what was the best decade for music?

[deadrats]

here's something that i've been thinking about lately, what decade do you guys feel had the best overall music, i guess as judged by how many great songs were released overall, in all genres.

i'm kind of torn, i usually consider the 80's as the best decade musically, when i think of all the great songs from that era, but the there's years with the 60's and 70's that gave us some masterpieces.

what do you guys think?

[TreeTops]

The 50's had the best rock and roll. Then the drug culture of the Beatles changed everything in the 60's.

[bendixG15]

The best decade is when you were young and carred about such stuff...............

[JimmyJoeBob]

I'm 66 years old and now just find out they had drugs in the 60's, OH MY!!!!!

[yoda313]

I agree with bendix.

That puts me in a middle period - late 80s early 90s when I first got really into music.

Even though Roxette, Phil Collins and U2 are my main go to groups (with Bob Seger and Bryan Adams in the mix) I have a relatively wide range that I like.

I also like some newer music. However it is generally limited to just THE KILLERS mainly. I sort of like Coldplay not all of their stuff.

Oh also like Joe Satriani and Chickenfoot (Satriani solo also). And to some extent a little of Guns N Roses and lots of Van Halen.

I really couldn't name too many "current" groups out there. I like listening to a "THE RIVER" 93.9 station that's next door to metro Detroit in Windsor Canada. They play a good mix of old and new. The new is tolerable to me.

[vhelp]

i'm in the 60/70/80's group because i pretty much grew up during those era's, and each one unique. maybe its nostalgia of those era's. i think that after the 80's, things started to wine down. my memorables for the 80' were madonna and paula abdul, to name a few. but ever since the death of mtv, things aren't the same anymore, so you can't really veg on nostalgia unless you google/youtube it or something. anyway. my best music box of those days was a small red pocket transistor radio.

[yoda313]

my best music box of those days was a small red pocket transistor radio.

pre-walkman eh?

I actually owned a true walkman radio in highschool. Damned if I know where it is today. Either sold for next to nothing at a garage sale years ago or in some landfill probably.

[tgpo]

I love late 70s - early 80s punk, so I'd say 75 - 85.

[Hoser Rob]

The best decade is when you were young and carred about such stuff...............

I was actually thinking that I could do a fair job of guessing the age of posters by their answer. But close enough.

[DB83]

Well, the 80's and 90's for me.

Mind you that really should be written as the 1780's and 1790's - no Hoser Rob, I was not born then - when sone of the finest music ever written was first performed and still performed to this day. More than could be said for most of the 1980's and 1990's

And if you still guess think 'Amadeus'

[KBeee]

Obviously it's the 2010's... Justin Bieber!!!

[DB83]

Obviously it's the 2010's... Justin Bieber!!!

U bin on the Xmas sherry again ?

[KBeee]

Naaaaaa.. Port 'n Brandy now... (hic)

[budwzr]

Of course, the 70's. The Bee Gees's? Hello? John Travolta? Platform shoes, Elephant Bells. Neil Sedaka? hahaha. But he did have a voice.

Anyone like the song "WOLD"? Harry Chapin? I still listen to that song, it's awesome. "Feelin' all of 45, goin' on 15", that's me!

[TreeTops]

You babies all missed the 50's music.

[intracube]

A couple of eras stand out;

1960s - Motown and the beginnings of Funk
1990s - own music awareness developed. Oasis, Stereophonics, etc

and a handful of current artists.

So, yeah. No single decade for me.

[yoda313]

@budwzr - I'm sorry but the Bee Jees and John Travolta are the only ones I recognize from your list.

I do have a greatest hits collection of the Bee Jees so I can appreciate that. The others I don't have a clue about.

@intracube - yes I do like some motown - especially growing up in Southeastern Michigan its hard not to know and like SOMETHING from motown.

Actually I really like the YOU CAN'T HURRY LOVE redo Phil Collins put out. The Live version from the Serious Hits concert is a great adaptation of it

[misermidas]

I do like the 17th century but there were good things in other centuries.

[ranchhand]

Ok you guys, now I'm going to blow you all out of the water. Here is music and dancing from my young, growing-up days. Chow down on some ear sugar, Daddy-O! Turn up them speakers, Mama.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ehtEFCuBD_8

[El Heggunte]

here's something that i've been thinking about lately, what decade do you guys feel had the best overall music, i guess as judged by how many great songs were released overall, in all genres.

i'm kind of torn, i usually consider the 80's as the best decade musically, when i think of all the great songs from that era, but the there's years with the 60's and 70's that gave us some masterpieces.

what do you guys think?

"Best" is a pont-of-view Besides, I don't think music (especially the "popular" kind of music) cares very-much about something so humanly-arbitrary as a "decade". Notwithstanding, I can say that the last decade (2001 — 2010) is the WORST one when compared to the 80s, the 70s, the 60s and the 50s. The 90s were a moment of transition, they surely sucked, but not too much.

[yoda313]

I can say that the last decade (2001 — 2010) is the WORST one when compared to the 80s, the 70s, the 60s and the 50s.

Guess your not a coldplay fan huh? Or Justin Beiber

I am not a Justin Beiber fan obviously. I do like a handful of Coldplay songs though. I also do like The Killers quite a bit so there are a few "new" groups that I can like but not a whole lot.

[thecoalman]

Of course, the 70's. The Bee Gees's? Hello? John Travolta? Platform shoes, Elephant Bells. Neil Sedaka? hahaha. But he did have a voice.

You forgot and in no particular order Rush, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Iron Maiden, Pink Floyd, The Eagles, Aerosmith, Van Halen, Allman Brothers , Kiss, Led Zeppelin, Scorpions just to name a few.


I know a few started their carers prior to 70 an some didn't become popular until the 80's but I think if you're going to look at it objectively certainly the 70's was the greatest decade. If you wanted to narrow it down to a 10 year time span then the late 60's and the early 70's. There is no other time frame that has such a plethora of super acts some of whom still draw massive crowds today.

Beiber is going to be distant memory and these guys will still be packing arenas.



FYI I was teenager during the 80's not a whole of stuff to pick from there.

[El Heggunte]

@ yoda4O4 :

What makes you think that "I don't know" how to write my own nickname correctly

I can say that the last decade (2001 — 2010) is the WORST one when compared to the 80s, the 70s, the 60s and the 50s.

Guess your not a coldplay fan huh? Or Justin Beiber

I am not a Justin Beiber fan obviously. I do like a handful of Coldplay songs though. I also do like The Killers quite a bit so there are a few "new" groups that I can like but not a whole lot.

Audio CDs

Thanks for mentioning that. I've got a ton of those too. True I buy a lot of mp3 albums off mostly amazon these days but I don't hesitate buying a cd at a garage sale if its a group I like or even remotely like (its still a better deal if you get a whole album for a buck or two or tops three used then buying new, though deals do come around for discounted mp3 albums at amazon so I do keep my eyes open for those).

Mine aren't classical music but I do have a collection of movie soundtracks. Mostly Star Trek and Star Wars Naturally

@lordsmurf - I'm almost afraid to ask, after all these years whats left to collect for smurfs? I thought you didn't like the cg reboot? Is it just a "gotta have it" thing where it doesn't matter the relevance just so its smurfs? If so I understand that but I didn't think there was much new material for it aside from the reboot. Though I could be wrong of course, and I guess theres always direct to video related stuff and comics....

Perhaps he meant water-proof and fire-proof HDDs.

Ok I'll buy that.

Of course that doesn't make them any more durable as far as read-write cycles or longevity as far as data storage goes.

AFAIK, Windows Media Encoder does support multichannel output,
as long as you choose the appropriate audio codec (WMA Pro).

Yes that is correct. Wma pro 10 I believe is the one that is needed for 5.1 wma audio. There are guides online for it of course.

F.Y.I.:

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&as_q=&as_epq=%22el+heggunte%22+%22burn+up%22&as_oq...red+by+license

[yoda313]

@el HeggUnte - sorry - never looked close enough.....

[zoobie]

1965-1975

[chowmein]

Love the '60s & '70s punk

[budwzr]

I did this remix a couple years ago. Anybody like this song?