What's your all-time favorite decade for music?

[NightTrain]

[NightTrain]

1. As much as I love '50s rock 'n' roll...

...I had to go with the '60s, mainly due to the incredible soul music that decade produced. Not to mention garage rock and the British Invasion.

[mvd]

4. Plus, in the 60s, you had some of what the 50s offered, with..

more progressive rock. I'll vote for the 60s.

[cmd]

5. And don't forget the beach music

I really wanted to span parts of two decades on this one.

[F.Gordon]

2. My favorite music came from the early 70's

Then disco showed up.....

The BEST decade for music would have to the 60's, but my favorites didn't come from then.

[xJlM]

3. That's a tough one

The sixties gave us Dylan, the Stones, the Beatles, Hendrix, Joplin, the Doors, and many others I don't have time to type (Otis Redding, CCR, etc. etc.).

But the seventies were when I grew up and remember hearing stuff for the first time. Santana, Chicago, Robin Trower, BTO, and all the others I still listen to today.

[demnan]

6. I chose the 60's

But really the 1830's weren't bad either!

[ProfessorGAC]

7. I Picked 80's

There are plenty of things from every decade that i appreciate (well, not so much the 50's, but let's not get into that).

But, i think the advent of power pop in the early 80's and the maturation of many of the 80's bands into innovative and adventerous progressives fit my ear better than any other era.

So, i had to pick 80's.
The Professor

[SiouxJ]

12. Exactly!

and well put (as usual) Professor. "innovative and adventerous" sums up the whole decade. IMO it was the kicking off point for all the diverse music we have now; the mixing of Rap and Punk and Metal and New Wave. All the things that were firmly established as genres in the 80's. It was also the decade where music became visual which only added to the innovation and creativity IMO. I believe art bands like Talking Heads came about because of the video medium. All of a sudden there was a place for them to express themselves.

I picked the 80's too.

[trof]

8. crooners (and croonettes) and big band

with a little folk (Kingston Trio) & bluegrass mixed in.
Thass my bag.

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under my skin.

Oh yeah, and ANYTHING by the 4 Freshmen.

[BurtWorm]

9. I'll bet if you asked all the '60s musicians you loved their favorite

musical decade, they'd all say the 1950s, time of great undiscovered R&B, rock and roll, and pioneering pop. When people talk about roots music, they're talking mostly about the 1950s.

[zekeson]

10. I have to go with the 80's

I really liked that 3rd generation of roots rock - all the college radio bands (what we called alternative music before it was an alternative) who stripped away the excesses of the 70's and the blandness of the 80's and brought a fresh approach to a guitar, bass and drums.

[LSdemocrat]

11. 1980's

When (good) pop was king. Although the 1960's are a close second.

[Iverson]

13. late renaissance wasn't a choice, so ...

... it's the 1960s hands down.

[BlueJazz]

14. Have to say the 40's

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[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

15. the 1960s

and i wasn't even born yet... :D

[Lindsey]

16. To me without question the 60's

Nothing else compares.

[ironflange]

17. The 1820's

Late Beethoven, late Schubert. Other than that, the 1960's.