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Best Decade For Music?

Best Decade For Music Pop/Rock

  • The 60s

    Votes: 24 21.2%

  • The 70s

    Votes: 29 25.7%

  • The 80s

    Votes: 21 18.6%

  • The 90s

    Votes: 33 29.2%

  • 2000s

    Votes: 6 5.3%
  • Total voters
    113
xboxfever said:
90's, 70's, 60's, 80's and than the 50's. 2000's had nothing but **** for music and it keeps getting worse. No talent these days.
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I don't know that it's a lack of talent. There's plenty of talent, but very little of it makes it to the mainstream. What further compounds the problem is the ever decreasing attention span of the general public. Chris Rock put it best: "Here today, gone today!"
 
I think a couple people made great points, it depends when you grew up and what you like. I went to high school in the mid to late 90's and my favorite bands then were Offspring and Led Zeppelin.

One thing hasn't changed, I still love Offspring and their last album was great, not much air play but some really great songs.

Now I would toss up 90's and 00's. For those of us that have satellite radio, I have Lithium XM 54 on all the time (although they play way too much Pearl Jam).

I also listen to 96.5 the Buzz when I'm in KC and they threw together a Decade Playlist from the 00's. Some really good stuff. Killers, Green Day, Weezer, Franz Ferdinand, Sum 41, AFI, Chevelle, Arcade Fire... To name a few.

And if you're like me and like hard rock. We had a pretty good run over the last decade with Avenged Sevenfold, Papa Roach, Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, Stone Sour...

I'm going with 00's...
 
MeanDean said:
This is/was true of all decades. There is some crazy good 60's stuff that never got a whiff of airplay, for example, Love had one minor hit but their album Forever Changes is now considered a classic. Same with the Zombies Oddysey and Oracle. There's a whole subculture of people who only collect Northern Soul, most that never touched the charts. Same with 50's and early 60's doo-wop.

As far as the best combination of good music that actually got PLAYED in public on radio and HEARD in the decade it was produced, it is probably the 60's again.
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Indeed you are right. This is hard to call because there is a lot of great stuff each decade, and some of the best may have a cult following, but not the commercial air play.
 
AllBig12Drinker said:
I think a couple people made great points, it depends when you grew up and what you like. I went to high school in the mid to late 90's and my favorite bands then were Offspring and Led Zeppelin.

One thing hasn't changed, I still love Offspring and their last album was great, not much air play but some really great songs.

Now I would toss up 90's and 00's. For those of us that have satellite radio, I have Lithium XM 54 on all the time (although they play way too much Pearl Jam).

I also listen to 96.5 the Buzz when I'm in KC and they threw together a Decade Playlist from the 00's. Some really good stuff. Killers, Green Day, Weezer, Franz Ferdinand, Sum 41, AFI, Chevelle, Arcade Fire... To name a few.

And if you're like me and like hard rock. We had a pretty good run over the last decade with Avenged Sevenfold, Papa Roach, Breaking Benjamin, Three Days Grace, Stone Sour...

I'm going with 00's...
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:no:

Also, thed 80's for me is immediately disqualified for the existence of bands like Motley Crue, Guns n Roses, Poison, Warrant, etc. If there is one sound that I absolutely loathe it is that white trash screeching they call music.

As has been discussed, there is still plenty of talent nowadays. Luckily, the internet has allowed us to find great artists even if the radio doesn't play them.
 
Al_4_State said:
There were some great bands in the 80's that never really became popular in their time. I love the Replacements, and their best stuff all came out in the 80's.
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ahh yes, I love the Replacements. Have you read their book? Another great Minneapolis band from the 80s is Hukser Du. They have a book out too. Husker Du was extremely influential. Many great bands of the 90s including Nirvana were influenced by Husker Du.
How about Oz rock from the 80s? INXS, Midnight Oil, The Church, The Go Betweens, The Triffids, Crowded House, Men At Work, Rick Springfield, Hoodoo Gurus, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Little River Band. It wasn't just the UK that had a ton of output in the postpunk/new wave.
 
jahfg said:
:no:

Also, thed 80's for me is immediately disqualified for the existence of bands like Motley Crue, Guns n Roses, Poison, Warrant, etc. If there is one sound that I absolutely loathe it is that white trash screeching they call music.

As has been discussed, there is still plenty of talent nowadays. Luckily, the internet has allowed us to find great artists even if the radio doesn't play them.
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I don't know how to give you positive rep, but you are right on the money with your post.
 
I loved the '80's, but lately I've been thinking that the '90's is a little underrated. Lots of good rock bands....unfortunately many of them broke up for one reason or another. I wish the band LIVE would come back. Anyways, if there was good music in the 2000's I completely missed it, cause I haven't heard anything new in quite a while that I would even classify as music.
 
All you need to know about music can be seen in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame sifting through stems and seeds to try and find worthy entrants.
 
RING4CY said:
That's okay. I couldn't come up with any other way to put it.
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You probably have reasons for not liking all music made after 1990, and that's cool. Personally, I think that music made this decade gets severely underrated since people have the ability to listen to so much different music. It is harder for individual bands to gain the popularity and notoriety that the good bands of the 60s and 70s did, so people that may have subconciously bumped a band from the 1960s into "great band" territory, would only place a band from the 2000s in "good band" territory. I don't know, wasn't around in the 60s or 70s though.
 
As far as I am concerned the 60's were extremely influential and I wasn't born until '73. Besides Black Sabbath was formed in 1968 and as far as I'm concerned they are the godfathers of Heavy Metal. Each decade has its high point and low points but I like the 60's the best. The 80's are by far the decade I like the least even though there are a lot of good bands that broke a lot of ground, but I just can't get past Howard Jones, ughhh.
 
cy4prez7 said:
I personally think this is an unfair question. It depends on what type of music you like. Because If you like Rock it is most likely the 70s if you like rap/ hip-hop it's the '00s. If you like crazy hair it's the 80s. It just depends on what you're listening to.

I also do not agree with people saying there is not talent anymore. I will agree that some of the new music is absolute crap. But the talent kind of shows up in different ways. for instance many people may not like Hip-Hop but if you take the time to listen and read lyrics from someone like Eminem there is a lot of artistry there. I'm just saying there is talent it's just not showing up in the same ways that it used to.
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Good rap was in the 90's. Good rock is in late 60's, 70's, and early 80's for the most part.
 
jahfg said:
:no:

Also, thed 80's for me is immediately disqualified for the existence of bands like Motley Crue, Guns n Roses, Poison, Warrant, etc. If there is one sound that I absolutely loathe it is that white trash screeching they call music.

As has been discussed, there is still plenty of talent nowadays. Luckily, the internet has allowed us to find great artists even if the radio doesn't play them.
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So are you more of a Nickelback guy?
 
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Doc said:
You probably have reasons for not liking all music made after 1990, and that's cool. Personally, I think that music made this decade gets severely underrated since people have the ability to listen to so much different music. It is harder for individual bands to gain the popularity and notoriety that the good bands of the 60s and 70s did, so people that may have subconciously bumped a band from the 1960s into "great band" territory, would only place a band from the 2000s in "good band" territory. I don't know, wasn't around in the 60s or 70s though.
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There are some current bands that I thoroughly enjoy. However they are far from mainstream and their inspiration came from groups from the '60s and '70s.

I just can't stand the stuff that is mainstream these days or understand why it's mainstream.
 
cayin said:
ahh yes, I love the Replacements. Have you read their book? Another great Minneapolis band from the 80s is Hukser Du. They have a book out too. Husker Du was extremely influential. Many great bands of the 90s including Nirvana were influenced by Husker Du.
How about Oz rock from the 80s? INXS, Midnight Oil, The Church, The Go Betweens, The Triffids, Crowded House, Men At Work, Rick Springfield, Hoodoo Gurus, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Little River Band. It wasn't just the UK that had a ton of output in the postpunk/new wave.
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I haven't read the 'Mats book, but there's a documentary coming out soon, I believe.

I have a couple Husker Du albums, but they just haven't clicked as much for me. It's clearly talented, and easy to respect, but it doesn't get me like the Replacements do.

I'm a big Hold Steady fan, and they're obviously heavily influenced by both the Replacements and Husker Du.
 
"....Some other guy is sipping up my honey like a Yellow Dog...."

Does it get any better than this ??

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2JgcwzhxTQg]YouTube - The Beatles HD - Some Other Guy (Live At The Cavern Club) (Remastered)[/ame]
 
Which Husker Du do you have? My favorite is Warehouse: Songs and Stories. That one is their most accessible. Power pop at it's best.
 
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