Discussion Favorite Decade for music?

[Heartbreaker]

This is highly subjective, and largely influenced by what was available in your formative years.

After binging a lot of music, I find I mostly only start liking most music in the late 1960s, though the 1980s, with a significant slide down after that, so if you could only pick one decade to listen to music released then, what would you choose? Later compilations still count as when the music was first released. You only get the music originally released in your chosen decade.

 

[lxskllr]

1950s. Swing/bigband was dying out, but still around, and hard bop, cool, and latin jazz coming to fore. There was also the birth of rock & roll and doowop. No contest really.

edit:
Chicago blues was also big. How could anyone pick anything but the 50s?!

 

[blackangst1]

80's. But that was also the beginning of the loudness wars

 

[IronWing]

The 1220s followed by the 1150s.

 

[lxskllr]

The 1220s followed by the 1150s.

Sure, if you want to hear a bunch of twats sing about god. I'm sure there was good music too, but not much of it made it to paper.

 

[brianmanahan]

The 1220s followed by the 1150s.

i'm partial to the 1260s

sumer is icumen in, lhude sing cuccu!

 

[Torn Mind]

70s, 80s, 90s.
90s

 

[Heartbreaker]

70s since it's arguably peak of most of my favorite bands, and before autotune, and computers:

Led Zeppelin, Heart, Rush, Queen, Genesis, Jethro Tull, Yes, Rolling Stones, Beatles, Blue Oyster Cult, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Eagles, Doors, Fleetwood Mac.. So many insanely great albums in this decade.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfR_HWMzgyc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N4zPu3ISCGs

...

 

[Pohemi]

I'm too indecisive to be able to choose one decade definitively, but it's likely either the 70s or 90s. I grew up listening to classic rock and 70s music, and still enjoy it more than anything else.

I did like a lot of music from the 90s though, and the variety and different genres that came into maturity like hiphop, grunge rock/alt, etc.

edit: I settled on 90s for the poll

 

[IronWing]

Sure, if you want to hear a bunch of twats sing about god. I'm sure there was good music too, but not much of it made it to paper.

You can’t understand the language anyway.

 

[Heartbreaker]

I'm too indecisive to be able to choose one decade definitively, but it's likely either the 70s or 90s. I grew up listening to classic rock and 70s music, and still enjoy it more than anything else.

I did like a lot of music from the 90s though, and the variety and different genres that came into maturity like hiphop, grunge rock/alt, etc.

edit: I settled on 90s for the poll

It was 70's or 80's for me. I was in high school in the 80's so heavy nostalgia for that period, but overall most of my favorite stuff is from the 70's.

 

[lxskllr]

You can’t understand the language anyway.

I might, and it's the thought that counts. You just hear the god oozing through the vocals.

 

[IronWing]

They say the same thing about Jimi Hendrix’s and Jerry Garcia’s guitars.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

I could pick several, but the 90s seems to have been the beginning for symphonic rock groups like Nightwish and Epica.

 

[BoomerD]

60s to mid-70s.

 

[Dr. Detroit]

80's by far. So much variety!

The Smiths
Siouxsie & the Banshees
The Vapors
The Time
Jonzun Crew
2Live Crew
IceT
DRI
New Edition
Motley Crue
Public Enemy
BDP
The Cure
Hall & Oates
Billy Idol
Depeche Mode
Terence Trent D'Arby
MOD
The Cars
Poison
Falco
New Order
Gloria Estefan
Peter Gabriel
INXS
George Michael
Styx

 

[Captante]

I'd pick the 70's or possibly the 80's but I wouldn't be happy about it.

I listen to all different kinds of music from every time-period.

 

[nakedfrog]

1990s, pretty wide variety there, and it's before Clear Channel/iHeartMedia built their unified empire, before pop music started being fully commodified and having the Dr Luke (et al) formula applied. It saw the swing revival, rap and electronic music really started to come into their own. Before nu metal really rose up to prominence.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

1986 to 1996 would be my decade of music, but unfortunately the poll doesn't get all that granular.

 

[Heartbreaker]

1986 to 1996 would be my decade of music, but unfortunately the poll doesn't get all that granular.

There are only so many options allowed, and people usually discuss decades as all the years with the same number in the 10's place.

I'd probably pick 69-78 as my ideal 10 years, to capture Led Zeppelin I and II.

 

[GodisanAtheist]

There are only so many options allowed, and people usually discuss decades as all the years with the same number in the 10's place.

I'd probably pick 69-78 as my ideal 10 years, to capture Led Zeppelin I and II.

Would have been a helluva poll if you gave everyone the option to select a decade ascending by one year at a time...

31-40
32-41
33-42
34-43
...
82-91
83-92
84-93
85-94
...
09-18
10-19
11-20
12-21
...



Anyhow look at that magnificent curve on the polling options. Looks like we can essentially track user's by age on this forum simply by asking about music preferences!

 

[brianmanahan]

i'm ok with the 1980s too

i want to be forever young

 

[Heartbreaker]

Anyhow look at that magnificent curve on the polling options. Looks like we can essentially track user's by age on this forum simply by asking about music preferences!

Yes. I figured age would be a huge component.

Though I expected the 80s to win because I have noticed comments under a lot of 80's music like: "I wasn't even born in the 80s, but its my favorite music". IMO it's the peak before a lot of digital processing dragged it down later.

I stumbled upon some of those YouTube biggest hit every month videos from something like the 1930's till now. While there is occasional good stuff everywhere, it's the mid to late 1960s where it really starts getting good for me, and the 1990s it starts getting bad.

As rock music fan, I can't imagine people leaving out Beatles, Stones, Zeppelin.

 

[nakedfrog]

The Stones = meh, Zep has some decent tracks, and the Beatles were great and all but I'd have to leave too much behind picking the 60s over the 90s. Essentially no punk music, only primitive electronic music, no rap, only very early examples of funk.

 

[Lost_in_the_HTTP]

No (c)Rap is a huge positive.

That noise needs to be outlawed.