What decade produced the best music?

[begin_within]

Any genre - the only consideration here is the time period.

[BlueJazz]

1. I put the "30's" That's when most of the classics were written and...

they had cool complicated Chords.

[begin_within]

2. Are you thinking of Duke Ellington?

[BlueJazz]

4. Well...some..but also most of the Rogers and Hart and Gershwin..

..and a lot of the Jazz tunes..
but I might add that the 20's and 40's added just as much...

Not that I don't appreciate other era's...but most of the pop stuff after the 40's
became severely "watered Down" for the General Public.

[begin_within]

5. I love the Gershwin songbook, plus all their concert music

[BrotherBuzz]

17. Many people place the magic window between 1926 and 1934

Cool things were happening before and after the, but the really good stuff was written between those years.

[BlueJazz]

22. Yep..There was a time when "Good" and "Cerebral" music..

..was popular and popular music was good and cerebral....

I was born in the 80's and I just never got into simplistic/juvenile music...

[Generic Brad]

3. I have a suspicion

Most of us will think that music was best when we were teenagers. That is probably the last time in our lives we had enough spare time to memorize lyrics and bass lines and our favorite riffs.

Of course there are exceptions. I'm an old fart but I really like the Foo Fighters and Green Day and they way after my time.

[begin_within]

6. I think that's generally true.

[xchrom]

10. i picked the thirties -- that is not when i was a teen.

i picked the thirties because that's when america not only wrote it's song book -- but made it's best music -- satchmo, ellington, gershwin -- and cole porter.

my favorite music is rock -- but that's different.

rock is good, wonderful ecstatic music -- but can't have the range and depth of the jazz/swing era at it's finest.

[Broken_Hero]

7. 60's, by far....nt

[billyskank]

8. You may as well ask: "what decade did you grow up?"

Because the answers will be exactly the same. Pointless question.

[Mutley]

12. Not necessarily.

I chose the 70's, and I wasn't even born until 1979. :P



I know, I love being difficult. :D

[thefool_wa]

14. Not really

My favorite era is from when I was in my 20's and my second was before I was born (I LOVE 60's and early 70's peace rock)

still a good question.

[tjwmason]

16. Do you really think that I grew up in the 1600s?

That's just mean. :P

[Gidney N Cloyd]

9. My teen years were the 70's but I'm disqualifying the entire

decade because of disco. 60's hands down.

[Joe Fields]

11. No question about it; the '60's!

[thefool_wa]

13. All about the Grunge and Industrial Era!

Nothing beats hard guitar and the sound of heavy machinery!!!!


Sound off all the NIN and Nirvana fans!

[tinfoil tiaras]

15. 1960s defenently

Oh, how i wish I could have been a teenager then...*sigh*

[Radical Activist]

18. Everyone knows rock attained perfection in 1974 man

Next are the 90's. The 80's sucked ass.

[astral]

19. 60's

I wasn't a teen til the 70's and I too wished I was 10 years older so I could've been a teen in the 60's! Of course, that wuold make me ten years older today, which wouldn't be so cool . . .

[datasuspect]

25. the 80s sucked?

do the jitterbug

do the jitterbug

well you jitterbug into my heart blah blah




yep. the 80s did suck. i guess that's why me and all my stoner friends listened to the "new" classic rock format emergent at that time.

[Nicholas D Wolfwood]

26. Amen to that.

But on the whole, I have to give the 90's the nod over the 70's.

[Radical Activist]

20. Why I didn't vote for the 60's.

Sure, you had a lot of new and exciting things happen in the 60's, but most of my favorite 60's music happened in the last few years of the decade and ran into the early 70's. For the first half of the 60's you had the early 50's rockers take a dive (some literally) and a period where it was too bubble gum pop for me. My favorite albums by Dylan, the Rolling Stones, Allman Brothers and some other classic rock bands all came out in the 70s.

[Rabrrrrrr]

21. 1820s

[pagerbear]

23. 1790s

[datasuspect]

24. the 1100s

plainsong and gregorian chant baby!!!

[Jamastiene]

27. I wish there was a way to vote for 1991-1998,

because technically, that would be my answer. Before 1991, I was told I couldn't play in a band unless I wore spandex. After 1998, that whole angry white right wing male rap/metal thing destroyed the good vibes in the 90's. I attribute the attitudes of that specific rap/metal bunch to 11 girls being raped at a Woodstock. Punks don't treat women that way. That's the kind of crap quite a few rappers and metal heads would do.