Which Decade Of Music? (Poll)

[TSJMajesty]

I's just kidding. Not the 40's. Add 1 more vote to the 80's.

 

[FuzzyAce]

70's for sure.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Flipside: we have to live with the stinkers of that era, too

 

[James Freeman]

Late 60s to mid 80s, with 70s being the peak of good popular music. Specifically for metal this time window is shifted upwards a little.
Not excluding everything else though, there is good music from every decade.

 

[Axe]

The 70s..
Some of these started just prior to the 70s but certainly reached their heyday in the 70s

Pink Floyd
Yes
Bowie
Allman Bros
Zeppelin
RUSH
Springsteen
Tull
Elton
Billy Joel
Deep Purple
Steely Dan
Zappa
ELP,, no not ELO
The Clash
Rainbow
UFO
Supertramp
Queen
Skynyrd
Priest
Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young
Blue Oyster Cult
The Cars
Thin Lizzy
Cheap Trick
Fleetwood Mac
Alice Cooper
Scorpions
ELO
Blondie
Ramones
Tom Petty
Kansas
Ac Dc
Elton John
Styx
Van Halen
Kiss
Alan Parsons Project
Heart
Doobie Bros
Aerosmith
Boston
Foghat
CCR
Bad Company
The Eagles
Blue Oyster Cult
April Wine
REO


I've forgotten so many
Why is this even a question?

 

[ᛗᛜᛜᚺDᛜᎶ Ꮤᛨᚳᚴ]

I gotta go with the 60's for many reasons.

1. Motown (Motown Record Corporation was incorporated on April 14, 1960)!

2. It was like the wild west of music. Everybody was trying new stuff, and the old stuff was still goin' strong.

3. Rock and Roll was finding it's footings and growing new trees of music genres. Metal, Psychedelic, Classic Rock, Pop music, etc. were all born in the 60's.

4. The diversity of what was available was incredible.

5. The enjoyment of music was generally a communal event. People relished going to the record store (a place where you purchased discs of vinyl that would spin beneath a diamond tipped needle and, using waves in the pressed vinyl, would produce examples of the sounds individuals made with their various instruments). People gathered at venues to hear musicians play and sing (with zero studio effects and wizardry to sound just like A from era B). Interest in music was spurred by people getting excited, not by algorithms that pump to us, what will sell the most product (of that music and other products). People gathered together to listen to albums because everybody did not have any album they wanted in their pocket on their phone and in their ear with their ear buds!

6. It touched all senses. This was true in the 70's as well, but since the 80's and forward, we lost a lot in the music and all of the senses it reached. We used to smell the vinyl. With our eyes we would spend hours going over and over the album cover and it's artwork, liner notes, etc. The ears would hear the music, along with the sounds associated with dropping the needle on the record, and that blip in the record that reminded you of when your uncle was drunk and ashed his joint on the vinyl, messing up the middle of track 3 on side 2 ("It Must Be a Camel") of "Hot Rats" by Zappa. The thump of the speakers would blow out candles and cause ashtrays sitting atop them to vibrate until they fell off the edge and make your pant legs ruffle (if you had a nice system) like a good guitar cab. You could taste the humanity in every song you heard. You might not like this or that taste, but you could feel the human inside that piece of work, not like many of the studio Frankenstein pieces of today.

7. The Beatles

8. Frank Zappa ;~))

9. Motown!!

I was not able to experience this era in real time, but sure wish I had and if I ever get DOD approval to use the time machine I built, I will definitely go back to check it out, take my shoes off, set a spell!

 

[LastMantra]

I can't decide between 70s and 90s.
I started getting into music more seriously in the 90s, but a lot of it was from the 70s.

 

[HotRats]

Voted 70s because but I mean late 60s early 70s.

There's a lot of stuff I love from any other decades but @LeftyLoungeLizard is a bastard and don't let us vote for more than one.

I hate you