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What decade had the best music? I nominate 80's!

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80's music rocks...and I am not some old fart. I am only 24. But I think that music back then just had a lot better sound than most of the hip hop, bubble gum crap that comes out now.
 
The 80s without a doubt. The Joshua Tree alone is enough to put it above the other decades, never mind all the rest of the great albums.
 
Depends on the genre... but, a larger number of great bands hit their peaks in the 80's, so, I'd have to vote for the 80's. However...... the 80's also produced more crappy popular music than any other decade as well. (Come on Eileen.. etc.)
 
I'd say the 60's, because TONS of quality classic rock came from that era. I'd give second place to the 80's, though.

I certainly can't be recommending music from the 70's, because a bunch of disco crap like "YMCA" and "Disco Duck" came from that era. Ditto goes to the 90's, where we were all inflicted with a bunch of pop fluff from Vanilla Ice, New Kids on The Block, and Brittney Spears. :disgust:
 
Originally posted by: rudeguy
80's music rocks...and I am not some old fart. I am only 24. But I think that music back then just had a lot better sound than most of the hip hop, bubble gum crap that comes out now.
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Um, hi, most of the popular music in the 80's WAS bubble gum crap. Ever heard of Wham!, Nena, Hot Butter, After The Fire, and the jillion one hit wonder bands spawned during that era??

 
I would have to give it to the 90's--overall. Then the 70's takes second place.

Most of the 1980's music were crappy, just as is the early 2000's.
 
Originally posted by: Feanor727
The 80s without a doubt. The Joshua Tree alone is enough to put it above the other decades, never mind all the rest of the great albums.
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U2 is good, but the Joshua Tree doesn't come close to Beatles albums like Abbey Road and Sgt. Peppers.
 
Current music is pretty good (if you avoid the pop and country pop crap) - White Stripes, Pete Yorn (looking forward to more from him...believe he does have a new one out), Eminem (ayup...gotta give it to him)
Some great stuff came out of the 90s (Alternative really took the forefront - the whole Seattle sound plus R.E.M., U2 and Depeche Mode still going strong, The Smiths, Liz Phair, Beck, Lucinda Williams on the folk/aternative folk/Americana side)
The 80s sucked, musically, with exceptions (like U2, INXS, Depeche Mode, Violent Femmes, The Ramones - but some of their best stuff was in 79...right at that transition away from Disco - thank gawd!).
70s were pretty lame (that's about what you hear on AOR stations...blech).
60s were rather ground breaking in that rock-n-roll evolved rather quickly from a more pop sound into Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, etc.) and Jazz made great waves with John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Dave Brubeck (although, the latter two's greatest works were right on the 50s/60s transition)
50s were definitely ground breaking with the introduction of rock-n-roll (Elvis, Chuck Berry, etc.)
40s were big band and swing-jazz and the start of B.B. King and Percy Mayfield so Blues was picking up, too. And, can't forget ol' Hank Williams
30s...mmm...Robert Johnson...
Before that we had Ragtime and predating that I guess it was classical and some regional folk music.
 
Originally posted by: conjur
60s were rather ground breaking in that rock-n-roll evolved rather quickly from a more pop sound into Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix, etc.) and Jazz made great waves with John Coltrane, Miles Davis, and Dave Brubeck (although, the latter two's greatest works were right on the 50s/60s transition)
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65-75

'66 - rolling stones - aftermath
'66 - beatles
'68 - velvet underground - white light
'68 - james brown at apollo
'70 - aretha franklin

buff said - and i'm 27 😉
 
Generally whichever decade you spent the majority of your Jr High/HS/College time in.

But that's generally, I'm one of those who likes music of the 40's better, though I should be an 80's fan. Maybe it has to do with how fondly you look back on your youth...
 
Late 60's through early 80's. The majority of the excellent rock bands comes from the 70's. I could list hundreds of great rock albums from the 70's but only a few dozen from other decades. Even many of the best bands of the 80's began their careers and had their earliest releases in the 70's.
 
The sixties ROCKED! Pretty much all the music ruled back then. No matter what kind of music you were into, you had something good to listen to.

The Beach Boys, The Beatles, Elvis, James Brown, Aretha Franklin, Otis Redding, Steppenwolf, BOB DYLAN, Janis Joplin, CCR, The Who, Santana, Jimmy Hendrix, Smokey Robinson, and The Doors are a couple of minor names to come out of that era.

Very few "artists" of the 80's could lick the shoes of any of these guys.
 
NOTHING GOOD GAME OUT OF THE 80's.


THere are soo many of these threads.

All i can say is: The Doors. Nothing can touch them.
 
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