Best era for music

[algie]

I grew up with the 80's music but i much prefer late 70's with punk music etc

 

[mejonaNO12 aka riskit]

70's by a MILE!!!!!!

 

[Beach Hut]

80s - brilliant

 

[pasty]

Your poll doesn't go back far enough!!!

I like a bit of 1940's...... "It don't mean a thing, if you ain't got no swing."

Going to see this at the Theatre Royal on Saturday

http://www.theambassadors.com/theatreroyal/sp_p3619.html

 

[chez]

80's was brilliant but I also loved the rave/dance scene of the early to mid 90's.

 

[algie]

Your poll doesn't go back far enough!!!

I like a bit of 1940's...... "It don't mean a thing, if you ain't got no swing."

Going to see this at the Theatre Royal on Saturday

http://www.theambassadors.com/theatreroyal/sp_p3619.html

Sorry mate,any music before the 60's is wank.I'm being honest about it as well

 

[coventrygull]

70' was only good for punk and Bowie. So its the 80' for me

 

[Spunk Bubble]

Definitely the 80s. Suppose it all depends on when you were born.

 

[dougdeep]

60's when rock was young.

 

[Tom Hark Preston Park]

Favourites by three country miles:

1st - Second half of the Seventies
2nd - First half of the Nineties
3rd - First half of the Seventies

 

[surrey jim]

80's and early- mid 90's brit pop and dance music

 

[REDLAND]

I grew up with the 80's music but i much prefer late 70's with punk music etc

Whats ya favourite 70's punk band dude, mines The Misfits and thats not just because my band toured Germany with them

 

[Leekbrookgull]

80,s stuff was good,very good. Maybe it it was on the back of the 70,s ? BUT for for R'n'r AND soul the 60,s.

 

[bhaexpress]

It's all a matter of personal taste (or lack there of). I've been buying music since the sixties and there's good and bad, there's no such thing as a Golden Age although I do wonder why so many people less than half my age bang on about music that was made long before they were born. Might as well be raving about Mozart or Beethoven.

 

[NMH]

It's all a matter of personal taste (or lack there of). I've been buying music since the sixties and there's good and bad, there's no such thing as a Golden Age although I do wonder why so many people less than half my age bang on about music that was made long before they were born. Might as well be raving about Mozart or Beethoven.

Well yes, the raving about Mozart (the Pink Floyd or Miles Davis of his era?) would be pertinant, to those who are in the mindset to focus on classical styles of music.
Looking at the foundations of modern music though, and so often it goes directly back to a root that is embedded in the 1960's. Many bands ran for decades beyond then, and people will still revere and seek the 60's records out.

Creatively, it was an explosion of artistic imagination - whether fuelled by drugs or whatever. Nothing since has surpassed that time for music. Yes, some sounds have come out in 1978, 1983, or 1991, that could have done just as well in 1967, but that is the litmus that they can be judged by. That 60's music could still do just as well today if newly released, says as much.

The 60's for me. Hip, groovy, and in with the in crowd baby, yeah. Swingin'

 

[Barrel of Fun]

Sorry mate,any music before the 60's is wank.I'm being honest about it as well

Elvis?
Louis Armstrong?
Billie Holiday?
Dizzy Gillespie?

Not sure I would label them as wank!

Not a fan of Jazz? Pre-1960s was it's most important era.

 

[Eddie the Seagull]

80's and early- mid 90's brit pop and dance music

Absolutely spot on (although '87 - '90 was a bit shit - something to do with Jive Bunny, Cliff Richard, Kylie , Jason & Bros, I think).

 

[severnside gull]

There is onlly one option - music began and ended with the sixties

 

[Gwylan]

There's good stuff and crap in every decade. The 70s was shocking until punk came along, so that's out. The 80s was pretty good but I'd have to plump for the 60s: the Beatles, the British RnB scene, Tamla and Stax, the psychedelic era, Frank Zappa, Captain Beefheart, some great jazz, the Velvet Underground, Jacques Brel ... yep, does it for me.

 

[Tyrone Biggums]

Has to be the 70's by a mile.

No other era had The Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Bowie, Queen, The Clash, Doobie Brothers, Hendrix, The Doors all producing music within it.