Greatest decade for music

[cincibuck]

Has to be the Big Band Era... 30s and 40s because so much of the music has endured... look at the artists who have made a living off of the music, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, Billy Holliday, Nat King Cole, Patty Page, Willy Nelson, Rod Stewart, Judy Garland and Liza Manelli, Barbra Streisand, Bette Middler, Louis Armstrong, Tony Bennet, too many jazz musicians and groups to mention, too many motion picture scores.

As much as I love the music of the sixites and early seventies, there are only a handful of songs that have transitioned to other styles and other artists the way the big band classics have.

BTW, I think the survey should have been done in eras as oppossed to decades... how do you seperate the music of the late sixities from that of the early 70s? How do you go from Rolling Stones to the Bee Gees crap of the late 70's?

 

[DaddyBigBucks]

Gotta go with the 70s, just on the first half alone: the greatest 10-year span for me is 1965-75.

Without hesitation, I say the 60's (really, 63-65 thru 75 or so).

I agree with the two of you. I voted for the 60s myself.

The 70s gets points deducted for disco. Otherwise, Zeppelin et. al. would be hard to vote against.

 

[BuckeyeTillIDie]

60s in a landslide

 

[exhawg]

I have an appreciation for some classic rock, but for me it has to be the 90's. I don't even know when most of the classic rock that I listen to came out. I would guess that most people are going to answer the decade that they graduated HS. If I could only listen to music from one decade for the rest of my life it would have to be 90's rock.

 

[scooter1369]

If not for Metallica, Prince and George Strait, the eighties would have been a wasted decade.

 

[High Lonesome]

If not for Metallica, Prince and George Strait, the eighties would have been a wasted decade.

And here I was thinking that I was the only one with taste that ranged that wide....


The 80's were great
May I also Mention Alabama and Keith Whitley for country.

Also The Talking Heads, Van Halen, and NIN(pretty hate machine alone puts them on my list)

and i grew up in the 90's

But for me I think that it has to be the 70s

Bowie with The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars
Zeppelin
Stones - Exile on Mainstreet
The Marshall Tucker Band
The Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach
Lynyrd Skynyrd

 

[Golferdow01]

Even though I'm only 23, I know the 60's was the best by far.

 

[scooter1369]

And here I was thinking that I was the only one with taste that ranged that wide....


The 80's were great
May I also Mention Alabama and Keith Whitley for country.

Also The Talking Heads, Van Halen, and NIN(pretty hate machine alone puts them on my list)

and i grew up in the 90's

But for me I think that it has to be the 70s

Bowie with The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars
Zeppelin
Stones - Exile on Mainstreet
The Marshall Tucker Band
The Allman Brothers Band - Eat a Peach
Lynard Skynard

Careful now. She may like the way you're talking to her.

Agreed on Keith Whitley. One of the best song writers of our time taken from us tragically too early. I like Alabama too. I listen to them now and their sound seems so old. Mostly because it is I guess.

 

[gregorylee]

I can't believe while defending the 80's you peoples are forgetting the only artist that mattered (Shame, Shame, Shame on you High Lonesome)

Stevie Ray Vaughn

 

[Saw31]

Normally I would say the '60's, but I am so completely and utterly sick of '60's nostalgia... Every friggin retirement plan commercial to adult diaper and cholesterol commercial is using some '60's "classic"..."Never trust anyone over 30"...Yeah right, you friggin sell-outs!!!

I have to admit though, it amuses me seeing the most obnoxious generation this country has ever produced having to buy diapers and boner pills...A fitting end I must say...

Therefore, I chose the '90's...until they start using AIC and Soundgarden songs to sell mini-vans...(they've already got Jane's Addiction selling something...fucking unbelievable...If I hear RATM in a commercial, I will know it is the final sign of the apocalypse)...

The above post requires a sense of humor to be appreciated. If you are a member of said '60's generation and are offended, take a boner pill...friggin sell-out!!

 

[DaddyBigBucks]

I can't believe while defending the 80's you peoples are forgetting the only artist that mattered (Shame, Shame, Shame on you High Lonesome)

Stevie Ray Vaughn

Yeah, GL; like you of all people need more "green". Had to give it up to you though.

One of the best Blue's Guitarists ever. He used thicker strings than just about anybody uses and he made them scream.

 

[FCollinsBuckeye]

Gotta go with the 70s, just on the first half alone: the greatest 10-year span for me is 1965-75.

(even though it's an eleven year span) :p

 

[BB73]

Not to be a stickler, but disco was more the latter part of the 70's, disco was declared "dead" at a baseball game in the early 80's when they burned several disco records on the field.

Not to be a stickler, but when correcting others it's usually a good practice to deal in facts. The "Disco Demolition Night" to which you are apparenty referring actually occurred at Comiskey Park in Chicago on July 12, 1979. The record burning was between the two games of a scheduled twi-night doubleheader. The second game never happened; the White Sox forfeited it to the Tigers.

And mark me down for that 1964-75 era.

 

[BayBuck]

(even though it's an eleven year span) :p

Oh, um, I meant October 65 (Hang on Sloopy #1) to September 75

 

[Brutus1]

I judge by music that I never get tired of listening to. Like alot of others, that mid 60's to mid 70's is littered with tracks that I could listen to forever.


On the other end of the spectrum, I grew up in the 80's and most of that music sucked.