The Best Decade of Music

[TurnedTheCorner]

Most people naming the decade when they were a teenager ITT, I suspect.

[TurnedTheCorner]

Originally Posted by Free Ben Hur!

A decade or a ten-year period?

For me, 1965 - 1975. Unbelievable amount of amazing music '68 - '73.

A decade.

[TurnedTheCorner]

1800-1809.

[VO #23]

Originally Posted by Tinordi

My point is that if you like Black Metal there are scores of black metal bands out there. There were basically none in the 70s. Like backpacker hip hop? Tough luck if you grew up in the 80s.

I think the better question may be which decade had the best pop music? To that it is undoubtedly the period between 1967-1977.

See, I think the best 'pop music' was written between 1955-1965. Early American rock 'n roll, the beginning of the British Invasion, and some of the best Motown hits. I think 1967-1977 was the Golden Era of Rock, but pop came before IMHO.

[Free Ben Hur!]

Originally Posted by TurnedTheCorner

A decade.

Coin flip: 60's

[Senator Clay Davis]

1965-1975 wins, but 1985-1995 has a lot of seriously great music. A lot of classic metal, hard rock, alternative and hip-hop.

[TurnedTheCorner]

No one is talking about decades.

[Coys1882]

Put 9 years around Fleetwood Mac - Rumours and you have your answer

[TurnedTheCorner]

1808, 1856, 1951, 1963, 1969, 1976, 1987, 1988, 1989, 1994. Does that count as a decade????

[TurnedTheCorner]

Serious answer: 1980s.

[Stranger]

"Everyone knows rock n' roll attained perfection in 1974. It's a scientific fact."

Homer Simpson

[Canuck-Hater]

This is tough, but I would say the 70s, some of the greatest albums of all time came out during that time. Much like every decade there are some albums that really stand out.

1970: Santana - Abraxas, Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
1971: Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
1972: Deep Purple - Machine Head, Neil Young - Harvest
1973: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
1974: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
1975: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, Queen - A Night at the Opera
1976: Parliament - Mothership Connection, The Ramones,
1977: The Clash
1978: Yes - Tormato, Van Halen,
1979: Pink Floyd - The Wall, Michael Jackson - Off the Wall

[Hemi-Cuda]

Originally Posted by TurnedTheCorner

Most people naming the decade when they were a teenager ITT, I suspect.

i was born in '83, and without question the period between '65-'75 was the best music that humanity has ever produced. with a few exceptions, the 80's and 90's were terrible

[octothorp]

Talking rock, definitely the 1970s. Music as a whole? Probably the 60s. Jazz, folk, R&B, classical, blues, pop, rock, and country all had some really interesting things going on. You've got jazz masters like Mingus, Davis, Coleman, Brubeck, Evans; Johnny Cash doing some of the best country ever; explosion of new folk music with Dylan; Cage, Glass, Ligeti and others doing some crazy stuff in the classical arena, not to mention everything going on with motown. The first serious explorations into electronic music. Internationally, the bossa nova came into its own, and Piazzola was doing great stuff with the tango. Really great decade in just about every genre.

[TurnedTheCorner]

Originally Posted by Hemi-Cuda

i was born in '83, and without question the period between '65-'75 was the best music that humanity has ever produced. with a few exceptions, the 80's and 90's were terrible

My comment was posted before reviewing the thread. It seems classic rock radio has brainwashed most people into picking earlier decades , which I did not expect.

[Free Ben Hur!]

Originally Posted by Canuck-Hater

This is tough, but I would say the 70s, some of the greatest albums of all time came out during that time. Much like every decade there are some albums that really stand out.

1970: Santana - Abraxas, Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
1971: Led Zeppelin - Led Zeppelin IV
1972: Deep Purple - Machine Head, Neil Young - Harvest
1973: Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Moon
1974: Frank Zappa - Apostrophe
1975: Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, Queen - A Night at the Opera
1976: Parliament - Mothership Connection, The Ramones,
1977: The Clash
1978: Yes - Tormato, Van Halen,
1979: Pink Floyd - The Wall, Michael Jackson - Off the Wall

Off the Wall is such an amazing album. Mike before he got really weird and into kids. This album is better than anything he did subsequent including Thriller.

[troutman]

1983 was a significant year:

http://blog.allmusic.com/2012/04/11/...ic-loves-1983/

If any year captured the heady rush of the early ’80s, it was 1983, the year Michael Jackson’s Thriller became a phenomenon and, not coincidentally, the year of MTV’s prime. The cable network debuted two years earlier but ‘83 was when music videos took over, popping up on cable channels and network TV, and along with videos came a glorious period of hit singles by one-hit wonders, new invaders from Britain, and veterans who now mastered synths and drum machines, the latter inexplicably led by grizzled, hairy blues-rockers ZZ Top and the visionary jazz-fusion keyboardist Herbie Hancock. Underneath all this televised glitz were some major debuts: the first albums from Madonna, Metallica, R.E.M., and Hüsker Dü, and the first singles from the Smiths and Run-D.M.C. And there were the mammoth hits — yes, Thriller, but also Def Leppard’s Pyromania and the Police’s Synchronicity, all giving us more than enough reason to love 1983.

Talking Heads, Replacments, XTC, Violent Femmes, Bowie, Yes, Prince, Pretenders, Elvis Costelllo, New Order, Big Country

1984:

http://blog.allmusic.com/2008/7/31/allmusic-loves-1984/

[polak]

For the decade with the "greatest" bands at their peak, the 70's is without a doubt the best.

However for creativity and variety I personally think that in hindsight, the best decade was the 80's. Synths were popularized which led to new wave, hip hop was born, the last great guitarists hit the scene and metal peaked.

For my favorite genre however, it might sound crazy to say but the '00s were probably the peak. I like electronic music (trance, house, everything really) and their have been great acts since its invention, (Kraftwerk, Depache Mode for the 80's, Deepforest, Moby and Daft Punk in the 90's) but the 00's, with the popularization of "basement producers", really saw the style of music take off. I think '05-'10 was the pinnacle of Electronic music so far. Alot of the acts that dominate the scene today, such as Deadmau5, Tiesto, David Guetta, The Swedish House Mafia guys and Armin Van Buuren, were releasing their best work during that time, and a lot of the other big acts, the Avicii's and the Afrojack's, were starting their rise as well.

Now the only worry is that, like hip hop in the '00s, Electronic goes super commercial (*cough*Guetta*cough*) in the next decade... We shall see.

[TurnedTheCorner]

Originally Posted by troutman

1983 was a significant year:

http://blog.allmusic.com/2012/04/11/...ic-loves-1983/

If any year captured the heady rush of the early ’80s, it was 1983, the year Michael Jackson’s Thriller became a phenomenon and, not coincidentally, the year of MTV’s prime. The cable network debuted two years earlier but ‘83 was when music videos took over, popping up on cable channels and network TV, and along with videos came a glorious period of hit singles by one-hit wonders, new invaders from Britain, and veterans who now mastered synths and drum machines, the latter inexplicably led by grizzled, hairy blues-rockers ZZ Top and the visionary jazz-fusion keyboardist Herbie Hancock. Underneath all this televised glitz were some major debuts: the first albums from Madonna, Metallica, R.E.M., and Hüsker Dü, and the first singles from the Smiths and Run-D.M.C. And there were the mammoth hits — yes, Thriller, but also Def Leppard’s Pyromania and the Police’s Synchronicity, all giving us more than enough reason to love 1983.

Talking Heads, Replacments, XTC, Violent Femmes, Bowie, Yes, Prince, Pretenders, Elvis Costelllo, New Order, Big Country

1984:

http://blog.allmusic.com/2008/7/31/allmusic-loves-1984/

But the 80s are teh sux0rs!!1!

[TurnedTheCorner]

Originally Posted by polak

For the decade with the "greatest" bands at their peak, the 70's is without a doubt the best.

However for creativity and variety I personally think that in hindsight, the best decade was the 80's. Synths were popularized which led to new wave, hip hop was born, the last great guitarists hit the scene and metal peaked.

Hip-hop mirrored a lot of the same time period as punk, and was born before the 80s certainly. It's hard to peg an exact date, of course, but I think most would agree it was sometime in the 70s. Hip-hop exploded out of the NYC burroughs and became an international cultural force in the 80s though.