Obviously this is a totally subjective question, but in your opinion, which decade produced the best music?
For me, the 90's is totally untouchable. Grunge found it's success in the early stages of the decade, and other genres such as country, rap, and dance produced so many great tunes. Even pop music seemed to be less insufferable.
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Although I wasn't born until 1983, the 1960's is my favorite decade. Jazz was mainstream, Motown was burning up the charts, the psychedelic rock scene was blossoming, and the whole thing ended with the greatest concert of all time.
Obviously this is a totally subjective question, but in your opinion, which decade produced the best music?
For me, the 90's is totally untouchable. Grunge found it's success in the early stages of the decade, and other genres such as country, rap, and dance produced so many great tunes. Even pop music seemed to be less insufferable.
Let me guess: you were a teenager in the 90s, right?
I don't think you can answer this question until you have literally listened to every piece of music that was released. We are only aware of the smallest fraction of music released world-wide.
Subject to the foregoing limitations, my favorite year was 1992.
1992 saw great records from my favorite artists - Copper Blue, Automatic For The People, Nonsuch, Kiko
Allmusic has a series of articles on differerent years. Here is 1992:
1991 may have been the Year Punk Broke but 1992 was the year the ’90s truly began. Nevermind Nirvana, there was an explosion of alt-rock classics, beginning with a clutch of grunge classics from Seattle — the aftershocks of Nirvana’s success being Pearl Jam, Alice in Chains, Soundgarden, a major label contract for Mudhoney — but also Pavement’s debut Slanted and Enchanted, which began indie-rock as we now know it, and R.E.M.’s Automatic for the People, which began adult alternative as we now know it. R.E.M. wasn’t the only ’80s college-rock veteran still experiencing a golden streak — Morrissey teamed up with Mick Ronson for the crushing Your Arsenal, Bob Mould revitalized himself with Sugar, Sonic Youth got louder and tighter on Dirty, XTC closed out their golden age with Nonsuch — but there were just as many records that pointed toward what the ’90s would be: Dr. Dre’s era-defining The Chronic, which introduced Snoop Dogg to the world; PJ Harvey’s lacerating Dry; Beastie Boys’ cross-cultural, retro-loving Check Your Head; and over in Britain, Britpop started with a clutch of classic singles from Suede, Blur, and Pulp. Add to that power-pop classics by Matthew Sweet and Lemonheads, one of Tom Waits’ best albums, Paul Weller’s solo debut, Black Crowes’ muscular rock & roll and Urge Overkill’s Stull EP, 1992 winds up as one of the best years of the decade.
I don't know how you couldn't say that the past 10 years have been the best what with the liberation of music production from the major studios. Now if you're a halfway decent band, you have distribution channels for your music resulting in a total explosion of content available to the most discerning ears. The 90s were good, 70s were great but now we have music that is accessible to anyone standing on the shoulders of those giants.
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I don't know how you couldn't say that the past 10 years have been the best what with the liberation of music production from the major studios. Now if you're a halfway decent band, you have distribution channels for your music resulting in a total explosion of content available to the most discerning ears. The 90s were good, 70s were great but now we have music that is accessible to anyone standing on the shoulders of those giants.
Also, there is way more music being made now than in the 1960s/1970s/1980s.
Also, there is way more music being made now than in the 1960s/1970s/1980s.
But quantity does not always equal quality.
Because more music can be made, does not always mean it should be made. Prime example is the "friday" kid. Really that song needed to be made and played.....unlikely.
It was played on YouTube, did it actually get radio time?
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For me it is the 80's. All the singers were extremely gifted, even in one hit wonder bands. Creativity was also at a peak with all the synth work added in. I guess it is all preference. It is funny when I read the OP and the tags because I feel the same way about the 90's. Grunge was the decline of rock and roll, all the bands sounded the same with no talent singers and horrible instrument playing. The 90's was a terrible era in music.
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Because more music can be made, does not always mean it should be made. Prime example is the "friday" kid. Really that song needed to be made and played.....unlikely.
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.
It was played on YouTube, did it actually get radio time?
Not radio play per say, but according to Wiki
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By March 21, 2011, the "Friday" music video had been viewed more than 30 million times on YouTube.[50]Forbes estimated that as of that date, Black and ARK Music had earned $20,000 from YouTube's revenue-sharing program,[51] and Billboard estimated iTunes sales of approximately 43,000 copies, roughly equivalent to $26,700 in royalties.[52] Within a week after being released on iTunes it had jumped the iTunes sales chart to 19 on March 19, 2011.[53][54][55] "Friday" debuted on the US Hot Digital Songs chart at number 57[56] and went on to peak at number 38.[57] "Friday" debuted on the New Zealand Singles Chart at number 33 on March 21, 2011.[58] The song entered the Billboard Hot 100 at number 72 and rose to 58 the next week.[59] It has sold 87,000 copies over the two weeks.[59] The song has also received airplay in Sweden.[60] In the United States, it was played 12 times from March 16 to March 22, considered low for a Hot 100 song.[61] Despite the song's strong performance elsewhere, Georgina Kelly has claimed that her daughter has not received any money from the song's sales, saying "We haven't received a dime from anywhere."[16]
The Best Decade of Music
