Favorite Music Decade?

[yoda313]

Hello,

The rock thread inspired this. Ok what's your favorite decade for music?

Mine would probably be the 80's. Gotta love it. (though Roxette was mainly 90's for US released material so that would be a close second).

Kevin

[stiltman]

I didn't vote, as I like bands that have had hits through all those. Except for Metalica and Mega Death

Bout the olny music I can't stand to here is Polka and Country

[bazooka]

The 80's

Each song was unique.

Today every song sounds the same.

[Heywould3]

80s here too.. but i think its a generation thing.. seems most of us fall into the same one..im willing to bet better than 80% of the regular users here are Xers.. back on topic.. i like 80s cuz all the music was different.. but i was into punkish/alt type music.. liek the remones pretenders. cure. smiths etc.. that kinda stuff..

[Capmaster]

I can't vote because I think it's the ten years from 1965 to 1975 and that includes the '60s and '70s

[tekkieman]

80's. Definately.

[Cobra]

Can't vote. Too young. I know only the 90s and 00s properly.

[BJ_M]

Classical music doesnt mean automatically the composer is dead ....

[lordsmurf]

Pre-50s .... followed closely by 80s

[glockjs]

80's was nothing but garbage. i say present. just in the last year ive heard the best rockbands and they keep comin. its not gonna stop. i think we are in a huge musical revolution right now. but thats just my opinion. my second choice would be 70's when rock was rock

[hech54]

I voted 80's but the 70's were great too.
60's "protest music" SUCKS!!!



Thank You....

[888888]

Can't vote. Too young. I know only the 90s and 00s properly.

Same boat I'm in. Although I mostly listen to music from the late sixties, seventies, and 80s. I would have to pick 70s because of all the rock albums I own; although I am sure most of the music made in the 70s was poppy crap.

The 90s with few exceptions was exceptionally gay. The 2000s are also too horrible to mention (except for underground extreme metal of course ) Rap may have very well ruined popular music.

[Conquest10]

Yup, rap has ruined music. 70s music is my fav right now. Disco rocks. Plus all the love songs of that day are hot.

[Roundabout]

I can't vote because I think it's the ten years from 1965 to 1975 and that includes the '60s and '70s

110% agree...

Of course, we discussed this in other threads. No need to rehash, but the best music came out of those decades, from the Beatles to BTO, by far we had the best soundtrack to our lives of anyone in the last 100 years. I feel sorry for kids today, they have to listen to what the radio gives them, homogenized pop.

I agree with 888888, rap (c-rap!) has ruined what's left of popular music, though it was going downhill before rap arrived on the scene.

At least in the 80's there were still some interesting bands around, but by the 90's, rock was dead. R.I.P.

[glockjs]

At least in the 80's there were still some interesting bands around, but by the 90's, rock was dead. R.I.P.

the only good bands in the early 90's were metallica, megadeth, and pantera. up until the late 90's at least, then stuff started getting good again. but those glam bands of the 80's did nothin but piss me off and dont get me started on that retro crap either....

[888888]

the only good bands in the early 90's were metallica, megadeth, and pantera.

Figured you would say that glock... or should I say PHIL ANSELMO!

[glockjs]

hey you cant denie that they are one of the best rock bands ever :P

[888888]

hey you cant denie that they are one of the best rock bands ever :P

Resemblance?



I think so.

Yep, glock is Phil Anselmo.

[glockjs]

ahh your just stereotyping the shaved head and goat thing lol

[tekkieman]

Resemblance?



I think so.

Yep, glock is Phil Anselmo.

...or a wanna be....

ahh your just stereotyping the shaved head and goat thing lol

goat thing??????

[richdvd]

I voted the 70's.
A very important decade for Rock evolution.

[888888]

ahh your just stereotyping the shaved head and goat thing lol

goat thing??????

Yeah, I thought Cap was the one with the "goat thing".

I guess there's room for two.

[Capmaster]

ahh your just stereotyping the shaved head and goat thing lol

goat thing??????

Yeah, I thought Cap was the one with the "goat thing".

I guess there's room for two.

I just checked mine and it's a human "thing"

[glockjs]

but my goat doesnt have a name

[Edmund Blackadder]

1980's was definitely the most unique decade of the last century. And the music was great too. Queen, Pet Shop Boys, Depeche Mode, Erasure, George Michael, Modern Talking, Bad Boys Blue, Alan Parsons Project, Sting, Elton John, Yello. Even Michael Jackson had some great stuff, my favourite being "Bad".

Also, there was a very short period between 1989 and 1993 that was musically really neither 80's nor 90's, but something completely different, very stylish and promising. Unfortunately it all died with the introduction of the crappy alternative rock and an awful rap evolution. I actually used to like early 90's rap (like M.C. Hammer's first album), but when rap got dirty it ruined itself.

What saved the 90's for me was the techno and europop music. Everything else was pretty boring and pathetic. Good rock music was virtually non-existent. The stuff I liked from the 90's: Army Of Lovers, E-Type, Vacuum, Ace Of Base, E-Rotic, Delerium and a few other mostly europop and techno acts. And of course all those artists that I liked in the 80's that were still making music.

Nowadays, when I look for the new music to listen to, I find myself listening to non-traditional stuff, like ethnic and new age. Again a lot of that stuff has some great melodies and rhythms and is a great substitute for today's mainstream crap. To name a few: Afro Celt Sound System, Quinn, MacDowell & Krell, Jean Michel Jarre, Denez Prigent, Mars Lasar, Enigma, Era, Vangelis, Aria, Secret Garden, Yanni (yes Yanni, he's got some interesting stuff too).

By the way, I am myself a professional classical pianist. Though I also play for a lot of musicals . And when we have parties after the shows, I often improvise on some of the music that I mentioned above and many of the actors come around and sing their throats out :P .

[lordsmurf]

then stuff started getting good again.

Where? What? Nothing on my radio dial has been good in years. I've converted completely to rotating between two talks stations. Sometimes the rock station, but not too often.

[p_l]

80's

[sacajaweeda]

Rap may have very well ruined popular music.

Run DMC meets Aerosmith, circa 1985 or therabouts.

[Faustus]

90's for sure. But alot of good stuff came from the 80s.

[Hardcoreruss]

80's here