re: Is the 90's the best decade for music?

considering almost all the genres had superstars?

Rock (many forms)
Nirvana
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Green Day
Pearl Jam
Sublime

Metal (and forms of)
Metallica
NiN
Zombie

Pop/R&B
Mariah Carey
Whitney Huston (before the crack)
Michael Jackson
Madonna
Boy bands
Janet Jackson
TLC

Rap
Dre/Snoop
Biggie
2-Pac
Fugees
OutKast
Wu-Tang

Country
George Strait
Garth Brooks
Alan Jackson
Tracey Lawrence
Travis Tritt
Tim McGraw


Honestly, if your going by this, each decade had it's fair share of superstars in each genre. Any of us can easily insert the same amount, if not more, superstar artists in each of your categories. And some decades didn't have any superstars in certain genres because the genre didn't exist.

Furthermore, a good number of the artists you listed had as good as if not bigger hits in the 80s. And a good number of them started in the 80s. Same can be said about a good number of 80s artists starting in the 70s, and so on.

IMO: I liked 90s music, but the whole "woe is me" sound started to get old by the mid 90s. There's a reason country had a huge success in the 90s with probably more fans than ever before.......

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I like the 80's, but really the early 80's is where it's at. The late 80's was kind of bland with hair bands ruling the roost.

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And I didn't to those bands in the 80s either. They sucked then, and they suck now. But they only comprised of a small sliver of the music of the 80s. that's like rejecting the 90s because all of the nu metal stuff like Limp Bizkit sucks.

The 80s were fasicnating because there were some many wildly divergent strands. The only people who were bored were mainstream rock fans.

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I do like some grunge, Alice in Chains in particular.

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Timing and locality are really the biggest reasons why AIC were considered grunge. Their music was strongly rooted in heavy metal. The same goes for Soundgarden, too.

I think the deluge of post-grunge bands that hit the scene around '95-'96 really kind of ended that scene. For every solid band like Silverchair or Candlebox, you had a dozen middling bands riding the popularity to a pseudo-hit or two.

The 70's.

I can't say for sure which decade, but the most influential 10 year period on our era of music would have to be 1966 to 1976