Best Era in Rock Music?

[elperromagico]

[autorank]

1. 1960's ... duh

Actually, the current period probably has the most creative music and the best musicians. Saw Bad Religion Tue night in DC...amazing talent. But, the stupid media doesn't play much of anything that's any good. Imagine a '60's style FM radio exposure for all the great groups out there, it would rule. Clear Channel is truly the evil empire.

[UpsideDownFlag]

2. 70's....creedence, black sabbath, floyd, clapton...need i say more?

[fizzana]

6. Creedence, Floyd and Clapton all were from the 60's as well

and really belong there. Creedence were done by the end of the 60's and Clapton was in The Bluesbreakers, Cream and Blind Faith in the 60's. So was much of Pink Floy's best stuff.

[LiberalVoice]

3. 70's of course...

I don't care what anybody says. :P

[tuvor]

4. I was hoping to vote for post-punk or new wave.

Sort of 70s/80s.

[bloodyjack]

5. it's going to be a good decade-and-a-half

you just need to turn off the local Most-Alternative-Music station and look in the right places.

[chuckrocks]

7. i love the blues

and it's really undeniable that it is the root of this delicious evil.
but ten and siamese dream came out and they had me at hello. not to mention you can't beat they might be giants.

[Qutzupalotl]

8. 90s

Pumpkins, Flaming Lips, it's all good. Lots of songs out then with funny lyrics and good melodies.

[Dukkha]

9. 70's gave us the best radio

AOR was the pinnacle climax of FM Radio.

Nothing like kicking back in a bean back in your basement, complete with lava lamp and black light posters, wrapped in the aural warmth of your quadraphonic hi-fi stereo.

oooooooh yeeaaaaaaaaah!

[Robeson]

10. I don't know if I could...

...put it in an entire 60's or 70's or whatever thing. I think 65 to about 76 was exceptional, as was 88 to about 95.

[elperromagico]

11. You can vote for Willkie, then.

That's what he's there for. :P

[Robeson]

13. Man, that really should have been clarified...

...now you've really got me confused!:silly:

[elperromagico]

15. My Lounge polls typically contain an option that makes no sense.

It keeps me balanced.

[donheld]

12. I really would say

late 60's early 70's

[Rowdyboy]

14. The 1970's ...punk...disco...funk...it was NOT the best era in R&R

by a long shot. The 1960's was the mother-lode of rock. Everything else was just tangential and unimportant.

[ReadTomPaine]

16. I miss the 70's.

There, I said it. ;)

RTP

[Seabiscuit]

17. 60's rock rules forever - it's been all downhill from here.

From a Beatles/Stones/Woodstock veteran "head".

[VOX]

18. The 60s, hands down. Starts with the Beatles, and ends with Woodstock...

In between, you've got the Stones, Animals, Smokey Robinson, Byrds, Dylan, Searchers, Yardbirds, Buffalo Springfield, Love, Clapton, Lovin' Spoonful, Wilson Pickett, Frank Zappa, Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Creedence, Led Zep, CS&N, John Mayall, Moody Blues, Santana, Country Joe, Janis Joplin, Hendrix, Cream, Canned Heat, Ravi Shankar, Tom Rush, Ian and Sylvia, Four Tops, Joan Baez, The Band, Captain Beefheart, Taj Mahal, Ray Charles, Neil Young, Beach Boys, and so many more major headliners that you could fill a phone book.

There never was a more creative decade in popular music, one that gave us such landmark works of fully realized art as "Sgt. Pepper's" and "Abbey Road," or "Highway 61 Revisited."

Also, popular music has never been so connected to social changes as it was in the 1960s. The 1970s had some good music, but it was more of a continuation (and dissipation) of the 60s, until it fell flat in mid-decade and only woke up with the advent of New Wave.

[Carla in Ca]

20. Right on!

British Invasion AND Motown. Just the Beatles alone...nothing tops that in music's history. Nothing.

[JSJ]

19. mid-sixties- also wendall wilke

[argyl]

21. 1960's. 1970's music jumped the shark with "Frampton Comes Alive."

What a hyped POS.AOR stations were All Frampton-All the Time.