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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
There were so many great bands and music during the 70s. The Beatles laid the groundwork in the late 60s and the 70's bands are still touring.
 
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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They should really play some Seether instead of all the PJ, right?
 
Al_4_State said:
I guess I only have Zen Arcade. I borrowed Flip Your Wig from a buddy last summer.
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Zen Arcade is weird, out there a little. I think you will like Warehouse, way different than Zen Arcade. More pop sounding. Hart and Mould split the songs on this one. 20 Songs with the last 5 being outstanding.
 
cayin said:
Zen Arcade is weird, out there a little. I think you will like Warehouse, way different than Zen Arcade. More pop sounding. Hart and Mould split the songs on this one. 20 Songs with the last 5 being outstanding.
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I'll check it out for sure.

I think it's all the really, really short songs on Zen Arcade. I liked punk a lot in high school but moved away from it in college. I know it's a rock opera and all that (which I'm definitely down with), but it's harder for me to dig into an album where you're moving on so quickly from track to track.
 
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Mainstream music: give me the '60s every day of the week.

Indie music: '00s all the way.

'00s get the overall nod.
 
Each decade has their good music, for me. But, if I had to listen to 1 decade for the rest of my life, I'd probably choose the 80's.
As far as which decade has some of the worst music, I'd go with the 00's. Yes, there is some great music in the 00's, but there's also a lot of really bad music.
I'm 26 btw.
 
about '65-66 to about '75. So I had to pick the '60s because that is when most of those great rock bands got their start.

And it was all done about 5-10 years before I was born...
 
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MeanDean said:
1960's by far:

Beatles,
Stones,
Who,
Janis,
Doors,
Hendrix,
Beach Boys
Dylan
Motown/Northern Soul
Stax/Volt/Atlantic label
San Francisco sound (Dead, Airplane, etc.)
Folk/Rock (Byrds, Mamas/Papas, etc.)
Country Rock (Burritos)

Other significant bands starting in the 60's
Floyd
Zeppelin
Bee Gees

All the "lesser" Brit invasion bands
Yardbirds
Zombies,
DC 5
Small Faces
Animals
Them/Van Morrison

Etc.



2. 80's
3. 50's
4. (empty)
5. 70's (disco brings it down to 5th otherwise it might be higher)
9. 90's too much rap/hip hop
10. 00's too much rap/hip hop

I'm OLD (55) but am a major music buff...
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I can't believe I left off the KINKS!

Arguably invented hard rock/heavy metal with the guitar break in You Really Got Me.
Then a string of hits of social commentary (Dedicated Follower of Fashion, Set Me Free, etc.)
Then came the pop masterpiece, Waterloo Sunset. It topped the charts in the English speaking world (except, tragically, here in the US).
Check out "Days" on You Tube from the Pop Go the 60's Special (also the Rolling Stones version of Gimme Shelter is hot from the same show) - I much prefer it over the studio version.
They had problems getting a US work visa in the late sixties so their chart success here faded until "Lola" (not a personal favorite of mine - much prefer Apeman from that LP).
Also much positive rep for "I'm Not Live Everybody Else" which was a pretty tough track to acquire back in the day...

They continued into the 70's but I never got into their RCA LPs, Muswell Hillbillies, etc. Continued having hits into the 80's but it seems like their best stuff was 64-69.

Also forgot CCR, Tommy James and the Shondells, Moody Blues. And even the Monkees, though a manufactured group, still had the greatest writers of the day providing them great material.

If I had to pick a 10 year period of music I'd go 1963-1972. I think the bubble burst by the time I graduated from HS in '74.
 
I was in HS in the late 80's, and I can't believe people are saying the 80's is the best. I think it has to be the 60's hands down, if you are talking modern commercial music. Elvis, Johny Cash, and Motown from the 50's, gave the 60's the momentum. Vietnam gave it the artistic material.

If anything, the 80's (mostly due to MTV) damaged music.

I was a huge grunge fan, so I put the 90's and 70's pretty close. I think for harder rock fans, the 00's actually provided a bit of a revival. I also think rap and hip hop progressed a lot in the 00's.

Almost all of the decent rock music this century, has been influenced by 60's rock.
 
I have 650 albums in my collection. Basically from 1965 to the present. It is just an opinion of course, but the most enjoyable and consistent of those is from the 80s and most of it is not top 40 80s music either. There was a lot of MTV Cheese, but a lot of great music too. It seems artist and bands during that decade had a better sense of writing and performing songs with hooks and melodies. Great Bands to explore
The Cure
Echo and the Bunnymen
The Church
REM
U2
The Clash
The Jam
The Pyschedelic Furs
Big Country
Modern English (they are more than "Melt with you")
The Pixies
The Replacements
Husker Du
The Smiths
The Joy Division
Simple Minds
The Primitives
Til Tuesday
10,000 Maniacs
Aztec Camera
XTC
House of Love
The Pogues
Midnight Oil
The Chameleons UK
Blondie
The Go Betweens
The Alarm
The Jesus and Mary Chain
 
whoever posted the preteen wannabes on the front page loses their man card. if only for the fact that he knows they exist. i hadnt heard of rebecca black until this weekend and ive never heard of the other 2
 
I'd say 70's, 90's,80's 60's 00's.

The 00's are kind of tough to judge, its great that theres tons of genre's of music and so many bands are able to gain exposure that they dont' have to conform and can be really creative. That being said theres something about that freedom that can lead a band to not be motivated enough to achieve greatness because they can be popular enough just being what their fans want them to be. In a weird way the freedom to be creative can hamstring them because they only have to please their "niche" fans. Its basically the same as 80's/90's bands conforming to the MTV crowd but on a smaller scale.
 
The Replacements Book....

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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is Hysterical! Any fan of the Replacements needs to read it.

thanks for mentioning the HooDoo Gurus. Still a big fan.
 
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