re: Which Decade Had The Best Music?

The 90s get shite on because the last few years turning into the TRL era and music going to total corporate shite…buuut early to mid 90s had a lot of good genres going strong, it may have had the best mix of genres of the eras up for debate.

70s

90s

60s
80s


00s
10s

The 2000s saw the rise of subgenres that had already been created in the 70s. Bands like Black Sabbath Self-Titled, Kraftwerk Autobahn, Sugar Hill Gang Rappers Delight, The Stooges Fun House, Talking Heads '77, Brian Eno Hear Come the Warm Jets, New York Dolls, NEU!, Devo, Television, The Clash. Everything started in the 70s.

80"s for the Win.

80’s

I'm going to say the 60's with the 70's a very close runner-up.

When you think of the absolute legends, most of them broke out in the 60s: Bealtes, Dylan, Doors, Stones, Jimi, Janis, Motown. And when you consider we're mainly talking the late 60's, it's quite impressive.

Then when you add country artists like Merle, Buck, Loretta Lynn, Jones, Marty Robbins, etc. the decade was probably unrivaled in the complete reshaping of the musical landscape.

quote:

---

if you can do it this way 65-75

---

Dr Joyce taught a class at Tulane on the history of popular music. He divided up the time frames for music and culture exactly that way.

Charlie Pride.

Mountain Tiger wrote:

quote:

---

Whichever one you were in your teens during.

---

That would be 100 % correct.

Good music never ages.

I work at Goodwill and I have seen many of the resellers wear shirts that had Metallica and Hendrix as examples. They were in late teens or early 20s.

The song sound of silence by Simon and Garfunkel wasn't a huge hit in the early 70s but when Disturbed covered it, it exploded in popularity. Now everyone wants to cover that song.

The song 16 tons by Merle Travis and Tennessee Ford back in the day was popular but faded as time went on. South Park decided to play the song during an episode that involved Amazon. That song was well liked and it grew in popularity.

Fallout New Vegas played older songs and one of them was big iron by Marty Robbins and the song began to grow in popularity.

Family Guy use to play Conway Twitty which was intended to annoy the network and TV viewers. Well some viewers commented that I never heard of this dude but he is actually pretty good.