

Exactly what I was going to point out. 1812 was a very good year for music.

Some of my favorite music comes from the 1940's -- big bands and Hollywood musicals.

Country Music and Rock & Roll from the 50's include a lot of classics that have been covered in every decade since.

 

[Andra_Jenny]

I got a gift this week, a collection of CD's. Billie Holiday, Miles Davis, Ella Fitzgerald, Loius Armstrong,

yes, very good music. Prefer it to the radio. Especially what has happened to country. DEPLORABLE!

 

[doctor_insanus]

70s

Grew up listening to a lot of my parents' music...

The Eagles
Creedence
Led Zeppelin
The Beatles (later stuff, natch!)
The Doors
Three Dog Night

I always loved that stuff!

The 60s were pretty good.
The 80s never did much for me... too "techno" for my taste!
The 90s... grunge, gangsta rap... nah!
Now... promising, if we can get past the boy/girl bands!

 

[Scruffy]

Definitely the 60's.

I'm just not sure if I mean the 1360's or the 1560's.