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Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Originally posted by: toekramp
the most beautiful era of music ever.

don't deny it
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:music:"WE BUILT THIS CITY.....WE BUILT THIS CITY ON ROCKKK & ROLLL!":music:
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:laugh::laugh::laugh::laugh:

What were they thinking??
 
Originally posted by: OrByte
Originally posted by: laurenlex
Worst decade is the current one, followed by the 90's. The 70's was the best. Sure, disco sucked, but you had:
Led Zeppelin
Kiss
Eagles
Stones
Foghat
Steve Miller Band
Black Sabbath
I could go on and on and on.
The 80's was pretty good, lots of variety: heavy metal, pop, start of Rap (if you like that cr@p)
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nailed it right on the head. Todays music is far and away the worst.

I like 70s disco, rock, funk, folk, you name it. The 70s was the best imho.
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LZ rocks, but the rest....bleh. Foghat? :roll: Kiss? :roll:

Queen was the 70's too though, right? They alone lift it above the 60's.
 
The 70's were awesome. Lots of good music by Golden Earring, Boston, Black Sabbath, Riot, Starz and much more. The 60's were ok. I loved listening to music by my favorite bands back then, like CCR, Beatles, Cream, Rolling Stones.

Damn I'm old. 🙁
 
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Originally posted by: toekramp
the most beautiful era of music ever.

don't deny it
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:music:"WE BUILT THIS CITY.....WE BUILT THIS CITY ON ROCKKK & ROLLL!":music:
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The 80's version of "Hey Ya"
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And you're this message board's version of Nick Cave. Plenty of releases, almost none of them worth shite.
 
Radio music sucks today too... but there are more fantastic, must-hear bands than you can shake a stick at. people who hate on contemporary music just aren't listening to the right stuff 🙂
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
Radio music sucks today too... but there are more fantastic, must-hear bands than you can shake a stick at. people who hate on contemporary music just aren't listening to the right stuff 🙂
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Like?
 
Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Originally posted by: toekramp
the most beautiful era of music ever.

don't deny it
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:music:"WE BUILT THIS CITY.....WE BUILT THIS CITY ON ROCKKK & ROLLL!":music:
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The 80's version of "Hey Ya"
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And you're this message board's version of Nick Cave. Plenty of releases, almost none of them worth shite.
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At least according to you. With that in consideration I don't feel insulted in the least.
 
While I am not sure I can declare that the 80s were the best decade for music it's in the running. I can state I do not feel that the 90s nor the four years of this century have produced anything en masse that would qualify for such distinction.

 
Originally posted by: Taggart
Originally posted by: loki8481
Radio music sucks today too...
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AHHH Avril Lavigne makes me so MADDD!
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I prefer Ashley Simpson.. "pieces.. pieces.. pieces of me..." How such exquisite emotion could be put into such a beautiful, uplifting song by mere mortals is beyond me.

:vomit;
 
Originally posted by: laurenlex
Worst decade is the current one, followed by the 90's. The 70's was the best. Sure, disco sucked, but you had:
Led Zeppelin
Kiss
Eagles
Stones
Foghat
Steve Miller Band
Black Sabbath
I could go on and on and on.
The 80's was pretty good, lots of variety: heavy metal, pop, start of Rap (if you like that cr@p)
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and in the 80's, we have the emergence of:
U2
Prince
Michael Jackson (80's MJ is still ok to reference)
New Order
The Smiths
Depeche Mode
The Cure
Metallica
Nirvana (Bleach came out in 89)
Motley Crue
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble
Danny Elfman/Oingo Boingo
Springsteen (at his best)
the Police/Sting
Genesis
Robert Cray
Wynton Marsalis
Eurythmics
Dire Straits
Quincy Jones and all his recordings
Michael W. Smith
Randy Newman
Talking Heads
Marvin Gaye (Sexual Healing)
Miles Davis (winning Grammy's year after year)
George Thorogood and the Destroyers
Elvis Costello
Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers
Joe Satriani
Rush (Moving Pictures in 1981)
Van Halen (1984)

plus, the 80's introduced the world to the CD and digital music.






 
Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Originally posted by: loki8481
Radio music sucks today too... but there are more fantastic, must-hear bands than you can shake a stick at. people who hate on contemporary music just aren't listening to the right stuff 🙂
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Like?
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depends what type of music you're into. 95% of my radio listening time is spent listening to a local college station... I don't know the names of most of the bands I hear, but a large percentage of the music is great.

for some quasi-mainstream alt rock bands, you have Bright Eyes, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Coheed & Cambria...

said local college station also has a show on Wednesday nights calls "No Man?s Land," dedicated wholly to non-mainstream female rockers. the Sunday morning celtic music and Sunday afternoon arabic music blocks are also pretty cool 🙂

http://www.wsou.net/

non-ClearChannel/Viacom radio = awsome.
 
Back in the eighties, the world was not plauged by poser boy bands who faked thier talent via voice synth. Granted, genisis, phill collins and the like had strong synth, but not the sheer horrific effect of hanging tough. now that's some mental torture right there!
 
Originally posted by: MiranoPoncho
Back in the eighties, the world was not plauged by poser boy bands who faked thier talent via voice synth. Granted, genisis, phill collins and the like had strong synth, but not the sheer horrific effect of hanging tough. now that's some mental torture right there!
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New Kids on the Block were popular back in the 80's 😉

Hanging' Tough = 1988

let's also not forget about Paula Abdul and Milli Vanilli 😉
 
Originally posted by: loki8481
Originally posted by: HeroOfPellinor
Originally posted by: loki8481
Radio music sucks today too... but there are more fantastic, must-hear bands than you can shake a stick at. people who hate on contemporary music just aren't listening to the right stuff 🙂
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Like?
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depends what type of music you're into. 95% of my radio listening time is spent listening to a local college station... I don't know the names of most of the bands I hear, but a large percentage of the music is great.

for some quasi-mainstream alt rock bands, you have Bright Eyes, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, Coheed & Cambria...

said local college station also has a show on Wednesday nights calls "No Man?s Land," dedicated wholly to non-mainstream female rockers. the Sunday morning celtic music and Sunday afternoon arabic music blocks are also pretty cool 🙂

http://www.wsou.net/

non-ClearChannel/Viacom radio = awsome.
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Word. My local college station was incredible until recently. Now they just play "punk" music and everything.

Now when I want to find new music I head over to Indie Pop Rocks! on SomaFM. Everyone who says that music nowadays sucks give this station a listen for just 1 hour. They play some crap, but they also play some really, really great stuff.
 
Good stuff and horrendous stuff can be found in any decade. The 80's saw the birth of speed/thrash metal that graduated to death metal. Slayer, Metallica, Anthrax, Testament, Exodus...all leading up to Morbid Angel, Napalm Death, Deicide, Cannibal Corpse, Entombed, Death, the list goes on and on. Not to mention the great punk that was coming out in the early 80's. Misfits, Black Flag, FEAR, Dead Kennedys, Angry Samoans, Circle Jerks...

The 80's were very influential on the heavier side of music.
 
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Originally posted by: loki8481

Originally posted by: Compudork
Originally posted by: Wooglin
DENIED!

Worst decade of music ever.
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Have you not turned on the radio for the last decade? Not to say the 80s were a musical renaissance, but I'll take Rick Springfield or the Cars over nsync, britney spears, 50 cent, or just about anything in the mainstream today
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you're comparing the best to the worst. a more apt comparison to Britney Spears and NSync would be New Kids on the Block, Huey Lewis, Falco, or Toto.

and don't forget about the hair band explosion of the late 80's.
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The only good thing to come out of the late 80s was GN'R
 
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