Best decade for music

RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased) · May 24, 2013

What is your best, 60's 70's 80's 90's? or do you like a mix?
Growing up in this decade and being a bit of an old hip hop head it has to be the 80's for me. Plus I kind of like a lot of the synth pop of the time.
What decade floats your boat.

Dr NBC · May 24, 2013

If you are talking about a 10-year period then 1966-76. If it has to be a particular static decade then the 1970s.

Publius Ovidius · May 24, 2013

17/18Century. bach

father_and_son · May 24, 2013

80's gets my vote for both the best and worst... It had the worst manufactured pop crap, but bubbling under the top ten were bands/artists creating some fantastic stuff.

Easy 10 · May 24, 2013

80's all the way.

I think its nearly always going to be the decade of your teens when most people start discovering music, and the old nostalgia kicks in. My god there was some absolutel PAP around in that decade, but it has its own charm. And I ask you, can anyone NOT love the song 'True' ? I mean come on.

SeagullSongs · May 24, 2013

90's. Mega.

Albumen · May 24, 2013

90's was easily the worst of the last 4 decades (80's, 90's, 0's, 10's)

chiefkickass · May 24, 2013

RowleyBirkinQ.C(deceased) said:
What is your best, 60's 70's 80's 90's? or do you like a mix?
Growing up in this decade and being a bit of an old hip hop head it has to be the 80's for me. Plus I kind of like a lot of the synth pop of the time.
What decade floats your boat.

For Hip Hop - best decade is the 90's!

kevo · May 24, 2013

For me, it doesn't divide well into decades. How can you say 70s, for example? Started with glam and prog and ended in punk and new wave!

I think the 80s were mostly awful... apart from the beginning when post-punk was still going strong (before it mutated into the horror that was the new romantics - and then that was followed by Stock, Aitken and sodding Waterman!). Two notable exceptions - New Order and the Smiths. The American 'paisley underground' bands were great too.

The 90s Brit pop stuff was great, but it got a bit boring in the end. I think the late 90s and early 00s were a truly barren period. Hardly anything decent at all, apart from Radiohead.

So can't choose a decade. The best period of music for me was definitely the 'post-punk' era - 1978-1982 - so many new and exciting bands.

Mellotron · May 24, 2013

Easy 10 said:
80's all the way.

I think its nearly always going to be the decade of your teens when most people start discovering music, and the old nostalgia kicks in. My god there was some absolutel PAP around in that decade, but it has its own charm. And I ask you, can anyone NOT love the song 'True' ? I mean come on.

I grew up in the 90s, and I DETEST 90s music. Well, English 90s anyway, some American stuff was pretty good.

80s is my favourite decade by a long way.

mejonaNO12 aka riskit · May 24, 2013

Like said above I'd go for a bracket of late 60's to late 70's,

However, if it has to be a decade then 70's for me.

Twinkle Toes · May 24, 2013

It has to be the early 90's for me - thanks to Electronic Music/Rave culture. It greatly enhanced my appreciation of the plethora of musical styles that influenced the genre, and the buzz was hugely addictive*.

*All of the above might've had something to do with the odd nibble of a cheeky Disco Biccie. NASA puffa-jackets anyone?

Dr NBC · May 24, 2013

granny weatherwax said:
17/18Century. bach

This doesn't really make sense!

tinycowboy · May 24, 2013

I like a mix of 80s - present day. Love early REM, C86 indie music, shoegazing, the great English triumvirate of Cure/Smiths/New Order, Chicago House, late 80s to early 90s British techno, 90s American indie, Chemikal Underground - actually loads of Scottish indie, pretty broad now (musically), become less of an indie snob as I have got older. I prefer the 60s to the 70s. I'm fairly ignorant about music from 1900-1959, especially 1900-1919. I'll put it on my list of things to investigate.

Max Paper · May 24, 2013

94-99 produced some of the best music there had ever been!

larus · May 24, 2013

mejonaNO12 aka riskit said:
Like said above I'd go for a bracket of late 60's to late 70's,

However, if it has to be a decade then 70's for me.

Definitely the 70's. However I would probably say mid 70's - mid 80's. The emergence of punk (Pistols, Stranglers, etc), new wave, Ska revival with Specials/Selector/Madness etc. So much diverse choice. Compare that to a lot of the dross dished up over the last 20 years or so, with manufactured boy & girl groups. Maybe I'm biased as I'm not a fan of techno/dance music.

Buzzer · May 24, 2013

All depends on the genre for me. I think 80s pop can't be beaten but then again Brit Pop was, at its best, just brilliiant.

Actually scrub my first comment - I haven't a clue which is best. All I know is that I listen to music from the 50s all the way up to brand new stuff regularly and I still find music amazing.

deletebeepbeepbeep · May 24, 2013

Late 80s early 90s Hip-Hip.

Has anyone notice that the Ultramagnetic MC's are playing Brighton soon, as well as The Pharcyde playing Bizzare Ride II.

hans kraay fan club · May 24, 2013

tinycowboy said:
I like a mix of 80s - present day. Love early REM, C86 indie music, shoegazing, the great English triumvirate of Cure/Smiths/New Order, Chicago House, 90s American indie, Chemikal Underground - actually loads of Scottish indie, pretty broad now (musically), become less of an indie snob as I have got older..

You seem to actually be me*

*Once I took out the techno.

JamesAndTheGiantHead · May 24, 2013

70's;

Bowie
Pink Floyd
Led Zepplin
Joy Division
Talking Heads
The Clash
Brian Eno
Black Sabbath

To name a few.

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